Stories From 2024
Faculty Notes for April 2024
PAUL COLBY Paul Colby published a political thriller titled Can You Tell Me Where He’s Gone? The book is available in print and as an Ebook. CHRISTA GALA For the second year in a row, Christa Gala will lead 11 students to […]
Coping with Climate Anxiety Through Poetry, Visual Arts
The interdisciplinary Art United workshop offers a creative outlet to deal with concerns about our planet’s future.
Faculty News for March 2024
CHRIS ANSON Over spring break, Chris Anson collaboratively ran a 2.5-day seminar for 19 early-career researchers focusing on mixed-methods research in writing studies (with Tiane Donahue of Dartmouth; Magnus Gustafsson of Chalmers University, Gothenburg; and Theresa Lillis, Open University, UK). […]
English Graduate Student News, February 2024
Kacey Cooper (MA candidate in Rhetoric and Composition) organized a public event to celebrate the anniversary of poet Langston Hughes’s 1949 trip to Wilson. Her “Hughes in Wilson, NC” was both previewed and covered extensively by The Wilson Times. The event covered all the locations Hughes […]
Faculty Notes for February 2024
BELLE BOGGS Belle Boggs was interviewed on NPR’s Here and Now about the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling concerning IVF. DAUN DAEMON “At three” and “Between the Sheets”—two poems from Daun Daemon’s book, A Prayer for Forgiving My Parents—were selected for the […]
Faculty News for January 2024
CHRIS ANSON Chris Anson’s chapter “Dimensions of Transfer and the Role of Multimodality” appeared in Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer, edited by Kara Poe Alexander, Matthew Davis, Lillian W. Mina, and Ryan P. Shepherd (Utah State University Press). DAUN DAEMON & […]
The Day King Addressed Campus — and the Klan Marched on Raleigh
English professor Jason Miller has discovered footage of the Ku Klux Klan marching in downtown Raleigh and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. giving a speech in Reynolds Coliseum — both of which happened on the same day.
Faculty Notes for December 2023
PAUL COLBY Paul Colby will serialize his novel When the Man Dances on his Substack in 2024. Starting January 7, he will add a new chapter each week. Subscriptions are free. CATHERINE MAINLAND Catherine Mainland’s essay “McGonagall’s Elephant” was a semifinalist in the TulipTree […]