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Submissions from 2024
Do Y’all Say Gay or Trans?: The Impact of Gender and Sexuality on College Students’ Experiences in the Rural South, Lisa A. Costello, Marieke Van Willigen, and Clare Walsh
Submissions from 2023
“Admission to One. . . Admission to All”: The (End of the) Radical Dream of Open Admissions in the Post-Desegregation South, Annie Mendenhall
Submissions from 2022
Social Justice Conference Planning for Writing Studies: Frameworks, Triumphs, and Challenges, Antonio Byrd, Maria Novotny, Michael Pemberton, and Vershawn Young
Reflections, Janet Dale
Uninvited, Janet Dale
Moriturus (Ascanius and the Stag), Julia Griffin
The Rise and Fall of ‘Blonde’ Aligns With the History of Film Marketing, Amanda Konkle
Assessing L2 writing in the digital age: Opportunities and challenges, Jinrong Li and Mimi Li
Using Perusall to Motivate Students’ Curriculum-based Academic Reading, Mimi Li and Jinrong Li
Common Misconceptions about Text Recycling in Scientific Writing, Cary A. Moskovitz, Susanne Hall, and Michael Pemberton
Not the Discarding but the Cleaving, Christina Olson
“...reveling in that freedom”: Roxane Gay’s Hunger as 21st-Century Freedom Narrative, Kendra R. Parker
Seek and Hide, Laura Valeri
Submissions from 2021
Understanding Text Recycling: A Guide for Researchers, Susanne Hall, Cary A. Moskovitz, and Michael Pemberton
Blood Ties, Blood Sacrifice, and the Blood Feud in Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series, Carol P. Jamison
Review of Politeness in the History of English: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Andreas H. Jucker, Carol Parrish Jamison
Loyal, Laura Valeri
Submissions from 2020
Gaming Design Thinking: Wicked Problems, Sufficient Solutions, and the Possibility Space of Games, Laquana Cooke, Lisa Dusenberry, and Joy Robinson
Building Psychological Safety Through Training Interventions: Manage the Team, Not Just the Project, Lisa Dusenberry and Joy Robinson
Review of Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe by Lydia Zeldenrust, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of Mobility and Identity in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales by Sarah Breckenbridge Wright, Carol Parrish Jamison
As the World Burns: “Checking In” (An Annotated Letter to My Students with Lessons from Octavia E. Butler), Kendra R. Parker
Review of The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins, Kendra R. Parker
Vampire in Brooklyn: A Passing Narrative, Kendra R. Parker
I’m not the vampire he is; I give in return for my taking': Tracing Vampirism in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy, Kendra R. Parker and Gregory Jerome Hampton
Book Review: Investigative Creative Writing: Teaching and Practice by Mark Spitzer, Laura Valeri
For Us, To Us, About Us: Racial Unrest and Cultural Transformation, Dana A. Williams and Kendra R. Parker
Submissions from 2019
Nicholas Trivet, Carol P. Jamison
Review of English Vocabulary Today: Into the 21st Century by Barry J. Blake, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of The Poet and the Antiquaries: Chaucerian Scholarship and the Rise of Literary History 1532-1635 by Megan L. Cook, Carol Parrish Jamison
Intergroup Dialogue and Difficult Conversations: Teaching Butler at a Private, Christian, Predominantly White Institution, Kendra R. Parker
Noble Savages, Magical Negroes, and Exotic Others, Oh My! Black Female Vampires in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2, Kendra R. Parker
State of the Field: Teaching with Digital Tools in the Writing and Communication Classroom, Joy Robinson, Lisa Dusenberry, Liz Hutter, Halcyon Lawrence, Andy Frazee, and Rebecca Burnett
Collaborative Strategies for Distributed Teams: Innovation Through Interlaced Collaborative Writing., Joy Robinson, Lisa Dusenberry, and Halcyon Lawrence
Serious Interactive Fiction: Constraints, Interfaces, and Creative Writing Pedagogy, Robert Terry and Lisa Dusenberry
Assembly Heart, Laura Valeri
Harlequin Babies, Laura Valeri
Telltale Interviews: Lessons in True-Life Trauma Narratives, Laura Valeri
A Step Beyond Show Don’t Tell: The Poetic Image in Fiction, Laura E. Valeri
The Tale: What Fox’s Narrative Structure Can Teach Us About Writing True Stories, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2018
The Crucible after Six Decades, Christopher P. Baker
The Crucible in Four Voices, Christopher P. Baker
Being There, Lisa A. Costello
Review of The Child Savage, 1890–2010: From Comics to Games ed. by Elisabeth Wesseling, Lisa Dusenberry
Chivalry without Borders: A Classroom Collaboration between English and Spanish Medievalists, Grant A. Gearhart and Carol Parrish Jamison
A Girl Is Arya: Acting and the Power of Performance, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems by Daniel Donague, Carol Parrish Jamison
Docudrama in the Post-Truth Era, Amanda Konkle
Turnitin and peer review in ESL academic writing classrooms, Jinrong Li and Mimi Li
The Online Language Learning Imperative: Maximizing Assessment Practices to Ensure Student Success, Stephanie Link and Jinrong Li
Google, Baidu, the Library, and ACRL Framework: Assessing Information-Seeking Behaviors of First-Year Multilingual Writers through Research-Aloud Protocols, Llian W. Mina, Jeanne Law Bohanan, and Jinrong Li
More Than Skin-Deep: Reading Past Whiteness in Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”, Laura Valeri
Toxic Machismo, Sexual Identity, and Heritage in the Southwest: An Interview with Jose Skinner, Laura Valeri
Ice Storm, Laura E. Valeri
If Math Students Acted Like Creative Writing Students, Laura E. Valeri
Translation of Exile Camp by Diego Valeri, Laura E. Valeri
What They Know, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2017
Lord of the Flies, Christopher P. Baker
On Rebels and Rebellion in Literature, Christopher P. Baker
‘Real Rebellion is a Creator of Values’: Doctors as Rebels in Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People and Camus’ The Plague, Christopher P. Baker
Romeo and Juliet on Film, Christopher P. Baker
‘These Hard Hearts’: Aristotelian Morality and Peter Brook’s King Lear, Christopher P. Baker
Progress and Backlash in the Wake of Obergefell: Reaching Conservative Southern Teachers through the Power of Literature, Scott A. Beck, Dina C. Walker-DeVose, Laura E. Agnich, Caren Town, and Trina Smith
Dreaming and Reading Westeros: Bridging Medievalism and Modernity, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of British Literature I textbook, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of The Old English History of the World: An Anglo-Saxon Rewriting of Oroisius edited and translated by Malcolm R. Godden, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of The Word and Its Ways in English by Walter Hirtle, Carol Parrish Jamison
Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom, Amanda Konkle
Online Peer Review Using Turnitin in First-Year Writing Classes, Mimi Li and Jinrong Li
Final Report: Georgia Southern University ad hoc Committee on Student Ratings of Instruction, Nan S. LoBue, Trent W. Maurer, E. Ochieng, and Cordelia Zinskie
A President Ruled By Insecurity Is More Predictable Than You Think, Jared Yates Sexton
Donald Trump and America’s Broken Populist Promise, Jared Yates Sexton
Donald Trump Didn’t Create The Rage That Fueled Charlottesville, But He Sure As Hell Unleashed It, Jared Yates Sexton
Hillbilly Sellout: The Politics of J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy Are Already Being Used To Gut The Working Poor, Jared Yates Sexton
My Roadtrip With A Republican, Jared Yates Sexton
Stop Normalizing Trump’s Dangerous Behavior, Jared Yates Sexton
The Hidden Man, Jared Yates Sexton
The Invisibles, Jared Yates Sexton
The Maddening Narrative That IU Fans Are Reasonable Is Just Plain Wrong, Jared Yates Sexton
The Nixon Disease, Jared Yates Sexton
The President Who Worsens Suffering, Jared Yates Sexton
The Prison of Our Skulls, Jared Yates Sexton
What It’s Like To Report On Extremism In The Era of Trump, Jared Yates Sexton
When Is Enough Enough: Pondering Revolution As A State Fails, Jared Yates Sexton
Why Trump Doesn’t Need Fox News Anymore, Jared Yates Sexton
Dog Island Trash Talk, Laura E. Valeri
Hindu Lore with a Southern Twang: An Interview with Joshilyn Jackson, Laura E. Valeri
Translation of Room 347 by Diego Valeri, Laura E. Valeri
White, Like Me, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2016
‘Life is a casting off’ in Death of a Salesman, Christopher P. Baker
The Art of Losing: Reflections on Reading, Re-Visioning, and Rebirth, Helen E. Howells
J. K. Rowling’s Own Book of Chivalry: Incorporating the Harry Potter Series in an Arthurian Literature Course, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of Spellbound: Untangling English Spelling by Robbins Burling, Carol Parrish Jamison
Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies, Amanda Konkle
Konkle on Smyth, Nobody’s Girl Friday: The Best Time for Women in Hollywood, Amanda Konkle
Explaining Dynamic Interactions in Wiki-Based Collaborative Writing, Mimi Li and Wei Zhu
American Horror Story, Jared Yates Sexton
A Nation Forever On The Brink, Jared Yates Sexton
A New Heaven and A New Earth, Jared Yates Sexton
