In Print

Kirk St.Amant's edited collection IT Outsourcing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications was recently published by IGI Global.  The four-volume collection is comprised of 153 chapters, and the collection also contains St.Amant's introductory essay "Understanding IT Outsourcing: A Perspective for Managers and Decision Makers," which examines the dynamics of modern outsourcing practices, the role communication plays in outsourcing contexts, and the effects outsourcing could have on future educational practices.

Nicole Sidhu's "Love in a Cold Climate: The Future of Feminism and Gender Studies in Middle English Scholarship" was published in Literature Compass 6.4 (2009): 864-885.  Literature Compass is available online through Wiley Interscience, accessible through Joyner Library's database list.  This article has two purposes: the first is to survey new approaches to gender studies in scholarship on Middle English literature; the second is to outline the continuing marginalization of gender studies in the field of Middle English scholarship and the consequences of this, both for the future of the discipline and for gender studies.  The article has provoked some interesting discussions on medievalist blogs, including the discussion on "In the Middle"

Will Banks (with UC-Irvine professor Jonathan Alexander) published the chapter "Queer Eye for the Comp Program: Towards a Queer Critique of WPA Work" in the recent collection The Writing Program Interrupted: Making Space for Critical Discourse edited by Donna Strickland and Jeanne Gunner for Boynton/Cook (2009). This chapter examines the intersections of scholarly and administrative experiences for gay and lesbian Writing Program Administrators.  Ultimately, Banks and Alexander note that "while queer theory may challenge WPA work significantly, WPA work itself also challenges the antinormative impulses of queer theories" (97).  These reciprocal challenges suggests ways of rethinking issues of power and identity in administrative work.

Liza Wieland's stories "Body and Engine" appears in The New School, "First, Marriage" in Freightstories, "Apparition" in Sou'wester, "Quickening" in New South and "The Virgin of Guadaloupe," "Amuse Bouche"  "The Path Not Taken" and "The River" (4 short shorts) in The Packinghouse Review. The story in New South "Quickening" won 2nd place in their annual fiction contest.

Tom Douglass's "No More Appalachian Ghosts: Jayne Anne Phillips' New Novel, Lark and Termite" appears in the Spring/Summer issue of Appalachian Journal: a Regional Studies Review 36.3-4: 248-255. 

Catherine Smith's Writing Public Policy: A Practical Guide to Communicating in the Policy Making Process has been issued in a 2d edition for Oxford University Press (2009).  According to the publisher, this edition is "an accessible, hands-on approach to planning, creating, and assessing public policy documents -- now updated with material on online communication... Writing Public Policy is a practical, concise guide to writing and communicating in public policy processes. Designed to help students understand and perform common types of communication used in solving public problems, this text explains the standards and functions of communicating in the public sector and teaches the use of selected public policy communication genres. Catherine F. Smith presents a general method for planning, producing, and assessing communications in a variety of real-life contexts and situations of public policy work. New to the second edition: DT The text is updated to meet the needs of today's tech-savvy students, and now features a new appendix on adapting policy writing to the Web DT Examples show policy problems from a global perspective, and U.S. policy making by all levels of government DT A new appendix on clear writing DT. A new companion website offers

The eighteenth issue of the North Carolina Literary Review edited by Margaret Bauer has been published. NCLR now receives additional funding from the Paul Green Foundation, and this issue includes a special section featuring North Carolina's play writing and play production traditions -- original drama by Paul Green, June Guralnick, Richard Krawiec, Kat Meads, and Sam Post. This issue also includes a recently discovered 1960 interview with Paul Green, a conversation with Bland Simpson about Musician's Theater, an interview with Jim Grimsley and an article on his dramatic work, and literary criticism about the Asheville-set play of Tennessee Williams and about a play by Elizabeth Spencer performed in Chapel Hill in 1989.

Roger Schlobin's fantasy novel Fire and Fur has been reprinted by the Kindle Library and by the World Library.  Both of these publishers offer downloadable books for the hand-held Kindle viewer.