Congratulations to Gale Thompson (’08) whose first poetry collection “Soldier On” was selected for publication out of Tupelo Press’s Open Reading Period. The judge Nate Pritts cites “Soldier On” for “the strong grasp of narrative moments, used with complexity &…
SURF student helps professor complete book of Welty letters
This summer Crystal Frost and Julia Eichelberger worked together on a book manuscript Dr. Eichelberger will be publishing next year. Below, the two researchers describe their project. JE: I’ve been working for a couple of years on letters Eudora Welty…
Simon Lewis Publishes New Book–British and African Literature in Transnational Context
The University Press of Florida has published Simon Lewis’s second major study: British and African Literature in Transnational Context. African identities have been written and rewritten in both British and African literature for decades. These revisions have opened up new…
Two recent graduates publish creative works
Sarah Tarkany, who is pursuing a MFA in Poetry at Columbia College Chicago, will be published in Sigma Tau Delta’s national literary journal The Rectangle. A $300 award accompanies the publication of her story, “One Hundred.” Meaghan Kelly’s first published…
U. of Iowa Press Releases A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line
The University of Iowa Press has just released A Broken Thing: Poets on the Line, coedited and introduced by Emily Rosko and Anton Vander Zee. A Broken Thing collects nearly 70 original microessays by a diverse range of poets including Charles Bernstein, Annie Finch,…
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…
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…
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…