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Jessie L. Moore, associate professor of professional writing & rhetoric in the Department of English, has been elected to the Conference on College Composition and Communication Executive Committee. CCCC is the world's largest professional organization for writing studies.

Janet Myers, Coordinator of National and International Fellowships, participated in a regional conference sponsored by the National Association of Fellowship Advisors.

Crystal Anderson will serve as Â鶹ÊÓƵ’s first faculty fellow for the Multicultural Center beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year.

Crystal Anderson presented her paper, “Chinese School: Cross-Cultural and Transnational Strategies in "Ping Pong Playa (2007)” at the 2010 Association of Asian American Studies conference, held in Austin, Texas

Megan Isaac presented a paper delineating the growing role of both literal and metaphorical surveillance in young adult literature at the annual meeting of The Children's Literature Association in Ann Arbor, Michigan on June 10.

Prudence Layne, an assistant professor of English and coordinator of African/African-American Studies at Â鶹ÊÓƵ, has been named one of four Visiting Fellows this summer at the Bader International Studies Institute at Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex, England, to teach a postcolonial Shakespeare class with field studies components.

Prudence Layne traveled to a remote region in Haiti during spring break to assist doctors and nurses at a free medical clinic. While there, the assistant professor of English saw not only the damage from a powerful January earthquake, but what she says are opportunities for Â鶹ÊÓƵ to help in the nation’s reconstruction.

Students in a spring semester English class have published two children’s books and a coffee table book to help support The Conservators' Center, a nonprofit exotic wildlife sanctuary in North Carolina's Caswell County.

When Jack Lang, the owner of a North Carolina mulch company, impulsively buys the house across the street from where he lives, it’s the final straw for his wife, Beth, who flees into the arms of Jack’s best friend. What happens next is the plot to “This is Just Exactly Like You,” Â鶹ÊÓƵ associate professor Drew Perry’s debut novel and a work of fiction garnering rave reviews from national book critics.

Janet Warman, professor of English and education, attended a poetry workshop sponsored by the Virginia Center for Creative Arts in Auvillar, France, May 17-24.