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Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, has won the Theodore Christian Hoepfner award for the best essay to appear in Southern Humanities Review in 2010.

English professor Kathy Lyday-Lee and three English majors (Matt Baker, Natalie Lampert, and Tosh Scheps) attended the International Sigma Tau Delta Convention in Pittsburgh from March 23-26.

The Third Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival, which honors the work of Hikmet, the Turkish poet, has invited Kevin Boyle to read a few poems on April 17th in Cary, NC.

Assistant professor Prudence Layne presented at the 35th annual National Council for Black Studies conference held March 16-19 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

On Feb. 25, Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, presented a paper at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, in Louisville, Ky.

Luke Johnson '07, an English major who graduated in 2007, has published a book of poems with New York Quarterly Books.

Alumnus Sam Slaughter, a municipal beat reporter for Greater Media Newspapers in New Jersey, recently won a third-place award from the New Jersey Press Association for weekly feature writing. Slaughter, a 2009 graduate, majored in English, anthropology and sociology at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.