In September, a review of Michael Blanchard‘s most recent book, The Pearl Diver’s Daughter & Other Poems, appeared in Southern Literary Review. In the review, associate editor Claire Hamner Matturro described the book as “a collection of gently intellectual and lyrical poems which often question the place in the world for both poetry and for a poet. Filled with evocative sensory details, radiant natural images, and a frequent sense of curiosity and wonder, the poems are a delight—and sometimes a mystery.”
In the summer of 2024, Dr. Lynn Burley participated in a five week scholarly teaching workshop that resulted in her contribution of an artifact entitled, “Lexical Foregrounding and Lexical Cohesion in Stephen King’s The Shining,” to TRILL (Teaching Resources and Innovations Library in Linguistics). TRILL is being developed in partnership with the Linguistic Society of America and will be the first peer-reviewed venue for the sharing of high quality, evidence-based linguistics teaching artifacts.
In September of 2024, Dr. Alejandro González‘s short story, “Aqui adentro,” was published in Interpretextos, a journal that features creative works as well as critical analysis.
In July 2024, Dr. Ty Hawkins received UCA’s Department Chair/School Director Leadership Award. He was a finalist for that award in 2023. In addition, Hawkins recently published two articles. “Vietnam Vet Noir Since 9/11: Quarry, Dog Soldiers, and the Anti-Ethical Appeal of a Contemporary Subgenre,” appeared in 2023 in LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory. Likewise, “Cormac McCarthy’s ‘truth that would silence poetry a thousand years’: The Atomic Bomb and the Fate of the West in The Passenger and Stella Maris,” appeared in Fall 2024 in The Cormac McCarthy Journal.