Dr. Bernice Sanchez Perez, who completed the BA and MA at TWU and the PhD at Texas A&M (College Station), has been named the Outstanding Professor of the Year at Texas A&M International University in Laredo. Dr. Sanchez Perez will deliver the convocation address for that campus on Friday, September 2.
The Lasso's new administrative home is Student Life. ESFL had been the administrative home for the student newspaper the past six years, but the change puts the newspaper under the administrative office that provides the newspaper with much of its finances.
Dr. Robert Gowdy will be the new advisor to the Global Connections Student Committee. Christina Wagoner, TWU's Student Regent and president of the committee, invited Dr. Gowdy to join the group as advisor.
Jennifer Brautigan, a student in Dr. Judith Hebb's Fall 2010 Advanced Grammar and Composition course, has had an essay published as part of the "This I Believe" project.
On June 8, 2011, Angela Pettit defended her dissertation entitled "Rhetorical Motives of Consubstantiality, Hierarchy, and Identity: Community College Program Documents." The work focuses on archival documents used to create and sustain three literacy programs at Tarrant County College. Her methodology is derived from Kenneth Burke's theory of motives.
On June 9, 2011, Gary Wilson defended his dissertation entitled "The Changing Horizon of Composition Studies: An Examination of the Influences of Collaborative and Digital Pedagogies on First-Year College Writing." Wilson argues that developments over the last fifty years in composition, as well as ongoing developments in collaborative learning and CMI, have transformed first-year writing instruction.
Christina Wagoner has been named the Student Regent for 2011-12. She wants to be a voice for all the students, according to her comments after accepting the post. Ms. Wagoner will begin her graduate studies at Cardiff University in Wales in fall of 2012.
The President of Collin County College set up a special scholarship to recognize the work of a TWU graduate student teaching at the College. The President wrote: "I appreciate and value what you do for Collin College each and every day. Your quality teaching, active engagement, and stellar contributions during 2010-2011 were noteworthy. Accordingly, I am establishing a $1,000 Professor Charlene Green Scholarship for fall 2011."
Andrea Shakespeare, an MAT 8-12 ELAR candidate, received the COPE Student Teacher of the Year Award on April 14th at 3:00 in the MCL Auditorium. Ms. Shakespeare was nominated for this award by her student teacher supervisor, Mr. Royce Cooper.
Lei Zhang's defended her dissertation on Friday, April 8, from 2:00-4:00 in ACT 225. The title of the dissertation is “The Different Stories We Tell: A Rhetorical Analysis of Chinese and American Templates.” In it, Ms. Zhang analyzes the formation, distribution, and maintenance of the dominant narrative templates in China and the United States through a study of historical and contemporary discourses.
Michele Lockhart, doctoral student in the Rhetoric program, defended her dissertation, "Women's Political Rhetoric: The Cases of United States Vice-Presidential Nominees Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin," on Wednesday, September 29, 2010, in CFO 907 at 1:30. Her committee members were Dr. Hugh Burns, Dr. Russ Greer, and Dr. Barbara Presnall.
In Fall 2010, Dr. Esther Broome, TWU emeritus Professor of Textiles, passed away. Dr. Broome endowed the Johnnie Lee Feemester Scholarship that is awarded annually to a graduate student in our department. Dr. Broome moved to Longview, Texas about 18 months earlier to be near her son and his family. She was 98 years old. She remained bright and alert until the last few days of her life.
Dr. Phyllis Elmore, Professor of English, North Lake College, will be the speaker for the 2010 Joyce Thompson Memorial Lecture. The title of Dr. Elmore's address is "Can I Get a Witness? Fannie Lou Hamer's Transformative Democracy." The lecture is free and open to the public, and will be held in Room 101 of the Library on 9 November at 2:30.
At the Spring 2010 Honors Convocation in the Margo Jones Performance Hall, Dr. Phyllis Bridges received TWU's highest honor for a faculty member, the Cornaro Award.
Dr. Delores Zumwalt and Dr. Cheryl Wiltse, both ESFL graduates, were named for Professor of the Year distinction. Each year Collin College names 10 Professors of the Year across all of its campuses. Each designee receives an honor medallion and a check for $1000 to be used as a scholarship for any student of the professor's choosing who is enrolled at Collin College (Spring 2010).
Miranda Elkins-Livingston, who completed the MA in English at TWU in December 2009, has been admitted to the PhD program in literature at Middle Tennessee State University and will begin her studies in Fall 2010. Elkins-Livingston was a Virginia Chandler Dykes scholar at TWU as well as a Carnegie hero scholar educator.
Woosung Kim successfully defended his dissertation, "English in the Era of Globalization: The Conceptualization of English in Korean Students in American Higher Education." Jeanne Sluder also defended her dissertation, "The Importance of Cultivating the Art of Logical Reasoning for Empowerment and Advancement in the Workplace: The Successful Female Leader." Congratulations to both of our new Ph.D.'s.
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Dr. Robert Gowdy is the author of a new book, The Text and the Other: Toward the Caesura of the Unconscious and Narrative Concentricity (Wasteland Press, 2008). |
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Rochelle Gregory, who received her doctorate from TWU, has been chosen as the first recipient of the Pell Grant Legacy Award, presented at Salve Regina University. The inaugural award honors Rochelle D. Gregory, who grew up poor in Texas and went on to become a successful educator.
Elaine Cho, currently Professor of English and Coordinator for the Asian-American/Middle Eastern-American Studies Program at Eastfield College, has been given an award by the Department of Education to attend a Fulbright seminar in China this coming summer. Cho earned her M.A. degree at TWU. (Spring 2010)
David Sutton's dissertation defense took place on Tuesday, 6 April 2010, from 2:30-4:30 in ACT 225. The dissertation was entitled, "New Media Symbiosis: An Analysis and Remediation of Voyeurism as a Rhetorical Tool in Akira Toriyama’s Dragonball Z." Drs. Burns, Greer, and Marsh are the members of Sutton's dissertation committee.
Steven Rizzo, Adjunct Instructor, has published "The Paradox of Spiritual Matter and the Spiritual Matter of Paradox in Seamus Heaney and Robert Boyle" in the December issue of Literature and Theology.
The Winter 2008-09 issue of The Iowa Review includes an award-winning story by Andrew Mortazavi, Adjunct Instructor. The story is entitled "Stop Six. Fort Worth."
The 18th Annual Joyce Thompson Memorial Lecture featured Frances Brannen Vick, former director of the University of North Texas Press, and author of several books, including Literary Dallas. The lecture took place on Nov. 17, 2008 in the MCL Auditorium.
Dr. Hugh Burns and Dr. Lou Thompson were both successful in 2008 with applications for Professional Development Leave. Dr. Thompson was on leave in Fall 2008 working on her research, and Dr. Burns will be away at Ohio State University in Spring 2009.
Dr. Phyllis Bridges has published a review entitled "Troubles in South Texas Paradise." The review is about a book on the life of Petra Vela de Vidal Kenedy, and the review appears in Vol. xxVII.4 (Winter 2007-08) of Texas Books in Review.
The Department has been the recipient of a $300,000 gift from the estate of Dr. Charles Bruce, former faculty member in the department. The department uses the money for graduate student scholarships.
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.
Cheri Chrenshaw has won the 2005-06 Robert Toulouse Doctoral Award. The prestigious award is given annually by the Council of the Federation of North Texas Area Universities.
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.
Crystal Dawn McCage successfully defended her dissertation, "Narrative Technique as Rhetorical Strategy in Selected Children's Works by Nathaniel Hawthorne."
Joél Paré has published "Writing Architectonically: Applying Bakhtin's Architectonics to Composition." The article appears in CCTE Studies (Vol. 72), pp. 47-53.
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