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NC State to host Interdisciplinary Perspectives forum

Faculty Notes

May 1, 2014

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi participates in African Literature Association meeting

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi participated in the Executive Council meetings of the African Literature Association from April 9-13 at the University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

May 1, 2014

Susan Miller-Cochran publishes paper

Susan Miller-Cochran’s “DIY Mentoring: Developing Personal Learning Networks” (co-authored with Shelley Rodrigo and Duane Roen) was published this month in Enculturation. The article draws a parallel between graduate mentoring and network theory and is available at http://www.enculturation.net/diymentoring.

May 1, 2014

Christopher McKenna speaks at conference

On April 10, Christopher McKenna was a featured speaker at the Tenth Annual Southeast Indian Studies Conference at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he delivered a paper entitled “Pembroke Moviegoing,” which analyzed both the forms of spatial segregation in early Native American cinema exhibitions held within several tri-racial communities in Robeson County,…

May 1, 2014

Bob Kochersberger publishes two essays in N&O

Bob Kochersberger’s essay “Make social media part of attracting younger fans to NC Symphony” was published in the News & Observer on April 20. “An NCSU professor’s ‘Jeopardy!’ experience” ran in the N&O on April 29.

May 1, 2014

Susan Katz gives presentation

Susan Katz gave a presentation based on her book Start Your Career: 5 Steps to the Right Job after College to members of Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, on April 1.

May 1, 2014

Paul Isom publishes story in N&O

Paul Isom’s story “How Jill Shires wound up on a hit R&B record 50 years ago” was published in the News & Observer on April 19 (http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/04/19/3796692/how-jill-shires-wound-up-on-a.html).

May 1, 2014

Paul Fyfe accepted to Scholarly Communication Institute

As part of an interdisciplinary working group comprising members from NC State, Duke, and King’s College (London), Paul Fyfe was accepted to the Mellon-funded Scholarly Communication Institute to be held in the Triangle in Fall 2014. The group’s proposal, “Visualization and Virtual Spaces: Scholarly Communication Beyond Text,” seeks to elaborate multimodal, virtual, and spatial outreach…

May 1, 2014

Chris Anson speaks at conferences

Chris Anson gave the keynote address at the East Central Writing Centers Association conference in Oxford, OH, on March 28. He also gave the keynote address at the Faculty Day of Scholarship Conference in Louisburg, NC, on April 9 and spoke at UNC Pembroke on April 4.

Apr 24, 2014

English Professor on Jeopardy April 28

Bob Kochersberger has taught journalism in the English department at NC State since 1986. He worked for newspapers in upstate New York before turning to the classroom and has continued to write professionally. He wanted to be a Jeopardy! contestant for years and took the annual online qualifying exam every January. In 2012 he passed the qualifier and…

Apr 3, 2014

NC State to host Interdisciplinary Perspectives forum

NC State will host “Rethinking Globalization and the Question of Scale: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences,” April 24-26 in the newly remodeled Talley Student Center. This symposium dovetails with the Fifth Annual Research Symposium of the CRDM program. The event includes roundtables of presentations by area faculty and graduate students and featured…