Assistant Professor Karen Leona Anderson's poem "Receipt: Midway Entertainment Presents," originally published in Seneca Review, has been selected for inclusion in the prestigious 2012 Best American Poetry.
Program Information
Ben Click, Chair
Professor of English
240-895-4253
baclick@smcm.edu
Office staff: 240-895-4225
Faculty Spotlight
Professor of English Jeffrey Hammond's new book, Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties, is being published by University of Iowa Press this fall.
Student Spotlight
Melanie Kokolios's short story "Schadenfreude" has been published in Carve's Spring 2011 online issue and will appear in print in their 2011 anthology at the start of 2012.
George B. and Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts
Montgomery Hall 126
240-895-4241
jahammond@smcm.edu
Jeffrey Hammond teaches courses in English and American literature, biblical and classical literature, and nonfiction writing. He has published three books in his primary field of early American literature, most recently The American Puritan Elegy: A Literary and Cultural Study (Cambridge University Press, 2000). In his other life as a creative writer, his work has appeared in such journals as Antioch Review, Missouri Review, Massachusetts Review, Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Sport Literate, Potomac Review, Crab Orchard Review, ISLE, Salmagundi, Chattahoochee Review, Ascent, River Teeth, Witness, Fourth Genre, Clackamas Literary Review, River Styx, Ohio Magazine, Notre Dame Magazine, and American Scholar. His creative nonfiction has won two Pushcart Prizes, Shenandoah's Carter Prize for Essay, and the Missouri Review Editors' Prize for Essay, and has been cited several times in the Pushcart annual and Best American Essays. A collection of essays about life in small-town Ohio, entitled Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern (Kent State University Press, 2002), was one of two finalists for an Independent Publisher Book Award in the essays/creative nonfiction category. This Place Where We Are (St. Mary's Press, 2006), offers a series of reflections on St. Mary's College and its liberal arts mission. His penultimate book, Small Comforts: Essays at Middle Age. (Kent State University Press, 2008), explores the amusements and anxieties of being no longer young but not (yet) old. A new book about vintage toys as a reflection of post-war American culture, entitled Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties, is out this fall from the University of Iowa Press.
