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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
Julia Wagner to present at NJWA and New Directions in the Humanities and publishes suite of poems in Praxilla
Julia Wagner has published a suite of poems "Dream Poem, Part I: Aerial View: the Cottage," "Dream Poem, Part III: The Boatman's Wife," and "Love and Mid-Century Blues at the Tate" in the online poetry journal Praxilla. Julia will also be presenting her paper "Ways of Knowing: Acknowledging Difference in the Writing Classroom" at The 11th International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities and will be co-presenting a paper with Jennifer Guercio entitled "Creating Relevance: Incorporating Multiliteracies in the Writing Classroom" at the NJWA Conference in May 2013.
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Posted: Friday February 22, 2013
Tatum Petrich publishes literary profile of Mimi Albert and moderates panel on "Women Poets of the Beat Movement" at MLA
Tatum Petrich has recently published a literary profile of Mimi Albert in The Literary Encyclopedia online and moderated a panel on "Women Poets of the Beat Movement: Diane Di Prima, Sandra Hochman, and Ruth Weiss" at the recent MLA Conference in Boston, MA, January 2013.
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Posted: Friday February 22, 2013
Jennifer Guercio to present at NJWA, authors AP Biology text for REA, and receives her MS in Molecular Biology from MSU
Jennifer Guercio will be co-presenting with Julia Wagner a paper entitled "Creating Relevance: Incorporating Multiliteracies in the Writing Classroom" at the NJWA Conference in May. She has also authored _AP Biology Crash Course_ and will serve as the Technical Editor for _AP Biology Practice Exam_ and _AP Biology_ for REA Publishers. Jennifer has also earned here Master of Science degree in Molecular Biology from MSU in May of 2012 with a thesis entitled "Molecular Mechanisms Involved in Regulation of Glial Cell Proliferation."
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Posted: Friday February 22, 2013