A manuscript co-authored by Sean Ruday, Assistant Professor of English, has been accepted for publication by the Literacy Research Association Yearbook. This manuscript, titled “‘You Can’t Put the Genie Back into the Bottle’: English Teachers’ Beliefs and Attitudes Regarding Digital Literacies in the Classroom,” discusses the results of a research study conducted by the authors […]
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Larissa “Kat” Tracy’s article “‘For Our dere Ladyes sake’: Bringing the Outlaw in from the Forest—Robin Hood, Marian, and Normative National Identity,” has just been published (a little late) in Explorations in Renaissance Culture (EIRC) 38 (Summer & Winter 2012): 35–66.
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Gordon Van Ness has had his essay titled “James Dickey, The Zodiac, and ‘the strange, silent words of God’” accepted by Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art for its winter/spring issue. The journal is published by Georgia State University.
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Castration and Culture in the Middle Ages was published by D.S. Brewer in May 2013 and features fourteen essays from late antiquity to the early modern period. Grounded in an interdisciplinary approach to medieval studies, Castration and Culture uses archaeology, medicine, history, and literature from a range of medieval linguistic and legal traditions to offer a […]
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Sean Ruday, Assistant Professor of English, has published a grammar text entitled The Common Core Grammar Toolkit: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Language Standards in Grades 3-5, now available at the following web site: http://www.eyeoneducation.com/bookstore/productdetails.cfm?sku=7247-5&title=the-common-core-grammar-toolkit
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Gordon Van Ness recently published an essay in the online James Dickey Newsletter titled “The Question of Poetics: James Dickey and the Modernists.” In addition, he has finished editing Death, and the Day’s Light, the last manuscript Dickey was working on when he died and which has been approved for publication by the Estate.
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Dr. Lily Ann Goetz presented a paper entitled “Designing and Implementing a Short-term Interdisciplinary Study Abroad Program” for the 6th Annual Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum (CLAC) Conference held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from March 9-10, 2012. The presentation was part of the panel, “Uniting Disciplines: Longwood University’s General Education Summer Abroad as a Model for Meaningful Content-focused Language […]
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Craig Challender’s third full-length collection of poems, As Details Become Available, has just been published by Pecan Grove Press. Almost half the poems in this manuscript, which was a finalist for the 2006 The Journal/Ohio State UP Prize, were written during his Spring 1998 sabbatical. Last fall Challender’s short story “Assisted Living” appeared in The […]
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Colleagues and Friends, I am pleased to announce the publication and release of my new book: Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity. Published by D.S. Brewer. Check out the link on Amazon, consider clicking ‘like’. http://www.amazon.com/Torture-Brutality-Medieval-Literature-Negotiations/dp/1843842882/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324669442&sr=8-1 “An ugly subject, but one that needs to be treated thoroughly and comprehensively, with a […]
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Heather Lettner-Rust is presenting “Writing into the Local Sphere: Acknowledging a Rhetoric of Conversation” at the 8th Biennial Feminisms and Rhetorics Conference held at Minnesota State University in October. This presentation acknowledges the work of her English 400 students in meeting Town Council over a meal. With more successful community work accomplished in this particular […]
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