Heavy Feather Review has nominated a poem by Professor Kathleen Rooney titled “A Power or Ability of the Kind Possessed by Superheroes” as Best of the Net 2021! Check it out at link below!
https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2021/09/15/botn2021/
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Join us in congratulating Miles Harvey and Kathleen Rooney, whose work has been honored by the Society of Midland Book Awards this year!
Congratulations to Carolyn Goffman for the publication of her new book As Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Professor Goffman specializes in postcolonial literature and theory. Her new book, Mary Mills Patrick’s Cosmopolitan Mission and the Constantinople Woman’s College (Lexington Books, 2020), follows Mary Mills Patrick, the president of the college for 34 years. The book explores decades of transformation (from 1870s to 1930s) as her life shifts professionally, personally, and religiously. The book comes out this Friday, January 15th 2021. Find out more here or find a copy of the book on Amazon.
Our very own Kathleen Rooney and sister Beth were published in the New York Times this week! Check out their essay, A Lesson From the Strange and Lovely World of ‘Leaf Town’: The story of the rise and fall of a society built by schoolchildren The sisters are both writers, and Professor Kathleen Rooney is teaching undergraduate courses this Winter Quarter on fiction writing, writing the body, and ladies/womanhood in literature.
Kenny Wassus, a MAWP grad and former BSB student worker, is now at the Wall Street Journal as a senior video journalist covering tech video. He has a pitch in for his first written piece, so stay tuned for when it might be in print! Wassus has also worked for New York Magazine, and you can find out more about his portfolio on his website.