Current Work: English Department Publications
(January to June 2024)
Books
The Spanish translation of Robin Beth Schaer‘s poetry collection Shipbreaking has been published by Komorebi Ediciones in Chile. The book was translated by Agustina Pardini and Eleonora González Capria.
Articles, Essays, Chapters
Elysia Balavage has a short piece, titled “Rebellious Space and Radical Movement: The Dil Pickle Club of Tooker Alley,” published in Genealogies of Modernity.
George Blake‘s article “Addressing the injustice of Cuyahoga County’s pre-trial detention policy,” recently appeared in The Land.
Cara Byrne and Kristin Kondrlik (’16) recently published their article “Rainbows in the Window: Static Childhood in COVID-19 Children’s Picture Books” in New Directions in Childhood Studies: Innocence, Trauma, and Agency in the Twenty-first Century.
Michael Clune’s article “Questions of Judgment” (invited response to special issue on his book A Defense of Judgment) appeared in Modern Fiction Studies (May, 2024).
Michael Clune’s article “What Modern Art Learned from Balloons” appeared in Blimp Biannual 001 (Spring, 2024).
Michael Clune’s book review of Oliver Wunsch, A Delicate Matter (Penn State, 2024) appeared in Critical Inquiry (May, 2024).
Michael Clune participated in a roundtable on “Criticism and Truth” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, January 30, 2024.
Michael Clune has an essay in the special issue of Modern Philology on poetry, “Skylark Philosophy.”
Michael Clune has a new article in Genre: “John Guillory’s Distortions.
Walt Hunter has an article in The Atlantic: “The Two Women Who Wrote as ‘Michael Field.’”
Walt Hunter offered a few cultural picks for The Atlantic’s weekly newsletter.
Walt Hunter has an essay on “Lowell and War” in the collection Robert Lowell in Context
Megan Jewell‘s essay “First Feminism” in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts: ‘Draft 49’ as Counter Archive” appears in Thinking with the Poem: Essays on the Poetry and Poetics of Rachel Blau DuPlessis from the University of New Mexico Press.
Michelle Lyons-McFarland published “Review of On the Digital Humanities: Essays and Provocations, by Stephen Ramsay” at ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830.
Alexandra Magearu has an essay on Arab American anti-war poetry in Michigan Quarterly Review.
Steve Pinkerton’s review essay, “Ralph Ellison, Democracy, and American Vernacular Culture,” will appear in Resources for American Literary Study, 45.1.
Stephanie Redekop‘s article “The New Essay Studies” (a review of the Cambridge Companion to the Essay and the Edinburgh Companion to the Essay) was published in Genre.
Lindsay Turner‘s essay “Translating Utopia: Stéphane Bouquet’s Queer Futurities” was published in the May 2024 issue of Romanic Review.
Thrity Umrigar had a review of Amitava Kumar’s My Beloved Life published in the New York Times.
Recorded Podcasts, Interviews, Readings
Cara Byrne was a guest on the Just in Case podcast.
Michael Clune was interviewed about “The Anatomy of Panic,” The Point: Selected Essays podcast, April 30, 2024.
Michael Clune is interviewed about White Out on the podcast Callie of Nonfiction with Callie Hitchcock.
The Ohio Center for the Book hosted this reading with Lindsay Turner and Noah Falck during poetry month.
Creative Work
Hayden’s Ferry Review published five of Joe DeLong’s visual poems on their companion site The Dock, along with an interview about DeLong’s artistic practice.
Mary Grimm‘s memoir piece is up at The New Yorker.
Mary Grimm‘s flash, “When He Died,” is up at New World Writing.
Mary Grimm has a story in the Winter/Spring 2024 issue of Alaska Quarterly Review: “Simone de Beauvoir is Living on Mars.”
Mary Grimm has a flash in the Mersey Review.
Mary Grimm‘s story “Ghost Heart” was published in the spring 2024 issue of the Colorado Revi
Walt Hunter has two new poems in Community Mausoleum.
Walt Hunter‘s poem, Translation Without Angels, was published in the New York Review:
William Marling‘s photo “Said’s Book Shop,” from his book Killers in Tutus (2017), plays a role in the documentary “Chanting of the Dunes” directed by Mokhless Al-Hariri.
Lindsay Turner‘s poem “Forms of Displeasure” is on Poetry Daily
English Department Publications (July to December, 2023)
Books
Walt Hunter, Some Flowers. Madhat Press, 2023.
James Newlin, Uncanny Fidelity: Recognizing Shakespeare in Twenty-First-Century Film and Television. Strode Series in Renaissance Literature and Culture of the University of Alabama Press, 2023.
James Newlin, co-editor. New Psychoanalytic Readings of Shakespeare: Cool Reason and Seething Brains. Routledge, 2023.
Lindsay Turner, translator. Liliane Gouradon’s Sphinx. Litmus Press, 2023.
Lindsay Turner, The Upstate. Phoenix Press, 2023.
Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures. Algonquin Books, 2023.
Articles, Essays, Chapters
George Blake‘s article about the progress of lead safety in Cleveland has been published in The Land.
George Blake’s article “Repairing homes, supporting home ownership: Home Repair Resource Center offers help,” was published in The Land.
Michael Clune‘s essay, “What is an Author?” was published in the 50th anniversary issue of Critical Inquiry.
Michael Clune has a review of Sasha Frere-Jones’s Earlier (Semiotexte, 2023) at Bookforum.
Michael Clune has a piece on AI and grade inflation at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Vicki Daniels‘s article “‘A Harrowing and Laborious Occupation’: Preservation in the 1904 General Slocum Disaster Identifications” was published in the death studies journal Mortality.
Walt Hunter‘s essay on Claudia Jones’s poetry, “Radical Black Poetics and South-South Movement,” is out in this new book edited by Angela Naimou.
Walt Hunter writes about Louise Glück in The Atlantic on the occasion of her death.
Alexandra Magearu has an essay on Arab American anti-war poetry in Michigan Quarterly Review.
Steve Pinkerton‘s review essay, “Ralph Ellison, Democracy, and American Vernacular Culture,” will appear in Resources for American Literary Study, 45.1.
Stephanie Redekop‘s article “The New Essay Studies” (a review of the Cambridge Companion to the Essay and the Edinburgh Companion to the Essay) was published in Genre.
Robert Rowan‘s article, “Student Self-Diagnostics: Engaging Students as Co-Respondents to Their Own Writing,” was published in the Fall 2023 issue (9.2) of Journal of Response to Writing.
Thrity Umrigar‘s essay, “The Divided Self is Every Immigrant’s Legacy,” appeared in Literary Hub.
Marion Wolfe has a chapter in an edited collection. Her essay is co-written with Elizabeth Rodrigues and is titled “Post-it as Praxis: Counternarrating Non-linearity and Multiplicity in Academic Lives” from the collection Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided, edited by Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle.
Creative Work
Joseph DeLong‘s visual poems “Titled City” and “Aleatory” and his poems “Here in the Galaxy” and “The Human Year” are out in issue 27 of Redactions.
Mary Grimm‘s flash “Don’t Look” was published by Roifaineant Press.
Mary Grimm‘s flash “Dr. No” has been published in Corvus Review.
Mary Grimm’s flash “Dorothy Wordsworth, Secret Agent” has been published in Lothlorien Journal.
Mary Grimm‘s flash, “List of No,” has been published in Border Crossing
Mary Grimm has a flash up at Does It Have Pockets: “The Marriage of Poets May Sarton and Henry David Thoreau.”
Mary Grimm has a short story, “Under the Hill,” in the anthology Cleveland Noir.
Mary Grimm‘s story “Sierraville” has been published in Carve Magazine.
Mary Grimm‘s story “Temporal Instability” has been published in Laurel Review.
Mary Grimm‘s story “Wednesdays” has been published in Halfway Down the Stairs.
Mary Grimm‘s story “What You Can Take” has been published in Ocotillo Review.
Dave Lucas has a poem published in Switchyard, a newish magazine out of the University of Tulsa.
Alexandra Magearu published a short story about the criminalization of abortion in 1980s Romania in the other side of hope.
Lindsay Turner‘s poem “Dogwood” is featured on Poetry Daily.
Lindsay Turner‘s poem “The Forest / Wanting a Child” was published in The New York Review.
Thrity Umrigar has a short story in the anthology Cleveland Noir.
Recorded Interviews, Podcasts
Michael Clune gave a reading on Montez Press Radio.
Michael Clune was interviewed on the Australian podcast What Happens Next? about Gamelife.
William Marling’s podcast “Anarchism and Rhetoric” aired on the Anarchist Essays website.