Commencement<\/b> \u2014 Last Saturday the UNC Charlotte held its Commencement ceremonies. \u00a0A total of sixty-one English majors received their BA degrees, five students received their MA degrees in English, and one student received an MA in English Education. \u00a0Also, four students were awarded Graduate Certificates in Technical and Professional Writing, including Brenda Shue, who was honored as the ringer of the Old Bell. \u00a0As Kirk and I lined up the students in preparation for the ceremony, I could tell that despite the terrible weather they were excited and proud of their accomplishments. \u00a0I congratulate all of them.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Teachers Institute<\/b> \u2014 Two faculty members from the English Department will lead seminar for the Charlotte Teachers Institute in 2014, \u00a0Paula Connolly<\/b> will lead a seminar titled Visual Storytelling in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. \u00a0This seminar will meet at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African American Arts and Culture. \u00a0Alan Rauch<\/b> will lead a seminar titled Intersections of Science, Technology and Culture. \u00a0This seminar will meet at Discovery Place. \u00a0This upcoming year marks the first time that two UNC Charlotte faculty members from one department will lead seminars in the same year.<\/p>\n
Of all the departments at UNC Charlotte, the English Department is the only department to provide seminar leaders every year since the inception of the program in 2010. \u00a0The previous seminar leaders from English are Lil Brannon (2010), me (2011), Jeffrey Leak (2012), and Ralf Thiede (2013). Also, Brook Blaylock, one of our graduate teaching assistants, is a former CTI Fellow and member of the CTI Steering Committee.<\/p>\n
Kudos<\/b>\u2014 As you know, I like to use my Monday Missives to \u00a0share news about recent accomplishments by members of our department. \u00a0Here is the latest news:<\/p>\n
Lil Brannon<\/b>, together with our former colleague Tony Scott,\u00a0published an article\u00a0titled “Democracy, Struggle, and the Praxis of Assessment.” \u00a0The article appeared in the December issue of\u00a0College Composition and Communication<\/i>, Vol. 65, No. 2, 273-298.<\/p>\n
Boyd Davis<\/b>, together with M. Maclagan, recently published a book chapter titled \u00a0“Talking with Maureen: Extenders and Formulaic Language in Small Stories and Canonical Narratives.” \u00a0The chapter is in Dialogue and Dementia<\/i>, edited by R. Schrauf and N. Mueller, and published by Psychology Press, 87-120. \u00a0Boyd has also been very busy delivering presentations at conferences all over the world. \u00a0Here is a listing she sent me of her most recent conference presentations:<\/p>\n Lara Vetter<\/b>\u00a0delivered a paper on Decmber 7 titled “‘L’Autre’ in H.D.’s Historical Fiction” at the “H.D. and Modernity Conference” held at the \u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure in Paris, France.<\/p>\n Upcoming Events and Deadlines<\/b>— \u00a0Here are some dates to keep in mind:<\/p>\n Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 Lara Vetter’s recent presentation in Paris is reflective of the fact that Lara is establishing herself as a leading authority on the writer and poet known as H.D. \u00a0What does H.D. stand for? \u00a0Lara is not allowed to answer this question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Commencement \u2014 Last Saturday the UNC Charlotte held its Commencement ceremonies. \u00a0A total of sixty-one English majors received their BA degrees, five students received their MA degrees in English, and one student received an MA in English Education. \u00a0Also, four students were awarded Graduate Certificates in Technical and Professional Writing, including Brenda Shue, who was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-missive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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