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Achievements
Publications and achievements submitted by our faculty, staff, and students.
Janelle Adsit
English
Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, English) has recently published two articles in the journal New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing. Both articles are on threshold concepts in creative writing. The article "Creative writing and the limits of *Naming What We Know*: threshold concepts from aesthetic theory and creativity studies in the literary writing curriculum" is part of a featured author series and will also appear in a forthcoming collection.
Dr. Kathleen Doty and Dr. Mark Wicklund
English
Drs. Kathleen Doty and Mark Wicklund are the co-authors of a chapter in "Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible", just published by Cambridge University Press. Their chapter, "Shee gave Selfe both Soule and body to the Devill: The use of binomials in the Salem witchcraft trials," expands upon some of Dr. Doty's earlier work on the discourse of the Salem trial records from 1692.
Lydia Leonard-Rhodes & Emily Bushta
English
The Department of English is pleased to announce its first recipients of the English Scholarship for 2017-18. These scholarships, the result of a generous donation by an anonymous donor, will be awarded in the spring of each academic year for the following year. The first scholarships are being given to Emily Bushta and Lydia Leonard-Rhodes, who will each receive an award of $1000 for the upcoming academic year. This year’s scholarship awards will be presented at the English Department Commencement Reception on Saturday, May 13 at 2:30 p.m. in the Green and Gold Room of Founders Hall.
Christina Accomando
English
On April 13, 2017, Christina Accomando, Professor of English and CRGS, presented the paper "Patriotism, Protest, and Dog Whistling the National Anthem" for the panel Rearticulating Racism, Resistance and Citizenship in the Age of Neoliberalism, at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.
Jamal Jones
English
Jamal Jones (English major, graduating in May) has been promoted to head coach of the varsity football team and teacher at Arcata High School. Jamal's achievement was recently recognized on KIEM-TV. View the full interview here: http://kiem-tv.com/video/jones-named-arcata-varsity-football-coach.
Janelle Adsit
English
Janelle Adsit has received a Presidents’ Council on Underserved Communities (PCUC) Professional Development Award to attend the 2017 NASPA Closing the Achievement Gap: Student Success in Higher Education Conference in Washington, D.C. this June.
Janelle Adsit (faculty), Mirabai Collins (English major)
English
Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, Writing Practices) and Mirabai Collins (English major) will present at this year's Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference next week in Washington, D.C. The title of their presentation is "Postcolonial Perspectives on Workshops of Empire." The panel responds to Eric Bennett’s provocative new book Workshops of Empire and calls for decolonizing approaches to understanding creative writing pedagogy. They examine the University of Iowa’s relationship to creative writing programs in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and among First Nations peoples.
Janelle Adsit, AJ McGough, Angela Compton, Bri Lucero
English
Janelle Adsit presented "Teaching the Undergraduate Literary Magazine" at the Creative Writing Studies Organization conference in Asheville, NC. The presentation discussed innovations associated with Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art (www.toyonliterarymagazine.org). Integral to the presentation was research conducted by English majors AJ McGough, Angela Compton, and Bri Lucero during the Spring 2016 semester, supported by the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship program.
Mary Ann Creadon
English
Mary Ann Creadon of the English Department presented a paper, entitled "From 'Airy Nothing' to Knowledge: English as Uberdiscipline," for a peer-reviewed panel at the national College English Association meeting, March 30-April 2 in Denver.
Nikola Hobbel
English
Nikola Hobbel, English professor was recently elected Secretary of the California Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). The California Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education is a group of teacher educators, teachers, students, parents, community activists, and others with a strong interest in creating socially just and equitable learning communities in California schools and classrooms.