English

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.

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.