Assistant Professor Gerri Brightwell's The Dark Lantern was published in March 2008. Set in Victorian London, the  novel dramatizes how a household's many secrets wreak havoc on the household's master and his study of anthropometry, the science of establishing identity through body measurements. Crown Publishing plans a national booktour and world-wide promotion.


 

Associate Professor Derick Burleson's new book, Never Night, was published by Marick Press in 2008. Adam Zagajewski calls Never Night "a hymn to life, a meditation on day and night, on the seasons, on nature and on love. "


 

Assistant Professor David Crouse's second collection of short fiction, The Man Back There, was published by Sarabande Books in 2008. The collection, winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize for Short Fiction, consists of 9 stories, all told from the perspective of various male characters.  Judge Mary Gaitskill selected Professor Crouse's manuscript from a pool of more than 400 book-length submissions.

 

Former Graduate Student Publishes Collection of Essays. Jennifer Brice, a graduate of the MFA Program, recently published her second collection of Creative Nonfiction. Unlearning to Fly: a Memoir was recently published by the University of Nebraska Press. Another collection of essays, The Last Settlers (Duquesne U), was released in 1998. Her work has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, River Teeth, The Gettysburg Review, The Sonora Review, and others. She received her BA from Smith College and her MFA from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks. Jennifer Brice will be a visiting writer in the UAF English Department in spring, 2009.

 

Assistant Professor Chris Coffman publishes Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film (Wesleyan UP, December 2006).  Insane Passions traces the now-discredited myth of the lesbian-as-madwoman from its introduction in early twentieth-century psychoanalysis and literature through to its startling reappearance in contemporary film.