Johnson Delivers Keynote Address
Dr. Mark Johnson delivered a keynote plenary presentation at the Second Language Writing Research Seminar at the University of Murcia in Murcia, Spain. His presentation, “Formal Genre-Specific Knowledge as a...
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Squint Serves on Native American Literature Panel
Dr. Kirstin Squint collaborated with staff from Joyner Library, Kristen Daniel and Alston Cobourn, and from the Ledonia Wright Cultural Center, Nichole Maldonado, to host a program for eleventh graders...
PhD Students and Faculty Publish Special Issue
Four doctoral students and four RWPC faculty members have published a co-edited special issue of Technical Communication and Social Justice. The special issue is on Digital Activism, Pedagogy, and Advocacy,...
Herron’s Shakespeare AI Project Wins Award
Dr. Thomas Herron has won a Research Reassignment Award of one course release in Fall 2025, which will allow him to prepare a grant application of additional development of his...
Hallberg Joins ETSU’s Cody For Book Launch
On April 22, Christy Hallberg led an in-conversation event with novelist and East Tennessee State University English professor Michael Amos Cody. The event, held at The Generalist in downtown Johnson...
ECU Zine Lab First Workshop is a Success
The ECU Zine Lab’s first workshop, March 28-29, has produced more than a dozen themed zines. The new zine lab, a collaboration with Missouri S&T through a PIT-UN grant, leverages...
English Alumna Sutton Publishes in Film Matters
Jennah Sutton, one of the department’s 2024 BA English graduates, will have an essay she wrote on the reality series Wife Swap in Dr. Amanda Klein's FILM 4985 class published...
Dighton, Abel, and Bikmohammadi Publish Article
Dr. Desiree Dighton, along with two PhD students, Ben Abel, and Mina Bikmohammadi published "Localizing with GAI in the Archives: Exploring Practitioner Attitudes on Challenges and Opportunities" in Technical Communication...
Cariño Wins Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
Alum Ina Cariño (BA English and Creative Writing Minor, ’16) received the 2025 Lucille Medwick Memorial Award for her poem, “What’s the First Word in ‘Illegal Immigrant’?”. Cariño is a...
Alumni Gorczyca Deconstructs Taylor Swift Lyrics
ECU English MA alumni Jamie Gorczyca was interviewed about her Taylor Swift class taught at Vol State Community College. In the article, Gorczyca, "contests that the skills used in analyzing...