Jason Arenstein had an essay on contemporary
Jewish Pilgrimage published in PresenTense magazine in Fall of
2008.
Jason Arenstein, Roseanne Gatto, Sean Murray, and Tara
Roeder organized and presented a panel discussion for the
Hofstra Conference, “Who Owns Writing?”, in October
2008.
Radical Teacher, the journal that Sophie Bell
helps produce, published a collection called Controversies in
the Classroom: A Radical Reader with Columbia University
Teacher’s College Press.
Melissa Buzzeo has a new book published in
February 2009, Face.
Octavia Davis wrote the English Language Arts
activities for a K-8 science curriculum called "Full Circle
Science," which she and her colleague presented at a GATE
conference in Buffalo on October 24th, now under consideration at
Scholastic.
David Farley is revising his book manuscript on
travel writing and modernist literature for the University of
Missouri Press, from which he has received positive readers’
reports.
David Farley, Mariana Mendez, Sean Murray, and Elizabeth
Weaver will be organizing and presenting a workshop on
service learning at the Conference of College Composition and
Communication in March 2009.
Sharon Marshall will be presenting at the
Conference of College Composition and Communication in March 2009,
“Writing Towards Compassion: Transforming the World from the Inside
Out.”
Mariana Mendez presented at the Council for
Programs for Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC) in
October in Minneapolis.
Kristin Prevallet was honored on October 29, 2008
at the Poetry Project at St Mark’s Church with a celebratory
reading for her book, A Helen Adam Reader. The event was
called “A Helen Adam Halloween” and she, along with other writers
and musicians, performed interpretations of Helen Adam
ballads. She also presented a paper at the Modern Language
Association called “The Struggle Against Dispersion: The Archive
and the Drive to Survive” and will be presenting on a panel called
“San Francisco’s Imaginary Topography in the Archives of Helen
Adam, George Oppen, and James Broughton.”
April Sikorski presented research conducted during
Summer 2008 at IUP at the Re-Envisioning Writing Assessment
conference sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Her paper examined the relationship between a reader’s context
(beliefs about teaching and writing) and the placement decisions
she makes. She found that regardless of norming sessions, a
reader’s beliefs about teaching and writing are the primary factor
influencing placement decisions.
Bill Torgerson presented a paper at the New
England Association of Teachers of English in Fall 2008.
Elizabeth Weaver is now co-chair of the Creative Writing
Special Interest Group at the Conference of College Composition and
Communication.