In addition to the awards and honors listed above, our faculty had another productive year as researchers and scholars:
Dr. Thomas Anderson’s book , Performing Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton, published in 2006, has received strong reviews in Shakespeare Quarterly, Studies in English Literature, Sewanee Review, Comparative Drama, and Review of English Studies. Dr. Anderson’s current research focuses on John Foxe.
Dr. Greg Bentley has been working on a book titled Eroticism and the Short Story; its eight chapters will focus on the works of Faulkner, Welty, Joyce, Kay Boyle, Bobbie Ann Mason, Frank O’Connor, John Updike, and D. H. Lawrence. Dr. Bentley hopes to publish these essays in various scholarly journals before collecting them into the book. He has also been notified that his article on “The Falchion and the Phallus in ‘The Rape of Lucrece’” will be published in the prestigious Shakespeare Yearbook.
Dr. Shalyn Claggett has made significant progress on converting her dissertation into a book, which will be titled The Science of Character in Victorian Literature and Culture.
Dr. Susan Cook has published high school curriculum units on Gawain and the Green Knight and Ivanhoe for the Center for Learning.
Dr. Pat Creevy has completed several chapters of his manuscript on the poetry of Wordsworth.
Dr.Scott Crossley has published six articles this year, most notably pieces on linguistic analysis in Modern Language Journal and on multi-dimensional register classification in International Journal of Corpus Linguistics.
Dr. Lara Dodds has published her article on “Margaret Cavendish’s Domestic Experience” in Genre and Innovation in the Life Writings of Early Modern Englishwomen. Additionally, she published “’So if Great to Small may Be Compared’: Rhetorical Microscopy in Paradise Lost” in Milton Studies.
Becky Hagenston published her story “Let Yourself Go” in the Cincinnati Review. She also published two other stories: “The Scenic Route” in Gulf Coast and “In Case Someone Comes Looking for Me” in Gettysburg Review.
Dr. Shirley Hanshaw has a contract with University Press of Mississippi to publish her Conversations with Yusef Komunyakaa. She also has a contract with Michigan State University Press to publish her Re-memberingand Surviving: Representation of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath in African American Fiction.
Dr. Nancy Hargrove published “T. S. Eliot’s Year Abroad, 1910-1911: The Visual Arts,” in South Atlantic Review. She also published “Sylvia Plath’s Poems of 1957” in Sylvia Plath: Modern Critical Views, edited by Harold Bloom.
Dr. Holly Johnson’s “The Hard Bed of the Cross: Good Friday Preaching and the Seven Deadly Sins” was published in a collection of essays edited by Richard Newhauser.
Dr. Ashley Lancaster has published “Weeding Out the Recessive Gene: Representations of the Evolving Eugenics Movement in Erskine Caldwell’s God’s Little Acre” in the Southern Literary Journal.
Dr. Matt Little continues his research on Henry James and William James. Also, his “Bozo—Beau Sot” has been published in American Speech.
Dr. Richard Lyons published “Mary Sends a Clipping of a Man Who Eat Scones” in Subtropics. Additionally, his poem “Studies for a Portrait of a Father and Son” appeared in Cimmaron Review.
Dr. Catherine Pierce published “Epithalamium” in Best New Poets 2007. She also published “The man in the photograph” in Mississippi Review and “Love Poem to Longing” in Mid-American Review, as well as four additional poems, three in Blackbird and “I Go Back to Ohio” in Rougarou.
Dr. Kelly Marsh continued work on her book, In Search of the Mother’s Pleasure: The Motherless Daughter in Literature. She hopes to complete the work on her sabbatical this spring semester.
Dr. Tennyson O’Donnell has begun a book project on the rhetorical construction of Hawaii, as well as an article on teaching strategies for advanced composition.
Dr. Richard Patteson has nearly completed his book on the work of Caribbean author Robert Antoni. He also has a forthcoming article on the work of Paul Auster.
Dr. Noel Polk published “Making Something Which Did Not Exist Before: What Faulkner Gave Himself” in the collection Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, as well as “War and Modernism in Faulkner’s A Fable in Transatlantic Exchanges. He also published “Notes on Another Native Son” in The Southern Quarterly Review, and “A Faulknerian Looks at Suttree” in The Conrac McCarthy Journal. Additionally, Dr. Polk contributed essays to A Companion to William Faulkner and continued his editing of the Mississippi Quarterly.
Dr. Rich Raymond published Questioning: Literary and Rhetorical Analysis for Writers with Fountainhead Press.
Ann Spurlock , our Director of Composition, and recent MA graduates Alicia Aiken and Tracey Odom Smith, have published a second edition of A Guide to Freshman Composition at Mississippi State University with Fountainhead Press.
Emily Stinson’s story “To the Races” has been published in storySouth.
Dr. Robert West published “Watch” and “At a Loss” in Southern Poetry Review, “Oasis” in Inch, and “On a New Book of Poems” in Cold Mountain Review. He has also continued his work as associate editor of the Mississippi Quarterly.
Dr. Rich Wolf continues his study of various editions of ten Restoration plays, focusing on page and stage changes. He plans a series of articles and ultimately a book on this topic.
In addition to 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.
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