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Category: Department of Language & Literature Stories
Dr. David Lowry, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, announces the recipients of this year’s Dean’s Award. The Dean’s Award is given at the end of the school year to recognize outstanding students from each department. A small reception for faculty, family, and friends was held on Friday, April 11, at 4:00 p.m. to honor these students. Art & Design The Art & Design Department has selected two recipients to receive the 2008 Dean’s Award.&...
Dr. Cami Agan, professor of Language and Literature at Oklahoma Christian University, will have an article entitled “Song as Mythic Conduit in The Fellowship of the Ring” published in the peer reviewed journal Mythlore in the Spring 2008 volume. This paper, in an earlier form, also won the faculty colloquium in 2007. Its focus and ideas grew out of two excellent “Studies in Tolkien” classes offered at OC in the summers of 2004 and 2006. The volume should be available by ...
Oklahoma Christian’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the national English Honor Society, received the 1st place award for Best Literary Journal at the Sigma Tau Delta Annual Conference on Saturday. Please take a few moments to congratulate Soundings editors Kate Long and Amy Hardin and advisor Dr. Peggy Gipson on winning this prestigious national award.
Oklahoma Christian University student Luke Roe is spending the semester studying abroad in San Jose, Costa Rica through a program with the CCCU. Roe, a junior Spanish major from Franklin, TN, sends this excerpt from his journal: After we left the coffee plantation we drove through some of the most beautiful rain-forest landscapes. I was sitting on the bus with a faculty member from the school who is a biologist, and she filled me in on every type of plant we passed. It’s incredibly ...
by Jessica Fuller, with contributions from Dave Seat - Courtesy of the Talon OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Feb. 10, 2005 - Oklahoma Christian University's (OC) writing center, The Writer's Block, is undergoing major construction and expansion. The OC writing center offers assistance to all OC students in any area involving writing. Students receive free help with their writing from English majors and other student workers. The Writer's Block Web site (http://ed.oc.edu/writersblock/grammar.htm) allows ...
by Jessica Fuller Oklahoma Christian University’s (OC) Rho Mu chapter of Sigma Tau Delta hosted an Open Mic Night Feb. 8. Students performed original songs and literary works. Sigma Tau Delta historian Wes McGee, a musician and writer himself, planned the Open Mic Night. From monologues to bongo drums, students from all different departments came to perform or watch fellow students. “Overall, it went really well. We had a lot of talented people. I was happy that so many people...
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Jan. 26, 2005 - Seven Oklahoma Christian University (OC) students will present their works at a national literature conference in March. Sigma Tau Delta, an international English honor society with more than 600 active chapters, accepted works by OC students Lauren Bruner, Jessica Fuller, Wes McGee, Heather Meyer, Kristina Riggs, Spencer Stevens and Amy Thomson. Submissions for the conference, to be held March 16-20 in Kansas City, Mo., were open to all members nationwide. ...
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Dec. 9, 2004 - Oklahoma Christian University (OC) announced today an endowment to establish and support the Bailey B. and Joyce McBride Center for Faith and Literature. Family, friends and admirers of the McBrides are funding the endowment in their honor. The ultimate goal for the new center, which will feature the McBride Scholars Program and the McBride Lectures, is one million dollars in endowment funding. "The McBrides are living legends at Oklahoma Christian and have ...
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Oct. 14, 2004 - In celebration of Christian Higher Education Month, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities has selected Oklahoma Christian University (OC) alumna Sherri Coale as one of 21 outstanding alumni from its member colleges. Coale, now the head women's basketball coach at the University of Oklahoma, will be the featured CCCU alumna on Monday, Oct. 18. Click here to read her feature profile on the CCCU Web site and go to www.cccu.org/chem to view the ...
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Oct. 13, 2004 - Two Oklahoma Christian University (OC) undergraduate students were honored Tuesday for their writing on C.S. Lewis. Carson Webb, a junior Bible major from Oklahoma City, won first place for his entry, "Lewis and Aquinas: Can the Moral Law Really be Abolished from Human Nature?" Spencer Stephens, a junior English major from Edmond, won second place for his entry, "The Science Fiction of H.G. Wells in Lewis' Out of the Silent Planet." The awards were presented...
The 2004 edition of Soundings, OC’s literary journal, was unveiled April 22. Soundings editor Misty Jackson presented awards for excellence to top winners Karen Medders, author of “Ecumenicity” and “Your First Hint that You’re Going to Die,” and to Alissa Nephew, author of “Stair 7.” Many honorable mention awards also were presented. The 83-page journal is composed of poems selected from 250 submissions from the OC community. Three of the poems ...
"What can you do with an English major?" It is the perennial question from parents, students, and educators. And the latest volume of the Modern Language Association's Profession, an annual book about professionalization within English studies, tries to answer it by showing what English majors really do after graduation. Flip burgers? Sling fries? Pop culture says, "Yes!" The data shows, "No!" Seems OC seniors walking the stage this April aren't the only ones answering the tired, old ...
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Dec. 4, 2003 - Award-winning author Diane Glancy will serve as judge for the annual writing contest sponsored by Oklahoma Christian University's literary magazine, Soundings. The Oklahoma Center for the Book recently honored Glancy, naming her work, "The Mask Maker," as the Best Fiction Book for 2003. Glancy was the OC Visiting Writer for 2002 and is a professor of English at Macalister College in St. Paul, Minn. "This is quite a coup for Soundings sponsor Dr. Peggy Gipson ...
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - Sept. 24, 2003 - An Oklahoma Christian University alumna recently received recognition for her writing with the publication of a paper in a national journal. Erin Wilkerson, who graduated from Oklahoma Christian earlier this year with a bachelor of arts degree in English, recently was published in The Rectangle, Sigma Tau Delta's national journal. Sigma Tau Delta is the National English Honors Society. "Having my paper published validated my work in a way," Wilkerson said. ...
