Fall, 2006

• Dr. Hal Crimmel has two books forthcoming in 2007:  Dinosaur: A Place of Rivers (from the  University of Arizona Press) and On Location: Adventures in Place-Based Teaching, edited with Laird Christensen (from the University of Nevada Press).
• Dr. Michael Wutz co-edited Made in Switzerland. Contemporary Fiction from German-Speaking Switzerland, a special issue of the international, bilingual magazine Dimension² (forthcoming Spring 2007).
• The Board of Regents approves a Masters program in English; course offerings to begin in Fall 2006.
  
• Dr. Kathy Herndon elected chair of the English department
  
• Dr. Gary Dohrer is on sabbatical
• Dr. Diane Krantz is on sabbatical
  
• Dr. Bob Hogge is on sabbatical
  
• Dr. Hal Crimmel begins a three-year appointment as endowed scholar for the College of Arts and Humanities
  

Spring, 2006

• Dr. Karen Maloney is on sabbatical
• Dr. Victoria Ramirez is on sabbatical
• Dr. Becky Jo McShane, Dr. Shelley Thomas and Dr. Scott Rogers presented papers at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference in Albuquerque, NM
  
• Dr. Scott Rogers published "The Edge of Sisterhood in Christina Rossetti's The Convent Threshold" in The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies