The department welcomes two new faculty members this fall: Frank Mabee, a British Romanticist, and Joe Moser, a Film Studies scholar.
The f aculty reading group meets every Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at the Center for Teaching and Learning.
The faculty creative writers' group meets every Wednesday at 12:30 at the Center for Teaching and Learning.
We have a new Poetry Reading Series! Our first Open Mic was held at Mara Commons on October 16, 2007. Our last one was at Moose Tracks in Leominster on October 23, 2007. Our next event is scheduled for December 11, 2007, 7 p.m., Underground Pub.
Route 2 is accepting submissions of poetry, fiction, art, and music. Submit to route2@fsc.edu.
Faculty Updates
Congratulations to Irene Martyniuk and Tricia Smith on their recent promotions.
Angela Nastasee-Carder presented a paper at the Eastern Communications Conference.
Ian Williams was selected to participate in the National Humanities Center Summer Literary Seminar on Emily Dickinson. The program is restricted to only fourteen scholars who teach literature at colleges or universities in the United States.
Michael Hoberman has been chosen as one of two recipients of a Massachusetts Historical Society Long-term Research Fellowship for 2008 -2009. This fellowship includes funding and use of the Historical Society's archives. His project is titled "New England/New Israel: Jews and Puritans in Colonial Era New England." The fellowship is funded primarily by the National Endowment for the Humanities and, at a lesser amount, by the MHS itself.
Aruna Krishnamurthy was awarded a Ruth Butler Grant from the college.
The grant will help support the conference presentations by English Honor Students at the National Convention of the English Honor Society in Louisville, KY.
For the second time in three years, Thomas Murray was selected to participate in the Audio Theater Workshops of the National Audio Theater Festivals. Murray was one of twenty participants selected for the 2007 ATW Narrator's Track, conducted by Grammy and Audie-winning faculty.
Patrice Gray,
Irene
Martyniuk and Ian Williams won an Undergraduate Academic Scholarship/Creative Activity Award for their project on freshman writers.
In October 2007, Ian Williams held a writing residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska. Residencies are awarded to writers, visual artists, and composers to advance creative projects.
In summer 2007, Roberta Adams participated in the Korean Institute on Culture and Society. The institute is sponsored by the East West Center and the Korea Foundation to promote an interdisciplinary study of Korean through one week of workshops at the East West Center in Honolulu and two weeks of travel in South Korea.
This winter, Richard McElvain will play Roy Cohn in Angels in America. In 2000, Richard won the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for his performance in Saint Nicolas. He has founded The Omnibus Theatre, aimed at introducing new talent to the Boston professional scene, and has created a tradition of taking FSC Main Stage productions to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival every three years.
Scholarship Winners
2008
English Department Award: Cassandra Urbano
English Department Scholarship: Quintin Burks
Leo J. Hines Memorial Scholarship: Patrick Jackson
Louis P. Shepherd Creative Writing Award: Cody Kucker
Louis P. Shepherd Memorial Scholarship: Patrick Cuff
Matti N. Antila Poetry Award: Matthew Hager
Tapply Award: Jacqueline Carter-Halbrooks
William Keough Memorial Scholarship: Meaghan Lyn Heffernan
2007
English Department Award: Jessica R. Anderson
English Department Scholarship: Angiolina Cotoia
Leo J. Hines Memorial Scholarship: Katie Lynn Gowell
Louis P. Shepherd Creative Writing Award: Evan Perry
Louis P. Shepherd Memorial Scholarship: Cassie Urbano
Matti N. Antila Poetry Award: Richard D. Hillson Jr.
Patrica A. Hess '94 Memorial Scholarship: Kelly Stowell
Aruna Krishnamurthy,Bold and Determinate Investigation: Making of the Working-Class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain (Ashgate Press, forthcoming in 2008).
Aruna Krishnamurthy, “‘The Constant Action of our Lab’ring Hands: Mary Collier’s Demystification of Work and Womanhood in the Early Eighteenth Century,” forthcoming in Everyday Revolutions: Eighteenth-Century Women Transforming Public and Private, edited by Diane Boyd and Marta Kvande (University of Delaware Press: 2007).
Tricia Smith recently published three Education reviews on Direct Instruction, Whole Language and Lesson Planning for EBSCO Research in Education.
Conferences
Aruna Krishnamurthy, “London Corresponding Society and the Transformation of the Eighteenth-Century Crowd,” at the Southern Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA), Memphis, TN. Oct. 2007.
Aruna Krishnamurthy will chair a panel on the “Eighteenth-Century Working-Class Intellectual in Britain” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Portland, OR, Feb. 2008.
Benjamin Railton, “‘Never again did I write words like that’: Silence, Voice, and African-American Identity in Black Boy.” Panel presentation, ALA Conference, Boston, MA. May 24, 2007.
Tricia Smith presented a paper, “Making Connections,” about teaching linguistics at the South Central Modern Language Association conference in Fall 2006, where she is secretary of the Linguistics Strand of that association.
Ian Williams, “Fame and Defamation: The Politics of Poetry Contests,” Popular Culture Association, Boston, April 2007.
Ian Williams,“Literature as Voice: Anne Sexton” MLA Convention, Chicago, IL. Dec. 2007.
