CONGRATULATIONS to Aubery Schiavone a travel grant award recipient, who was honored at the Wednesday evening CWPA Reception. Excellence Award: Aubrey Schiavone “Locating the ‘Learner’ in Learning Transfer: (How) Does Identity Facilitate or Impede Transfer Between Academic and Non-Academic Domains?”
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James Hammond Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award.*
Please join Professor Anne Gere in congratulating James Hammond, who has been awarded an Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award from Rackham Graduate School for 2016. He has demonstrated a passion for sharing his knowledge and experience. He is a scholar and researcher who combines innovative scholarship and research with superb teaching and mentoring. He recognizes…
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Winner! Join us in congratulating, Gail Gibson (English and Education).*
Announcing the 2016-2017 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Winners The Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards granted by the Rackham Graduate School. Doctoral candidates who expect to graduate within six years since beginning their degrees are eligible to apply, and the strength and quality of their dissertation abstract, publications and presentations, and recommendations…
Anne Ruggles Gere was elected second vice president of the MLA.*
Results of the 2015 MLA Elections Second Vice President Anne Ruggles Gere (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor) was elected second vice president of the association. She will serve in that office from 11 January 2016 through the close of the January 2017 convention and will automatically become first vice president in 2017, serving in that…
Chris Parsons featured on the Rackham website.*
He has a wonderful story! Christopher Parsons
Thank You!*
JPEE would like to recognize and express gratitude to Carly Keyes, Yuri Ramocan, Professor Melanie Yergeau, and the students in her Digital Humanities class, and all the people that made this website happen. THANK YOU!
Alumni Spotlight: Anne Curzan*
Along one wall in Anne Curzan’s office is a bookshelf containing hundreds and hundreds of books whose titles all seem to contain permutations of the words “English Language.” Opposite the wall of bursting bookshelves hang plaques and posters documenting marathons and triathlons that she has completed–one of them, a half-marathon, along the Great Wall of…
Alumni Spotlight: William Craig Rice
William Craig Rice, Director of the Division of Education Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) since 2007, is both a poet and a scholar, or in his carefully chosen words, a “versifier” and “more an intellectual than an academician.” He hastens to add that nothing he says represents the views of the…