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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.

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.

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. Malamaud 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.

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.

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.

Dr. Roudané also published "An Interview with Kerin Finley," Five Points 11 (2007): 20-37.

Dr. Roudané received a Senior Fulbright Specialist Award to participate in a special summer session at El Escorial, Spain, in 2007.

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.

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