The list below includes books published and major awards earned by the current members of the Department of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia and our alumni, from 2004 to the present. For more extensive awards and publications lists, view the menu on the left or navigate as directed below.
Faculty | Non Tenure-Track Faculty | Current Graduate Students | Alumni
Andrew Hoberek. The Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work (Princeton UP, 2005)
William Kerwin. Beyond the Body: The Boundaries of Medicine and English Renaissance Drama (University of Massachussetts Press, 2005)
Maureen Konkle. Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004) www.uncpress.unc.edu
Lynne McMahon. Sentimental Standards (David R. Godine, 2004)
Thomas Quirk. The Portable Mark Twain (Penguin Classics, 2004)
--- and Gary Scharnhorst, eds. American History Through Literature, 1870-1920. 3 vols. (Scribner's, 2005)
Ellie Ragland. Lacan: Topologically Speaking (Other Press, 2004) , which received mention in the Chronicle of Higher Education as the best book in Psychology.
---. The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan (SUNY-Albany, 2004), which was chosen by the Chronicle this year as the best book in Gender Studies; it was also selected by CHOICE magazine as one of 600 outstanding titles of 2004 from 23,000 books considered.
David Read. New World, Known World: Shaping Knowledge in Early Anglo-American Writing (University of Missouri Press, 2005)
John Roberts. Professor Emeritus. John Donne: An Annotated Bibliography of Modern Criticism, 1979-1995. (Duquesne University Press, 2004)
Sherod Santos. Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation (Norton, 2005)
Awards
Albert Devlin. The Maxine Christopher Schutz Award and lecture for Distinguished Teaching
Frances Dickey 's essay, "Parrot's Eye: A Portrait by Manet and Two by T. S. Eliot" was awarded the Andrew J. Kapppel Prize in Literary Criticism from Twentieth-Century Literature.
John Miles Foley. Winner of the sixth MLA Prize for a Distinguished Scholarly Edition. The prize will be presented to John for his edition of The Wedding of Mustajbey's Son Becirbey as Performed by Halil Bajgoric, published by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies.
Elisa Glick. Winner of the 2006 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award.
Andy Hoberek. 2006-07 fellowship from the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University
George Justice. NEH Summer Institute at the Folger Shakespearean Library
Johanna Kramer. Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University.
April Langley. Postdoctoral Fellowship in African and Afro-American Studies (Washington University)
Devoney Looser. Gold Chalk award for excellence in graduate teaching and advising; EGSA Superior Graduate Faculty Award; The Midwest Modern Language Association Fellowship, Newberry Library; the University of Kansas Spencer Research Library Travel Grant; a King’s College London Library and Archives Visiting Fellowship; and a Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship for research at the Huntington Library
Sherod Santos. Winner of the 2006 Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in the Humanities for his book, Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation. The prize, which is sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Foundation, includes a monetary award, a commissioned bronze sculpture, and the purchase of 300 copies of his book for distribution to humanities students and teachers.
Maureen Stanton. National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship
Nancy West. Gold Chalk award for excellence in graduate teaching and advising
Jeff Williams. Outstanding Community Service Award from the Columbia chapter of the NAACP for his work with the Minority Achievement Committee Scholars program; the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Award from the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Association
Jason Arthur won the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center Dissertation Fellowship, presented by the University of Texas at Austin.
Julie Buchsbaum’s second book of poems, A Little Night Comes, won the 2005 Del Sol Press Annual Poetry Award and has been published by Del Sol Press.
Sharon Emmerichs was selected as a participant in the Mellon Residential Workshop in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies at the University of Warwick, UK this past summer. Mellon paid Sharon's travel and a stipend for her to participate in this seminar.
Emily Isaacson was selected to participate in a Folger Library seminar entitled "Accessorizing the Renaissance" led by Joseph Loewenstein from January 26 to April 6, 2006.
Nadine Meyer’s collection of poems entitled The Anatomy Theater won the National Poetry Series Book Award and will be published by HarperCollins. Nadine also received the New Letters Prize in Poetry for a group of poems.
Emily Rosko’s first book of poetry, Raw Goods Inventory, won the Iowa Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2006.
Robin Behn (MA, 1982; MFA University of Iowa) was awarded a 2005 Pushcart Prize.
Nicole Beer (PhD, 2006) was awarded a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Grants in Poetry. A collection of her poems received the national Discovery/The Nation Award from The Nation magazine. She received second place in the national Astrobiology and Sacred Poetry Contest for her poem "The Collector's Song."
William Bradley's “The Bald and the Beautiful,” was selected as one of the 100 notable essays of 2005 in the 2006 Best American Essays.
Averill Curdy (PhD, 2005) was awarded a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Poetry. She was the 2005 recipient of the $10,000 Rona Jaffe Foundation fellowship for emerging women writers.
Rebecca Dunham is an assistant professor in the doctoral program in creative writing at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Her second book of poems, The Flight Cage, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press in 2009.
Pamela Garvey's chapbook of poems, Fear, is forthcoming from Finishing Line Press in 2008.
Steve Gehrke was awarded a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Poetry. His forthcoming book, Michelangelo's Seizure won the National Poetry Series award.
Christie Hodgen is featured in Barnes and Nobles' “Discover Great New Writers” series for her novel, Hello, I Must Be Going.
Michael Kardos received the 2006 Santa Fe Writers' Workshop Literary Award for his story, “One Last Good Time.”
Scott Kaukonen’s first collection of short stories, Ordination, won the Ohio State University Short Fiction Prize and was published by The Ohio State University Press in April 2005.
Bern Mulvey's book manuscript for The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants was selected by Claudia Rankine as the 2007 winner of Cleveland State University Poetry Center's First Book Contest.
J. Patrick O'Connor is the editor and publisher of the on-line Crime Magazine. He has worked as a reporter and bureau manager for United Press International, editor of Cincinnati Magazine, associate editor of TV Guide, and editor and publisher of the Kansas City New Times. His book The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal, was published in 2008 by Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police Department and District Attorney's Office efficiently and methodically framed Mumia Abu-Jamal who was sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing Officer Daniel Faulkner. O'Connor uses the preponderance of evidence to establish that Faulkner shot Abu-Jamal as he approached the officer and that a passenger in Abu-Jamal's brother's car, Kenneth Freeman, then killed Faulkner. The book takes you step-by-step through what actually transpired on the night Faulkner was shot, including positioning each of the witnesses at the scene. It also details the entire trial and fully covers the tortuous appeals process that is still playing out.
Alison Powell was awarded the Agha Shahid Ali scholarship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
Anthony Varallo (PhD, 2005) won the 2005 John Simmons Short Fiction Award for his first collection of short stories, This Day in History. The collection was published by the University of Iowa Press in October 2005.
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Wm. Anthony Connolly: The Obituaries (Behler Publications, 2005)
Emily Isaacson was selected to participate in a Folger Library seminar entitled "Accessorizing the Renaissance" led by Joseph Loewenstein from January 26 to April 6, 2006.
Emily Rosko’s first book of poetry, Raw Goods Inventory, won the Iowa Poetry Prize and was published by the University of Iowa Press in 2006.
Ordination, won the Ohio State University Short Fiction Prize and was published by 
The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal, was published in 2008 by Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police Department and District Attorney's Office efficiently and methodically framed Mumia Abu-Jamal who was sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing Officer Daniel Faulkner. O'Connor uses the preponderance of evidence to establish that Faulkner shot Abu-Jamal as he approached the officer and that a passenger in Abu-Jamal's brother's car, Kenneth Freeman, then killed Faulkner. The book takes you step-by-step through what actually transpired on the night Faulkner was shot, including positioning each of the witnesses at the scene. It also details the entire trial and fully covers the tortuous appeals process that is still playing out.