Miscellany

Poet Lynn Emanuel read from her work on January 14 at 3 p.m. in Mendenhall 244 and at 7 p.m. in Sheppard Memorial Library.  Emanuel is the Director of the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh and author of three collections of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig and Then, Suddenly--.  She has received two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, the National Poetry Series Award, and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets.  Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and in Best American Poetry in 1994, 1995, 1998, and 1999.  She has been a poetry editor for the Pushcart Prize Anthology and a member of the Literature Panel for the National Endowment for the Arts.  Currently, she is a judge for the James Laughlin Award, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets.  She holds a BA from Bennington College, an MA from City College of New York where she studied with Adrienne Rich, and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Bennington Writers Conference, The Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Vermont College Creative Writing Program.

Elizabeth Miller, Professor of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland and author of numerous books about Dracula, presented "My Life Among the Undead" on January 28 at 4 p.m. in 1028 Bate. Her talk included comments on the historical and fictive Draculas, travels in Transylvania, and facts and myths about Dracula.

Seodial Deena organized "Moments with Ms. Cassandra Darden Bell, Local African American Author, The Color of Love," for his class, ENGL 3260 Black American Literature.  The videotape was aired on Greenville cable access channel 69, at 7 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday of the third week in December 2002.

Reginald Watson received several community appointments, including Human Relations Council Member for the City of Greenville, September 12, 2002; Chair of West Greenville Community Development Corporation Board, August 2002; Board Member for the North Carolina Good Government Board; Steering committee member of the NC Freedom Monument Project, October 2002.  Watson also presided over the MLK celebration Speaker's event on the ECU campus, January 20, and was interviewed by Channel WITN 7 to discuss the legacy of MLK.  He was also reappointed to NC Humanities Council Speaker's Forum for 2002-2003.

Congratulations to Patricia Lynn Whichard who was inducted into the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society on November 25 and into the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society on December 7.

The "Exposed to Film Series" screened Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange on January 30 in Bate 1031.  Organized by Randall Martoccia, Christy Baker, Christine Cranford, and Angelo Restivo, the series aims "to show movies that -- due to age or obscurity -- most of us have not seen on a big screen.

Congratulations to Barri Ann Piner, and William, Helen Wills, amd McCartney Kate Piner on the "the one and only" Abbey Mae,  born January 31 at 6:21 p.m. at Pitt County Memorial Hospital.