Srila Munukutla, a creative writing minor, had two poems that she wrote in English 304 published in Quirk, University of the Incarnate Word's literary journal.
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Adrianna Deptula recently published a collaborative publication, "Leveraging Human-Centered Design and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Rural Healthcare: Wicked Problems, Design Thinking, and Mutable Methodologies," in the Journal of Written Communication.
Marilyn Mobley's book, Toni Morrison and the Geopoetics of Place, Race, and Be/longing, received the Toni Morrison Society Book Prize at the ALA meetings in Chicago, during the African American Literature and Culture Society Reception, Reading, and Awards Ceremony on May 22nd.
David S. Rutledge's book about Joyce Carol Oates will be published by LSU Press this fall. Here is the link to the catalogue: https://t.co/ngxD4LWLFw He earned his PhD from CWRU English in 1997, working with Gary Stonum and William Marling, primarily.
Alum ('95) Sarah E. Turner's most recent book length publication is Critical Race Theory and the American Media; in addition to other chapters/articles, she also has a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of the New African Diasporic Literature (2024).
On May 7, 2026, Chiyuma Elliott led a webinar titled "Shakespeare in Harlem" (about Shakespeare references in writing by James Baldwin and Langston Hughes) at the National Humanities Center for their "Humanities in Class" series.https://t.co/uGDAJM8dTf
Aquene Payne ('18) has been elected as Member at Large for the board of the Private Law Librarians and Information Professionals Special Interest Section (PLLIP-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).
On March 22–23, Nárcisz Fejes served as a panelist on environmental humanities pedagogy at the “Radical Visions” Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund convening (https://t.co/Qe3qhUAZSi)). She also participated in the Midwest Climate Summit Conference on March 30–April 1.