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Student Organizations

Sigma Tau Delta: Arkansas Tech English and Creative writing majors maintain an active chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the national English honor society. Dr. Paola Gemme is the faculty advisor. Click on the STD seal to the right for further information.

Nebo: Creative writing and English majors publish two issues of an award-winning literary journal each year. Dr. Michael Karl Ritchie is the faculty advisor. Click on the logo to the right for further information. You can also read about former Nebo Editor Nick Morris's new book, Tapeworm.

Sigma Delta Pi: Arkansas Tech Spanish majors maintain the active Psi Omicron chapter of La Sociedad Nacional Honoraria Hispánica, the national Spanish honor society. In 2012, Tech's Psi Omicron chapter was selected as one of a dozen honor chapters selected from 385 national chapters. Dr. Alejandra K. Carballo is the faculty advisor. Click on the SDP seal to the right for further information

Student and Alumni News

In this space we will post news from our current students and alumni. If you have information that you would like posted here, please send news and any photos to Dr. Carl Brucker at cbrucker@atu.edu

maliki Khaleel Al-Maliki (MA-ENGL/TESL 2011) is a Senior Lecturer of English Language and Literature at Imam University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He also serves as an advisor and translator for the Vice President for Knowledge Exchange and International Communication and the Institute for Academic Research & Consultant Services. During the past year his consulting duties have taken him to Londaon. Washington, Dallas, NMew York, Paris, Dubai, and Mexico City for the G20 meeting (pictured at left).

Mason Craig Mason (MA ENGL/TESL 2012) has accepted a teaching position at Hafr Al Batin Community College in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. At right he is pictured with two other graduate of our MA in English with TESL option program, Alaa Alshaks (2012) and Jalal Albaqshi (2011).

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Four recent Taiwanese graduates of our MA in English/TESL program have pursued doctoral degrees. Three studyied Bilingual Education at Texas A & M–Kingsville. Dr. Ying-Ling Chen (pictured at left) has completed her degree. Sing Hsu and Liang Lin are working on theirs. Ying-Ling writes: "I was glad that I studied at Arkansas Tech University. It was the most exciting journey that I have ever had...I grew a lot culturally and academically...The positive atmosphere makes students pleased and grateful."

Min Wang, who earned her masters at Tech in 2012, is in her first year of doctoral studies at the University Alabama.

Kat Williams (CRWR and ENGL '11, Nebo Editor, 2010-2011) was recognized as Editor of the Year at the Spring 2012 meeting of the Arkansas College Media Association meeting.

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At the same meeting James Ritchie (ENGL and CRWR '13, Nebo Editor 2012) received the magazine poetry First Place award for "Matter of Taste"

Paul Crenshaw (CRWR 01, Nebo Editor 2000-2001) completed his MFA at the University of North Carolina- Greensboro and is currently an Assistant Professor at Elon University. His essay "Storm Country," about the experience of living in Tornado Alley in Arkansas, was included in 2005 Best American Essays and has subsequently been widely anthologized. Paul has published other fiction Best Essays Cover and non-fiction in North American Review, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, Southwest Review, Connecticut Review, among others.

Paul has received the Thomas a Carter Prize for the essay and been nominated 3 times for Pushcart Prizes. He co-authored a textbook titled Text, Mind and World: An Introduction to Literary Criticism.

Dave Buhajla (B.F.A. '07, M.A. '08), an adjunct instructor at Tech and technical writer at Acxiom, has published two stories and five poems in 2010. Read Dave's work by clicking here.