Faculty Notes

Jul 3, 2014

Dorianne Laux gives readings

Dorianne Laux gave a keynote reading at a Fundraiser for Springfed Arts in Detroit on May 17 (info@springfed.org). From June 4-8, she gave a lecture and a reading, and conducted workshops at the Big River Writers Conference in St. Louis (www.riverstyx.org).

Jul 3, 2014

Carolyn Miller gives presentations

In May, Carolyn Miller presented “Permanence and Change: Genres as Social Recognitions” at the Rhetoric Society of America Conference in San Antonio. At the same conference, she was a panelist for “Machine Rhetorics.” Also in May, she gave the keynote presentation — “Memoir, Blog, and Selfie: Genre as Social Action in Autobiographical Representations” — at the International Association for Biography and…

Jul 3, 2014

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi presents at conference

On June 12, she presented “The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Adaptations of Cameroon Folktales in US Classrooms” at the bi-annual conference of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa, held in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire.

Jul 3, 2014

Setzer, Fyfe and Joffe present poster

Sharon Setzer, Paul Fyfe and Sharon Joffe — three of the project members working on the virtual reconstruction of Queen Victoria’s lost garden pavilion — presented their work in a poster session at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria, Canada, in June. The project is a joint collaboration between the Department of English (project members: Tony…

Jul 3, 2014

Tim Stinson publishes essay

Tim Stinson’s essay “Translating The Canterbury Tales into Contemporary Media” was published in the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. His edition The Siege of Jerusalem Electronic Archive was awarded a seal by the MLA’s Committee on Scholarly Editions.

Jul 3, 2014

Erik Thomas publishes paper

Erik Thomas’s paper “L2 Accent Choices and Language Contact” appeared in Social Dynamics in Second Language Accent, edited by John Levis (former faculty member at NCSU) and Alene Moyer, and published by de Gruyter Mouton.

Jun 19, 2014

‘Talkin’ Tar Heel’ Explores Dialects

A new book exploring the depth, breadth and variability of North Carolina dialects draws on twenty years of research by Professors of English Walt Wolfram and Jeffrey Reaser and their team. Learn more about 'Talkin' Tar Heel' and the North Carolina Language and Life Project.

May 1, 2014

John N. Wall publishes essay

John N. Wall’s essay “Transforming the Object of our Study: The Early Modern Sermon and the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project” appears in the Spring 2014 issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities (http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/3-1/transforming-the-object-of-our-study-by-john-n-wall/).

May 1, 2014

Tim Stinson publishes review

Tim Stinson’s review of Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, Maidie Hilmo, and Linda Olson appeared in Arthuriana 24.1.

May 1, 2014

Soren Palmer publishes paper

Soren Palmer’s paper “Transitional Violence in King of New York” has been published in The Journal of Religion and Film (volume 18, issue 1).