English Department faculty work with graduate students, undergraduate students, community partners, and colleagues at other institutions to produce a variety of projects at the intersection of literature and social justice. We produce works of digital scholarship, public-facing engagements with the humanities, and traditional scholarly monographs.
Southsider
Southsider is an online hyperlocal news source that covers artists and arts programming on the South Side of Bethlehem with the aim of exploring how the arts help us reflect on our unique civic identity and explore the challenges as well as the strengths of our community. Our website encourages communal reflection upon the vibrant arts district in Bethlehem, including discussion of artists and programs not usually covered by larger news outlets.
African American Poetry (1870-1928): A Digital Anthology
African American Poetry (1870-1928): A Digital Anthology is an open-access resource for students, teachers, and researchers interested in African American poetry, published roughly between 1870 and 1928. The anthology contains poems by major authors like Langston Hughes, Jessie Fauset, Claude McKay, and Countee Cullen, but also by many lesser-known writers. By bringing all of these materials together, we hope to give readers new angles of approach to an important literary movement.
The Gloria Naylor Archive
The Gloria Naylor Archive is an interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration that facilitates engagement with Gloria Naylor’s life and works by making her collected papers widely accessible to scholars, educators, students, and fans.
Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction
Patriarchy’s Creative Resilience: Late Victorian Speculative Fiction by Michael Kramp is a book that explores the imaginative failure and an imaginative success of British speculative fiction published between 1870 and 1900. It draws on an archive of late nineteenth- century speculative fiction to detail a versatile patriarchal toolbox, including hegemonic masculinity, control of dangerous women, hyperbolic and sentimental performances of male sovereignty, and reversions to authoritarian, at times violent conduct.