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Joseph Bathanti to receive 2013 Mary Frances Hobson Prize
Apr 6, 2012

Joseph will receive the 2013 Mary Frances Hobson Prize and participate in the nineteenth annual Mary Frances Hobson Lecture to be held on the Chowan U...

Student Derek Poindexter admitted to North Carolina State MS program
Apr 6, 2012

If you know our major Derek Poindexter, you may want to congratulate him on his acceptance to the M.S. Program in Technical Communication at NCState. ...

Lori Beth DeHertogh accepted into the Ph.D. program at Washington State University
Mar 27, 2012

Department Colleagues,Please join me in congratulating Appalachian graduate and current Assistant Director of the Composition Program Lori Beth DeHert...

Gurney Norman - Associate Professor, Director of Creative Writing

Gurney Norman, 2012 Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Writer-in-Residence
Mar 8, 2012

Gurney Norman has been a member of the University of Kentucky Department of English since 1979 and currently serves as the department's Director of Cr...

Former Appalachian student and colleague Jonathan Bradshaw was just named the Assistant Director of Composition at Miami (Ohio) where he's now working on his Ph.D.
Feb 27, 2012

Former Appalachian student and colleague Jonathan Bradshaw was just named the Assistant Director of Composition at Miami (Ohio) where he's now working...

Former Graduate student Bre Garrett has accepted the position of Director of Composition at West Florida
Feb 27, 2012

Bre Garrett, one of our graduate students who is now finishing her doctorate at Miami Ohio, has accepted the position of Director of Composition at We...

Holly Martin's article, "Chang and Eng Bunker: 'The Original Siamese Twins' Living, Dying and Continuing Under the Spectator's Gaze" selected for the 2012 Carl Bode Award
Feb 24, 2012

Holly Martin's article, "Chang and Eng Bunker: 'The Original Siamese Twins' Living, Dying and Continuing Under the Spectator's Gaze," has been selecte...

De Hertogh’s poem "Silvermine Arch" will be published in the spring issue of Appalachian Heritage: A Literary Quarterly of the Appalachian South
Feb 20, 2012

Lori Beth De Hertogh's poem "Silvermine Arch" will be published in the spring issue of Appalachian Heritage: A Literary Quarterly of the Appalachian S...

Nathan Hauke's first book of poems, IN THE MARBLE OF YOUR ANIMAL EYES, is forthcoming from Publication Studio
Feb 20, 2012

Nathan's first book of poems, IN THE MARBLE OF YOUR ANIMAL EYES, is forthcoming from Publication Studio (2012).Two of his poems, "Deerfield (1)" and "...

Fischer’s essay, “Meaninglessness: Cause and Desire in The Birds, Shaun of the Dead and The Walking Dead” was published in the anthology Triumph of the Living Dead: Robert Kirkman’s Zombie Epic on Page and Screen
Feb 20, 2012

Craig Fischer's essay, "Meaninglessness: Cause and Desire in The Birds, Shaun of the Dead and The Walking Dead" was published in the anthology Triumph...