{"id":66263,"date":"2016-03-12T11:38:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66263"},"modified":"2016-03-11T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T01:44:13","slug":"local-educator-to-participate-in-harvard-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66263","title":{"rendered":"Local Educator to participate in Harvard panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"_DSC0536\"<\/a>Morrisville State College instructor, Cazenovia resident selected to participate as panelist at Harvard University literature conference<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Morrisville State College adjunct instructor Rachelann Lopp Copland, of Cazenovia, has been selected as a panelist for the American Comparative Literature Association\u2019s annual conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., March 17 through 20<\/span>.<\/p>\n

A native of Newville, Pa., Copland is a humanities adjunct instructor who primarily teaches writing and composition courses at MSC. She is also a SUNY NightOWL online writing tutor and an academic English tutor and academic English instructor in the ONCAMPUS SUNY program at MSC, a pathway program between MSC and the Cambridge Education Group, which provides value-added education to first-year international students seeking to complete undergraduate degrees in the United States.<\/p>\n

The topic of Copland\u2019s specific panel is \u201cThe Trauma Text: War and Decolonization.\u201d \u201cI am really interested in trauma writing in general, but I am looking forward to the additional research\/networking opportunity to discuss trauma and identity writing in the classroom, and teaching post-colonial and trauma texts as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Copland will be presenting her work on how narrative form can represent various forms of traumatic experience for characters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn particular, I analyzed Barbara Kingsolver\u2019s Nathan Price from her novel, The Poisonwood Bible<\/em>, investigating how his idealized conception of American masculinity, his forced conscription and subsequent WWII experience are referenced little throughout the novel, yet what information is provided becomes a powerful tool in analyzing Nathan\u2019s suffering and tyrannical presence in the novel; a more traumatized depiction of this tyrant began to emerge.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conference also includes plenary sessions, workshops and roundtable discussions, as well as other events. Funding for the panel was awarded through a United University Professions grant.<\/p>\n

Active at the college and in the community, Copland serves on college\u2019s diversity, equity and inclusivity task force, serves on the steering team of the Solaire Moms Group as a discussion leader and collaborative blogger, and is chair of Project Hope for the Children, an organization that provides support to abandoned children in Romanian hospitals.<\/p>\n

Copland earned a master\u2019s degree in English from SUNY Cortland, where she was both a research and graduate assistant in the English department, and a bachelor\u2019s degree in Secondary English Education from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Copland and her husband, Campbell, live in Cazenovia with their two children, Malachi and Selah.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0ACLA, founded in 1960, is the principal learned society in the United States for scholars whose work involves several literatures and cultures as well as the premises of cross-cultural literary study itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Morrisville State College instructor, Cazenovia resident selected to participate as panelist at Harvard University literature conference \u00a0Morrisville State College adjunct instructor Rachelann Lopp Copland, of Cazenovia, has been selected as a panelist for the American Comparative Literature Association\u2019s annual conference at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., March 17 through 20. A native of Newville, Pa., […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}