Department of English
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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
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
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
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
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
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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MTSU English Graduate Students Publish Multimodal Work
English graduate students Madonna Kemp, Heidi Blaisdell, and Elizabeth McGhee Williams published “Unapologetic Boundaries: Lessons Learned While Teaching During a Pandemic,” a collaboratively written and perfomed multimodal piece, in the latest special issue of the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics on carework.
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Passing of Frank Ginanni
With sadness and appreciation for all he did for MTSU English, we write to announce the death of professor and former department chair Frank Ginanni. Professor Emeritus Kevin Donovan writes, “Frank was a good man and a good chair, who always kept an eye out for professional development opportunities for his colleagues. He was a
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People of the Books
Beginning next month, Dr Elyce Rae Helford will be writing a monthly book review for the Nashville Jewish Observer. The new column, to be called “People of the Books,” will feature titles old and new on diverse topics, from Jewish American immigrants and the Holocaust to recent Jewish literature from around the world.
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Children, Too, Sing America
Dr. Laura Dubek and Dr. Ellen Donovan have had their special issue of the journal College Literature nominated for Best Public Intellectual Special Issue, awarded by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. “Children, too, Sing America”: A Special Issue of College Literature advances the democratic mission of higher education by calling for an end to apartheid in and of children’s literature.
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Chair: Dr. Stephen Severn
Email: stephen.severn@mtsu.edu
Telephone: (615) 898-2648