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Best Webtext Award

Best Webtext Award

| July 25 2024

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.

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Dissertation Fellow Success

Dissertation Fellow Success

| June 6 2024

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.

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Brewer wins contest, releases new nonfiction

Brewer wins contest, releases new nonfiction

| May 28 2024

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!

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Writing Center Award

Writing Center Award

| April 8 2024

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…

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Southern Literary Festival

Southern Literary Festival

| April 8 2024

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 Sq…

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Department of English

Mailing Address:
Department of English
Middle Tennessee State University
Box 70
1301 East Main Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Main Office: Peck Hall 302

Chair: Dr. Stephen Severn

Email: stephen.severn@mtsu.edu

Telephone: (615) 898-2648