I welcome your interest, Janet!

We are adding borderlands to Rust Belt Literature including bordering Windsor, Canada, and bordering Sonora and Chihuahua, Mexico.  Our Welcome has been revised to reflect this after someone at a different group pointed out the omission.  So we go a bit beyond the Midwest, Janet.  we already have interest from Pe…[Read more]

Hi Nicky,

Here is the link to my recently published co-authored book (with Shubhangi Vaidya) entitled Embodying Mothering: Perspectives from Contemporary India. https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/embodying-motherhood/<
Best wishes!

Anu Aneja

Dear Friends,

I’m also interested in this group.  However, I would like to give the group a more positive or neutral name than “Rust Belt.”

We may also want to connect with the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, which has annual conferences in June in East Lansing at Michigan State University.  These conferences include films, c…[Read more]

Hello Nicky and my fellow teacher-scholars,

I appreciate the chance to share my forthcoming book publication: Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden.  It is coming out from Cambridge UP in September.

I will follow Petar’s lead and include the official link…[Read more]

After a five year struggle, my book, American-English: The Official Guide, has been published and is available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kindle. Not a “rule” book, it is aimed at writers and emphasizes the benefits of creating Your Style Manual and recording personal choices of grammar and punctuation usage.  A special section offers…[Read more]

I am interested in being a part of the discussion group on “Rust Belt Literature.”

Thank you for starting this discussion.

Sandra

Nicky Agate told me how to create the group “Rust Belt Literature” so it is now an independent discussion group–I think.  I tried to make it as open as possible, since it may be a low traffic group.

Our first offering is my story Whiting Rich and Strange to be found in the CORE file deposit area (on your toolbar–keyword CORE.)

Please send me…[Read more]

Dear Nicky,

Thank you for this opportunity to share our news.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing published The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare in May, a collection of essays I edited.
Here’s the link to the book: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-whirlwind-of-passion
With best wishes,
Petar Penda

My chapter “East to West – The Inter-Connectedness of All Things Created” will be published in the forthcoming book Sustainability in/and Writing Intensive Courses as part of the Lexington Books’ Ecocritical Theory and Practice Series. The book should be out by MLA 2017.

Thanks!

Pam

Hi Nicky,

Thank you for letting us know! My English translation of a novella in Spanish (from El Salvador) was recently published: They Have Fired Her Again by Claudia Hernández.

Thank you!

Cheers,

Aarón Lacayo