UK English Professor and Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker has been named Kentucky's Poet Laureate! In this segment from UK at the Half with Carl Nathe, Walker talks about the award and his childhood dreams of literary accomplishment.
Charlotte Pierce-Baker, Vanderbilt University, will read and sign copies of her memoir, This Fragile Life: A Mother's Story of a Bipolar Son. UK Special Collections Librarian Reinette Jones will give a brief introduction to accessing materials about African Americans that are held in the UK Special Collections Archives.
A sign-up sheet is posted outside Julia Johnson's office door (1219 POT). Please sign up to read a poem by you or by someone else. Sign-up slots will be in 1/2 hour spots. So, you will show up to read during your 1/2 hour. Individual readings should be no longer than 3 minutes. Invite your friends or just stop by to listen.
For more information contact julia.johnson@uky.edu
Join us for refreshments and conversation. Come meet professors, teachers, and students in the English Dept. and learn about course offerings for Summer and Fall 2013.
University Press of Kentucky (UPK) author bell hooks has been named the recipient of the 2013 Black Caucus of the American Library Association’s (BCALA) Best Poetry Award for her book "Appalachian Elegy: Poetry and Place."
Elena Lawrick, ESL Director Reading Area Community College "English in Russian Academia"
University of Kentucky Year of Russia February 13, 2013
The Kentucky Women Writers Conference will feature best-selling novelist and National Book Award finalist Bonnie Jo Campbell as its keynote speaker at the 2013 conference, scheduled for Sept. 20 and 21.
Sponsored by the UK College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English.
Free and open to the public.
The Best of Both Worlds: Blended Learning in the Language Classroom”
Lecture by Dr. Fernando Rubio
Wednesday, March 06
2:30-4:30 pm
P.O.T 18th floor, West End
Dr. Rubio has a PhD in Spanish Linguistics from the State University of New York at Buffalo and he is currently teaching Spanish Linguistics at the University of Utah, where he is also Co-Director of the Second Language Teaching and Research Center. His research interests are in the areas of Applied Linguistics and Teaching Methodologies. In 2009 he was awarded the Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) Exemplary Faculty Use of Technology Award and in 2012 he received the ACTFL Award for Excellence in Foreign Language Instruction Using Technology. He has given talks, keynotes, and workshops on language and technology all over the country. He has taught online and hybrid language courses for years, including the first foreign language MOOC* ever taught (currently in progress).
He is the author of two textbooks, Tercer Milenio, Kendall-Hunt, 2009, and Juntos, Cengage (forthcoming) and editor of Hybrid Language Teaching and Learning: Exploring Theoretical, Pedagogical and Curricular Issues, Heinle, 2012.
(*) MOOC: Massive Open Online Course
