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Bookshelf
Five poems by Todd Davis, assistant professor of English, have been included in the anthology,
A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry, newly published by the University of Iowa Press. He also has poems in the most recent issues of
Appalachia and Blueline, two journals devoted to the preservation of the environment and the exploration specific bio-regions. Forget the Alamo: Reading the Ethics of Style in John Sayless
Lone Star. Moving Pictures/Traveling Identities. Ed. Eva Rueschmann. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2003. 211-26. (with Kenneth Womack).
Dinty W. Moore, professor of English and integrative arts, published a work of nonfiction, "Son of Mr. Green Jeans: An Essay on Fatherhood, Alphabetically Arranged," in the Spring 2003 Issue 63 of
Crazyhorse. Moore also published a review of two recent nonfiction titles, Population: 485 and The Blessing: A Memoir, in the Spring 2003 issue of
Creative Nonfiction. Moore also published his own nonfiction, "Baseball, Hot Dogs, Mescaline, and Chevrolet: An Essay Utilizing a Passage from Aldous Huxley's 'Doors of Perception' as Section Headings" in the Spring 2003 Issue of Arts & Letters:
Journal of Contemporary Culture.
Part-time lecturer in English, Russell Newman's book, The Gentleman in the Garden: The Influential Landscape in the Works of James Fenimore Cooper, has been published by Lexington Books. It will be released in October.
Associate professor of history, Brian Black's co-authored essay "Contesting the Sacred: Preservation and meaning on Richmond's Monument Avenue" was recently published in the book
Monuments to the Lost Cause: Women, Art, and the Landscapes of Southern Memory (Univ. of Tenn. Press).
Megan Simpson's essay "Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's Four Year Old Girl and the Phenomenology of Mothering" was recently published in
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Todd Davis and Ken Womack's essay "Embracing the Fall: Reconfiguring Redemption in Jim Harrison's
The Woman Lit by Fireflies, Dalva, and The Road Home" was recently published in Western American Literature.
Associate professor of English, Ken Womack's essay, "Lawrence Durrell's Mediterranean Dream: Reading The Alexandria Quartet and the Ethical Voice of the Sea" (co-authored with James M. Decker), recently appeared in
English: The Journal of the English Association.
Ken Womack's co-edited collection of essays (with John V. Knapp) was recently published by the University of Delaware Press. Entitled
Reading the Family Dance: Family Systems Therapy and Literary Study, the volume includes Ken's essay, "Lucy Honeychurch's Rage for Selfhood: Family Systems Therapy, Ethics, and E. M. Forster's A Room with a View," and
Lee Ann De Reus's essay, "Exploring the Matrix of Identity in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams." The volume also features new Penn State Altoona English professor
Todd F. Davis's essay, "Crusading for the Family: Kurt Vonnegut's Ethics of Familial Community."
Sandy Petrulionis's article, "Fugitive Slave-Running on the Moby Dick: The Abolitionist Crusade of Captain Austin Bearse" appears in the most recent issue of
Resources in American Literary Studies. Her edition of Henry Thoreau's manuscript journal for 1854, Journal 8: 1854, was recently published by Princeton University Press in its series
The Writings of Henry D. Thoreau.
Brian Black's book, Petrolia: the Landscape of America's First Oil Boom was released in paperback by Johns Hopkins University Press in Fall 2003.
Kevin Moist's book review of of Making Sense of Cultural Studies: Central Problems and Critical Debates by Chris Barker, will be published in the upcoming issue of the Southern Communication Journal. His article entitled "Danger In the Past: Sounds Coming 'Round Again" will be published in the Fall 2003 issue of Astronauts, an international alternative music magazine published in Australia. His article titled "Black Power, Black Spirit, Black Music: Essential Recordings from 1970s Jazz Record Label Strata-East" will be published in the Winter 2003 issue of US alternative music publication DreamMagazine.
Ian Marshall's book Peak Experiences: Walking Meditations on Literature, Nature, and Need, was published in spring 2003 by the University of Virginia Press. Using evidence from literature and Ian's experiences in the mountains,
Peak Experiences looks at the ways in which the natural world satisfies human psychological needs.
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