English and technical communication
Outstanding teaching awards go to 44 faculty
Forty-four faculty members will be honored with the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2019-20 and 35 faculty members received an Outstanding Teaching Commendation. Additionally two faculty members are being honored with the Sustained Excellence in Outstanding Teaching Award. Recipients are:
Read More »S&T faculty honored during Homecoming
Two S&T faculty were among the nine awardees honored during the Miner Alumni Association’s Homecoming celebration in October.
Read More »Goldberg to share writing process in today’s talk
Matt Goldberg, associate teaching professor of English and technical communication, will present a talk titled “Character and Conflict in Short Fiction Writing” at 4 p.m. today (Thursday, Oct. 22) via Zoom at bit.ly/seriesbrownbag.
Read More »In the news: As It Ought to Be, Campus Technology, CNN, NY Magazine, TheList.com, St. Louis Public Radio, Wall Street Journal
Dr. Agnes Vojta, teaching professor of physics, discusses her recent volume of poetry, The Eden of Perhaps, in an interview with Chase Dimrock of As It Ought to Be magazine.
Read More »CAFE announces grant recipients
The Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) announces faculty grant recipients for its two main grant programs: the educational research mini-grant program and the Provost’s eFellows grant program.
Read More »Linguist publishes book
A new book by Dr. Sarah E. Hercula is a call-to-action for linguists to work to change attitudes toward stigmatized language. This includes English variations like African American English, Chicano English and Appalachian English because they teach students how language works and how they study it, Hercula says.
Read More »Reardon to present game studies research
Dr. Daniel Reardon will give a talk as part of the Sigma Tau Delta brown bag series at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 29, via Zoom. His talk is titled “I’m Commander Shepard, and This is My Favorite Store on the Citadel Emergent Narrative and the Illusion of Choice in the Mass Effect Video Game Trilogy.”
Read More »Northcut named interim vice provost of academic support
Dr. Kathryn Northcut, professor of English and technical communication, has been appointed interim vice provost of academic support, effective Saturday, Feb. 15. Dr. Jeff Cawlfield, who has served in the vice provost’s role since June 2013, will return to his home department of geosciences and geological and petroleum engineering, where he is a professor of geological engineering.
Read More »Southwinds wants your poems, stories, art
Southwinds, Missouri S&T’s only creative arts magazine, is calling for submissions to the spring 2020 issue. Please send your stories, poems, creative nonfiction, photos and drawings to swinds@mst.edu or contact Dr. Anne Cotterill, associate professor of English and technical communication, at cotteril@mst.edu. You may also submit your work through the Southwinds website.
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