{"id":18048,"date":"2024-09-23T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=18048"},"modified":"2024-09-23T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T17:48:18","slug":"elizabethtown-college-english-literature-minor-and-professor-collaborate-to-publish-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/09\/23\/elizabethtown-college-english-literature-minor-and-professor-collaborate-to-publish-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College English Literature Minor and Professor Collaborate to Publish Article"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Assistant Professor of English Literature, Dr. Patrick Allen and Haley Bateman \u201926, a Social Studies Education major with minors in English Literature and Sociology recently collaborated to publish an article on the proliferation of banned books, particularly in the Midwest region of the United States. The pair will also present their work at the Midwest Modern Language Association Conference in Chicago this upcoming November.<\/p>\n

The pair was able to connect through Bateman\u2019s English Literature minor. The minor allows students to conduct close literary analysis that relates to their interests while working closely with Etown\u2019s English faculty and staff<\/a> who specialize in a variety of literary areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy experiences with my English Literature minor and writing this article with Dr. Allen have transformed my goals and expectations for the future,\u201d Bateman said. \u201cWhile my goal is still to teach classes in social studies, I now understand how to incorporate literature into my classes.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article, \u201c’We can\u2019t stop living\u2019: No Love for Queer Memoirs in the Heartland,\u201d was published in the journal Midwestern Miscellany<\/a> to coincide with Banned Books Week which is celebrated annually in late September or early October. Elizabethtown College Distinguished Professor of English, John Rohrkemper is the editor of the special issue on book banning.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo have this article published is surreal and it gives me a sense of accomplishment,\u201d Bateman said. \u201cI believe these experiences are incredibly important and showcase the possibilities of taking a chance and getting outside of your comfort zone. This was about the experience and enjoyment of the research.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bateman and Allen examined the ways in which author Carmen Maria Machado\u2019s 2019 memoir, \u201cIn the Dream House\u201d discusses queer authors\u2019 self-censorship and the further censorship of queer authors through book bans.<\/p>\n

The article also attends to questions related to archives, publication, and access, especially for materials that attend to issues related to LGBTQ+ communities, sex, gender, and\/or abuse.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis article showcases the benefit of close work with professors and publication opportunities that come with the study of literature,\u201d Allen said. \u201cThrough the article, we are able to call for greater access to books that can serve as lifelines to queer youth who often lack resources that address their lived realities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pair began working together in May 2023 through Allen\u2019s Queer Literature course and submitted a first draft in October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College Assistant Professor of English Literature, Dr. Patrick Allen and Haley Bateman \u201926, a Social Studies Education major with minors in English Literature and Sociology recently collaborated to publish an article on the proliferation of banned books, particularly in the Midwest region of the United States. The pair will also present their work at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":18050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[260,2387,2384,2355,2386,2385],"class_list":["post-18048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-english","tag-english-literature","tag-english-minor","tag-faculty-student-engagement","tag-literature","tag-queer-literature","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18052,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18048\/revisions\/18052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}