English

Discusses the need to look beyond good intentions when using service learning to teach writing.

What makes a poem great? Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams offers an easy answer: “It should sound as if it was improvised.” Williams read his work to students, faculty and community members in McCrary Theatre Tuesday night for the 9th annual Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture hosted by Elon University.

Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has published a poem in Convergence Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

What does it take, and what responsibilities do students have, to act as "global citizens?" Professors Tom Arcaro and Rosemary Haskell tackle those questions in a new co-edited textbook and anthology, Understanding the Global Experience: Becoming a Responsible World Citizen, with chapters on topics ranging from the environment to religion to the international media.

Rosemary Haskell, a professor of English, had an op-ed piece on health care reform, "The Pain of Being Ill and Uncovered," published in the Raleigh News and Observer on Sunday, July 5, 2009.

Eric Ashley Hairston, an assistant professor of English and director of the Center for Law and Humanities, was interviewed May 29 by News 14 Carolina anchor Tracey Early regarding Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's nominee to fill a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.