NEWS RELEASE

Contact: David West (west@nsula.edu )
News Bureau
Northwestern State University
Natchitoches, LA 71497
(318) 357-6466

11/15/2004

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

NATCHITOCHES- A lengthy descriptive article and bibliography of 19th century novelist and journalist Marmion Wilme Savage, written by Paralee Norman, professor of English, at Northwestern State University, Leesville/Fort Polk Campus is included in the latest edition of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

The dictionary was published this month in 60 volumes and online. It goes back 2,400 years containing 50,000 biographies and is the definitive biographical publication for English writers in our time. An earlier edition was published in 1900.

Norman has studied Savage extensively, writing articles about his novels as well as a critical biography published in 2000, "Marmion Wilme Savage, 1804-1872: Dublin's Victorian Satirist."

Norman will present comments to the nation's teachers on various state publications available for their own and their students' writing at the National Council of Teachers of English Conference beginning Thursday in Indianapolis. She will also work with the New Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana affiliate leadership meetings and responsibilities as Division Six Representative for NCTE.

While at the conference, Norman will accept a Multicultural National Award for the Louisiana state affiliate, along with LCTE president, Patricia West. The award will be presented in recognition of the Louisiana affiliate's inclusive efforts.

Earlier this month, Norman led a panel of university teachers from across the state in a discussion about software electronics at the Louisiana Council of Teachers of English conference in Baton Rouge. She also participated in a discussion called "1984 + 20" which recognized George Orwell's foreshadowing of future and current dystopian societies.

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