Recent Accomplishments
Heidi McKee book earns accolades
5/2008
Digital Writing Research: Technologies, Methodologies, and Ethical Issues (Hampton Press), a book co-edited by English Department Assistant Professor Heidi McKee, has been chosen for the Computers and Composition Distinguished Book Award for the best book published in the field in 2007. The award was announced at the Computers and Writing Conference in Athens, Georgia May 23.
In making the award, the committee said this:
“Like the field of digital writing research it explores, this book is wide-reaching, concerned with issues that range from personal ethics to institutional politics to cross-cultural practices. It draws on a broad spectrum of theoretical approaches to digital writing research and approaches them from many angles, including conceptualizing, designing, contextualizing, performing, presenting, publishing, and protecting research. In technology, a field where obsolescence is a given, this book addresses fundamental challenges to digital writing research that will preoccupy us for a very long time. It is an immensely valuable resource not just for the researcher, but also for anyone interested in how we draw conclusions in computers and writing studies.”
Ben Kuebrich awarded Fulbright
5/2008
Ben Kuebrich, M.A. composition and rhetoric, is the recipient of a Fulbright Award for 2008-09. He has a 9-month Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship at Ataturk University in the province of Erzurum, Turkey (about 100 miles west of Iran and Armenia and 150 miles north of Iraq), where he will teach basic writing courses and work finding translators and manuscripts for Dalkey Archive Press.
Ben is also the recipient of both the Department of English and College of Arts and Science 2008 graduate student Outstanding Teacher Awards.
2008 Department of English Awards
5/2008
The Department of English is pleased to announce the 2008 Department of English Awards…
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Nalin Jayasena awarded research fellowship
3/2008
Assistant Professor of Literature Nalin Jayasena has been awarded a $6,600 summer research fellowship by the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies for his project “Ethnicity and the Politics of the Body in Postcolonial Sri Lanka.” The American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies is the professional association for U.S.-based scholars whose research focuses on Sri Lanka.
Eric Goodman chosen to organize writers’ festival
3/2008
Professor and Creative Writing Director Eric Goodman, in collaboration with Latin American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded $20,000 from the John W. Altman Humanities Scholar-in-Residence Program to organize a Latina/Latino-American Writers’ Festival for next year.
Mary Fuller awarded DOE, Ohio Board of Regents grants
2/2008
Mary Fuller, Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Ohio Writing Project, was awarded $55,000 from the U. S. Department of Education (National Writing Project) and $32,000 from the Ohio Board of Regents to support various programs in the Ohio Writing Project. The OWP was selected as one of 15 projects in the country (and the only one in Ohio) to conduct a three year research project and long-term professional development program with two at-risk school districts in our state. The OWP is working with Ansonia and Mississinawa Valley.
Cheryl Heckler’s An Accidental Journalist published
1/2008
Cheryl Heckler, Assistant Professor of English/Journalism, has published An Accidental Journalist: The Adventures of Edmund Stevens 1934-1945 (University of Missouri Press). The book details the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist’s journey from idealistic American to dean of the Moscow press corps.
LuMing Mao receives 2007 Richard Ohmann award
10/2007
LuMing Mao, Professor of English and Chair of Graduate Studies, has received the 2007 Richard Ohmann Award for his essay “Studying the Chinese Rhetorical Tradition in the Present: Re-presenting the Native’s Point of View.” The prestigious award is given to the best essay in any given year in College English. Mao will be honored at the National Council of Teachers of English conference in New York in November.
MTSC grad student contributes to national cancer report
9/2007
Michelle Porcellino, a graduate student in Miami’s Master’s in Technical and Scientific Communication program, has contributed to a report recently released by the National Institutes of Health.
Tassoni wins CAS Distinguished Educator Award
5/2007
Professor John Tassoni is one of two recipients of the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Educator Award for 2007.
Corbett named John W. Stuebe Professor
5/2007
Professor Mary Jean Corbett has been awarded the inaugural John W. Steube Professorship.
More>>Jamie Calhoun wins CAS Graduate Student Teaching Award
5/2007
Jamie Calhoun, a Ph.D. student in literature, is one of two recipients of the College of Arts and Science Graduate Student Teaching Award.
2007 Department of English Awards
4/2007
The Department of English is pleased to announce the 2007 Department of English Awards…
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Faculty member’s new book available
4/2007
Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook, co-written by English Professor Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson, has been published by Bedford/St. Martins.