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Sarah Beth Hopton recommended to receive College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Scholars Fellowship
Oct 28, 2015

A big congratulations to Sarah Beth Hopton!  The Humanities Scholars Fellowship committee has recommended her to receive one of the Col...

Tom McLaughlin's new book, Reading and the Body: The Physical Practice of Reading is out from Palgrave Macmillan!
Oct 8, 2015

A huge congratulations to Tom McLaughlin!  Tom's new book, Reading and the Body: The Physical Practice of Reading is out from Palgrave Macmillan!...

Kathryn Kirkpatrick receives her third Brockman-Campbell Award from the N.C. Poetry Society
Sep 21, 2015

Check out the nice story about Kathryn Kirkpatrick in University News! This past weekend, Kathryn received her third Brockman-Campbell ...

Zack Vernon wins the first Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Review
Sep 21, 2015

A huge congratulations to Zack Vernon!  Zack has just won the first Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the North Carolina Literary Revi...

Bill Brewer's book Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters has recently been published by Palgrave Macmillan
Aug 28, 2015

A big congratulations to Bill Brewer!  Bill's book Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters has recently been published by Palgrave Macmill...

David Orvis's book, The Noble Flame of Katherine Philips: A Poetics of Culture, Politics, and Friendship, published by Duquesne University Press
Aug 24, 2015

Check out the homepage of Duquesne University Press, where you'll see David Orvis's new book, The Noble Flame of Katherine Philips: A Poetics of Cultu...

Assistant Professor of Contemporary American and Southern Literature, Zack Vernon's contract for his edited collection, Summoning the Dead: Critical Essays on Ron Rash, approved by USC Press
Aug 24, 2015

Congratulations to our new Assistant Professor of Contemporary American and Southern Literature, Zack Vernon!  USC Press just approved the contra...

Alex Pitofsky's book, American Boarding School Fiction, 1921-1981: A Critical Study, published by McFarland Press
Aug 24, 2015

Congratulations to Alex Pitofsky!  His book, American Boarding School Fiction, 1921-1981: A Critical Study, has recently been published by McFarl...

Kathryn Kirkpatrick's new book, Animals in Irish Literature and Culture, co-edited with Borbála Faragó, published in Palgrave's Studies in Animals and Literature series.
Aug 24, 2015

Congratulations to Kathryn Kirkpatrick! Her new book, Animals in Irish Literature and Culture, co-edited with Borbála Faragó, has recently been publ...

Dr. Sarah Davis defended her dissertation on novel to film adaptation at Indiana University of Pennsylvania: "A New Model for Reading Adaptation: The Textus, in a Case Study of Adaptations from THE GREAT GATSBY."
Aug 24, 2015

A big congratulations to Dr. Sarah Davis! Sarah recently defended her dissertation on novel to film adaptation at Indiana University of Pennsylvania: ...