Nancy Correro, McNeese Master of Fine Arts graduate student, participated in the Creative Panel at the Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language and Culture on "Media, Technology and the Imagination” at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Benjamin Sutton, McNeese MFA graduate student, has had two poems accepted for publication in a series titled, "Eternity, Ohio,” in the Crab Creek Review.
Bridget Whelan, McNeese visiting lecturer, presented a paper, "Romancing the Princess: Disney Princesses, Twenty-first Century Princess Books and the Redefinition of Romance,” at the 2012 Children's Literature Symposium in Sarasota, Fla. She also has an article titled "Power to the Princess: Disney and the Creation of the 20th Century Princess Narrative” accepted for the spring 2012 issue of Interdisciplinary Humanities. Chris Lowe, McNeese instructor of English, had a story titled "Reform, AL” published in the latest edition of the Baltimore Review. His poems, "Stadium” and "Small Lessons,” are in the latest issue of Sport Literate. His creative non-fiction piece "Taren” has been accepted for publication in the Barely South Review, while his poem, "On Watching Jersey Shore with My Young Daughter,” has been accepted for publication in Rougarou.
Dr. Molly Martin, McNeese assistant professor of English, has had an article, "Castles and the Architecture of Gender in Malory's ‘The Knight of the Cart',” accepted for publication in the June issue of the journal Arthuriana.
Dr. Baerbel Czennia, McNeese assistant professor of English, chaired two panels at the annual meeting of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Asheville, N.C. One was on "Aerial and Long-Distance Views: Detecting the Third Dimension and the Far Away in Eighteenth-Century Art and Literature,” and the other was on "Scientific Prospects: Considerations on Space, Sense and (Pseudo) Science.”
She also presented a paper, "Floating Communities: Ships and Sociability,”
at an international conference in Brest, France, on "Sociability in Great Britain and in France during the Enlightenment: Forms, Functions and Operational Modes,” organized by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the English-Speaking World.
Dr. Keagan LeJeune, McNeese associate professor of English, presented a lecture titled "Folklore of Louisiana's Neutral Strip: Outlaw Legends and Buried Treasure Stories” at the Louisiana State University Rural Life Museum's Annual Ione E. Burden Symposium in Baton Rouge.
Nathan Friedman, a McNeese MFA student, recently had his poem, "For the Lights of Southwest Roanoke County,” accepted for publication in the spring 2012 issue of storySouth.
Ten members of the McNeese chapter of Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society recently attended the society's annual convention in New Orleans. Those attending were: Nancy Correro, Westlake; Caitlin Dever, Sulphur; Collise Dupont, Lake Charles; Sarah Hanks, Lake Charles; Joseph LeJuine, Hackberry; Ashley Menard, Bell City; Eric Murnane, Lake Charles; Amanda Ogea, Lake Charles; Megan Poole, Lake Charles; and Dr. Elizabeth Hait, associate professor of languages and faculty adviser. The McNeese chapter was also recognized for its 55th anniversary.
LeJuine presented a paper on "The Abusive Lover: Sir Lancelot's and Queen Guinevere's True Relationship,” while Correro read a group of her poems titled, "Melancholy in Nature.”
