Samantha Mabry recently published her book, Clever Creatures of the Night, with Algonquin Young Readers. In this gripping literary horror, Case’s best friend goes missing, forcing her into a bizarre, cultlike—and possibly murderous—world, perfect for fans of The Honeys and Mexican Gothic. Praise for Clever Creatures of the Night: “Mabry’s blend of gritty realism and […]
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Vincent Mennella’s article, “Vexed Relationships with Rome: Arthur’s Dragon Crest and Spenser’s Representations of Conquest, Empire, and Christendom in The Faerie Queene,” was recently published by Explorations in Renaissance Culture, a multidisciplinary journal of early modern studies. An earlier version of this project was presented at the Renaissance Society of America’s 2023 meeting in San […]
Triauna Carey recently published her book, The Revolution Will Be Spotified: Music as a Rhetorical Mode of Resistance, with Lexington Books. Carey’s book investigates the rhetorical strategies present in mainstream popular music and how those strategies are implemented to empower resistance. Case studies across the genres of popular music in the West are surveyed throughout […]
Rosanne Brooks presented “Trance Gender: Automatic Writing, Spirit Mediums, and Gender Fluidity,” at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference this past March. She also presented “’This thing that turns and trips’: Arthur Symons’s Poetics of the Music Hall” at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association’s Conference in April.
Emily Snyder published a review of Anthony Macías’s Chicano-Chicana Americana in MELUS. She also was awarded a grant to attend and present her paper “The Artes of Logike and Rethorike: Dudley Fenner’s 16th Century Educational Reform” at the 2024 Ramus Symposium in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
Dr. Christopher González has been elected president of MELUS, a distinguished academic organization dedicated to the study, preservation, and promotion of multi-ethnic US literature. MELUS strives to engage in interdisciplinary perspectives to deepen the understanding of multi-ethnic narratives and their cultural, historical, and theoretical contexts. As president, Christopher González will lead the organization in its […]
Dr. Katie Condon received the prestigious 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. This fellowship enables the recipients to set aside time for writing, research, travel, and general career development. Dr. Condon was chosen as one of 35 recipients out of over 2000 eligible applications. Katie Condon is the author of Praying Naked, […]
This summer, Kendall Dinniene attended Duke University’s Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute. Duke hosts this summer institute for graduate students to engage with faculty and their peers on similar intellectual interests. The theme for this institute was ‘Home.’
Professor Christopher González recently appeared on two podcasts, sharing insights from his collegiate athletic career and his literary expertise. On Talk’n Throws Podcast, he reflected on his years as a shot putter, and on the Project Narrative Podcast, he discussed Junot Díaz’s recent work of flash fiction, The Books of Losing You, with Prof. James […]
Jonathan Malesic’s guest essay “There’s a Very Good Reason College Students Don’t Read Anymore” was published in The New York Times on October 25, 2024. In his piece, Malesic argues that the decline in college students’ reading habits reflects a broader societal shift where success is increasingly tied to marketability and “vibes” rather than intellectual […]