Dr. Heather Camp joined the English Department March 1, teaching composition and beginning her duties as director of composition; consequently, this will be the first Introductory Workshop for Teaching Assistants (Eng 621) that she has taught at MSU. The workshop begins August 4, and she will be working with 25 new teaching assistants as well as 6 TA mentors.
Dr. Camp completed her Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Her dissertation was titled "Constructing a Professional Ethos: The Role of Identify in Graduate Student Writing Development."
Dr. Lee S. Tesdell has been awarded a Fulbright research scholarship to work and study at the Center for Continuing Education at Birzeit University in the Palestinian Territories.
Dr. Tesdell has taught technical communication at MSU for six years, specializing in documentation, international technical communication, and online pedagogy.
Dr. Tesdell will attend orientation for his Fulbright from July 9–11, 2008 in Washington, D.C. He will conduct his study and research during spring semester 2009.
Read more about Dr. Tesdell's Fulbright award.
Dr. Kay Puttock and Dr. JoAnna Mink, who retired following Spring semester 2008. The English Department—faculty, staff, and students—will miss both Kay and Jo. We thank them for their many years of service, and we wish them the very best as they begin their retirements.
Dr. Kay Puttock began teaching at MSU in Fall 1987, specializing in basic and developmental writing, composition, British and American literature, world literature, Shakespeare, and women's literature.
Kay has retired to Ames, Iowa, where she plans to complete her book on middle-class unmarried women in 19th-century British literature.
Dr. JoAnna Mink began teaching at MSU in Fall 1990, specializing in 18th through early 20th-century British literature, Hardy, 19th-century American literature, women's literature, and composition theory.
Jo has retired to Normal, Illinois, and she tells that she "looks forward to retirement and its new intellectual and creative challenges.”
Read more about Dr. Puttock's and Dr. Mink's scholarly and pedagogical contributions to the English Department at Minnesota State Mankato.
Dr. Suzanne Bunkers has received one of three Distinguished Faculty Scholar Awards honoring faculty who have distinguished themselves as outstanding scholars and whose scholarship has earned them national or international recognition. Rather than recognizing a particular accomplishment, the Award recognizes a body of work—a substantial amount of which must have been completed at Minnesota State Mankato.
Other recipients are David Dickau, Department of Music, and James Robertson, Department of Sociology and Corrections. These three faculty members are the first recipients of this award in the history of the University and will maintain the title of Distinguished Faculty Scholar for the duration of their tenure at Minnesota State Mankato.
During spring break (March 5-15, 2009), Dr. Joseph Kunkel and Dr. Suzane Bunkers will lead the Italy 2009 Political Science/English Study and Travel Tour, which will visit the clasical sites of Rome, Pompeii, and Sicily (Palermo, Taormina, Siracusa).
Summer courses
begin May 19, 2008
TA Workshop begins August 4, 2008
Fall courses
begin August 25, 2008
Good Thunder
9-11-08
Nadine B. Andreas Graduate Assistant
David Clisbee
Nadine B. Andreas Visiting Writer
Richard Ford
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