English & Foreign Language Fall 2016 Newsletter

Dr. Cynthia Fields specializes in rhetorical theory, composition theory and pedagogy, feminist methodology, civic engagement, and writing program administration. Dr. Fields is the Director of the First-Year Composition Program and teaches first-year composition as well as courses in the Professional Writing and Rhetoric track.Dr. Cynthia Fields

Mr. Smeak2016 New Faculty

Dr. Mariko Turk

Dr. Mariko Turk

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Dr. Mariko Turk received her PhD in English from the University of Florida. She specialized in childrens literature and taught classes in American literature and culture, composition, and 19th & 20th century childrens literature. Dr. Turk teaches writing, reading, and research in English 1101 & 1102

Mr. Dylan Smeak

Mr. Smeak

Dylan Smeak obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from the Writers Foundry in Brooklyn, New York after earning his undergraduate degree at Augusta University. While in graduate school, he interned for the PEN American Center Prison Writing Program.His areas of study have included postmodern short fiction, fiction of the American South and West, hero narratives in fiction and cinema post 9/11, and postmodern cinema of the 20th and 21st centuries.His fiction often deals with place as character and the ways in which that character chews up and spits out those who try to tame it. His fiction has appeared in New World Writing, Luna Luna, Deep South Magazine, and others.

Dr. Candis Bond Dr. Candis Bond specializes in writing center theory and practice and British Modernism. She is teaching courses on writing center theory and practice and composition. In the past, she has taught courses in English, Womens and Gender Studies, and American Studies.

Ms. Elizabeth Hegwood

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Elizabeth Hegwood teaches freshmen composition, including a themed Composition 1102 class exploring the relationship between the natural environment and our identities and value systems. She studied Creative Writing at the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers. Her stories and essays have been published in The Southeast Review, Juked, 971 Menu, Public Scrutiny, and others. Her story "One A.M. at the Beau Rivage" appeared in Wigleaf's Best of 2008, and her story "Migrants" was a finalist for Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award in 2010. Her essay "I Know Where He Got That Hair" was published in Creative Nonfiction's Oh, Baby anthology in 2015.

Dr. Elizabeth MacNabb

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Dr. Elizabeth MacNabb has a BA and MA in Humanities, and a PhD in Comparative Literature. She has taught college-level English, Humanities, Environmental Studies, and Service Learning courses for more than 2 decades. Her passion is environmental sustainability, and prior to joining the AU faculty, she worked as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer.

IN MEMORIAM

2016 SCHOLARSHIP RECEIPIENTS

Chelsea Anne Collins Memorial Scholarship for Creative Writing:Kenneth Perkins

Cynthia Fleming Kelly Award for New Teachers:Katherine Self

Edith Wright Bailey Scholarship in English Education:Lora Golden

Mary Lu Kuhl Writing Scholarship for Creative Writing:Keaton Thurmond

McCrary English Award; awarded to top graduating Senior:Hunter Atkins

Patricia Smith Lesher Scholarship for Excellence in English:Lora Golden

William A. Bloodworth Jr., Scholarship for English:Kia Barr

Writing CenterThe Writing Center has moved to its new location in Allgood Hall, room N204. In addition to its new location, the Writing Center has a new director, Dr. Candis Bond.The writing center is equipped with resources and brilliant people ready to help with a wide variety of writing needs. The Writing Center is open Monday through Thursday, 8am to 8pm, and Friday, 8am to 1pm. Appointments can be made via webpage: http://www.augusta.edu/pamplin/writingcenter/Or contact Dr. Candis Bond at cbond@augusta.edu or (706) 667-4722

ENGL 4420-Shakespeare

Last springs Shakespeare course sought to illustrate why the works of William Shakespeare are still so accessible on questions related to government, religion, and identity, while simultaneously illustrating the gaps in our knowledge about this famous writers life and texts. 2016 is a particularly important year in Shakespeare scholarship, as it marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeares death. To commemorate the occasion, the Folger Shakespeare Library conducted its First Folio tour, in which copies of Shakespeares First Folio visited libraries across the United States. The University of South Carolinas Thomas Cooper Library was lucky enough to get a visit from this famous book, so a group of students from the Shakespeare class and I attended a conference and the Folio exhibit at USC in April. This was a great supplement to the Shakespeare course, which emphasized not only the importance of Shakespeare as an author but also how flimsy such authorial celebrity and the printed monuments that apparently solidify such reputations can be. After all, Shakespeare had no control over the production of his Folio, as he had been dead seven years by the time his collected works were published. Thus, the man we continue to construct as Shakespeare via the First Folio reflects our own 21st-century desires just as it offers a portrait of the early modern author. To put it another way, Shakespeare offers students a way to think about our own cultural moment and the monuments we are currently building to authors and their texts in many fields of study.

Dr. Blair Zeiders; Assistant Professor

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