Apr 10: NCTE Spring Conference, Simpkins ground floor, 8:00am-5:00pm.
Apr 9: Faculty research group. Wine Sellers, 3:00pm.
Apr 8: Faculty colloquium: Mark Mossman, "Irish Girls Gone Wild: Disability, Gender, and the Construction of Celtic Sentiment." Room change: Simpkins 327 027, 4:00pm.
Apr 1: Deadline for Graduate Program awards & fellowships.
Apr 1: Reading, Case Writer-In-Residence David Treuer. University Union Lincoln Room, 7:30pm.
Mar 31: Journalism scholarship dinner featuring Onion writer Kurt Luchs, Old Dairy, 7:00pm.
Apr 1: “Journalism & Humor: from Mark Twain to Jon Stewart”, Onion writer Kurt Luchs, Union Sandburg Theater, noon.
Mar 31: “Hamlet’s Machine,” Dr. Howard Marchitello, Rutgers University-Camden. University Union Lincoln Room, 7:00pm.
Mar 31: Q&A, Case Writer-In-Residence David Treuer. University Writing Center, 4:30pm.
Mar 31: Writing faculty meeting, Simpkins 020, 3:00pm.
Mar 25:
EGO thesis roundtable. Simpkins 027, 4:00pm.
Jan 21: Our search for an assistant professor of world literature has been put on hold.
Jan 19: Classes Begin.
Faculty News
June 11: Congratulations to Bill Knight, selected as the 2010 Hallwas Liberal Arts Lecturer.
May 8: Four E&J professors will soon earn tenure and/or promotion: Roberta DiCarmine (tenure & promotion to Associate Professor), Mark Mossman (promotion to Professor), Amy Patrick (promotion to Associate Professor), and Erika Wurth (promotion to Associate Professor).
Apr 28: Lisa Barr mentored three students for Undergraduate Research Day: Kaley Rowe, Julie Watkins, and Jesse Patridge.
Apr 23: Bill Knight’s Galesburg Zephyr newspaper column “Illinois can handle detainees” has been named one of North America’s top 12 opinion pieces by the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors.
Apr 21: Mark Mossman’s essay “Academic Capitalism and the New Humanities MA” has been selected for summer 2010 review by the PMLA editorial board.
Apr 16: Charles McLeod has been chosen "Best Professor on Campus" by the Western Courier.
Apr 16: Tim Helwig has been awarded a 2010-2011 short-term visiting research fellowship from the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Apr 14: Roberta Di Carmine has won the College of Arts & Sciences Award for Internationalizing the Campus.
Apr 6: Everett Hamner presented “Defining American Religion” at the Young Scholars in American Religion Conference in Indianapolis.
Apr 5: Charles McLeod, Barbara Ashwood-Gegas, and Peggy Otto were nominated for this year’s Honoring Our Professors of Excellence (HOPE) awards.
Apr 5: Roberta Di Carmine published “Teaching Students to Challenge the Status Quo: Recognizing Oppression in African Film“ in The Councilor 71.1.
Apr 4: Dan Malachuk published “William James at Chocorua: A Northern Forest Philosopher” in Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest: Region, Heritage, and Environment in the Rural Northeast (U of Iowa P, 2010).
Apr 3: Merrill Cole has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Research Grant to Germany to develop his project, “Lust Murder Sex Dolls and Other Weimar Monstrosities: Anita Berber, Sebastian Droste, and Hanna Höch in Inflation-Era Berlin.”
Apr 2: Charles McLeod has had three short stories accepted for publication: “Settlers of Unassigned Lands,” by South Dakota Review, “The State Bird of Minnesota,” by Michigan Quarterly Review, and “Microclimates,” by Post Road.
Mar 30: Mark Mossman’s essay “Sensation and the Body: Disability and the Victorian Sensation Novel.” was accepted for publication in A Companion to Sensation Fiction, ed. Pamela Gilbert (Blackwell, 2011).
Mar 25: Chris Morrow presented “Not So Happy Few: Anti-Militarism in Dekker’s The Shoemaker“s Holiday” at the College English Association Conference in San Antonio. His essay also received “The James R. (Dick) Bennett Award for Literature and Peace.”
Mar 20: Carol Bollin chaired “Still Writing in The Centers: Reconsidering Current Practics in Writing Center Pedagogy” at the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) in Louisville, KY.
Mar 18: Neil Baird presented “Undergraduate Ethnographies of Digital Communities: Methodological Adaptation in Studies of World of Warcraft and Second Life” at the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) in Louisville, KY.
Mar 18: Bradley Dilger presented “Mutualizing the Mix” at the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) in Louisville, KY.
Mar 15: Shazia Rahman has been selected as the College of Arts and Sciences’ Gonfalonier for undergraduate commencement.
Mar 11: Everett Hamner published “Filmmaking Beyond the Film Classroom†in Religion and American History.
Mar 11: Congratulations to our eleven faculty members who earned Professional Achievement Awards: David Banash, Merrill Cole, Roberta DiCarmine, Bradley Dilger, Everett Hamner, Dan Malachuk, Chris Morrow, Mark Mossman, Amy Patrick, Shazia Rahman, and Bonnie Sonnek.
Mar 1: Bradley Dilger’s essay "Beyond Star Flashes: The Elements of Web 2.0 Style" was published in Computers & Composition.
Jan 12: Lisa Barr’s “Missing Stories From The Streets: Why Wasn’t the Pittsburgh G-20 Police Riot Better Covered?” was published in the January/February issue of The Humanist.
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