Department of English at Appstate

11/04/2024

This Thursday: Poet Evelyn Berry will deliver a craft talk from 3:30-4:45 p.m. in Sanford Hall Room 406 and a reading at 6 p.m. in Belk Library Room 114 as part of the Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series! 📖

Learn more about Berry at english.appstate.edu/visiting-writers-series/evelyn-berry.

10/25/2024

The Department of English has approved a massive, timely, important overhaul of its BA program and its 4 concentrations (Creative Writing, Film Studies, Literary Studies, and Rhetoric and Technical Writing).

This revision will help our program be more competitive and attractive to students, and will give room for our concentrations to thrive. And I believe it will increase enrollment.

I am grateful for all the collective work that went into this. And I am so proud of my department for this important move!

10/16/2024

We are hiring! Come join us in a thriving, nurturing English Department that serves prosperous Appalachian State University in the gorgeous mountains of Boone, North Carolina.

The Department of English at Appalachian State University invites applications for a tenure-track position in American Literature from Beginnings until 1865 at the rank of Assistant Professor, pending final administrative and budgetary approval. The position will start on August 1, 2025. A PhD in En...

09/17/2024

I was interviewed about my participation in the upcoming Hispanic Heritage Month concert and poetry reading, this Sunday at 4:00 pm.

Playing the violin was, at first, something Pedro Maia considered because of his grandfather, a self-taught musician from a small town of less than 4,000 people in Brazil. Maia was born and raised in Brasília, Brazil, where he attended a “pretty rigid” conservatory of music and studied both the...

08/14/2024

We are hiring!

Join me in a thriving and supportive English Department, at the prosperous Appalachian State University in beautiful Boone, North Carolina.

The Department of English at Appalachian State University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, specifically in fiction with a secondary interest in creative nonfiction, comics and graphic novels, or digital literature, to start August, 2025.

06/13/2024

So proud of our colleague Ben Good!

Benjamin Good is a recipient of the 2024 UNC Board of Governors Appalachian State University School/College Award!

As part of the annual UNC Board of Governors Excellence in Teaching Awards, the Appalachian State University School/College Awards recognize App State faculty members for their innovative teaching methods in the classroom, making a difference in the way students learn. These campus-based awards come with a $1,000 cash prize.

Good is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at Appstate and oversees the Directed Self-Placement component of the university’s writing program. Good, who has been named Most Helpful Faculty four times since he started teaching at App State, has been teaching courses in rhetoric and composition at the university since 2016.

One of Good’s nominators said, “I have had the privilege to work with Ben as a colleague for several years now and can honestly say that few are as innovative, compassionate and adept at understanding what students need as Ben Good. He is the living embodiment of our program’s vision and represents the collective pedagogy we all work so hard to achieve. Ben has become the best example of what educators are capable of here at App State.”

Good was recognized at Appalachian State University's second annual Awards of Distinction ceremony on April 25.

03/25/2024

This Fall, I will be teaching a course titled The Materials of Poetry, for which I have created the following video flyer.

The poem depicted is Angela Chang's wonderful digital poem "Starter."
You can read more about the course here: https://english.appstate.edu/news/eng-3740-studies-poetry-materials-poetry-leonardo-flores

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JegyI8VpNuQ&t=2s

This is a video flyer for my course, described here: https://english.appstate.edu/news/eng-3740-studies-poetry-materials-poetry-leonardo-flores

03/25/2024

This Fall, I will be teaching a course titled The Materials of Poetry, for which I have created the following video flyer.

The poem depicted is Angela Chang's wonderful digital poem "Starter."
You can read more about the course here: https://english.appstate.edu/news/eng-3740-studies-poetry-materials-poetry-leonardo-flores

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JegyI8VpNuQ&t=2s

What is poetry made of? This language art is created, stored, and communicated using material forms such as human bodies, writing in paper and other physical materials, audio and video recordings, and in digital media. This course is an introduction to the strategies used the most concentrated mode....

02/27/2024

We are hiring an editor for Appalachian Journal.

Please share to interested people.

01/29/2024

We are so proud of our colleague, Joseph Bathanti!

Five of the state’s most beloved and accomplished writers will enter the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame this fall.

Former North Carolina Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti, groundbreaking essayist and educator Anna Julia Cooper, bestselling novelist Kaye Gibbons, poet and professor Lenard Moore, and Appalachian bard Ron Rash will join the hall in a ceremony on October 6 at the Weymouth Center for the Arts & Humanities in Southern Pines.

The North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame celebrates and promotes the state’s rich literary heritage by commemorating its leading authors and encouraging the continued flourishing of great literature. Learn more: tinyurl.com/2nwasw7w.