Recent Faculty Book Publications

Recent Faculty Articles and Creative Work

2025-2026

Schultz, Kathy Lou. “Against Spectatorship: ‘Being with’ in Claudia Rankine’s Long Poems.” Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Matter, Form, Experiment, edited by Ridvan Askin and Julius Greve, University of New Mexico Press.

2024-2025

Gorrell, Nicholas. “‘All We Know is Blues!’: The Persistence of the Blues in Southern African American Culture.” Mississippi Quarterly,vol. 77, no. 1, March 2025, pp. 69–94.
Gal, Ana G. "Teaching Social Justice Through Vampire Narratives." Teaching with Vampires, Ed. Melissa Anyiwo, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-67039-8.
Casal, J. E., & Kessler, M. (2024). Introduction to special issue: Assessing the effectiveness of corpus-based approaches to English language teaching. TESOL Quarterly, 58. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3331.
Kessler, M., & Casal, J. E. (2024). English writing instructors' use of theories, genres, and activities: A survey of teachers' beliefs and practices. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, 69, 101384. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeap.2024.101384.
Casal, J. E., & Qiu, X. (2024). Non-finite clause use in novice and expert academic writing in Agricultural Science: A corpus driven analysis. In M. Walková (Ed.). Linguistic approaches in EAP: Expanding the discourse. Bloomsbury.
Casal, J. E., & Kessler, M. (2024). Rhetorical move-step analysis. In Conducting Genre-Based Research in Applied Linguistics. In M. Kessler & C. Polio (Eds.) (pp. 82-104). Routledge.
Fredlund, Katherine. "Six Words Toward Knowing and Feeling." Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, 2024. https://www.assayjournal.com/katherine-fredlund-six-words-toward-knowing-and-feeling-assay-111.html.
Gillo, Emily. Social Media Platform Analysis. Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative’s Teaching Materials Repository. June 2024.
Gillo, Emily. “Review of Disobedient Aesthetics: Surveillance, Bodies, Control by Anthony Stagliano.” Computers & Composition Online. June 2024.
Gillo, Emily. “Digital Eyes on Bodies: Analyzing Post-Roe Reproductive Surveillance.” Talking Back Through Rhetorical Surveillance Studies: Intersectional Feminist and Queer Approaches special issue of Peitho, vol. 27, is. 1 January 2025. https://doi.org/10.37514/PEI-J.2024.27.1.08.
Helms, L. (2024). Spanish for Emergency Room Nursing: A task-based needs analysis, TASK, 4(2), 164–202. https://doi.org/10.1075/task.00032.hel
Santo, Courtney. “If/Then.” Best American Essays 2024, Ed. Wesley Morris. October 2024. ISBN: 9780063351554.
Schlich, Eric. "The Game of Life." swamp pink, no. 16. December 2024. https://swamp-pink.charleston.edu/featured/the-game-of-life/.
Schultz, Kathy Lou. “An Epistemology of Self-Knowing: Suzanne Césaire, André Breton, and Caribbean Surrealism.” African American Review Special Issue on Afro Surrealism.
Schultz, Kathy Lou. “Against Spectatorship: ‘Being with’ in Claudia Rankine’s Long Poems.” Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Matter, Form, Experiment, edited by Ridvan Askin and Julius Greve, University of New Mexico Press. Forthcoming 2024.
Schultz, Kathy Lou. Review. Writing Whiteness in Contemporary America: Ugly White People by Stephanie Li. Modern Fiction Studies.
Skaja, Emily. "50 Ways to End a Poem." Lit Hub. April 12, 2024.
Skaja, Emily. "Three Poems by Emily Skaja." American Poetry Review. July/August Issue, 2024.
Wright, Lyn and Daryl Anderson. "Talking About Racism and Race with Children." American Association for Applied Linguistics Brief. 2024.

Department of English 2025 Faculty Award Winners

Dr. J. Elliott Casal, 2024-2025 Graduate Student Association Mentor Award
Dr. J. Elliott Casal, Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Support Program Grant
Dr. Kathy Lou Schultz, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Research Award in the Humanities
Dr. Lyn Wright, Distinguished Research in the Humanities
Prof. Marcus Wicker, South Arts Literary Fellowship for Tennessee

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