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Peter Holland, the McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies at U. Notre Dame, will share his recent research into Shakespeare and memory. The talk will be at 6:00 p.m. in the Choir Room, Robinson Hall, UNC Charlotte. His first book, The Ornament of Action, was a study of Restoration comedy in performance. Subsequent work has […]

Professor Kirk Melnikoff, along with Prof. Rosalyn Knutson (U. Arkansas), have published a remarkable collection of essays about Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) with Cambridge University Press. Presenting the first exploration of Christopher Marlowe’s complex place in the canon, this collection reads Marlowe’s work against an extensive backdrop of repertory, publication, transmission, and reception. Wide-ranging and thoughtful […]

Pilar Blitvich‘s new co-edited collection titled Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Besides the editing tasks, Pilar co-authored the introductory chapter and one of the regular chapters (with Becky Roeder and Liz Miller). Pilar, Becky and Liz’s chapter is titled “Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing University […]

Congratulations to Mark West for his latest book, Shapers of American Childhood: Essays on Visionaries from L. Frank Baum to Dr. Spock to J.K. Rowling (McFarland & Co, 2018),co-edited with Kathy Merlock Jackson of Virginia Wesleyan University Mark co-edited the book as well as co-wrote the Preface, and his own chapter, “LeVar Burton (1957-): Promoting […]

MaKalea Bjoin, who is currently President of the Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society (ΣΤΔ), received a $1,500.00 Summer Internship Stipend from the Sigma Tau Delta Awards Committee. MaKalea’s concentration is “Language and Digital Technology” and she is interested in pursuing linguistics for a post-graduate degree.

The Early Modern Paleography Society (EMPS) will have its irst Fall Meeting of 2018 on September 12th, 2018, from 3:30-5:15 in Fretwell 290B. You’re invited to come and learn about EMPS, transcribe some OLD recipes, and enjoy some pizza. All are welcome.

Professor Consuelo Salas received the 2018 J. Murrey Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award. An assistant professor with the University Writing Program and the Department of English, Salas will be honored during a library social and award ceremony, scheduled for 4 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 6, in the Halton Reading Room. The Atkins Library Faculty Engagement Award […]

Professors Lara Vetter (L) and Jennifer Munroe (R) were both promoted to Full Professor and received the traditional “Jefferson Cup” at Convocation engraved with their names and new positions.

Congratulations! The Children’s Literature Graduate Organization (CLGO) just received the Outstanding Graduate Student Organization Award. The competition was among university-wide graduate student organizations. The award recognizes the graduate student organization that demonstrated consistent flexibility, initiative, creativity, and perseverance. The winning organzation, according to the description, “will have made a meaningful contribution to graduate students, the […]

Valerie Bright, MA, a lecturer whose courses include “Literature for Young Children,” was awarded the ‘Outstanding Teaching Award by a Part-Time Faculty Member’ for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Congratulations for a very well deserved award.