Lena Ampadu (Department of English) was an external reviewer of the English Department of Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC on October 21.
Katherine Attié (Department of English) presented “’Redeeming Time’: Prince Hal’s Reformation and the Poetics of the Everyday,” one of three papers for “The Scales of Time and Shakespeare” panel sponsored by the Shakespeare Forum at the MLA conference in Austin, TX in January.
Jennifer Ballengee (Department of English) read her paper, “Torture, Terrorism, and the Global Public Sphere,” at the ”Re-engaging Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain: A Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration” on December 10 in the UK.
Joe Capista’s (Department of English) poem, “Cornicello,” was published in The Georgia Review 3 (2015): 456.
Erin Fehskens (Department of English) presented a paper, “From Bango’s Plot to the Blimp’s Plantation: An Ecocritical Reading of Lovelace’s Salt and Roffey’s White Woman on a Green Bicycle, at the West Indian Literature Conference on October 1 in San Juan, PR. And she published an article, “Reading the Critical Pastoral in Lovelace’s Salt and Roffey’s White Woman on a Green Bicycle in The Journal of West Indian Literature (November 2015).
Harvey Lillywhite’s (Department of English) newest book, this one with coauthor Kevin Dungey, was published in December. It’s Mastering Workplace Writing (QGC Press), already widely adopted by writing sections of the College of Business and Economics. Harvey was also the invited speaker for the Federal Highway Administration’s annual meeting for top staff on January 13 in Arlington, VA. His paper’s title was “Writing Effective Reviews.”
Dana Phillips (Department of English) has chapters in two books recently published: “Weeping Elephants, Sensitive Men,” Global Ecological Discourse, Local Expression, Hueichu, Chu, Hannes Bergthaller, and Dana Phillips (Taichung, Taiwan: National Chung Hsing UP). Translated into Mandarin, Dana’s chapter had first appeared in 2010 in Safundi. His chapter, “The Environmental Novel of the American West,” ran in A History of Western American Literature, ed. Susan Kollin (Cambridge UP).
Diane Scharper (Department of English) reviewed Robin Lane Fox’s biography, Augustine, Conversations and Confessions, for The National Catholic Reporter (December 18-31 issue).
