March 2022
Monday, March 28, 2022
Dear Colleagues,
Here are some recent accomplishments for us to celebrate on this last Monday in March. Faculty have been very busy and students continue to impress. Congratulations to all!
KUDOS
Rhonda Waterhouse, a graduate student in the MA Creative Writing Concentration, has been accepted to UNC Wilmington’s MFA in Creative Writing for Creative Nonfiction with a three-year teaching assistantship and tuition funding.
Pilar Blitvich’s article “Moral emotions, Good Moral Panics, Social Regulation, and Online Public Shaming” has been accepted for publication in the journal Language & Communication. The article will be included in a special issue on offense and morality.
Janaka Lewis participated in two events at the Cleveland County Library in Shelby, North Carolina. The first event was a Local Author Fair and the second event was a live talk, “Gender and Genius in Black Women’s Writing.” Janaka also participated on the Black Student Success Week panel coordinated by UNC Charlotte Admissions and facilitated the Atkins Library’s “Black Read” event. She also served on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Library’s National African American Read In panel on diversity in children’s literature.
Kirk Melnikoff’s chapter “Women, Wills, and the Early English Book Trade (1503-1666)” was accepted for publication in Gender and the Book Trades (Brill, 2023).
Juan Meneses published an essay titled “The Visuality of Environmental Disasters” in Teaching Postcolonial Environmental Literature and Media, an MLA edited volume.
Liz Miller presented a paper titled “Becoming a Language Teacher: Exploring the Emotionality of Belonging in Deciding to Teach” at the annual conference of the American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) in Pittsburgh, PA.
Tiffany Morin has been named as a finalist for the CLAS Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Full-time Faculty Member. The award ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 28th.
Jennifer Munroe gave the William B. Hunter Lecture at the South Central Renaissance Conference (Tuscaloosa, AL). Her lecture was titled “Colonial Botany, Knowledge-Making, and Environmental Justice: Mary Somerset’s ‘innocent diversion of gardening.'”
Alan Rauch has been named as a finalist for the CLAS Award for the Integration of Undergraduate Teaching and Research. The award ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 28th.
Mark West is helping to launch the Charlotte Readers Bookclub. Here is a link with more information about the bookclub’s first event, featuring Paula Martinac as one of the authors: https://adventcoworking.com/it/events/view/1415004192/charlotte-readers-book-club
Upcoming events next month:
April 8 Department Meeting
April 14 Department Coffee Break
April 15-22 Angie on vacation
April 29 Department Meeting
April 29 Awards Ceremony
Please send me news of your publications, presentations, and other accomplishments for next month’s missive. And if I have forgotten to include an item, please let me know. Best wishes for the remainder of the semester!
Paula