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Congratulations to Başak Çandar!
Feb 13, 2019

Başak's article "Art that Scars: Literary Reenactments and Self-Conscious Representations in Si te dicen que caí and Art that Scars: ...

Congratulations to Sarah Beth Hopton!
Jan 5, 2019

Sarah Beth has signed a contract with a producer to create a docu-series based on her book, Woman at the Devil's Door. They are currently negotia...

Congratulations to Jill Ehnenn!
Jan 5, 2019

Her article “From ‘We Other Victorians’ to ‘Pussy Grabs Back’: Thinking Gender, Thinking Sex, and Feminist Methodological Futures in Vi...

Congratulations to Kathryn Kirkpatrick! She's just signed a contract for her collection, The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems, with Salmon Press
Jan 5, 2019

Congratulations to Kathryn Kirkpatrick, who's signed a contract for her collection, The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems, with Salmon Press ...

Germán Campos-Munoz and Heather Custer in the Watauga Democrat!
Jan 5, 2019

Please follow this link to read about our local stars, Heather and Germán, and the teaching awards they were given earlier this year.&...

Mark Powell's essay on the country-blues singer Malcolm Holcombe is in the just-released issue of THE OXFORD AMERICAN.
Nov 13, 2018

Mark's essay on the country-blues singer Malcolm Holcombe is in the just-released issue of THE OXFORD AMERICAN. You can find an excerpt here; it'...

Kathryn Kirkpatrick contracted with West Virginia University Press for her book manuscript, Enraptured Space: Gender, Class, and Ecology in the Work of Paula Meehan.
Nov 13, 2018

Kathryn has just signed a contract with West Virginia University Press for her book manuscript, Enraptured Space: Gender, Class, and Ecology in t...

Jessie Blackburn invited to be a plenary speaker at the Mediating Mountains conference in Innsbruck, Austria
Nov 13, 2018

Jessie has been invited to be a plenary speaker at the Mediating Mountains conference in Innsbruck, Austria!  The Department of American Stu...

Congratulations to David Orvis!
Oct 22, 2018

Please congratulate David two times! His book, Queer Milton has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in their series "Early Modern...

Congratulations to Bethany Mannon for her "Xvangelical: The Rhetorical Work of Personal Narratives in Contemporary Religious Discourse,"
Oct 22, 2018

Bethany's article "Xvangelical: The Rhetorical Work of Personal Narratives in Contemporary Religious Discourse," will come out online this fall, ...