Category: News
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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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English Department Communications Internship: Spring 2015
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Read More: English Department Communications Internship: Spring 2015It has been so much fun to work with Communications Intern Tim Mahoney this semester. He has done some really great work — endeavored to build community, grew the audience for department publications, shared lots of interesting ideas, is a good writer and so enthusiastic — but the semester is…
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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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Faculty Profile: Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Tatiana Nekrasova-BekerDr. Tatiana Nekrasova-Beker is currently teaching graduate courses in the TEFL/TESL program and working with INTO-CSU to help support students in the Pathway program. Tatiana received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from Georgia State University and Northern Arizona University, respectively. Her research interests include usage-based approaches to…
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Humans of Eddy: Slamogadro
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Read More: Humans of Eddy: Slamogadro~From English Department Communications Intern Tim Mahoney Take a stroll down the main plaza and you are to likely see many student advertisements written in chalk on the sides of the buildings. While many such advertisements have failed to capture my attention, earlier this semester while walking into the Clark…
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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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Writer’s Harvest Reading: Sasha Steensen and Ira Sukrungruang
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Read More: Writer’s Harvest Reading: Sasha Steensen and Ira Sukrungruang~From English Department Communications Intern Tim Mahoney The Creative Writing Reading Series invited authors Sasha Steensen and Ira Sukrungruang to read selections of their latest work at the Writers’ Harvest Benefit on October 23rd. For this event attendants were asked to bring in canned non-perishable food items to donate to…
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Dinty Moore Reading
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Read More: Dinty Moore ReadingFrom EJ Levy: “The Creative Writing Reading Series is thrilled to present award-winning author and editor Dinty Moore reading from his recent work NEXT WEEK, on THURSDAY, Nov. 13, 2014, at 7:30PM at the UCA Museum, 1400 Remington Street. A Q&A and book signing will follow the reading. Dinty Moore’s…
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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…