Congratulations to Pilar Blitvich who, along with two colleagues from Pablo de Olavide University (Seville), edited the collection entitled Technology Mediated Service Encounters. The book represents a wonderful intersection of disciplines including linguistics, new media, business, and human/technology encounters. Published by John Benjamins, these essays address a gap in the literature by focusing on the […]

Ralf Thiede, who is one of the cornerstones of the linguistics program in the English Department, has just published Children’s Books, Brain Development, and Language Acquisition with Routledge. This book, which complements the department’s strength in Children’s Literature and Studies, correlates English-speaking children’s brain development and acquisition of language with the linguistic input that comes […]

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 […]