Department of English
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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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Best Webtext Award
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
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
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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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