Faculty Highlights

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  Henry Published

  Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, edited and translated Aleš Šteger's Burning Tongues: New & Selected Poems, which was published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK.

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  Henry Published

  Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, has recently published over 40 translations of poems by Tomaž Šalamun in Changes Review, The Common, Conduit, Copper Nickel, Epiphany, Fence, New England Review, The New Humanist, North American Review, Notre Dame Review, Poetry London, Sixth Finch, and The Yale Review, among other journals.

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  Manganaro Published

  Thomas Manganaro, assistant professor of English, published the book, Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century with the University of Virginia Press.

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  Manganaro Awarded

  Thomas Manganaro, assistant professor of English, was awarded the Walker Cowen Prize for outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies for his book, Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century.

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  Ashe Published

  Bertram Ashe, professor of English and Africana studies advisory board member, published "American Blackness in Berlin: Race and Nationality in Contemporary Jazz Performance" in Sonic Identity at the Margins, co-edited by colleagues Joanna Love, associate professor of music, and Jessie Fillerup, associate professor of musicology.

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  Henry Published

  Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published three new books: Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation and translations of Aleš Šteger's The Book of Bodies and Written on Site: Costa da Morte and Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

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  Henry Published

  Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published the lyric essay "In and Out of Order" in The Georgia Review.

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  Henry Published

  Brian Henry, professor of English and creative writing, published translations of over 50 poems by Tomaž Šalamun, which have appeared recently in Agni, Blackbird, Guernica, Iterant, Mississippi Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry Review (UK), among other places.

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  Gruner Elected

  Elisabeth Gruner, professor of English, was elected president of the Children's Literature Association, an international academic organization dedicated to high standards of criticism, scholarship, research, and teaching in children's literature.

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  Outka's Book Short-Listed

  Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature by Elizabeth Outka, professor of English, was short-listed for the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize. Read more.