Kinitra Brooks grew up connecting ideas, asking questions, and demanding the freedom to do so. Today, the Associate Professor in MSU’s Department of English continues to push boundaries through her study of Black women, genre fiction, popular culture, and the work of conjure women as intellectual history.
Gary Hoppenstand, Professor of Film Studies and 20th-Century Literature in MSU’s Department of English, recently was announced as the 2020 recipient of the Lynn Bartholome Eminent Scholar Award, the top award presented…
After receiving his Ph.D. from MSU’s Department of English in 2016, Dr. Arvas was an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Shakespeare at the Drama Department at Vassar College (2016-18).…
Having defended her dissertation in the spring of 2019, Dr. Cody Mejeur has accepted a two-year position as Visiting Assistant Professor of Game Studies in the Department of Media Study…
Dr. Emery Petchauer, Associate professor and coordinator of the English Education program, recently published Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams on Routledge. The book explores the high-takes exams that aspiring educators must pass…
Katie Greulich, Nests, Shoots, and Leaves: Interesting Aesthetics in Ecological and Cinematic Documentary.” Postmodern Culture (forthcoming 2019).Abdulhamit Arvas.“From The Pervert Back to The Beloved: Homosexuality and Ottoman Literary History, 1453-1923.” The Cambridge History of…
The Lemonade Reader is an interdisciplinary collection that explores the nuances of Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album, Lemonade. The essays and editorials present fresh, cutting-edge scholarship fueled by contemporary thoughts on film, material…
English doctoral candidate Briona Jones has received an advance contract with the New Press for Mouths of Rain, the companion anthology to Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought. Mouths of Rain…
After receiving his PhD from MSU’s Department of English in 2015, Dr. Iheka was appointed as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. This fall, Dr. Iheka…
Professor of English Kathleen Fitzpatrick, the Director of Digital Humanities at MSU, has recently published a new book titled Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University, with Johns…