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Feb 2, 2024

Faculty News for January 2024

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson’s chapter “Dimensions of Transfer and the Role of Multimodality” appeared in Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lillian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd (Utah State University Press). DAUN DAEMON & CHELSEA KRIEG Daun Daemon and Chelsea Krieg will give a reading at So & So…

Jan 12, 2024

The Day King Addressed Campus — and the Klan Marched on Raleigh

English professor Jason Miller has discovered footage of the Ku Klux Klan marching in downtown Raleigh and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech in Reynolds Coliseum — both of which happened on the same day.

Jan 1, 2024

Faculty Notes for December 2023

PAUL COLBY Paul Colby will serialize his novel When the Man Dances on his Substack in 2024. Starting January 7, he will add a new chapter each week. Subscriptions are free. CATHERINE MAINLAND Catherine Mainland’s essay “McGonagall’s Elephant” was a semifinalist in the TulipTree Review Humor Story Contest. JENNIFER NOLAN Jennifer Nolan has been awarded a Helm Fellowship from the…

Dec 7, 2023

“Volya”

In Ukrainian, the word means “will.” Darya Levchenko ’19 MA and her fight to preserve the arts embody that spirit of Ukraine’s people.

Nov 30, 2023

Faculty Notes for November 2023

CHRIS ANSON On November 3, Chris Anson presented “Implications of the NSSE Study for Supporting Writing in All Disciplines” to the Teaching with Writing Obermann Group at the University of Iowa. HELEN BURGESS Helen Burgess presented “Empty Your Pockets: Imaginal Discs and the Processes of Insect Rebirth” at the Society for Literature, Science and the…

Oct 31, 2023

Faculty Notes for October

CHRIS ANSON During fall break, Chris Anson conducted an external review of the Sweetland Writing Center at the University of Michigan. DAUN DAEMON Black Coffee Review published Daun Daemon’s poem “No matter the details.” ANNA GIBSON Anna Gibson was made a DELTA Faculty Fellow for 2023-24. Her work for this fellowship will focus on the use of…

Sep 30, 2023

Faculty Notes for September

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson and co-editors Christian Rapp, Otto Kruse, Kalliopi Benetos, Elena Cotos, Ann Devitt, and Antonette Shibani have just published their 500-page, 50-author book, Digital Writing Technologies in Higher Education: Theory, Research, and Practice (Springer). Thanks to the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation, Springer has made the book available for free.…

Aug 31, 2023

Faculty Notes for July/August 2023

CHRIS ANSON In July, Chris Anson presented the findings of his survey research on students’ reuse of their own writing at the annual conference of the Council of Writing Program Administrators in Reno, Nevada. Anson and co-editor Pamela Flash received from the Council of Writing Program Administrators their second Best Book award for Writing-Enriched Curricula: Models…

Aug 14, 2023

Beyond the Story

As an art director and news editor at The Washington Post, NC State English alumnus Dwuan June leaves his imprint by visually presenting stories that are easy to understand and hard to forget.

Jul 1, 2023

Graduate Student News for May & June 2023

David Palko has accepted a position in the PhD program in English at Duke University. This summer, he will attend the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School to participate in a seminar on Law Books: History and Connoisseurship, which will be held at Yale Law School. Palko presented a paper at the New Visions of…