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TWU students earn awards at CCTE

3/7/23

March 7, 2023 – DENTON – Two Texas Woman's University graduate students earned awards at the Conference of College Teachers of English.

Kayleigh Brewer earned the Randall Popken Rhetoric/Composition/Tech Writing/Language Studies Award for “Voices From Lockdown: A Call for a Critical Approach to Reading Students in Their Own Words,” 

Franco Zamora's article “‘Voz’: Latinx Community Engagement Writing Project for First-Year Composition” was awarded the William E. Tanner Rhetorical Area Paper by a Grad Student.

The conference was held March 2-4 at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas.

No panic here: TWU prepares for ChatGPT

2/20/23

TWU is preparing for the impact of ChatGPT, an AI-powered website that mimics human conversation, writes and debugs computer programs and writes screenplays, poetry, and stories. It has also written essays and research papers, and answered test questions.

TWU play to challenge LGBTQ+ norm

2/15/23

Bull in a China Shop is the third play of the Texas Woman's University theatre's 2022-23 season. Written by Bryna Turner and premiered at the Lincoln Center in 2017, the play is the story of two women at Mount Holyoke College from 1899 to 1937. The play will run Feb. 22-26 at Redbud Theater.

PBS Books Author Talk to feature TWU's West Jan. 12

1/12/23

TWU's Genevieve West, PhD, will be featured on PBS's Books Author Talk to discuss You Don't Know Us Negroes,  the book of essays by Zora Neale Hurston which West edited along with Monica Miller and Henry Louis Gates Jr.

TWU's Graham publishes op-ed in Fort Worth Weekly

1/10/23

Celeste Graham, mother, high school special education teacher and PhD candidate in Texas Woman’s University's department of social sciences and historical studies, published a column, "The Factual Retelling of History Is the Greatest Tool that Activists and Advocates Have," with the Fort Worth Weekly.