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Announcing the First-Year Writing blog, a forum where educators of all stripes can benefit from sharing, discussing and drawing upon our combined experience and expertise. We welcome input and participation from scholars outside our department and university.
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Posted: Tuesday May 14, 2013
Claudia Cortese's poem wins Editor's Prize from RHINO Poetry Journal
Claudia's poem "Lucy tells the boy to suck" has won a third place Editor's Prize from RHINO Poetry Journal. Click on the link for further details.
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Posted: Saturday April 6, 2013
Jen Russo publishes article in collection, presents paper at The National Poetry Foundation, and wins Timothy Healy dissertation award
Jen Russo's article "Hannah Weiner's Book in Air: Clairvoyant Journal and the Clair-Style Poems" was recently published in the edited collection Time in Time: Short Poems, Long Poems, and the Rhetoric of North American Avant-Gardism, 1963-2008. Jen also presented her paper "Hannah Weiner, Jimmie Durham, and the American Indian Movement: Tendency Poetry in the 1980s" at the 2012 National Poetry Foundation conference held in June at the University of Maine and she also received the The Timothy Healy Prize for the Best Dissertation on Twentieth-Century Poetry and Poetics in May 2012, awarded by the CUNY Graduate Center’s English Department.
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Posted: Friday April 5, 2013
Maria Montaperto presents paper at The Rhetoric Society of America
Maria Montaperto presented her paper on "The Other Linguist Other: Reframing Conversations about Standardized English Speakers and Linguistic Diversity" at the 2012 annual conference of The Rhetoric Society of America in Philadelphia.
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Posted: Friday April 5, 2013
Todd Craig receives PhD and gives paper and chairs panel at CCCC
Todd Craig will receive his PhD in May after completing his dissertation entitled "SPINificient Revolutions: 360 Degrees of Stylus as Pen" and chaired a panel at CCCC titled "Students' Construction of Writing Selves" in which he also presented his paper "'Mixing What COMPOSE(D) Me': The Public Work and Possibilities of Student-Centered Composing." Click on link to read an abstract of this paper and a detailed description of Todd's dissertation.
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Posted: Friday April 5, 2013
Shil Sen presents paper on "Performing Citizenship in the Spanish Tragedy" at NeMLA
Shil Sen presented his paper "Performing Citizenship in the Spanish Tragedy" as part of a seminar on "Affect and Identity in Early Modern Performance" at the 2013 NeMLA Conference in Boston.
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Posted: Friday April 5, 2013
Liz Martin publishes two poems in Arsenic Lobster
Liz Martin has her poems "Garbage Night" and "Mortgage Lifters" forthcoming in the April/Spring issue of the journal Arsenic Lobster. Click on the link to access Arsenic Lobster's website.
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Posted: Friday April 5, 2013