October 5th 2017
Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart presented the keynote address, “Not Just a ‘Necessary Evil’: Reframing Assessment as Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship,” at SUNY Geneseo’s ASSESStivus on September 13.
October 5th 2017
Peer writing consultants Hannah Hart ’19 and Vanessa Thomas ’19 were competitively selected to participate in the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies held at York College of Pennsylvania on September 15-17. The two consultants presented their research proposals, “Effective Tutoring Methods and the Writing Process of Dyslexic Students” (Hart) and “Social Media and Writing Center Promotion” (Thomas), and received feedback on their projects from faculty mentors in the field of writing studies, including Allegheny’s Director of Writing, Professor Alexis Hart.
October 5th 2017
Peer writing consultants Hannah Hart ’19 and Vanessa Thomas ’19 were competitively selected to participate in the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies held at York College of Pennsylvania on September 15-17. The two consultants presented their research proposals, “Effective Tutoring Methods and the Writing Process of Dyslexic Students” (Hart) and “Social Media and Writing Center Promotion” (Thomas), and received feedback on their projects from faculty mentors in the field of writing studies, including Allegheny’s Director of Writing, Professor Alexis Hart.
October 5th 2017
Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller published an article in PMLA: Proceedings of the Modern Language Association title “When Drama Went to the Dogs; or, Staging Otherness in the Animal Melodrama.” The article explores the nature and significance of animal melodrama — a wildly popular, but now forgotten form of nineteenth-century theater that included live dogs, horses, and elephants onstage. Miller also workshopped a paper, “The Nature of Political Economy,” at the second meeting of the Vcologies working group in Houston, Texas on September 15-16.
October 5th 2017
Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller published an article in PMLA: Proceedings of the Modern Language Association title “When Drama Went to the Dogs; or, Staging Otherness in the Animal Melodrama.” The article explores the nature and significance of animal melodrama — a wildly popular, but now forgotten form of nineteenth-century theater that included live dogs, horses, and elephants onstage. Miller also workshopped a paper, “The Nature of Political Economy,” at the second meeting of the Vcologies working group in Houston, Texas on September 15-16.
October 5th 2017
William Brewer, who graduated from Allegheny College in 2011, will join Jen Julian, visiting fiction writer-in-residence at Allegheny College, for a reading from their work at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The event, part of the Single Voice Reading Series, is free and open to the public.
Brewer was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, and after Allegheny, he received his M.F.A. in poetry at the Writing Seminars of Columbia University. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. In Brewer’s first book, “I Know Your Kind,” which was a National Poetry Series selection, he writes about the opioid epidemic in his home state. A previous chapbook, “Oxyana” received a 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Brewer’s work has appeared in the Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, Narrative, The Nation, A Public Space, and other journals.
Julian was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and studied English at the College of Charleston. She earned a master’s in creative writing at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and received her Ph.D. at the University of Missouri.
Her short fiction and essays have appeared recently in The Greensboro Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Cleaver, Tahoma Review, North Carolina Literary Review, and New South.
The Single Voice Reading Series will continue at 7 p.m. November 30 with appearances by Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn, who were unable to appear last year due to inclement weather. For more information, contact Christopher Bakken, the Frederick F. Seely Professor of English, at cbakken@allegheny.edu, or visit https://sites.allegheny.edu/english/single-voice-reading-series/.
October 5th 2017
William Brewer, who graduated from Allegheny College in 2011, will join Jen Julian, visiting fiction writer-in-residence at Allegheny College, for a reading from their work at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19, in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The event, part of the Single Voice Reading Series, is free and open to the public.
Brewer was born in Morgantown, West Virginia, and after Allegheny, he received his M.F.A. in poetry at the Writing Seminars of Columbia University. He is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. In Brewer’s first book, “I Know Your Kind,” which was a National Poetry Series selection, he writes about the opioid epidemic in his home state. A previous chapbook, “Oxyana” received a 2016 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Brewer’s work has appeared in the Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Kenyon Review Online, Narrative, The Nation, A Public Space, and other journals.
Julian was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, and studied English at the College of Charleston. She earned a master’s in creative writing at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and received her Ph.D. at the University of Missouri.
Her short fiction and essays have appeared recently in The Greensboro Review, The Chattahoochee Review, Cleaver, Tahoma Review, North Carolina Literary Review, and New South.
The Single Voice Reading Series will continue at 7 p.m. November 30 with appearances by Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn, who were unable to appear last year due to inclement weather. For more information, contact Christopher Bakken, the Frederick F. Seely Professor of English, at cbakken@allegheny.edu, or visit https://sites.allegheny.edu/english/single-voice-reading-series/.
September 5th 2017
Professor of English Aline Lo published an article titled “Fanciful Flights: Reimagining Refugee Narratives of Escape in Kao Kalia Yang’s The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir” in the journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
September 5th 2017
Professor of English Aline Lo published an article titled “Fanciful Flights: Reimagining Refugee Narratives of Escape in Kao Kalia Yang’s The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir” in the journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.
August 30th 2017
The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College will begin its 2017-18 season on Thursday, Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. with readings by poets Nate Marshall and Natalie Scenters-Zapico. The event in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center is free and open to the public.
Nate Marshall is the author of “Wild Hundreds” and an editor of “The Breakfast Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop.” “Wild Hundreds” has been honored with the Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s award for Poetry Book of the Year and The Great Lakes College Association’s New Writers Award. Marshall is the director of national programs for Louder Than a Bomb Youth Poetry Festival and has taught at the University of Michigan, Wabash College, and Northwestern University.
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of “The Verging Cities,” winner of the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award and the Great Lakes College Association’s New Writers Award, as well as the forthcoming “Lima::Limón.” Her most recent poems are forthcoming or can be found in “Poetry,” “Boston Review,” and “Tin House.”
Other readers featured in this year’s series include poet and Allegheny alumnus William Brewer, along with Jen Julian, visiting fiction writer-in-residence at Allegheny, on Oct. 19; poet and Allegheny alumnus James Davis May, along with poet Chelsea Rathburn, Nov. 30; prose writer B.J. Hollars, Feb. 8; and prose writer Lily Hoang, March 15.
The Single Voice Reading Series, sponsored by the John C. Sturtevant Memorial Lectureship and organized by Allegheny College’s English department, provides students with an opportunity to hear and meet nationally known writers. Previous readers have included John Updike, Carolyn Forché, Tobias Wolff, Jane Hirshfield, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Blanco, Robert Olen Butler, Edward Hirsch, Tim O’Brien and Mark Doty.