Faculty: Dr. Loretta Gray

Awards & Honors:

New England Book Show Award: College Division, 2007

New England Book Show Award: College Division, 2004

NCTE Affiliate Journal Award: Honorable Mention, 1998

Townsend Press Writing Contest (Lesson Plan): Honorable Mention, 1994

Mellon Graduate Fellowship, Literacies Institute, 1991

Boston University Fellowship, 1989-1991

Juan A. Centeno Scholarship, Middlebury College, 1989

Valedictorian, College of St. Catherine, 1982

Sr. Agnes Keenan Award in English, College of St. Catherine, 1982

Dean’s Prize for Poetry, College of St. Thomas, 1982

Kappa Gamma Pi, College of St. Catherine, 1982

Phi Beta Kappa, College of St. Catherine, 1981

Recent Publications:

Glenn, Cheryl, and Loretta Gray. The Writer's Harbrace Handbook: Brief Edition. 3 ed. Boston : Wadsworth, 2007.

Glenn, Cheryl, and Loretta Gray. The Hodges' Harbrace Handbook. 16 ed. Boston : Wadsworth, 2007.

Gray, Loretta. English Verbs. Chicago : McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Gray, Loretta, and Paula Heuser. "Nonacademic Professionals' Perception of Usage Errors." Journal of Basic Writing 22.1 (2003): 50-70.

Gray, Loretta. Idiomatic English . Lincolnwood: National Textbook Company, 2000.

Recent Presentations:

Gray, Loretta. "Formulaic Expressions: Scaffolding for Fluency." Conf. On Coll. Composition and Communication. Hilton Hotel, New York City, Mar. 2007.

Gray, Loretta. "Linking Given and New Information: The Passive Voice and Sentence Inversions." Conf. on Coll. Composition and Communication. Hilton Hotel, New York City, Mar. 2007.

Johnson, Suzanne, and Loretta Gray. "Distanced Relative Clauses in Academic Prose." ICAME/AAAL Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, May 2005.

Gray, Loretta. "Time Frames and Text Cohesion." ATEG Conference. Seattle University, Seattle, July 2004.

Gray, Loretta. "Metaphors of Teaching: Exploring Assumptions That Shape Teaching Identities." Conf. on Coll. Composition and Communication. Hilton Hotel, New York City, Mar. 2003.

Darwin, Clayton, and Loretta Gray. "A Context-Independent Search Algorithm for Phrasal Verbs. North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching. Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, Mar. 2001.