Yeojin Kim’s essay “Mapping Thoreau’s Bioregionalism” is forthcoming in Thoreau Society Bulletin 293 (Spring 2016): 1-3. This short article (around 2,000 words) looks at Thoreau’s major works from a bioregional angle and explains his literary endeavor as a form of mapping.

Raul Palma's novel excerpt "Eminent Domain" is forthcoming in The Alaska Quarterly Review, and his story "All Along the Hills" is forthcoming in the Sonora Review. Over the summer, he was a finalist in the Walker Percy Short Fiction Prize and the Sonora Review Fiction Prize. His story "American Leather" was nominated for the 2015 Million Writer's Award by Eclectica Magazine.

Shawn Rubenfeld's article, "Literary Flowers: Using a Literary Garden in the Western Literature Survey to 'Plant' Formative Voices and to 'Sow' Final Narratives" is forthcoming in issue 16.1 of the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.

Brie Owen's essay "Toward a Theory of Adolescence: Queer Disruptions in Representations of Adolescent Reading" was published in the most recent issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Cultures, Texts 7.1 (2015): 110-134. Another essay titled, "Is the Trans Child a Queer Child? Constructing Normativity in 'Raising Ryland' and I am Jazz," is forthcoming in Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture.

Cameron Steele's poem Prison Bars Dissect a Man appears in the current issue of Wherewithal Lit.

Shari Stenberg's book Repurposing Composition: Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age was published in August by Utah State UP.

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's new book, "Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film," has been accepted for publication by Palgrave Macmillan. The completed book sheds light on how “disruptive feminism” lurks in unlikely and unexpected places - from the subversive work of Amy Schumer, Betty White, Dorothy Arzner, Ida Lupino, Luis Buñuel, and Paul Thomas Anderson - to the postcolonial films of Carlos Reygadas and Claire Denis. The book is now in production, and will be published shortly.

Katie Schmid Henson's poem "The Glories" was recently published in Issue 7 of Red Paint Hill.

Mike Page's retro-review of Wright Morris' The Fork River Space Project appeared in the August 3 issue of the Lincoln Journal-Star.

Pete Capuano published his first book, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body, with the University of Michigan Press this past June. A description and multiple blurbs may be found on the University of Michigan Press website. Also in June, Pete completed the first segment of a two-year National Humanities Center grant in Digital Textual Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (where he worked closely with Willard McCarty and our own Matt Jockers). He will be speaking this fall about his new book project at Iowa State University and at the University of Colorado. In July, Pete accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of Dickens Quarterly, a journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Steve Behrendt has an essay in the Summer 2015 issue of Great Plains Quarterly: “One Man’s Dust Bowl: Recounting 1936 with Don Hartwell, Inavale, Neb.” This essay is part of Steve's ongoing research into the life and experiences of this unique Dust Bowl diarist. The text is available through Project MUSE.

Wheeler Winston Dixon has published “’You Can Never Do Enough’ - An Interview with Joshua Siegel, Curator of Film, Museum of Modern Art,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 32.6 (July, 2015): 503 – 510.

Grace Bauer's book of poems, All The Supposes has been accepted by the University of New Mexico Press. Grace has also had poems in recent issues of South Dakota Review, Paterson Literary Review, Georgetown Review and Xavier Review. A Review of Grace's book, Nowhere All At Once appears in the latest issue of New Madrid. A review of her chapbook, Cafe Culture, appears in the latest issue of Pinyon.

Wheeler Winston Dixon has published the following book reviews in Choice: The Library Journal: “Independent Filmmaking Around The Globe by Doris Baltruschat and Mary P. Erickson, eds.” (September 2015); “Cinema & Counter-History by Marcia Landy,” (September 2015); “Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ed. by Mattias Frey and Cecilia Sayad,“ (August 2015); “Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation by Aaron Michael Kerner,” (August 2015); “Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory by Victor Fan,” (August 2015); “Orienting Hollywood: A Century of Film Culture Between Los Angeles and Bombay by Nitin Govil,” (August 2015); “The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words For The Cinema To Come by Francesco Casetti,” (July 2015); “Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis by Justin Remes,” (June 2015); “Projecting 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo,” (June 2015).

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster has published the following book reviews in Choice: The Library Journal: “Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 by Weihong Bao,” (August 2015); “Lois Weber in Early Hollywood by Shelley Stamp,” (August 2015); “Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez by Frederick Luis Aldama, ed.” (August 2015); “Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video by Mary R. Desjardins,” (July 2015); “Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy by Priya Joshi,” (July 2015); “Women’s Cinema, World’s Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms by Patricia White,” (June 2015); “Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Jeffrey M. Zacks,” (June 2015); “Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting by Donna L. Halper,” (June 2015).

Maria Nazos has a poem forthcoming in The North American Review and a poetry translation entitled "Moods XV" forthcoming in Subtropics. Her chapbook collection entitled "Still Life" has been accepted for publication in winter 2015 by Dancing Girl Press.

The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition's latest volume, Lucy Gayheart, was published in August 2015. The textual work, involving two typescripts, two sets of proofs, and a magazine version, was done by the late Frederick M. Link (a former chair of this department) and Kari A. Ronning, editor of the Cather Edition, who also contributed the explanatory notes. David Porter, professor emeritus of Skidmore College, wrote the historical essay. Beth Burke, Cather Project specialist, acquired and processed the illustrations. Guy Reynolds is the general editor of the Cather Scholarly Edition.

Yeojin Kim’s essay “Mapping Thoreau’s Bioregionalism” is forthcoming in Thoreau Society Bulletin 293 (Spring 2016): 1-3. This short article (around 2,000 words) looks at Thoreau’s major works from a bioregional angle and explains his literary endeavor as a form of mapping.

Raul Palma's novel excerpt "Eminent Domain" is forthcoming in The Alaska Quarterly Review, and his story "All Along the Hills" is forthcoming in the Sonora Review. Over the summer, he was a finalist in the Walker Percy Short Fiction Prize and the Sonora Review Fiction Prize. His story "American Leather" was nominated for the 2015 Million Writer's Award by Eclectica Magazine.

Shawn Rubenfeld's article, "Literary Flowers: Using a Literary Garden in the Western Literature Survey to 'Plant' Formative Voices and to 'Sow' Final Narratives" is forthcoming in issue 16.1 of the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture.

Brie Owen's essay "Toward a Theory of Adolescence: Queer Disruptions in Representations of Adolescent Reading" was published in the most recent issue of Jeunesse: Young People, Cultures, Texts 7.1 (2015): 110-134. Another essay titled, "Is the Trans Child a Queer Child? Constructing Normativity in 'Raising Ryland' and I am Jazz," is forthcoming in Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture.

Cameron Steele's poem Prison Bars Dissect a Man appears in the current issue of Wherewithal Lit.

Shari Stenberg's book Repurposing Composition: Feminist Interventions for a Neoliberal Age was published in August by Utah State UP.

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster's new book, "Disruptive Feminisms: Raced, Gendered, and Classed Bodies in Film," has been accepted for publication by Palgrave Macmillan. The completed book sheds light on how “disruptive feminism” lurks in unlikely and unexpected places - from the subversive work of Amy Schumer, Betty White, Dorothy Arzner, Ida Lupino, Luis Buñuel, and Paul Thomas Anderson - to the postcolonial films of Carlos Reygadas and Claire Denis. The book is now in production, and will be published shortly.

Mike Page's retro-review of Wright Morris' The Fork River Space Project appeared in the August 3 issue of the Lincoln Journal-Star.

Pete Capuano published his first book, Changing Hands: Industry, Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Victorian Body, with the University of Michigan Press this past June. A description and multiple blurbs may be found on the University of Michigan Press website. Also in June, Pete completed the first segment of a two-year National Humanities Center grant in Digital Textual Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (where he worked closely with Willard McCarty and our own Matt Jockers). He will be speaking this fall about his new book project at Iowa State University and at the University of Colorado. In July, Pete accepted an invitation to join the Editorial Board of Dickens Quarterly, a journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press.

Steve Behrendt has an essay in the Summer 2015 issue of Great Plains Quarterly: “One Man’s Dust Bowl: Recounting 1936 with Don Hartwell, Inavale, Neb.” This essay is part of Steve's ongoing research into the life and experiences of this unique Dust Bowl diarist. The text is available through Project MUSE.

Wheeler Winston Dixon has published “’You Can Never Do Enough’ - An Interview with Joshua Siegel, Curator of Film, Museum of Modern Art,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 32.6 (July, 2015): 503 – 510.

Grace Bauer's book of poems, All The Supposes has been accepted by the University of New Mexico Press. Grace has also had poems in recent issues of South Dakota Review, Paterson Literary Review, Georgetown Review and Xavier Review. A Review of Grace's book, Nowhere All At Once appears in the latest issue of New Madrid. A review of her chapbook, Cafe Culture, appears in the latest issue of Pinyon.

Wheeler Winston Dixon has published the following book reviews in Choice: The Library Journal: “Independent Filmmaking Around The Globe by Doris Baltruschat and Mary P. Erickson, eds.” (September 2015); “Cinema & Counter-History by Marcia Landy,” (September 2015); “Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ed. by Mattias Frey and Cecilia Sayad,“ (August 2015); “Torture Porn in the Wake of 9/11: Horror, Exploitation, and the Cinema of Sensation by Aaron Michael Kerner,” (August 2015); “Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory by Victor Fan,” (August 2015); “Orienting Hollywood: A Century of Film Culture Between Los Angeles and Bombay by Nitin Govil,” (August 2015); “The Lumière Galaxy: Seven Key Words For The Cinema To Come by Francesco Casetti,” (July 2015); “Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis by Justin Remes,” (June 2015); “Projecting 9/11: Race, Gender, and Citizenship in Recent Hollywood Films by Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo and Carmen R. Lugo-Lugo,” (June 2015).

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster has published the following book reviews in Choice: The Library Journal: “Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 by Weihong Bao,” (August 2015); “Lois Weber in Early Hollywood by Shelley Stamp,” (August 2015); “Critical Approaches to the Films of Robert Rodriguez by Frederick Luis Aldama, ed.” (August 2015); “Recycled Stars: Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video by Mary R. Desjardins,” (July 2015); “Bollywood’s India: A Public Fantasy by Priya Joshi,” (July 2015); “Women’s Cinema, World’s Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms by Patricia White,” (June 2015); “Flicker: Your Brain on Movies by Jeffrey M. Zacks,” (June 2015); “Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting by Donna L. Halper,” (June 2015).

Maria Nazos has a poem forthcoming in The North American Review and a poetry translation entitled "Moods XV" forthcoming in Subtropics. Her chapbook collection entitled "Still Life" has been accepted for publication in winter 2015 by Dancing Girl Press.

The Willa Cather Scholarly Edition's latest volume, Lucy Gayheart, was published in August 2015. The textual work, involving two typescripts, two sets of proofs, and a magazine version, was done by the late Frederick M. Link (a former chair of this department) and Kari A. Ronning, editor of the Cather Edition, who also contributed the explanatory notes. David Porter, professor emeritus of Skidmore College, wrote the historical essay. Beth Burke, Cather Project specialist, acquired and processed the illustrations. Guy Reynolds is the general editor of the Cather Scholarly Edition.

Belinda Acosta is among the first recipients of the ArtSmith Travel Grants awarded to writers and visual artists for travel to Laredo, Texas. Acosta will spend a long-weekend in the south Texas border town in December 2015, where she will do research for her dissertation novel.

On June 10, Steve Buhler was honored during the City of Lincoln Mayor's Arts Awards ceremony (43:15 for his presentation). The award for Artistic Achievement -- Literary Arts recognized his outreach work as dramaturg and Education Director for the Flatwater Shakespeare Company, along with his scholarship and teaching. He continued that work with FSC's summer production of As You Like It, also contributing mandolin to three performances, and with FSC's youth production of the play, serving as humanities adviser.