Amber Elby
December 2, 2019
I am currently a professor at Austin Community College. I teach Composition and British Literature. I have also just released my debut novel, Cauldron's Bubble.
Justin Gould
December 1, 2019
My work is focused on Natural Language Processing (NLP)—a field which combines computer science, linguistics, statistics, and advanced mathematics to process and analyze large amounts of natural language text.
Rosemary Erickson Johnsen
December 1, 2019
MSU English alumna Rosemary Erickson Johnsen has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create a course that utilizes literature, films, and outside speakers to help veterans and active military members better understand their experiences...
Andrea Poole
October 2, 2019
MSU alumna Andrea Poole was promoted to Vice President at Martin Waymire, a public policy communications company located in Lansing, Michigan.
Early Modern Literature and Sexuality Studies
September 11, 2019
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).…
Video Games, Narrative, and Sexuality
August 23, 2019
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…
Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams
August 20, 2019
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…
Recent Graduate Student Publications
August 15, 2019
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
August 15, 2019
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…
Mouths of Rain
August 14, 2019
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…