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Faculty Teaching & Mentoring Awards
The department's faculty have won such awards as the Chapman Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, and the James M. Johnston Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.
Professor Jordynn Jack Wins Two Article Awards
Professor Jordynn Jack has recently won two awards for articles she has published.
With her co-author, Jessica Encoch, Professor Jack won the 2013 Kathleen Ethel Welch Outstanding Article Award from the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition for “Remembering Sappho: New Perspectives on Teaching (and Writing) Women's Rhetorical History” (co-author, Jessica Enoch). College English 73.5 (2011): 518-537. The award is being presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Las Vegas.
She also won the Feminist Scholarship Award, Organization for Research on Women and Communication, 2013 for “Gender Copia: Feminist Rhetorical Perspectives on an Autistic Concept of Sex/Gender.” Women’s Studies in Communication 35.1 (2012): 1-17. The award was presented at the Western States Communication Association meeting in Reno in February.
"Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture": An International Collaboration
Graduate students Ani Govijan, Jennifer Park, Kevin Chovanec and Katie Walker travel to King's College London to attend the "Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture" conference. Professors Mary Floyd-Wilson and David Baker presented keynote talks at this collaborative UNC and KCL exchange. While in London, Katie is writing a blog for KCL and researching early modern almanacs. Katie is also talking with graduate students and faculty in the Medical Humanities. Follow her blog here: katiewalkerunc.wordpress.com
Click here to read more about the "Shakespeare, Memory, and Culture" conference and UNC's ongoing collaboration with KCL.
Professor Jane Thrailkill: "On Tripping, Delirium, and Other Mind-Expanding Experiences"
Professor Thrailkill's talk was delivered at TEDxUNC 2013.
Jane F. Thrailkill is Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Associate Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. She teaches American literature, critical theory, and medical humanities in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, where she also serves as Director of Graduate Admissions for English. Her first book, Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism (Harvard UP, 2007), examines the influence of modern neurology on the nineteenth-century novel. Her articles on the intersections of science, philosophy, medicine, and literature have appeared in Neurology and Modernity, English Literary History, Journal of Narrative Theory, American Literature, and Poetics Today. Currently, she is collaborating with faculty in Anthropology, Journalism, and Social Medicine to create interdisciplinary courses for a new graduate program in Literature, Medicine, and Culture at UNC.
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