James J. Donahue’s paper, “Voicing His Objections: Narrative Voice as Racial Critique in Percival Everett’s God’s Country,” was accepted for presentation at the annual American Literature Association conference in Boston. His paper will be part of a panel on Percival Everett and the American West sponsored by the Western Literature Association.
Donahue also has been invited to contribute an essay (and possibly conduct an interview) for a special issue of Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature devoted to graphic novels as a global narrative phenomenon.
Christina Knopf’s article, “‘Hey, Soldier! - Your Slip is Showing!’: Militarism vs. Femininity in WWII Comic Pages and Books,” was published as Chapter 1 in The Ten Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II, edited by James Kimble and Trischa Goodnow (University Press of Mississippi, January 2017).
She contributed articles on comics creators Shauna J. Grant and Julie M. Anderson to the Black Comics Encyclopedia, edited by Sheena Howard.
Knopf was also invited to submit an essay, “The Supervillain as ‘the Product of Everything You Fear: Violence, Darkness, Helplessness’ and Society,” to The Dark Side: A Supervillain Reader, contracted with the University Press of Mississippi.
Rebecca Lehmann's manuscript, Dog Star, was a finalist for the 2017 Green Rose Prize through New Issues Poetry & Prose.
Derek C. Maus's essay, “Three-Fifths of a Black Life Matters Too: Four Neo-Slave Novels from 2016, the Year ‘Post-Racial’ Definitively Stopped Being a Thing,” was accepted for inclusion in Slavery and the Post-Black Imagination, ed. Bertram D. Ashe and Ilke Saal.
He will be presenting “We Have Met the Zombie, and He is Us: Post-Human Satire in Colson Whitehead's Zone One” at the Utopia after the Human symposium at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 11-12, 2017.
Maus will also be presenting “Percival Everett's I Am Not Sidney Poitier and the Pitfalls of Racial Representation” at the “The Big No” conference at the Center for 21st Century Studies at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 27-29, 2017.
He will be presenting “‘Is it different where you come from?’: Percival Everett’s Western Fiction and Menippean Satire” at the annual American Literature Association conference in Boston, MA, May 25-28, 2017.
Sue Novak has taken on the position of Editor and contributor for the "Media Criticism" desk at CitizenCritics.org, a new nonpartisan, independent analysis website space that promotes critical analysis and discussion of politics and other matters of the public good with a focus on language use, misuse, and abuse. “We write and promote peer-reviewed work from the academic community and from experts in the myriad desks from which we publish for a broad, global audience." The website launched at the end of January under the general editorship of Dr. Jennifer Mercieca of Texas A&M, and Sue's first article was entitled "Name-Calling: Labeling the 'Alt-Right' in Media." Sue encourages everyone interested to contribute to the website as the country begins to understand and navigate the next four years.
Novak had an article accepted by Adirondack Life entitled "On the Job: Collecting images and stories of the North Country at work." It will appear in the March issue of the magazine.
Alan Steinberg’s creative nonfiction essay, “My Father’s Fiftieth Birthday,” has been accepted for publication in the Spring Issue of The Eastern Iowa Review, a magazine devoted to the lyrical essay.
Annie Stoltie published two articles in the Jan/Feb 2017 issue of Adirondack Life: “Lost on Marcy” and Critter Close-Up.”
She also published “A Struggling Theme Park Asks: Do You Still Believe in Santa?” in the December 23, 2016 issue of The New York Times.
Stoltie’s essay, “The Never-Relaxed Parent of a Child with Diabetes,” was published on January 12, 2017 in A Sweet Life Diabetes Magazine.
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