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  • NACLO 2023 at MTSU

    NACLO 2023 at MTSU

    Dr. Aleka Blackwell is a national team coach for NACLO, the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition. The contest is for high school students who are competing to make the national team. Top performers on the open round will be invited to compete in the invitational round. The winners of the invitational round will be…

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  • Dr Albakry in the News

    Dr Albakry in the News

    Dr Mohammed Albakry, Professor of English, has recently contributed two important opinion pieces to Inside Higher Ed and The Tennesseean. The first, published December 6, “On Writing and Decoding Recommendation Letters,” advises on best practices for writing recommendation letters — a genre rarely taught to junior faculty members. The second, published December 8, “Tennessee Constitution and Its Amendments…

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  • Faculty Service Awards

    Faculty Service Awards

    We are proud to announce MTSU’s 2022 service awards for the following English faculty members: Many thanks to our colleagues for their dedication and ongoing efforts on behalf of our department!

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  • Sad News

    Sad News

    With great sadness we share news of the death of former chair and valued colleague Dr. Maria Bachman. Her leadership, teaching, scholarship, and colleagiality will be much missed. You may visit her online obituary for memorial information.

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  • English Graduate Student Makes Most of New York Public Library Fellowship

    English Graduate Student Makes Most of New York Public Library Fellowship

    English PhD candidate Harlow Crandall was awarded a short-term fellowship by the New York Public Library to conduct research in their archives. Read Crandall’s engaging article on his experience, published in the NYPL blog: “Starts Like a Kiss and Ends like a Curse: The Enigma of Jim Carroll.”

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  • Graduate Student Samira Grayson Published

    Graduate Student Samira Grayson Published

    English PhD candidate Samira Grayson published the article “Writing Together or (Co)-Writing Together?: Collaboration and Co-Authorship in 10 years of Peitho” in the journal Peitho 24.4 (Summer 2022). Abstract: This article presents an exploration of trends in co-authorship in the Peitho journal archive inspired by a Twitter exchange between Damon Albarn and Taylor Swift, where Albarn was quoted in an interview with the LA…

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  • Dr Erica Stone Wins Award

    Dr Erica Stone Wins Award

    Assistant Professor and Co-Director of General Education English Dr Erica Stone received a 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Instructional Technology Award for her work with Open Educational Resources, which help to reduce textbook expenses for students. Read more about Dr Stone’s efforts in the Fall 2022 issue of The Communicator, MTSU’s Instructional Technology Division Newsletter.

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  • Dr Rhonda McDaniel Gives Buchanan Address

    Dr Rhonda McDaniel Gives Buchanan Address

    English Professor and Graduate Director Dr Rhonda McDaniel gave a powerful initiation address for MTSU’s Buchanan Fellows. You can read an excerpt in the Spring 2022 issue of Arete, the Honors Magazine. The Honors College awards the Buchanan Fellowship, named in honor of alumnus James M. Buchanan (class of 1940), recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. The…

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  • Online English in the News

    Online English in the News

    Read about English online from MTSU News: MTSU online English program offers great flexibility, sparking student interest

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  • Responsible Pedagogy by Eric Detweiler

    Responsible Pedagogy by Eric Detweiler

    Dr. Eric Detweiler’s new book Responsible Pedagogy: Moving Beyond Authority and Mastery in Higher Education, is forthcoming from Penn State University Press (October 25), now available for pre-order.

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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