English

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.

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.