English Department: News & Events

2011 English Department Graduates

Andrea Lynn, Barker, Jessica Benge, Peri Fae Blomquist, Julie Marie Caswell, Matthew T. Churchwell, Laureen Cowley, Nicole Alisabeth Giorgio, Deanna Rose Grella, Rachel Nicole Keefe, Adam Michael McIlwee, Joseph John Mozaleski, and Harmony Elise Schmitt Amanda Wood.

English Department Party

The English Department held a Department party which students and teachers participated in an Epic Rematch game challenging their book I.Q.'s. view photos

 

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2010 English Department Graduates

Jessica M. Beavers, Brianne Elizabeth Belchior, Molly Bridger, Mary Kathleen Conlon, Samantha E. Coasollo, Angel Kathleen Fuller, Jocelyn Huang, Brianne Lyn Kruetzer, Tiffany McKenna, Amanda Lynn Myrkalo, Kathleen Jade O'Neil, Christina M. Singletary, Jennifer Sprague, Leigh Ann Stout, Kelly Lynn Williams, Lorraine J. Yudiskas

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Dr. Laurie McMillan Leads Journalism Bootcamp

Dr. Laurie McMillan coordinated a Journalism Bootcamp with two day-long workshops for students, funded through a cooperative grant with Marywood and the University of Scranton. Day one, at Marywood University, featured a presentation by Al Tompkins from the Ponter Institute. Day two, at the University of Scranton, included journalists and staff members from The Scranton Times.

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Dr. Laurie McMillan Remains Active in Her Field

Presentations:

• "The P-P-P-P-Pink Guitar: Politics, Poetry, Performance"
  Lifting Belly High: A Conference on Women's Poetry Since 1900
  Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, September 2008
• "Can Students Who Don't Identify as Feminist Be (come) Feminists?"
  Conference on College Composition and Communication
  New Orleans, March 2008

 

Publications:

• "Students Write to Students about Writing"
  Teaching with Student Texts. Ed. Chuck Paine, Joseph Harris, and John Miles. Utah State UP, forthcoming.
• "Purposeful Production: Using Film Analogies to Increase Student Agency in the Compostion Classroom"
  Disciplines that Nourish Composition. Ed. Emily Golson and Toni Glover. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2009.

 

Community Service:

• Coordinator of Read Across America Week at Sougth Abington Elementary School
• Parent representative on the Reading Textbook Selection Committee, Grades K-8 in the Abington Heights School District

 

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Lauren Tyrell Wins Writing Contest

Lauren Tyrrell '09 has won not one but two awards in the national Delta Epsilon Sigma writing contest!

Lauren won First Prize in the category "Expository, Informal" for her essay "Failure to Perk" and Second Prize in the category "Expository, Research" for her essay "Manifesto: Manifesting the Ideology of Wendell Berry."