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- Debra Hawhee to receive NCA Distinguished Rhetorical Scholar Award
- Christopher Castiglia named Distinguished Professor.
- Richard Doyle named Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English.
- Emily Rolfe Grosholz named Edwin Earle Sparks Professor.
- Charlotte Holmes wins Independent Publishers' Association top prize
- Brendan Prawdzik’s article "'Till Eyes and Tears Be the Same Things': Marvell's Spirituality and the Senses of History," has been awarded the Albert W. Fields Award for the "most accomplished" article published in Explorations in Renaissance Culture 2015
- Xiaoye You has won the 2018 CCCC Research Impact Award for his recent monograph, Cosmopolitan English and Transliteracy (Southern Illinois UP, 2016).
- Stuart Selber was named a 2013 Fellow of the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing.
- Debbie Hawhee, McCourtney Professor of Civic Deliberation
- Garrett Sullivan, Liberal Arts Research Professor
- Tacee Sechler, College of the Liberal Arts Rising Star Staff Award Winner
- Stephanie Cramer, College of the Liberal Arts Staff Excellence Award Winner
- Charlotte Holmes is the Third Prize Winner in Narrative’s Fall 2012 story competition for her short story, “The Grass Labyrinth.”
- Matthew Price wins 2014-15 Liberal Arts Raymond Lombra Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research in the Humanities and Social Science
- Cheryl Glenn has received the M. Ruth Marino Chair
- Jim West's edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Taps at Reveille: the uncensored version," has been published.
- Mark Morrisson, Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award Winner
- Stuart Selber answers the question, are MOOCs here to stay?
- Fulbright experience has life lessons for English alumna, Laura Dzwonczyk
- Cheryl Glenn has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Orebro University in Sweden.
- Sandra Spanier’s recent book Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters was reviewed in TLS, March 16, 2016: http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1678669.ece
- Kyle King, Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award Recipient
- Richard Doyle, Alumni Teaching Fellow Award Recipient
- Sandy Spanier, Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award Winner
- John Marsh, winner of the Outstanding Teaching Award for Tenure Line Faculty
- Robert D. Hume, winner of the Service to College Award
- Sandra Spanier has published the first volume of "The Letters of Ernest Hemingway"
- Stuart Selber and Michael Faris published their article "iPads in the Technical Communication Classroom: An Empirical Study of Technology Integration and Use"
- Awards announced for 2012 Penn State Essay Contest
- Carey Eckhardt appointed as the inaugural holder of the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal Chair in Literary Theory and Comparative Criticism
- Verge: Studies in Global Asias, edited by Tina Chen, has been named Best New Journal by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ).
- Cheryl Glenn has been awarded the CCCC Exemplar Award for 2019.
- Michael Don's collection of short stories, Partners and Strangers (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2019), has just been published.
- Rachael Lyon Wiley's latest translation project, a full-length translation of contemporary poetry by Irmgard Löschner, in collaboration with the author, ein Baum voll perlgrauer Tauben (a tree full of pearl gray doves), was released by Verlag Berger 11/18
- Hester Blum has shared some "Application Advice" on "Inside Higher Education"
- Michael Gadaleto, winner of the 2016-2017 Ray Lombra Graduate Student Award in Excellence in Research in the Humanities
- Hester Blum and Debbie Hawhee have been awarded NEH Fellowships for 2014
- Big Ten English departments launch Emerging Scholars Lecture Series
- Christopher Castiglia and Christopher Reed contribute to exhibition “Art AIDS America”
- Bob Burkholder's English 183Z class was featured in the New York Times.
- Brandon Erby, who wrote his dissertation under Keith Gilyard's direction, has taken a tenure track position at the University of Kentucky, Lexington.
- Congratulations to Michael Anesko and his editorial team on the recognition they have received from MLA.
- Casey Wiley has written on the value of an English Degree for "Inside Higher Ed."
- Robin Becker's new book of poems, "Tiger Heron," will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Spring 2014.
- Congratulations to Carey Eckhardt for winning the 2016 McKay Donkin Award
- Congratulations to Tina Chen for winning the 2016 Pavouček Shields Faculty Award
- Congratulations to Scott Smith for winning the 2016 Outstanding Teaching Award for Tenure Line Faculty
- Sandy Spanier’s recent Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (University of Illinois Press, 2015), won honorable mention for the Morton N. Cohen Award of the MLA.
- Our former doctoral student Ylce Irizzary (now an associate professor at the University of South Florida) has won the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies for her monograph Chicana/o and Latina
- Mya Poe's book, "Race and Writing Assessment, is forthcoming in 2012
- Mya Poe will be co-editing the Oxford University Press "Short Guides to Writing in the Disciplines."
- Mya Poe was a featured speaker at the 2012 Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series at Virginia Tech
- Stuart Selber has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Ken Rainey Award for Excellence in Research from the Society for Technical Communication.
- Faculty, students sponsor Marathon Read to celebrate the resilience of books
- English alumnus, Katherine Bode-Lang, has won a major American first book prize for her first book of poetry
- Congratulations to John Smilges for winning the 2019 Gene Wise-Warren Susman Prize of the America Studies Association!
- Claire Bourne helps uncover rare treasure.
- Matt Tierney's new monograph, Dismantlings: Words against Machines in the American Long Seventies, has been published by Cornell.
- Chris Reed's sabbatical reading was featured in January on the "Bookshelf" page of Art Journal Open, the companion website to the quarterly Art Journal published by the College Art Association.
- Michael Bérubé's commentary, "The Road to Dystopia," has been published in "The Chronicle of Higher Education"
- Michael Faris and Stuart Selber have published, "E-Book Issues in Composition" in "Composition Forum"
- John Marsh interview on poverty and education published in "The Urbanite."
- The Program in Writing & Rhetoric has won the CCCC Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
- Hester Blum has been made a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
- How do you prepare for an Alt-AC career? Robert Hume and Patricia Gael talk about it in an article in "The Chronicle of Higher Education."
- Department alumni, Sarah Blake Schoenholtz (MFA, 2011) and Ryan Teitman (BA, 2005), have won NEA grants in poetry
- Congratulations to Shirley Moody-Turner for winning the Penn State Teaching Fellow: Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Geffrey Davis has won the 2013 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
- “The Amusing Style,” the summer exhibition at Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York, takes its title from Christopher Reed’s work on the Bloomsbury group in 1920s London.
- Elizabeth Kadetsky Remembers Former Mentor and Yogi, BKS Iyengar
- Charlotte Holmes, Outstanding Teaching Award for Tenure Line Faculty recipient
- Graduate School Exhibition Awardees
- Hester Blum has published an account of her voyage aboard the 19th-century whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan
- John Moore has won the Emeritus Distinction Award from the College of the Liberal Arts.
- Janet Lyon has won the College of Liberal Arts Outstanding Faculty Adviser Award.
- New Global English Course for Multilingual Students to Run this Fall
- Cheryl Glenn has won the inaugural Lisa Ede Mentoring Award of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition
- The English Department is pleased to announce the promotion of Charlotte Holmes, Ben Schreier, and Xiaoye You
- Ebony Coletu has been selected for a Fulbright Award to the African Regional Research Program
- Julia Kasdorf and Chris Reed landed one of only a handful of seed grants awarded in the second round of the the Arts and Humanities seed grants in the university strategic planning process.
- Michael Anesko’s most recent book about Henry James featured in Colm Toibin’s latest column for "The Guardian."
- Carla Mulford, 2016 Malvin E. and Lea P. Banks Outstanding Teaching Award
- Cheryl Glenn has been promoted to Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies
- Rosemary Jolly, winner of the Pavoucek Shields Faculty Award
- Sandy Spanier has won the Faculty Scholar Medal in the Arts and Humanities.
- Bob Burkholder, winner of the Faculty Excellence in Sustainability Award
- Congratulations to Cheryl Mohr 2018 Liberal Arts Staff Excellence Award Winner.
- Linked sections of English 15A and CAS 100A to be dedicated to "Penn State Reads" in Fall 2015
- Elizabeth Kadetsky has once again had a story chosen for Best American Short Stories notable stories.
- William J. Cobb's fifth book of fiction, "The Lousy Adult," will be published this fall by the Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Fulbright Scholar and English Alumna, Dana Ray, writes about teaching in Bulgaria
- Michael Anesko's exhibition, "Henry James: Commemoration," will run May 16-August 12, 2016 at the Harvard College Library.
- Department alumna, Julia Elliott (MFA, 1996), will receive a 2012 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award
- Paul Kellermann has been selected as the inaugural recipient of the Filipelli Institute Award for Excellence in Online Teaching
- Jack Selzer, Service to the College Award recipient
- Debbie Hawhee, Pavoucek Shields Faculty Award Recipient
- Tina Chen launches new journal, "Verge: Studies in Global Asias."
- Doctoral student Nathan Voeller has just published an article, “The Digital Sensorium: Considering the Senses in Website Design,” in the peer-reviewed journal Computers and Composition.
- Verna Kale was the featured scholar for a live National Humanities Center webinar in the Humanities in Class series.
- Jake Maynard's essay "Trying to Keep Up with Grandma's Love Life" was published in the Modern Love column of The New York Times.
- Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
- Helen Storey has won the Stephen J. Meringoff Writing Award in Fiction. The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers honored Helen for chapters from her recently-completed novel, Gris-Gris.
- Jeffrey T. Nealon's new book, "Post-Postmodernism," has been published
- 2011-2012 Essay Contest for High School Students Announced
- Sandy Spanier was recently promoted to an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and WGSS. Congratulations Sandy!
- Chris Reed has won Penn State's 2019 Faculty Scholar Award in the Arts and Humanities. Congratulations Chris!
- Graduate Student Excellence in Mentoring Award
- Stuart Selber is the 2018 recipient of the The Ronald S. Blicq Award for Distinction in Technical Communication Education
- Rebecca Rasmussen, PSU MFA alumni, recently sold her second novel, "Evergreen," to Knopf.
- Jack Selzer has been named the Paterno Family Professor of Literature.
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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.