EML Celebrates Winter 2018 Graduates

Miranda Clark-Poulson and Stephaney Ferguson with EML faculty

Congratulations to our Winter 2018 graduates. on December 15, the following students glided across the stage to the cheers of their proud families and friends:

Master of Applied Science in Assessment, Writing: Trudy Ferrier

Bachelor of Arts, English: Miranda Clark-Poulson, Meranda Dennis, Skylar Nichols, Skylair Orr, Cassandra Robbins

Bachelor of Arts, Modern Languages: Crystal Encisco

Bachelor of Science in Education: Stephaney Ferguson

We look forward to hearing of your many successes to come!



Master's degree recipient Trudy Ferrier with Dr. Susan Martens

Dr. Moore Publishes on Heywood Drama

Fun fact: The Azores Islands rest on a triple junction of continental plates: the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate, and the African Plate. Thomas Heywood, who wrote The Fair Maid of the West around 1600, did not know this fact. But he did seem to know that the Azores were a global cultural crossroads for early modern trade routes. So did pirates. Gaywyn Moore's recent article in Travel and Travail: Early Modern Women, English Drama, and the Wider World explores the Azores' role in conferring global citizenship in Heywood's delightful romp of a play about early modern female seafarers and a barmaid turned pirate who's plundering the new world wealth of Spanish trade ships while seeking her beloved's body to give him a proper burial (spoiler: he's not really dead). 

Siebler Presentation

Dr. Kay Siebler, professor of English, is presenting the paper "'You're a Buck Nutty, Liberal, Feminist Woman': Being an Out Activist Teacher in Rural U.S." at the international Gender and Education Association conference in New Castle, Australia on December 8.

Kay was also recently elected chair of the Human Rights Commission in St. Joseph, MO.

Arniecea Johnson Makes Good in the Windy City

Missouri Western's EML department extends a big congratulations to Arniecea Johnson, who graduated with an English degree with a concentration in creative writing and publishing in May 2018. She just began employment as a content strategist for UrbanMatter, an online media platform in Chicago. She will write and edit articles and pitch new ideas as well as travel to events.

Arniecea writes, "I would not have received this opportunity if it wasn't for all those semesters in The Mochila Review." Pictured below is Arniecea at one of her many opportunities with Mochila, speaking with Dr. Kunkel on St. Joseph's local KQ2 station to promote a campus reading by Nikki Giovanni.

We're so proud of you, Arniecea! 

Cerner Visits EML

Shawn Mitchell stands before the
picture of Bart German 

Two technical writers from Cerner, Bobby Stow and Shawn Mitchell, visited technical communication classes and talked to students about careers in technical communication, especially with Cerner. During their November 28 visit, Bobby and Shawn talked to Dr. Cools' ETC 200 Technical Communication class and Dr. Adkins' ETC 421 Technical Communication Research and Practice class. The department hosted a lunch for them that included faculty from other departments, Dean Nabors, and Provost Davenport. 

Cerner is a major employer of graduates of the English/Technical Communication program. Bart German (BA English/Technical Communication 2001) was the first Missouri Western technical communication student hired by Cerner, and he has paved the way for many others. Bart is still working at Cerner, and Shawn and Bobby were delighted to see Bart's picture in the hallway.

 

We look forward to building  our partnership with Cerner with opportunities for career shadowing and networking. 

Greg Stephens Publications

Gregory Stephens, part-time instructor of Spanish, has published two new pieces of literary nonfiction:

“Che’s Boots: Discipline and the flawed hero,” Intraspection (November 2018)

“Integrative Ancestors redux--A Child's story from the past to the future,” Dreamers Creative Writing (October 2018)

Stephens' book Trilogies as Cultural Analysis: Literary Re-Imaginings of Sea Crossings, Animals, and Fathering was published by Cambridge Scholars Press (Sept. 2018), and includes another literary nonfiction story, "Listening to Scripture with Father and Son."

In addition, his critique of cultural studies, utilizing ethnographic research in Puerto Rico, has been published as “Beyond the Romance of Resistance: Translating Stuart Hall, and Re-imagining Cultural Analysis” (Culture in Focus (2018).

 

Congratulations, Greg!

EML Faculty and Students Present at MMLA

EML Faculty and students presented their work at the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) in Kansas City, MO, November 15-18. Dr. Whiteman sponsored students Cydney Puckett and Nick Reznick.



Dr. Miguel Rivera-Taupier, Dr. Caroline Whiteman, Cydney Puckett, Nick Reznick, and Dr. Gaywyn Moore (not pictured: Dr. Elizabeth Canon)

Dr. Moore presented "The King has Left the Building: Accumulating Henry VIIIs on the Early Modern Stage"; Dr. Canon presented "Gobbling Up Words: Latin Lexical borrowings in Early Old English"; Dr. Rivera presented "Addiction and Race in Consumption of Coca Leaves: López Albújar’s 'Cómo habla la coca'"; Dr. Whiteman presented "Consuming the Body: Literary Representations of Organ Donation and Transplantation";.Ms. Puckett presented " A Question of Character: at the Narratological Crossroads of People, Actors, and Characters"; Mr. Reznick presented "Modernizing and Minimalizing: Marie Redonnet’s Novel Approach to the Epistolary Novel"

Congratulations for representing EML at MMLA!