Claire Bracken, professor of English, had an article published in the online Orientations series of the journal Modernism/Modernity. The article, “Read a Dirty Book: James Joyce, Samuel Steward and the Orientations of Literary Rebellion,” was co-written with Laurel Harris and Marissa Stinson.

Lewis Davis, the Thomas Armstrong Professor of Economics, served as a panelist for a session on “Gender and Entrepreneurship” at the 2025 Southern Economic Association Meetings. In addition, his coauthor, Israt Jahan, presented their joint work, “Patriarchy and Comparative Advantage,” which provides evidence that patriarchal values affect the pattern of trade between countries.

Katherine Lynes, associate professor of English and director of Africana Studies, will chair a panel at the September 2026 conference for the European Association for American Studies: "1776-2026: Visions of Freedom" in Bologna, Italy. The panel she organized is titled “Transformation And Malformation Of Movement In American Outdoor Spaces.” Prof. Lynes’ contribution is a paper titled “‘a policeman he wanted me / to behave’: Gardens and Home in Black Ecopoetics.”

D. Catherine Walker, associate professor of psychology, published the main paper from a National Eating Disorder Awareness funded Early Career Investigator award with coauthors Kayla Costell, Kristin Javaras, Julia Brooks '16 and Drew Anderson published in the journal Body Image, titled "In the mirror: Functional appreciated bodies (IM FAB). Testing an easily disseminable body dissatisfaction micro-intervention."

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