English

“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.

Associate professor of English Drew Perry’s debut novel “This is Just Exactly Like You” has been named one of seven finalists for the 2010 Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize.

Jessie L. Moore, associate professor of professional writing & rhetoric in the Department of English, has been elected to the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee. CCCC is the world's largest professional organization for writing studies.

Janet Myers, Coordinator of National and International Fellowships, participated in a regional conference sponsored by the National Association of Fellowship Advisors.

Crystal Anderson will serve as Elon’s first faculty fellow for the Multicultural Center beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year.

Crystal Anderson presented her paper, “Chinese School: Cross-Cultural and Transnational Strategies in "Ping Pong Playa (2007)” at the 2010 Association of Asian American Studies conference, held in Austin, Texas

Megan Isaac presented a paper delineating the growing role of both literal and metaphorical surveillance in young adult literature at the annual meeting of The Children's Literature Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 10.

Prudence Layne traveled to a remote region in Haiti during spring break to assist doctors and nurses at a free medical clinic. While there, the assistant professor of English saw not only the damage from a powerful January earthquake, but what she says are opportunities for Elon University to help in the nation’s reconstruction.

Prudence Layne, an assistant professor of English and coordinator of African/African-American Studies at Elon University, has been named one of four Visiting Fellows this summer at the Bader International Studies Institute at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, England, to teach a postcolonial Shakespeare class with field studies components.

Students in a spring semester English class have published two children’s books and a coffee table book to help support The Conservators' Center, a nonprofit exotic wildlife sanctuary in North Carolina's Caswell County.