Stories From 2019

Oct 17, 2019

76th Southeastern Renaissance Conference at Aloft Raleigh (October 18th & 19th)

  This Friday and Saturday the NC State Department of English will host the 76th annual Southeastern Renaissance Conference. This regional conference has long been a collegial and welcoming forum for sharing new work in early modern studies. This year, […]

Oct 17, 2019

Wilhite Selected As A Finalist for University’s 3MT Competition

Congratulations to Angela Wilhite, an MFA in our program, who has been selected as one of the finalists for the university’s 3MT (three-minute thesis) competition!      This competition asks graduate students to deliver a short presentation that sums up their graduate […]

Oct 11, 2019

Jenkins & Vause Presented at The Popular Culture/American Culture Association in the South Conference

Austin Jenkins and Katelyn Vause, our MA literature concentration graduate students, presented their paper last month at The Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South Conference in Wilmington, NC. Vause shared, “The conference was small and had a fairly […]

Oct 3, 2019

Event Spotlight: Dufresne & The Voices of Our People

The Voices of Our People event was a success! So much kudos and hugs to our MA graduate student, Kelsey Virginia Downs Dufresne, for putting this all together. This event was open to the community and it had such a […]

Oct 2, 2019

Burt Presented at 2019 Comics and Popular Arts Conference with DragonCon

Our MA rhetoric and composition concentration student, Kathryn Burt, presented her paper in the Comics and Popular Arts Conference with DragonCon at Atlanta, Georgia early last month. She shared her experience presenting “How do you want to do this?: A […]

Oct 2, 2019

Faculty Notes for September 2019

CHRIS ANSON With Cary Moskovitz, Michael Pemberton, and Susanne Hall, Chris Anson published “North American Journal Editors’ Views on Text Recycling: An Interview-Based Study” in Learned Publishing, 32:4 (2019). On September 6, Anson presented “Text Recycling in STEM Disciplines: Results from […]

Sep 1, 2019

Graduate Student News for July/August 2019

Alex Pickens’s essay “The Do’s and Don’ts of Trail Running in the Mountains” won Appalachia journal’s 2019 Waterman Fund Essay Contest.

Sep 1, 2019

Faculty News for July/August 2019

CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson gave the opening keynote address, “Technological Gains and Losses: A Heuristic Approach to Analyzing Affordances for Classroom Instruction and Support for Writing,” at the 10th Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing […]

Aug 13, 2019

How I Think and Do: Filmmaker David Hambridge

What can you do with an NC State degree in film studies? Ask filmmaker David Hambridge, director and cinematographer of the documentary "Kifaru."

Jul 15, 2019

Dr. Jason Miller’s “On The Record” Interview with Civil Rights Activist, Dorothy Cotton

Dr. Jason Miller appeared on WUNC Radio’s “The State of Things” earlier this month, July 2nd, and discussed a recent article he published about North Carolina’s own Dorothy Cotton.     The article summarized the only “on the record” interview the wonderful civil […]