EML Board Report—March and April
Kaye Adkins
Students in the Technical
Documentation course completed a project for the Pony Express Museum. The
project included digitizing, editing, and cataloging 700 slides of the Pony
Express Trail; creating documentation to support the project; and using the
images to create multimedia projects to accompany current Museum exhibits. With
the materials created by the students, the Pony Express Museum staff will be
able to locate images in their collection to use in future publications and
exhibits. With the documentation created by the students, Museum staff and
volunteers will be able to digitize, edit, and catalog slides to add to the
collection. The course is taught by Dr. Kaye Adkins.
Dana Andrews
Dana Andrews attended the
College Composition and Communications Conference (4C’s) in Portland, Oregon
from March 15-18. He attended sessions
on ESL and International Student Composition.
Liz Canon
Liz Canon’s article,
"Blurred Lines: Does Religious Polarity Create Problematic Heroes in the
Poem, Beowulf?", was accepted for publication by Interdisciplinary
Humanities, the journal of the Humanities Education and Research
Association. It will appear in their spring volume.
Bill Church
Dr. Bill Church, in cooperation
with the St. Joseph Museum, has published In Their Own Words: An Oral
History of African Americans in St. Joseph Missouri. The book grew
out of a summer PORTAL grant that provided an Applied Learning opportunity for
Missouri Western students Jeremy Lyons, Ashley Snyder, and Alexis Mosley. An
abridged version of the filmed interviews is available for viewing on the
Museum web site. The book is available for purchase now, and the Museum is
planning a public reception.
Marianne
Kunkel
Dr. Marianne
Kunkel organized a campus-wide poetry reading featuring the acclaimed
writer Nikki Giovanni. The event, titled "The Mochila Review Presents:
In the Shadow of Nikki Giovanni," took place on April 6 at 7 p.m. in
Potter Hall Theatre. Co-organizers comprised her Mochila staff and
donors comprised the President's and Provost's Offices, the EML
department, the CME, and the St. Joseph Public Library.
Susan Martens
On March 2, the Prairie Lands
Writing Project hosted High School Writing Day, an event which brought
approximately 200 area high school students and teachers to MWSU for a day of
writing workshops, lunch activities, and an open mic reading. PLWP Co-Director and EML Instructor Amy
Miller coordinated this event, while PLWP Teacher Consultant Terrance Sanders
(Frontier STEM High School, KC) served as emcee. Several MWSU faculty members and PLWP Teacher
Consultants led workshops, while secondary English education students served as
event volunteers. PLWP would like to
thank all of the MWSU faculty, staff, and students who contributed their time
and energy to making this annual event so successful.
In March, the Prairie Lands
Writing Project was awarded a $15,000 Supporting Effective Educator Development
grant through the National Writing Project to support its Invitational Summer
Institute program. PLWP Director Susan
Martens and Co-Director Amy Miller authored the grant proposal
Susan Martens gave a presentation titled "Leveraging the Writing
Marathon for Community Connections" at the Conference on College
Composition and Communication in Portland, Oregon, on March 18.
Miguel Rivera-Taupier
Last month, Miguel Rivera-Taupier published his article "Aspectos goticos y policiales de Estrella Distante" in Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 94.2.
Dawn Terrick
On April 13, 2017, Dawn Terrick presented her paper, “Show Me How To
Live: The Role of the Mother and Father in Monster/Horror Genre from Frankenstein to Dexter,” at the 47th Annual Popular Culture Association
(PCA) Conference in San Diego, California.
On Wednesday, April 19, 2017, Dawn Terrick, Director of Developmental
Writing (ENG100), held a reception to honor those students whose essays were
chosen to be in cluded in the 11th edition of the ENG100 student
publication Discovering the Student,
Discovering the Self. Students were
in attendance to receive their awards and read from their published works. The student essays reflect the struggle and
the joy, the hard work and the rewards that these students have experienced
both in their lives and in the classroom.
After the reading, students reconnected with their ENG100 Instructors
and introduced their family and friends to their professors. Faculty, staff, students, friends, and family
were in attendance to enjoy the reading, food and camaraderie and conversation
that carried over into the afternoon.
