English

Today's students and alumni can tap increasingly varied technologies to support their writing across the university, in internships, and in post-graduation careers. Five ENG 110 faculty also want them to have critical strategies for using these available technologies to enhance their writing processes, their written products, and their research.

Read novels from Victorian England, and in many instances, characters leave for or arrive home from what was then the British colony of Australia. But it’s almost impossible in the same books to find an accurate description of life there. Janet Myers, an associate professor of English, tackles that fact in her first book, Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination.

Janet Myers, Associate Professor of English, recently published Antipodal England: Emigration and Portable Domesticity in the Victorian Imagination in the Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century series at SUNY Press.

Jessie Moore, assistant professor of English, served as the conference organizer for the Carolinas Writing Program Administrators (CWPA) fall conference, Writing Research and Program Preservation in Tight Financial Times, September 21-23, at WildAcres Retreat in Little Switzerland, N.C.

Discusses the need to look beyond good intentions when using service learning to teach writing.

What makes a poem great? Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams offers an easy answer: “It should sound as if it was improvised.” Williams read his work to students, faculty and community members in McCrary Theatre Tuesday night for the 9th annual Baird Pulitzer Prize Lecture hosted by Elon University.

Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has published a poem in Convergence Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal.