Friman, Alice. "At the Threshold," "Case #87 on the Calendar," "Orange" [Poems] and interview with John Hoppenthaler. Connotation Press: An Online Artifact 2.8 (Apr. 2011). Web.
---. "Blue." [Poem] Valparaiso Poetry Review 12.2 (2011). Web.
---. "Depression Glass" and "The Price." Vinculum: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2011. Rpt. as Poetry Daily Poem of the Day. 6 Apr. 2011. Web.
---. "Getting Serious."Vinculum: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2011. Rpt. as Verse Daily Poem of the Day. 19 Apr. 2011. Web.
---. "Knock Knock, Who’s There?" and "Solar Speech." [Poems] Potomac Review 49 (2011): 54-56. Print.
---. Vinculum: Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 2011. Print and Electronic.
Palmer, Eustace. A Tale of Three Women. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press/The Red Sea Press, 2011.
Blazer, Alex. "'Disappear Here': The Pathological Decadence of Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms." The Louisville Conf. on Literature and Culture since 1900. U of Louisville, Louisville, KY. 24 Feb. 2011. Address.
Bragg, Beauty. "Raced Bodies in Time and Space: Concepts of Nation in Short Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Randall Kenan, and Percival Everett." Startling Figures: A Celebration of the Legacy of Flannery O'Connor. Georgia Coll. & State U, Milledgeville, GA, 14 Apr. 2011. Address.
Callender, Craig. "Lexical Diffusion, Borrowing, and the High German Consonant Shift." Southeastern Conf. on Linguistics, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA. 13 Apr. 2011. Address.
Carriere, Pete. "Tragic Effects: Catharsis in Modernism." Coll. English Assoc. Conf., Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront, St. Petersburg, FL. 31 Mar. 2011. Address.
Dillard, Scott. "Creating the One Person Show Through Workshopping." Southern States Communication Association Convention, Doubletree Hotel, Little Rock, AR. 26 Mar. 2011. Address.
---. Director and Emcee. Storytelling in Milledgeville, Black Box Theatre, Georgia Coll. & State U, Milledgeville, GA. 8 Apr. 2011.
Elliott, Marie. "Composition Theory and Media Studies: Not So Mutually Exclusive." Coll. English Assoc. Conf., Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront, St. Petersburg, FL. 1 Apr. 2011. Address.
Friman, Alice. "#1: Alice Talks About Poetry, 'My Darling.'" Ask Alice [podcast series sponsored by Georgia College MFA program] 15 Apr. 2011. Web.
---. Reading. Southern Humanities Council Conf. Wyndham Riverwalk Hotel, Jacksonville, FL. 11 Feb. 2011. Reading.
---. Reading and Contest Judging. Georgia Poetry Society. Lanier Birthplace, Macon, GA. 30 Apr. 2011. Reading.
---. Reading and Workshop. Longwood University, Farmville, VA. 23-24 Feb. 2011. Reading.
---. Substitute Panelist. "To Wave or Not to Wave: Writing the Female Body Across the Generations." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair. Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham Hotels, Washington, DC. 3 Feb. 2011. Panel.
Gentry, Marshall Bruce. "The Ongoing Influence on Flannery O'Connor of Carson McCullers's First Two Novels." Carson McCullers: An Interdisciplinary Conf. and 94th Birthday Celebration, Columbus State U, Columbus, GA. 19 Feb. 2011. Address.
Hazelwood, Rebecca. "Contemporary Composition Pedagogies and the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Correlation." Coll. English Assoc. Conf., Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront, St. Petersburg, FL. 1 Apr. 2011. Address.
Melancon, Megan. "Sugar Free Language." Southeastern Conf. on Linguistics, Callaway Gardens, Pine Mountain, GA. 14 Apr. 2011. Address.
McElmurray, Karen. Panelist with Janice Eidus, Kathleen Rooney, Kate Sambreno, and Alice Friman. "To Wave or Not to Wave: Writing the Female Body Across the Generations." Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair, Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham Hotels, Washington, DC. 3 Feb. 2011. Panel.
---. Reading with Madison Smartt Bell, Jeanne Larsen, Jill McCorkle, Luke Johnson, David Huddle. Hollins Graduate Program 50th Anniversary Reading. Assoc. of Writers & Writing Programs Conf. & Bookfair, Marriott Wardman Park & Omni Shoreham Hotels, Washington, DC. 4 Feb. 2011. Reading.
---. Featured Writer with Keith Banner. INKY Reading Series, The Bard's Town, Louisville, KY. 11 Mar. 2011. Reading.
Muschell, David. Milledgeville Memoirs. Dir. Karen Berman. Black Box Theatre, Georgia Coll. & State U, Milledgeville, GA. 15-18 Mar. 2011. American Theatre of Actors, New York, NY. 24-26 Mar. 2011. Play.
Newbern, Laura. Reading. Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ. 3 Mar. 2011.
---. Reading. Casa Libre, Tucson, AZ. 7 Mar. 2011.
---. Reading. "Perspectives in Poetry." Arkansas Literary Festival, Little Rock, AR. 9 Apr. 2011.
---. Reading. Nightbird Books, Fayetteville, AR. 10 Apr. 2011.
---. Reading and Workshop. Warren Wilson College. 25 Apr. 2011.
---. Panel. "The Persona Poem." "Desert Nights Rising Stars" Writers Conference, Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ. 4 Mar. 2011.
---. Panel. "Preparing a First Book of Poems." "Desert Nights Rising Stars" Writers Conference, Arizona State U, Tempe, AZ. 5 Mar. 2011.
Palmer, Eustace. "Yema Lucilda Hunter's Redemption Song: an Honest and Consummate Exploration of War." 37th Annual African Literature Assoc. Conf., Ohio University, Athens, OH. 14 Apr. 2011. Address. [Also attended Executive Council meetings and served as the emcee of the session memorializing deceased members and African writers.]
Alex Blazer, Brittany McClearen, Sal Talluto, and JT Torres were inducted into Phi Kappa Phi on 29 Apr. 2011.
Alice Friman served as the final judge for the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Book Prize 2010-2011 sponsored by Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing at the University of Central Missouri.
Eustace Palmer received the Distinguished Professor Award for 2010-2011 from Georgia College & State University at the Faculty Awards Ceremony on 22 Apr. 2011. In the words of the Provost, "This is the most prestigious award Georgia College offers for faculty achievement. . . ."
Marie Elliott has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of Mass Media at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, GA, effective Aug. 2011.
Bruce Gentry, Katie Simon, and Michael Nifong, the Organizing Committee for "Startling Figures: A Celebration of the Legacy of Flannery O'Connor," wish to thank Melinda Martin and a very large number of Department of English and Rhetoric students and faculty who helped with throwing parties, running the special conference bookstore, providing transportation, helping with room reservations, chairing sessions and presenting introductions, assisting with paper presentations, entertaining guests, cleaning up Andalusia Farm, etc.: Tori Lee Averett, Alex Blazer, Beauty Bragg, Amy Burt, Emily Chamison, Jan Clark, Melissa Cossey-Borries, Susan Cumings, Janet Dale, Ashley Emmert, Alice Friman, Allen Gee, Rebecca Hazelwood, Abby Hogelin, Angie Hunt, Matt Jurak, Martin Lammon, Esther Lopez, Mary Magoulick, Karen Salyer McElmurray, Rachel Marsom-Richmond, Judson Mitcham, David Muschell, Laura Newbern, Alexander Olivier, Michelle Richards, Josh Ruffin, John Sirmans, Roger Sollenberger, Philip Walker, Valerie Wayson, Elaine Whitaker. We are also pleased to have had several departmental graduates and former faculty (Scott Daniel, Ashleigh Eisinger, David R. Evans, Sarah Gordon, Jo King, Susan Presley) back to participate in the program. And thanks to everyone who attended the conference and encouraged our students to attend.