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The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century

Gabrielle Foreman, Jim Casey, and Sarah Patterson’s edited collection is now out from the University of North Carolina Press.

Shara McCallum, 2021-22 Penn State Laureate, Publishes New Volume

Shara's latest collection of poetry, No Ruined Stone, was published by Alice James Books in August 2021

Michael Bérubé, recipient of the 2021 ADE Francis Andrew March Award

Bérubé received this award, for distinguished service to the profession of English studies, at the 2022 Annual MLA Convention.

New Poetry Collections, Keith Gilyard and Aldon Lynn Nielsen

Out now: Keith Gilyard’s Impressions: New and Selected Poems and Aldon Nielsen’s Back Pages: Selected Poems of A. L. Nielsen

Tina Chen, 2021 Excellence in Mentorship Award

Tina Chen receives 2021 award honoring her indefatigable mentorship from AAAS

Robert Volpicelli, PSU Alum and Past CALS Fellow, Publishes First Book

"Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour" derives from the dissertation project that earned Volpicelli, now an Assistant Professor of English at Randolph-Macon College (VA), a CALS Dissertation Fellowship in 2014-15.

Manini Samarth publishes new short-fiction collection

'Being Here' was published by University Press of Kentucky in February 2022

CALS Award Winners Land Tenure-Track Positions for 2022-2023

Akash Belsare, Leland Tabares, and Nathaniel Windon will each begin tenure-track positions starting in Fall 2022.

Shirley Moody-Turner Publishes New Collection of Anna Julia Cooper’s Work

Moody-Turner's new edited collection features a variety of works (some never-before-published) by the influential Black writer, thinker, and activist.