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| Dr. Robert West & friends | Dr. Shirley Hanshaw, Dr. Meg Murray, & Elizabeth Gwin at the fall party (l to r) | Dr. Jack White & Emily White |
In addition to the book on Shakespeare mentioned above, Dr. Tommy Anderson published “Writing Royal Effigies in the Poetry of Webster and Marvell” in the journal English Literary Renaissance.
Dr. Greg Bentley has published “Robert Frost’s ‘Dust and Snow’ and the Erotics of Subjectivity” in the Robert Frost Review and “Sammy’s Erotic Experience: Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in John Updike’s ‘A&P’” in Les Cahiers de la Nouvelle. Dr. Bentley currently pursues two books, one on Shakespeare, another on American short fiction.
Dr. Pat Creevy has completed several chapters of his manuscript on the poetry of Wordsworth.
Visiting instructor Scott Crossley has completed three of five chapters on his dissertation in linguistics at the University of Memphis.
Now in her second year at MSU, Dr. Lara Dodds has published two articles: “Art and Fallacy or ‘The Naked Offer’? Style and Science in Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia Epidemica” in Prose Studies; and “Margaret Cavendish’s Domestic Experience” in Genre and Innovation in the Life Writings of Early Modern Englishwomen. She also presented a paper on “Milton the Spaceman” at a conference hosted by Middle Tennessee University.
Becky Hagenston’s “Good Listener” was a finalist in the H. E. Francis Short Story Competition; Black Warrior Review will soon publish her story.
Dr. Shirley Hanshaw presented a paper titled “Refusal to be Can(n)on Fodder: African American Representation and the Vietnam War and Canon Formation” at the University of Hawaii, site of an international conference commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
Dr. Nancy Hargrove published “T. S. Eliot and the Parisian Theatre World, 1910-1911,” in South Atlantic Review. She also published “T. S. Eliot and Opera in Paris, 1910-1911,” in the Yeats Eliot Review.
Dr. Holly Johnson, also in her second year at MSU, published “Fashioning Devotion: The Art of Good Friday Preaching in Chaucerian England” in a volume of essays, Speculum Sermonis: Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Medieval Sermon. Additionally, her article “The Hard Bed of the Cross: Good Friday Preaching and the Seven Deadly Sins” will be published in a collection of essays edited by Richard Newhauser.
In addition to the book mentioned above, Dr. Richard Lyons published eight poems distributed among The Gettysburg Review, The American Literary Review, The Cincinnati Review, and The Cimarron Review.
Dr. Kelly Marsh published “Dead Husbands and Other ‘Girls’ Stuff’: The Trifles in Legally Blonde” in Literature/Film Quarterly, and “Jane Eyre and the Pursuit of the Mother’s Pleasure” in South Atlantic Review. She also pursues a book project coming out of the NEH Scholarship noted above.
Lecturer Marian Montgomery published an article on securing a literary agent in Novel and Short Story Writer’s Market.
The acquisitions editor at the University of Georgia Press has said that “we’d be honored to have” Dr. Meg Murray’s book Wandering Pilgrim: Sex, Death, and the Soul of Margaret Fuller on the UGA list.
While Dr. Murray awaits a contract, she has begun an article on Margaret Fuller and Adam Mickiewicz for a collection of essays titled The American Artist 1800-1865: Problems of Conformity and Non-Conformity.
Dr. Farrell O’Gorman published “The Things They Carried as Composite Novel” in Short Story Criticism and “South to Ireland” in Shenandoah.
Dr. O'Gorman also presented his scholarship at the Faulkner Foundation conference at the University of Rennes in France.
Dr. Richard Patteson has nearly completed his book on the work of Caribbean author Robert Antoni. Also, his article “Resurrecting Rafael: Fictional Incarnations of a Dominican Dictator” will soon appear in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters.
Beyond his work as editor of The Mississippi Quarterly, Dr. Noel Polk has published “Walker Percy’s Sense of Place” in the second volume of Regionalism in the Age of Globalism. He also spoke on his scholarship at the Faulkner Foundation international conference held at the University of Rennes in France.
Dr. Rich Raymond published “Shaping Consensus through Collaboration” in The Department Chair.
Dr. Benjamin Torbert published a review of Sociolinguistic Theory in American Speech and, with Jeffrey Reaser, “An Inventory of Morphosyntactic Bahamian Creole Features” in A Handbood of Varieties of English. He also presented a paper, “Who Are the Real Southerners?” at the South Atlantic American Dialect Society.
Dr. Brad Vice offered readings of his fiction at Chuo University in Tokyo and at the University of Rennes in France.
Dr. Robert West has published nine poems distributed among Asheville Poetry Review, Carolina Quarterly, Southern Poetry Review, and Pembroke Magazine. He also published “’This Is Paradise’: Michael McFee’s Poems about Heaven” in Appalachian Heritage, and “’Their Clamorous Little Species’: Collective Experience of the Sublime in Fred Chappell’s Midquest” in Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association. Additionally, Blink Chapbooks published Dr. West’s Best Company.
Dr. Rich Wolf has begun a book on texts and performances of Restoration plays.
In addition to the conference papers 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, and the Mississippi Philological Association.