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From Georgia Rhodes:
Two of our faculty are being honored today at the Gen Ed reception. Sherry Alusow Hart has won the NTT Faculty Award for Excellence in General Education Teaching, and Travis Rountree will receive the University College Excellence in Community Engagement Award.
We are very proud of these two for this recognition as well as for their excellent work in English and WAC.
THE TRUMAN CAPOTE SCHOLARSHIP
FOR CREATIVE WRITING
for 2012-13
has been awarded to
KATHRYN KEHOE
for Poetry
Runner-Up: KIMBER CAMPBELL
Honorable Mention: Miranda Mash
Many thanks to all entrants.
Next year’s competition for 2013-14 will be in creative prose (fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama) with a late March deadline. Please watch bulletin boards or www.english.appstate.edu for guidelines in Spring 2013.
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From Kim Gunter:
Colleagues,
Please join me in congratulating adjunct composition faculty member Rebecca Gummere on the publication of her essay "The Departure" in the Summer 2012 issue of The Gettysburg Review. Way to go, Rebecca!
Kim
From Leon Lewis:
Emily Woodward will defend her Honors Thesis: Unconscious Identity and D. H. Lawrence on Monday, April 30, at 5:00 in the Sanford Lounge.
From Bruce Dick:
Katie Manis will defend her Honor's Thesis, "What's Happening?": Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo and Overhauling Art History" Monday, April 30, at 10:00 a.m. in Rm 308. Everyone's welcome.
From James Ivory:
"Megan Lester will defend her Honors Thesis, entitled "A Journey into the Soul: An Analysis of Identity Development in The Edible Woman and Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit" on April 30th at 10:30 a.m. in 203A."
From Grace McEntee:
Chris Shore will defend his master's thesis, "'Does the Whale’s Magnitude Diminish?' Melville’s use of Thomas Beale’s The Natural History of the Sperm Whale" on Wednesday, April 25, at 9:30 in the faculty lounge. All are welcome to attend.
Dr. Jennifer Munroe, associate professor at UNC-C, will give a talk entitled, “Science in the Kitchen?: Using Nature and Making Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century Women's Recipes” on April 26 at 6 PM in the Table Rock Room of the Plemmons Student Union.
Dr. Munroe is author of Gender and the Garden in Early Modern English Literature (Ashgate Press, 2007), editor of Making Gardens of Their Own: Gardening Manuals For Women, 1500-1750 (Ashgate Press,...
From Lori Beth DeHertogh:
The first issue of WriteClick (our online publication for first- and second-year writing students) is now live! Please take a moment to check out the publication at the following address:
www.writeclick.appstate.edu
Many thanks to everyone who helped make the publication a success!
Lori Beth
