Dr. Robert Kohls and Dr. Christine Pearson Casanave Present New Book

Dr. Robert Kohls and Dr. Christine Pearson Casanave presented their new book, "Perspectives on Good Writing in Applied Linguistics and TESOL" at the Symposium on Second Language Writing (October 26-28 2023) at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Amy Latham, Dan Curtis-Cummins, and Tara Lockhart Present Community Service Learning Work 

Amy Latham, Dan Curtis-Cummins, and Tara Lockhart presented their work on community-service learning at the bi-annual Conference on Community Writing in Denver, CO. Amy's presentation, "Intersection of Political, Civic, & Community Learning in the Writing Classroom," shared her teaching of CSL ENG 216 courses; Dan shared his literacy-rich approach to CSL ENG 104/105 classes in his talk entitled, "Reconnecting to the Joy of Learning by Reading the World with young children and teens;" and Tara talked about building and rebuilding CSL curricula with faculty since 2016. We hope to share our work with the larger writing program and department community later this year at a Friday webinar!

Special Issue of Peitho on Centering Feminist Scholarship, Pedagogies, and Leadership

Tara Lockhart, along with several of her co-editors from the journal Literacy in Composition Studies (LiCS), were featured in the most recent special issue of the journal Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric & Composition (that's a mouthful!). Their article, "Feminist Editing: Learning to Engage through Coalitional Accountability," details the radical, feminist, and collaborative/coalitional ethos used in publishing LiCS over the last twelve years.

News from New Hampshire

(From Julie Paulson)

"Greetings from cold, cold rural New Hampshire where it is 18°F outside as I write. Things here in general are good, but it’s also been quite a cultural adjustment. I miss you all! I write to share some wonderful news. As many of you know, I have been an active member of the Inclusive College Alliance (ICA), a small grassroots group mostly made up of CSU faculty that is dedicated to expanding inclusive college opportunities for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. I am thrilled to report that the bill the ICA sponsored, AB 447: The Inclusive Higher Education Act, was signed into law by Governor Newsom on October 10. Passage of this bill is a major gain for inclusive higher education across California. You can read more about AB 447 in this article in the Fresno Bee and more about SF State’s own Inclusion Pilot Project for Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities here."

Sarah Anne Cox’s Graduation from the University of Edinburgh.

Sarah Cox Received her graduate degree in Classics and Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Which involved getting bopped on the head with a special, very old, hat (see video).

Congratulations to our English Faculty for the Publication of Their Work!

Several of our English faculty contributed to the recently published book Good Writing in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. We wanted to offer our congratulations to everybody involved for their work towards this book.

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Read more here.

Tara Lockhart and Dr. Robert Kohls Present Research

Robert Kohls and Tara Lockhart presented some of the research emerging from the Writing Program's assessment project over the last 5 years this summer in Reno, NV. Their talk, "Learning Journeys: Threshold Concepts, Assessing WAC, and Faculty Development," shared the innovative assessment strategy the WP team has employed to chart students' growth and development as readers and writers across their education.

Sarah Anne Cox Publishes Poem

Sarah Anne Cox’s poem on Pandora was published in The ANA, issue 13.

Review Published for Former Faculty Aaron Shurin's Book

Publication of a book review at The Rumpus for the 25th-anniversary edition of Aaron Shurin’s UNBOUND: A BOOK OF AIDS, which examines the impact of AIDS on the LGBTQ community in San Francisco. This edition also includes new writing and historically-contextualizing writing. It is a beautiful and important book and might be of interest to many teachers in the department. Shurin was formerly faculty in the Creative Writing program at SFSU.

Amy Latham’s publication in Issue 114 of The Greensboro Review

Amy Latham’s short-story, "To Ready the House for Extinction," was published in the Fall 2023 Issue of  The Greensboro Review. It received the Dillydoun Review Short Story prize in 2022 and got the chance to be published after being accepted for issue 114 of the journal.

From Amy: “The story, set in near-future Tennessee, is about a couple's last days in a small town ravaged by flash floods. When the place they call home is slated for demolition and rewilding, they must decide what to lose and what to keep, where to go, and whether or not to stay together.”

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Larry Hanley’s English 480 class.

From Larry: "A photo of my students (English 480) and myself on the last day I will be teaching in a college classroom. The students in all my classes gave me a swell sendoff.”

Jenny Lederer’s Upcoming Publication: “Texts, Tweets, Twitch, TikTok: Computer-Mediated Communication as an Inclusive Gateway to Linguistics”

“In February, Jenny Lederer's article "Texts, Tweets, Twitch, TikTok: Computer-Mediated Communication as an Inclusive Gateway to Linguistics" will be published in the edited volume, Inclusion in Linguistics, which is one of a two-book series dedicated to decolonizing linguistics, in part, by recruiting underrepresented student groups into the field. Lederer argues that one way to make the discipline more inclusive is to introduce students to language anaysis through the study of screen-to-screen communication, techinically refered to as computer-mediated communication. She argues that a focus on student-generated data allows the student to be both data source and data analyst, increasing comfort and familiarity in the language studies classroom.”