December 2021

December 13, 2021
Categories: Kudos

Thursday, January 13, 2022

December 15, 2021

Dear Colleagues, 

It was great seeing you at our hybrid holiday party last week.  Thank you for attending and for helping us celebrate our wonderful staff.  As Mark mentioned at the party, the English Department is a community and a special one, at that.  

 I want to give you a few updates about office staffing over the next few weeks.  

Angie and Monica will follow their normal office schedules through December 23 (though Angie will take the day off on December 17). 

Jennie will be on vacation starting December 20 and will return January 5th.  

Depending on meetings, I will probably be working from home in the coming days. I will be out of town visiting my family from December 29 to January 3.  I will be back on campus January 4.  If you need to reach me, please send an email or feel free to call my cell at 704-574-4933. 

The University will be closed from December 24 through January 3.  The English Department Office will reopen January 4.  

The first day of classes is January 10. 

KUDOS

Janaka Lewis’s Tedx UNCCharlotte talk “The Matter with Black Wom[x]n”  is now available on YouTube

Dina Massachi has received a MLA Professional Development Grant to fund her research at the Disney archives next summer. 

Mark West was recognized at the 2021 CTI Fellows’ Finale Celebration for the work he did this fall with the Charlotte Teachers Institute. The Fellows in his class honored him with a slide show and a book about his life and work.  You can access the book they created for Mark here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hELSo8nvd7HLoW0a6VFrd89YXRGuDvXzjCGhiMffctA/edit?usp=sharing

Mark’s Academic Minute segment  “How Theodore Roosevelt’s Reading Contributed to His Support for Immigrants” will air on WAMC Northeast Public Radio on December 23 at 7:30 am and 3:56 pm. https://www.wamc.org/

His Charlotte Observer column “We should Stop Using the Term ‘conspiracy theory'” was linked in Higher Education Matters.

https://higheredworks.salsalabs.org/20210123hewnewsletter_copy4_copy1_copy1?wvpId=aea23a38-f913-463f-83b9-ac16488f3328

Thank you all for your hard work on behalf of our students this past year and for the collegial spirit and support you bring to the department. I look forward to seeing you in 2022 (if not before), and I hope the New Year brings good health, happiness, and continued success in all that you do.  

Best wishes for the holidays and the winter break!

Paula