Category Archives: English & Modern Languages

Dr. Elif Guler publishes in a Journal of Popular Culture

Posted on February 21, 2018 by Dr. Hazel Elif Guler

Dr. Elif Guler’s manuscript, “The Symbolic Restoration of Women’s Place in Turkey’s Resurrection,” has been slated for publication in the Spring 2018 issue of Studies in Popular Culture, MLA-listed journal of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association in the South. … Continue reading →

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Dr. Elif Guler to speak at the American Society for the History of Rhetoric

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Dr. Hazel Elif Guler

Dr. Elif Guler has been invited to present her study, “A Framework for Examining Non-Western Discursive Practices and Extracting Rhetorical Insights from The Turkish Rhetorical Tradition,” at the 2018 American Society for the History of Rhetoric Symposium on “Diversity and Rhetorical … Continue reading →

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Dr. Elif Guler to facilitate workshop and present paper at the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Dr. Hazel Elif Guler

Dr. Elif Guler, Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Writing, has been invited to facilitate a workshop and present a paper on transnational and transformative writing pedagogies at the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in … Continue reading →

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Koski and Gutiérrez on With Good Reason

Posted on September 15, 2017 by Wade Edwards

Farmville, Virginia, population 8,140, is home to the largest private immigrant detention center on the East Coast. Connie Koski and Renee Gutiérrez (Longwood University) bring their students to the detention center to teach English, but the students are also learning … Continue reading →

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Gena Southall in Literacy Research and Instruction

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Wade Edwards

The most recent volume of Literacy Research and Instruction includes an article by Dr. Gena Southall, Director of Liberal Studies, and, from JMU’s College of Education, Dr. Kristina Doubet. “Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction in Middle and High School: The … Continue reading →

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Dr. Elif Guler publishes in the Journal of Public Rhetoric

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Dr. Hazel Elif Guler

A manuscript Dr. Elif Guler completed based on a study she conducted in an advanced “rhetoric and professional writing” course at Longwood University has been slated for publication in the fall issue of Reflections: A Journal of Public Rhetoric, Civic Writing, and Service … Continue reading →

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Dr. Elif Guler presents at the Rhetoric Society of Europe

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Dr. Hazel Elif Guler

Dr. Elif Guler, Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Professional Writing and Rhetoric at Longwood, has recently presented her study, “What Yusuf Has Hacib’s Kutadgu Bilig [Wisdom That Brings Happiness] Can Teach Us About Using Language for Unity,” at the 2017 … Continue reading →

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Virginia English Journal cited

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Wade Edwards

The National Council of Teachers of English has named the Virginia English Journal, edited by Sean Ruday, associate professor of English education, one of the six outstanding affiliate journals for 2017.  According to the announcement, judges found the journal’s most … Continue reading →

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Heather Lettner Rust and Elif Guler at the 2017 Conference on College Composition and Communication

Posted on March 31, 2017 by Dr. Hazel Elif Guler

Drs. Heather Lettner-Rust and Elif Guler of the Rhetoric and Professional Writing Program at Longwood recently presented their research at the 2017 Conference on College Composition Communication (CCCC), which took place from March 15-18 in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Lettner-Rust (Composition … Continue reading →

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Faulkner’s Bitterroot published

Posted on September 13, 2016 by Joanna Baker

Steven Faulkner’s new memoir, Bitterroot: Echoes of Beauty and Loss, has been published by Beaufort Books of New York City. It is available in bookstores and on Amazon. From the Bitterroot press release:   On the occasion of the 100th-year … Continue reading →

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