Best Day Ever

It might not seem like much of an achievement as far as the blogosphere goes, but our humble blog had its “best day ever” yesterday in terms of the number of page hits (73). Since we debuted Great Expectations back in April 2007, our traffic has steadily increased and, as you can see from the map at right, we’ve had visitors from every continent on earth apart from Antarctica.

Here’s hoping we can reach even more people in 2008!

Three Faculty Receive “Authors and Artists” Awards

(Belated) congratulations go out to three Rhetoric & Writing Program faculty who were honored for publications during the past twelve months at the 2007 Authors and Artists Reception sponsored by BGSU Friends of the Library last November.

Dr. Kris Blair was acknowledged for three book chapters and articles: “Whose Research Is It, Anyway: The Challenge of Deploying Feminist Methodology in Technological Spaces,” in Digital Writing Research (Hampton Press, 2007); “Technological Labor and Tenure Decisions,” in Writing Technologies and the Shaping of Composition in the Academy (Hampton Press, 2007); and “Older Adults and Community-Based Technological Literacy Programs” in the Community Literacy Journal.

Dr. Rick Gebhardt received an “Authors and Artists” award for “The Importance of Untenured Writing Administrators to Composition and to English Studies,” the lead article in the edited collection Untenured Faculty as Writing Program Administrators: Institutional Practices and Politics, which was published by Parlor Press in the summer of 2007.

Dr. Bruce Edwards was honored for editing C.S. Lewis: Life, Works, and Legacy, a four-volume work published by Greenwood Publishing early in the year.

Congratulations Kris, Bruce, and Rick.

“Pan Africanism in Early Black Narratives of Slavery”

Dr. Babacar M’Baye, Assistant Professor of English and Pan-African Studies at Kent State University, and a 2002 graduate of the American Culture Studies PhD program, will deliver a lecture, “Pan Africanism in Early Black Narratives of Slavery,” this Friday, February 15, from 9:30-11:00 am in 206 East Hall.

Dr. M’Baye’s lecture will be followed at 11:30 by an ACS pizza lunch and reception in the ACS conference room, 103 East Hall. Dr. M’Baye is one of the ACS program’s most distinguished recent graduates. This event is sponsored by the ACS Program and the Department of English.

Spring Harvest Festival of Writing

Prairie Margins, Bowling Green State University’s national undergraduate literary magazine, will be hosting the Spring Harvest Festival of Writing on Saturday, February 16 from 10 am to 6 pm in room 201 of the Bowen-Thompson Student Union.

Designed to be an event for students and the community to emphasize writers and writing, the festival consists of hour-long sessions discussing topics in fiction, poetry, and literary publishing led by both Prairie Margins staff and graduate students of the BGSU Creative Writing program.

The festival will also be sponsoring a reading by distinguished undergraduate fiction writer Seth Fried at 4 pm in room 201, followed by an open mic event in the Black Swamp Pub from 5-6 with free dessert.

Please contact Anjuli Lochan for questions; alochan@bgnet.bgsu.edu