Edited Journal

Sustaining English Programs in the Twenty-First Century. Guest Editor with Maria J. Cahill, special issue of South Atlantic Review, vol. 78, no. 1-2, 2015.

This special journal issue focused on the future of English as a discipline across a range of institutions, regions, and subfields. It  included a lead contribution from Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey and Dr. Kristie S. Fleckenstein of Florida State University, Dr. Matthew Davis of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and Dr. Katherine T. Bridgman of Texas A&M, San Antonio. They are innovators in their field and wrote about their experiences developing an undergraduate program at FSU aimed at meeting the professional and intellectual needs of students in the digital age. The rest of our contributors were also engaged in finding unique solutions for their respective programs, students, and institutions--including state and regional colleges' attempts to reconcile English with the workforce needs of their communities, the struggle for colleges with strong institutional missions to walk the tightrope of updating their curriculum without compromising their ideals, and attempts to institute programmatic formulations at the graduate and undergraduate level. This edition also featured an article discussing the revitalization efforts of an English department in the United Kingdom to provide a global perspective on the crisis in the field. Through this institutional diversity, we hope to have created a starting point for further discussion as well as a repository of practical solutions that will benefit the field of English and, most importantly, our students.