Category: News of Note
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News of Note Week of December 8th
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Read More: News of Note Week of December 8thSeveral faculty members began the academic year with changes in rank or appointment. EJ Levy received tenure and promotion to associate professor and Ellen Brinks and Roze Hentschell were promoted to full professor. Sharon Grindle, Jenny Levin, and Dana Masden received Senior Teaching Appointments in recognition of their years of…
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News of Note Week of December 1st
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Read More: News of Note Week of December 1stStephanie G’Schwind is pleased to announce that the Center for Literary Publishing’s grant request to the National Endowment for the Arts has been funded for 2015 in the amount of $15,000. The grant will go toward printing, mailing, and author payments for Colorado Review and to support the publication of…
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News of Note Week of November 17th
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 17thLast week, TEFL/TESL faculty and students attended the Annual Co-TESOL Convention in Denver (November 14-15, 2014). Three student-led presentations were delivered at the convention: Angela Sharpe, Moriah Kent and Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker discussed the benefits of Using Corpora in the L2 Classroom; Kenshin Huang and Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker shared their insights on…
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News of Note Week of November 9th
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 9thSueEllen Campbell ran a workshop on teaching climate change in literature classes at the Western Literature Association conference on November 7 in Victoria, B.C. VCU’s literary journal, Blackbird, has published three of Camille Dungy’s poems: http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v13n2/poetry/dungy_c/index.shtml Ecotone, a literary journal published by the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, recently published “Differentiation,”…
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Thankful for Giving: a Note from the Chair
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Read More: Thankful for Giving: a Note from the ChairRecently, I attended the College of Liberal Arts Donors Brunch. This annual event honors the many scholarship donors who support CLA and the students who benefit. It is fitting that it occurs in November, a month when we are reminded to reflect on all that we have to be thankful…
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News of Note Week of November 3rd
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 3rdJohn Calderazzo will soon give a talk about science communication at the National Wildlife Research Center in Fort Collins. Tobi Jacobi presented a workshop on historical documents from the 1920s New York State Training School for Girls at the Hudson Area Library in late October. Tobi Jacobi presented a critical…
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News of Note Week of October 27th
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 27thGerry Delahunty presented his paper on “Lexical semantics: How much English teachers need to know?” at the 7th International Conference on English Language Teaching (ELT) in China, in Nanjing, China. Lisa Langstraat and Sue Doe are delighted to announce that their book-length collection, Generation Vet: Student-Veterans, Composition, and the Post-9/11…
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News of Note Week of October 13th
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 13thDan Beachy-Quick is writer-in-residence at Susquehanna University this week. He is visiting Susquehanna as part of the Raji-Syman Visiting Writers Series, and will be giving a reading while there. Tobi Jacobi and Dr. Laura Rogers (Albany College of Health Science and Pharmacy) will deliver a talk entitled “Becoming Incorrigible: The…
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News of Note Week of October 6th
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 6thSamantha Iocovetto (MA in Creative Nonfiction, 2014) has a craft essay, “Defining the Ideal Essay,” on the Brevity blog. You can read it here: http://brevity.wordpress.com/2014/10/01/defining-the-ideal-essay/ Dan Beachy-Quick gave a talk and a reading at University of Northern Texas. Tobi Jacobi has been selected to deliver the 14th annual Women’s Studies…