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COLLOQUIUM & READING SERIES FALL 2009

(Colloquia and readings held Thursdays,
Kuykendall 410, 3-4:30pm.)

November 18: "Represent!" Featuring:
Carlos Andrade
Victoria Kneubuhl
Brandy Nalani McDougall
Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor
Lurline Wailana McGregor
Ty P. Kawika Tengan

Click on this link for the FALL FESTIVAL OF WRITING calendar of events.

The Ninth Fall Writers' Festival will bring locally and nationally renowned writers to UH Manoa and Kapi‘olani Community College campuses. Three literary genres will be represented: fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry.

This year we begin our festival with a celebration of the late Ian MacMillan, our widely admired colleague who guided students in the English Department's creative writing program for more than forty years.

December 3: "Medical History as Story: Metaphor and Meaning in Exp[laining Illness" presented by Lewis Mehl-Madrona, JABSOM College of Health Scioences and Social Welfare.

2009 AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

Creative Writing Awards

Ernest Hemingway Prize
Awarded to the most outstanding students in the undergraduate creative writing program.
Fiction – Eleanor Svaton
Poetry – Chelsea Duarte

Myrle Clark Awards
Awarded to outstanding undergraduate and Masters students in the creative writing concentration.
Kelsie Abing
Jason Clement
Donovan Colleps*
Tania Fulks
Jonathan Larson*
Rei Mooney
Anjoli Roy

*With Distinction

Patsy Sumie Saiki Award for Fiction
For best short story by a University of Hawai`i student.
1st Place – Keala Francis (Dickhens)
2nd Place – Kenneth Quilantang, Jr.
3rd Place – Che Ng

UHM Projects in Arts & Humanities:
Gizelle Gajelonia, "Stop Requested: A Collection of Poems" (Susan Schultz, Advisor)

UHM Proposals for Senior Honors Projects
in Arts & Humanities:
Midori Hirai, "American Girls: A Fictional Look at Japanese American Internment and Racial Profiling" (Erica Clayton, Advisor)

Congratulations to all!

DEPARTMENT NEWS

Professor Jim Henry Awarded Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching, 2009

The Regents’ Medal for Excellence in Teaching is awarded by the UHM Board of Regents as tribute to faculty members who exhibit an extraordinary level of subject mastery and scholarship, teaching effectiveness and creativity and personal values that benefit students.

Professor Jim Henry

As an associate professor, James Henry’s contributions as a key leader of the English department’s composition and rhetoric program are manifold. He developed an English 100 mentoring program that raised the success rates of freshmen and provided valuable instructional experience and financial support for the mentors.

Henry’s teaching is characterized by five features: ongoing self-reflection on students’ work, making each class a learning community, comprehensive and effective use of digital resources, frequent use of conferences to individualize instruction and extensive use of place-based learning. His patience, encouragement and enthusiasm enable every willing student to achieve success.

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