October 7th 2016
Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart’s guest-edited roundtable of veterans’ voice was published in Volume 16 of the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/631055
October 7th 2016
Writing consultant Jessica Reed ’18 was competitively selected to participate in the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies at York College of Pennsylvania, an interactive workshop that brings together undergraduate researchers, graduate students, and faculty mentors to advance the work of new participants in the field of writing studies. Reed is conducting research on questioning in “matched” writing consultations. Director of Writing Alexis Hart was invited to serve as a faculty mentor and to conduct a mini workshop on writing toward public advocacy at the Naylor Workshop.
October 7th 2016
Writing consultant Jessica Reed ’18 was competitively selected to participate in the Naylor Workshop for Undergraduate Research in Writing Studies at York College of Pennsylvania, an interactive workshop that brings together undergraduate researchers, graduate students, and faculty mentors to advance the work of new participants in the field of writing studies. Reed is conducting research on questioning in “matched” writing consultations. Director of Writing Alexis Hart was invited to serve as a faculty mentor and to conduct a mini workshop on writing toward public advocacy at the Naylor Workshop.
October 7th 2016
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Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller published an essay in the online literary review The Millions about the treatment of birds in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
The essay, entitled “Is It Really So Wrong To Kill a Mockingbird?”, can be found here .
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October 7th 2016
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Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller published an essay in the online literary review The Millions about the treatment of birds in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
The essay, entitled “Is It Really So Wrong To Kill a Mockingbird?”, can be found here .
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September 27th 2016
The Single Voice Reading Series at Allegheny College will begin its 2016–17 season at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 29, with Professor Christopher Bakken presenting his work. The reading in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center is free and open to the public.
Bakken is the author of three books of poetry, most recently “Eternity & Oranges.” He is also the author of the culinary memoir “Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table,” and he co-translated “The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios.” One of his poems was included “Best American Poetry 2016” anthology, released last week. A former Fulbright Scholar, Bakken serves as chair of the English department at Allegheny.
Other readers featured in this year’s series include Edward Hirsch, author of eight books of poetry and president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, on Oct. 20; memoirist Angela Palm on Nov. 17; poet Afaa Michael Weaver on Feb. 2; poet and essayist Jane Hirschfield on March 9; and Allegheny alumnus James Davis May, along with Chelsea Rathburn, on April 6.
The Single Voice Reading Series, sponsored by the John C. Sturtevant Memorial Lecturship 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, W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Olen Butler, Tim O’Brien and Mark Doty.
September 7th 2016
THE ALLEGHENY REVIEW is currently assigning assistant and junior editors.
Responsibilities include reading submissions, editing and proof-reading, designing and assembling a national journal of undergraduate creative writing.
Contact Christopher Bakken cbakken@allegheny.edu for more information.
September 1st 2016
In June 2016, M. Soledad Caballero, associate professor of English, published three poems in the literary journal Memorious. The poems, “You Have to Leave Me Twice,” “The Generals of South America,” and “Poems: a Morning Routine,” are part of her manuscript in progress titled “Immigrant Confessions.” Here is the link to the table of contents for the issue: https://www.memorious.org/?issue=26
September 1st 2016
In June 2016, M. Soledad Caballero, associate professor of English, published three poems in the literary journal Memorious. The poems, “You Have to Leave Me Twice,” “The Generals of South America,” and “Poems: a Morning Routine,” are part of her manuscript in progress titled “Immigrant Confessions.” Here is the link to the table of contents for the issue: https://www.memorious.org/?issue=26
May 2nd 2016
Assistant Professor of English Aline Lo and Nia Shuler ’18 presented papers at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies in Miami. Both their presentations were on the work accomplished last summer through their participation in Allegheny’s grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of collaborative undergraduate research in the humanities. Professor Lo’s chapter article “Reel Women: Diasporic Cinema and Female Collectivity in Abel Vang’s Nyab Siab Zoo” was published in an edited collection called Claiming Place: On the Agency of Hmong Women.