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2019-frontpage
2019 Marathon Read- Myths, Legends, and Songs Around the World
Liberal Arts Undergraduate Festival
Cooper-DuBois Mentoring Program
Race and Modernism
Congratulations Brandon Erby!
Congratulations to Michael Anesko and his editorial team on the recognition they have received from MLA.
The journal Biography has just come out with a special issued edited by Ebony Coletu on "Biographic Mediation: Personal Disclosure in Bureaucracy and Politics"
Jonathan Eburne won the MLA's James Russell Lowell Prize for his new monograph, Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Unorthodox Ideas
Carla Mulford has been awarded a grant from the Humboldt Yale History Network Travel Grants Program.
Rachael Wiley has been promoted to the rank of Associate Teaching Professor.
Layli Miron has successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, Reframing Immigration through Religious Advocacy: Rhetoric, Cosmopolitanism, and the Divine.
Megan Poole has accepted a tenure track position in the English department at the University of Louisville.
John Smilges has been selected as the winner of the 2020 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award for Excellence in Queer Scholarship's Article Award
Congratulations to Mary Sellers on her contributions to the award winning volume of Oxford Handbook of Folkore Studies
Tina Chen's journal Verge: Studies In Global Asias won the 2020 PROSE Award for Best New Journal in the Humanities.
Alex Sibo has won the 2020 Cindy and Dickie Selfe DMAS Fellowship.
Faith McDonald has published her first book, On the Loving End of Crazy: Finding Hope and Help to Face Your Loved One's Crippling Anxiety and Depression.
Congratulations to Suresh Canagaraja, whose Routledge Handbook of Language and Migration won this year's AAAL Book Award.
Aldon Nielsen was the keynote speaker at this year's ALA Symposium on American Poetry.
Toby Thompson's new book: Fired On: Targeting Western American Art, to be published on March 15th by Bangtail Press.
An issue of minnesota reivew (issue 94) that Christian Haines co-edited with Peter Hitchcock come out.
POSTPONED: "Unsavory Rhetorics in Virginia Woolf's Feminism"
CANCELED: Adalber Salas Hernandez
CALS Symposium: "Disability and American Literary Studies"
Congratulations to Derek Lee who accepted a job as Assistant Professor of English at Wake Forest University
Congratulations to John Smilges, who will be starting in the fall as Assistant Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty of Women’s Studies at Texas Woman’s University in my old home town of Denton, TX.
Congratulations to Patrick Allen who has accepted a tenure-track job beginning in the fall as Assistant Professor of English at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Kadetsky on the recent publication (March 31 by the University of Massachusetts Press) of her much-anticipated new book, The Memory Eaters, winner of the Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction.
Tina Chen has won The College of the Liberal Arts 2020 Outstanding Teaching Award for Tenure Line Faculty!
Ashleigh Wade has been awarded a Digital Humanities Grant from the Center for Humanities and Information in the College of Liberal Arts!
Elizabeth Kadetsky’s 'The Memory Eaters' garners national press, wins prestigious Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction
Chris Reed’s Bachelor Japanists was selected by David Halperin CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION “Best Scholarly Book of the Decade"
Xiaoye You has been named the next director of the Center for Democratic Deliberation.
Four poems by Andi Stout are being published by s.under press.
Good news to report from the Hemingway Letters Project.
Jack Selzer, the Paterno Family Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus, coordinated the Rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement project
Congratulations to Eduardo Ramos for the publication of his essay, “Moulding One Another: Grettir and the Landscape,” in What is North?: Imagining the North from Ancient Times to the Present Day, by Brepols.
Ben Schreier’s new monograph, The Rise and Fall of Jewish American Literature: Ethnic Studies and the Challenge of Identity has now been published.
Congratulations to Josh Tuttle for his trio of accomplishments!

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Department Administrators & Contacts

Please note: The English Department Administration is working remotely through the Fall 2020 semester. Staff members will be monitoring their email during normal working hours, from 8-5 daily.

Head's Office	406 Burrowes
Department Head:	Mark Morrisson	(814) 863-2626	mxm61@psu.edu
Associate Head:	John Marsh	(814) 863-2627	jem55@psu.edu
Administrative Assistant:	Kim Keller	(814) 865-6996	kaw1@psu.edu
Administrative Assistant:	Kim Keller	(814) 865-6996	kaw1@psu.edu
Staff Assistant:	Tacee Sechler	(814) 863-2179	tcs138@psu.edu

Mailroom	430 Burrowes

Graduate Program	403 Burrowes
Director:	David Loewenstein	(814) 863-3069	dal35@psu.edu
Assistant Director:	Elizabeth Jenkins	(814) 863-9593	emj2@psu.edu
Staff Assistant:	Cheryl Mohr	(814) 863-3069	cam84@psu.edu

Undergraduate Program	434 Burrowes
Director:	Claire Bourne	(814) 865-6855	czb72@psu.edu
Honors Program Director:	Christopher Reed	(814) 865-4242	cgr11@psu.edu
Administrative Assistant:	Amy Barone	(814) 863-2627	aeh109@psu.edu
Staff Assistant:	Steph Cramer	(814) 863-0258	sfc10@psu.edu

Creative Writing Program	407 Burrowes
Director:	William Cobb	(814) 863-3069	wjc7@psu.edu
Assistant Director:	Alison Jaenicke	(814) 865-0009	acj137@psu.edu
Staff Assistant:	Cheryl Mohr	(814) 863-3069	cam84@psu.edu

Program in Writing & Rhetoric	434 Burrowes
Director:	Cheryl Glenn	(814) 863-3066	cjg6@psu.edu
Associate Director:	Gregg Rogers	(814) 863-3754	gmr133@psu.edu
Composition Library		(814) 865-4403
Staff Assistant:	Lynn Setzler	(814) 863-3066	las36@psu.edu

Digital Education	126 Burrowes
Director:	Stuart Selber	(814) 863-3754	selber@psu.edu
Associate Director:	Daniel Tripp	(814) 865-4385	dpt11@psu.edu
Digital English Studio		(814) 867-2345	digitalenglish@psu.edu
Staff Assistant:	Lynn Setzler	(814) 863-3066	las36@psu.edu


LA Region Financial Office	101 Burrowes
Regional Superviser:	Wendy Shaffer	(814) 865-6384	wls13@psu.edu
Staff Assistant:	Teresa Yost	(814) 863-9426	tcy102@psu.edu


Duplication Office	434 Burrowes
Staff Assistant:	Kim Johnson	(814) 863-0297	kkj1@psu.edu