Department of English
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New Collection of Short Stories
English Lecturer Mary Carroll Leoson’s new book of short stories, Devil’s Oak: Waking the Female Wound has just been published by MTSU Open Press. The collection features strong female characters against a backdrop of ghosts, fairy tales, and urban legends.
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New Book on Academic Self-Presentation
Mohammed Albakry’s new book, Presentation of Self in Academic Support Genres, with Clint Bryan, is now out from Michigan University Press. Unlike their previous co-authored book, Writing Recommendation Letters, which tackled the evaluative discourse we ask others to do on our behalf, this volume takes up the evaluative and promotional labor that academic job seekers…
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Distinguished Senior Career Creative Activity Award
Associate Professor and prolific author Dr Fred Arroyo received MTSU’s 2025 Distinguished Senior Career Activity Award. His award-winning books include Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging (2020), Western Avenue and Other Fictions (2012), and The Region of Lost Names (2008). For more, see this recent interview with Dr. Arroyo, “On Writing Your Obsessions.”…
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Career Achievement Award
Professor of English and Honors Associate Dean received the 2025 Career Achievement Award. “Except for being recognized by students, there’s no greater honor for a professor than to be recognized in this way by his peers,” said Phillips. For more information, visit the full announcement via MTSU News.
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A Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have
Inside Higher Ed has recently published a conversation by Dr. Kate Pantelides, alum Samira Grayson, and Holly Hassel: “A Quick Convo All Writing Teams Should Have” (8 July 2025).
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Robert Frost Bibliography
Professor Philip E. Phillips has just published “Robert Frost” in Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature, edited by Jackson Bryer (New York: Oxford University Press, 2025).
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Dual Enrollment Faculty Award
Congratulations to English Lecturer Brian Dudak, who was honored by University College as this year’s Outstanding Dual Enrollment Faculty Member, and Instructor Honey Denson, who was also honored as a finalist.
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Outstanding Honors Teacher Award
Congratulations to English Master Instructor Candie Moonshower, who was recently selected as the Honors College’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year. She has also been inducted into Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
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Student Self Placement Publication
Associate Professor Kate Pantelides has published a special section on Methods of Student Self Placement in the Journal of Writing Assessment.18.1 (2025). Her introduction to the section is entitled “Collaboratively Building Our SSP Scholarship (Because Placement Is Still Everyone’s Business).”
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Keynote on Ecocriticism
Professor Philip E. Phillips served as the keynote speaker at the International Conference on “Humans, Animals, and Natural History: Ecocritical Approaches to World Literature” at Ravenshaw University in Cuttack, Odisha, India. For more information, visit https://mtsunews.com/phillips-delivers-keynote-international-literature-conference-india/.
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