Antonio Barrenechea, associate professor of English, recently published the retrospective review essay “Thomas Pynchon, Literary Giant.” It is the lead essay in an issue on “Big Novels” for American Book Review 37.2 (2016).
Mathur Presents on Shakespeare and Riot
Maya Mathur, associate professor and associate chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, presented the paper “Riotous Genres” at the annual conference of the Shakespeare Association of America, which was held in New Orleans from March 24-26, 2016. Her paper was part of a seminar on “Shakespeare and Riot.”
Johnson Places a Range of Poems
Luke Johnson, adjunct professor of English, has had his poem “Sally Takes an Art Class” featured as Poem of the Week at The Missouri Review (http://www.missourireview.com/archives/luke-johnson-sally-takes-an-art-class/). He also has two poems included in the new issue of Painted Bride Quarterly and two poems in the new issue of Image.
Pineda Places Poems, Essay
Jon Pineda, Assistant Professor of English, has recently had his poem “Rapidan Bestiary” accepted for publication by Gray’s Sporting Journal. Other new fly-fishing poems–“Rappahannock Bestiary” and “Smallmouth Bestiary”–will appear in the forthcoming issue of storySouth.
His creative nonfiction essay “Circumference” recently appeared in the literary magazine Qu and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize (Pushcart Prize XLI: Best of the Small Presses).
Finally, his poem “The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South,” featured on Poetry Foundation’s website at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/249334), has been selected by Minnesota State University, Mankato to be part of MSU’s 2016 National Poetry Month Video Project.
Rafferty Publishes Collection of Essays
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, has published Hallow This Ground, a collection of essays on monuments and memorials released in Indiana University Press’ Break Away Books series. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807735
Richards Publishes on Tennessee Williams
Gary Richards, Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, has had his essay “Tennessee Williams and the Burden of Southern Sexuality Studies” published in The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016): 310-326. The collection, edited by Fred Hobson and Barbara Ladd, is a “survey of contemporary Southern literary and cultural criticism, and the most comprehensive collection to appear in a generation.”
Rafferty Publishes Book Reviews
Colin Rafferty, Associate Professor of English, has published a pair of book reviews–one of Valeria Luiselli’s Sidewalks and one of Heather Slomski’s The Lovers Set Down Their Spoons–in the latest issue of Pleiades Book Review.
Barrenechea Presents at Modern Language Association Conference
Antonio Barrenechea, associate professor of English, presented “America Unbound” at the 2016 Modern Language Association conference in Austin, Texas, on Jan. 7-10. The paper was part of the roundtable discussion “Igniting Hemispheric Scholarship in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries.”
Dasgupta Publishes Essay in South Asian Review
Shumona Dasgupta, assistant professor of English, has had her article “Partitions of Memory: Trauma and Narrative in Jyotirmoyee Devi’s The River Churning” published in South Asian Review 36.3 (Dec. 2015): 51-65. A description of the essay can be accessed here.
Rao Publishes Piece in Communication Center Journal
P. Anand Rao, associate professor of communication and director of Speaking Intensive Program, recently co-authored with three colleagues at different institutions the piece “Strategies for Assessment in Communication Centers: Perspectives from Across the Field,” which was published in the new Communication Center Journal: http://commcenters.org/content/05-journal/communication-center-journal-vol-1.pdf