English Spotlight

Over the summer, with many holding down part-time jobs, a group of Shenandoah University students, overseen by faculty, conducted wide-ranging research as part of the…

Six Shenandoah University education majors seeking initial teacher licensure have each received a $5,000 Hattie M. Strong Foundation (HMSF) Scholarship designed to reduce financial pressure…

By Jace Gibson ’26 Shenandoah University’s Avalon Literature and Arts Magazine was recently recognized as “Excellent” by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)…

By Jace Gibson, ’26 As a part of a semesterly guest writer series, Shenandoah University’s English Department invited Alicia Cahalane, author of the novellas “Room…

By Jace Gibson ’26 Shenandoah University’s Avalon Literature and Arts Magazine recently was recognized as a “distinguished” magazine by the National Council of Teachers of…

Vampires. The afterlife. These are just a couple of the subjects Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Lisa Wood (L. Marie Wood), M.F.A., explores in her…

Assistant Professor of English Christin Marie Taylor, Ph.D., received the Eudora Welty Prize for the best book of the year by University of Mississippi Press…

Shenandoah University Assistant Professor of English Christin Marie Taylor, Ph.D., has published her first book, Labor Pains: New Deal Fictions of Race, Work, and Sex…

Award-winning science fiction/fantasy writer and computational linguist Tracy Canfield, author of the new computer game “I, Cyborg,” and whose short fiction has appeared in numerous magazines and…

A book has the same beginning, middle, and end every time you read it, but what happens when you give readers control of the story?…