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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.”

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    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).

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    Conversations with Sarah Schulman

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    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

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    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

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    Poe Logo

    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.

    Stories and an Audiobook!

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    The butterfly Circle

    Professor Mary Leoson has published three new short stories in 2024:

    And Manta Press has released the audiobook version of her novel, The Butterfly Circle.

    New Play!

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    AGS Tiger cover

    Dr Claudia Barnett has just published a new play, Aglaonike’s Tigerabout the first female astronomer in ancient Greece!

    Folklore in the Classroom

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    Dr Tricia Gately will be presenting her paper, “Curanderismo in the Classroom: Traditional Information Shared in Non-Traditional Ways” at this weekend’s American Folklife Society’s annual conference in Albuquerque, NM.

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    Shakespeare in Bengal

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    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