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Department of English

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Fall 2005 English Department News

Professor Antonya Nelson will be a featured reader at the Associated Writing Program annual conference in Austin, Texas this March, coinciding with the publication of her newest collection of stories, Some Fun. She was the guest editor of the most recent issue of Ploughshares, the international literary magazine.

Assistant Professor Connie Voisine has had three panels accepted at the Associated Writing Programs conference this spring in Austin. The topics are: the nature of endings in lyric poems, the uses of diction in contemporary poetry, and the English Department’s innovative "Master Workshop" thesis development class for MFA in Creative Writing students.

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Schirmer’s response article on "Interdisciplinary Craft: A Response to Loewen, Ramey, and Strong" just appeared in print in the collection Speculum Sermonis: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon edited by Georgiana Donavin, Cary J. Nederman, and Richard Utz for Brepols Press. Dr. Schirmer was also invited to participate in a New Chaucer Society electronic seminar on "Translating Ethics." Her contribution is entitled "Pastoral Ethics and Translation in Late-England." The seminar runs from October through July and will culminate in a panel at the annual New Chaucer Society conference.

College Instructor Rus Bradburd will have his first book published by the University of New Mexico Press next September. Paddy on the Hardwood is a memoir of Professor Bradburd’s experiences coaching professional basketball in Ireland.

Doctoral candidate Gustav Verhulsdonck's paper on “Collaborative Virtual Environments: How Philosophical Perspectives May Integrate E-Learning and Online ‘Places’” is forthcoming in the collection Reformation: The Teaching and Learning of English in Electronic Environments edited by Richard Matzen, Jia-Yi Cheng-Levine, and Ying-hsueh Hu for Tamkang University Press. Gustav Verhulsdonck and Clinton Jeffery (Assistant Professor in Computer Science) had their paper “Remembrance of Things Past: Using Maps and Routes to Navigate through Virtual Environment Experiences” accepted for the Persistent Conversation Minitrack at the 39th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences.