Department of English
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
We proudly announce Dr. Warren Tormey’s two recently published articles on medieval popular culture:
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Email: stephen.severn@mtsu.edu
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