Dr. Dominiqua Griffin (Counselor Education and Rehabilitation) is an awardee for the AABHE 2019 Honorable Mention Dissertation Award for her research on school counseling in the international context and its relation to black youth.

Commended for her outstanding research and contributions, Griffin uses an ethnographic inquiry to understand the roles, practices, challenges and demands of school counselors in Barbados. It’s the first study to look at the school counselor's role since the position was created in 1989. The study has implications for practice and policy decisions to create a culturally appropriate model of school counseling.

Three Department of English faculty have new publications, and another has been selected to serve on a prestigious international academic delegation.

Dr. Reva E. Sias (English) recently won an international election to serve as the delegate representing Composition, Rhetoric, and Writing Programs for the Modern Language Association, an organization founded in 1883 by teachers and scholars to promote the study and teaching of language and literature. Dr. Sias just joined the MLA delegation at its 2019 annual convention in Chicano this past January. Her term will be for three years.

Dr. William Arcé (English) will have his essay “The Viet Nam War Killed that Boy! Interrogating War in Lucha Corpi’s Murder Mystery Novel, ‘Eulogy for a Brown Angel’ ” published in the spring 2020 special issue of Diálogo, a refereed journal of interdisciplinary studies. The editors of Diálogo also selected Dr. Arcé as guest co-editor of the special issue, which will focus on Latinx and Chicanx detective fiction.

Professor Randa Jarrar (English) will have her third full-length book, a memoir titled “Love is An Ex-Country,” published by the independent publisher Catapult Books. The nonfiction book will be published in fall 2020. Jarrar’s new book will include new work alongside reworked essays that previously appeared in The New York Times, Buzzfeed, The Sun, Guernica, and Oxford American.

Dr. Alison Mandaville (English) has had her work published in the latest issue of World Literature Today, a bimonthly publication out of the University of Oklahoma. Her piece is a co-translation with Elnur Imanbayli of “Auntie Nabat’s Bread,” an excerpt from a memoir by Azerbaijani author and journalist Nariman Hasanzade. At the upcoming Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual conference in Portland, Oregon, in March, Dr. Mandaville will speak on a panel about the unique challenges of translating place.