News and Events 2009   Congratulations to our English department graduates: Mark David Baron, Nathan John Bradley, Candace Ann Burch, Justine Joan Carmine, Brianne Dougherty, Kaitlin Mary Johnstone, Karissa Lisle Kreidler, Kimberly Mallas, Laura McGoldrick, Shannon McGuire, Cory Potomis, Kristin Michelle Powers, Elizabeth A. Raines, Janice M. Richardson, Chrisitina Rodriguez, Jessica Elizabeth Romano, Amanda Marie Rosemergy, Gabriela Pedroza Sanchez, Ashley Marie Sibio, Jacqueline Swallow, Lauren Tyrrell, Amy Welcome, Brian Whelan, Sara Lyn Williams, Michael Wisneski Dr. Laurie McMillan, Chair of the English Department, Co-ordinated a Journalism Bootcamp with two day-long workshops for students (Day One at Marywood University with presenter Al Tompkins from the Ponter Institute, and Day Two at the University of Scranton with journalists and staff members of The Scranton Times) funded through a Cooperative Grant with Marywood and the University of Scranton. Dr. Laurie McMillan, Chair of the English Department, presented the following: a) "The P-P-P-P-Pink Guitar: Politics, Poetry, Performance." Lifting Belly High: A Conference on Women's Poetry Since 1900, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, September 2008. b)"Can Students Who Don't Identify as Feminist Be (come) Feminists?" Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, March 2008. Dr. Laurie McMillan's Publications--book chapters in two edited volumes a) "Students Write to Students about Writing." Teaching with Student Texts. Ed. Chuck Paine, Joseph Harris, and John Miles. Utah State UP, forthcoming. b) "Purposeful Production: Using Film Analogies to Increase Student Agency in the Compostion Classroom." Disciplines that Nourish Composition. Ed. Emily Golson and Toni Glover. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2009. Dr. Lauri McMillan, community service: a) co-ordinator of Read Across American Week at Sougth Abington Elementary School b) parent representative on the reading textbook selection committee, grades K-8, in the Abington Heights School District.  Lauren Tyrrell (09) has won not one but TWO awards in the national Delta Epsilon Sigma writing contest!!!!!  Lauren won First Prize in the category “Expository, Informal” for her essay “Failure to Perk” as well as Second Prize in the category “Expository, Research” for her essay “Manifesto: Manifesting the Ideology of Wendell Berry.”   To learn more about the English Department, please visit our News Archives. Contact us at: 570-348-6219. E-mail: English@marywood.edu.

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