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Elon University took part in the 21st National African-American Read-In on Friday when students, faculty and staff read aloud in Ward Octagon inside the Moseley Center. Organizers collected donations for Haiti relief and for local libraries at the event, which included an afternoon reading by Elon President Leo M. Lambert.

Prudence Layne, an assistant professor of English and director of the African/African-American Studies Program at Elon, has had her article "Reincarnating Legba: Caribbean Writers at the Crossroads" published in the new book Postcolonial Ghosts.

In the thick of a breaking news story such as the Mumbai bombings that killed scores of people, it can be tough for reporters to critique their own work, and that’s where Elon University senior Hannah Williams fills a need. Williams is the fifth student to be featured in a series of E-net profiles on the inaugural class of Lumen Scholars.

Kim Pyne, assistant professor of English and education, and Melanie Shoffner (Purdue University) published a chapter in The Doctoral Degree in English Education, edited by Allen Webb.