One of OC’s own was responsible in part for literature news out China this week. Berlin Fang, the associate director of the North Institute for academic technology, nominated Irish-American author Colum McCann’s book, “Let The Great World Spin,” for the grand prize in the Best Foreign Novels Awards held by the Chinese Society of American Literature. The book won the “Weishanhu” prize this week. Fang was asked by the Society’s president to submit the ...
Congratulations to Cami Agan, chair of the department of language and literature, on the publication of her chapter in “Teaching British Women Playwrights of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.” The book seeks to help professors in undergraduate and graduate programs present a fuller picture of the contributions of works that have been unavailable for many years. The book will be on display at the Modern Language Association convention in Los Angeles in January. It is ...
Dana Gioia, national arts executive, poet and librettist, will participate in symposia Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 with Oklahoma leaders in the arts. He will also deliver the sixth McBride Lecture on Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. in Gaylord University Center on the campus of Oklahoma Christian University. The program is free and open to the public. During his visit to Oklahoma, Gioia also will meet with teachers who sponsor Oklahoma students in the national Poetry Out Loud competition.
“Dana Gioia is an ...
When a small university holds a regional conference featuring a nationally recognized speaker, big things happen.
In the first weekend of October, Oklahoma Christian is holding the Southwest Regional Conference for Christianity and Literature, featuring poet Dana Gioia as the keynote speaker.
“The speaker I really, really wanted was Dana Gioia because he’s a poet, a wonderful lecturer, a literary critic, a terrific musician and was also the chairman for the National Endowment for ...
Oklahoma Christian University is proud to announce the addition of two faculty members for the 2010-11 school year. Rebecca Briley has been hired as an associate professor of English and as coordinator of the composition/rhetoric program in the department of language and literature. Richard Trout has been hired as an associate professor of biology in the college of arts and sciences.
“Oklahoma Christian is excited to have such experienced and creative individuals to join our talented ...
Two of Oklahoma Christian University’s language and literature majors, Wil Norton of Edmond and Cady Haas of Wichita, have had their papers from the Film as Literature course accepted for publication in the National English Honors Society journal, The Sigma Tau Delta Review.
The students submitted their scholarly articles to a blind review process, wherein a board of editors read and accepted their work based solely on the papers’ scholarly and literary qualities. They were two of ...
Willie Steele, associate professor of language and literature, spent the last two weeks examining Jewish responses to the Holocaust in diaries, letters, artwork and community documents at the nation’s premier Holocaust museum. He also discussed and learned best practices for teaching the important topic in the classroom. Steele’s two-week study was made possible when he was selected to attend the 2010 Curt C. and Else Silberman Seminar at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum....
Once again, every Oklahoma Christian language and literature student that applied has been accepted to present at the leading international English honors convention. Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honors society, will host the convention in St. Louis March 17-20. Below is a list of attending students and their papers:
Cady Haas; Enabling Disguise: Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
Chelsey Jackson; It’s My Party and I’ll Cry if I Want To
Benjamin Rawlins; Nwoye’...
Dr. Cami Agan, Chair of the Department of Language and Literature, sends this announcement:
It is my sincere pleasure to report that we’ve had a record number of eleven students accepted to the Sigma Tau Delta National conference to be held in Minneapolis this March. This marks the seventh year that our students have attended, and in that time every student that has applied has been accepted to the conference. I think this success truly speaks to the kind of intellectual community we ...
By Emmalee Mattern for The Talon
Amongst a sea of graduate students and faculty, six Oklahoma Christian University undergraduates presented their literature research papers. Amid such pressure the students were able to share papers at two conferences, the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature and the Midwest American Society for 18th Century Studies conference.
The conferences were held on Oct. 2-4 and Oct. 9-11 respectively.
“We felt very young and very honored to be ...
Congratulations to Gail Nash, Assistant Professor of English, upon the acceptance of her paper, “Final Draft Feedback and Instructive Possibilities: More Than Justifying Grades,” to be presented at the 2009 TESOL (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) Convention.
Only 19% of submissions were accepted to present at this conference, so this is an honor and testimony to the level of Nash’s scholarship. The TESOL conference will be in Denver, Colorado ...
Bill McKibben, noted environmentalist and author, spoke at the 4th annual McBride Lecture for Faith and Literature on October 3. Use the link below to hear McKibben’s speech in its entirety.
Click here to view a photo gallery from the event.
Click here to learn more about the McBride Center for Faith and Literature.
Best-selling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will deliver the fourth annual McBride Lecture for Faith & Literature at 7:00 p.m. on October 3 in Oklahoma Christian University’s Gaylord University Center. The lecture will be followed by a book-signing reception. Both events are free and open to the public.
McKibben is author of the national bestseller Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future as well as books such as The End of ...
At the Oklahoma Christian University spring commencement exercises on Friday, April 25, 2008, the annual honors bestowed upon faculty members were also announced.
Dr. Ken Adams, Professor of Music, received the Gaylord Teaching Award.
Dr. Scott LaMascus, Professor of Language and Literature, received the University Leadership Award.
Dr. Bill Luttrell, Professor of Chemistry, was selected as the first recipient of the newly inaugurated Rowe Faculty Award for Scholarship.
Dr. Adams, ...
Travis Montgomery, a 2002 graduate of Oklahoma Christian University, was recently awarded a prestigious teaching honor from the University of Mississippi, as well as a highly competitive doctoral fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year. Nominees for the award included not only other graduate students, but professors as well, so this was quite an honor. Such a fellowship means he will focus on completion of his dissertation and will receive a stipend rather than teaching.
For ...
