Liz Angeli (Department of English) made two appearances last month in Houston. On April 6 she presented (with Christina Norwood, PRWR alum) “Collective Mindfulness in Public Health and Crisis Response” to the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. The next day she voiced “Researching Writing and Action in Inaccessible Research Sites” at the Four Cs conference.
Katherine Attié (Department of English) read her paper, “’With Profitable Labour to his Grave’: The Work of Protestant Language in the Henriad,” to the Shakespeare Association of America conference in New Orleans on March 21. She presented another paper, “Regendering the Sublime and the Beautiful: Shakespeare’s Cleopatra and Feminist New Formalism” at the Renaissance Society of America conference in Boston on April 1.
Jennifer Ballengee (Department of English) was awarded a CLA research grant for her project, “Tragedy, Refugees, and the Idea of Community.”
Alan Britt (Department of English) was featured in the Friends of the Loch Raven Library Speakers Series. He read from his poetic canon at the library on April 12.
Leslie Harrison (Department of English) had three poems published in the University of Maryland’s Faculty Voice for April: “Snowfields,” “Failed Love Poem,” and “Sirens.”
Harvey Lillywhite (Department of English) was the marquee speaker at the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers conference in Austin, April 12-14. His speech was titled “Writing—Mind the Gap.”
Martha Pitts (Department of English) has an essay, “Happy-to-Be-Nappy Barbie,” in Composing to Communicate: A Student’s Guide (Cengage Learning, 2016).
Andrew Reiner (Department of English) had two essays in print last month. “Teaching Men to be Emotionally Honest” ran in The New York Times of April 4, and “To get students to focus, some professors are asking them to close their eyes,” appeared as the cover story in The Washington Post Lifestyle Magazine, April 7.
Diane Scharper (Department of English) reviewed Marylynne Robinson’s essay collection, The Giveness of Things, and Deanna Fei’s Girl in Glass under the headline “No Easy Answers in the Miracle of Life.” The twin review ran in the online edition of The National Catholic Reporter, March 2.
Librarian Sara Arnold-Garza was recently elected a Member-at-Large for the Association of College & Research Libraries Law and Political Science Section
Librarian Joyce Garczynski was recently elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the Association of College & Research Libraries Education and Behavioral Sciences Section
Tim Bibo (Director of the Office of Institutional Research) received the 2016 Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Towson University Honors College. https://www.towson.edu/honors/alumni.html
