Tag: Todd Mitchell

  • News of Note: March and April

    News of Note: March and April

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    Genesea 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 January 21

    News of Note Week of January 21

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    Leslee Becker has been named a Finalist in the Great Midwestern Fiction Contest for her story, “The Grotto.” Mark Bresnan wrote about compensation and contingent labor for Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/guest-post-how-was-your-semester In the on-going life of NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang have a review, and long…

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  • News of Note Weeks of October 22 and 29

    News of Note Weeks of October 22 and 29

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    Ricki Ginsberg was elected President-Elect of the Assembly on Literature for Adolescents of the National Council of Teachers of English (ALAN). She will be organizing the 2020 ALAN Workshop, which will involve 80+ young adult authors. The Last Panther, by Todd Mitchell, won a 2018 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. Todd…

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  • News of Note Week of October 8

    News of Note Week of October 8

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    Aparna Gollapudi presented a paper titled “The Other Eighteenth Century Child: Personhood and Property in Locke’s Two Treatises and Defoe’s Fiction” at the Rocky Mountain MLA conference in Cheyenne on October 4th. Kristina Quynn presented at &NOW, Notre Dame, on a panel she organized and moderated about New Methods. Instagram. Play:…

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  • News of Note April 2018

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    Dan Beachy-Quick has a short essay up at The Brooklyn Rail, part of a critic’s section curated by Ann Lauterbach, on Why Poetry Now: https://brooklynrail.org/2018/04/criticspage/Crisis-of-the-Poetic-Now EJ Levy’s hybrid essay, “Natural World,” which appeared in Passages North, has been awarded a Pushcart Prize; it will appear in the 2019 Pushcart PPXLIII…

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  • News of Note for March 2018

    News of Note for March 2018

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    Stephanie G’Schwind’s National Endowment for the Arts grant application, on behalf of the Center for Literary Publishing, was funded for $15,000. The grant will fund two issues of Colorado Review and the most recent title in the Mountain West Poetry Series: We Remain Traditional, by Arizona poet Sylvia Chan (February…

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  • News of Note for February 2018

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    We had 30 people at our inaugural Composition Program Meta Monday, “Beyond the Rhetorical Situation,” facilitated by Dr. Doug Cloud. A hearty thank you to Doug and everyone who came! Joanna Doxey has a few poems in the latest issue of Ghost Proposal, here: http://ghostproposal.com/ . She was recently invited…

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  • News of Note Weeks of November 6 and 13

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    Genesea Carter’s edited collection Class in the Composition Classroom: Pedagogy and the Working Class was just published by Utah State UP. She has co-written the introduction with her co-editor, Bill Thelin, and has a single-author chapter in the collection titled “’Being Part of Something Gave Me Purpose’: How Community Membership…

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  • News of Note Weeks of September 11 and September 18

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    On August 28, Pam Coke co-presented the paper “Examining Attrition in English Education: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Preparation, Persistence, and Dispositions in Teacher Education” with Heidi Frederiksen and Ann Sebald of the CSU Center for Educator Preparation at the 19th International Conference on Education Studies in Paris,…

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  • News of Note Week of August 21

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    Leslee Becker was named the 3rd-Place Winner of the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, sponsored by Rosemont College/Philadelphia Stories & PS Books (“the POWER of Small”) for her short story, “The Grotto.” The Community Literacy Center is happy to welcome six new interns for Fall 2017-Spring 2018. Interns who will develop research…

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