Claudia Anguiano had her first authored article, "Connecting Community Voices: A Latino/a Critical Race Theory Lens on Environmental Justice Advocacy," accepted to the Journal of International & Intercultural Communication. Furthermore, the panel, "Exploring the cultural identities and protest of voices across age, race, and space," was accepted for presentation at the Western States Communication Association Conference, to be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this February 2012.
Faith Beasley's new edited volume on how to teach 17th and 18th century French women writers—Options for Teaching Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Women Writers—appeared with the MLA in October. The volume contains over 30 essays about how to incorporate women's texts from the beginning of the 17th century until the end of the 18th into courses across the curriculum.
Josh Compton had a book chapter published: "Frustration vaccination? Inoculation theory and digital learning," in S. P. Ferris (Ed.), Teaching, learning and the net generation: Concepts and tools for reaching digital learners. He also had a journal article published: "Image repair in late night comedy: Letterman and the Palin joke controversy," with B. Miller in Public Relations Review 37, 415-421. Finally, he presented a paper at the National Communication Association convention in New Orleans in November: "Late-night television comedy, mid-afternoon congressional testimony: Attacks on Stephen Colbert's House Judiciary committee appearance."
Ernie Hebert has finished a draft of his handbook on fiction writing, Recycling Reality: Publishing, Writing, Despair, Ecstasy, and is now shopping the handbook around what he calls the "terrifying world of trade publishing." His novel, Never Back Down, is scheduled for publication by David Godine Inc. in April 2012.
Gary Lenhart will participate on the "Across the Class Divide" panel at the 2012 Associated Writing Programs Conference in Chicago. Other panelists will be Roger Bonair-Agard, Metta Sama, Veronica Golos, and Scott Hightower. The description of the panel is as follows: "Gary Lenhart's The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class is one of the few books examining poetry by working-class writers in the United States. His analysis inspired this panel's focus on the need for creative writing pedagogy that addresses an aspect in our student population that is often overlooked—that of social class and the aesthetic and cultural challenges faced by working-class students. We want to generate new ideas and find best practices for the education of the next generation of poets from all kinds of backgrounds."
Jeffrey Sharlet has published feature essays in Rolling Stone and Bookforum as well as excerpts from his recent book, Sweet Heaven When I Die, in Guernica and Tablet. Professor Sharlet also helped create OccupyWriters.com, a simple statement of support for the broad concerns of the Occupy movement, signed by 2,000 writers—including 5 U.S. poet laureates and numerous Pulitzer and National Book Award winners, many of whom—Alice Walker, Ursula K. LeGuin, Barbara Kingsolver, Jonathan Lethem, Judith Butler, and Jorie Graham among them—have contributed to an anthology in-process.
Melanie Taylor has just published her second book, Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause, published by Georgia University Press. For a description and reviews of the book, see here.
Carl Thum recently produced the eighth video in the Academic Success for Dartmouth Students series. The video, which addresses the importance of sleep and learning, mood, and performance, can be viewed here. The other videos—about active learning, time management, stress management, note-taking, etc.—can be viewed through the Academic Skills Center's website.
