Awards & Appointments

Congratulations to Nicole Nolan and Roberta C. Martin, recipients of the 2003 College of Arts and Sciences Research Award.  Martin intends to work on a book project -- Gender Be(h)nding: Aphra Behn, Rochester, and the Libertine Solution, -- which "demonstrates how the poetry of the 17th century poet, playwright, and libertine, Aphra Behn, in contrast to Rochester and others, uses multiple models of bodies and sexes to destabilize and challenge developing notions of sexual category."

Congratulations also to C.W. Sullivan III for being recognized by the Thomas Harriot College or Arts and Sciences as the Distinguished Professor of 2003, and receiving the Bertie C. Fearing Teaching Award from the Dept. of English.

Don Palumbo received the 2003 Department of English Research Award for his book on the literary uses of scientific premises in science fiction, Chaos Theory, Asimov's Foundations and Robots, and Herbert's Dune: the Fractal Aesthetic of Epic Science Fiction published by Greenwood Press (2002).

Those receiving the English Department's Service Award for 2003 include: Gay Wilentz, Philip Rubens, and Jim Holte, for their self-less dedication to programs and interests of graduate students and English Department programs.

Ketura Parker has joined the English Dept. as the assistant to the Associate Chair of the department as well as the processing assistant.  She expedites the departmental course scheduling and also manages travel requests and reimbursements. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2003.

Jeff Weikert has been appointed assistant to the Director of Undergraduate Studies and also serves as departmental receptionist. Originally from New Hamphire, he moved to Greenville in 1999 to attend ECU.  He graduated in the spring of 2003 with a B.S. in Political Science and a minor in English.

New appointments to the faculty include: William P. Banks from Illinois State University in Rhetoric and Composition; Mikko Tuhkanen in Cultural Studies from the University of Tampere, Finland; Lynn Whichard from East Carolina University in Technical/Professional Writing; Carla Pastor from Belize, Central America, who received her BA in English Education at the secondary level from the University College of Belize and her MA with a concentration in multi-cultural literature from ECU; Shawn McCauley, 2003 Outstanding Graduate of the Dept. of English; Andrew Bates, M.A. ECU; and also from the M.A. program at ECU, Marilyn Miller and Timm Hackett.

The TESOL Board of Directors has approved a new award, East Carolina University-TESOL Award for an Outstanding Paper on NNEST Issues. The English Department of East Carolina University proposes this award in order to support teachers and researchers -- both native and nonnative speakers of English who contribute to the scholarship of NNEST issues.One award will be given in the form of US$250, donated by East Carolina University, and a free registration to the TESOL Convention to be donated by TESOL, Inc. For more information contact Ahmar Mahboob.