In Print

Amanda Klein's article "'The Dickensian Aspect': Melodrama, Viewer Engagement and the Socially Conscious Text" appears in the recently published anthology The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television edited by  Tiffany Potter and C. W. Marshall for Continuum Press (2009). Also, Klein's article, "BET's Baldwin Hills: Injecting Race and Class into the Projective Drama" appears in the November 12th issue of the online journal Flow TV. 

Kirk St.Amant's "Examining Open Source Software in Offshoring Contexts: A Perspective on Adding Value in an Age of Globalization," co-authored with Robert Cunningham of the University of Western Australia, was published in vol. 54 of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) journal Technical Communication. In the article, the authors examine the effects that open source software (OSS) is having on international outsourcing practices. The authors also explain how increasing OSS use around the world is creating new opportunities for technical communicators to contribute value to different international communication and management practices.

Tom Mock's undergraduate screenplay "Colinna" has been accepted for publication in
Connotation Press: An Online Artifact.

Alex Albright's "Saving IBX Towns, One Idea at a Time" appears online in the Fall 2009 issue of the IBX Lifestyles Newsletter. According to the website: "IBX Lifestyles is designed to provide an Internet crossroads for Inner Banks towns and counties, business leaders, hospitality and tourism professionals, artists and craftspersons to introduce themselves to people around the world, people who are interested in learning more about our beautiful IBX region, perhaps as a potential travel destination, perhaps as the perfect place to make a new home and life."

Debra O'Neal's "Skeptics to Partners," co-authored with Marjorie Ringler and Diana Lys, appears in the Journal of Staff Development 30.4 (Fall) 2009.  "This article takes a look at a staff development project that was a collaboration between three faculty members with different areas of expertise and Sampson County Schools. ESL specialist O'Neal, Marjorie Ringler of the Department of Educational Leadership, and Diana Lys of the Council for Opportunity in Education, Office of Professional Development, worked with two schools in Sampson County to help teachers incorporate strategies to better address the needs of English language learners and their academic language development." JSD is published by the National Staff Development Council (NSDC), "the largest non-profit professional association committed to ensuring success for all students through staff development and school improvement." NSDC is located in Oxford, Ohio.

Thomas Herron's article "Early modern Irish settlement and the poetry of Edmund Spenser" appears in the multidisciplinary collection Plantation Ireland: Settlement and Material Culture, c. 1550-c.1700 edited by James Lyttleton and Colin Rynne for Four Courts Press, Dublin (2009).  According to Herron: "The piece calls the attention of archaeologists to Spenser’s writings and Spenser’s archaeology to literary critics by highlighting details in his poetry (including 'Epithalamion') pertaining to the material culture of early modern Munster (in Ireland), where Spenser was a colonial settler in the late sixteenth century."

Margaret Bauer's article "'Call me Paul': The Long, Hot Summer of Paul Green and Richard Wright" appears in the 2008 Richard Wright Centennial issue of the Mississippi Quarterly.