English

Paula Patch, lecturer in English and coordinator of College Writing, made a presentation titled "Fluid Boundaries: Creating a Meaningful Assessment of a Basic Writing Workshop" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in St. Louis on March 22, 2012.

Randall Bowman, reference/instruction librarian, and Barbara Gordon, associate professor of English, made a presentation titled “Targeted, not Generic, Library Instruction for First Year Writers” at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in St. Louis on March 22, 2012.

The spring 2012 edition of The Sewanee Review includes a short story, "In the Traces," by Ross Howell, adjunct professor of English. The magazine will be available mid-April. The Sewanee Review is America's oldest continuously published literary quarterly, now celebrating its 120th year.

Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, presented a paper at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 on Feb. 23.

English and professional writing and rhetoric (PWR) alumna Caitlin Rantala is now web graphic designer and production manager for MusicRow.

Students in one Winter Term course learn some of the same outdoor skills used by characters in their readings on rites of passage.

Jensen Suther, an English major and Lumen Scholar, has had his paper accepted for presentation at the Derrida Conference, which will be held this spring at The Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

An op-ed essay by Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, titled "'Life' On the Home Front, Then and Now," appeared in the Raleigh News and Observer on Saturday, Dec. 24th.