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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.
New Writers’ Lounge opens with creative writing events
Writers yearning to become invigorated about their craft are invited to attend Creative Write-Ins, informal sessions hosted by Department of English Adjunct Lecturer Rebecca Cuthbert and held every Thursday at 4 p.m. in the new Writers’ Lounge on the second floor of Fenton Hall.
Jarvis’s ‘Lucky Mud & Other Foma’ brings Vonnegut’s Planetary Citizenship to new audiences
Dr. Christina Jarvis has been busy, busy, busy. That’s what Bokononists, members of the invented religion in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” say when they contemplate how “complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.”
Students partner with school district to copyedit newsletter
During the fall semester, WRTG 354: Foundations of Editing, a course taught by Professor Natalie Gerber in the Department of English and the new Writing major, partnered with Fredonia Central School to copyedit the district newsletter.
Fredonia introduces new B.A. in Writing degree
The Department of English at SUNY Fredonia is launching an innovative B.A. in Writing this fall that blends critical, professional and creative writing into a single undergraduate program that offers strong career readiness skills for students.
Writing courses take center stage in reimagined minors
The Department of English and Registrar's Office have created a new prefix for all writing courses: WRTG. The department has also revised its Creative Writing minor, and reorganized the Writing and Rhetoric minor as a minor in Professional Writing.
Mary Louise White speaker series event on Thursday
A reading by visiting writer and scholar Nishta Mehra is slated for Thursday, Nov. 7 at 5 p.m. in McEwen Hall Room 209.