Dear Members, <div><br></div><div>On behalf of the NJCEA Board of Trustees and Officers, I would like to extend thanks to all the members who attended the 33rd Annual NJCEA Spring Conference held last week on March 27 at Seton Hall University. You helped make this annual conference a wonderful success through your participation in organizing and chairing panels, presenting papers and attending sessions. Thank you!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Nunez, our keynote speaker, for her astute and thought-provoking address, "What We Read and Teach: Is the Tail Wagging the Dog?" </div><div><br></div><div>Congratulations to our winner of the Graduate Student Essay Contest, Becca Klaver, Rutgers University for her paper, "Anchoring, Hankering & Signifyin(g): Punning, Parataxis & Syncretism in the Poetry of Harriet Mullen."</div>
<div><br></div><div>Congratulations to the winner of the Steven J.Rosen Mentor Award, Prof. Morton D. Rich, Montclair State University.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope to see all of you (as well as some of you who were unable to attend this year) again at next year's conference. </div>
<div><br></div><div>In the meanwhile, please lookout for information on this listserve for the Fall Roundtable, and have a nice rest of the semester.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely, </div><div>Nira </div><div><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Nira Gupta-Casale, Ph.D.<br>Assoc. Prof./Dept.of English<br>Kean University<br>Coordinator, NJCEA Spring Conference 2010<br><br>Tel. (908) 790-1422 (h)<br> (908)737-0389 (w)<br>
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