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Awards

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The 1999-2000 Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Writing Program went to the following

Full-time Instructors:
Cris Hollingsworth
Ellen Pratofiorito

Advanced Graduate Teaching Assistants:
Beth Desmond
Katherine Lynes

Each of these highly-accomplished teachers received an honorarium, a plaque, and a letter of commendation in recognition of their years of outstanding service to the Writing Program.

The 1999-2000 FAS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education by a Graduate Teaching Assistant went to Piper Kendrix Williams in recognition of her teaching for the English Department and for the Writing Program.

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Professional Activities

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Pat Cesarini, Assistant Director of the Writing Program and 101 Course Coordinator, Rachel McLaughin, the Writing Program's Research Assistant, and Bill Wolff, former Assistant Director of the Writing Program in charge of Instructional Technology, will make presentations on a panel entitled “Composition in Ruins: From Inventing the University to Writing Yourself Through It” at the CCCC in Denver next Spring. Rachel's paper is entitled, “Composition in Ruins: Writing as Product, Students as Clients." Pat's is entitled, “A Writing Teacher Ventures into the Dorms." And Bill's is entitled, “You’ve Given Us the Money, Now What?: Year One in the Life of A Computer Classroom.”

Diane DeLauro, Assistant Director of the Writing Program and Co-Director of the College Avenue Writing Center, presented a paper entitled, "Religion, Race and Nation as Genealogy in Gower's Confessio amantis," at the 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, MI. May 4, 2000.

Jane Elliot and Julie Skemp will present papers at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2001 in Denver, CO. Jane's paper, "A Case Study in Silence: Retheorizing Instructor Desire and Student Resistance," and Julie's paper, "The Social Value of Teaching: Fictions, Fantasies, and Alternate Futures," are part of a panel entitled, "Unassuming Theories: Disabling Classroom Fantasies, Enabling Classroom Practices.

Michael Goeller, Director of the Business and Technical Writing, is chairing a panel sponsored by the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing at this year's MLA in Washington, DC. The panel is entitled, "Rhetoric, Technical Communication, and Theory."

Michael is also giving a paper at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 2001 in Denver, CO. Michael's talk, "Does Not Count Toward the Major: Negotiating the Place of Professional Writing in the English Department," is part of a panel presentation, entitled "Situating New Professional/Technical Writing Programs in the English Department: Are We Trespassers, Allies, Strangers?"

Anthony Lioi, Assistant Director of the Writing Program and Co-Director of the College Avenue Writing Center will be a guest lecturer at the University of Nebraska's Annual Loren Eiseley Symposium, October 28-29. Anthony's lecture is tentatively entitled, "'Help from the Dark Wood:' Dante, Eiseley, and the Ecology of Redemption."

Katherine Lynes, Assistant Director of the Writing Program and 100 Course Coordinator, will be giving two papers at this year's MLA: "Teaching the 'New Folk': When Students Write in the Folk Tradition" and "'The Stamp of a Genuine Poet': Cultural Representation and Ethnographic Poetics in the Harlem Renaissance."

Richard E. Miller, Associate Director of the Writing Program, will be a featured speaker at the Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, "Labor, Writing Technologies, and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy," Oct 5-7, at the University of Louisville.

This summer, Richard delivered the keynote address at The Greater Boston Urban Collaborative English Task Force Annual Conference, held at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, June 2000. He was also a featured speaker at NYU's Conference on General Education in the Research University and at The New Jersey Writing Institute's Summer Conference, held at Raritan Valley Community College.

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New Faces in the Writing Program

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The Writing Program is happy to welcome the following directors and full-time teachers:

New Directors

Skiles Howard, 301/201 Coordinator, Livingston Campus
Diane DeLauro, Co-Director of the College Avenue Writing Center.
Ann Jurecic, Transfer Coordinator, Busch Campus.
Katherine Lynes, 100 Course Coordinator, Douglass Campus.
George Schroepfer, Writing Center Workshop Leader, Livingston Campus.
Piper Kendrix Williams, Director of the Livingston College Writing Center.

New Full-time Instructors

Loriann Fell, Creative Writing
Bob Gill, Education
Rebecca Hartman, History
Margaret Kim, English
Caroline Kley, English
Jennifer Novak, Composition
Marni Bevan Sanft, English
Tim Strode, English

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Transitions

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Barclay Barrios, recipient of the 1998-99 FAS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education and former 100 Course Coordinator, has become the Assistant Director in Charge of Instructional Technology. His office in now located on Livingston Campus.

Ann Dean, formerly the Assistant Director in charge of the Livingston Writing Center, is now the Director of the Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine. We wish her well!

Cris Hollingsworth, formerly a full-time instructor in the Writing Program, has accepted a position on the faculty at St. John's University, Staten Island.

Debra Roy, formerly the Assistant Director in charge of 102/201, is now a medical editor for DesignWrite, a technical writing firm in Princeton.

Bill Wolff, formerly the Assistant Director in charge of Instructional Technology, has joined the gradaute program in Composition and Computers at the University of Texas at Austin.