Guilford College News in Brief
Hannah Shoemaker, News Editor
April 6, 2018
Mylène Dressler wins book award Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing Mylène Dressler is the 2018 winner of the is Book Pipeline award for her latest novel, “The Last To See Me.” The Book Pipeline award is a $10,000 prize intended to get winning books on the fast track to film a...
Guilford celebrates Women’s History Month
Abigail AbantoHollans, Staff Writer
March 23, 2018
Filed under Features, In Print
“When women tell their stories, other women sometimes can raise their voices as well,” said Associate Professor of English Mylène Dressler. Dressler, along with other Guilford faculty members, spoke at the HERstory Month Celebration on March 15. The celebration was an interdisciplinary celebration...
Guilford College News in Brief
February 9, 2018
Quaker lunch teaches about core values Guilford’s core values consist of community, diversity, equality, excellence, integrity, justice and stewardship. On Thursday, Feb. 1, Guilford offered students, faculty, staff and other community members the opportunity to learn about the origins of the Co...
Guilford College News in Brief
October 6, 2017
NFL Controversy Campus Discussion On Thursday, Sept. 28, the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Brothers Doing Positive hosted a campus dialogue centered around the recent NFL controversy. The event was planned in light of the many NFL players, coaches and executives taking a knee during...
Mylène Dressler debuts new novel at Scuppernong
Beatriz Caldas, Editor-In-Chief
September 15, 2017
Filed under Features, In Print
On Friday, Sept. 8, Assistant Professor of English Mylène Dressler launched her first supernatural book. “The Last to See Me” was released on Sept. 5 and is already receiving praise from many authors and readers online. The book’s launch party was held at Scuppernong Books in downtown Greensboro....
Professor Mylène Dressler will celebrate release of her new novel with students and community
Praveena Somasundaram, Features Editor
September 8, 2017
Six years ago, Associate Professor of English Mylène Dressler was traveling along the Pacific Coast Highway in California when she came up with the idea for her new novel, “The Last To See Me,” which was released Tuesday, Sept. 5. That same day, she thought of two other elements of the story:...
Women’s strike success in GSO, nationally
Nicole Zelniker, Editor-in-Chief
April 2, 2017
Filed under In Print, World & Nation
The streets of New York flood with women and femmes. Businesses shut down for the day. Schools closed in places like Maryland and North Carolina. It is March 8, International Women’s Day, and women are taking part in “A Day Without a Woman” strike. “I think it’s always an important day,...
Mylène Dressler reveals details about her latest novel
Praveena Somasundaram, Staff Writer
December 2, 2016
Filed under Archives, Features, In Print
Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing Mylène Dressler’s novel, “The Last to See Me,” will be published in 2017. I sat down with Dressler to ask her about her book. Question: You cite your family as a major influence on your early interest in writing. Were there other significant...
New endowment will provide creative writing scholarship
Banning Watson, Staff Writer
November 21, 2014
Filed under News
The Sherwood Anderson family has donated an endowment of $600,000 to Guilford College to support emerging creative writers at Guilford. Sherwood Anderson was a 20th-century American novelist best known for his novel “Winesburg, Ohio.” The endowment comes from his estate, which has been passed...
