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Submissions from 2022
Moriturus (Ascanius and the Stag), Julia Griffin
The Custom of the Country, Julia Griffin
The Rise and Fall of ‘Blonde’ Aligns With the History of Film Marketing, Amanda Konkle
“...reveling in that freedom”: Roxane Gay’s Hunger as 21st-Century Freedom Narrative, Kendra R. Parker
Seek and Hide, Laura Valeri
Submissions from 2021
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
Submissions from 2020
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
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
Submissions from 2018
The Crucible after Six Decades, Christopher P. Baker
The Crucible in Four Voices, Christopher P. Baker
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
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
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
Submissions from 2015
A Trip with the Strange Woman: Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and the Book of Proverbs, Christopher P. Baker
Grapes in the Nest: The Grapes of Wrath and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Christopher P. Baker
‘Let Me the Curtains Draw’: Othello in Performance, Christopher P. Baker
R. C. Evans, Perspectives on Renaissance Poetry, Christopher P. Baker
Beyond Don as Dorian: Fin de Siecle, Mad Men, and Aesthetics, Helen E. Howells
Review of Beowulf and the Grendel-kin: Politics & Poetry in Eleventh-century England by Helen Damico, Carol Parrish Jamison
Submissions from 2014
Sidney, Religious Syncretism, and Henry VIII, Christopher P. Baker
Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and the Lost World of Real Feeling, Richard Flynn
Rev. of Talking Sketching Moving: Multiple Literacies in the Teaching of Writing, by Patricia Dunn, Helen E. Howells
Review of The Anglo-Saxon Literature Handbook by Mark C. Amodio, Carol Parrish Jamison
Submissions from 2013
D.L. Geoffrey and G.Maillet, Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice, Christopher P. Baker
Harold Bloom, In the Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible, Christopher P. Baker
"Like a Cactus Tree:" Growing up with Joni Mitchell's Music, Richard Flynn
Hidebound Prohibitions and Electronic Literacies: Separate Spheres Ideology and the Surveillance of Mommy Blogs, Helen E. Howells
Review of A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Studies edited by Jacqueline Stodnick and Renee B. Trilling, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of Barking Abby and Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship and Authority in a Female Community edited by Jennifer N. Brown and Donna Alfano Russell, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of Does Spelling Matter? by David Crystal, Carol Parrish Jamison
Submissions from 2012
Alexander Pope, Christopher P. Baker
Aphra Behn, Christopher P. Baker
Ben Jonson, Christopher P. Baker
Edward Stillingfleet, Christopher P. Baker
Geoffrey Chaucer, Christopher P. Baker
Jakob Boehme, Christopher P. Baker
James Ussher, Christopher P. Baker
John Donne, Christopher P. Baker
John Evelyn, Christopher P. Baker
Joost Vondel, Christopher P. Baker
Justus Lipsius, Christopher P. Baker
Richard Crashaw, Christopher P. Baker
Sir Walter Ralegh, Christopher P. Baker
The Duchess of Malfi and Jonson’s ‘On My First Son,’, Christopher P. Baker
William Laud, Christopher P. Baker
My Folk Revival: Childhood, Politics, and Popular Music, Richard Flynn
Review of Telling Children's Stories: Narrative Theory and Children's Literature, Richard Flynn
Review of Robin Bernstein's Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, Richard Flynn
Words in Air: Bishhop, Lowell, and the Aesthetics of Autobiographical Poetry, Richard Flynn
Rev. of Between Interruptions: 30 Women Tell the Truth About Motherhood, by Cori Howard, Helen E. Howells
Gower’s ‘The Tale of Constance’: An Exemplum Contra Envy”, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of Marie de France: A Critical Companion by Sharon Kinoshita and Peggy McCracken, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of Writing Power in Anglo-Saxon England: Texts, Hierarchies, Economies by Catherine M. Clarke, Carol Parrish Jamison
Submissions from 2011
Greedily she ingorg'd: Eve and the Bread of Life, Christopher P. Baker
Saint Peter and Macbeth’s Porter, Christopher P. Baker
Ambivalent, Double, Divided: Reading and Rereading Perry Nodelman, Richard Flynn
Men of Our Time, Richard Flynn
Randall Jarrell's The Bat-Poet: Poets, Children and Readers in an Age of Prose, Richard Flynn
Submissions from 2010
Charmian’s ‘lass unparallel’d’, Christopher P. Baker
Review of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Richard Flynn
Producing the Prince of Publishing: Charlotte Brontë and George Smith, Helen E. Howells
Review of Guide to Grammar and Writing Website sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, Carol Parrish Jamison
Review of The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Analysis edited by Bernd Heine and Heiko Narrog, Oxford University Press, Carol Parrish Jamison
Submissions from 2009
A. D. Cousins, ed. The Shakespeare Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to the Man and His Works, Christopher P. Baker
Bone Lace and Donne’s ‘Bracelet of Bright Haire About the Bone’, Christopher P. Baker
B. Podewell, Shakespeare’s Watch: A Guide to Time and Location in the Plays, Christopher P. Baker
G. Logan, The Eloquent Shakespeare: A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue, Christopher P. Baker
J. Cox, Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith, Christopher P. Baker
J. Klause, Shakespeare, the Earl, and the Jesuit, Christopher P. Baker
Review of A Companion to Medieval Popular Romance by Raluca L. Radulescu and Cory James Rushton, D. S. Brewer, Carol Parrish Jamison
