English Department's 38th Annual Awards Day
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Lexmark Room - Main Building
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Book Prize for 2018
Professor Caroline Wigginton of the University of Mississippi has been selected to receive the 2018 Early American Literature Book Prize, which is awarded in even calendar years to a first monograph published in the prior two years, and in odd years to a second or subsequent book. Wigginton’s In the Neighborhood: Women’s Publication in Early America was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2016.
Conversations with Gurney feat. Robert Gipe
Robert Gipe, author and illustrator of the critically acclaimed novels Trampoline and Weedeater, joined the Appalachian Center's scholar-in-residence, Gurney Norman for a visit and reading. Since 1997, Robert has served as the Director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College. Through his fiction and work with the community-theater project, Higher Ground in Harlan, Kentucky, Robert has tackled tough issues in the mountains including drug abuse, environmental degradation, mining, outmigration, and discrimination.
Convo w Gurney Robert Gipe from UK College of Arts & Sciences on Vimeo.
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James F. Hardymon Theater in the Davis Marksbury Building
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Untitled: An Exploration in Three Movements
UK's MFA Ekphrastic Writing class presented a performance Friday, November 30th at the UK Art Museum called "Untitled." This was an imaginative engagement with the work of Lexington photographer, Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
Untitled: An Exploration in Three Movements
UK's MFA Ekphrastic Writing class presented a performance Friday, November 30th at the UK Art Museum called "Untitled." This was an imaginative engagement with the work of Lexington photographer, Ralph Eugene Meatyard.
Early American Literature Invites Nominations of Books for its 2019 Book Prize
The editors of Early American Literature are pleased to announce the fifth annual Early American Literature Book Prize, which will be given for an author’s second or subsequent academic monograph about American literature in the colonial period through the early republic (roughly 1830). The prize is offered in collaboration with the University of North Carolina Press, the Society of Early Americanists, and the MLA’s Forum on American Literature to 1800.
Monographs published in 2017 or 2018 are eligible for the 2019 prize, which carries a cash award of $2000.
Call for Conference Reviews, Fall 2018-Fall 2019
Early American Literature seeks conference reviewers for SSAWW 2018, ASA 2018, MLA 2019, SEA 2019, MELUS 2019, ASECS 2019, ALA 2019, NAIS 2019, and the Charles Brockden Brown Society Conference 2019. Conference reviews cover panels relevant to EAL’s readership, encompassing the overall range of the event and addressing key themes of particular interest to the reviewer. Conference reviews are generally 1500-2000 words in length, but can be longer or shorter depending on the scope of the event.
Call for Conference Reviews, Fall 2018-Fall 2019
Early American Literature seeks conference reviewers for SSAWW 2018, ASA 2018, MLA 2019, SEA 2019, MELUS 2019, ASECS 2019, ALA 2019, NAIS 2019, and the Charles Brockden Brown Society Conference 2019. Conference reviews cover panels relevant to EAL’s readership, encompassing the overall range of the event and addressing key themes of particular interest to the reviewer. Conference reviews are generally 1500-2000 words in length, but can be longer or shorter depending on the scope of the event.
Early American Literature Call for Conference Reviews, Fall 2018-Fall 2019
Early American Literature seeks conference reviewers for SSAWW 2018, ASA 2018, MLA 2019, SEA 2019, MELUS 2019, ASECS 2019, ALA 2019, NAIS 2019, and the Charles Brockden Brown Society Conference 2019. Conference reviews cover panels relevant to EAL’s readership, encompassing the overall range of the event and addressing key themes of particular interest to the reviewer. Conference reviews are generally 1500-2000 words in length, but can be longer or shorter depending on the scope of the event.