Research & Innovation

In this Coretta Scott King Honor Award–winning novel, two teens—one black, one white—grapple with the repercussions of a single violent act that leaves their school, their community, and, ultimately, the country bitterly divided by racial tension.

In Green Suns and Faërie, author Verlyn Flieger, one of world’s foremost Tolkien scholars, presents a selection of her best articles—some never before published—on a range of Tolkien topics.

Susanna Compton Underland is an Academic administrator with a research and teaching background in nineteenth-century American literature.

"I Dwell in Possibility” — an annotated compendium of 104 new Chinese translations of Dickinson’s poems.

Their mission is to look deeply into the sources and achievements of art in all media in this unique region; to serve as a record in progress of rapid change in our forms of expression, cultural themes, challenges, and new economies of creative production; to articulate critical response and give artists and their audiences a place to meet, speak, share experiences, and undertake collaboration.

This volume of thirty-seven essays, written by distinguished scholars, offers a rich introduction to the literary, political and religious contexts that shaped Spenser's poetry, including the environment in which he lived, the genres he drew upon, and the influences that helped to fashion his art. The collection reveals the multiple personae that Spenser constructs within his work: to read Spenser is to read a rich archive of literary forms, and this volume provides the contexts in which to do so. A reading list at the end of the volume will prove invaluable to further study.

Susanna Compton Underland defended her dissertation, Sacred Spaces, Secular Fictions: Nineteenth-Century American Literature, in August 2018. Her research interests include nineteenth-century American literature, domestic fiction, religion and secularism. A portion of this project is published in Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, under the title "Sentimentalism and Secularism in Herman Melville's Pierre."

The CIES Emerging Scholar of the African Diaspora Award is given annually to exceptional scholars and artists whose work has positively impacted the educational, economic and artistic lives of African descendants across the African diaspora.

They cover a range of subjects, from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings and their place within the legendarium he called the Silmarillion to shorter works like “The Story of Kullervo” and “Smith of Wootton Major.

The FSW achieves its mission by commemorating outstanding literary achievement, encouraging young writers through awards, prizes, and fellowships, and by recognizing distinction in writing by election to membership.