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On Nov. 9, Dr. Kell’s Onward Christian Soldiers – A Rhetorical History of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War will open Arts & Letters: The Potter College Faculty Series. The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. at the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center Recital Hall. A book signing and reception will follow.
Faculty/Staff
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Exemplary Faculty Achievement and Recognition in
2008-2009
- Mary Ellen Miller received the Spirit of Western Award
- Sandra Hughes won the PCAL and the University Awards for Excellence in Teaching
- Wes Berry and Fabian Alvarez were both nominated for the PCAL Teaching Award by their students
- Tom Hunley and Kenny King received Kentucky Arts Council grants
- John Hagaman was awarded $132,000 in national and state grants for teacher preparation for Writing Instruction
- Five faculty were granted Regular Faculty Research Scholarships
- Alison Ganze and Wes Berry received New Faculty Scholarships
- Ted Hovet and Deb Logan received Summer Faculty Scholarships
- Terry Elliott was awarded a Technology Liaisons Network Projects Grant to teach Writing Project Fellows how to integrate new technologies into their classrooms, especially web 2.0 collaborative and social networking tools
- Deb Logan was featured in the WKU Scholar
- Wes Berry was featured in the WKU Scholar
- Elizabeth Winkler was invited to participate in an NEA grant to develop a linguistics program at a University of Texas regional campus; she also became asst. ed. of Issues in Intercultural Communication.
- Tom Hunley edits Steel Toe Books, a poetry press he founded; he published three books of original poetry by minority writers this year
- Angela Jones competed her 3rd year as faculty advisor of Arete, the national-award-winning Honors College newsletter, publishing 6 issues; she serves on the Honors Development Board as well.
- Deb Logan is president of the Victorians Institute
- Lloyd Davies is president of the Kentucky Philological Association
- Two are officers in other national professional organizations (Davies, Christianity and Literature; Berry, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment)
- John Hagaman serves on the Executive Committee of the Kentucky Council for the Teaching of English and Language Arts)
- Terry Elliott is a member of WKU’s first Educational Leadership Ph.D. cohort
Past Achievements and Awards
- Tom Hunley won the Potter College Award for Excellence in Scholarship/Creativity.
- Ted Hovet won the Potter Coller Award for Excellence in Teaching.
- Jane Olmsted won the Arts Across Kentucky Fiction Award.
- Jeff Fearnside (creative writing) and Fabian Alvarez (Gen Ed instructor) were both nominated for the Teaching Award by their students.
- Wes Berry was awarded a Junior Faculty Grant.
- Ted Hovet and Deb Logan were awarded Summer Faculty Scholarships.
- Elizabeth Winkler was awarded a Summer Junior Faculty Scholarship.
- Lloyd Davies, Niko Endres, and Deb Logan were awarded Faculty Research Grants.
- Ted Hovet was awarded a Getty Library Research Grant (national).
- Deb Logan was invited to participate in a Faculty Seminar on the Culture of India (and presented her experience at a FaCET colloquium).
- John Hagaman was awarded $65,000 from the State Department of Education and $45,000 from the Federal government for the 22nd Annual Writing Project.
- Alex Poole was the plenary speaker at the National Conference on First and Second Language Classroom Investigation in Bogota, Columbia.
- Deb Logan delivered the keynote address at the Harriet Martineau Society in Boston.
- Deb Logan was nominated for a prestigious international award, the Colby Prize, for her 5 volume collection of H. Martineau's letters.
- Tom Hunley was nominated for two Pushcart Prizes (for poetry).
- Niko Endres was featured in Western Scholar
- Alex Poole was featured in Western Scholar.
- Katie Green completed the (inaugural) Master Advisor Certificate.
- Walker Rutledge was honored for 25 years of service as Sigma Tau Delta faculty sponsor.
- Tom Hunley was featured in Western Scholar
- Walker Rutledge was featured in the 2007 Arts & Letters- The Journal of Potter College
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