We would like to introduce you
to…
The Department of English proudly
introduces you to our excellent new faculty
members:
Dr. Catherine Pierce comes to us
from the University of Missouri,
where she earned her PhD in
English literature and creative
writing, with a specialty in poetry.
These interests manifest themselves
in Katie’s seven poems published in
2007 (see Faculty Awards and
Achievements) and in her
forthcoming collection of poems,
Famous Last Words, which won the
Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize for
2007.
Dr. Michael Kardos also
completed his PhD in literature and
creative writing at the University of
Missouri, where he focused on
fiction writing and won a
prestigious award for teaching. In
addition to publishing three short
stories in 2007, Mike has taken on
the role of faculty advisor to our
chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the
national fraternity of English
majors.
We have also promoted three of our
best lecturers to the rank of instructor:
Sarah Sneed, MA, University of New
Orleans; Ashley Leonard, MA, MSU; and
Shelly Sanders, MA, MSU.
Additionally, Dr. Dan Siddiqi has
served this year as visiting assistant
professor of linguistics, and we have hired
four new lecturers: Stephen Brandon, MA,
Ole Miss; Michele Crescenzo, PhD, Emory
University; Tiffany Curtis, MA, MSU;
Ashley Lancaster, PhD, Ole Miss; and
Leslie Youngblood, MFA, UNCGreensboro.
You’ll see all these folks in the
photos below.
Assessing Our Curriculum:
Closing the Loop
The last two years, I used this space
to describe the plan we piloted in the fall
semester of 2005 to assess our BA program
in English. We implemented the program in
the spring semester of 2006 by asking our
graduating seniors to submit a portfolio of
their work in English at MSU. We also
asked seniors to attend an exit interview
with faculty members of our assessment
committee, and then to fill out an exit
survey on the major.
Last year, I reported here the
strengths of our BA program, strengths
documented now by two years of assessment
data. We have found, for instance, that our
graduates love our faculty, considering them
not only expert in their respective fields and
dynamic in the classroom but also helpful
and caring, fully invested in students’
growth as readers, writers, and emerging
professionals. We have found, too, that our
majors leave our program well versed in
British literature, American literature, and,
for those who choose a special emphasis, in
creative writing or linguistics.
But we have gathered this
assessment data not just to document
programmatic strengths but also to identify
ways to build on those strengths and to
address areas of relative weakness. In other
words, using the lingo of assessment, we
have been trying to “close the loop,” to use
assessment data to improve what we teach
and how we teach.
For instance, last year’s data showed
that 64% of the exit portfolios manifested
editing skills ranging from “good” to
“superior.” But what can we do for our
graduates whose editing skills rate “fair” or
below? Similarly, 50% of the portfolios last
year showed “good” to “superior” skills in
documenting research correctly, but what
can we do to raise that percentage in the
future?
To address such questions, we have
renewed our commitment to teach reflective
writing, precisely the kind of self-assessing
writing featured in the exit portfolio. For
two years now, we have been teaching this
kind of writing in Advanced Composition, a
course required of all majors. In this same
course, we will begin to focus more
deliberately on editing strategies and on
electronic research methods.
Additionally, our graduating seniors
have told us in exit interviews that they
would appreciate learning more about career
options in the broad field of English studies.
To close this loop, Dr. Kelly Marsh has been
working on a proposal for a required onehour course, an introduction to the English
major and the profession, a proposal that
will come up for a vote this spring.
Our students have also asked for a
wider array of writing courses as well as
literature courses focused on single authors.
Dr. Shalyn Claggett has responded to the
latter request: her course, English 3533,
Selected Authors, has been approved, and
she will soon teach this course focused on
Charles Dickens. In the category of
writing, our creative writing faculty
members have begun working on a proposal
for an intermediate course in fiction and
poetry writing. Additionally, the university
has just approved my proposal for a juniorlevel course called “Writing for the
Workplace,” which I will teach in the fall
semester of 2008.
I hope you’ll agree that we have
begun to close our assessment loop in some
useful and interesting ways!
Rich Raymond, Department Head
What Does It Take To Be The
Next Great American Writer?
What does it take to be the next great
American writer? It takes lots of reading,
lots of writing practice, and dedicated
mentorship. Who provides this mentoring?
Richard Lyons, emphasis director, and
Catherine Pierce teach poetry writing;
Becky Hagenston and Michael Kardos
teach fiction writing. We offer workshops
in poetry writing and fiction writing for
beginners and advanced students, both
undergraduate and graduate.
In the fall we run an Undergraduate
Writing Contest judged by a select group
of graduate students.
The top winners in that contest have their
work submitted to the Southern Literary
Festival Competition. This competition is
part of a Festival run by an association of
100 colleges and junior colleges from
Mobile to Memphis. Each year, one
member school judges the best of the best
from the participating schools and publishes
the top winning entries. Each year, another
member school hosts the actual festival of
visiting professional writers and participants
on campus. MSU last hosted a highly
successful Southern Literary Festival in
1997 at the M Club on campus. We look
forward to hosting the festival again in the
near future.
The creative-writing faculty also runs
student symposia and coordinates the Jack
H. White High-School Literary
Competition. The University Honors
Program Council screens the high-school
entries, and the best graduate students judge
the winners. Each year, the high-school
winners are invited to the Honors Banquet
on campus.
The most important service the creative
writing emphasis performs for the
University is the planning and execution of
the Robert Holland Visiting Writers
Series. We usually host four visiting writers
a year, both up-and-coming writers and
major authors. We urge readers of the
newsletter to consult our impressive record
on the University website. Our visiting
authors make as much time as possible to
interact with students, especially the
students who hope to go for advanced
degrees in creative writing and literature.
Each spring after the May 1st deadline, the
creative writing faculty has the pleasure of
evaluating the manuscripts submitted for the
Eugene Butler Creative Writing
Scholarships. We try to give two
scholarships a year, and each scholarship is
renewable for a second year if the student
winner maintains good academic standing.
Applications can be downloaded from the
University website.
We also encourage our students and faculty
to attend writing festivals and conferences
off campus like The Eudora Welty Festival
at Mississippi University for Women in
Columbus, the Southern Literary Festival,
the Mississippi Philological Association,
and the University of Montevallo Literary
Festival in Montevallo, Alabama, south of
Birmingham. Students also attend the
national conference in our field: the
Associated Writing Programs
Conference. Last year it was held in
Atlanta, and this year it will be held in New
York City.
We take great pride, too, in our recent
graduates’ successes, as evinced in their
publications and professorial positions.
Emily Stinson, M.A. 2006, has published a
story and a critical essay. James Miller,
B.A. 2002, Susan Bailey, M.A. 2000,
Melissa McCool, M.A. 2003, Taylor Polk,
M.A. 2003, have published poems in various
good journals. Alicia Aiken, M.A. 2006,
has published fiction and poetry in several
good journals. Sarah Miller, M.A. 2006,
has published a piece of creative nonfiction.
Elizabeth Harmon, B.A. 2006, won a full
scholarship and assistantship to the M.A. in
creative writing at the University of
Cincinnati. Jason Burge, M.A. 2005, is
studying for his Ph.D. in fiction writing at
the University of Wyoming. James Miller,
B.A. 2002, who transferred from our M.A.
to earn a M.F.A. at Southern Illinois
University, is beginning his Ph.D. in poetry
writing at Georgia State in Atlanta. Linda
“Raven” Woods, M.A. 2004, completed her
M.F.A. in fiction writing at Georgia College
& State University, and she has a novel
represented by P.M.A. Film and Literary
Management in New York City. Bliss
Green, M.A. 1990, and Bryan Johnson,
M.A. 1992, both earned a Ph.D. in creative
writing. Dean Karpowicz, M.A. 1996, is
teaching literature and creative writing at the
University of Wisconsin—Parkside. He also
published a critical essay. Lisa Lishman,
M.A. 1996, and Billy Reynolds, M.A. 1996,
hold Ph.Ds in creative writing at Western
Michigan University and teach at Abraham
Baldwin College in Tifton, Georgia. Billy
has published poems in three journals and
won a tuition scholarship to Breadloaf
Writers’ Conference 2007. He was also
selected to serve on the poetry admissions
panel for Breadloaf 2008. He also published
an interview with poet Rodney Jones. Brad
Watson, B.A., is a professor in the writing
program at the University of Wyoming. His
short story collection Last Days of the DogMen received the Sue Kaufman Prize for
First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and
Letters. W. W. Norton published his first
novel The Heaven of Mercury in 2002.
Many of our graduates are teaching or have
taught at various colleges, junior colleges,
and high schools in Mississippi, especially
around the Jackson area.
The faculty of the creative-writing emphasis
in the Department of English is proud of its
contribution to the students and the
community of Mississippi State University.
With generous support from the College of
Arts & Sciences, the University Honors
Program, family members of the English
Faculty, as well as the benefactors of the
Eugene Butler Creative Writing Scholarship
and the Robert Holland Visiting Writers
Series, we have come to see ourselves as the
“glue” of the intellectual community for all
those on campus and off who are interested
in the language arts.
We also must recognize MSU’s most
famous alumnus John Grisham for his
support of a Visiting Professorship in
Fiction Writing. James Wilcox, now the
director of the writing program at Louisiana
State University, held that position for two
years. Price Caldwell is now teaching in
Japan. Brad Vice is now teaching in the
Czech Republic. Gary Myers is now
interim Dean of Arts & Sciences. These
professors have all made indelible
impressions on generations of undergraduate
and graduate MSU students. Carlene
Hatchett and Joyce Harris are the pillars of
the English Department office. Without
them, nothing would be possible.
Rich Lyons, Director of Creative
Writing, and Becky Hagenston,
Associate Professor
Faculty Awards and
Achievements
Over this last year, our faculty members
have continued to bring credit to our
department with their special achievements
and awards:
Dr Greg Bentley was named the 2007
William Winter Scholar in the MSU College
of Arts & Sciences.
Dr. Lara Dodds received a summer
fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare
Library to support her research on “Margaret
Cavendish and Literary History: Reading
and Writing in Sociable Letters.” The
fellowship included a $6,000 stipend.
Dr. Nancy Hargrove won the Best Article
of the Year Award from the South Atlantic
Language Association. The award
recognizes Dr. Hargrove’s article on “T. S.
Eliot’s Year Abroad, 1910-1911,” published
in the South Atlantic Review.
Character in Victorian Literature and
Culture.
Dr. Michael Kardos won the Mary Lago
Teaching Award at the University of
Missouri.
Dr. Susan Cook has published high school
curriculum units on Gawain and the Green
Knight and Ivanhoe for the Center for
Learning.
Dr. Richard Lyons received the Humanities
Teacher of the Year Award.
Dr. Catherine Pierce won the Saturnalia
Books Poetry Prize for her forthcoming
volume of poetry, Famous Last Words.
Dr. Noel Polk won the College of Arts &
Sciences Award for Research in recognition
of his on-going work on William Faulkner,
Eudora Welty, and Southern literature.
Other Faculty Publications
In addition to the awards and honors listed
above, our faculty had another productive
year as researchers and scholars:
Dr. Thomas Anderson’s book, Performing
Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to
Milton, published in 2006, has received
strong reviews in Shakespeare Quarterly,
Studies in English Literature, Sewanee
Review, Comparative Drama, and Review of
English Studies. Dr. Anderson’s current
research focuses on John Foxe.
Dr. Greg Bentley has been working on a
book titled Eroticism and the Short Story; its
eight chapters will focus on the works of
Faulkner, Welty, Joyce, Kay Boyle, Bobbie
Ann Mason, Frank O’Connor, John Updike,
and D. H. Lawrence. Dr. Bentley hopes to
publish these essays in various scholarly
journals before collecting them into the
book. He has also been notified that his
article on “The Falchion and the Phallus in
‘The Rape of Lucrece’” will be published in
the prestigious Shakespeare Yearbook.
Dr. Shalyn Claggett has made significant
progress on converting her dissertation into
a book, which will be titled The Science of
Dr. Pat Creevy has completed several
chapters of his manuscript on the poetry of
Wordsworth.
Dr. Scott Crossley has published six
articles this year, most notably pieces on
linguistic analysis in Modern Language
Journal and on multi-dimensional register
classification in International Journal of
Corpus Linguistics.
Dr. Lara Dodds has published her article on
“Margaret Cavendish’s Domestic
Experience” in Genre and Innovation in the
Life Writings of Early Modern
Englishwomen. Additionally, she published
“’So if Great to Small may Be Compared’:
Rhetorical Microscopy in Paradise Lost” in
Milton Studies.
Becky Hagenston published her story “Let
Yourself Go” in the Cincinnati Review. She
also published two other stories: “The
Scenic Route” in Gulf Coast and “In Case
Someone Comes Looking for Me” in
Gettysburg Review.
Dr. Shirley Hanshaw has a contract with
University Press of Mississippi to publish
her Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa.
She also has a contract with Michigan State
University Press to publish her Remembering and Surviving: Representation of
the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in
African American Fiction.
Dr. Nancy Hargrove published “T. S.
Eliot’s Year Abroad, 1910-1911: The Visual
Arts,” in South Atlantic Review. She also
published “Sylvia Plath’s Poems of 1957” in
Sylvia Plath: Modern Critical Views, edited
by Harold Bloom.
Dr. Holly Johnson’s “The Hard Bed of the
Cross: Good Friday Preaching and the Seven
Deadly Sins” was published in a collection
of essays edited by Richard Newhauser.
Dr. Ashley Lancaster has published
“Weeding Out the Recessive Gene:
Representations of the Evolving Eugenics
Movement in Erskine Caldwell’s God’s
Little Acre” in the Southern Literary
Journal.
Dr. Matt Little continues his research on
Henry James and William James. Also, his
“Bozo—Beau Sot” has been published in
American Speech.
Dr. Richard Lyons published “Mary Sends
a Clipping of a Man Who Eat Scones” in
Subtropics. Additionally, his poem “Studies
for a Portrait of a Father and Son” appeared
in Cimmaron Review.
Dr. Catherine Pierce published
“Epithalamium” in Best New Poets 2007.
She also published “The man in the
photograph” in Mississippi Review and
“Love Poem to Longing” in Mid-American
Review, as well as four additional poems,
three in Blackbird and “I Go Back to Ohio”
in Rougarou.
Dr. Kelly Marsh continued work on her
book, In Search of the Mother’s Pleasure:
The Motherless Daughter in Literature. She
hopes to complete the work on her
sabbatical this spring semester.
Dr. Tennyson O’Donnell has begun a book
project on the rhetorical construction of
Hawaii, as well as an article on teaching
strategies for advanced composition.
Dr. Richard Patteson has nearly completed
his book on the work of Caribbean author
Robert Antoni. He also has a forthcoming
article on the work of Paul Auster.
Dr. Noel Polk published “Making
Something Which Did Not Exist Before:
What Faulkner Gave Himself” in the
collection Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, as
well as “War and Modernism in Faulkner’s
A Fable in Transatlantic Exchanges. He
also published “Notes on Another Native
Son” in The Southern Quarterly Review, and
“A Faulknerian Looks at Suttree” in The
Conrac McCarthy Journal. Additionally,
Dr. Polk contributed essays to A Companion
to William Faulkner and continued his
editing of the Mississippi Quarterly.
Dr. Rich Raymond published Questioning:
Literary and Rhetorical Analysis for Writers
with Fountainhead Press.
Ann Spurlock, our Director of
Composition, and recent MA graduates
Alicia Aiken and Tracey Odom Smith,
have published a second edition of A Guide
to Freshman Composition at Mississippi
State University with Fountainhead Press.
Emily Stinson’s story “To the Races” has
been published in storySouth.
Dr. Robert West published “Watch” and
“At a Loss” in Southern Poetry Review,
“Oasis” in Inch, and “On a New Book of
Poems” in Cold Mountain Review. He
has also continued his work as associate
editor of the Mississippi Quarterly.
Dr. Rich Wolf continues his study of
various editions of ten Restoration plays,
focusing on page and stage changes. He
plans a series of articles and ultimately a
book on this topic.
In addition to publications mentioned above,
faculty presented their scholarship at venues
across the nation, including the annual
conferences of the Modern Language
Association, the South Atlantic Modern
Language Association, the Conference on
College Composition and Communication,
the Mississippi Philological Association, the
Cognitive Science Society, and the
Southeastern Writing Centers Association.
Kudos for our Students
Senior Misty Smith and MA students
Justin McElroy and Nick White won the
Howell H. Gwin Memorial Scholarship.
Senior Calen Oswalt was awarded the
Helen W. Skelton Scholarship and the
William H. Magruder Scholarship.
Junior Matthew Clark and MA students
Leslie Adams, David Johnson, and Nick
White won the Eugene Butler Creative
Writing Award.
Tyler Trimm received the Peyton Ward
Williams Distinguished Writing Award.
Calen Oswalt won the Lewis and Betty
Noland Book Award.
The following students received awards at
the Southern Literary Festival: Misty
Smith, first place in fiction, “The Life and
Times of Sarah Lee Greer: Easter Sunday”;
Tameka Johnson, second place in fiction,
“Timberk Creek; Jason Roberts, first place
in poetry, “Apropos of Hell”; Jessica Balle,
second place in poetry, “Ten Years Without
You”; Jennifer Swain, third place in poetry,
“Tuesday Night”; Jason Roberts, honorable
mention in poetry, “To my Unborn
Daughter”; Matt Clark, honorable mention
in poetry, “Penance.”
Lauren Springer received the Outstanding
Undergraduate Woman Award.
Tracey Smith, MA, teaches at Gainesville
State College.
Allison Barrett was named the Outstanding
Honors Senior.
Amy Myrick, MA, was awarded a $500
scholarship as MSU’s Outstanding Female
Graduate Student.
Catherine Bryant, BA, has been accepted
into law school at Ole Miss.
Sarah Griffith, MA, serves as coordinator
of intramurals and Greek life at the
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith, where
she also teaches English.
Kelly Ward, BA, pursues her MA in
English at UNC-Greensboro.
Annie Falor, BA, published “Everyday I
Run” in the journal Marathon & Beyond.
The following students attended the
Associated Writing Programs Conference in
Atlanta: Leslie Adams, Jordan Doherty,
Angela Fowler, Ryan Henderson, David
Johnson, and Daniel White.
Our Xi Kappa chapter of the English
honorary society, Sigma Tau Delta, has
inducted twelve new members. Led by copresidents Daniel White and Jordan
Doherty and by advisor Dr. Michael
Kardos, STD has continued donating books
to Starkville Public Library and raising
funds for The Boys and Girls Club.
Thank You to our Alumni
In spring 2005, spring 2006, and spring
2007, I mailed our newsletters to all BA and
MA grads from MSU’s Department of
English; these alumni also received a request
for a donation to help support our programs,
faculty, and students.
To date, this request for financial support
has generated over $8,000 from our
generous alumni: Mr. Robert J. Allen; Mr.
Philip J. Betbeze; Ms. Andrea Boone; Drs.
Grace and Dean Boswell, Jr.; Dr. Thomas
P. Caldwell; Dr. and Mrs. R. D. Boswell,
Jr.; Dr. Joseph E. Carrithers; Mrs.
Barbara H. Criswell; Dr. and Mrs. John
D. Davis, IV; Mrs. Barbara J. L.
Hamilton; Ms. Susanne L. Hicks; Mr.
Ledon Hitch; Dr. Melissa Holland; Ms.
Donna L. Holton; the Ireland Family
Partnership; Mr. Andy Johnson and Ms.
Elizabeth Trevathan; Ms. Margaret E.
Molpus; Mr. R. David Murrell; Mr. and
Mrs. Millard M. Kopp; Dr. and Mrs.
James D. Land; Mr. and Mrs. Stanley S.
Owen; Mr. Sank Owen; Ms. Lydia
Roberts; Mr. and Mrs. Judd Skelton; Dr.
Frank J. Whittington; Ms. Mary M.
Williford
The generosity of these alumni has allowed
us to enrich the Helen W. Skelton
Scholarship and the Holland Fund as well
as the English Advancement Fund. Their
kindness has also allowed us to attach a
handsome check to each of the certificates
received by students who won the writing
contests, listed above. On behalf of the
students and my colleagues, I say thank you!
Additionally, we began a new scholarship
this year to honor Ann Pittman Andrews, a
former English instructor who recently
passed away. The Ann Pittman Andrews
Memorial Scholarship will go to a
deserving student this coming year, thanks
to the generosity of the following alumni
and friends of our department: Dr. and Mrs.
Bill R. Foster; Dr. and Mrs. Dominic J.
Cunetto; Mr. and Mrs. Kyle W. Rushing;
Ms. Ruby N. Sears; Dr. and Mrs. Charles
Lowery; Mr. and Mrs. Charles W.
Bobbitt; Mr. and Mrs. William C.
Pittman; Ms. Marita Gootee; AmSouth
Bank; Dr. and Mrs. Richard Wolf; Drs.
Mary and Charles Golden; Mr. and Mrs.
George R. Abraham; Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald A. Matthews; Mr. and Mrs. Ray
C. Pittman; Mr. and Mrs. William C.
Randle; Mrs. Jerry T. Williams; Mrs.
Sarah Anthony; Ms. Elise M.
Bogdanchik; Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Carley,
Jr.; Dr. and Mrs. Clyde V. Williams; Dr.
and Mrs. Jack H. White; Dr. and Mrs.
John F. Marszalek; Dr. and Mrs. Robert
L. Haynes; Dr. and Mrs. Roy G. Creech;
Dr. Lyle E. Nelson; Dr. Natalie Maynor;
Lt. Col. And Mrs. N. E. Wilson, Jr.;
Mississippi Crop Improvement; Mr. and
Mrs. Charles L. Sciple; Mr. and Mrs.
Larry W. Bell; Mr. Bill C. Wright; Mr.
Joseph E. Stockwell, Jr.; Mr. W. Paul
Williams; Mrs. Alice K. Parker; Mrs.
Carrie B. Hawkins; Mrs. Mary N.
Gaston; Ms. Billie R. Bozone; Ms. Kay U.
DeMarsche; Dr. and Mrs. Donald J.
Mabry; Dr. and Mrs. Roy D.
Montgomery; Dr. and Mrs. Albert H.
Boyd.
Of course, our needs continue to grow. In
addition to supporting our writing contests,
we need further support for scholarships, for
faculty travel, and for departmental
equipment, especially for our Clyde
Williams Film Room and our Writing
Center.
If you’re interested in making a taxdeductible donation to help us to meet these
needs, please contact Trish Hughes,
Director of Development at MSU. You
can reach Ms. Hughes at 662-325-8309, or
at thughes@msstate.edu.
Report from the Writing Center
In the 2006-2007 academic year, the MSU
Writing Center conducted 1,949 student
sessions. The increase in student users
represents a 72% increase over last year
(1,131 in 2005-06). Nearly 99% of those
sessions were evaluated by students as being
highly satisfied in every area assessed (staff
communication, staff competence, and
student sense of progress with the writing
assignment). Because the Center has
already reached 1,000 student sessions this
fall 2007, there is every expectation that the
Center will easily exceed 2,000 student
sessions over this academic year.
While the dramatic increase in student
sessions is an important indication of
performance, we are equally thrilled by the
high satisfaction of student-users. The
session evaluation data shows that 98% of
students said their session was effective and
96% of students said they would return to
the Writing Center with another paper.
Written comments on the same electronic
evaluation form reveal that the remaining
4% did not plan to return because they did
not have another paper assignment.
However, the students said they would
return if a paper was assigned in the future.
Student users were also asked to rank their
session at the Writing Center on a scale of 1
(worst) to 10 (best). The combined scores
for the academic year yielded a very
impressive 9.2 out of 10.
The encouraging increase in usage and high
satisfaction are the results of a culture of
rigorous training and continuing
professional development. Every staff
member takes a Writing Center Tutor
Training course before or during their first
semester in the Center. Students in the
course read thirty-three articles and a book
on the practices and theories underpinning
tutoring writing in the Center. Each student
also makes a presentation during the course
on a self-selected topic (like tutoring
students with disabilities), writes 20 reading
responses, makes seven observations of
tutoring in the MSU Writing Center and
Athletic Academics, writes a philosophy on
teaching writing in writing centers, and
completes a final paper on any topic covered
during the semester.
All students who work in the center are also
paid to attend a weekly one-hour meeting
where they take turns presenting materials
they have read in writing center journals.
Their professional development is also
augmented by attending local and regional
writing center conferences.
This past year, the director of the center and
five graduate student staff members
submitted a panel proposal to the
Southeastern Writing Center Association.
The panel was accepted, and in February
2007 they presented their work at the
Southeastern Writing Center Association
(SWCA) conference in Nashville. Two of
the student presenters were encouraged to
submit their papers to Southern Discourse
for review and possible publication (SWCA
journal). The center also joined the local
chapter of SWCA, the Mississippi Writing
Center Association (MWCA). Dr.
O’Donnell now serves as an officer in the
MWCA and a member of the SWCA
Scholarship and Grants committee. The
staff attended the MWCA in Jackson during
the fall 2007.
Tennyson O’Donnell, Director
Spring ’08 Events and Courses
offered by the Department of
English
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Watch the Arts & Sciences Events
website for date and time of
readings and other events:
www.msstate.edu/dept/cas/events.
EN 2443, Science Fiction, MWF
11:00, Richard Patteson
EN 3413, Advanced Comp, MWF
9:00, lab M 2:00, Tennyson
O’Donnell
EN 3513, Women in Literature,
TTh 9:30, Catherine Pierce
EN 4/6223, Legal Writing, TTh
9:30, Matt Little
EN 4/6313, Craft of Fiction, W
5:00, Michael Kardos
EN 4/6343, African American
Literature, MW 2:00, Shirley
Hanshaw
EN 4/6403, Introduction to
Linguistics, TTh 5:00, Scott
Crossley
EN 4/6413, History of the English
Language, MWF 11:00, Dan
Siddiqi
EN 4/6433, TESOL, TTh 12:30,
Scott Crossley
EN 4/6443, English Syntax, MWF
9:00, Dan Siddiqi
EN 4/6513, Shakespeare, TTh
11:00, Greg Bentley
EN 4/6233, Composition Theory,
MWF 12:00, Tennyson O’Donnell
EN 4/6623, Linguistics in
Literature, TTh 2:00, Scott
Crossley
EN 4/6333, Literature of the
South, M 3:00, Noel Polk
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EN 4/6923, Twentieth-Century
American Novel, M 6:30, Noel
Polk
EN 4/6953, Form/Theory of
Poetry, TTh 12:30, Richard Lyons
EN 4/6990, Crime Fiction, TTh
9:30, Becky Hagenston
EN 8593, Postcolonial Literature
M 3:00, Richard Patteson