Andy Brewer's article, "George Gissing's Manifesto: The Odd Women and The Unclassed," now appears in Nineteenth Century Gender Studies, 4.1 (Spring 2008).

John Burrison's new book, Roots of a Region: Southern Folk Culture, was published by University Press of Mississippi (Southern Folklore Series), November 2007. His interview with Steve Goss of WABE-FM radio, Atlanta, on traditional ways Southerners dealt with the region's summer heat, aired August 16, 2007.

Dr. Burrison curated the exhibit North Carolina Folk Pottery for the changing exhibition gallery of the Folk Pottery Museum of Northeast Georgia, Sautee Nacoochee Center, September 2007. He also provided the Keynote address, "The Face Jug: A Southern Folk-Art Form and Its Development," at the Catawba Valley Pottery and Antiques Festival, Hickory, North Carolina, March 24, 2007.

Dr. Burrison served as the on-site consultant for the "Made of Mud: Southern Folk Pottery" program (Georgia Council for the Arts grant support) at the Atlanta History Center, May 19, 2007.

Georgia State graduate student Mike Dockins's poem "Dead Critics Society" appears in The Best American Poetry 2007 and in his newly published collection Slouching in the Path of a Comet (Sage Hill 2007).

Michael Galchinsky published Jews and Human Rights: Dancing at Three Weddings in 2007 with Rowman & Littlefield.

Dr. Harper's book Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats (Oxford: Oxford U P, 2006) was awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2006 Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Her scholarly edition of A Vision (1925), Volume 14 of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, which she co-edited with Catherine Paul, will be out soon (New York: Scribner, 2008). She published an article, "'how else could the god have come to us'?: Yeatsian Masks, Modernity, and the Sacred," in Nordic Irish Studies 6:1 (2007): 57-72, and a review of Joyce and Reality: The Empirical Strikes Back, by John Gordon, Nordic Irish Studies 6:1 (2007):143-7.

Meg Harper was awarded a $15,000 Scholarly Support Grant from Georgia State University, 2007.

Meg Harper gave papers and led a work group in numerous conferences this past year in such places as Belgium, Argentina, New York, and Michigan.

During the past year or so, Jim Hirsh published an article, "Covert Appropriations of Shakespeare: Three Case Studies" in Papers on Language and Literature (43 [2006]: 43-67), gave a paper at the International Shakespeare Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, and gave two public lectures on Shakespeare at Università Ca' Foscari in Venice.

Dan Marshall's short story "Crow Beach" was recently published in the journal Hot Metal Bridge.

Dr. Pearl McHaney published “An Interview with Natasha Trethewey” in Five Points: Journal of Literature and Art 11.3 (2007): 96-115.

Pearl McHaney published “New York, The Emblematic Dream.” Il sogno delle Americiche: Promess e tradimenti. Ed. Francesca Bisutti De Riz, Pzatrizio Rigobon, and Bernard Vincent. Padua: Studio Editoriale Gordini, 2007. 227-42. [Call It Sleep, The Great Gatsby, and Jazz.]

Sheri Joseph's novel Stray was published in 2007 by MacAdam/Cage. It has been awarded the Grub Street Book Prize.

Georgia State graduate student Man Martin published his novel Days of the Endless Corvette with Carroll and Graf in 2007. The novel is from a dissertation directed by Sheri Joseph and was originally developed in her novel-writing workshop.

Randy Malamud published an essay in the Oct. 19, 2007, Chronicle of Higher Education entitled "Animated Animal Discourse." He also had a column on the op-ed page of the June 15, 2007, Atlanta Journal Constitution co-written with Lori Marino of Emory, entitled "Aquarium should admit captivity hurts these fish" about the death of whale sharks at the Georgia Aquarium.

Dr. Malamud's edited volume, A Cultural History of Animals in the Modern Age, was published by Berg in late 2007. He was interviewed twice on CNN, on April 15 and June 13, 2007 (see interview), about human voyeurism and animal suffering in zoos and aquariums.

Dr. Malamud has published several pieces about and with the photographer Britta Jaschinski, most recently "Prologue: Animals" in The Animals Reader, eds. Linda Kalof and Amy Fitzgerald (Oxford: Berg, 2007); that book also reprinted his chapter on "Spectatorship" from Reading Zoos. He has given lectures recently at Brunel University in London, Oxford University's Rothermere American Institute, and the University of Amsterdam.

Ruth Summar McIntyre, who will graduate with a Ph. D. in Medieval and Renaissance Literature and Rhetoric and Composition in August 2008, will present "The Wife of Bath and the Politics of Memory" at the New Chaucer Society's annual conference in Swansea, Wales in July 2008. More>>

Georgia State graduate student Derek Nikitas published his novel Pyres with St. Martin's Press in 2007.

Georgia State graduate student Calaya Reid published her novel Take Her Man (under the name Grace Octavia) with Kensington. A second Grace Octavia novel is forthcoming from Kensington in 2008.

Undergraduate English major Jennifer Lawrence Reitano was second place winner ($200) for Oral Presentations in Georgia State University's 2008 Undergraduate Research Conference (March 14, 2008) for a presentation titled, "Meloy's Healing through Wilderness," which was a summary of her research on Ellen Meloy's Anthropology of Turquoise. She was also second place winner in the Georgia State University's Honors Program Paper Competition ($500), for her research paper on the bird symbolism in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

Matthew Roudané's new book, Drama Essentials: An Anthology of Plays, was published by Houghton Mifflin in November 2007. Pearl McHaney contributed an introductory essay regarding "Writing about Drama" to this collection of plays.

On August 12, 2007, Dr. Roudané spoke about Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? on ABC Classic FM, Australia's premiere cultural radio network. The talk was broadcast live from Sydney to the entire country.

Josh Russell received a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and was nominated for a 2007 United States Artists Fellowship. His fiction has recently appeared in Epoch, DIAGRAM, and Black Warrior Review.

Hugh Sheehy's story, "The Invisibles," from the Fall 2007 issue of The Kenyon Review, has been selected for reprint in Best American Mystery Stories 2008.

English graduate student Cheryl Stiles published an essay in the most recent issue of Victorian Periodicals Review (40.3: 239-255), “’Different Planes of Sensuous Form’: American Critical and Popular Responses to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh and Last Poems: Annotated Bibliography, American Periodicals, 1856-62.” This publication stems from a class taught by Dr. Schmidt.

Calvin Thomas's Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film is forthcoming in 2008 from Palgrave Macmillan.

Calvin Thomas published "Men and Feminist Criticism" in A History of Feminist Literary Criticism, edited by Gill Plain and Susan Sellers, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Lew Whitaker, working on his dissertation with Dr. Schmidt and Dr. Richardson, published a review of The Fin-de-Siecle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890’s, Joseph Bristow, ed. in Victorian Periodicals Review (40.3: 271-2).

Victoria Willis won the William M. Jones Best Graduate Student Paper Award for the PCA/ACA conference in March.