February 27, 2024

Dear Colleagues,

I am sure everyone is looking forward to Spring Break next week.  It is hard to believe that we are halfway through the semester. No doubt, the remainder of the semester will go very quickly.  Here a couple of reminders for this week:

Unsatisfactory grade reports are due Friday, March 1, by noon.

Summer book orders are also due this Friday, March 1.

The deadline for fall book orders is May 1. If  you can order your books sooner, that would be helpful. 

To order textbooks:

Kudos

Allison Hutchcraft published a review of the poetry collection B/RDS by Béatrice Szymkowiak in the Winter 2023 issue of ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.

Dina Massachi published a joint book review of Queer Oz and Oz and the Musical in the Children’s Literature Association Quarterly

Juan Meneses’s book, Resisting Dialogue: Modern Fiction and the Future of Dissent, received a very positive review in the latest issue of the journal CompLit. Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society. Juan was invited to write a short review of a recent academic book of his choice for the “Ecology & Politics of Borders” series in Edge Effects, an ecocriticism magazine housed at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He published an entry on Neferti X. Tadiar’s book Remaindered Life.

Liz Miller has a co-authored chapter titled “Language teacher professional values, identity tensions and agentive actions in the adult ESL setting” that will soon appear in Language Teacher Identity Tensions: Nexus of Agency, Emotion and Investment (Routledge) and another single-authored chapter titled “Identity, discourse and second language research” forthcoming in the Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Discourse.

Mark West had students in his American Children’s Literature class visit the Rare Books Room and read an issue of St. Nicholas.  The library posted an article about this project:  https://library.charlotte.edu/take-look-its-rare-book-childrens-lit-special-collections

JuliAnna Ávila, Kirk Melnikoff, and Mark West received CHESS small grants to help with the publication of their books soon to be published.

Emeritus News

Boyd Davis published a co-authored article titled  “Your Phrases Matter: Third Waves in Research Approaches and New Contexts for Formulaic Language” in the International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders. 

Best wishes,

Paula