Publications

Congratulations to Stephen Neaderhiser and Joanna Wolfe whose article, "Between Technological Endorsement and Resistance: The State of Online Writing Centers," appears in the most recent issue of The Writing Center Journal.

Congratulations to Nettie Farris, whose literacy narrative, "One Appreciative Reader," appears in the most recent issue of Journal of Kentucky Studies. 

Congratulations to Ryan Trauman who will be co-editing the 2008 Watson Conference Collection with Debra Journet and Cheryl Ball.

Congratulations to Shyam Sharma who has recently published two articles:  “Teaching: What, How, and Why?” Chrysanthemum, 8 (2007). (an academic journal annually published by Society of English Studies,Kathmandu, Nepal) and “Worldviews,‘Post-Conflict’ Nepal,and the Role of the Intellectual.” Student Voices 1 (2008). (a political discussion forum/journal of the Nepalese Progressive Student Union, on the occasion of the declaration of Nepal as a democratic republic, Kathmandu, Nepal).

Congratulations to Cindy Britt, who is co-editing the 2006 Watson Conference Collection, Narrative: Rhetoric, Race and Knowledge with Debra Journet and Beth Boehm.  The collection is forthcoming on Hampton Press. 

Congratulations to Andrea Ascuena & Julia Kiernan whose article “The Problem of Email: Working to Decentralize Consultant Authority in Online Writing Centers" appears in the spring 2008 issue of Praxis: A Writing Center Journal.

Conferences

Congratulations to Tika Lamsal who will be presenting his paper "Cultural Identity as a Translational and Transnational Entity: Remapping the Boundaries of Teaching Writing to the International Students" at the International Writing Center Association conference in Las Vegas on November 1.

Congratulations to many of our graduate students who will be presenting at the 2009 CCCC in San Francisco!  Included in this list are Stephen Neaderhiser, Chris Alexander, Michelle Robinson, Phillip Blackmon, Tabetha Adkins, Cynthia Britt, Eric Leake, Melanie Rowand-White, and Becca Block.

Congratulations to Phillip Blackmon and Michelle Robinson who are presenting at SAMLA in Louisville in November.

Awards

Congratulations to Mike Sohan and Amelia Pegram who have won the Grey's Bookstore Excellence in Part Time Teaching Award!  This award honors and recognizes the many fine Part-Time Lecturers who teach in and support the Composition Program. Formal acknowledgement of this award will be made at the Fall Orientation in August.

Congratulations to Allison Egnew who has won the Appalachian College Association Pre-Doctoral Fellowship.  This award comes with a 30,000 stipend, and they awarded 10 fellowships this year. 

Congratulations to Tabetha Adkins who has won the CCCC Chairs' Memorial Scholarship.  

Congratulations to Kem Roper who won the M. Celeste Jackson Nichols Award given by the UofL Women's Center for professional development.

Congratulations to Stephen Neaderhiser who has accepted a tenure-track position at Kent State University at Stark. Stephen will be teaching first-year writing and upper-level Rhet/Comp courses, including "History of the English Language" and "Literacy in the Digital Age," as well as helping to lead the development of the campus's professional writing program.

Congratulations to Carrie Coaplen-Anderson, previously Carrie Wright, who recently accepted a tenure track faculty position with Morehead State University's department of English.  She will begin there in the fall and is looking forward to teaching everything from graduate to introductory writing courses, as well as being so close to Daniel Boone National Forest.

Congratulations to Tabetha Adkins who has accepted a tenure-track position at Texas A&M University at Commerce.  Tabetha will teach undergrads and graduate students (MA and Ph.D.) in the Department of Literature and Langauges and direct the Writing Center and Basic Writing Program.