Tag: Abby Kerstetter
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News of Note: March and April
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Read More: News of Note: March and AprilGenesea Carter facilitated a half-day workshop with Kelly Bradbury and other cross-institutional colleagues at the March 2019 Conference on College Composition and Communication titled “Responding to Anti-Intellectualism in the Classroom: Developing Positive Emotions and Facilitating Student Engagement.” Genesea also gave a panel presentation titled “Unacknowledged Performers: How Supersystems Affect Antiracist Strategies.” …
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News of Note Week of February 1st
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Read More: News of Note Week of February 1stAby Kaupang and Matthew Cooperman’s book NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified) was recently a finalist for the Essay Press Book Prize. Largely detailing the challenges and joys of raising their autistic daughter Maya, the book has been in progress for many years. A chapbook from that collection, Disorder 299.00, has just been released from Essay…
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MFA Thesis Reading, a Reflection from Ashley Alfirevic
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Read More: MFA Thesis Reading, a Reflection from Ashley Alfirevic~from English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic For the last time of the Fall semester, everyone gathered in the UCA’s Art Gallery for the final Creative Wring and Reading Series event. Though the readings always feel congenial with all of the friendly faces of the English Department, I knew less…
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News of Note Week of November 9th
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Read More: News of Note Week of November 9thThere’s a review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s book of poems, gentlessness, up at Rain Taxi: http://www.raintaxi.com/gentlessness/ Antero Garcia reflected on Teacher Professional Development and Loss, Trauma, and Empathy for DMLcentral. You can read his post here: http://dmlcentral.net/loss-trauma-and-the-digital-language-of-empathy-in-schools/ Antero Garcia wrote a blog post for the Compose Our World research project funded by Lucas…
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News of Note Week of October 5th
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 5thThe Rhetoric Society of America has accepted a panel organized by Doug Cloud titled “Tracing Effect in Social Movement Studies” for presentation at their biennial conference in Atlanta in 2016. The inter-disciplinary panel includes scholars from Kansas State University and Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne. At that same conference, he will…
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News of Note Week of September 7th
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Read More: News of Note Week of September 7thGerry Delahunty presented his paper “Amnesty International (AI) and Philanthropic Fundraising (PF) Appeals: A Comparative Move Analysis” at the 26th Annual Scandinavian Conference of Linguistics at Aalborg University, Denmark, on August 20, 2015. His presentation proposal, “Language, Text, and Ideological Opposition in Amnesty International (AI) Appeal Letters on Behalf of ‘Prisoners…
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News of Note Week of April 6th
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Read More: News of Note Week of April 6thAssociate Professor of Creative Writing Dan Beachy-Quick has been named a fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Beachy-Quick was one of 175 scholars, artists and scientists selected to receive a 2015 Guggenheim fellowship and one of 10 recipients in the organization’s poetry category, (there were more than 3,100…