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Assistant professor Prudence Layne presented at the 35th annual National Council for Black Studies conference held March 16-19 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

On Feb. 25, Rosemary Haskell, professor of English, presented a paper at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, in Louisville, Ky.

Luke Johnson '07, an English major who graduated in 2007, has published a book of poems with New York Quarterly Books.

Alumnus Sam Slaughter, a municipal beat reporter for Greater Media Newspapers in New Jersey, recently won a third-place award from the New Jersey Press Association for weekly feature writing. Slaughter, a 2009 graduate, majored in English, anthropology and sociology at Elon.

Two ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ students have been named finalists for a 2011 Truman Scholarship, a prestigious national fellowship awarded each year to college juniors with goals of working in education, government, the nonprofit or advocacy sectors, or elsewhere in public service.

Rebecca Pope-Ruark, assistant professor of English, published an article entitled "Know Thy Audience: Helping ¾Ã¾ÃÈÈ Engage a Threshold Concept Using Audience-Based Pedagogy" in the 5th anniversary issue of the International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

Paul Crenshaw, assistant professor of English, recently published two essays, one in the Southern Humanities Review and the other in the Connecticut Review.

Greg Hlavaty, lecturer in English, and Murphy Townsend, instructor of English, co-authored an essay in the December 2010 issue of Teaching English in the Two-Year College.