The Orange County Press Club board has selected journalism professor and English internship manager Dennis Foley to receive its highest honor, the Sky Dunlap Award. The award recognizes significant service to Orange County journalism, the Press Club and the community. Foley worked 26 years for the Orange County Register as an assigning editor, the newspaper’s ombudsman,
The Department of English is proud to present, Les Standiford, an acclaimed mystery writer who recently published his book, Water to the Angels: William Mulholland, His Monumental Aqueduct, and the Rise of Los Angeles, on Tuesday, March 29 at 7 p.m. in the Doy and Dee Henley Reading Room, Leatherby Libraries. This event is
This year’s Literary PUB(lishing) Crawl will take place Tuesday, April 12, from 3-8 p.m. in Beckman Hall, 404. This year’s lineup features four authors: Janna Levin, Chancellor Fellow and author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space and the novel A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines; Pico Iyer, Presidential Fellow and
Just a few hours Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences hosted the 2015 Kugelman Award Ceremony.Students from the departments of Art, English, World Languages & Cultures, Philosophy and Religious Studies were honored with awards Below is a list of the winners and their awards. Congratulations to everyone acknowledged at the event. Art
By Professor Ian Barnard (English Department) Last month I attended the Conference on College Composition and Communication annual convention in Tampa, Florida, where I gave a presentation titled “‘I Can’t Relate’: The Risks of Identification Demands in Teaching and Learning.” My presentation took aim at the pressure put on teachers to make
The John Fowles Center is pleased to be hosting author Ismet Prcic on Monday, March 2 at 7 p.m. in the Henley Reading Room on the second floor of the Leatherby Libraries, as part of the 2015 Literary Speaker Series. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Ismet Prcic (ISS-met PER-sick) was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in 1977 and
The spring 2015 version of Chapman University’s John Fowles Literary Series , presented by the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing in Wilkinson College for the Humanities and Social Sciences , will focus on three noted authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina — Ajla Terzic and Kenan Trebincevic — as well as on internationally acclaimed writers
The John Fowles Center presents documentary film maker, IIona Ziok on Monday, November 3, 2014 at 7 p.m. in Argyros Forum, 209 C. This event is free and open to the public. About Ziok … Ilona Ziok’s family emigrated from Poland in 1968 to Britain, where she continued her education. Between 1975-1977, she studied theater
The John Fowles Literary Series launches this Fall with author Lan Cao on October 13, 2014 in Argyros Forum, 209 A at 7 p.m. John Fowles serves to promote and advance the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction and film. About the Author: Professor Cao joins
My latest book, Upsetting Composition Commonplaces , was published this month by Utah State University Press . In the book, I try to “upset” some common misconceptions about student writing and about the teaching of college composition. For instance, I take on the cliche that effective student writing should be “clear”–not only is “clarity” rather