Sep 3, 2017

Graduate Student Notes

Threa Almontaser published her poem “Sympathy for Foreign Mothers” in the Baltimore Review.

Jul 1, 2017

Graduate Student Notes for May/June

Caroline Myrick presented “The Importance of Dialect Dictionaries in the Caribbean” at the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) 21st Biennial conference in Cave Hill, Barbados, on June 9. The […]

May 4, 2017 | College of Humanities and Social Sciences News

Constructing Identity Among Italians at NC State

Using language as a window into their experiences, NC State graduate student and Fulbright fellow Cecilia Tomasatti conducted interviews with not only Italian students, but also faculty, about what it’s like to adapt to another country’s climate, culture and cuisine.

May 3, 2017

Graduate Student Notes for April 2017

Krystin Gollihue (CRDM) published her essay “Becoming Sensate: New Approaches to Observing Play” in First Person Scholar. Marisa Incremona (Rhetoric & Composition) presented “Blog Writing as a Metacognitive Writing Tool” […]

Apr 24, 2017

Marisa Incremona, Conference

Marisa Incremona, a first-year MA student in Rhetoric and Composition, will lead “A conversation on multimodal visual analysis” at the Unconference for (Ex)change hosted by NC State’s chapter of the Rhetoric Society […]

Apr 20, 2017 | College of Humanities and Social Sciences News

Language, Gender and Disney Princesses

With billions of dollars in box office and retail sales, the films in Disney’s Princess collection have an immense reach. And while entertaining, their messages can also be influential in how children learn about social norms and behaviors. In this Q&A, NC State graduate student Karen Eisenhauer discusses her research on how language in the Disney Princess movies can depict and represent gender roles.

Apr 3, 2017

Marisa Incremona, Conference

Marisa Incremona, a first-year MA student in Rhetoric and Composition, presented “Blog Writing as a Metacognitive Writing Tool” at the College English Association 48th Annual Conference in Hilton Head Island , SC […]

Apr 3, 2017

Congrats to AEGS!

Congratulations to AEGS on a successful conference on Saturday! It was great to see representatives on the program from all four MA English concentrations and the MS Technical Communication program. […]

Apr 1, 2017

Graduate Student Notes for March 2017

Arthur Berger presented on the panel “Where Are We with Wayfinding?” at the 2017 Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI) in Greenville, NC, on February 27. Rachael Graham gave an […]

Mar 27, 2017

2017 Graduate Student Research Symposium Success!

Congratulations to Karen Eisenhauer and Cecilia Tomasatti, First and Second place winners in the Humanities Division at yesterdays’ Graduate Research Symposium!  The department was well represented at the symposium, with six participants […]