English

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.

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.

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.

Assistant professor Prudence Layne presented at the 35th annual National Council for Black Studies conference held March 16-19 in Cincinnati, Ohio.