Writing and Linguistics
Camp helping high school students see college as an option
WTOC-TV recently reported on a story about a camp at Georgia Southern which helps them see college is not out of their grasp. Read the full story here.
Sheila Neilsen, senior lecturer in the Department of Writing and Linguistics has taught at this camp for the past several years.
Author Talk features Jared Yates Sexton March 2
Writer Jared Yates Sexton will be featured in a free online event, Author Talk, Wednesday, March 2, at 7 p.m.
The focus of Author Talk is Sexton’s 2020 book, American Rule: How a Nation Conquered
the World but Failed Its People. Sexton will be joined in conversation by Blakeley Bartee, who
graduated from Georgia Southern University in 2020 with a double major in Writing and Linguistics and
Multimedia Journalism. Bartee has worked as a journalist and currently manages social media for a
nonprofit in Augusta.
Sexton is an associate professor of creative writing in the Department of Writing and Linguistics. His
books include three collections of short fiction and a novel. More recent books include an examination of
the 2016 presidential election, The People Are Going To Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of
American Rage, and the memoir The Man They Wanted Me To Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our
Own Making.
This event is free and sponsored by the Department of Writing and Linguistics.