Category Archives: English Department News

Fitzpatrick Offers Special Topic Class for Spring 2021

ENGL 292: Special Topics: Storyworld, Serialized, and Transmedia Literature–CRN 10168 It is offered this spring, online, with a Composition I pre-requisite.

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Reynolds’ Poem Published

Tom Reynolds’ poem “Cage Fighter” is included in the “Teaching Issue” (Volume 36, Issue 2) of Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature. It appears in the section “Women, Poems, Sport,” featuring works from several poets, including former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita … Continue reading

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Cryer’s Panel Proposal Accepted

Dan Cryer’s panel proposal was accepted to the 2021Conference on College Composition and Communication conference. The title of his panel is “Writing Programs and the Climate Crisis: Cases Studies of Institutional Ecologies, Sustainability, and Ecocomposition.” Dr. Cryer will discuss the history of student involvement … Continue reading

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Dan Cryer Publishes Article

Dan’s article on concealed carry, “The Good Man Shooting Well: Authoritarian Submission and Aggression in the ‘Gun-Citizen,’” is in the current issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly. Here’s the link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02773945.2020.1748219 It’s paywalled, but if anyone is interested in reading it … Continue reading

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Recent English Department Awards

A few members of the English Department recently earned awards from JCCC: Diane Davis, professor of English, received the BNSF Award for classroom teaching and scholarship.  Specifically, recipients are judged on the basis of their innovation, contributions to the profession, … Continue reading

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