ENGLISH DEPARTMENT NEWS
NACLO 2023 at MTSU
Dr. Aleka Blackwell is a national team coach for NACLO, the North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition. The contest is for high school students who are competing to make the national team. Top performers on the open round will be invited to compete in the invitational round. The winners of the invitational round will be eligible t...
Dr Albakry in the News
Dr Mohammed Albakry, Professor of English, has recently contributed two important opinion pieces to Inside Higher Ed and The Tennesseean. The first, published December 6, "On Wri...
Faculty Service Awards
We are proud to announce MTSU’s 2022 service awards for the following English faculty members:
- Will Brantley, 30 years
- Elyce Helford, 30 years
- Randy Mackin, 25 years
- Ron Kates, 25 years
- Robert Lawrence, 20 years
- Jennifer Kates, 20 years
- Laura Dubek, 20 years <...>
English Graduate Student Makes Most of New York Public Library Fellowship
English PhD candidate Harlow Crandall was awarded a short-term fellowship by the New York Public Library to conduct research in their archives. Read Crandall's engaging article on his experience, published in the NYPL blog: "Starts Like a Kiss and Ends like a Curse: The Enigma of Jim Carroll."