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.

Christine Gallant has recently published "Blake's Antislavery Designs in 'Songs of Innocence and Experience,'" in "The Wordsworth Circle," Summer 2008 (published Winter 2009); and a review-essay on "Slavery and the Cultures of Abolition," "The Wordsworth Circle," Fall 2008 (published Spring 2009). On June 27-28 she will present "Trouillot and Romantic Literary Critics: The Haitian Revolution and After," at the International Biennual Symbiosis Conference in Boston.

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.

Since 2007, James Hirsh has published two articles and a book review and has participated in a debate in the Forum section of PMLA:

"Shakespeare’s Stage Chorus and Oliviers Film Chorus." Shakespeare On Screen: From Richard II to Henry V. Ed. Sarah Hatchuel and Nathalie Vienne-Guerin. Rouen: Publications des Universités de Rouen et du Havre, 2008. 169-92.

"Covert Appropriations of Shakespeare: Three Case Studies." Papers on Language and Literature 43 (2007): 45-67.

Rev. of The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare by Emma Smith and The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare’s Tragedies by Janette Dillon. Journal of British Studies 47 (2008): 661-63.

"Theories of Relativity. PMLA 123 (2008): 1762-63.

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.

John Holman's short story, "The Promise of Love," appears in the current Oxford American magazine, issue # 64.

Georgia State graduate student Sydney Lanier is the recipient of a 2009-2010 US-UK Fulbright Grant. She will study Irish literature at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland, UK.

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

With support from the Georgia Center for the Book, the Georgia Humanities Council, and the NEH We the People grants, Dr. Pearl McHaney has presented nine public library lectures across Georgia in celebration of Eudora Welty's Centennial.

She has also edited Eudora Welty as Photographer with essays by McHaney,

Sandra Phillips and Deborah Willis. Jackson: U P Mississippi, 2009. 40 Photographs by Welty, 30 not previously published.

Occasions: Selected Writings by Eudora Welty. 60+ uncollected fiction and nonfiction. Jackson: U P Mississippi, 2009.

Eudora Welty Centennial Issue: Mississippi Quarterly, April 2009. 9 essays and Primary and Secondary Eudora Welty Checklist 1986-2008.

In April the English department also launched the Eudora Welty Review under the editorial team of Pearl McHaney, Malinda Snow, Lori Howard, and Elizabeth Crews . 27 essays reprinted from

the 32 years of the Eudora Welty Newsletter, edited and published at GSU since 1997. the Eudora Welty

Review is annual journal publishing peer-reviewed critical essays.

"Eudora Welty." Prospects for the Study of American Literature (II). Ed. Richard Kopley and Barbara Cantalupo. Brooklyn: AMS Press, Inc. 2009. 304-323.

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.

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

Undergraduate Michael Ogletree’s first chapbook of poems, This Is Not a Venn Diagram, was released this month from Taiga Press as the initial volume in their Tundra Chapbook Series. His poems are also featured this month’s issues of the literary journals Fourteen Hills, American Poetry Journal, and Weave Magazine.

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 has been appointed to serve on the Fulbright Global and Specialist Programs, which is part of the U. S. Council for the International Exchange of Scholars, a division of the Institute of International Education.

Matthew Roudané has just been appointed to the Editorial Board of Miranda, Revue Pluridisplinaire du Monde Anglophone (Université de Toulouse, France), an interdisciplinary journal.

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.