From English Student to English Teacher

Best wishes to two of our recent graduates who will apply their newly minted baccalaureate to the English classroom.

Chris Cimorelli (’13) has been accepted into the Baltimore City Teaching Residency, which is an alternative-route-to-teacher-certification program fronted by The New Teacher Project (TNTP), to teach secondary English in one of their partnering school districts.

Lauren Krouse (’13) will travel abroad to teach English in Lebork, Poland near Gdansk at a small language school run by the Erni family.

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Students Accepted to MFA Creative Writing Programs

A new batch of our Creative Writing concentrators will head off to graduate school to hone their skills in writing. Congratulations to all!

Victoria Campbell (‘11) will be going to the University of New Hampshire for fiction.

Cara Beth Heath (‘13) will join the MFA program at Western Michigan University for playwriting and fiction.

Juliana Kruis (‘11) will attend Emerson University to study creative nonfiction.

Barrett Lipkin (‘12) will head to West Virginia University for poetry.

Andrew Siegrist will study fiction at the University of New Orleans.

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Michael T. Owens heads to Washington

College of Charleston English instructor Michael T. Owens will bring his writing to life when he accompanies veterans on a trip to the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. Owens is writing a book focused on a local WWII veteran, who is one of the more than 30 veterans who will fly to Washington on May 4, 2013, courtesy of Honor Flight Lowcountry, an organization that provides veterans an all-expense paid trip to the nation’s capital to visit memorials built in their honor.

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Senior Blake Hoffmeyer reads poetry with fellow veteran Brian Turner

IMG_2650On April 12, CofC Senior English major and Creative Writing concentrator Blake Hoffmeyer read alongside award-winning poet Brian Turner at Charleston Library Society as part of the Poetry Society of South Carolina poetry series. After the reading, both men answered questions about poetry and about their experiences as veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Profs. Kelly & Lewis acknowledged for service & research

It’s no secret to those of us in the English Department that our faculty excel at their work and frequently go above and beyond their basic professorial duties.

Recently, Dr. Joseph Kelly and Dr. Simon Lewis were awarded high honors at the Celebration of Faculty ceremony. Prof. Kelly received the Distinguished Service Award, and Prof. Lewis, the Distinguished Research Award. Congratulations to both!

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English Profs featured in The Yard’s “10 People We Think You Should Know”

The latest issue of the student news magazine The Yard features two English professors: Dr. Simon Lewis, who specializes in African and Third World Literature, for his work as the associate director of the Carolina Lowcountry and Atlantic World (CLAW) program, and Dr. Myra Seaman, medievalist and co-editor of the award-winning scholarly journal: postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies.

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English Day 2013

The 20th annual English Day celebration was held on April 12, with twenty-six English majors participating. Students presented scholarly papers from their Bachelor’s Essays, Independent Studies, and advanced literature courses alongside students who read creative works from their Creative Writing capstones. See list of presenters below.

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Miscellany Launch Party & Reading

Editor-in-Chief, Civia Stein and Assistant Editor, Nikki Palazzo hosted the 2013 Miscellany Launch Party and Reading at Halsey on April 11. Contributors John Setzco, K.T. Babb, Jacob Graudin, Maddie Thieringer, Blake Hoffmeyer, Avis Norfleet, and others read their published poems and stories.

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English Major Publishes Poems

Congratulations to English major Charles Herbert who has poems forthcoming in three literary magazines this spring! Charles’ poem, “Wind in our Letters,” will appear in Yemasee, “Longing,” in Brevity Poetry Review, and “Bird in Space” in Tulane Review.

Charles was a student in my poetry 220 class last semester. We had many talks about submitting his poems,  and I’m so thrilled to learn of his success. Charles, we all look forward to reading your work. Congratulations again!

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Alumna Wins “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry Contest

Congratulations to Raena Shirali (’12) who was awarded the prestigious “Discovery” / Boston Review Poetry prize!  Raena is finishing her first year as a MFA Creative Writing graduate student at the Ohio State University.

Raena’s winning poem, “The State Para-Military Force Speaks,” was published in the Boston Review.

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