Faculty Publications & Awards

What do you do when your dreams come true? When you were twelve, camping out in the back yard, you told your best friend that if he could draw a superhero good enough, you’d give him the perfect words to say. And then it didn’t just happen, there’s even action figures now.

Poet, Professor Ruth Ellen Kocher was awarded a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and published her latest collection of poetry, Third Voice (Tupelo, 2016).

Professor Paul Youngquist has returned safely from outer space with A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra and the Birth of Afrofuturism, a study of one of the most original and influential musician/composers to have graced our solar system.

Professor Katie Little received the CHA Fellowship to support work on her third monograph, Reading for the Moral in Late Medieval and Early Sixteenth-century England.

Ramesh Mallipeddi - Spectacular Suffering: Witnessing Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic, University of Virginia Press, 2016

Katherine Eggert - Disknowledge: Literature, Alchemy, and the End of Humanism in Renaissance England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015

Lori Emerson - Reading Writing Interfaces: From the Digital to the Bookbound (Electronic Mediations), University of Minnesota Press, 2014

Cheryl Higashida - Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995, University of Illinois Press, 2013

Sue Zemka - Time and the Moment in Victorian Literature and Society, Cambridge University Press, 2012