Faculty News

Laura Durnell is a finalist in the Hobson Foundation's "People's Choice" Dream Grant competition. The contest closes at the end of October 2006. The project summary for her novel and the Foundation's voting rules are at: http://www.hobsonfoundation.com/peopleschoice.html.

Allan Johnston will be presenting a paper at the Midwest Modern Language Association (MMLA) conference in November.

Mike Meyer is the co-editor of the new Steinbeck Encyclopaedia (Greenwood) which debuted September 7. DePaul faculty members Jan Flood, Brian Niro and Adrian Lewis and former instructor Harry Karahalios also contributed entries in the new book.

This past summer, the College Board appointed Bernie Phelan to the advisory committee of the National Writing Commission, whose chair is Richard Sterling, director of the National Writing Project. The Commission issues reports about writing in the United States and works to keep writing at the forefront of the educational agenda in America.

Christine Tardy has recently published the following articles and book chapters: "Researching First and Second Language Genre Learning: A Comparative Review and a Look Ahead" (Journal of Second Language Writing, 15.2), "Appropriation, Ownership, and Agency: Negotiating Feedback in Academic Settings" (Feedback in Second Language Writing, Cambridge University Press), and (with Christine Norris) "Institutional Politics in the Teaching of Advanced Academic Writing: A Teacher-Researcher Dialogue" (The Politics of Second Language Writing, Parlor Press). In June, she presented an invited paper at the Symposium on Second Language Writing, entitled "Cleaning up the Mess: Perspectives from a Novice Theory Builder," and a co-authored paper (with Paul Kei Matsuda) at the American Association of Applied Linguistics conference, entitled "Guessing Games: The Rhetorical Construction of Voice in Blind Peer Review."