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Brian Bouldrey’s novel The Good Pornographer has been accepted for publication in late 2025 by the University of Wisconsin Press. He and Rachel Jamison Webster joined William & Mary’s Director of The Lemon Project at the annual Institute for Pilgrimage Studies conference for a panel on the Banneker boundary stones of Washington, D.C. This year, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Instruction.
Tracy C. Davis’s book Liberal Lives and Activist Repertoires: Political Performance and Victorian Social Reform (Cambridge University Press, 2023) was shortlisted for the 2024 Outstanding Book Award by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, was a finalist for the American Society for Theatre Research’s 2024 Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History, and received Honorable Mention for the same. A subsequent book, The Cambridge Guide to Mixed Methods Research for Theatre and Performance Studies, co-edited with Paul Rae, was published by Cambridge University Press in spring 2024.
This past summer, Sarah Dimick spent two months as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Edinburgh. While there, she finished copyedits on her first book, Unseasonable: Climate Change and Global Literatures, which was published by Columbia University Press in October. She also began research for her second book at the archives of the International Network of Street Papers, located in Glasgow.
The first chapter of Sheila Donahue’s novel Curious Monster won 2nd place in The Masters Review 2024 novel excerpt contest.
Kasey Evans has been appointed co-editor of The Spenser Review alongside colleagues Jeff Dolven (Princeton University) and Claire Falck (Rowan University). The Spenser Review is published three times annually and includes reviews of recent books and influential essays, short essays, and writing of various kinds related to the work of Edmund Spenser and Renaissance scholarship generally.
Christine Froula’s article “Torvald’s Question: Italo Svevo and James Joyce Stage Modern Masculinity” appeared in Comparative Drama (Spring-Summer 2024), and she presented “Heroic Abjection: Exiles and the Pharmakon” at the XXIX International James Joyce Symposium in Glasgow in June. She contributed “Late Bloomsbury’s Dialectic of Enlightenment” to the forthcoming Cambridge History of Bloomsbury and, in October, presented “Leslie Stephen’s Dialectic of Enlightenment” at a conference on “Leslie Stephen: Thinking with and against His Times” at the Sorbonne Nouvelle.
Susannah Gottlieb’s Auden and the Muse of History (finalist for the 2023 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism) has been shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Association’s Book Prize.
Daisy Hernández celebrated the release of the tenth anniversary edition of her memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Beacon Press), for which she penned a new preface. Her most recent book of nonfiction, The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease (Tin House, 2021), was adopted as a common read at Case Western Reserve University, where she delivered the keynote speech for the incoming 2024 class. The book has also been translated into Italian. Her essay “The Buddhist Journalist” was published in the magazine Tricycle: A Buddhist Review, to which she is a regular contributor.
Jim Hodge contributed his essay, “‘The Cure of Depression,’” on the relation between memes and depression, to a special issue of Representations on the topic of “meme aesthetics.”