This year’s issue of NU Writing has been released! NU Writing is an online journal that publishes compositions made in the First-Year Writing and Advanced Writing in the Disciplines courses that are part of Northeastern University’s Writing Program. This year’s issue centers around the theme of “Reactions.” View this issue and previous issues on the…
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Assistant Teaching Professor of English Laura Beerits was selected to receive the College of Engineering (COE) Outstanding Teacher of First-Year Engineering Students Award. Awardees are chosen from departments who teach COE first-year students. Professor Beerits received the award for her teaching in First-Year Writing courses. She will be honored with other 2019 College of Engineering…
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This April, Northeastern University’s poetry slam group, the Interrobang Poets, sent a team of five poets to compete in the 2019 College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI) in Houston, Texas. The team, comprised of five poets — Ffion Titmuss (Biology/English), Sydney Bobb (Liberal Studies), Chinma Nnadozie-Okananwa (English), Ajoa Addae (Biology), and Joely Barrios (Communication Studies)…
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Laura Proszak (Ph.D. ’19) has accepted a position of Assistant Professor and Composition Coordinator at Mercy College in New York. Laura successfully defended her dissertation, “Embodying, Producing, and Materializing Citizenship: A Rhetorical Education for Children of Immigrants at North Bennet Street Industrial School, 1880-1910” (directed by Professor Ellen Cushman) on March 29, 2019. Laura currently…
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Each year, the Department of English recognizes three undergraduate writers in English department classes with the Peter Burton Hanson Awards: one given for the best scholarly essay written by an English major, combined major, or minor; one given for the best creative work; and one for the best work not belonging to the scholarly or…
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Doctoral candidate Jonathan Osborne (PhD ’20) has accepted a Diversity Scholars Fellowship at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. He will begin his one-year appointment at Ithaca this Fall. Jonathan has recently celebrated the publication of the co-edited essay collection, Landmark Essays on Rhetorics of Difference (Routledge 2018), co-edited with Professor Ellen Cushman and Damián Baca…
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In March 2019, Professor Ellen Cushman was elected Chair of the Coalition for Community Writing (CCW). CCW is an international organization of scholars, writers, educators, students, activists, and community organizers, which provides resources, consultation, and partnership to its members in order to foster successful community writing initiatives. Professor Cushman has been on the board since…
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Associate Teaching Professor Aaron Block has been selected for a CSSH 2018-19 Outstanding Teaching Award. Congratulations, Aaron! From the announcement: “With this award, the college recognizes Aaron Block as an exceptional teacher whose student-centered course design, assignments, and assessment practices epitomize writing as a social activity. By working together to identify goals, create rubrics,…
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Associate Teaching Professor Laurie Edwards‘s op-ed, “Why Are We Still Dismissing Girls’ Pain?,” appears in the February 17, 2019 print edition of the New York Times. We have long known that women with some conditions are more likely than men to be under-treated for pain, and that doctors are more likely to dismiss reports of illness as psychosomatic when they…
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Ph.D. candidate Elizabeth Polcha has been awarded the Barra Postdoctoral Fellowship at the McNeil Center in Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She will begin her two-year appointment at the McNeil Center in Fall 2019. Elizabeth is currently completing a dissertation project titled, “Redacting Desire: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Science in the Eighteenth-Century…
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