Four faculty members from the Department of English represented NDSU at two concurrent conferences at Aarhus University in Denmark, Aug. 17-21. The conferences drew participants from 35 nations.

Dale Sullivan, department head, delivered a paper titled "Sustainability as a Rhetorical God Term," at the biennial European Symposium on Language for Specific Purposes. With long-time collaborators and co-authors from Denmark and France, Bruce Maylath, professor, led a roundtable presentation titled "Pragmatic Features in the Language of Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams: A Roundtable Discussion of Student-to-Student Discourse in International Collaborative Projects."

At the concurrent annual meeting of the Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, Sullivan joined a panel titled "Complementary Disciplines and Their Potential Contribution to Programs in Professional Communication." Among the panel's papers, Sullivan's addressed the "Rhetoric of Science."

Maylath joined colleagues Andrew Mara and Miriam Mara in a panel discussion titled "Positioning a Technical Writing Program Inside an English Department: Creating an Exception to the Rule." In their analysis, Maylath's research addressed the issue of "Finding a Workable Structure and Balance: Contrasting a Tech Comm Program in an English Department with Alternatives at Other Universities." Miriam's paper explored "Hybridizing Literature and Rhetoric," while Andrew's followed with "Minding the Gap."