Student News

Cherita Banton (MAE) is one of five winners for NBA player Jalen Rose's (Phoenix Suns) 2nd Annual Holiday Poetry Contest. Her poem, entitled "Christmas," will be featured on his web site in the near future (jalenrose.com).

Phyllis A. Bennett (MAE) will be participating in the upcoming GEMCS (The Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, Reconstructing Histories, 1550-1850) Annual Conference at the Chicago Palmer House Hilton this February 22-25th. The event will be hosted by the English Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the GEMCS program is sponsored by Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl. Phyllis will be speaking on her paper, "Shakespeare's Othello and Black Maleness: Precursor to America's King Kong," which she wrote during her Studies on Shakespeare class with Dr. Francesca Royster last spring quarter 2006. Her presentation will be conducted under the topic of "Race and Ethnicity: The New World."

Evette Collins (MAW) had a personal essay -- "I Freed Myself When I Embraced My Locks" -- published in the January 15, 2007 issue of Newsweek. Click here to read Evette's essay.

Second-year MAW student Colby Cuppernull's paper, "Reconsidering the Macho: Vulnerability and Self-Consciousness in the Heroes of Hemingway," has been accepted for presentation at the Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media to be held at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL on March 30 and 31, 2007. Colby recently presented his ongoing research project "The Works of Ernest Hemingway and the New Lost Generation" at the International Conference on Humanities in Honolulu, HI.

Julius Takacs (MAW) has received two invitations to teach at Chinese universities. The first position is at Nanyang Normal University in Nanyang, Henan Province. The second offer came from Anhui University of Finance and Economics in Bengbu City, Anhui Province.

Katie Wozniak (MAW) will be composing a chapter for the book Rhetorica in Motion. Her chapter is tentatively titled "Lesbian Herstory Archives: Considering Institutional Context in the Recovery of Marginalized Voices."