Meet The Faculty

GraceMarie Mike

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GraceMarie Mike’s Undergraduate career began at King’s college in her hometown where her love of English studies flourished and her interests in writing began. She asked herself, “What is it about these [writing] courses?” And in an attempt to answer, Mike expresses her enjoyment and the ways in which she recognizes opportunity. 

​One opportunity she jumped at was a series of studies in translingualism and how theories and practices play a role in grammar as it is studied by rhetoricians and composition theorists and how it influences the teaching of writing courses. 
Mike brought these conversations with her to be complicated and further developed at Virginia Tech and Purdue University where she questioned what her focus should be as a graduate student. A mentor of hers gave her great advice, “Do what you love.” And so Mike began studying sociolinguistics as it relates to the history of pedagogy and the development of language and the power it possesses. 

The conversations Mike is having could greatly benefit our Writing Arts department, furthering our discourse on our foundation, that is, our core values which speaks on behalf of the power of writing. And Mike expresses great interest in exploration including that in technical, digital and social writing. Her classes, assignments and students are all proof of this.

Students of Mike’s participate in writing that matters. Examples include writing for a new and developing high school and writing for an ESL program to combat power struggles and give extra and necessary aid to those who aren’t learning the english to become successful at the institutional level.  

Mike wants to use her classes to encourage students that their writing matters by requiring involvement in the community outside of Rowan University where we have great opportunities to impact lives other than our own. 

With a specialty in technical writing, Mike encourages the use of digital writing and community driven goals to her students and is eager to meet Rowan students whom will be enlightened by the pedagogies she has learned by experiencing great mentorship by professors who have shaped her into being, that is, a writer who wants to help the world.

GraceMarie Mike will be joining our university in the fall of 2016. She will be teaching Sophomore Clinic and Introduction to Writing Arts. ​

Glassworks Issue 12 
Rowan writers and readers celebrate the recent publications of Joan Hanna's poetry chapbook The Miracle of Mercury and Issue 12 of Glassworks Magazine.

Joan Hanna has published poetry, creative nonfiction, book reviews and essays in various online and print journals. Finishing Line Press has published two books of poetry by Hanna: The Miracle of Mercury and Threads, which was a Finalist in the 2014 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Hanna teaches creative writing at Rowan University and has also previously held positions as Assistant Managing Editor for River Teeth: A Journal of Nonfiction Narrative, Assistant Editor, Nonfiction/Poetryfor r.kv.r.y. Quarterly Literary Journal, Senior Editor forGlassworks, and Managing Editor for Poets’ Quarterly. Hanna holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Ashland University.

College of Communication and Creative Arts Showcase
Saturday, April 16, friends, family, colleagues and mentors celebrated the accomplishments of outstanding students during the annual College of Communication and Creative Arts Showcase

We celebrates the following accomplishments of our students:
  • 18 Medallion of Excellence Winners
  • 27 Awards and Scholarships
  • 39 Student Projects, Individual and Group
Over 100 students went above and beyond the academic requirements in their majors--as well as the faculty, friends, and family who supported their endeavors. 
We like to give a warm congratulations to Robert Josey, winner of the excellence in Writing Arts Award. Throughout his years at Rowan Robert demonstrated outstanding course performance, but also strong leadership skills and a lot of promise in the writing/teaching field.   

Writing Arts presented at two tables with a handful of projects. Projects included student devised projects composed during courses such as Writing, Research and Technology. Infographics and magazines as well as our departmental and Writing Center websites all created and maintained by our hard working and talented Writing Arts students were showcased to a heft audience. ​