Scholarly Activities
Katherine Adams: Kate has published 15 books. Her favorites are A Group of Their Own: College Writing Courses and American Women Writers, Progressive Politics and the Training of America's Persuaders, and Easy Access Handbook, which is going into its fourth edition. Her latest book, Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign, Controlling Representations: Depictions of Women in a Mainstream Newspaper, 1900-1950 was published in 2008.
John Biguenet is a translator, a short story writer and a novelist. His most recent publications are The Torturer's Apprentice, a collection of stories, and the novel, Oyster. He has received an Atlas Award and will be on sabbatical for fall and spring 2005-2006. He won a 2007 Marquette Fellowship for the writing of his next play, Night Train, which he developed on a Studio Attachment at the Royal National Theatre in London.
Christopher Chambers, the editor of The New Orleans Review, publishes extensively in poetry and fiction journals. He was a finalist for the Sarabande Press's Mary McCarthy Prize in Fiction. He received an National Endowment for the Arts Fellowhsip in Literature for 2008 and is currently on sabbatical, working on a novel.
Barbara Ewell has published on various topics: Michael Drayton, Kate Chopin, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, southern literature, Louisiana women writers, and most recently, an anthology, Southern Local Color: Tales of Region, Race and Gender. Recent lectures have linked the experience of post-Katrina New Orleans with the work of Kate Chopin, and she also was the keynote speaker at the Faulkner and Chopin Conference at Southeast Missouri University.
Andrew Macdonald publishes extensively in the criticism of popular fiction and film. He has written a book on Howard Fast and is co-author of Shapeshifiting and Shaman or Sherlock? He has, with Gina Macdonald, just edited Jane Austen on Screen.
Mary McCay has written books on Rachel Carson and on Ellen Gilchrist, and she was a contributing editor for The Feminist Companion to Literature in English. She has written extensivly on Southern Women writers for Post-War Literatures in English, and she is a regular reviewer for The Times Picayune and for Booklist. She has recently published an essay on the novelist, Joseph O'Connor.
Peggy McCormack has published extensively on Henry James. She is the author of The Rule of Money: Gender, Class, and Exchange Economics in the Fiction of Henry James, and the editor of Questioning the Master: Gender and Sexuality in Henry James's Writings.
Melanie McKay has co-authored several texts on technical and business writing, among them, The Accountant's Guide to Professional Communications.
John Mosier is writing a book on the eastern front in World War II for Simon and Schuster. In January 2007, he delivered a series of lectures at the Unievrsity of Massachusetts School of Law, and appeared on their Great Books program. In June he led a seminar on leadership for the Treasury Executive Institute in Washington. The TEI is responsible for training executives in the Treasury, the Secret Service, and Homeland Security.
John Sebastian's current projects include an edition of the fifteenth-century Croxton Play of the Sacrament and a review of recent pyschoanalytic approaches to Chaucer that has been commissioned by the medieval section editor of "Literature Compass," a new on-line literature resource published by Blackwell ( http://www.literature-compass.com/ ).
Marcus Smith is working on a book-length study of Robin Hood and the New World and the extension of the legend into Global Culture. His essay, co-authored with Julian Wasserman, “Sketches by a Green Crayon: Washington Irving, Robin Hood and the Emerging American Frontier,” has recently been published.
Mark Yakich has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals, including Harvard Review, Denver Quarterly, Quick Fiction, and Zyzzyva. His first poetry collection, Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross, was a winner of the 2003 National Poetry Series. His most recent poetry collection, The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine, was published by Penguin Books this spring.