English

Crystal Anderson will serve as Elon’s first faculty fellow for the Multicultural Center beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year.

Crystal Anderson presented her paper, “Chinese School: Cross-Cultural and Transnational Strategies in "Ping Pong Playa (2007)” at the 2010 Association of Asian American Studies conference, held in Austin, Texas

Megan Isaac presented a paper delineating the growing role of both literal and metaphorical surveillance in young adult literature at the annual meeting of The Children's Literature Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 10.

Prudence Layne, an assistant professor of English and coordinator of African/African-American Studies at Elon University, has been named one of four Visiting Fellows this summer at the Bader International Studies Institute at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, England, to teach a postcolonial Shakespeare class with field studies components.

Prudence Layne traveled to a remote region in Haiti during spring break to assist doctors and nurses at a free medical clinic. While there, the assistant professor of English saw not only the damage from a powerful January earthquake, but what she says are opportunities for Elon University to help in the nation’s reconstruction.

Students in a spring semester English class have published two children’s books and a coffee table book to help support The Conservators' Center, a nonprofit exotic wildlife sanctuary in North Carolina's Caswell County.

When Jack Lang, the owner of a North Carolina mulch company, impulsively buys the house across the street from where he lives, it’s the final straw for his wife, Beth, who flees into the arms of Jack’s best friend. What happens next is the plot to “This is Just Exactly Like You,” Elon University associate professor Drew Perry’s debut novel and a work of fiction garnering rave reviews from national book critics.

Janet Warman, professor of English and education, attended a poetry workshop sponsored by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Auvillar, France, May 17-24.

Kevin Boyle presented a paper at the Philological Conference on the use of the Petrarchan sonnet in the Northern Irish context, focusing on poems by Seamus Heaney and Paul Muldoon.

Katie King, associate professor of psychology and associate director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, and Megan Isaac, associate professor of English, have had an article, "Creating and supporting mixed-level inquiry communities," published in Mountainrise, an online journal focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning.