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The Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning has named Elon University faculty members Michelle Trim, David Neville and Ketevan Kupatadze as CATL Scholars for 2011-2013. The selection process was highly competitive, with 10 faculty applying for the three positions.

Richard Lee, English lecturer, presented his paper 'Evaluating an EBook Experience in the Classroom" at the recent Popular Culture Association of the South in Savannah, Ga.

Prudence Layne, an assistant professor of English and coordinator of African/African-American Studies at Elon, was one of 10 national directors of Black Studies programs selected to participate in a Summer Administrative Workshop sponsored by the National Council for Black Studies and the Ford Foundation.

Kevin Boyle's poem "The Lullaby of History" has been included in a book called Literary Trails of North Carolina, published by UNC Press.

Professor Kathy Lyday-Lee presented a paper titled "The Melungeon's Will Get You If You Ain't Nice: The Myth of the Melungeons in Literature and Pop Culture" at the Popular Culture Association of the South on Oct. 7 in Savannah, Ga.

Paula Patch, a lecturer in English, delivered a presentation titled “What Do They Know?: (Further) Analysis of Student Essays about Wikipedia” as part of a panel discussion on Teaching English Composition at the 2010 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, held Oct. 14-16 in Albuquerque, N.M.

Lynne Bisko, nonprint librarian, and Rebecca Pope-Ruark, assistant professor of English, published an article titled "Making the Video: Tips for Successful Library-Class Collaborations," in the October 2010 issue of College & Research Libraries News.

First-year college students do most of their writing via text messaging and social networks, but it’s not always a type of writing they say they most value, according to new research co-authored by a team of Elon University professors. That leads to the next questions in what promises to be an ongoing project: why do they value what they value, and how can academia catch up with their use of writing technologies?

“Text as the Basis for Text-less Music: 11th Century Poetry Meets a 21st Century Composer,” a symposium sponsored by Elon University's Department of Music with contributions from the Department of English, takes place Sept. 13-15 to address the way in which instrumental music evokes, interprets and represents poetic texts, and the process by which composers craft “abstract” sounds from written sources.