{"id":26675,"date":"2024-05-07T12:08:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=26675"},"modified":"2024-05-07T12:08:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T16:08:39","slug":"marshalls-departments-of-graduate-humanities-and-english-create-anthology-of-students-written-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2024\/05\/marshalls-departments-of-graduate-humanities-and-english-create-anthology-of-students-written-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall’s Departments of Graduate Humanities and English create anthology of students\u2019 written works"},"content":{"rendered":"
Marshall University\u2019s departments of English and Graduate Humanities have teamed up with Mountain State Press to publish an anthology of works by Marshall students, faculty and alumni. The anthology is entitled \u201cWe Are Appalachia!\u201d and was edited by Brooke Hypes, a 2023 Marshall graduate and a contributor to the book.<\/p>\n

\u201c \u2018We Are Appalachia!\u2019 is a collection of stories, poems and essays to speak to myriad visions and perspectives on Appalachia,\u201d said Cat Pleska, a fulltime instructor in Marshall\u2019s Department of English and Graduate Humanities program. \u201cIt showcases voices not heard before as well as many who are well-known. Contributors include students in the English Graduate program and Graduate Humanities Program.\u201d<\/p>\n

The anthology is \u201ca powerful illustration of how diverse experiences of a place can yield examples and dynamic understanding of Appalachia often glossed in popular imaginings of what it’s like to live here,\u201d said Eric Luke Lassiter, a professor and director of the Marshall University Graduate Humanities Program.<\/p>\n

The collection was the result of a class Pleska taught for the Graduate Humanities program, cross-listed with Graduate English students in the spring of 2022. It was called Publishing Appalachia: Mountain State Press, and the student contributions in the anthology come from creative work the students produced for the class. It\u2019s a showcase not just for Marshall students\u2019 work, but it also demonstrates the importance of providing students with real-life experiences, concrete skill-building, and collaboration on projects resulting in a public format, Pleska said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFourteen Marshall students contributed to the collection (10 graduate and 4 undergraduate), as well as three retired faculty, two current faculty, three from the community,\u201d Pleska said. \u201cA student intern from Marshall graphic arts program, Morgan Barchett, created the cover art and prepared the book for printing \u2014 and even the proofreader is a former Marshall English professor. President Brad Smith graciously wrote the preface and has a poem included.\u201d<\/p>\n

The publisher, Mountain State Press, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 1978 that serves as a traditional, literary press in West Virginia with a mission to publish West Virginians and Appalachians. It is currently housed in Corbly Hall, and Pleska serves as a volunteer board member, president and editor-in-chief for the nonprofit. The press created this collection\/anthology in collaboration with Marshall.<\/p>\n

The book is currently available through the Press’s website: www.mountainstatepress.org<\/a>\u00a0and through Amazon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Marshall University\u2019s departments of English and Graduate Humanities have teamed up with Mountain State Press to publish an anthology of works by Marshall students, faculty and alumni. The anthology is entitled \u201cWe Are Appalachia!\u201d and was edited by Brooke Hypes, a 2023 Marshall graduate and a contributor to the book. \u201c \u2018We Are Appalachia!\u2019 is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":26676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,38,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-cola","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26677,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26675\/revisions\/26677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}