Publications

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.

Congratulations to Nettie Ferris, who poem "First Woman, the Stars, and Coyote," is forthcoming in Georgetown Review.

Congratulations to Ryan Trauman, whose essay “Colorless, Odorless Gas” will be published in the forthcoming issue of North Dakota Quarterly, published by the University of North Dakota.

Congratulations to Nettie Farris, whose short story "The Day White Peacock Gave Up His Stunning Colors" is forthcoming in the Journal of Kentucky Studies.

Congratulations to Tabetha Adkins, Christopher Alexander, Patrick Corbett, Debra Journet, and Ryan Trauman, whose collaborative multimodal article "Digital Mirrors:  Multimodal Reflection in the Composition Classroom" appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Computers and Composition Online.

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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.

 

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Awards

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 Shannon Dehn!  Shannon has received the 2008 part-time lecturer teaching award
sponsored by Gray's Bookstore. 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, August 22.

Congratulations to Ryan Trauman and Scott Rogers who won the Plattus Teaching Award!

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

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Jobs

Congratulations to Kate Brown who has accepted a position at Lindsey Wilson College!

Congratulations to Julie Myatt who has accepted a tenure track position at Middle Tennessee State University, where she'll be working as TA coordinator. She says: I'll be teaching a variety of writing and literature courses at the undergraduate level as well as graduate-level courses such as Teaching Composition. I welcome the opportunity to work with graduate students and to join a department that is interested in cultivating its students' interest in Rhetoric and Composition.

Congratulations to Sonya Borton who has accepted a tenure track position with Philadelphia University. She will be the Director of the new Professional Communications major in the School of Liberal Arts.

 

Congratulations to Peggy Otto who says this of her job: "I have accepted a tenure-track job in English at Western Illinois U, where I will be teaching courses in English Education and literature.  WIU is a IIA institution enrolling about 13,000 students with a strong tradition in teacher education.  It is located in west central Illinois about an hour east of the Miss. R. and three hours southwest of Chicago."

 

Congratulations to Alanna Frost who says this of her job: "I have accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Alabama in Huntsville as the English Department's Writing Center Director.  I will be teaching both undergraduate composition courses and graduate level composition theory.  I am excited to also be working with the Education Department to teach their composition pedagogy course."