English Professor Rosemary Haskell presented "Spy Fiction on Television: Spooks / MI5 and the Queer Carnival of British Culture" at the 2012 Conference of the National Popular Culture & American Culture Association. The conference was held in Boston, Mass., on April 11-14, 2012.
Associate professors of English Paula Rosinski and Jessie Moore presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) on March 22.
The Center for Undergraduate Research and Information Design (CUPID) has launched a new website and student-driven blog to support its mission: to provide space and support for students to develop into thoughtful, rhetorically savvy communicators capable of working effectively with multiple audiences in complex professional situations using a variety of available rhetorical tools and strategies.
Randall Bowman, reference/instruction librarian, and Barbara Gordon, associate professor of English, made a presentation titled “Targeted, not Generic, Library Instruction for First Year Writers” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in St. Louis on March 22, 2012.
An op-ed essay by Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, titled "'Life' On the Home Front, Then and Now," appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer on Saturday, Dec. 24th.
Jensen Suther, an English major and Lumen Scholar, has had his paper accepted for presentation at the Derrida Conference, which will be held this spring at The Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
Bona Fide Books nominated Cassandra Kircher’s essay, “A Portrait of My Father in Three Places,” for a Pushcart Prize that honors the best poems, short stories, and essays published by a small press over the previous year.
Senior English major Kasey Thornton has been named a finalist in the NC State Fiction Contest. The contest is open to all North Carolina residents as well as all students currently enrolled in North Carolina universities.
Associate Professor of English Babara Gordon's chapter, "Caught in a Firestorm, A Harsh Lesson Learned Teaching AAEV," appears in Utah State University Press's recently released book Writing Centers and the New Racism, edited by Laura Greenfield and Karen Rowan.
Five Elon faculty and a student presented widely at the 2011 meeting of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Held in Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 20-23, the conference brought together faculty and student scholars from around the world to discuss the latest research on teaching and learning.
Associate Professor of English Barbara Gordon discussed her coauthored book, Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease: Comprehensive Expert Guidance, in a number of television appearances in October.
Winner of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize, Dave Barry, who once annoyed North Dakota, visited Elon for Fall Convocation and the 2011 Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture.
An excerpt from Associate Professor Barbara Gordon's co-authored book, Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease: Comprehensive Expert Guidance appears in the September/October issue of Coping with Cancer, a magazine that reaches more than 500,000 readers.
At the invitation of the Korea Herald, South Korea's largest English-speaking newspaper, Associate Progessor Crystal S. Anderson in the Department of English wrote an editorial on the spread of Hallyu (Korean Wave, a transnational cultural movement involving music, film and television) in the United States.
Michelle Trim, a lecturer in the Department of English, gave the presentation, "Resisting Automatic Adoption and Uncritical Use of Technology in Student Research," at this past weekend's Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy in Savannah, Ga.
Tim Peeples, Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of English, and Paula Rosinski, Writing Center Director and Associate Professor of English, were honored Sept. 19 for their roles in founding the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators professional organization.
Janet Myers, associate professor of English and director of national and international fellowships, attended the biannual meeting of the National Association of Fellowship Advisors in Chicago July 13-16.
From researching new chemical methods of detecting explosives, to the mathematical modeling on synapses related to epileptic seizures, Elon University students taking part in a summer research program shared their work July 22 in a series of morning presentations that showcased a variety of academic disciplines from across campus.
Elon University’s Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has started a two-year research seminar, “Critical Transitions: Writing and the Question of Transfer,” that will explore the composition skills students learn in the classroom and use in new settings, such as an upper level course, an internship or the workplace.
Two Elon University professors and eight students spent several days in Zambia late this spring to help Habitat for Humanity with building homes for orphans and vulnerable children impacted by HIV/AIDS.
Fifteen Elon faculty members participated in the Sixth Annual Faculty Writing Residency from May 31through June 3. The annual program sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning inspires and supports faculty writing.
Published this month, Permanent Vacation: Twenty Writers on Work and LIfe in Our National Parks includes an essay by English professor Cassandra Kircher, who worked at Rocky Mountain National Park seven seasons before returning to graduate school and leaving behind a magical place.
CELEBRATE! 2011 continued Thursday afternoon at Elon University with four student presentations on academic service-learning projects that involved community outreach over the past year.
The Haw River has been key to the region’s growth and development over the centuries, and as associate professor emerita Anne Cassebaum writes in her new book, Down Along the Haw: The History of a North Carolina River, its importance can’t be ignored as efforts continue to preserve one of the region’s vital waterways.
Rebecca Pope-Ruark, assistant professor of english in the professional writing and rhetoric concentration, presented with two students, Sarah Talbott '11 and Kasey Thornton '12, at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing (ATTW) Annual Conference held in Atlanta in April.
Crystal Anderson, an associate professor of English and coordinator of the American Studies Program and Faculty Fellow for the Multicultural Center, presented her research on Orientalism and the Harlem Renaissance at the 2011 MELUS (Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures in the United States) and USACLALS (United States Association for Commonwealth LIterature and Language Studies) Joint Conference in Boca Raton, Fla.
Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has won the Theodore Christian Hoepfner award for the best essay to appear in Southern Humanities Review in 2010.
English professor Kathy Lyday-Lee and three English majors (Matt Baker, Natalie Lampert, and Tosh Scheps) attended the International Sigma Tau Delta Convention in Pittsburgh from March 23-26.
The Third Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival, which honors the work of Hikmet, the Turkish poet, has invited Kevin Boyle to read a few poems on April 17th in Cary, NC.
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