{"id":5031,"date":"2018-08-03T11:00:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=5031"},"modified":"2018-08-03T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T18:05:42","slug":"english-news-and-achievements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2018\/08\/03\/english-news-and-achievements\/","title":{"rendered":"English News and Achievements"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>JULY 2018<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor of English, presented “Young Adult Cli-Fi and the Risen Sea” at the national Children’s Literature Association conference in San Antonio, Texas, in June. This talk covered part of a chapter she is working on for an edited collection.<\/p>\n

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JUNE 2018<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor of English, presented the commencement address at York (Pennsylvania) Home School Association\u2019s graduation in May.<\/p>\n

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MAY 2018
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Brian Stottler \u201918<\/strong>, math and computer science major, won a first-place prize of $250 in the second-annual data-modeling contest sponsored by the College\u2019s Data Analytics Center. Tim White \u201919<\/strong>, actuarial science major, won a second place prize of $150 and Melissa Spencer \u201919<\/strong>, English major, won the third place prize of $100.<\/p>\n


\nMARCH 2018<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Erica Dolson<\/strong>, lecturer in the Department of English had her personal essay \u201cTo Bobby, With Love<\/a>\u201d published online at Critical Read.<\/p>\n

Mark Harman<\/strong>, professor of German and English in the departments of Modern Languages and English, respectively, contributed an article discussing the theory and practice of translating Franz Kafka<\/a> to a recently published volume, \u201cFranz Kafka in Context<\/a>,\u201d edited by Carolin Duttlinger of Oxford University in the United Kingdom and published by Cambridge University Press.<\/p>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor of English in the Department of English, published the results of her research on representations of adoption in young adult literature. The article, \u201cNo Longer an Orphan: Narratives of Adoption in Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction,\u201d appears in The ALAN Review\u2019s Winter 2018 issue.<\/p>\n

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FEBRUARY 2018<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor in English, has written an essay titled “Gaining the \u00adGrown-Up Perspective in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.” The essay appears in the edited collection \u201cHarry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse<\/a>,\u201d which has just been published.<\/p>\n

JANUARY 2018<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Erica Dolson<\/strong>, lecturer in the Department of English, had her personal essay “Character Study<\/a>” published in the fall 2017 online issue of The Chaos:\u00a0 Journal of Personal Narrative<\/p>\n

DECEMBER 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Kimberly VanEsveld Adams<\/strong>, associate professor in the Department of English, presented papers at three conferences in 2017: \u201cAntigone and Stowe: The Problem of Tragedy in Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin” at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Conference in July in Bordeaux, France; \u201cThe Fallen Woman as a Family Problem: Austen\u2019s Persuasion and Earlier Novels” at the Northeast MLA (NEMLA) Conference in March in Baltimore, Maryland; and \u201cIncest, Memory and Memorial in George Eliot\u2019s Romola” at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference in February in Charleston, S.C.<\/p>\n

NOVEMBER 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor in English, has coauthored the article \u201cAwakening the Learner Within: Purposeful Prompts and Lifelong Learning Measures in a First-Year Composition Course.” The article appeared in the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. This project results from research using the Effective Lifelong Learning Initiative and growth mindset practices in the first-year writing classroom.<\/p>\n

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September 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Suzanne Webster<\/strong>, associate professor of English, has written an essay, titled \u201cColeridge, Contemplation, and the \u2018triple Ichheit\u2019.\u201d Her essay appears in Coleridge and Contemplation, recently published by Oxford University Press.<\/p>\n

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July 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor of English, presented “Lotteries, Sortings and Choosings: Accepting and Rejecting an Assigned Future in Young Adult Literature” in June at the Children\u2019s Literature Association conference in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n

April 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Mark Harman<\/strong>, professor of English, had a review-essay about a monumental new biography of Franz Kafka, \u201cLesser-known Kafkas<\/a>,\u201d published in the February 6, 2017, Los Angeles Review of Books.<\/p>\n

February 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Richard Fellinger<\/strong>, a Fellow in The Writing Wing, is a finalist for the Somerset Novel Award<\/a> for his forthcoming novel, \u201cMade To Break Your Heart.\u201d The novel is due out in June from Open Books.<\/p>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor in the English Department, presented “Coaxing Lifelong Learners from Within: Getting to the Heart of the Matter” at Lancaster Learns, along with her co-author Suzanne Shaffer. This presentation stems from research on the Effective Lifelong Learning Initiative and its application in college teaching.<\/p>\n

Jesse Waters<\/strong>, director of Bowers Writers House, will have his collection of short stories, titled \u201cSo Let Me Get This Straight,\u201d published by Paycock Press.<\/p>\n

January 2017<\/strong><\/h6>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor of English was interviewed by NPR\u2019s Weekend Edition about \u201cVictorian Christmas Ghosts.\u201d<\/p>\n

November 2016<\/h6>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor for English has edited a book of Victorian Christmas ghost stories. \u201cThe Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories\u201d contains a collection of 13 eerie tales originally intended to feed the 19th-century desire for ghostly experiences at Yuletide.<\/p>\n

October 2016<\/h6>\n

Tara Moore<\/strong>, visiting assistant professor of English, traveled to the Chestnut Hill Harry Potter Conference in October to give a presentation and conduct research into fandom for her Young Adult literature course scheduled for Spring 2017. The presentation was titled, \u201cI Will Tell You Where You Ought To Be\u201d: Sorting Identity in Young Adult Dystopian Literature.<\/p>\n

Curtis Smith<\/strong>, adjunct professor of English, led a panel presentation on modern publishing at Rosemont College’s Push to Publish Conference. Later in the month, he teamed up with Philadelphia author Robin Black to present a lecture addressing creative inspiration to the Arcadia University MFA program.<\/p>\n

David Downing<\/strong>, R. W. Schlosser Professor of English has agreed to serve as a paid editorial reader on C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien for Wesleyan University Press. He also will be a paid external reviewer for a doctoral dissertation at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.<\/p>\n

Summer 2016<\/h6>\n

Curtis Smith<\/strong>, adjunct professor of English, had his fiction appear in the current issue of Smokelong Quarterly and in the anthology Best Short Fictions 2016.<\/p>\n

Curtis Smith<\/strong>, adjunct professor of English, had his review of Chuck Kinder\u2019s \u201cThe Silver Ghost\u201d appeared in Necessary Fiction, and his interviews with authors have been recently featured in Change Seven, Entropy, and JMWW.<\/p>\n

June 2016<\/h6>\n

Mark Harman<\/strong>, professor of English and modern languages, published a review-essay on the eminent Irish-language writer M\u00e1irt\u00edn \u00d3 Cadhain and two radically different translations of his novel, Cr\u00e9 na Cille, in the Los Angeles Review of Books. The essay draws on a paper Harman presented at the 2016 national meeting of the American Conference on Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame.<\/p>\n

May 2016<\/h6>\n

Curtis Smith<\/strong>, adjunct professor in the Department of English, had his book \u201cKurt Vonnegut\u2019s Slaughterhouse-Five\u201d published by Ig Publishing in its Bookmarked Series. The story is a personal and creative take on the 1969 novel Slaughterhouse-Five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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