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