Associate professor Dr Poushali Bhadury has published her new article, “Reframing Shakespeare in Postcolonial Bengali Children’s Literature: Adaptation Strategies in Dev Sahitya Kutir’s Anubad Series,” in the Fall 2024 special issue of Borrowers and Lenders:The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.
Kairos has bestowed its 2024 “Best Webtext Award” on our Dr. Sara West for her article “Student Perceptions of Anonymous Applications,” which appeared in Issue 28.1. This award recognizes the best academic webtext published during the previous calendar year.
We congratulate 2023-2024 Dissertation Fellow Sandra Jacobo, now Dr. Jacobo, who successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Kansas and now moves on to a Mellon Research Fellowship at Penn State University. She has been a wonderful member of the department and we wish her success in all her future endeavors.
Our own Dr, Gaylord Brewer has been named High Frequency Press’s 2024 Morse Code Poetry Contest winner for his free verse poetry collection Negotiable Gods.
In addition, his new non-fiction collection Before the Storm Takes it Away has just been released!
Associate Writing Center Director and English faculty member Dr. James Hamby has received the Achievement Award from the Southeastern Writing Center Association for 2024. This annual award is given to an individual who has played a prominent role in SWCA or in the writing center community. For the past four years, Dr Hamby has served as the Tennessee Representative on the Board of Directors.
English faculty member Dr. Jennifer Kates and six MTSU undergrads represented at the 85th annual Southern Literary Festival at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. They participated in readings, breakout sessions, and a keynote with Andres Dubus III. They also networked, made friends, shopped at the iconic Square Books, and capped the weekend off with an inspirational visit to William Faulkner’s home, Rowan Oak. (Pictured with Dr. Kates: Carrie Wright, Victoria Thomas, Bella Terry, Olivia Smith, Jackie Reilly, and Jai Wilson)
Dr Kate Pantelides and Erin Whittig have co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Writing Assessment on Student Self-Assessment (Vol 17, Issue 1, 2024). We invite you to read their issue introduction: “Placement is Everyone’s Business: A Love Letter to Our SSP Coalition.”
English faculty Dr. Candie Moonshower and Dr. Kate Pantelides (along with English MA alum Sami Grayson and PhD alum and University Studies faculty member Brielle Campos) have published chapters devoted to best online teaching and grading practices in a new book put out by Colorado State University’s open access publishing collaborative (WAC Clearninghouse). Featuring a range of better practices related to online writing instruction (OWI) and assessment, this edited collection offers instructors and writing program administrators theoretically grounded approaches from teacher-scholars of online writing.
Professor of English and Honors Associate Dean Philip E. Phillips was invited to organize a roundtable, “Poe Spaces, Places, and Spheres of Influence,” comprised of contributors to his forthcoming edited collection, Poe Spaces, in Toledo, Spain. As the president of the Poe Studies Association (PSA), Dr. Phillips had the honor of recognizing the founder and president of the Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association (EAPSA) with the Honorary Membership Award, the PSA’s highest honor, which recognizes significant and sustained contributions to Poe studies and to the PSA. These events were part of the Third International Congress: “Poe and the Pleasures of Art” sponsored by the EAPSA at the Facultad de Humanidades in Albacete (October 4th and 5th) and the Library of Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo (October 6th) in 2023.
Kudos to profesor of English Dr Claudia Barnett on two new creative publications: “Six Feet” in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2023 and the monologue “Please Let Me Shoot You” in Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2.