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  • Better Practices: New Collection on Teaching Online

    Better Practices: New Collection on Teaching Online

    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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  • Poe Studies Association Award

    Poe Studies Association Award

    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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  • Published Theatrical Works

    Published Theatrical Works

    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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  • From Dickens to Online Learning

    From Dickens to Online Learning

    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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  • Sleep Fictions

    Sleep Fictions

    The English Department is proud to announce the publication of Sleep Fictions: Rest and Its Deprivations in Progressive-Era Literature (University of Illinois Press) by Lecturer Dr Hannah L. Huber.

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  • Liminal Noir

    Liminal Noir

    Dr Christopher Weedman and Dr Elyce Helford are thrilled to see the release of their co-edited collection, Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema, part of the Traditions in World Cinema Series from Edinburgh University Press. (As of today, it’s Amazon’s #1 New Release in Movie Theory!)

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  • Student Perceptions Article

    Student Perceptions Article

    We are pleased to share new English faculty member Sara West’s recent publication, “Student Perceptions of Anonymous Applications,” in the online journal Kairos (Issue 28.1). Congratulations, Dr West!

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  • Boethius Lecture

    Boethius Lecture

    English professor and Associate Dean of Honors Dr. Philip E. Phillips delivered the Siena Lecture at Aquinas College on “Boethius, Christianity, and Consolation” on September 28. In the audience were two English graduate alumni, Katherine Haynes, Ph.D. (English faculty at Aquinas) and Sr. Mary Esther Potts, O.P. (Librarian, Aquinas College).

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  • Book chapter publication

    Book chapter publication

    MTSU English congratulates Dr. Mary Leoson on the publiation of her chapter, “A Symphony of Word, Image, and Sound: The Creative Potential of Digital Storytelling,” in the new collection Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies.

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  • Medieval Culture

    Medieval Culture

    We proudly announce Dr. Warren Tormey’s two recently published articles on medieval popular culture:

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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