This past weekend at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association in Little Rock, Kat Tracy received the Association’s 2015 Award for Scholarly Achievement. Her latest co-edited study, Wounds and Wound Repair in Medieval Culture, is just out at Brill.
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Two poems by Craig Challender have recently appeared in the 2015 issue of the Connecticut River Review. One of them, “Old Man Reading Old Men by the Sea,” is the title poem for a new full-length manuscript he is working on.
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Dr. Lily Goetz and Prof. Annette Waggoner’s presentation at the annual Foreign Language Association of Virginia conference in September was named the 2015 Best of FLAVA. In addition to their presentation, “Designing Activities for Meaningful Interpersonal Communication,” the conference included 174 other sessions for and by foreign language educators. This recognition entitles them to represent the commonwealth at the […]
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“Armory Square Hospital: 13th January 1864” and “Neponset, Illinois: 20th April 1874,” a six-poem sequence, will be featured in The Sewanee Review’s fall Literature of War issue. The sequence is part–hopefully the climactic part–of a full-length manuscript, United States, that Challender has been working on for the past five years, a call-and-response linking of the Viet Nam and […]
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Dr. Elif Guler has recently co-edited (with Beth Hewett and Kevin DePew) Foundational Practices in Online Writing Instruction, published by Parlor Press and The WAC Clearinghouse on February 21, 2015. The book addresses the questions and decisions that administrators and instructors most need to consider when developing online writing programs and courses. The editors hope that the […]
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Steven Faulkner’s new book, Bitterroot: Traveling with Pierre Jean De Smet, Lewis and Clark, and the Nez Perce, has just been accepted for publication by Beaufort Books of New York. Scheduled to appear in 2016, Bitterroot is a travel memoir of Steve’s journeys hiking, mountain biking, and canoeing the Idaho mountains with Alex, his youngest […]
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Guest scholar Kat Tracy appears in the four-episode National Geographic/Arcadia Production documentary Deadly Journeys of the Apostles. The series originally aired on March 28, 2015 and continues to be broadcast on the National Geographic Channel throughout the season.
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Mary Carroll-Hackett’s fourth book since 2010 has just been released from Future Cycle Press. The Night I Heard Everything is a collection of prose poems that traces a life spent in liminal places, particularly that often shadowy and always sacred realm between life and death, touching on both the isolation and the grace, even the […]
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Together with two colleagues, Dr. Renee Gutiérrez, assistant professor of Spanish, recently published Interculturalization and Teacher Education: Theory to Practice (Routledge). In this study the authors examine how socio-cultural beliefs, institutional structures, and external accreditation bodies interact in the process of interculturalization, highlighting the incentives and barriers as well as strategies to implement and maintain interculturalization […]
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Brett Hursey’s original plays were produced 25 times in theatres across the United States in 2014, earning 23 awards. The venues included four off-Broadway sites in New York.
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