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Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
Events and news of what's happening around the Fredonia campus.
“Loud Existence,” the activist portfolio that Abby Hart created to promote sustainability, has leaped from its assignment roots in an English course to major social media platforms.
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck has been tapped to present the 2020 Robert W. Kasling Memorial Lecture, an honor that recognizes a faculty member for outstanding achievement in scholarship or artistic performance.
Three outstanding Fredonia employees were named by Interim President Dennis L. Hefner to receive the 2020 President’s Awards for Excellence and Fredonia College Council Award for Community Engagement.
Alyson Baumann, Avril King and Caroline Schettler, seniors at Fredonia who excelled in the classroom and collectively have six academic majors and two minors, will receive the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck wrote a review, published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, of a new study of animals and the environment in Turkish literature and culture.
Fredonia will welcome back alumnus Josh Schneider for a three-day Convocation residency, sponsored by Fredonia’s School of Business and the Writers@Work series, on Wednesday through Friday, March 4 through 6.
Department of English Associate Professor Heather McEntarfer and Dr. Jeffry Iovannone, who serves as coordinator of the Women’s and Gender Studies program, co-wrote the article, “Faculty Perceptions of and Experiences with Chosen Names Policies and Non-binary Pronouns," that has been accepted for publication in the journal, Teaching in Higher Education.
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck has been appointed to the international editorial board of the Electronic Book Review (EBR), where he will join a team of literature scholars based in Norway and the United States.
Department of English Professor Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Fredonia English alumnus Andrew Lindquist are among the contributors to the edited volume Post-Digital: Dialogues and Debates from the electronic book review, to be released by Bloomsbury in February.
An innovative B.A./M.A. English Adolescence Education program that builds on core strengths of a longstanding undergraduate teacher preparation program – and reduces the number of years needed to earn a graduate degree and become eligible for professional certification – has been launched at Fredonia.