Faculty Publications & Awards

"Attack of the 50 Foot Indian" by Stephen Graham Jones is now available through Saga Press! About the book: A Tale of Two Moons. Every government of every nation debates what to do when a fifty-foot tall man, dressed in a loincloth and dripping from the sea, appears off the...

Dr. Nicole Mansfield Wright's book, Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel, is now available for purchase through Johns Hopkins University Press! A critique of attempts by conservative eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors to appropriate the rhetoric of victimhood and appeals to "rights" to safeguard the status...

Jeffrey DeShell, faculty member in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, has had his newest novel released titled Masses & Motets: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery from the University of Alabama Press. A crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish...

Khadijah Queen's co-edited article "Make No Apologies for Yourself" appeared in the New York Times on May 19, 2019. Read here .

Sue Zemka, Department Chair, has been awarded a Kayden Research Award for her next book, The Embodied Hand: Essays on the Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture .

Nan Goodman's essay "At the Time of that Look: The Problems of Simultaneity at the Testimony of Salem" has been published in the A Question of Time anthology by Cambridge University Press, 2018. Order for purchase here .

Julie Carr's book Real Life: An Installation has been named a finalist for the 2019 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. More here .

Jason Gladstone's essay "Network Unavailable: Informal Populations and Literary Form" was published in American Literary History and can be read here .