On March 28, the English Department sponsored a day-long visit from Ronald Sullivan, professor at Harvard Law and founder of the Jamestown Project at Yale University. Sullivan’s visit was in conjunction with the department’s Common Read selection for the year, Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. In the morning, Sullivan met with students in composition classes. At 11 am, he gave a presentation for faculty and students in the Polsky Theatre. The afternoon featured a Q&A session with Sullivan in the CoLab. Sullivan’s visit was made possible by the Common Read Committee: Professors Maureen Fitzpatrick, Monica Hogan, Diane Davis, Marilyn Senter, Tom Reynolds, Katherine Karle, and Jim McWard.
Dan Cryer, assistant professor of English, published two articles recently:
- “‘Effective Joint Action’ in Wildlife Management: Ethos, Character and Network in Aldo Leopold’s North Central States Report” was published in April in English Studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0013838X.2018.1453637.
- “Withdrawing without Retreat: Responsible Conservation in A Doomed Age” was published at the end of March in Rhetoric Society Quarterly: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02773945.2018.1439521
Greg Dixon, professor of English, received an Assessment Mini-Grant to develop an Open Educational Resource (OER) in collaboration with librarian Barry Bailey.
Nathan Jones, professor of English, has had two recent publications:
- Discovering Perceptions of the Essence of College-Level Writing: Transcendental Phenomenological Inquiry in a Midwestern Community College. ProQuest, 2016.
- “Perceptions of College-Level Writing Among Professors in an American Community College.” Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Open and Innovative Education, edited by Kam Cheong Li and Eva Tsang, The Open University of Hong Kong,2017, pp. 216-225.
Jones gave a presentation titled “Perceptions of College-Level Writing Among Professors in an American Community College” at the International Conference on Open and Innovative Education on July 13, 2017 at The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Jones also has the following presentations planned in the coming months:
- “Preparing Local Students to Become College-Level Writers.” International Conference on Language, Innovation, Culture, and Education, a Paper to Be Presented 28-30 June 2018, Liberty Central Saigon Citypoint Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
- “Building Curriculum Around Perceptions of Appropriate College-Level Writing in an American Community College.” International Conference on Open and Innovative Education, a Paper to Be Presented 4-6 July 2018, The Open University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
- “Improving College-Level Writing for Local Contexts.” Eleventh International Conference on Teaching, Education and Learning, a Paper to Be Presented 11-12 July 2018, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand.
- “Perceptions of College-Level Writing Among Community College Faculty.” Midwest Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (MIDTESOL) 2017 Conference, 29 Sept 2018, Kansas City Marriott Downtown, Kansas City, Missouri.