ESFL is offering two more workshops for teachers this semester [pdf].
The Fourth Annual eLearning Lecture will take place Feb. 6 from 10:00-11:30 in ACT 301. The featured speaker is Dr. L. Dee Fink. In the afternoon, an interactive workshop will be held in ACT 601. You can register with Distance Education.
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Dr. Robert Gowdy is the author of a new book, The Text and the Other: Toward the Caesura of the Unconscious and Narrative Concentricity (Wasteland Press, 2008). |
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Steven Rizzo, Adjunct Instructor, has published "The Paradox of Spiritual Matter and the Spiritual Matter of Paradox in Seamus Heaney and Robert Boyle" in the December issue of Literature and Theology.
The Winter 2008-09 issue of The Iowa Review includes an award-winning story by Andrew Mortazavi, Adjunct Instructor. The story is entitled "Stop Six. Fort Worth."
The 18th Annual Joyce Thompson Memorial Lecture featured Frances Brannen Vick, former director of the University of North Texas Press, and author of several books, including Literary Dallas. The lecture took place on Nov. 17, 2008 in the MCL Auditorium.
Dr. Hugh Burns and Dr. Lou Thompson were both successful in 2008 with applications for Professional Development Leave. Dr. Thompson was on leave in Fall 2008 working on her research, and Dr. Burns will be away at Ohio State University in Spring 2009.
Dr. Phyllis Bridges has published a review entitled "Troubles in South Texas Paradise." The review is about a book on the life of Petra Vela de Vidal Kenedy, and the review appears in Vol. xxVII.4 (Winter 2007-08) of Texas Books in Review.
The Department has been the recipient of a $300,000 gift from the estate of Dr. Charles Bruce, former faculty member in the department. The department uses the money for graduate student scholarships.
The Joyce Thompson Memorial Lecture took place on Wednesday, November 15, 2006, at 2:30 in the MCL Auditorium. The speaker was Jane Roberts Wood, an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Wood is a Fellow of both the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of, among other works, Roseborough, and The Train to Estelline. Wood was the 1998 recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters Award for Best Short Story. Mrs. Wood is the sixteenth lecturer in a series dedicated to the memory of Dr. Joyce Thompson, a TWU Professor of English from 1976 to 1992. The lecture was sponsored by the Friends of the TWU Libraries.
TWU's Former Students Association awarded scholarships to two students in the department, Rebecca Blackwell and Charlene Green.
L.D. and LaVerne Harrell Clark have agreed to donate thousands of dollars to TWU to establish a scholarship in ESFL. The scholarship will be for the best essay in folklore, and, in alternate years, for the best article in The Lasso.
Helen McCourt and Michele Lockhart were selected as the recipients of the 2007 Johnnie Lee Feemster Memorial Scholarship, awarded through TWU's Former Students Association.
Joél Paré has published "Writing Architectonically: Applying Bakhtin's Architectonics to Composition." The article appears in CCTE Studies (Vol. 72), pp. 47-53.
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