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Short story collection by Sarah Strickley
Sarah Strickley has published a collection of short stories, Fall Together.
New Issue of Miracle Monocle
We are pleased to announce the release of Issue X of Miracle Monocle, the University of Louisville's online literary journal.
University Writing Center wins A&S Community Service Award
The University of Louisville Writing Center has won the Community Service Award from the College of Arts & Sciences
New Issue of THRESHOLDS
The second issue of the online journal thresholds--co-edited by Assistant Professor of English Frances McDonald--is now live. Thresholds is a digital zine, with each issue custom-designed to generate provocative collisions of art and ideas. Issue nr. 2, "Traces," is "a collective writing experiment loosely based on the works of media theorist Siegfried Zielinski.
PhD Students Win CCCC Awards
PhD candidates Ashanka Kumari and Khirsten Echols have each received a highly competitive Scholars for the Dream Travel Award from CCCC. This is a very competitive national travel award for graduate students, and will allow Ashanka and Khirsten to travel to Kansas City in March to share their work at the CCCC conference.
Meet Social Justice Scholar Laura Tetreault
Laura Tetreault's research interests include cultural rhetorics; gender studies; contemporary intersectional queer, feminist, and antiracist activism; social justice informed pedagogies; new media and multimodal composition; and translingual approaches to the study and teaching of writing.
English Department Alumni: Ryan Ridge
Ryan Ridge, Alumni '06, will read at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture in February after being awarded the 2017 Italo Calvino Prize.
Megan Hartline wins 2017 CCCC Chair’s Memorial Scholarhip
Megan Hartline, a fourth year doctoral candidate in rhetoric and composition at the University of Louisville, has won a 2017 CCCC Chairs’ Memorial Scholarship. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
Susan Ryan publishes new book with Oxford
Susan Ryan (Associate Professor and Acting Chair) has published her latest book, "The Moral Economies of American Authorship", with Oxford University Press.
Laura Tetreault wins 2017 CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award
UofL’s Department of English Laura Tetreault is one-of-three recipients of the 2017 CCCC Gloria Anzaldúa Rhetorician Award.