Michelle Sprouse ‘s article “Weaving Tapestries of Sexuality and Race in Woolf’s Orlando and Alexie’s Flight” was recently published in a Virginia Woolf Miscellany special issue on Woolf and indigenous IIteratures.
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Elizabeth Tacke has been awarded an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from Rackham*
Elizabeth Tacke has been awarded an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from Rackham. Elizabeth has taught with great success in the English Department Writing Program and in the teacher preparation program in the School of Education.
Graduate Student Mentors for 2018-2019 are James Hammond and Adrienne Raw*
James Hammond and Adrienne Raw will be supporting instructors in the English Department Writing Program as a Graduate Student Mentors for 2018-2019.
Elizabeth Tacke was a recipient of the 2017-2018 David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching Composition*
Elizabeth Tacke was a recipient of the 2017-2018 David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching Composition. This award is given to instructors remarkable for the energy, passion, insight, pedagogical skill and creativity, and commitment they bring to the teaching of writing.
English and Education honored at the 2018 Rackham Celebration of Accomplishments*
Students honored at the 2018 Rackham Celebration of Accomplishments for their support of students throughout the academic year: Lizzie Hutton, Meredith Garcia, Adrienne Raw, and Elizabeth Tacke
Megan Carlson, University of Michigan, as winner of a 2018 CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award*
Urbana, IL – 1/2/2018 – Megan Carlson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has won a 2018 CCCC Disability in College Composition Travel Award. The Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) is a constituent organization within the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Carlson is one of 6 recipients of this award. CCCC sponsors…
Aubrey Schiavone received the 2017 Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA*
Aubrey Schiavone received the 2017 Graduate Research Award for Writing in WPA for her dissertation chapter “Working Class First-Generation College Students Speaking in First-Year Writing: A Repertoire of Inclusive Praxis”
Look for English and Education alumni Laura Aull and David West Brown piece in Research in the Teaching of English, (RTE) May 2017*
David West Brown and Laura L. Aull Self-Directed Language Development: A Study of First-Year College Writers
Michelle Sprouse receives research fellowship from Open Education Group*
Michelle Sprouse, has been named a 2017–2018 research fellow with the Open Education Group. Sprouse was one of 27 research fellows selected for this honor from a very strong applicant pool. Recipients are part of a fellowship program that lasts for 18 months. With an increasing number of educators and students using open education resources,…
Look for Aubrey Schiavone’s articles are in the new College English!
Aubrey Schiavone’s articles are in the new College English! “Consumption, Production, and Rhetorical Knowledge in Visual and Multimodal Textbooks” and “Mutual Adjustments: Learning from and Responding to Transfer Student Writers,” by a team of current and former Sweetland researchers led by Anne Ruggles Gere.