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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…
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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
Earlier this year, Dr Will Brantley published his newest edited collection of interviews, Conversations with Sarah Schulman (University Press of Mississippi, 2024).
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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.
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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.
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Stories and an Audiobook!
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.
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New Play!
Dr Claudia Barnett has just published a new play, Aglaonike’s Tiger, about the first female astronomer in ancient Greece!
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Folklore in the Classroom
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
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.
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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