Erin Fehskens (Department of English) has won a Towson Diversity Faculty Fellowship for 2015-2016. Her proposal, “Testimonial Reading and the Risks of Empathy in Contemporary Global Literature and the Classroom,” was judged as one of the best of the twenty-five applications. She will be one of seven fellows next year at Towson.
Lena Ampadu’s (Department of English) article, “Black Women in a Space of Their Own,” appears in the March number of The Faculty Voice.
David Bergman’s (Department of English) poem of 1991, “The Care and Treatment of Pain,” was reprinted in A&U: Art & Understanding: Literature from the First Twenty Years of A&U (Black Lawrence Press).
Erin Fehskens (Department of English) had an article, “Elvis Has Left the Country: Maronage in Chris Abani’s ‘Graceland’,” in College Literature in January. In March she co-chaired a seminar at ACLA in Seattle titled “Speculative Fiction of the Global South” and presented a paper, “Caves Full of Computers: Techno-Sorcery and the Green World in Nnedi Okarafor’s ‘Who Fears Death?’”
Millie Landrum-Hesser (Department of English) and her husband, James Hesser, displayed poems and wooden icons at a juried show, “Word Art Exhibition,” at the Towson Arts Collective, April 4-24. On April 11, Millie read three of her poems at the reception for the event.
Jennifer Mott-Smith (Department of English) presented a paper at the TESOL International Conference in Toronto, March 25-28. Its title was “Building Bridges across Fields: A Critical Look at Nursing Education.”
Mycala Worley (Department of Occupational Therapy & Occupational Science) was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and her charcoal drawing was published in Grub Street.
