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Jan 23, 2017

Alumna’s Novel Inspires Streaming Series on Zelda Fitzgerald

Alumna Therese Fowler is headed for the red carpet. The 2005 MFA in creative writing grad is in New York this week for the premiere of Z: The Beginning of Everything, a new TV series adapted from the pages of her 2013 novel about Zelda Fitzgerald.

Jan 23, 2017

Spend a Day with the Dean

As a Humanities and Social Sciences student, you've got a busy schedule. Your dean, Jeff Braden, wants to learn what it’s like to be a student and also share what it’s like to be a dean. So step right up and enter the "Side by Side with the Dean" contest. Tell us why the dean should experience your day, and why you’d like to walk in his shoes.

Jan 9, 2017

Keeping an Eye on Celebrity Artifacts

Country star Patsy Cline's accounting ledgers. Dance legend Bob Fosse's choreography. Apple founder Steve Jobs' polo shirt. They might not seem to have much in common — but they all have communication alum Brian Christopher Cummings’ fingerprints on them.

Dec 31, 2016

Graduate Student Notes for December 2016

Tyree Daye has been awarded the 2017 American Poetry Review’s APR/Honickman First Book Prize for his manuscript River Hymns. The book will be published in September 2017. Two stories by Alyssa Wong have been selected for best-of anthologies: “You’ll Surely Drown Here if You Stay” for The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year (Vol. 11) and “A Fist…

Dec 31, 2016

Faculty Notes for December 2016

LINDSEY ANDREWS An excerpt from Lindsey Andrews’ Letters to the Other World, about entanglement in black radical tradition and quantum physics, was published in Lute & Drum with the title “From Inside a Black Box” (http://issue8.luteanddrum.com/#!andrews/). CHRIS ANSON During the break, Chris Anson served as the “opponent” (a term not to be taken too literally) for the…

Nov 30, 2016

Graduate Student Notes for November

Hannah Williams gave two presentations recently. On November 5, she presented “Naming and Manipulated Memory: Reading Novels by O’Brien, Binet, and Vonnegut as Literary War Memorials” at the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association 27th Annual Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey. On November 12, she discussed “Reform and Respectability: Illegitimacy in Bleak House and The Woman in White” at…

Nov 30, 2016

Faculty Notes for November

BELLE BOGGS In November, Belle Boggs read and spoke on panels at the Texas Book Festival and the Miami Book Fair. Her book The Art of Waiting was chosen by O, the Oprah Magazine as a Top 10 Book of the year. It is being translated into Spanish and Korean. HELEN BURGESS Helen Burgess presented…

Nov 23, 2016

Alumna’s Cookbook Celebrates Food of Eastern North Carolina

Before she built a hugely successful farm-to-table restaurant in Kinston, N.C., and became the star of a PBS documentary series on her life in the kitchen and as the mother of two young children, alumna Vivian Howard dreamed of becoming a food writer.

Nov 23, 2016

Alumna’s Cookbook Celebrates Food of Eastern North Carolina

Before she built a hugely successful farm-to-table restaurant in Kinston, N.C., and became the star of a PBS documentary series on her life in the kitchen and as the mother of two young children, alumna Vivian Howard dreamed of becoming a food writer.

Nov 14, 2016

Alumni Achievements, Service Honored at 2016 Evening of Stars

The NC State Alumni Association recently recognized three Humanities and Social Sciences graduates for outstanding achievements and service in their careers, communities and beyond.