Recent Achievements in
English (Fall 2013):
Rudy Almasy presented a paper on
John Knox the Early Years at one of the sessions sponsored by the Society for
Reformation Research at the May International Congress on Medieval
Studies. He's also been selected as a reviewer for ALAN Picks
Online. And Almasy is now certified as a QM (Quality Matters) peer
reviewer. Finally, Rudy has a
chapter on Richard Hooker in the recently published Oxford Handbook on
English Prose 1500-1640, edited by Andrew Hatfield.
In
May, Sandy Baldwin took four PhD
students to the University of Bangor, Wales, where they presented research and
participated in meetings on the British Council-funded project "Computer
Gaming Across Cultures." In August, Baldwin took three MFA students to the
University of Bergen, Norway, where they participated in an intensive short
course (co-taught by Baldwin) on "Collaborative Creativity in New
Media" (sponsored by the government of Norway). In July, Baldwin published
"The Idiocy of the Digital Literary" in Digital Humanities Quarterly 7:1.
David Beach wrote and directed the short play Say Hi to Mick Jagger which took first place at M. T. Pockets Ten-Minute Play Festival. He also directed Glenn Clifton's short play Souvenir in the Ten-Minute Festival, directed Fully Committed in June and will directed Art in September. He also published the first edition of My Morgantown.
Cari Carpenter was invited to speak to
the Society for the Study of Women Writers Midatlantic Study Group in
Washington, DC this September about her edited collection Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and
Eugenics (U Nebraska, 2010).
Patrick Conner published "The
Exeter Book" in Medieval Studies: Oxford Bibliographies. Ed.
Paul E. Szarmach. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. [Completed article of
12,300 words with embedded links to many items named therein is out now from
OUP] http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/medieval-studies.
Conner's theatrical credits
include the following: Select Theatre: Head Priest, Oedipus Rex
(Throughline Theater); Friar Laurence, Romeo and Juliet (South Park
[PA] Theatre); Pat also functioned as dramaturg for both of these productions.
Lowell Duckert’s article "Exit,
Pursued by a Polar Bear (More to Follow)" was published in Upstart: A
Journal of English Renaissance Studies (Clemson University Press). Full URL if anyone's interested: http://www.clemson.edu/upstart/Essays/exit-pursued-by-a-polar-bear/exit-pursued-by-a-polar-bear.xhtml. Lowell
and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen signed a contract with University of Minnesota Press
for a collection of essays they're editing together, Elemental Ecocriticism.
Lowell
will contribute "Earth" and co-write the introduction. And finally, Lowell served a plenary speaker at the 30th Alabama Symposium on
English and American Literature, and gave papers at two conferences: the
International Congress on Medieval Studies and the Association for the Study of
Literature and Environment.
Katie Fallon’s essay,
"Rebirth," is in the fall's issue of River Teeth. It's about vultures and babies, but don't worry--no
babies are eaten by vultures in the essay!
Melissa Ferrone’s essay, "An Unusual
Thing" was published in Brevity's
May issue.
WVU
alumnus Robert Long Foreman has
received a Pushcart Prize and is scheduled to be published in this year's
Pushcart Prize edition. http://therankings.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/pushcart-2014-scan.pdf
Marilyn
Francus published a brief essay entitled "Shaping a
Legacy: Alicia Lefanu's Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs.Frances
Sheridan"
in The Female Spectator (Volume 17, Winter 2013). Marilyn presented
three papers in July 2013: "Trying to Set the Record Straight: Alicia
Lefanu, Frances Burney D'Arblay, and the Limits of Family Biography" at
the Chawton House Library 10th Anniversary Conference in Chawton, UK;
"Austen in Cyberspace: The Lizzie Bennet Diaries" at the
Locations in Austen Conference, which was held at the University of
Hertfordshire; and "Learning to Mother: Frances Burney Becomes a
Parent," at the 5th International Conference of the Burney Society of
Great Britain, at the University of Cambridge.
Kirk Hazen had a Research
Experience for Undergraduates proposal funded by the National Science
Foundation. This grant will support Emily Vandevender, a Foundation Scholar,
for the 2013-2012 year while she does research with the West Virginia Dialect
Project.
Kirk also has had a
co-edited book published by Wiley-Blackwell. The book, Research
Methods in Sociolinguistics: A Practical Guide, is a comprehensive
how-to book for sociolinguistic researchers and students, and Kirk was very
fortunate to work with his co-editor, Janet Holmes
(Victoria University of Wellington, NZ). The 21 authors in the book come from a
wide-range of countries, including Finland, South Africa, New Zealand, Germany,
England, Switzerland, the US, and even Canada.
John Jones' article "Networked
Activism, Hybrid Structures, and Networked Power" was published in August
by Currents in Electronic Literacy. His article "Switching in Twitter's
Hashtag Exchanges" has passed the editing stage for the Journal
of Business and Technical Communication and is now available in the
journal's Online First section ahead of its print publication.
Xin Tian Koh’s poem "Sea
Burial" appears in the Seminary Ridge Review's Autumn issue this year.
Renée K. Nicholson’s book of poems Roundabout
Directions to Lincoln Center will be published Spring 2014 by Urban Farmhouse
Press (in Indianapolis).
Renée also recently started
writing a weekly column for the career advice and employment resource Career
Thoughts. She also accepted a position as Teaching Assistant Professor in
the Multidisciplinary Studies Program at WVU starting with the 2013-2014
academic year. SummerBooks, the book podcast she co-created and co-hosts
with Natalie Sypolt, was featured at
the Press 53 Gathering of Writers in early August 2013 and will be featured at
the Winter Wheat Writing Conference sponsored by Mid American Review in
November 2013.
Sadie Shorr-Parks’s essay "The Language
of Boxes" is in the next issue of Defunct.
Tom Sura published “Reconsidering Our
Products: The Use of Engagement Portfolios in Service Learning Courses” in
the journal WPA: Writing Program Administration 36.2 (2013): 59-74.
Natalie Sypolt has been asked to be
the guest prose editor of the journal Banango Street Literature.
The issue will be out sometime this month. Natalie has also been added to
the book review staff of Fjords Review. Her story
"Watching" was a finalist in the fiction contest (judged by Chris Offutt)
and will be published in the magazine this fall. Additionally, Natalie will be
teaching an Appalachian Literature class for WVU Extended Learning this
October.
Harrington Weihl will present his paper
“The Horror of the New: Tradition And Novelty in H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of
Cthulhu” at the 2013 Midwest MLA Convention in Milwaukee in November. He also has two entries -- Elizabeth Bowen and
Henry James -- forthcoming in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, and
a book review -- Antonio Negri's Trilogy of Resistance -- forthcoming in
The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books.
Clint Wilson reports the following
recent publications:
"A
Good Shave" (July 2013) - Short Story, Print and Digital Whisperings
Magazine (Vol 2, Iss 2); "Blood & Belief" (March 2013) -
Essay, Digital only
Curator Magazine; "Glass Fire" (December 2012) - A Poem Series, Print only
The Poetry Bus (Vol 1, Iss 4)
Curator Magazine; "Glass Fire" (December 2012) - A Poem Series, Print only
The Poetry Bus (Vol 1, Iss 4)
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