Congratulations to Professor Claudia Barnett on the publication of Aristotle’s Wife: Six Short Plays About Women in Science, just out from Carnegie Mellon University Press.
A Linguistic Guide to Sentence Structure
Congratulations to Professor Aleka Akoyunoglou Blackwell on the publication of her new book, A Linguistic Guide to Sentence Structure in American English (Cognella).
Teaching Prize in 18th Century Studies
Assistant Professor Bridget Donnelly has received the Martha F. Bowden Teaching Prize (first place) from the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The award recognizes “innovative pedagogies for teaching the time period to students at the undergraduate and graduate level” and was bestowed upon Bridget for the collaborative critical edition that she produced with her students in her “Gothic and Horror” class.
Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro
The new Poet Laureate of Murfreesboro is MTSU English’s own Dr. Matthew (Matt) Levitt Brown.
The MTSU alum has published multiple books, including his poetry collection Thou Art That.
He is also the co-founder of multiple writing groups, including Writers Corps, a student literary project for military veterans and their families; the Lavinia Project, a creative writing group for survivors, witnesses, and allies against sexual and domestic violence; and Nuestros Voces, a writing and resource acquisition group for Latino students and others interested in the Latino experience.
The new Poet Laureate’s recent experimental work with interactive writing component is up in Todd Gallery 210 through Spring Break.
Technology and Pedagogy
English instructor Rima Abdallah presented her paper, “The Transformative Impact of Technology on Pedagogy in Higher Education” at the PAMLA Conference in Palm Springs, CA in November 2024. The paper explores the transformative role that technology plays in shaping our approaches to learning and instruction. She was there invited to present this research at the University of Oregon.
Poetry and Art in the Classroom
Instructor Melissa DuLac is presenting two papers at the Annual NCTE Convention in Boston, November 23-24, 2024.
Her papers are titled “Every Word Matters: Strategies for Putting Heart, Humanity, and Music Back into Poetry” and “Cut N’ Paste: Art in the English Classroom.”
Justice on Trial Conference
Lecturer Bryanna Licciardi presented “Supportive or Corrosive: How a University Website Can Impact Student Reporting of Sexual Violence” at the University of Kentucky’s WGS Justice on Trial Annual Conference (Lexington, KY. 08/2024).
Conversations with Sarah Schulman
Earlier this year, Dr Will Brantley published his newest edited collection of interviews, Conversations with Sarah Schulman (University Press of Mississippi, 2024).
The Literary Taylor Swift
Dr Bridget Donnelly has a book chapter, entitled “Big Reputation: Reading Taylor Swift and/with 18th-Century Women Writers,” in the new Bloomsbury collection The Literary Taylor Swift: Songwriting and Intertextuality.
Poe Studies
English professor Philip Edward Phillips will be speaking at a roundtable and presiding over a sponsored session at the 2025 MLA Conference.
The roundtable is entitled “Poe and the Archives.” The panel he will preside over is “Poe Lives on Netflix” and is sponsored by the Poe Studies Association.