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Rachel Jackson Christopher Carter

Rachel Jackson has been awarded a prestigious Dr. Carter's new book, Rhetorical Exposures, has Ford Foundation Fellowship for the 2015-2016 just been released by University of Alabama Press academic year! This is what the Ford Foundation writes about Rachel: “Her work has been Amanda Klinger published in multiple venues, including the top journal in her field, College Composition and The First Year Composition office nominated Communication, published by the National Amanda Klinger this semester for a Provost's Council of Teachers of English. Her published Graduate Teaching Assistant Award in the articles and chapters include: “Zinn and the Art of Humanities and Fine Arts Category. Rhetorical Recovery: Reclaiming Oklahoma’s Radicality” (April 2014); “The People Who Live Jonathan Stalling Here: Localizing Rhetorical Texts in Gl/Oklahoma Classrooms” (July 2014); and “Locating Jonathan Stalling was recently interviewed by a Oklahoma: Critical Regionalism and BBC journalist about Chinese Literature Today. Transrhetorical Analysis in the Composition Here is the link to this interview: Classroom” (December 2014). She currently works as Community Project Developer in the OU http://www.pri.org/stories/2015-03-24/no-one- Writing Center, and teaches expository writing cares-about-poetry-right-check-out-chinas-vibrant- courses for OU that focus on Native representation scene and cultural sovereignty and “alternative” Oklahoma history. Her involvement with Native Su Fang Ng communities includes teaching a Kiowa humanities course in Anadarko, OK, a project that Dr. Ng will be giving a talk on "The Islamic began with NEH and Oklahoma Humanities Alexander in Southeast Asia" as part of the Middle Council funding.” East History/Humanities Series in the College of International & Area Studies. It will be on Monday Brett Burkhart, Steve Sexton, Shannon Toll April 13 from noon-1pm in Hester Hall Room 145.

Brett Burkhart, Steve Sexton, and Shannon Toll presented papers at the 2015 Native American Literature Symposium in Albuquerque, NM 3/12-

Genre Talks 2 At our latest meeting of Genre Talks, Amit Baishya read a paper titled “The Invisibility of Terror” Time Out of Join in Indira Goswami’s ‘Jaatraa’.” The lecture and discussion addressed Goswami’s short story in connection with Rob Nixon’s book Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.

Tea with the Professor

Catherine John recently held the March Tea in which English Department alumns and Dr. John’s former students performed raps about what life is like after college!

Tea with the Professor: Dr John heading up the discussion.