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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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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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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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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…

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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…

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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.” 

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English faculty Dr. Candie Moonshower and Dr. Kate Pantelides (along with English MA alum Sami Grayson  and PhD alum and University Studies faculty member Brielle Campos) have published chapters devoted to best online teaching and grading practices in a new book put out by Colorado State University’s open access publishing collaborative (WAC Clearninghouse). Featuring a range of better practices related to…

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Professor of English and Honors Associate Dean Philip E. Phillips was invited to organize a roundtable, “Poe Spaces, Places, and Spheres of Influence,” comprised of contributors to his forthcoming edited collection, Poe Spaces, in Toledo, Spain. As the president of the Poe Studies Association (PSA), Dr. Phillips had the honor of recognizing the founder and president of the…

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Kudos to profesor of English Dr Claudia Barnett on two new creative publications: “Six Feet” in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2023 and the monologue “Please Let Me Shoot You” in Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2.

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English is proud to announce two recent publications by MTSU Writing Center Associate Director Dr James Hamby. His article “‘Let Us Veil Our Meaning’: Holiday Romance and the Second Reform Act of 1867″ appears in Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction Volume 54, Number 1, 2023. He also had the book chapter, “Privacy in the Online Writing Center,” published in…

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