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Very very happy to announce, on behalf of the @MidwestMLA, that Leah Milne (@DrMLovesLit) is the recipient of the 2021 MMLA Book Prize, for her book NOVEL SUBJECTS.
To celebrate Indigenous Peoples all year (not just the second Monday of Oct) here are some books that came out this year to add to your library or your holiday shopping list. What are you reading by Native authors this fall?
We're pleased to announce the publication of the first of a two-part issue on Black Appalachia, guest edited by @CrystalWilki. These issues are sure to become classics of Black and Appalachian studies. Please help us spread the word! https://t.co/XSSwEduikc
Fun at Butter Art Fair this past weekend. Also apparently very excited to be hot pink in front of writing by Januarie York. @ganggangculture#ButterArtFair
Grads/fellows/faculty: Join us this Wednesday, August 28 at 2:30pm on campus in 102 Weaver for a talk by Susan Ferber (Oxford University Press) about how to research publishers, write proposals, what academic and trade publishing means, and more. Free and open to all!
Alt text: Leah Milne - "Making A Way Out of No Way: Hurston’s Indigenous Inspirations"
Author & anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston opens her 1928 essay, “How It Feels to be Colored Me,” by cracking a joke about her origins. “I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of...