Welcome to the WCU English Department home page. The English major program teaches students to analyze the literary and other texts of their culture from a conscious and critical point of view, gives students the advantage of considerable experience in writing, and introduces students to an understanding of the workings of language.
The spring Test of Writing Competency for B.S.Ed. students will be held 4:15-7:00 p.m., Friday, January 25, in Main 168. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, test scores will be posted on Tuesday, February 19. Please do not ask about test scores before this date.
Writing Portfolios for B.S.Ed. students are due on Wednesday, February 20, by 12:00 p.m. sharp. Please give your portfolio to Ms. Golato in Main 540. Late portfolios will not be accepted. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, portfolio scores will be posted on Tuesday, March 25. Please do not ask about portfolio scores before this date.
Hannah Ashley was awarded a contract by the West Chester Area School District to continue her Writing Zones Program and expand it to include all three high schools. Writing Zones offers tutorials in writing conducted by WCU graduate students and teacher certification students.
Robert Fletcher presented a paper entitled “The Perverse Secrets of Masculinity in Robert Browning and Augusta Webster” at the Victorians Institute, University of Alabama , November 10. William Lalicker presented the paper, “Applying Bilingualism as Cultural Harmony in the Film Broken Arrow , ” at the Congreso Internacional de Linguistica Aplicada (International Conference on Applied Linguistics) at the Universidad Nacional in Heredia, Costa Rica, on October 25.
William Lalicker and Merry Perry, co-edited Poland Proceedings 2005: International Symposium on Innovation in Higher Education ( West Chester University : 2007). This volume includes presentations by the following CAS faculty and administrators, as well as other WCU and University of Silesia faculty: Juanita Comfort, English ; Andrew Dinniman, History ; Celia Esplugas, Foreign Languages; William Lalicker, English ; Jennie Skerl , Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences ; and Christopher Teutsch, English.
Graham MacPhee published a review essay entitled “Recalling Empire: Anglo-American Conceptions of Imperialism and the Decline of the Nation-State” in College Literature , 35:1 (Winter 2008) and an article entitled “Leaving the Sahib Log? Mulk Raj Anand on Leonard Woolf” in Virginia Woolf Miscellany , 72 (Fall 2007). In addition, he presented a paper entitled “Writing Violence: Imperialism and Storytelling in Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin” at the Modern Language Association convention in Chicago on December 29. He has also co-edited a volume of essays entitled Empire and After: English ness in Postcolonial Perspective (Berghahn) with Professor Prem Poddar of Aarhus University, Denmark. And, he had his book, The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture published by Continuum in a second edition.
Garrett Molholt and Fenfang Hwu published the chapter, “Visualization of Speech Pat terns for Language Learning,” in The Pat h of Speech Technologies in CALL: Foiundations, Prototypes, and Evaluation , edited by V. Melissa Holland and F. Pete Fisher, London: Routledge, 2007.
Kate Northrop had her poetry collection, Things are Disappearing Here , reviewed in The New York Times Book Review on December 30 and featured under “Editor's Choice” in the New York Times Book Review in the January 6 issue.
Timothy Ray presented the paper “The Technology of Writing and the Writing of Technology: Pedagogy and Performance in the Computer- Supported Classroom” at the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities annual conference on October 26 at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Eleanor Shevlin co-edited Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies after Elizabeth L. Eisenstein , published by the University of Massachusetts Press in conjunction with the Library of Congress in July. The volume addresses print culture studies from the early modern period to our current electronic age and does so across a broad geographic range. The Center for the Book at the Library of Congress hosted an afternoon symposium devoted to the volume and print culture studies.
Carolyn Sorisio has been elected Vice President for Organizational Matters for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers. As such, she will organize the Society's 2009 international conference.
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