The Fount

Tom Thompson, Associate Professor of English, published an article, "Standardized Testing: Sabotaging Good Writing Instruction," in South Carolina English Teacher. He also presented two papers dealing with the assessment of student writing: one for the South Carolina Council of Teachers of English (in Kiawah in January), and one for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (in New Orleans in April). Drawing from material in those papers, he created and presented a workshop in March for middle school teachers in Berkeley County School District. Tom joined Betsey Carter to give presentations on "how to write a college-level research paper" to students at James Island Charter High School, Wando High School, and West Ashley High School.

Prof. Scott Lucas had three articles appear in print during the Fall 2007 semester. In September, his article on the contributors to the sixteenth-century political poetry collection A Mirror for Magistrates appeared in the on-line Reference Group section of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In October, his short article "The Visionary Genre and the Rise of the 'Literary': Books Under Suspicion and Early Modern England" was published in the Journal of British Studies. Finally, in December, Prof. Lucas' essay "'Let None Such Office Take, Save He That Can For Right His Prince Forsake': A Mirror for Magistrates, Resistance Theory, and the Elizabethan Monarchical Republic" appeared in the collection The Monarchical Republic of Early Modern England (Ashgate Publishing, 2007). In addition, Prof. Lucas delivered two papers at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Fall 2007, "Spenser and the Medieval Church" and "Reformation Historiography in the Long Fifteenth Century: Edward Hall's Chronicle." In the Spring 2008 semester, he delivered the paper "Early Modern Celebrity Culture: Henry VIII in Edward Hall's Chronicle" at the New College (Florida) Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

Prof. Tom Thompson published an article, "Standardized Testing: Sabotaging Good Writing Instruction," in South Carolina English Teacher. He also presented two papers dealing with the assessment of student writing: one for the South Carolina Council of Teachers of English (in Kiawah in January), and one for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (in New Orleans in April). Drawing from material in those papers, he created and presented a workshop in March for middle school teachers in Berkeley County School District. Prof. Thompson joined Betsey Carter to give presentations on "how to write a college-level research paper" to students at James Island Charter High School, Wando High School, and West Ashley High School.

Michael Livingston spoke at the Induction of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. into the South Carolina Academy of Authors on 8 March 2008, and will speak again about Mr. Rigney's literary legacy at Daniel Library on 8 April. Prof. Livingston has also had two short stories published recently: "A Very Young Man with Largely Clipped Wings" in Shimmer Magazine 2.4, and "The Angel of Marye's Heights" in Paradox Magazine 11.