An article written by first-year assistant professor of German, Brett Martz, has been accepted for publication in what by 2012 will be known as the Journal of Austrian Studies (currently Modern Austrian Literature). The article, entitled “Reading Foreign Bodies in Musil’s Die Versuchung der stillen Veronika,” analyzes how the novella’s portrayal of the foreign body challenges communication for […]
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McRae Amoss, Professor of French, published an article in the Spring-Summer 2011 issue of Nineteenth-Century French Studies. “La Question sociale et la recherche de soi dans Lucien Leuwen de Stendhal” shows how the incipient labor movement and the claims of the working class become an aspect of society against which the sensitive individual in search […]
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First-year faculty member Casie Legette has won the University of Michigan’s Proquest Distinguished Dissertation award — $1,000 prize and trip to campus for a dinner and reception.
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Rhonda Brock-Servais will have an article published in a Palgrave McMillian casebook on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe later this year. It’s titled, “The Author, the Movie, and the Marketing: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Young Readers Adaptations.” It’s co-authored with Matt Prickett. Rhonda has also been elected the Horror […]
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Kristen Welch has the following forthcoming presentations: “Rhetoric, Religion, and Authority: Pentecostal Holiness Women Preachers Speaking Truth.” Priscilla Papers. Autumn 2010 issue. (Peer Reviewed). “Early Oklahoma Women Preachers of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.” The Chronicles of Oklahoma. Accepted April 2010; publication date TBD. (Peer Reviewed) “Legacy as Techne in the Rhetorics of Women Preachers.” […]
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Kat Tracy been offered a contract for her book manuscript Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature: Negotiations of National Identity from British publishers Boydell and Brewer.
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Robin Smith has been appointed to the Virginia State Literacy Team, which has been given the task of creating a K-16 literacy framework for the Commonwealth as part of a grant awarded to the VA Dept. of Education.
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English Professor Emeritus Michael Lund and Geoff Orth co-authored an article entitled “From the White House to Our House: The Story of an Honors College Vegetable Garden,” which appeared in the 2010 edition of Honors in Practice, v.6, pp. 177-87.
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Chris McGee contributed a chapter entitled “The Power of Secrets: Backwards Construction and The Children’s Detective Story” to the newly published collection Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature, available from University of Nebraska Press.
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David Magill’s article “How to Write a True Essay: The Things They Carried in the Composition Classroom” appeared in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Tim O’Brien, edited by Catherine Calloway and Alex Vernon (Dec 2010). He also had an essay “‘Border Panic’ and the Bounds of Racial Identity” accepted for publication in Profiling and […]
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