Skip to main content
NC State Home
Bob Kochersberger gives presentation

News

May 12, 2016

Digital Humanities Projects Bring History to Life

Reading about history is one thing. Experiencing it for yourself is entirely another. With innovative technology at their fingertips, NC State humanities scholars are creating new perspectives on significant events, places and traditions. Their work — freely available online and stretching across disciplines — aims to help both researchers and the general public more fully understand our past and inform our future.

May 12, 2016

Recipe for Success

Chef, restaurateur and TV star Vivian Howard can now add Distinguished Alumna to her long list of achievements.

May 12, 2016

PBS Selects Cherokee Film for National Run

PBS has selected First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee, a film produced by NC State’s North Carolina Language and Life Project, for national distribution to its member stations throughout 2016. A new American Indian broadband TV channel, Tribal TV, is also screening the film.

May 12, 2016

PBS Selects Cherokee Film for National Run

PBS has selected First Language: The Race to Save Cherokee, a film produced by NC State’s North Carolina Language and Life Project, for national distribution to its member stations throughout 2016. A new American Indian broadband TV channel, Tribal TV, is also screening the film.

May 2, 2016

John Wall gives presentation

On March 31, John Wall presented “Gazing into Imaginary Spaces: Digital Modeling and the Representation of Reality” at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston.

May 2, 2016

Maggie Simon directs seminar, publishes article

In March, Simon and Nancy Simpson-Younger (Pacific Lutheran University) co-directed the seminar “Sleeping Through the Renaissance” at the annual Shakespeare Association of America conference in New Orleans.  Her most recent article, “Mary Wroth’s Ephemeral Epitaph,” appears in the Winter 2016 issue of Studies in English Literature.

May 2, 2016

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi publishes, presents, and is sworn in as association president

Juliana Nfah-Abbenyi served as guest editor for a special Cameroon issue of Tydskrif vir Letterkunde (A Journal for African Literature), volume 53.1, and published several articles in that volume: “Cameroon’s National Literatures: An Introduction,” “Anglophone Cameroon Literature: A Conversation with Bole Butake,” and “Francophone Cameroon Literature: A Conversation with Ambroise Kom.” On March 31, she gave an invited lecture on…

May 2, 2016

Jason Miller’s book ranked #1

Jason Miller’s paperback book Origins of the Dream debuted as Amazon’s #1 Hot New Release in African American Literature.

May 2, 2016

Carolyn Miller gives presentation, participates in panel

On April 7, Carolyn Miller was a panel respondent for “Time to Take Stock: What We Can (and Can’t) Learn from Current CHAT Methodology in Writing Studies Research” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, Houston.  She gave an invited presentation titled “‘Tree Thinking’: The Role of Tree Diagrams in Biological Thought” to the Virginia Tech…

May 2, 2016

Bob Kochersberger gives presentation

On April 21, Bob Kochersberger presented “Ida Tarbell and the First Investigative Journalists” to the departments of journalism and of British and American studies at the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, Slovakia.