{"id":470,"date":"2015-06-22T15:18:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/?p=470"},"modified":"2015-06-22T15:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T19:18:39","slug":"monday-missive-june-22-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/blog\/2015\/06\/22\/monday-missive-june-22-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Missive – June 22, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"
News from Richmond<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0I just returned from Richmond, Virginia, where I attended the Children’s Literature Association Conference. \u00a0This year’s conference focused on the “dark side” of children’s literature. \u00a0This theme seemed fitting to me since Richmond is the home of Edgar Allan Poe, who of course is famous for his dark \"Poe<\/a>stories. \u00a0While in Richmond, I visited the Edgar Allan Poe Museum and Garden, and I marveled at the museum’s extensive collection of Poe’s personal belongings and memorabilia.<\/div>\n
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I am pleased to report that our English Department was well represented at the conference. \u00a0Two of\u00a0our graduate students\u00a0presented papers. \u00a0Amanda Loefert delivered a paper on “Fighting in Flats: \u00a0How Kamala Khan Is Revolutionizing the Female Superhero.” <\/span><\/i>Dina Massachi\u00a0presented\u00a0a paper titled “Starving for Readers: \u00a0The Epidemic of Glamorizing Eating Disorders in Young Adult Fiction.” \u00a0I\u00a0attended\u00a0their sessions, and they both\u00a0gave excellent presentations. \u00a0Two of our former graduate students also presented\u00a0papers. \u00a0Mary Catherine Miller, who is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Ohio State University, delivered a paper titled “Exploring Race in Panem from Colonialism to the Present,” and Erika Romero, who is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Illinois State University, presented a paper titled “Dismantling Boundaries: \u00a0The Post-Human World of M. T. Anderson’s Feed.” <\/span><\/i>I always feel proud when I our former graduate students achieve success as doctoral students, and Mary Catherine and Erika are two such success stories. \u00a0Balaka Basu also attended the conference, and she was honored during the awards\u00a0banquet for winning the Children’s Literature Association’s Best Edited Book Award for her collection titled Contemporary Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults: \u00a0Brave New Teenagers. <\/i>\u00a0This\u00a0occasion\u00a0marked the second year in a row that Balaka was recognized at the awards banquet. \u00a0Last year she was honored for winning the\u00a0Children’s Literature Association’s Faculty Research Grant.<\/div>\n
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News from Our\u00a0<\/span><\/b>Foreign Bureau<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u2014\u00a0When I was a kid, the television networks often ran a public service\u00a0announcement\u00a0that said, “It’s 10:00 pm. \u00a0Do you know where your children\u00a0are?” \u00a0This announcement popped into my head the other day as I was trying to keep track of our faculty members’\u00a0travel plans for the summer. \u00a0I found myself\u00a0asking, “It’s summer. \u00a0Do you know where your faculty members are?” \u00a0Many members of our department go on research trips over the summer, so keeping track of\u00a0everybody\u00a0can be a challenge. \u00a0 In an effort to participate in these foreign adventures in a vicarious sort of way, I decided to provide some\u00a0information\u00a0about our globe trotters in my\u00a0Monday\u00a0Missives.<\/div>\n
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This week I am featuring Sarah Minslow, who recently returned from an extended trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland. \u00a0I asked her about her adventures, and here is what she had to say: “In May, I visited the UK and Ireland to conduct research for curriculum development for the courses I teach.\u00a0I visited the British Library, Trinity College Dublin’s exhibition titled Upon the Wild Waves: A Journey through Myth in Children’s Books,<\/span><\/i>\u00a0Oscar Wilde’s childhood home and the Selfish Giant’s Children’s Playground, which is based on one of Oscar Wilde’s stories. I also visited the Bronte Parsonage, Beatrix Potter World and Beatrix Potter’s house, and Whitby Abbey. I met with faculty at Kingston University and the Chair of their English Department to discuss course requirements and advising our study abroad students and with the Director of the British Human Rights Institute. \u00a0It was an amazing trip, and I have a lot of reading and curriculum revisions to do now!”<\/div>\n
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Kudos<\/span><\/b>\u2014 As you know, I like to use my Monday Missives to share news about recent accomplishments by members of our department. \u00a0Here is the latest news:<\/div>\n
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Lil Brannon<\/b>\u00a0and UNC Charlotte’s Writing Project are featured in the Summer 2015 print edition of Exchange. \u00a0<\/i>Copies of this magazine are in faculty members’ department mailboxes.<\/div>\n

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Liz Miller<\/span><\/b> recently presented a paper in a symposium titled “Teacher Identity across Time and Space” at the International Society for Language Studies conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Earlier this summer she had a chapter titled “Power, Resistance and Second Language Learning” appear in the\u00a0Handbook of Classroom Discourse and Interaction<\/span><\/i>.<\/div>\n
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Upcoming Events and Deadlines<\/b>\u2014Here are some dates to keep in mind:<\/div>\n
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June 22 \u2014 Last day of classes for the first summer session.<\/div>\n
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June 29 \u2014 Grades due for classes taught during the first summer session.<\/div>\n
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June 29 \u2014 Classes for the second summer session begin on June 29.<\/div>\n
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June 30 \u2014 Last day to add or drop a class with no grade.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Quirky Quiz Question<\/b>\u2014 Edgar Allan Poe wrote poetry as well as prose. \u00a0One of his poems begin with the phrase, “Once upon a midnight dreary.” \u00a0What is the title of this poem?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Last week’s answer: Julian D. Mason<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News from Richmond\u00a0\u2014\u00a0I just returned from Richmond, Virginia, where I attended the Children’s Literature Association Conference. \u00a0This year’s conference focused on the “dark side” of children’s literature. \u00a0This theme seemed fitting to me since Richmond is the home of Edgar Allan Poe, who of course is famous for his dark stories. \u00a0While in Richmond, I […]<\/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-470","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\/470","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=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/mark-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}