Faculty News
WPSU recently released the website Back From Iraq: The Veterans Stories’ Project based on the English 497 course, Narrative, Oral History, and New Media Technologies, which was team taught in spring 2009 by Shirley Moody, assistant professor of English and Nathan Tobey, Lead Producer with Penn State Public Broadcasting. During the course student veterans learned how to use oral history interviewing, documentary filmmaking techniques and web technologies to chronicle the stories and experiences of the Iraq War. The resulting video stories can be accessed by going to http://wpsu.org/backfromiraq/. The website is designed to inspire other veterans to share their stories, encourage teachers to mount similar projects and provide a forum for others to connect and share their thoughts. The project received funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's (CPB) Public Media Innovation Fund.
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Penn State English is privileged to welcome two new members to its distinguished faculty in the fall of 2009.
Debra Hawhee’s research focuses on the moments in the history of rhetorical theory and performance when bodies and language come together. She is author of Bodily Arts: Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece (2004), Moving Bodies: Kenneth Burke at the Edges of Language (2009), and is co-author, with Sharon Crowley, of Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students, currently in its fourth edition. She is currently at work on a book about animals in the history of rhetoric.
John Marsh is assistant professor of English at Penn State University. He is the editor of You Work Tomorrow: An Anthology of American Labor Poetry, 1929-1941 (2007), which collects some of the thousands of remarkable but largely forgotten poems workers and labor organizers published in their union newspapers in the 1930s. The anthology won the 2007-2008 Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working-Class Studies Association. Articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in American Literature, Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, William Carlos Williams Review, Pedagogy, The Minnesota Review, Contemporary Literature, and Inside Higher Ed. He is currently at work on a book, “Modern American Poetry and the Labor Problem,” which offers a revisionary history of poetic modernism that recovers the decisive role workers and the poor played in the formation of early twentieth-century American poetry.
