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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.
Student Announcements
Writing Portfolios for B.S.Ed. students are due on Tuesday, October 7, 2008, by 12:00 p.m. sharp. Please give your portfolio to Ms. Golato in Main 540. Late portfolios will not be accepted.
EAPSU Undergraduate Conference Friday, April 3, 2009. All undergraduate paper proposals welcome. More details soon! (EASPU stands for English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities)
Welcome New English Department Faculty!
Elizabeth Nolen received her PhD in English Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington (IN), and she has taught at IU, Goldey Beacom College, University of Delaware, and West Chester University. She has been awarded the ‘Favorite Teacher Award’ seven times by the WCU Honors Student Association. Her scholarship interests include gothic fiction, women’s literature, film criticism, and popular literature and culture. She has several publications and numerous conference presentations on subjects in these areas.
Laura Renzi-Keener received her PhD in English Education from The Ohio State University and has taught at OSU and Central Michigan University. She has also taught high school English and History. Her research interests include the influence of teachers’ beliefs and community interests on literature instruction in high school classrooms. She has given numerous scholarly presentations on these and related topics, including self-censorship and using literature to discuss issues of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation in the classroom.
Jeff Sommers received his PhD in English from New York University and has taught at Miami University Middletown (Ohio), University of Cincinnati, and Allegany (MD) Community College. He has received two teaching awards, both at Miami U. Most recently, he has been Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Miami University Middletown. His area of scholarly expertise is style and composition, and he has published and presented extensively on subjects in these areas, particularly as pertains to teaching English at the college level.
Kuhio Walters is a doctoral candidate, ABD, in English at the University of New Hampshire and has taught at UNH as well as at California State University, Fresno. His scholarship focuses on composition studies and ethnography, and he has been exploring the use of photography in composition in his research. He has published a book chapter and given a number of conference presentations based on this work.
Recent Faculty Accomplishments
Cortie Ervin successfully applied to Adel Barimani and Technology Funds for a Smart Board that will be used in our Teacher Education Methods classes.
Garry Molholt was a member of the scientific review committee for the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, in September, in Brisbane, Australia.
Paul Maltby will publish "Fundamentalist Dominion, Postmodern Ecology" in the fall issue of ETHICS & THE ENVIRONMENT.
Bob Fletcher published his article, “Of Puppets, Automatons and Avatars: Automating the Reader-Player in Electronic Literature and Computer Games,” in Playing the Past: History and Nostalgia in Video Games. Eds. Laurie Taylor and Zach Whalen. Vanderbilt UP, 2008. He also presented his paper “Of Networks and Novels: The Example of Cory Doctorow.” Dr. Fletcher also presented at “The Novel and its Borders,” University of Aberdeen, 8-10 July 2008. Lastly, Dr. Fletcher’s proposal for a NEH summer stipend to work on "A Scholarly, Hypermedia Edition of Michael Field's Sight and Song" selected by WCU for official submission.
Anne Herzog presented a paper on “Recasting London’s Liminality: Selvon’s Lonely Londoners and the Invention of the ‘Immigrant’” at the Literary London Conference, Brunel University, London, June 2008. Dr. Herzog also presented “’No Grandma Moses’: Lucille Clifton and the Critic’s Impasse” at Duquesne University’s 20th century women’s poetry conference in Pittsburgh, September 13, 2008.
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