Clarksville Writers’ Conference – Children’s Author Tracy Barrett Gives Rules for Publication
June 20, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Recently resigning from teaching at Vanderbilt University where she taught Italian, Women’s Studies, English and Humanities, Tracy Barrett can now devote her time to creating more children’s and young adult books. Her scholarly interests resulted in her Bachelor’s degree in Classics-Archaeology from Brown University and a Master of Arts and Ph.D. In Medieval Italian Literature from the University of California at Berkeley.
A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study medieval women writers led to the writing of her award-winning young-adult novel, Anna of Byzantium (Delacorte). Her most recent publications are King of Ithaka, a young-adult novel based on Homer’s Odyssey; and the fourth book in The Sherlock Files, The Missing Heir (both Henry Holt). In September, Harcourt will publisher her young-adult retelling of the myth of the Minotaur, Dark of the Moon.
Tracy Barrett at the 2012 Clarksville Writer’s Conference
Clarksville Civil War Roundtable’s next meeting is June 20th, 2012
June 15, 2012
The 99th Meeting
Clarksville, TN – The next meeting of the Clarksville (TN) Civil War Roundtable will be on Wednesday, June 20th at the Bone & Joint Center, 980 Professional Park Drive, right across the street from Gateway Hospital. This is just off Dunlop Lane and Holiday Drive and only a few minutes east of Governor’s Square mall. The meeting begins at 7:00pm and is always open to the public. Members please bring a friend or two – new recruits are always welcomed.
The meetings topis is “Onward Southern Soldiers: Religion In The Army of Tennessee” [Read more]
Austin Peay State University honors exemplary professors during Annual Honors and Awards Ceremony
April 27, 2012
Clarksville, TN – On Tuesday afternoon, Austin Peay State University recognized five professors with the highest distinctions awarded to faculty members during the University’s annual Honors and Awards Ceremony.
Dr. Mary Lou Witherspoon, professor of mathematics, was named the recipient of the 2012 APSU Alumni Association Distinguished Professor Award. The award is presented annually to a faculty member or department chairperson who has completed a minimum of four years of full-time teaching at Austin Peay. [Read more]
Robert Penn Warren and the High School Connection
April 25, 2012
Robert Penn Warren
Clarksville, TN – Ask the average college-bound high school student who Robert Penn Warren is and you might hear that the student has no idea that he was a writer.
Most probably the student wouldn’t be able to tell you that Warren was a graduate of Clarksville High School in 1921 or that he was born in Guthrie, Kentucky.
Even fewer would know that he is uniquely the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes, one for fiction and two for poetry; no other Pulitzer Prize winner can claim this accolade. [Read more]
Austin Peay State University’s Dr. Blas Falconer edits anthology on “other” Latino experiences
January 4, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Dr. Blas Falconer, a poet and Austin Peay State University professor of English, grew up in northern Virginia, the son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Caucasian father of German-Scottish descent. Occasionally, in an effort to reconnect with his mother’s heritage, he’d flip through books of verse by the Puerto Rican poets who populated New York City’s Spanish Harlem neighborhood. But when he read this poetry, he felt disconnected from his heritage.
“My identity was shaped by my Latino background, and yet I struggled to identify with a lot of Latino literature being published,” he said. “A lot of it came from these centers of Latino communities – the Puerto Rican community in New York or the Cuban-American community in Miami or the Mexican-American, the Chicano community, in the American Southwest. And so, a lot of the writing that came out of there addressed community concerns.” [Read more]
Check presentation made on behalf on APSU’s recent Dance Marathon
October 8, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The annual Dance Marathon at Austin Peay State University, held September 23rd in the Foy Fitness and Recreation Center, netted nearly $5,600 for the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville.
A check to the Children’s Hospital was made October 5th on the APSU campus.
Pictured (from left) are Molly Silkowski, recruitment coordinator; Aubrey Harris, student director; Dawn Blache, representative with the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt; Marcus Brown, student director; and Victor Felts, director of Student Life and Leadership at APSU. (Photo by Beth Liggett, APSU photographer)
Several APSU faculty, staff noted for recent activities
October 5, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Several faculty and staff members at Austin Peay State University share their recent professional and scholarly activities.
Chris Burawa, director of the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts, had an article, titled “An Interview with Afaa Michael Weaver,” published in the Summer 2011 edition of Contemporary Literature. The article also was written by Cynthia Hogue and Stacey Waite. Burawa also will have a poem, “Dripping Surgery,” to appear in the October 2011 edition of Hayden’s Ferry Review. [Read more]
APSU biology professor awarded state contract to study endangered plants
October 1, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The Braun’s rock-cress is a strange-looking little plant with star-shaped hairs covering its stems and leaves. It grows almost exclusively in the shade, usually around rock outcroppings in forests, and if you were to happen upon it, you might mistake it for a weed.
The odds of you finding a Braun’s rock-cress, however, are extremely rare. The peculiar plant is only found in two areas of the world, and in the mid-1990s, it was listed as a federally endangered species. Earlier this year, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation awarded APSU professor of biology Dr. Carol Baskauf a $10,000 contract to study the population genetics of the plant species, and her research may provide valuable information aiding efforts to protect this plant. [Read more]
APSU given StormReady sign by National Weather Service
May 26, 2011
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University was designated a StormReady University by the National Weather Service during a brief presentation held Tuesday, May 24th on the main campus.
Larry Vannozzi, meteorologist in charge with the NWS in Nashville, and Tom Johnstone, also with the NWS Nashville bureau, presented APSU Chief of Police Lantz Biles with a StormReady sign to be placed on the APSU main campus.
Austin Peay State University Chief of Police Lantz Biles (from left), Lt. Carl Little and Sgt. Georganna Genthner on May 24 receive a sign designating APSU as a StormReady University from Larry Vannozzi, meteorologist in charge with the National Weather Service in Nashville, and Tom Johnstone, also with the NWS Nashville bureau. (Photo by Beth Liggett, APSU Public Relations and Marketing)
APSU certified as StormReady by National Weather Service
May 19, 2011
Clarksville, TN – In the last several weeks, Montgomery County has been under many flood, severe thunderstorm and tornado warnings – and Austin Peay State University’s emergency team has reacted quickly to alert the campus community.
For instance, whenever tornado warnings are received, APSU sends text and email messages to students, faculty and staff, and the outdoor public address system brings weather warnings to attention.
Because of APSU’s efforts to keep the campus informed of weather situations, the National Weather Service has certified APSU as a StormReady community. [Read more]
