Converse Launches Online MEd in Gifted Education
Starting this summer, Converse College students can earn their master’s degree in gifted education without leaving the comforts of their homes. The school will begin …
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Release Set for Susan Tekulve’s Award-Winning First Novel
The release Converse professor Susan Tekulve’s new novel, In the Garden of Stone from Hub City Press, will take place Thursday, April 25 from 7 …
Dr. DeLapp’s Students Sink their Teeth into Monster Lore
What counts as a “monster”? What makes something “monstrous”? What makes monsters scary and why? How is it that we can be ‘scared’ by depictions …
History Professor’s Book Explores Lives of Ordinary WWI Soldiers
Just in time for the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, Dr. Edward Woodfin, associate professor of history at Converse, has …
Dr. Melissa Walker’s New Book Inspired by Converse Course
A new book by history professor Melissa Walker grew out of a course she teaches at Converse College. Hub City Bookshop will host a special …
Converse Professor Named Art Educator of the Year
The South Carolina Art Education Association (SCAEA) has named Dianne Bagnal as the 2012 South Carolina Art Educator of the Year. Bagnal is coordinator of …
Peterkin Award Winner Peter Schmitt to Give Reading
The Converse College Visiting Writers Series welcomes Poet Peter Schmitt, the 2012 Julia Peterkin Award winner, for a reading on Thursday, Oct. 25 at 8 …
Celebrating the Life of Carlos DuPré Moseley (1914–2012)
Converse College has lost one of its greatest champions, Carlos DuPré Moseley, who died Monday, Oct. 1 at age 98. Moseley was instrumental in founding …
Visiting Writers Series to host Robert Olmstead for Reading
Olmstead’s most recent book, The Coldest Night, was published in April. Publishers Weekly called it “(An) elegiac, gritty coming-of-age novel, powerful, desolate and well crafted.” …