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.
• Casal, J. E., Kurtz, L. M. (2025). Writing with Legal English: An Integrated Formal and Functional Analysis of Case Facts. In. D. Green (Ed.), The Future of Teaching Law and Language, Austrian Association for Legal Linguistics.
• Casal, J. E., & Kessler, M. (2025). Data-Driven Learning and genre awareness. In L. McCullum & D. Tafazoli (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Computer Assisted Language Learning. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Hayashi, S., & Casal, J. E. (2025). Qualitative designs in Data-Driven Learning research. In L. McCullum & D. Tafazoli (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Computer Assisted Language Learning. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Xu, Y., & Casal, J. E. (2025). “I dunno, as long as it proves my point”: A concept-based approach to teaching citation and intertextuality to emerging writers. The Modern Language Journal, 109, 961-990.
• Casal, J. E., Stewart, C., & Windsor, A. (2025). "It is important to consult" a linguist: Verb-Argument Constructions in ChatGPT and human experts’ medical and financial advice. PLoS One, 20(5).
• Golparvar, S., Casal, J. E., & Abolhasani, H. (2025). The development of syntactic complexity in integrated writing: A focus on fine-grained measures. Assessing Writing, 66, 100983.
• Qiu, X., & Casal, J. E. (2025). Non-finite clause use in disciplinary research writing: a formulaic sequence-based functional comparison between expert and student writers. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 63(4).

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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