English

English professor Andy Angyal gave an April 13 talk on "Green Design and the Quest for Sustainability" sponsored by the North Carolina Humanities Council at West Regional Library in Cary, N.C.

A poem by Jeff Stein, associate dean of students, titled “Clearance,” was published in issue 30 of Third Coast, the literary magazine produced at Western Michigan University.

In the years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks focused America’s attention toward the Middle East and southwest Asia, middle and high school educators have sought literature to help students understand the people and cultures of the region. Associate professor of English Megan Isaac offers help for those teachers in her second book, Suzanne Fisher Staples: The Setting is the Story, which focuses on one of America's award-winning young-adult fiction authors.

Paula Patch, lecturer in English, had an article published in the March 2010 issue of Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC), a journal of the National Council of Teachers of English for faculty who teach the first two years of English in two- and four-year institutions.

Jessie Moore and Michael Strickland, both members of the Department of English, contributed a chapter on taking student writing public to the collection Going Public: What Writing Programs Learn from Engagement, edited by Shirley K Rose and Irwin Weiser for Utah State University Press.

Elon University took part in the 21st National African-American Read-In on Friday when students, faculty and staff read aloud in Ward Octagon inside the Moseley Center. Organizers collected donations for Haiti relief and for local libraries at the event, which included an afternoon reading by Elon President Leo M. Lambert.

Prudence Layne, an assistant professor of English and director of the African/African-American Studies Program at Elon, has had her article "Reincarnating Legba: Caribbean Writers at the Crossroads" published in the new book Postcolonial Ghosts.