News and Events
 The
Joyce Thompson Memorial Lecture took place on Wednesday, November 15, 2006, at 2:30 in
the MCL Auditorium. The speaker was Jane Roberts Wood, an
award-winning novelist and short story writer.
Wood is a Fellow of both the National Endowment for
the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the
author of, among other works,
Roseborough, and
The Train to
Estelline. Wood was the 1998 recipient of the Texas Institute of Letters
Award for Best Short Story. Mrs. Wood is the sixteenth lecturer in a series
dedicated to the memory of Dr. Joyce Thompson, a TWU Professor of English from
1976 to 1992. The lecture was sponsored by the Friends of the TWU
Libraries.
TWU's Former Students Association awarded scholarships to two students in the department, Rebecca Blackwell and Charlene Green.
L.D. and
LaVerne Harrell Clark have agreed to donate thousands of dollars to TWU
to establish a scholarship in ESFL. The scholarship will be for the best essay
in folklore, and, in alternate years, for the best article in The Lasso.
Helen McCourt and Michele Lockhart were selected as the recipients of the 2007 Johnnie Lee Feemster Memorial Scholarship, awarded through TWU's Former Students Association.
Joél Paré has published "Writing Architectonically: Applying Bakhtin's Architectonics to Composition." The article appears in
CCTE Studies (Vol. 72), pp. 47-53.
updated
on 11 October 2007
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