News & Events Archive
Awards
Todd Taylor received the 2006 Computers and Composition Award for Outstanding Digital Scholarship for his multimedia presentation "The End of Composition."
Joe Viscomi has been awarded the Knowledge Trust Exploration Award for his work on the Blake Archive. The trust is a commitment by UNC-Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science to shape a critical role for 21st-century knowledge professionals. At the ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 12, Viscomi and four other pioneers were honored for making a significant difference in education, exploration, innovation, next-generation leadership and lifetime achievement. Dr. Viscomi is a 2006-7 Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and he will be a Scholar-in-Residence at the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, in late spring.
Events
"Unnecessary Noises: On English, Nationalism and Globalization": Professor Rita Barnard of the University of Pennsylvania will visit campus on Thursday, November 30th for a roundtable talk with graduate students and faculty from 3-4 pm in the Donovan Lounge. Following Dr. Barnard's presentation Professor Pam Cooper will host a question and answer session from 5-6 pm in the same location. Those desiring to attend are encouraged to familiarize themselves with one or more of Jeremy Cronin's poems.
James M. Johnson Center for Undergraduate Excellence, Fourth Annual Multimedia Festival: The James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence is currently inviting submissions for its Fourth Annual Multimedia Festival, which will be held in February 2007. We ask faculty and teaching fellows who have allowed undergraduate students to develop media projects as part of assigned course work to encourage their students to submit this work for inclusion in the festival. We welcome submission of films, web sites, digital images, and other media projects. Faculty can also submit work for their students with the students' permission. The deadline for submission is December 7, 2006. Please visit the Multimedia Festival website detailed submission rules and guidelines. Questions about submissions or the festival should be addressed to: multimediafest@unc.edu.
Department Sends Six Grad Students to Present at 2007 CCCC: A record number of delegates from UNC-CH will attend The Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City. Six of these delegates are graduate student presenters. Read more about Risa Applegarth, Kelly Bezio, Heather Branstetter, Sarah Hallenbeck, and Meredith Malburne here.
Publications
The Carolina Women's Center has named Jeanne Moskal its Faculty Scholar for Spring 2009. During her fellowship, Moskal will be working on a book-in-progress, "Women Missionaries: A Literary History," which recovers for scholarly attention about 40 women authors who participated in the Protestant missionary movement and shows the role of genre in representing interfaith relations.
Michael McFee’s seventh collection of poems, Shinemaster, has just been published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. McFee recently did local readings in Toy Lounge of Dey Hall, at McIntyres Bookshop at Fearrington, and at N.C. State University's Caldwell Hall Lounge. McFee recently discussed his new collection on WUNC’s "The State of Things” on Wednesday, January 18th. One of his latest poems, called “Q,” has been reprinted in the "Readings" section of the January 2006 issue of HARPERS magazine.
Jordynn Jack received the 2006 James Berlin Memorial Dissertation Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). The award will be presented at the 2006 CCCC Convention in Chicago, March 22-25, 2006. Her dissertation, "Rhetorics of Time: Women's Role in Wartime Science, 1939-1945," examined how female scientists used time as a rhetorical resource to promote scientific projects ranging from the development of the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) to safety recommendations for the Manhattan Project.
Jordynn Jack, Melissa Birkhofer, and Heath Sledge were selected to receive one of five Ueltschi Service-Learning Course Development Grants (available from the Office of the Provost) through the APPLES program. The grant will be used to develop resources for a service learning version of English 12, Writing Across the Disciplines, in conjunction with the Center for Healthy Student Behaviors.
Joan Didion, winner of the 2005 National Book Award for non-fiction for her memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking, was named the 2006 Morgan Writer-in-Residence. She gave the annual Morgan Lecture on February 28 in UNC's Memorial Hall.
This month, Jeanne Moskal will be delivering the keynote lecture for the biennial conference, in Denver, of the International Society for Travel Writing. Her talk is "Travel Books' Fuzzy Logic: The Case of Medical Missionaries."
Vienna Voices by Jill Knight Weinberger and Eating Europe by Jon Volkmer, from Dr. Moskul's "Writing Travel" series, were published in May 2006 by Parlor Press. Her current book-in-progress, Women, Missions, and Modernity, has been funded by the Lilly Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The English Department's Professor of Distinguished Teaching, Christopher Armitage, has been appointed Adjunct Professor of Peace, War, and Defense.
Armitage joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 1967; he specializes in seventeenth and twentieth-century English and Canadian literature. His lively style and personal interest in his students have earned him several awards for excellent teaching: the Nicholas Salgo Outstanding Teacher Award, the first UNC Professor of Distinguished Teaching (1995), a Tanner Award for excellence in undergraduate instruction (2003) and most recently, his second Bowman and Gordon Gray chair for excellence in inspirational teaching of undergraduates. To represent William R. Davie at UNC's Bicentennial (and on later occasions) he appeared on horseback in eighteenth-century costume.
Trudier Harris received the 2005 John Hurt Fisher Award of the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English, presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference in Atlanta, November 4-6. The award honors Dr. Harris's outstanding contributions to the field of English scholarship and letters throughout her career.