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Smith named Honors ‘Student of the Month’ for May
Anne Smith, a junior double major in English and Computer Science with a Creative Writing minor, has received the May 2023 Honors Student of the Month Award.
SUNY Fredonia adjunct faculty receive Chancellor’s Awards
SUNY Fredonia faculty members Rebecca Cuthbert and John Stone have been selected as recipients of the 2023 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Adjunct Teaching, a system-wide honor that recognizes consistently superior teaching at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels.
Halm receives April Honors Student of the Month award
Senior Theatre Arts and English double major Ashley Halm has been chosen as the recipient of the April Honors Student of the Month Award.
Spring a very busy season in publishing world for lecturer Cuthbert
It is shaping up to be a highly prolific spring in the world of writing, poetry and readings for Department of English Adjunct Lecturer Rebecca Cuthbert.
English department to celebrate poetry, prose at literary festival
The inaugural Fredonia Literary Festival, a celebration of poetry and prose at SUNY Fredonia – presenting local authors and organizations, memorial readings honoring four Department of English faculty members – will be held on Saturday, April 29, in the Williams Center.
Study Abroad trip to Iceland planned for Summer 2024; information session on April 18
Drs. Tom Hegna and Ici Vanwesenbeeck are organizing an information session for INED 399 Magical Iceland, a Summer 2024 interdisciplinary study abroad course that will focus on the geology, sustainability policies, history, and literary culture of Iceland.
Opalski to speak on humanitarian aid for migrants
Cheryl Opalski is coming to campus April 13 and 14 to discuss her work with Ajo Samaritans. The small volunteer organization provides humanitarian aid for migrants along the Arizona/Mexican border.
Faculty member invited to participate in roundtable at conference
Dr. Iclal Vanwesenbeeck of the Department of English has been invited to join a board-sponsored roundtable at the Northeast Modern Language Association on the “Status of Study Abroad Programs in a Post-COVID World.”
Vanwesenbeeck presents talk in the Netherlands
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck gave a public lecture at Utrecht University in the Netherlands at the invitation of the research groups for Modern and Contemporary Literature and Terra Critica.
McVicker has paper published and will present at international conference
Jeanette McVicker, professor of English, will have an expanded version of her 2022 conference paper for the annual international conference on Virginia Woolf, "Woolfian Ethics, Heterotopias, and Nonviolence" published in the online _Selected Papers_ (2024), edited by Amy Smith, for Clemson University Press.