North Dakota State University

Registration for Summer and Fall courses is in progress, and the English Department is offering several super-themed summer courses for the short and regular summer sessions. Look over the 2012 Summer Courses flier and you're sure to find a heroic course that will make summer school super!

New Approaches to Genre
Dr. Heather Dubrow, Fordham University
June 11-15, 2012
9am - 4pm daily

Each year the Department invites a nationally recognized scholar to teach an intensive course in his or her area of expertise. Dr. Heather Dubrow of Fordham University is scheduled to lead the 2012 Summer Scholars Class. This year's course will study Genre and will focus mainly on literary texts, especially instances of pastoral, romance, and the sonnet, but will also devote attention to the centrality of genre to many types of discourse. Registration for summer semester begins March 26, 2012.

Dr. Bruce Maylath, NDSU Professor of English, was selected by the Tribal College Liaison to receive a University Green and Golden Globe Diversity Award. Maylath has been instrumental in supporting and promoting Dakota Studies at NDSU. The award ceremony was held April 16th, in the NDSU Memorial Union.

Gary Totten, Associate Professor of English, co-organized the 7^th biennial conference of the International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW) at Georgetown University, Mar. 30-Apr. 1, 2012.  Totten collaborated with colleagues from Georgetown, Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Misericordia University to referee papers and organize the conference program.  Totten presented a paper, “The Politics of Local Color in Dreiser Looks at Russia,” related to his larger book project on Theodore Dreiser’s travel writing, and also delivered the concluding remarks at the conference.  Totten serves on the steering committee for the ISTW, which encourages and fosters the work of scholars, publishers, and practitioners of travel writing through a range of activities including conferences, a monthly newsletter, and affiliation with the peer-reviewed journal Studies in Travel Writing.

Congratulations to Chris Lindgren, Kevin Brooks, and the Sugar Labs@ NDSU project. Their project made the NDSU main web page news banner. You can read the complete story at on the NDSU home page.

PhD graduate student, Tatjana Schell presented "Challenges of Teaching College Composition as a Non-Native Speaking Teacher" during the Graduate Symposium held by the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Tech Communication (WRTC) at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Graduate students from all over the country attended the event held April 5-6, 2012. Kirk St. Amant from East Carolina University was the keynote speaker for the symposium.    The WRTC will be hosting another graduate symposium in the fall 2012 as they are moving it from very busy April to October, and will gladly welcome more graduate students from NDSU.

Welcome to the first installment of Pen & Ink: Notes from the NDSU Department of English Volume 2. For the sake of consistency, we've stuck to the regular features, but for this issue we expanded the Alumni in Action to include excerpts from a chapbook published by our featured alumni as NDSU undergraduates. Your comments and story ideas are always welcome and we are still trying to track our alumni, so let us know how you've been and what you've been up to.  Please send your stories, article ideas, and comments to Tina Young. 

As our second year of publication gets underway, look for the June issue in both print and electronic forms. Happy reading!

March 26: Online registration began for Summer/Fall semesters.

May 4: External Advisory Board Meeting, 12-4pm, Peace Garden Room, Memorial Union

May 4: Last day of classes for Spring semester.

May 7-11: Finals Week.

May 11: Graduate/Professional Commencement ceremony, 4pm, FargoDome. 

May 12: Undergraduate Commencement ceremony, 10am, FargoDome. 

See our wiki for a list of additional local events and national conferences. 

English Department
NDSU - Dept. 2320
P.O. Box 6050
Fargo, ND  58108-6050
Office Location: Morrill Hall 219
Office Phone: 701-231-7143