Department of Humanities

Departmental News

Jana Anderson served as the Local Arrangements Chair for the 2014 Conference of College Teachers of English (CCTE/TCEA) hosted by LCU February 27-March 1. She will also moderate a panel at the LCU Scholars’ Colloquium in April featuring Rod Blackwood, Susan Blassingame, Russell Dabbs, and Ronna Privettdiscussing the economic murder mysteries written by keynote speaker, Dr. Kenneth Elzinga.

Matt Byars will be travelling with Kenneth Mahan, current LCU English and History major, to the National Undergraduate Literature Conference April 3-5 in Ogden, Utah, for Kenneth’s reading of his short story “Midknight: In Dark Canyons.”

Kenneth Hawley delivered a conference paper at CCTE/TCEA on March 1 entitled “‘Prob’ly Needed Killin’: Spiritual Identity and Textual Authority in Films of the American West.” He also delivered a conference paper entitled “‘With help of god þe sentence schal I saue’: Redeeming the Meaning in John Walton’s Boethius” at Revisiting the Legacy of Boethius in the Middle Ages, Harvard University, March 13-15.

Kenneth will also be attending the 49^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 8-11. His mentor from the University of Kentucky, Professor Kevin Kiernan, will be honored in two special sessions and in a panel celebrating the 21^st anniversary of the release of theElectronic Beowulf, the landmark CD-ROM edition of Beowulf that features high-quality digital images of the unique manuscript, as well as a number of helpful features for scholars and students. This session will also pay tribute to the 3^rdedition of the Electronic Beowulf, which offers additional resources especially for students, such as an updated user interface for the glossary—a feature that Kenneth contributed to the development of during his time at UK.