English

Rebecca Pope-Ruark, an assistant professor of English in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) concentration, co-wrote and published the article entitled "Let's Scrum: How Scrum Methodology Encourages Students to See Themselves as Collaborators" with three English majors in PWR - Michelle Eichel '10, Sarah Talbott '11, and Kasey Thornton '12.

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.

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.

Michelle Trim published a chapter in the new anthology The 21st Century Motherhood Movement:
Mothers Speak Out on Why We Need to Change the World and How to Do It. Her chapter is titled, "Articulating a Rhetoric of Agency for Pregnancy Through Intersectionality: The National Advocates for Pregnant Women."

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.

An essay by Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has been selected for inclusion in Best American Essays 2011.

They are common stereotypes of Africa often portrayed in media: poverty, AIDS, a “primitiveness” of people who live there. As Elon University senior Maggie Pahos prepared for a semester abroad in Ghana, she wanted to find ways to dispel those stereotypes through her own research, photography and creative writing, and her project is the latest to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on Lumen Scholars in the Class of 2011.

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.