Faculty Dr. Kathleen Doty and Dr. Mark Wicklund English

Drs. Kathleen Doty and Mark Wicklund are the co-authors of a chapter in "Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible", just published by Cambridge University Press. Their chapter, "Shee gave Selfe both Soule and body to the Devill: The use of binomials in the Salem witchcraft trials," expands upon some of Dr. Doty's earlier work on the discourse of the Salem trial records from 1692.

Student Lydia Leonard-Rhodes & Emily Bushta English

The Department of English is pleased to announce its first recipients of the English Scholarship for 2017-18. These scholarships, the result of a generous donation by an anonymous donor, will be awarded in the spring of each academic year for the following year. The first scholarships are being given to Emily Bushta and Lydia Leonard-Rhodes, who will each receive an award of $1000 for the upcoming academic year. This year’s scholarship awards will be presented at the English Department Commencement Reception on Saturday, May 13 at 2:30 p.m. in the Green and Gold Room of Founders Hall.

Faculty Christina Accomando English

On April 13, 2017, Christina Accomando, Professor of English and CRGS, presented the paper "Patriotism, Protest, and Dog Whistling the National Anthem" for the panel Rearticulating Racism, Resistance and Citizenship in the Age of Neoliberalism, at the Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) Annual Conference in San Diego, CA.

Student Jamal Jones English

Jamal Jones (English major, graduating in May) has been promoted to head coach of the varsity football team and teacher at Arcata High School. Jamal's achievement was recently recognized on KIEM-TV. View the full interview here: http://kiem-tv.com/video/jones-named-arcata-varsity-football-coach.

Faculty Janelle Adsit English

Janelle Adsit has received a Presidents’ Council on Underserved Communities (PCUC) Professional Development Award to attend the 2017 NASPA Closing the Achievement Gap: Student Success in Higher Education Conference in Washington, D.C. this June.

Faculty Janelle Adsit (faculty), Mirabai Collins (English major) English

Janelle Adsit (Assistant Professor, Writing Practices) and Mirabai Collins (English major) will present at this year's Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference next week in Washington, D.C. The title of their presentation is "Postcolonial Perspectives on Workshops of Empire." The panel responds to Eric Bennett’s provocative new book Workshops of Empire and calls for decolonizing approaches to understanding creative writing pedagogy. They examine the University of Iowa’s relationship to creative writing programs in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and among First Nations peoples.

Faculty Janelle Adsit, AJ McGough, Angela Compton, Bri Lucero English

Janelle Adsit presented "Teaching the Undergraduate Literary Magazine" at the Creative Writing Studies Organization conference in Asheville, NC. The presentation discussed innovations associated with Toyon Multilingual Journal of Literature and Art (www.toyonliterarymagazine.org). Integral to the presentation was research conducted by English majors AJ McGough, Angela Compton, and Bri Lucero during the Spring 2016 semester, supported by the Undergraduate Research/Creative Activity Fellowship program.

Faculty Mary Ann Creadon English

Mary Ann Creadon of the English Department presented a paper, entitled "From 'Airy Nothing' to Knowledge: English as Uberdiscipline," for a peer-reviewed panel at the national College English Association meeting, March 30-April 2 in Denver.

Faculty Nikola Hobbel English

Nikola Hobbel, English professor was recently elected Secretary of the California Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education (NAME). The California Chapter of the National Association for Multicultural Education is a group of teacher educators, teachers, students, parents, community activists, and others with a strong interest in creating socially just and equitable learning communities in California schools and classrooms.

Faculty Nikola Hobbel & Tessa Pitré English

Tessa Pitré and Nikola Hobbel presented a paper at the 2016 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Washington, D.C. The paper, entitled "'Minor Injuries were Reported: Sexualized Violence, Power, and Teaching" was part of a peer-reviewed panel presentation, "Race and Gender in Higher Education."

Faculty Janelle Adsit and Jade Mejia English

English faculty member Janelle Adsit and English major Jade Mejia are collaborating on a project titled "Rhetoric and Poetics: Investigating Activist-Oriented Arguments in Poetry," which has been selected for an award from the Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities Program (RSCA) AY 15/16.

Faculty Janelle Adsit English

Janelle Adsit recently presented at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) conference in Los Angeles and chaired a panel at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Houston. The panels engaged questions of identity and offered insights on sustaining relationships with community partners.

Faculty Christina Accomando English

Christina Accomando, Professor of English and Critical Race, Gender and Sexuality Studies, recently presented the paper "Troubling the Beat Inevitable: Point of View and Representations of Lynching" in Charleston, SC, at the 30th Annual Conference of MELUS (Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the US), for a panel titled "What kind of poem / Would you make out of that?: Literature and Violence." The paper links literary works by Ellison and Brooks to contemporary efforts to grapple with racial violence, including the recent Equal Justice Initiative report "Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror" (eji.org/lynchinginamerica).

Faculty Janelle Adsit English

Janelle Adsit co-wrote an article for the journal Feminist Formations on "Affective Activism." It is out in the December 2015 issue.

Faculty Janelle Adsit English

Janelle Adsit chaired a panel at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference on "Teaching Translation to Monolingual Students."

Faculty Heal McKnight English

A piece of writing by Heal McKnight was selected as a Notable Essay by Robert Atwan, the editor of the Best American Essays series. The essay "Traffic" was originally published in PoemMemoirStory.

McKnight is a lecturer in English, where she teaches courses in composition.

Student Laurie Pinkert and Danielle Daniel English

As part of the English 615 Writing for Change course offered in Spring 2015 and under the supervision of Dr. Laurie Pinkert, a grant proposal was written for the Eureka Rescue Mission and was selected.

With the approved funding the women and children's shelter will receive $3000 to purchase new mattresses!

Congratulations to Dr. Pinkert and to Danielle for their service learning work for the community.

Faculty Janelle Adsit English

Janelle Adsit has been accepted to the Rensing Center's Summer 2016 Artist Residency. The award will support Dr. Adsit's development of a poetry book manuscript on the politics of apology.

Student Ben Taylor English

Since completing service as a Peace Corps volunteer teacher-trainer in the Federated States of Micronesia in August 2014, English student Benjamin Ryan Taylor has traveled the country sharing his experiences. In October 2014, he spoke at a Peace Corps recruiting event at his undergraduate alma mater, Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois; and in February, gave two recruiting presentations at Humboldt State. He was also featured on KIEM News Channel 3, Eureka. In March, Taylor presented his work at the TESOL 2015 convention in Toronto, Canada, and in April, he will participate in HSU’s IdeaFest.

Faculty Laurie A. Pinkert English

Laurie A. Pinkert, Assistant Professor of English and Coordinator of Composition, was invited to lead writing-focused sessions at Innovative Teaching Through Transitions: A High School-Institutions of Higher Education Symposium on Transitional Math and English. The statewide symposium was sponsored by University of Texas-Pan American. Pinkert's workshop "Writing For Real: Engaging Student Writers Through Effective Assignment Design" was attended by math and English teachers from a range of high schools, two-year colleges, and four year institutions.