A Selection of Recent Faculty Activities in the Sewanee English Department:
Robert Benson published his compelling memoir Blood and Memory with Texas Review Press in 2006. 
Andy Bragen, our 2008-09 Tennessee Williams Fellow in Playwriting, was awarded a 2008 commission to write a new play for the University of Rochester's International Theatre Program. In April 2008, his Vengeance Can Wait was produced at PS122 by Queens Theatre in the Park as part of the Best of the Boroughs Festival. In February 2008, his Mother Earth was selected as a semifinalist for the O'Neill Playwrights Conference.
William Engel published an essay in Forgetting in Early Modern English Literature and Culture: Lethe's Legacy, eds. Christopher Ivic and Grant Williams, with Routledge in 2004, following upon his 2002 publication of his Death and Drama in Renaissance England: Shades of Memory with Oxford University Press.
Elizabeth Grammer developed a new course focused on Whitman and Dickinson and directed the 13th session of the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference.
John Grammer directed the third session of the new Sewanee School of Letters, an innovative Master's Degree Program in English and Creative Writing that brings together distinguished writers and faculty from across the country.
Matthew Irvin presented two papers in England this summer, one on "John Gower's 'Alconomie' of Poetry" at the 2008 International Congress of the New Chaucer Society in Swansea, Wales and another on "Genius and Sensual Reading in the Vox Clamantis" at the First International Congress of the Gower Society in London; his second paper will appear in Westfield Publications in Medieval Studies.
Kelly Malone, funded by a University Research Grant, researched Jacobite connections in Oxford at the Bodleian Library, taking her cue from "Nell Gwyn's Oxford Pronouncement: Jacobite Legend?," a paper that she presented last spring at the annual meeting of the South Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies.
 Jennifer Michael published her book Blake and the City with Bucknell University Press in 2006 and attended a 2008 retreat for academics sponsored by the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society (anticipating a new project on silence and verse).
Wyatt Prunty's new volume of verse, The Lover's Guide to Trapping, will be released by Johns Hopkins University Press in March 2009 and will include "The Returning Dead," the elegy for the fallen soldiers in Iraq that Professor Prunty read on the Jim Lehrer NewsHour (on PBS) on 21 March 2006 (this will be Professor Prunty's fourth volume of poetry to be published by JHU).
Kevin Wilson's Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories will be released on 31 March 2009 by Ecco and Harper Press.
Professors Michael and Macfie taught from 29 June through 5 August 2008 in the 39th session of British Studies at Oxford, at St. John's College, Oxford University, enjoying their time with a lively cohort of Sewanee students.
Revised 8 September 2008 by Pamela Royston Macfie, chair
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