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The Women’s Studies Program at East Tennessee State University will host a two-day institute in January about infusing trauma-informed care principles into strategies for teaching and learning. Phyllis Thompson, director of the Women’s Studies Program and associate professor in the Department of Literature and Language, is co-organizing the institute with members of the Women’s Studies Steering Committee. The project, “Trauma-Informed Strategies for Teaching and Learning: Cr...

Biography Dr. Beth Weatherby became the 22nd chancellor of the University of Montana Western on January 15, 2015. She and her husband, Steve Kramer, moved to Dillon from Marshall, Minnesota, where they were both faculty members at Southwest Minnesota State University. After ten years as the director of SMSU’s Creative Writing Program, Dr. Weatherby served there as Dean of Arts, Letters & Sciences for five years and then as Provost and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs for eight y...

Ray Arsenault’s USFSP students talk about their teacher The retiring professor taught at the St. Petersburg campus for 40 years.     Updated Dec. 11, 2020 Ray Arsenault taught thousands of students during his 40 years at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg. We asked a few of them for their comments about him. The responses are edited for length. The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea. It sounds cliched to say that I would not be who I am today if not for Ray. But the trut...

From the Chair Dear Friends of the Department, When I arrived at Carolina in 1987 as an eager English M.A. student, it was impossible to imagine that one day I would have the privilege and honor of serving as Chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature these many years later. It is my goal as chair to nurture and help grow the excellence that our department has always exemplified in the classroom and on the page, and now, increasingly, in digital forms. Every facet of our pr...