Department News
Abbie Mourey (MA-into-PhD) has three upcoming publications: a short story, "Blood on Snow" to be published by Bluff & Vine: A Literary Review; a poem, "In the Nighttime, the Flowers Cried Out" will be published by Women in Art and Literature Magazine; and an essay, "Passion Realized, Passion Repressed: Symbols of Passion in The Scarlet Letter" with The Hyacinth Review.
Emily Grace's (Ph.D. candidate) conference presentation, "Music as Freedom, Music as Limitation in the 'Sirens' Episode of James Joyce's Ulysses" from the College English Association's 2025 Conference was chosen from the conference's "Best in Section" papers for publication in the CEA Critic (vol. 87.3).
Jane Forsyth Pallares started position as adjunct professor at Villanova in their Freshmen Core reading & writing intensive program, the Augustine and Culture Program.
Dr. Amanda Auerbach's academic book Getting Lost in the Novel: Strategic Confusion in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Fiction was published by Cambridge UP in August 2025.
Dr. Lilla Kopár published a chapter on early medieval sculpture titled “Animals in Stone” in Animalia: Animal and Human Interaction in the Early Medieval English World, ed. by Gale Owen-Crocker and Maren Clegg-Hyer (The Material Culture of Daily Living, Vol. 5. Liverpool UP, 2025, pp. 226-249). She also co-organized two conference sessions on runic writing and co-presented a paper (with Dr. Kerstin Majewski, Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany) called “What even is runology?” at the International Conference of ISSEME (International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England) held in Düsseldorf, Germany in July 2025. She has been serving as treasurer and member of the Advisory Board of ISSEME since 2020. At CUA, she has been newly appointed as Interim Director of the Center for the Study of Early Christianity as of Fall 2025. https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/9781836240273