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Events: 2008 English Schedule
English Summary
Presenting a series of programs on:
Making Literature Matter to the 21st-Century Student
Friday, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
Speakers: Rebecca Riley,
Dean of Arts and Humanities, Kingwood College, Susan Belasco,
Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
and Linck Johnson,
Charles A. Dana Professor of English, Colgate University
Saturday, 9:00-10:15 a.m.
"Student Engagement and Evolution of a Distance Learning Course"
Speaker: Heather Hicks,
English Instructor, Cisco Junior College
"Been There, Done That:
Literature and Relevancy in Today's Community College"
Speaker: Joanna Clark,
Chair of Language and Communication Division, Cisco Junior College
and second session speakers: Bill Holt, Associate Professor of English; Darlene Marks, Associate Professor of Music, and Iryna Simoneaux, Adjunct Instructor of Music, Tarrant County College - South Campus
Friday, February 22nd, 11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
The TCCTA English Section is devoting itself to "Making Literature Matter to the 21st-Century Student," both Friday and Saturday morning during the TCCTA annual convention in Dallas.
On Friday, one of three featured speakers will be Rebecca Riley, dean of arts and humanities at Kingwood College.
Dr. Riley earned her doctoral degree from Sam Houston State University in 2007 and holds an M.F.A. degree from Texas Tech University in print making and art history. While pursuing her undergraduate degree in painting and art history with a minor in ceramics, she had the good fortune to study at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in Rio de Janeiro for a year. Dr. Riley is also a talented artist, working mostly in print making, painting, and mixed media. Her work has appeared in over 200 regional, national and international exhibits.
Also speaking on Friday morning will be Susan Belasco, professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Dr. Belasco holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Baylor University and a second master's from the University of Leicester, in Leicester, England. Her Ph.D. is from Texas A&M University.
Dr. Belasco's professional areas of specialty include 19th-century American literature, culture, and women's studies. She is co-editor of The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Volumes I and II, published by Bedford/St. Martins, and Constructing Literacies: A Harcourt Reader for College Writers, published by Harcourt Brace.
Also speaking Friday will be Linck Johnson, Charles A. Dana professor of English at Colgate University.
Dr. Johnson holds a bachelor's degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He specializes in American literature, culture, and society, with particular interest in writers of the American Renaissance, especially Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman.
His publications include Thoreau's Complex Weave: The Writing of "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," With the Text of the First Draft, published by the University Press of Virginia; essays in The Emerson Dilemma: Essays on Emerson and Social Reform, from the University of Georgia Press; Approaches to Teaching Thoreau's "Walden" and Other Works, published by the Modern Language Association; and The Cambridge Companion to Henry David Thoreau, from Cambridge University Press.
Saturday, February 23rd, 9:00-10:15 a.m.
Saturday's program continues the generational theme with "Student Engagement and Evolution of a Distance Learning Course," presented by Heather Hicks, English instructor at Cisco Junior College. Ms. Hicks earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees at Texas Tech University.
Also on Saturday will be "Been There, Done That: Literature and Relevancy in Today's Community College," presented by four practitioners, including Joanna Clark, chair of the language and communication division of Cisco Junior College.
This topic will also feature Bill Holt, associate professor of English at Tarrant County College. Mr. Holt has taught for forty years and is a frequent guest lecturer and performer of musical versions of classical
poems for harmonica and trombone.
Also presenting will be Darlene Marks, assistant professor of music at Tarrant County College, South Campus. She received a Master of Arts degree from Louisiana State University, and studied voice at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Denmark and also in Salzburg, Austria.
Iryna Simoneaux will speaking on this topic Saturday as well. She an adjunct instructor of music at Tarrant County College, South Campus. She received her Master of Music degree from South Ukrainian Pedagogical University and has toured Europe promoting Ukrainian and Russian music.
English Section Chair: Patricia A. Barker, Kingwood College