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English student charts next chapter

Keith Gilyard, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English and African American Studies, published four books in 2025: his second memoir, The Promise of Language; his eighth volume of poetry, On Location; and two anthologies he edited, Malcolm X and the Arts: Ten Centennial Reflections and For Gaza’s Children: Black, Brown and Jewish Writers and Poets Speak Out.

Verna Kale has been elected President of the Hemingway Foundation and Society.

Thomas Bryant’s essay, “Playing Chicken: Queer Ecology and Anti-industrialism from Hawthorne to Wister,” has been accepted for publication in American Literature.

Stuart Selber was quoted in a New York Times Sunday Magazine Piece on AI in the classroom.

English student interns at Nike

Phillip Zapkin’s poem “Cliff Drunk Leaves” has been published in Pumpkin, Spice and Papercuts, the autumn 2025 anthology from Wingless Dreamer.

Xiaoye You coauthored a new book, Colonial Temporality and Writing Education.

Congratulations to Michael Anesko. Volume 19 (19!) of The Complete Letters of Henry James received the MLA Approved Edition Seal.

Lee Peterson’s manuscript, ‘R’ is for Rising/Soon After the Sun, was selected for publication from a pool of over 400 submissions by Dancing Girl Press as part of their Dancing Girl Press Chapbook Series.