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Recent Allegheny College Graduate Awarded Fulbright to Study Medieval Literature in England

by Josh Tysiachney June 6th 2018

If you think of the Middle Ages as little more than dirt, blood and Bubonic Plague, recent Allegheny College graduate Madeline Hernstrom-Hill can enlighten you. “Sure, all that is there, but there is also so much more — complicated medical manuals, treatises about forms of government, astrological thought, trade across incredible distances, I could go

Hart, Reed Present at International Writing Centers Association Conference

by Josh Tysiachney December 5th 2017

Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart and Senior Writing Consultant Jessica Reed ’18 presented their talk titled “De(ux)coding: (1) Collaborative Faculty-Undergraduate Research and (2) Questioning in ‘Matched’ Consultations” at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in Chicago on November 11.

Single Voice Reading Series Welcomes Authors James Davis May, Chelsea Rathburn

by Joseph Merante ’20 November 21st 2017

Allegheny alumnus James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn will read from their work as part of the College’s Single Voice Reading Series at 7 p.m. November 30 in the Tillotson Room of the Tippie Alumni Center. The event is free and open to the public. May’s first book, “Unquiet Things,” was published in 2016. Other

MacNeill Miller Essay Published

by Erica Erwin November 3rd 2017

Assistant Professor of English John MacNeill Miller published an essay, “Composing Decomposition: ‘In Memoriam’ and the Ecocritical Undertaking” in a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts comprising select papers presented at this year’s meeting of the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies association. The essay uses ‘In Memoriam,’ Alfred Tennyson’s poem about his best friend’s death, to examine how representations of

Hart Presents Research on Women in the Military

by Erica Erwin November 3rd 2017

Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Alexis Hart presented some of her research on women in the military on the panel “Remembering Differently: Re-Figuring Women’s Rhetorical Work” at the Feminisms and Rhetorics conference held in Dayton, Ohio, on October 4-7. Hart and Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Director of Speaking Jon Wiebel

Two Allegheny Alumni Hold Prestigious Stegner Fellowships

by Richard Stanley November 1st 2017

Having one graduate serving as a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University is worth mentioning. But having two from Allegheny College holding those creative writing fellowships at the same time is cause for celebration. Allegheny alumni Graham Barnhart ’07 and William Brewer ’11 both currently hold Stegner Fellowships, named for the late Wallace Stegner, founder of

Senior Hernstrom-Hill Wins Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize

by Erica Erwin October 17th 2017

Allegheny College senior Madeline Hernstrom-Hill has won the Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize for her short story “The Church of the Reformed Eden.” The prize, awarded to an outstanding undergraduate author, includes a $1,000 prize, a full scholarship to the Southampton Writers Conference in July 2018 and consideration for publication in The Southampton Review. Judge Amy

Hernstrom-Hill Awarded Short Fiction Prize

by Erica Erwin October 5th 2017

Madeline Hernstrom-Hill ’18 was awarded the Stony Brook Short Fiction Prize for her short story “The Church of the Reformed Eden.” The prize includes a scholarship to the Southampton Writers Conference in July.

Hart Delivers Keynote

by Erica Erwin 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.

Hart, Thomas Selected for Writing Workshop

by Erica Erwin 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

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