English

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.

Paula Patch, lecturer in English and coordinator of College Writing, made a presentation titled "Fluid Boundaries: Creating a Meaningful Assessment of a Basic Writing Workshop" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in St. Louis on March 22, 2012.

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.

The spring 2012 edition of The Sewanee Review includes a short story, "In the Traces," by Ross Howell, adjunct professor of English. The magazine will be available mid-April. The Sewanee Review is America's oldest continuously published literary quarterly, now celebrating its 120th year.

Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, presented a paper at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 on Feb. 23.

English and professional writing and rhetoric (PWR) alumna Caitlin Rantala is now web graphic designer and production manager for MusicRow.

Students in one Winter Term course learn some of the same outdoor skills used by characters in their readings on rites of passage.