Recent Scholarly Works

Stephen Burn

Review-essay on the influence of David Foster Wallace's novel, Infinite Jest (1996), in the Times Literary Supplement in January.
Essay "The Collapse of Everything: William Gaddis and the Encyclopedic Novel" appeared in Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System. Eds. Joseph Tabbi and Rone Shavers. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2007. He also had a review of three David Markson novels appear in the Times Literary Supplement, and he was appointed to the editorial board of the electronic book review.
Review of Steve Erickson's Zeroville appears in the Nov. 9 issue of the Times Literary Supplement.

Marek Haltof

Published a book chapter in Polish on “Death, Mourning, and Memory in the Films of Krzysztof Kieślowski,” in The Cinema of Kieślowski, the Cinema after Kieślowski, edited by Andrzej Gwóźdź (Warsaw: Skorpion, 2006: 63-75). He also published a review of Ewa Mazierska and Elżbieta Ostrowska’s book, Women in Polish Cinema, in Canadian Slavonic Papers 48 (3-4) 2006: 426-427.
Published Historical Dictionary of Polish Cinema (Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2007). He also published a short chapter, "Looking Back at the Polish School Phenomenon," in a bilingual album Voices of Freedom/Les voix de la liberte (Warsaw: Skorpion, 2007: 37-41), presented at the Cannes Film Festival.

Katie Hanson

Associate professor and editor-in-chief of Passages North, was awarded The Editors Prize in Nonfiction at the Florida Review. Excerpts from her memoir There's a Child Living in This House were published in the fall 2007. She was invited to be a contributor in the Random House anthology, Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer, out in January 2008.
Recent publications have been included in the Chattahoochie Review (a short story, "Winter", Spring/Summer 2007), The South Carolina Review (a short story, "Pilgrims", Fall 2007), the Florida Review (winner of the Editor's Prize in Nonfiction, an excerpt for the memoir, There's a Child Living in This House, Fall 2007), and a Random House text (Naming the World and other Exercises for the Creative Writer, "Dialogue: Master of Multitasking and Sleight of Hand", Winter 2008).

Jennifer Howard

Beverly Matherne

Poem, “Rattlesnake Blues,” in the Interdisciplinary Humanities: Blues and Jazz.. Beverly’s is the first entry in Louisiana in Words, a 2007 anthology of non-fiction shorts, each a minute or less, from 120 writers across the world, published by Pelican. She also recently did a blues poetry performance at La Cave de Poésie, Brasserie du Théâtre, in Montauban, France.
Beverly also has three poems in French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets, from Louisiana Literature Press. Among the 32 poets in the anthology are Mark Strand and Bin Ramke.

Kia Jane Richmond

Had a book chapter included in Closing the Gap: English Educators Address the Tensions Between Teacher Preparation and Teaching Writing in Secondary Schools (Information Age Publishing, 2007).
Co-authored essay in a special issue of The Writing Instructor (September 2007). The article, "Composition Studies/English Education Connections" was written with English Education professors from CMU, EMU, and WMU. Http://www.writinginstructor.com/cseeconnections (9/20/07).
Named editor (with Doug Baker) of MCTE's Language Arts Journal of Michigan.

Jaspal K. Singh’s

Recent publications include:

Africa in India: The African Diaspora in India in Kamal Amrohi’s Film Razia Sultan: An Anthology of African in India, Ed. John Hawley, 2007
Memory of Trauma in Meena Alexander’s Texts. Indian Diaspora: Retrospect and Prospect. New Delhi: Sage Publication, 2007. 55-80. (Refereed)
Creative work, short story: ―Eternal Moments. South Asian Review: Creative
Writing Issue. 27.3 (2007): 41-53.
Creative work, poem: ―Culver City Gas Station. The Offbeat: Tell Me Everything. 7 (2007): 71.

John Smolens

Article on writing historical fiction ("Build a Bridge to the Past") in The Writer.
Essay entitled “Letter from America” in February 2008 issue of The Turkish Book Review, published by Plan B Publishers, Istanbul, Turkey.
Article on travel writing (“Write with Your Feet”) published in the May 2008 issue of The Writer magazine.

Laura Soldner, David Worley, and Debra Worley

Communication Counts: Getting It Right in College and Life, published by Pearson Education, Inc., an imprint of Longman.

Russ Thorburn’s

Father, Tell Me I Have Not Aged, a book of poetry, published by Marick Press, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, 2007.

Robert Whalen

2002 monograph, The Poetry of Immanence, has been selected by University of Toronto Press for publication in a digital format.The 2007 Peter White Scholar, Whalen is working on a critical documentary edition of George Herbert's English verse, under contract with University of Virginia Press. Article in Festschrift for Ian Lancashire: New Paths for Computing Humanists (U of Toronto).

David Wood