Research & Innovation

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

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.

"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.

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.

One winner will be selected by a panel of three to four writers or editors who are PEN America Members. The winner will receive a $25,000 cash prize intended to allow significant time and resources with which to pursue a subsequent work of fiction.

Buffy’s your typical cosplaying, retro-gaming, con-going geek girl, but as her high school graduation approaches, she finds she has an unwelcome guest in her mind: the text parser. Narrating her life like it’s a classic adventure game (cough Zork cough), the text parser forces her to interact with the world through a series of a typewritten commands: Finish school. Go to party. Fall in love.

At first it’s pretty cool. It’s not easy making the transition from high school to college. It’s not easy dealing with roommates. It’s not easy being in a new relationship with her lifelong crush. Buffy makes some huge mistakes along the way, but the text-parser lets her fix all of them.

It’s like having superpowers… until the text parser won’t shut up. Buffy is desperate to get rid of it, but no matter how many times she tries to restart or reset, the text parser won’t go away. Before long, her life starts to crumble: her friends grow apart, her roommates turn against her, and her boyfriend falls into a deep depression. Buffy’s life has become a game, but how can you win when there’s no final boss?

Narrated in the style of classic adventure games, Post–High School Reality Quest is a captivating coming-of-age story that T. E. Carter calls a “must read” for all gamers and YA fans.