Assistant Professor Eric Leake’s essay “‘Should You Encounter’: The Social Conditions of Empathy” appears in the latest issue of Poroi: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Rhetorical Analysis and Invention. Also, his interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jeffrey Gettlemen is reprinted in the paperback edition of Gettlemen’s memoir Love, Africa.
Rob Tally is editor of a “special focus” section of the latest issue of the American Book Review (Jan.-April 2018) on the topic of Critical Lives II, which contains 14 brief essays/reviews plus his “Introduction to Focus: A Life in Theory.” His essay “Swerve, Trope, Peripety: Turning Points in Criticism and Theory” appears in the March 2018 issue of The Journal of English Language and Literature.
At the June 8 meeting of the New England American Studies Association, held in Lowell, Massachusetts, Nancy Wilson presented “When the Default is White: Challenging Crevecoeur’s Melting-Pot America,” and Steve Wilson presented “An Irish Girl in the Contact Zone: ‘Only an Irish Girl!’ and the Perils of Transcendental Values for Women in the 19th Century.”
Karen Russell’s story, “Orange World,” appeared in the June 4 issue of The New Yorker.
Amanda North has an essay in Construction Literary Magazine‘s spring issue: “The Ruin of Madness.”
Leah Schwebel’s article, “The Pagan Suicides: Augustine and Inferno 13,” appears in Medium Aevum.
Geneva Gano has been named the Jesse H. and Mary Gibb Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies for 2018 to 2021. During her three-year appointment, Dr. Gano will convene a symposium on the influences of the Mexican Revolution on the development of U.S. modernism across the arts and a lecture series on women writers in the greater Southwest. In conjunction with The Wittliff Collections, Dr. Gano will help to establish further research on Chicana author Sandra Cisneros’ relationship to San Antonio and Texas. She is also developing a Study-in-America program that will take graduate and undergraduate students to Santa Fe and Taos to further their studies in the history and culture of New Mexico.