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2007-2008 First-Year Writing Contest Winners Announced
- First place: Jordan Martins, "Screens and Rhymes," written for Lynn Dornink
- Honorable Mention: Jon Brookstone, "Comics vs. Prisoners of the Mind," written for Christen Enos
- Honorable Mention: Maura McClafferty, "Rear Window: Voyeurism through the Camera," written for Kelly Garneau Posted 4/30/08
Grewell Awarded Dissertation Fellowship
The Department extends its congratulations to Ph.D. student Cory Grewell for receiving a Dissertation Writing Fellowship. The award is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and offers financial support to Ph.D. candidates so they may spend their final semester writing. Cory's dissertation is entitled, “Satiric Servants: The Revival of the Clever Roman Slave in Ben Jonson's Comedies," and his advisor is Professor Kathy Howlett. Posted 4/30/08
Undergraduate Student Presents at Shakespeare Conference
Grahame Turner, an undergraduate in Prof. Kathy Howlett's Shakespeare on Film class, presented the paper that he wrote for her class at an undergraduate Shakespeare conference in Worcester in April. Posted 4/08
Retiring...
This year marks the retirement of three valued and long-time colleagues in the English Department: Joe DeRoche, David Tutein, and Susan Wall. Each of them has contributed so much to the teaching and learning in the Department, each in a special way. Read more on page 2 of the Spring 2008 English Department Alumni e-Newsletter.
Senior Seminar Class Explores Rhetoric in Boston
On their website, Writing on the Line - Rhetoric in Boston's Southwest Corridor, Prof. Sullivan's Spring 2008 English Senior Seminar class explores the rhetorical nature of the prose and poetry carved on monuments in Boston's Southwest Corridor. Take the tour by visiting Writing on the Line. Posted 4/08
2008 Hanson Writing Competition Winners Announced
In the Category of Scholarly Writing:
- Winner: Elyse Merlo, “Identification and Categorization in People v. Kobe Bryant.” Written for Prof. Britt for Rhetoric of Law in Fall 2007.
- Honorable Mention: Emily Lemiska, “Frances Burney’s Evelina.” Written for Prof. Howlett’s Junior/Senior Seminar in Women of Letters in the Long 18th Century in Fall 2007.
In the Category of Creative Writing:
- Winner: Jacey Fortin, “Exile.” Written for Prof. Blessington for Fiction Workshop in Spring 2008.
- Honorable Mention: Abigail Zorbaugh, “Warmer.” Written for Prof. Bernstein for Creative Writing in Fall 2007.
Grewell Accepts Position at Thiel College
Cory Grewell (Ph.D. expected 2008) has accepted a tenure-track, assistant professor position at Thiel College in Greenville, PA. Posted 3/20/08
DeWall Accepts Position at McKendree
Nichole DeWall (Ph.D. expected 2008) has accepted a tenure-track, assistant professor position at McKendree University in Lebanon, IL.
5th Annual Peter Burton Hanson Writing Competition
Undergraduate Students: Enter the fifth annual Peter Burton Hanson Writing Competition. Deadline: February 22, 2008. Download an informational flyer.
English Major Receives Leadership Scholarship
The Department extends its congratulations to Peter Franklin for receiving a $5,000 Leadership Scholarship. Peter is a middler English and modern languages major and is the president of Northeastern's Progressive Student Alliance. Posted 1/22/08
Faculty Spotlight: David Kellogg
Professor David Kellogg's article, "Toward a Post-Academic Science Policy: Scientific Communication and the Collapse of the Mertonian Norms," has been named 2007's Best Article on Philosophy or Theory of Technical and Scientific Communication by the NCTE's Committee on Technical and Scientific Communication. The award will be presented at the annual ATTW Conference on April 2, 2008 in New Orleans. Posted 1/10/08
2008 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize
Rodney Jones has selected In the Truth Room, by Dana Roeser, as winner of the 2008 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize. Ms. Roeser teaches at Butler University and lives in West Lafayette, Indiana. Her first book, Beautiful Motion, won the Morse Prize in 2004. Posted 1/10/08
DeWall Awarded Dissertation Fellowship
The Department extends its congratulations to Ph.D. student Nichole DeWall for receiving a Dissertation Writing Fellowship. The award is sponsored by the Office of the Provost and offers financial support to Ph.D. candidates so they may spend their final semester writing. Nichole's dissertation is entitled, “ 'A Plague o’ Both Your Houses': Shakespeare and the Early Modern Plague Writing Traditions," and her advisor is Professor Kathy Howlett. Posted 12/12/07
Charles Simic Presents 2007 Peter Burton Hanson Lecture
On November 29, 2007, the English Department hosted Charles Simic, the Poet Laureate of the US. Mr. Simic presented the annual Peter Burton Hanson Lecture to a capacity audience in the Curry Student Center.- The Northeastern News article, Poet laureate Charles Simic shares experiences, by Derek Hawkins
- Daily News Transcript article, Through a Teacher's Eyes: Poet laureate draws words out of silence, by Carol Ziemain
Co-Op Class Features Alumni Panel
On November 6, Pam Goodale invited several English Department alumni/ae to participate in a panel presentation for her co-op class. Amanda Collins (AS ’05), Thomas Hall (Ed ’68), Emily Hunt (AS ’06), Shaun McNamara (AS ’96), Jessica Noonan (AS ’02), Carol L. Phelan (LA ’71), and Brooke L. Witkowski (AS ’03) made up the panel. They represented a variety of career possibilities including publishing, professional writing, education, public relations, and creative writing.
After the presentation and discussion, students and panel members were invited to attend a small networking reception organized by the English Department and the College of Arts and Sciences’ development office. Guests included Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg (AS ’88, MA 92), Stephen M. Wallace (English/Journalism, LA ’68), James E. Bowman (LA ’67), Julia B. Bonopane (AS ’04), and Edward H. Buswick (MA ’79). Many English faculty members also attended.
English Chair Tim Donovan strongly supported having the reception as part of his continued efforts to encourage alumni involvement. "We were delighted to have such a great alumni turnout at the event,” he said. “I am pleased to know that our alums are interested in helping students sort through all the career options made available to them through an NU degree in English.”
If you are interested in participating in opportunities such as the alumni panel or the networking reception, please Drop Us a Line.
More alumni and co-op news can be found in Fall 2007 Alumni e-Newsletter and in the Alumni section of our website.
Faculty Spotlight: Elizabeth Maddock Dillon
The English Department faculty, staff, and students are pleased to welcome new faculty member Professor Elizabeth Maddock Dillon. In addition to being an associate professor in English at Northeastern, Dillon is co-director of the Future of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College. She writes and teaches on early American literature and Atlantic colonialism. Her areas of interest include the early novel, feminist theory, political theory, aesthetics, transatlantic print culture, Caribbean literature, and early American drama.
Professor Dillon's book, The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere (Stanford University Press, 2004), concerns gender, political theory, narrative, and the print public sphere. American Literary History, American Literature, Diacritics and other journals and edited volumes on topics ranging from Barbary captivity narratives to literary formalism.
Professor Dillon received the Heyman Prize for Outstanding Publication in the humanities at Yale University in 2003 and the Society of Early Americanists Essay Prize in 2005. She is currently completing a manuscript titled New World Drama: Theatre of the Atlantic, 1660-1850 that will be published by Duke University Press and she is co-editing, with Michael Drexler, a volume of essays on early American culture and the Haitian Revolution.
Professor Beth Britt is the recipient of the 2007 Excellence in Teaching Award at Northeastern.
She is one of only two faculty members in the University so honored this year. Professor Britt, whose teaching and research interests include rhetorical criticism, rhetoric of law, rhetoric of inquiry, and ethnographic theory and methods, will be recognized in a ceremony at Commencement in May, and a brief biography will appear in NU's Commencement booklet.
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