In Print

Anna Froula's article "Free a Man to Fight: The Figure of the Female Soldier in World War II Popular Culture" was published in the October 2009 issue of the Journal of War and Culture Studies. According to Froula: "This article argues that US popular culture has contributed to a historical amnesia regarding the figure of the female soldier in World War II and her sacrifice and legacy. To illuminate the ways women in uniform problematize and even subvert patriarchal military values, the various cultural, mythological, political, symbolic, and masculine-heroic meanings vested in the military uniform are analyzed. This elucidates the narrative and imagistic tropes by which Hollywood films (such as So Proudly We Hail directed by Mark Sandrich and A Guy Named Joe directed by Victor Fleming in 1943), and popular periodicals contain the threat of abjection embodied by military women via traditionally gendered stereotypes of citizenship and nationhood, of virgin and whore. The article explores the thesis that, in World War II, American popular culture helped perpetuate a cultural amnesia that has buried women's vast contributions to the US Armed Forces, to mythologize our 'boys in uniform'."

Amanda Klein's essay titled "Ironic Muppets and Horny Houseplants: Sesame Street's Dual Address" for the website In Media Res. "In Media Res" experiments with collaborative, multi-modal forms of online scholarship to promote an online dialogue among scholars and the public about contemporary approaches to studying media.

Dean Tuck's story "Piercings" was published in the September issue of Night Train. Night Train is an online journal and print annual that debuted in the fall of 2002. According to the website: "During our tenure as a traditional print journal, we received acclaim from sources as diverse as newpages.com, popmatters.com, laurahird.com, Literary Magazine Review, the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, the New York Times, The Writer, National Public Radio, the Million Writers Award, the Pushcart prize, and many other local and national outlets, on matters relating to our innovative Rail Stop Sponsorship program as well as our published fiction. We look forward to making an impact for years to come."


Margaret Bauer's interview with Tim Gautreaux appears in the online journal Southern Spaces.  She also interviewed Gautreaux, the subject of her forthcoming book, before an audience at the Louisiana Book Festival in Baton Rouge on October 15, on the occasion of Gautreaux receiving the 2009 Louisiana Writer Award.  Bauer and Gay Wilentz have essays in the MLA's new Approaches to Teaching Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and Other Works volume. Bauer's essay is titled "From Gilded Garden to Golden Anniversary: Teaching Zora Neale Hurston's 'The Gilded Six-Bits,'"and Wilentz wrote "False Gods and 'Caucasian Characteristics for All': Hurston's Radical Vision in Their Eyes Were Watching God."

Janice Tovey's review of Motives for Metaphor in Scientific and Technical Communication by Timothy D. Giles appears in Technical Communication Quarterly 18: 99-101 (2009).  Also her review of Communication Practices in Workplaces and the Professions: Cultural Perspectives on the Reflection of Discourse and Organizations edited by Mark Zachry and Charlotte Thralls has been printed in the Journal of Business and Technical Communication 23: 487-91 (2009).


Tom Herron's essay "Edmund Spenser's "Cleopolis' and Dublin" has been included in Dublin and the Medieval World edited by John Bradley, Angret Simms, and Alan J. Fletcher for University College Dublin Press (2009): 448-56.  The article appears in a festschrift for a medieval historian and delves further into Spenser's allegorization of Irish locales, specifically Dublin, in Book I of The Faerie Queene (1590).

John Hoppenthaler's poems appear in the current issue of Waccamaw, a literary journal published by Coastal Carolina University:  He also had two new poems appear in the 2009 issue of Poetry Miscellany. 

Kirk St.Amant and Jan M. Ulijn (Open University of the Netherlands) guest edited a special September 2009 issue of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) journal Transactions on Professional Communication.  The special issue focuses on the topic of "Examining the Information Economy," and the articles in the issue explore how factors of technology, design, law, and culture are affecting professional communication activities in the information economy.  The special issue also contains St.Amant and Ulijn's introductory article "Examining the Information Economy: Exploring the Overlap between Professional Communication Activities and Information-Management Practices" which advocates the merging of content management and information architecture concepts as a framework for future professional communication practices.