May 2nd 2016
Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart presented a paper titled “Creating an Inclusive Writing Classroom for Student Veterans” at the Conference for College Composition and Communication. She has also been selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute “Veterans in Society: Ambiguities and Representations.”
May 2nd 2016
Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart presented a paper titled “Creating an Inclusive Writing Classroom for Student Veterans” at the Conference for College Composition and Communication. She has also been selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute “Veterans in Society: Ambiguities and Representations.”
April 20th 2016
April 20, 2016 – Angela Mauroni, news editor for The Campus, the student newspaper at Allegheny College, was a finalist in the Society of Professional Journalists Region 1 Mark of Excellence awards. The MOE Awards honor the best of collegiate journalism from a calendar year.
The awards were presented at the Region I spring conference in New Haven, Connecticut on April 10. Region 1, the largest of the 12 SPJ regions, includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Mauroni, a junior from New Kensington, is majoring in English with minors in history, political science and journalism in the public interest. She will serve as co-editor-in-chief of The Campus in 2016-17.
Alex Weidenhof, junior news editor for The Campus, traveled to New Haven to accept the award on behalf of Mauroni and The Campus, which is in its 140th year of publishing at Allegheny College.
Photo: Angela Mauroni, center, with friends
April 20th 2016
April 20, 2016 – Angela Mauroni, news editor for The Campus, the student newspaper at Allegheny College, was a finalist in the Society of Professional Journalists Region 1 Mark of Excellence awards. The MOE Awards honor the best of collegiate journalism from a calendar year.
The awards were presented at the Region I spring conference in New Haven, Connecticut on April 10. Region 1, the largest of the 12 SPJ regions, includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Mauroni, a junior from New Kensington, is majoring in English with minors in history, political science and journalism in the public interest. She will serve as co-editor-in-chief of The Campus in 2016-17.
Alex Weidenhof, junior news editor for The Campus, traveled to New Haven to accept the award on behalf of Mauroni and The Campus, which is in its 140th year of publishing at Allegheny College.
Photo: Angela Mauroni, center, with friends
April 8th 2016
Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller presented a paper on Thomas Hardy and environmental history at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) conference in Asheville, North Carolina. The paper, titled “The Unnatural History of Egdon Heath,” uses Hardy’s writing to show how a fascination with the sweeping scale of landscapes can blind us to the complex ecological relationships that compose them.
April 8th 2016
Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller presented a paper on Thomas Hardy and environmental history at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) conference in Asheville, North Carolina. The paper, titled “The Unnatural History of Egdon Heath,” uses Hardy’s writing to show how a fascination with the sweeping scale of landscapes can blind us to the complex ecological relationships that compose them.
April 7th 2016
Associate Professor of English Jennifer Hellwarth’s essay “Pneuma—Sexuality—Sex Difference: From Arabic to European Philosophy and Medical Practice” appears in the recently published collection The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920: The Lebenskraft-Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature (January 2016, Brill | Rodopi).
April 7th 2016
Associate Professor of English Jennifer Hellwarth’s essay “Pneuma—Sexuality—Sex Difference: From Arabic to European Philosophy and Medical Practice” appears in the recently published collection The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920: The Lebenskraft-Debate and Radical Reality in German Science, Music, and Literature (January 2016, Brill | Rodopi).
April 6th 2016
Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart chairs the Writing with Current, Former, and Future Members of the Military Standing Group, which was one of three standing groups to receive funding from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) to host local outreach activities during the 2016 CCCC Annual Convention in Houston. The group is collaborating with the Lone Star Veterans Association to host a free résumé writing workshop for job-seeking military veterans and dependents.
April 6th 2016
Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart chairs the Writing with Current, Former, and Future Members of the Military Standing Group, which was one of three standing groups to receive funding from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) to host local outreach activities during the 2016 CCCC Annual Convention in Houston. The group is collaborating with the Lone Star Veterans Association to host a free résumé writing workshop for job-seeking military veterans and dependents.