Literature and Philosophy

Faculty

Olivia Carr Edenfield has been awarded a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship in the Humanities. Her project was selected from hundreds of applicants, and her residency period of one month is the largest period of time funded by the Center.

David Dudley's most recent novel, Caleb's Wars, was just published by Clarion Books, a divison of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. It is available at Amazon.

Richard Flynn was the Keynote Speaker at "Nothing New Under the Sun?: Novelty, Game-Changing, and Genre-Breaking," the 2011 University of Florida English Graduate Organization Conference, on October 28-29, 2011, at the University of Florida.

The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and the Vice President for Research have awarded Timothy Whelan a seed grant in the amount of $5,000 for the Crabb Robinson Diary Project. The project exhibited great potential for extramural funding and significant scholarly merit.

Timothy Whelan has been awarded a prestigious Research Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies, Ludwig Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, 1 September through 15 October 2011, based upon his work on the poetry and prose of 18th and early 19th century British Nonconformist women writers. Dr. Whelan will be working on a critical monograph of a group of five Nonconformist women writers from the West Country of England who wrote between 1766 and 1840. During his fellowship, he will present a paper on two of the women writers, as well as a paper on S. T. Coleridge and a possible symposium with graduate students at the university on working with manuscripts and conducting archival research. Since there are no sabbaticals at the moment, Dr. Whelan will be teaching online for Georgia Southern during his research fellowship.

Recent Publications

Flynn, Richard. "My Folk Revival: Childhood, Politics, and Popular Music." Time of Beauty, Time of Fear: The Romantic Legacy in the Literature of Childhood. Ed. James Holt McGavran, Jr. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2012. pp. 151-168.

Flynn, Richard. Rev. of Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature, ed. Mike Cadden. Children's Literature Association Quarterly 37.1 (Spring 2012) 112-116.

Kundu, Gautam. "Essay Review On Indian Partition Literature: 'Witness Narratives.'" ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 24.3 (2011): 193-200.

Whelan, Timothy, gen. ed. Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, 8 vols (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2011). [Dr. Julia Griffin served as volume editor for Volumes 1 and 2.] http://www.pickeringchatto.com/
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Whelan, Timothy, and John Barrell, ed. The Political Writings of William Fox: Abolitionist, Tory, and Friend to the French Revolution. Nottingham, UK: Trent Editions, 2011.

Whelan, Timothy. "Martha Gurney and the Anti-Slave Trade Movement, 1788-94." Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865. Ed. Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. pp. 44-65.

Whelan, Timothy. "The Godwin and Crabb Robinson Diaries, 1813: A Study in Contrasts." Bodleian Library Record 24 (2011): 98-104.

Whelan, Timothy. "Tim Whelan reads William Hazlitt: The First Modern Man, by Duncan Wu." Coleridge Bulletin, New Series 34 (2010): 69-74.

Whelan, Timothy. "Coleridge and Some Bristol Baptists, 1794-96." Wordsworth and Coleridge in the West Country. Ed. Nick Roe. Houndsmill, UK: Palgrave, 2010. pp. 99-114.

Whelan, Timothy. "Radical Politics and Unitarian Piety: The Life and Career of Benjamin Flower, 1755-1829." Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society 24 (2010): 221-253.

Flynn, Richard. "Randall Jarrell's The Bat-Poet: Poets, Children and Readers in an Age of Prose." in The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature. Ed. Julia Mickenberg and Lynne Vallone. NY: Oxford UP, 2011. pp. 53-70.

Pellegrino, Joe. "Mughals, Music, and 'The Crown of India' Masque: Reassessing Elgar and the Raj." South Asian Review 31.1 (2010): 13-36.

Flynn, Richard. "Toward a Digital Poetics for Children." Children's Literature Association Quarterly 35.4 (Winter 2010): 418-426.

Edwards, Bradley C. "Autobiography and Art: Bharati Mukherjee's Transfiguration of Fact into Fiction in Jasmine." Bharati Mukherjee: Critical Perspectives (New Orientation Series). Ed. Somdatta Mandal. New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2010.

Edwards, Bradley C. "Rev. of Kate Chopin in the Twenty First Century: New Critical Essays, edited by Heather Ostman." American Literary Realism 43.1 (Fall 2010).

Thomson, Douglass. "A Note on One of the Earliest Gothic Ballads: Frank Sayers’ 'Sir Egwin.'" Papers on Language and Literature 46.2 (2010).

Eaton, William, and Robert Higgerson. "How to Malebranche an al-Ghazali: Causation, Miracles, and Natural Events." Revue Roumaine De Philosophie 54.2 (2010).

Students

Megan Morris (BA English 2012) and Devin Cifu (BA English 2013) presented "'In Fair Verona, where we lay our scene': The Facts and Fiction behind Juliet's House," at the "Cultural Journeys: From the Local to the Global" conference at Macon State on March 23-24, 2012.

Mary Stephens (MA 2013) will be presenting her paper, "Food Fetishism in Neil Gaiman's Coraline," at the Children's Literature Association Annual Meeting in June 2012.

Brenda Richardson (Religious Studies minor) will be presenting her paper, "The Power of Voice in the Aqedah: Exploring Spoken, Imminent and Silent Voices with the Abraham Narratives," in the Student Presentation section at the Commission on Religion Conference in 2012.

Kim Shattuck (Religious Studies minor) has been accepted into the International School for Jain Studies program to study Jainism in India during the summer of 2012. Kim was awarded full funding from the ISJS.

Chris Matt Pawloski, a philosophy major, is ranked as Cadet 1472 out of 5,500 in the nation, ranking in the top 30% of his graduating class, and earning the status of "Distinguished Military Student" (DMS).

Philosophy students David Cho, Sam Gordy, and Charles Feagain won Best Picture at the Philosophy of Horror Film Festival 2011 for their short film The Lighter Alternative.

Lyndsey Brown (MA 2012), Michael Harris (MA 2012), and Jennifer Lambeth (MA 2012) were awarded Graduate Student Professional Development Fund Grants in order to attend the 2011 American Literature Association Conference.

Drew Keane (MA 2011) was awarded the inaugural Averitt Award for Excellence in Graduate Instruction by the Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies. The Averitt Award is the highest honor which the Graduate School can bestow.

Don Hatcher (MA 2011) was recently awarded a Graduate Student Professional Development Fund Grant in order to attend the 2011 Conference on College Composition and Communication.