UCA management professor JOHN WATT recently presented a paper titled “Effect of Boredom on Underemployment, Employee Engagement, and Job Performance” at the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) in New York City.
UCA writing professor STEPHANIE VANDERSLICE last month debuted her new book at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in New York City. Titled “Can It Really Be Taught?: Resisting Lore in Creative Writing Pedagogy,” the book is a collection of articles arguing against the myths that prevail in creative writing pedagogy, especially the myth that creative writing cannot be taught. Vanderslice co-edited the book with Dr. Kelly Ritter of Southern Connecticut State University, and contributors include a number of important voices in creative writing, including the late Wendy Bishop, Katherine Haake and Patrick Bizarro.
Vanderslice also recently contributed chapters to Graeme Harper’s Teaching Creative Writing (Continuum Press), Heather Beck’s Creative Writing in Higher Education (Palgrave-MacMillan), and Steve Earnshaw’s The Creative Writing Handbook (Edinburgh University Press/Columbia University Press). She also wrote the foreword for Doing Creative Writing, a textbook for UK creative writing undergraduates written by Steve May, and she is currently assembling (with Kelly Ritter) a graduate textbook on teaching creative writing.