Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker
This summer, Heather Lettner-Rust’s article about the rhetorical foundation of Goal 14 titled “Making Rhetoric Visible: Re-visioning a Capstone Writing Seminar” was published in the inaugural issue of *Present Tense: A Journal of Rhetoric in Society, http://www.presenttensejournal.org, an online journal published at Purdue University. Continuing to spin out work from her dissertation, she will present qualitative […]
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Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker
Thus far in 2010, Brett Hursey’s plays have won 22 awards and appeared on stage 33 times including 11 off/off-off Broadway productions, as well as international productions in Canada and Belgium.
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Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker
The filming of the movie based on Steve Faulkner’s book Waterwalk: A Passage of Ghosts, is about 90 percent complete. A second edition of the book will be published with the movie, for which he has written an Afterword. A short documentary about the journey of the French-Canadians Joliet and Marquette is being shot in […]
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Posted on January 7, 2011 by Joanna Baker
Poems by Craig Challender have recently appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, Mikrokosmos, The Asheville Poetry Review, and The Connecticut Review. One of Dr. Challender’s poems, “Bequest,” won Mikrokosmos’ best-of-genre prize; and Connecticut Review has nominated “How to be Lucky” for a Pushcart Prize. Both poems were written during Dr. Challender’s Spring 2009 sabbatical.
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Posted on January 6, 2011 by Joanna Baker
Rhonda Brock-Servais and Matt Prickett have had an article accepted for Palgrave Macmillan Press’s C.S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia Casebook: “The Author, The Movie, and the Marketing: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and Early Reader Adaptations”
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Posted on July 21, 2010 by Joanna Baker
John Miller, assistant professor of early American literature at Longwood University, will speak Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7 p.m. in Longwood’s Chichester Science Center G12 on “Becoming a Citizen of NASCAR Nation: Toyota, Stock Car Racing, and American Culture in an Era of Globalization.”
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Posted on July 19, 2010 by Joanna Baker
John Miller had an article, “A Forest of Sharp Bayonets at Your Breast”: The Nature of Resistance in William Gilmore Simms’s “Notes from Bartram,” published in the Summer/Winter 2009 issue of The Simms Review.
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Posted on July 19, 2010 by Joanna Baker
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/X716qKVGwhw” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Brett Hursey’s plays won 28 national and international awards and were produced 40 times in 2009. 15 of these productions appeared off/off-off Broadway in Manhattan. Additionally, two of his shows will be performed in festivals at the 2010 Olympics.
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Posted on July 19, 2010 by Joanna Baker
Craig Challender’s new book of poems, As Details Become Available, will be published by Pecan Grove Press later this year. A finalist for The Journal/Ohio State University Press Poetry Award, Details is his third full-length collection; almost half the manuscript was written during a Spring, 1998 sabbatical. Two of those poems received Pushcart Prize nominations. […]
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Posted on July 15, 2010 by Joanna Baker
Rhonda Brock-Servais and Matthew Prickett will have an article, “From Bildungsroman to Romance to Saturday Morning: Anne of Green Gables and Sullivan Entertainment” published in The Lion and the Unicorn in April 2010.
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