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Faculty Publications: Emily Rosko’s New Book

We’re pleased to announce that Emily Rosko’s latest book, Weather Inventions, was published today by the Akron Press as part of their Akron Series in Poetry.  If you happened to hear Dr. Rosko’s talk, “Finishes & Starts,” at the October 3rd Research and Writing Colloquium, you heard a little bit about the process behind this book […]

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Faculty Profile: Devin Byker

“One thing I hope to teach students is that our assumptions about the past can erase important histories, identities, and stories—it’s a kind of confirmation bias that can end up reinforcing historical stereotypes.” ____________________________ As a first-year faculty member of English here at the College of Charleston, Dr. Devin Byker has wasted no time before […]

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Faculty Publications: Recap on the January Celebration

amidst plates of gouda and cookies, the English Department presented and discussed recent faculty publications! Prof. Susan Farrell discussed the nature of trauma, art, and gender within war. Her book Imagining Home: American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11 explores the works of writers like Kurt Vonnegut and Tim O’Brien—and who gets to tell our stories, and […]

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Research & Writing Colloquium Recap

Prof. Beres Rogers discussed her work on George Crabbe’s treatment of gender and intellectual disability. She will be presenting her thoughts at an international conference in late October. Prof. Julia Eichelberger elaborated on her research into Eudora Welty’s correspondence. Prof. Kathleen Beres Rogers has been at the College since 2008. Her exploration of George Crabbe’s […]

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Professor Susan Farrell Publishes New Book on American War Literature

What does 9/11 have to do with World War I?  What connects Delillo to Hemingway?  Is there a tradition of war-writing in America? Just released from Camden House Press is Susan Farrell’s new book, Imagining Home:  American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11.  The book investigates how American writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have imagined […]

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Professors Drager & Craig Take Us Somewhere New

We are so pleased to welcome our new faculty Dr. Jacob Craig and Dr. Lindsey Drager. With their arrival, students will have new ways of thinking about what it means to be a writer in the most expansive way possible. Drager, who joins our Creative Writing faculty from the University of Denver where she recently completed her […]

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Faculty Notes (2016)

John Bruns In March/April of 2016, John Bruns attended the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) conference in Atlanta and presented a paper entitled, “Showtime! Under the Spell of Tony Curtis in Sweet Smell of Success.” The paper was developed into a book chapter to be included in the forthcoming collection, Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances, Vol. 1: America (Edinburgh: Edinburgh U. […]

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Faculty Notes (2015)

Kathy Beres Rogers This summer, Kathy was busy with matters professional and personal.  She received a research and development grant from the College to research at the National Library of Medicine, where she worked on my introduction to my book, Scorpions in the Brain:  The Problem of Obsession in British Romanticism.  As you could imagine, she found some cool stuff, including a Latin […]

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