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Nov. 23	Robert West will deliver his Humanities Professor of the Year lecture in the Grisham Room of Mitchell Memorial Library. He will be officially presented with his award this February.
Tues. Dec. 1	The Surreal South fiction anthology reading, featuring Becky Hagenston and Michael Kardos, will take place at 7:30 pm in Fowlkes Auditorium (upstairs in the Student Union).
Spring 2010	Upcoming spring readings (dates TBA): poet Angela Ball and fiction writer Michelle Herman.

Nov. 11	The annual Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony was held at Harvey's in Starkville.
Nov. 4	The Creative Writing Program offered their annual Student Symposium. A variety of students read their from their original work.
November	Matthew Tutor was named recepient of the 2009 Peyton Williams award for his essay, "Trauma and the Language Barrier in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried." Matthew Clark was awarded honorable mention for "Ghosts of Hope: Doppelgangers in Ian McEwan's Attonement."
Oct. 20	Gerry LeFemina, poet and fiction writer, read as part of the Robert Holland Reading Series. Gerry LeFemina is the author of a number of collections of poetry including Graffiti Heart, The Window Facing Winter, Zarathustra in Love, and The Book of Clown Baby. His The Parakeets of Brooklyn received the 2003 Bordighera Prize and was published in a bilingual English and Italian edition. His collection of short fiction, Wish List, was published by Marick Press in 2009.
Oct. 28	Michael Kardos led a discussion on "Not Legal, Not a Thriller, Grisham's Other Story in A Painted House" as part of the Maroon Edition weekly event.
October	Freshman English major Ann Elizabeth Allison has been awarded third place in the Maroon Edition Freshman Reading Experience essay contest.
October	Nancy Hargrove's T. S. Eliot's Parisian Year has been published by the University of Florida Press.
October	Recent faculty publications include an article on Thoreau by Matt Little (published in Pedagogy) and an upcoming book on Robert Antoni by Richard Patteson (scheduled to reach print in 2010).
October	Scott Crossley credits Research Assistants Brandi Williams, Abigail Voller, and Jessica Mann for their work on the project that led to his article for Language Testing (Crossley, S. A., Salsbury, T., McNamara, D. S., & Jarvis, S. "Predicting lexical proficiency in language learners using computational indices").
September	Jabberwock Review announces the publication of issue 30.1, offering a mix of work by new and established writers including Pam Crow, K. E. Duffin, Raymond Fleischmann, Joan Frank, Amanda Giracca, Kerry Hudson, Les Kay, D Sprung Kurilecz, Cory Lucius, Dan Pinkerton, Susanna Rich, Maggie Smith, Charles Harper Webb, Helen Wickes, and Robert E. Wood.
Sept. 26	Kelly Marsh joined Tom Carskadon and Wes Ammon in leading an advising workship sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Sept. 12	Faculty, guests, and graduate students gathered for the English department's annual Fall Symposium. Kelly Marsh read from her article in progress, "A Story to End a Career: The Failure of Narrative Ethics in Truman Capote's 'La Cote Basque, 1965.'"
August	Bonnie O'Neill's article " 'Does Such a Being Exist?': Olive Branch Readers respond to Fanny Fern" has been published in the volume Letters and Cultural Transformations in the United States, 1760-1860, edited by Theresa Strouth Gaul and Sharon M. Harris.
August	Ted Atkinson (southern literature) and Peter DeGabriele (eighteenth century literature) have joined the graduate faculty as of the fall 2009 term.
Summer	Bonnie O'Neill has been appointed to the advisory board of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society.
July	Becky Hagenston has been awarded the Spokane Prize for her story collection Strange Weather. Strange Weather will be published by the Eastern Washington University Press in January.
June	Lecturer Peter Olson has received the Scharff Graduate Award from the University of Memphis.
June	Lara Dodds' "Reading and Writing in Sociable Letters; or, How Margaret Cavendish Read Her Plutarch" has been scheduled for publication by English Literary Renaissance.
April	Robert West has received the Senior Humanities and Arts Research Program (HARP) grant. This award will support his scholarly travel as he prepares an edition of the complete works of A. R. Ammons.
April	Catherine Pierce has received notice that one of her poems will be appearing in the Paris Review..
April	A retirement reception was held for Rich Wolf, who will be leaving to pursue further interests at the end of June. He will be greatly missed.
April 9	Poet Martha Collins read as part of the Institute for the Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series. Martha Collins is the author of five books of poetry, including, most recently, Blue Front, a book-length poem based on a lynching her father witnessed when he was five years old. She is also the author of Gone So Far, Some Things Words Can Do, History of Small Life on a Windy Planet, Catastrophe of Rainbows, The Arrangement of Space, a chapbook, Sheer (Barnwood, 2008), and two books of co-translations from the Vietnamese.
April 2	This year's "Afterword" reading, sponsored by Sigma Tau Delta, was offered April 2.. Creative writing students Kelly Daniels, Jordan Doherty, James Maroney, and Nick White read excerpts from their M.A. theses.
March 30	Mississippi State University and the College of Arts & Sciences proudly hosted 2008 Nobel Laureate for Literature, J.M.G. Le Clezio, who lectured Monday, March 30th in Lee Hall Auditorium. This was a very special event, as Le Clezio delivered his lecture in English -- he rarely lectures in English.
March 28	Bonnie O'Neill hosted the English department's spring symposium, which featured Scott Crossley and Tommy Anderson's "Rue with a Difference: A Stylistic Analysis of the Rhetoric of Suicide," a paper that includes "never-before-considered ideas about Shakespeare's little-known play, Hamlet." The paper offers an intriguing incorporation of linguistic analysis into literary studies.
March	Shalyn Claggett's "George Eliot's Interrogation of Physiological Future Knowledge" has been scheduled for publication in SEL.
March	The Journal of the Short Story in English will publish one of Greg Bentley's article this spring. The piece will carry the title "A Journey int the Bizarre/Bazaar: Time and Subjectivity in James Joyce's 'Araby.'"
February 5	Katherine Anne Porter prize winner Kelly Magee, author of Body Language, read from her work. She appeared as part of The Robert Holland Visiting Writers Series.
January 2009	Issue 29.2 of Jabberwock Review is now available.