Faculty Awards and Publications

Over this last year, our faculty members have continued to bring credit to our department with their scholarship and awards:

• Tommy Anderson and Scott Crossley’s “Rue with a Difference: A Stylistic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Suicide in Hamlet” has been accepted for publication in Shakespeare’s Language: Stylistic and Linguistic Approaches, a volume under review at Cambridge University Press.
• Tommy Anderson co-edited and wrote one of the essays for a scholarly collection of essays on the works of John Foxe, which has been accepted for publication by the University of Delaware Press.  He also wrote book reviews for Medieval and Renaissance Drama and Seventeenth-Century News.  Tommy was selected, too, as the Outstanding Honors Faculty Member of the Year.
• Greg Bentley’s “Hester and the Home-Social Order: An Uncanny Search for Subjectivity in D. H. Lawrence’s ‘The Rocking-Horse Winner’” will soon be published in the D. H. Lawrence Review.  He also reviewed Writing North America in the Seventeenth Century for Seventeenth-Century News.
• Shalyn Claggett’s article “Harriet Marineau’s Material Rebirth” has been accepted for publication by Victorian Literature and Culture.
• Pat Creevy continues work on his book on Wordsworth and his poetry.
• Scott Crossley has published “Assessing Text Readability Using Psycholinguistic Indices” in TESOL Quarterly; “The Effects of Genre Analysis Pedagogy: A Corpus-Based and Situational Analysis” in Foreign Language for Specific Purposes; “What If?  Conditionals in Educational Registers” in Linguistics Education; and “Assessing Second Language Reading Texts at the Intermediate Level” in Language Teaching.  He has also published three papers in the proceedings of prestigious conferences in linguistics.
• Lara Dodds has published “Milton’s Other Worlds” in Uncircumscribed Minds: Reading Milton Deeply, and “’Great Things to Small may be Compared’: Rhetorical Microscopy in Paradise Lost” in Milton Studies.
• Becky Hagenston’s story “Dorothy Gale vs. Alice Liddle” has been accepted for publication by Press 53.  Her “Midnight, Licorice, Shadow” will soon appear in Crazyhorse, and her story “Anthony” has been accepted for publication by Mid-American Review.  Additionally, her “Crumbs” appeared in Freight Stories, and her “Dear Worry” and “The Kirov Ballet Sees Stars” have been accepted for publication by Poetry East.  Becky also won the Reynolds Price Short Fiction Award.
• Shirley Hanshaw has been named A&S “Researcher of the Month,” and her article “Refusal to be Can(n)on Fodder: African American Representation of the War and Canon Formation,” will soon be published in a book titled Thirty Years After: New Essays on Vietnam War Literature, Film, and Art.  MSU has also chosen to sponsor Dr. Hanshaw’s NEH research proposal.  Also, her “Representation of the ‘Two-Headed Doctor’ in African American Fiction: Tricksterism, Duality, and Comparative World Views in Chestnut’s ‘The Conjure Woman’” appeared in the Journal of the African Literature Association.
• Nancy Hargrove’s book on T. S. Eliot’s Parisian Year has been accepted for publication by the University Press of Florida.
• Holly Johnson’s article “God’s Music-Making: The Cross-Harp Metaphor in Late-Medieval Preaching” has been published in Medieval Perspectives.  She also has a provisional contract with Brepols to publish her manuscript on macaronic sermons from late-medieval England.
• Michael Kardos has published his story “Maximum Security” in The Southern Review.  He also was selected as runner-up for the Prairie Schooner Book Prize.  Additionally, The Writer’s Chronicle will soon publish his article on the craft of fiction, “In Defense of Starting Early.”
• Matt Little’s “An Approach to Thoreau’s ‘Economy’ with Students ‘Who are Said to be in Moderate Circumstances’” has been accepted for publication in Pedagogy.
• Richard Lyons has published the following poems: “Life and Poetry” in Crab Orchard Review; “Montreal Poem” and “Bird Phonetics and Jazz Scat” in Brilliant Corners; “Reincarnation Blues: Hiatus and Hive” and “Thumb in Blood Orange” in Pinch.
• Kelly Marsh’s article "The Mother's Unnarratable Pleasure and the Submerged Plot of Persuasion" will appear in the January 2009 issue of Narrative.  This article is part of her on-going book project on motherless daughters in fiction.
• Meg Murray published Margaret Fuller: Wandering Pilgrim with the University of Georgia Press.
• Tennyson O’Donnell has completed his article on the public reception of non-native texts.  Hehas also begun work on an article on “teaching research writing using literary theory,” a piece that grows from his teaching of Advanced Composition
• Bonnie O’Neill’s article “’The Best of Me Is There’: Emerson as Lecturer and Celebrity,” will appear in the December issue of American Literature.
• Peter Olson published a review of John Bealle’s “Public Worship, Private Faith” in the Journal for the Society of Music.
• Richard Patteson’s “The Teller’s Tale: Text and Paratext in Paul Auster’s Oracle Night appeared in Critique.
• Katie Pierce published Famous Last Words with Saturnalia Press; the collection won the Saturnalia Book Prize.  Katie has also published the following poems: “Reading Faulkner at 17, You Foresee Your Reckoning” in Slate; “The Books Fill Her Apartment Like Birds” and “A Short Biography of the American People by City” in Ploughshares; “The Guidance Counselor to the Girl” and “Reading YM at the Pool, Age 12” in Crab Orchard Review; “High School: A Triptych,” “Ocean City, 1958” and “Postcards from her Future Self” in New Madrid.
• Ginger Pizer completed her UT-Austin dissertation on Sign and Speech in Family Interaction: Language Choices of Deaf Parents and their Hearing Children.  Her current work draws from this research base.
• Noel Polk’s Faulkner and Welty and the Southern Tradition has been published by the University Press of Mississippi.
• Rich Raymond published “When Writing Professors Teach Literature: Shaping Questions, Finding Answers, Effecting Change” in College Composition and Communication.
• Don Shaffer has begun research at Fisk University.  His work will lead to an article on “A Gentleman in Ebony: Competing Ideologies of Racial Uplift in Charles W. Chesnutt’s ‘The Marrow of Tradition.’”
• Robert West published “Fred Chapell” and “Randall Jarrell” in the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; he also published these poems: “Impact” and “Telltale” in Inch; “Vers de Societe” in Light; “A Reading Family” in Christian Science Monitor.
• Rich Wolf published his play Sort of Beowulf: A Sort of Comedy.

In addition to the publications mentioned above, faculty presented their scholarship at venues across the nation, including the annual conferences of the Modern Language Association, the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, the Conference on College Composition and Communication, the Mississippi Philological Association, the Cognitive Science Society, and the Southeastern Writing Centers Association.