Dr. Brent Kinser publishes book on Literature, the American Civil War, and British Democracy
The American Civil War in the Shaping of British Democracy - Explores the presence of the American Civil War in the writings of British intellectuals such as Thomas Carlyle, Anthony Trollope, Walter Bagehot, and John Stuart Mill, all of whom engaged in the debates surrounding democracy's viability as a foundation for modern governance.
Poetry Chapbook by Dr. Mary Adams: Commandment
"Mary Adams is one of the most gifted poets writing today. Her chapbook COMMANDMENT . . . is a stunning piece of work, recently praised in a full page letter by former NC Poet Laureate Fred Chappell. Mr. Chappell notes the formal brilliance of the poems, the way each poem is intelligently crafted so that certain tropes echo throughout the poem." http://thereadonwnc.ning.com/forum/topics/mary-adamss-new-chapbook
Wilderness into Civilized Shapes: Reading the Postcolonial Environment - “Wright’s deeply provocative and richly nuanced Wilderness into Civilized Shapes represents the current state of play in contemporary postcolonial ecocriticism. . . . Wright provides much needed tools to explore the diversity and urgency of these cultural arrangements with the natural world. This is the sort of book that, for postcolonial scholars, represents the best in the field, while, for those in adjoining disciplines, offering a rewarding invitation to explore an allied field.” —Deane Curtin, author of Environmental Ethics for a Postcolonial World
Dr. Brent Kinser co-authors a winning $210,000 NEH Grant for the Carlyle Letters Project