Monthly Archives: August 2011
SURF Grant Leads to Conference Presentation
Lauren Swing, who graduated with a double-major in English and Political Science in May, and I presented a paper entitled “Lippard, Buntline, and the Problem of Female Agency in the ‘Male Novel’” at the American Literature Assocaition conference in Boston on May 27. We developed the paper from our work, funded by a 2010 SURF [...]
Emily Rosko wins 2011 Akron Poetry Prize
Emily Rosko’s second collection, Prop Rockery, was selected by Natasha Sajé as the winner of the 2011 Akron Poetry prize out of a pool of over 400 manuscripts. The collection will be published by The University of Akron Press in February 2012.
Just Out: New Issue of postmedieval
The second 2011 issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies, co-edited by Prof. Myra Seaman, has been published. The topic of this issue is “The Medievalism of Nostalgia,” and it includes 6 articles on modern (18th-21st century) nostalgia for the medieval by Australian and American scholars (including, for instance, Louise D’Arcens’ essay on [...]
New Issue of Illuminations Released
The new issue of Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing is now available. This issue marks a change of editorship for the magazine, which has been edited by Professor Simon Lewis since 1985 and supported by the College of Charleston since Lewis’s arrival at the College in 1996. The new editor will be Dr. [...]
U. of Iowa Press Releases A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line