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Faculty and Staff Kudos

Tara Bynum (Department of English) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to spend four months next year at the American Antiquarian Society working to complete a book manuscript.

Abdul Ali’s (Department of English) debut collection of poems, Trouble Sleeping, was recently published by Western Michigan Press.

Katherine Attié (Department of English) presented a paper, “‘To Draw, and Fasten Sundred Parts in One’:  Donne Gathering and Binding,” at the annual conference of the John Donne Society in Baton Rouge on February 28.

David Bergman’s (Department of English) chapter, “James Merrill and His Circle,” appears in the Cambridge History of American Poetry.  Three of David’s poems were published in Medicine in Poetry by Persea Press.

George Hahn’s (Department of English) review of Eric Parisot’s  Graveyard Poetry: Religion, Aesthetics and the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Poetic Condition ran in The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer 29.1             (2015).

Kate Lashley (Department of English) won the Christopher Bell Graduate Student Award for her essay, “Creating Disability in Young Adult Dystopias,” at the conference of the College English Association Middle Atlantic Group on March 7 at Montgomery College.

Angela Pelster-Wiebe (Department of English) won the Great Lakes Colleges Association award for Best New Writer in Nonfiction for Limber, her book of creative essays.  Limber has also been longlisted in the 2015 PEN / Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.

Dana Phillips’s (Department of English) article, “Post-Humanism, Environmental History, and Narratives of Collapse,” appears online in ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.

Research & Instruction Librarian Sarah Burns Gilchrist and Residency Librarian Sarah Espinosa presented a webinar titled, “Universal Design for Learning, Information Literacy, and Libraries” for the Reference and User Services Association of the American Library Association on April 1, 2015.