Students

Mar 21, 2019

Bryant, Colin, Levchenko, and Jenkins Presented at 40th Southwest Popular American Culture Association Conference Conference

Our MA Film Studies students Phillip Bryant, Mariana Colín, Darya Levchenko and Austin Jenkins presented their research last month at the 40th Southwest Popular American Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM. Their academic trip was financed from the individual English Graduate Travel Awards granted by the department. Bryant presented his paper “Even the Door Opening is Still Very Unreal:…

Mar 8, 2019

Chen, Khan, and Xie Presented at 8th Annual Symposium in Communicating Complex Information Conference

Our MS Technical Communication students presented their research at the 8th Annual Symposium in Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) at Louisiana Tech University last month. SCCI 2019 aims to explore how the design and presentation of complex information affect how humans use it. As information complexity arises from the inherent relationships between context, content, and people using the…

Feb 7, 2019

Peter Andrews & Marie Bissell Presented at the Linguistic Society of America and American Dialect Society Conferences

Peter Andrews and Marie Bissell, both first-year MA linguistics concentration students, presented at the Linguistic Society of America and American Dialect Society conferences this past January 2019. Andrews felt that presenting his paper, “Gender Differentiation of Ruralness in Southeastern Ohio,” was a valuable professional experience, saying that it “gave me a chance not only to…

Nov 15, 2018

MA Graduate Cecilia Tomasatti: 2018 CHASS Capstone Award Winner

The English Department is proud to announce the winner of this year’s CHASS Capstone Award is one of our own – Cecilia Tomasatti! WinnerStudent: Cecilia Tomasatti (MA English 2018 graduate, Linguistics Concentration)Project: Same Route, New Immigrants: Identity Practices and Forms of Belonging among Recent Italian Immigrants in the U.S. Congratulations to Cecilia and to her…

Nov 15, 2018

MA Graduate Cecilia Tomasatti: 2018 CHASS Capstone Award Winner

The English Department is proud to announce the winner of this year’s CHASS Capstone Award is one of our own – Cecilia Tomasatti! WinnerStudent: Cecilia Tomasatti (MA English 2018 graduate, Linguistics Concentration)Project: Same Route, New Immigrants: Identity Practices and Forms of Belonging among Recent Italian Immigrants in the U.S. Congratulations to Cecilia and to her…

Nov 15, 2018

You’re Invited! Colloquium: Alumni Career Paths in Writing & Editing Panel

Everyone at NC State is welcome to come join us and our alumni in this colloquium panel! This will be the last colloquium for fall semester. Come attend and be open to discover something new!

Nov 9, 2018

MA Alumni Discuss their Careers in Higher Education

As a part of our Fall 2018 English Graduate Colloquium series, two of our MA alumni students returned to NC State as guest panelists. Melody Owens (MA ’17, Rhetoric and Composition) teaches as an English instructor at Wake Technical Community College. Ian Wolf (MA ’13, Literature) is an instructor of English at Louisburg College. Each…

Nov 9, 2018

Jose Alvarez-Retamales Presented at the Hispanics Linguistics Symposium

Jose Alvarez-Retamales, a first-year MA linguistics concentration student, presented “Esta pobre oveja asi tumbadica: Usos de los adjetivos en niños hispanohablantes” (translation: “The use of adjectives in hispanic children”) at the Hispanics Linguistics Symposium this past October.

Nov 9, 2018

Jose Alvarez-Retamales Presented at the Hispanics Linguistics Symposium

Jose Alvarez-Retamales, a first-year MA linguistics concentration student, presented “Esta pobre oveja asi tumbadica: Usos de los adjetivos en niños hispanohablantes” (translation: “The use of adjectives in hispanic children”) at the Hispanics Linguistics Symposium this past October.

Nov 9, 2018

Amanda Ogea Presented at SCLA Conference

Amanda Ogea, a second-year MA literature concentration student, presented “Uncanny Monsters: Beach House and the Lynchian University” at the Society for Comparative Literature and the ARTS (SCLA) this past October.