Monday, April 27, 2009 ENGLISH UNDERGRAD TRENT OLSEN RECEIVES UHC FUNDING
 The Utah Humanities Council (UHC) recently awarded two fellowships—one to an undergraduate student and one to a graduate student—to support research in the humanities. Each student fellowship provides a cash award of $500. Unlike their peers in the sciences, students in the humanities have typically been disadvantaged by a lack of financial support to do research. Trenton Olsen, an undergraduate student in English at Utah State University, received a UHC fellowship for his project that compares the poetry of contemporary Irish poet Seamus Heaney to the famous Romantic writer William Wordsworth. “While scholars have long been interested in Wordsworth's influence on Heaney,“ Olsen wrote in his proposal to UHC's board, “my analysis provides new important insight on the relationship through a close reading of Wordsworth's ‘Tinturn Abbey' and Heaney's ‘Changes'.” Olsen will present his research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research and the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention More
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Sunday, April 26, 2009 COME TO THE AMERICAN STUDIES ENGLISH DEPARTMENT POTLUCK
 At 5:00 pm on Tuesday, April 28 th, associate professor Jan Roush will host a potluck party celebrating the end of spring term and all those graduating in American Studies and English. The address is 221 North 700 East in Hyde Park. For more information, contact Roush at jan.roush@usu.edu. More
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Sunday, April 26, 2009 2009 MASTER’S GRADS OFF TO NEW ADVENTURES
 Master's grads are off to a variety of new adventures. To find out what Kathryn Anderson-Holmes, Sita Bell, Rachael Biorn, Ashley Hail, Erin Hancock, Sally Haueter Rampe, Lyra Hilliard, Jacoba Mendelkow, M. Whitney Olsen, and Cami Pack are up to, continue reading on. If you'd like to share your post grad plans, email marina.hall@usu.edu. More
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Sunday, April 26, 2009 STUDENTS CELEBRATED AT DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AWARDS CEREMONY
On Wednesday, April 22, the department of English at Utah State celebrated the achievements of our students in an awards ceremony. For more info and pictures, click here. More
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Friday, April 24, 2009 ALUM STEVE WELLER PUBLISHES CARTOON COLLECTION
 Steve Weller, a December 2008 graduate of USU's department of English, has just published Everything I need to Know I Learned in Middle School, a book of cartoon strips. “I draw cartoons about what I see around me,” Weller says. “What happens on these pages is what I observe about either myself or my surroundings.” Weller has been teaching at Ephraim Middle School since fall 2008, first as an intern and then as a full-time teacher upon his graduation. Weller finds his students inspiring, and says that he feels rewarded by the opportunity to help shape their futures. “Nothing else could quite come close to it,” he said. Weller is also the recipient of the 2008 Utah Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (UASCD) “Teacher of Tomorrow” award. More
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Friday, April 24, 2009 USU DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LECTURERS SUSAN NYIKOS AND ANNE STARK PUBLISHED IN “WORDRIVER”
 Anne Stark's essay “Burning Man” and Susan Nykios' poems “Dialectical Materialism,” “Ode to Love,” “Two Days before Spring Equinox,” and “Division,” have just been published in the premier issue of wordriver literary review. The journal, published by the department of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, is dedicated to showcasing the creative work of adjunct instructors. Submissions must be emailed each year by October 31 st to be considered for publication in the next spring issue. More
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Friday, April 24, 2009 ENGLISH MAJOR EMILY ARNOLD NAMED “OUTSTANDING PEER ADVISOR”
 English major Emily Arnold was honored with an Outstanding Peer Advisor Award in a ceremony Thursday, April 23, 2009. Arnold was selected from among six nominated peer advisors to receive the award. The committee, consisting of three advisors and admissions officers, selected Arnold based on the strong examples of her work with both the department of English and the HASS advising center. Please join us in congratulating Arnold on her award. More
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Friday, April 24, 2009 USU ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH SHANE GRAHAM PUBLISHES NEW BOOK
 Shane Graham, associate professor at Utah State University, has just published a new book. South African Literature after the Truth Commission: Mapping Loss is about South Africans' struggle to find their place during a time of significant change in their country's history. “Here's my argument,” Graham explains, “In a nutshell: “mapping loss” is like reading a palimpsest—an ancient scroll that has been written on, partially erased, and written on again. More
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Wednesday, April 22, 2009 USU-TUBE SHORT FILM FEST SCREENING AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF WINNERS
 The Caine School of the Arts USU-Tube Short Film Festival screening and announcement of winners will be 7:30 p.m. on April 24 in the Caine Lyric Theatre in Logan, Utah. To watch the film entries and vote, click here. If you have any questions regarding this film festival, please contact Sally Okelberry at sally.okelberry@usu.edu or by phone at 435-797-1500. Buy Tickets! More
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 RECENT GRAD HILLIARD TO ATTEND GOUCHER MFA PROGRAM
 Lyra Hilliard, MA in American Studies, 2009, has been accepted into one of only two creative-nonfiction-only MFA programs, the nationally known Goucher College MFA in Nonfiction, based in Baltimore. She joins Russ Beck, MA in Literature and Writing 2007, who is in his second year at Goucher. Lyra's committee was chaired by Chris Cokinos and included Lawrence Culver, History, and Michael Sowder. More
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 GRAD STUDENT SITA BELL’S THESIS NOMINATED FOR AWARD
 The Utah State University School of Graduate Studies http://www.wiche.edu/wags/has just nominated Sita Bell's thesis for the Western Association of Graduate Schools (WAGS) Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. Bell is an American Studies graduate student with an emphasis in Folklore. Her thesis was selected for this nomination from all the theses currently underway at USU. The 2009-2010 award consists of a certificate of award, $1000 to the recipient, and travel expenses for the student and the student's advisor to receive the award at the annual meeting of the Association to be hosted by the University of Idaho. More
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 SOWDER TO APPEAR WITH KATE COLES ON KUER'S "RADIO WEST"
 In celebration of Earth Day, poet and USU associate professor of English Michael Sowder will appear with Utah's Poet Laureate Katherine Coles on "Radio West" (90.1 fm) at 11:00 am on Wednesday, April 22nd. The KUER interview program hosted by Doug Fabrizio will feature Coles and Sowder discussing the role of the natural world in poetry. The poets will also read from their work. More
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