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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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Liminal Noir
Co-editors Dr Elyce Rae Helford and Dr Christopher Weedman are thrilled to see their forthcoming title Liminal Noir in Classical World Cinema available for pre-order ahead of its October 2023 release.
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Harriet Tubman and the Myth of the Lost Cause
Dr. Laura Dubek just published “Strong Enough to Fight: Harriet Tubman and The Myth of the Lost Cause” (Humanities 12.4). The article appears in a special journal issue on African American Children’s Literature. Read the abstract and article here.
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New British Cinema Book
We are proud to announce the release of Adult Themes: British Cinema and the X Certificate in the Long 1960s, a film studies collection from Bloomsbury Publishing, co-edited by assistant professor Dr. Christopher Weedman, along with Benjamin Halligan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) and Anne Etienne (University College Cork, Ireland). For more information, visit Bloomsbury’s Adult Themes page.
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Writing Recommendation Letters
We proudly announce the forthcoming publication of Writing Recommendation Letters: The Discourse of Evaluation in Academic Settings (University of Michigan Press, January 2024), co-authored by Dr. Mohammed Albakry and our MTSU English PhD alum Dr. Clint Bryan.
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Email: stephen.severn@mtsu.edu
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