RECENT ENGLISH FACULTY NEWS

Last Updated November 2008

John Netland joined Union University in Fall 2008 as Chair of the Department of English after years of distinguished service at Calvin College.  He was recently awarded a Pew Grant for research during Summer 2009.

Janna Chance's  Ph.D. was awarded May 10, 2008.   She received the Chair’s Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the department of English for 2007-2008.  

Gene Fant was named Dean of the College of Arts & Science.  Presented "God as Author: Toward a Christian Approach to Narrative” Christ in the Academy Conference (Memphis TN), April 4, 2008.  Will be published in conference proceedings, 2009. Attended Evangelical Theological Society (San Diego CA), November 13-14, 2007.  Published numerous articles in the Jackson Sun, along with a review of The Shack, TN Baptist & Reflector, June 25, 2008.  “Believers should stretch, connect,” Nashville Tennessean, June 21, 2008. “In Loco Parentis Revisited,” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 10, 2008 (reprinted widely). “We’re no better,” Baptist Press, March 17, 2008.  “Realities of the Decanal Suite,” Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 19, 2007.  Received Amy Foundation Award 2007 for outstanding editorial, for “Ethics has a place in science,” (Jackson Sun); reprinted in Amy Foundation chapbook.

Patty Hamilton recently moderated a panel entitled "The Pleasures of the (Long) Eighteenth Century" at SAMLA in Louisville, KY. Her poems "Rhapsody in Blue," "Grief," and "If I Could Give You Anything" were published in Ibbetson Street 22, and "Driving in Fog," "Incandescence," and "Unsolved" were published in Ibbetson Street 24. "Rhapsody in Blue" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. "Moving" was published in Timber Creek Review 14.1, and "Migration" is forthcoming in Off The Coast. Her critical essay, "Arabella Unbound: Wit, Judgment, and the Cure of Lennox's Female Quixote," has been accepted for inclusion in a volume of essays entitled British Women Novelists of the 1750s. Another essay, "'The Only Excellence of Falsehood": John Mitford, Samuel Johnson, and the Penultimate Chapter of Charlotte Lennox's The Female Quixote, will be published in The Eighteenth-Century Novel in 2009. Her article "Bathsua Makin" was published in The Literary Encyclopedia (an online reference work) in Sept. 2008. Recent conference papers include "'The Only Excellence of Falsehood': The Legacy of Mitford's Hypothesis about Johnsonian Authorship in Lennox's The Female Quixote" at the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual meeting in Auburn, AL, in Feb. 2008 and "Samuel Johnson, the Fear of Fiction, and Ethical Representations of Power" at the Christianity in the Academy Conference, Memphis, TN, in April 2008.

Pam Sutton Lewis was recently promoted to full professor.  She served as interim chair of the English Department during the 2007-08 year of transition.

David Malone led 28 students / travelers on the Union University Study Trip to Italy / France, January 2008.  He has an essay appearing in the Catapult anthology Do Justice: A Social Justice Road Map, Spring 2008.

Gavin Richardson has the following work forthcoming: “Numismatic Images of Atargatis: Keys to a Parody.” The Celator: Journal of Ancient and Medieval Coinage (Spring 2009); "The ‘Barbarian/Hut’ Centenionalis and Vergilian Iconography,” Vergilius 54 (2008). He recently presented "The Bursting of the Womb: Male Revenge Fantasy and Hoccleve’s Tale of Jonathas” at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, Saint Louis University, October 2008. He is currently on research leave working on male revenge fantasy in medieval literature.

Bobby Rogers has poems appearing or forthcoming in The Connecticut Review, Cimarron Review, Southern Humanities Review, New Millennium Writings, The Marlboro Review, Sou’wester, and Agni online.

Roger Stanley served as moderator and read poetry at the American Literature Association Meeting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, December, 2007.  Prof. Stanley also moderated a panel session at International Conference of Sigma Tau Delta, in Louisville, March, 2008. He serves as Southern Regent on the National Board of Sigma Tau Delta.