·     The School of Arts and Humanities successfully bid to host the prestigious scholarly journal Philological Review. Dr. Kay Walter will serve as editor, and Dr. Kate Stewart will serve as Executive Secretary and Treasurer.

·     Bob Moore  (Red Hawk) has poems accepted in the following journals:  Slipstream. “The Sniper’s Discourse.”  Main Street Rag. “King Kong’s Balls” and “Dreaming With the Stone,” forthcoming in Vallum (British Columbia).

·     Diane Payne  has had the following creative nonfiction pieces published:  Single, But Not Alone in One-Up Magazine, October, 07; Menstrual Madness forthcoming in Breakthrough Bleeding Anthology, She Devil Press;�Eventual Connection forthcoming in Words and Images of Belonging Anthology Optimism at the Farmer’s Market� forthcoming in Mississippi Crow.  Her recent fiction publications include: Neighbors� forthcoming in Muscadine Lines, May/June 08; Ludicrous in Steel Moon Publishing, October, 07; Just Like an Egyptian in Espresso Fiction, Australian public schools, Summer 07.

·     Linda Webster has been awarded a $2200 grant from the UAM Faculty Research Committee. 

·     Mark Spencer has recently published short stories in Steel City Review, Istanbul Literature Review, and Storyglossia and a novella in Bewildering Stories. He was a finalist for the Quarterly West National Novella Competition and has stories nominated for Best of the Web and Pushcart Prize. He read at APA in October and has been a quest speaker at the Warren Rotary Club, the Monticello Daughters of the American Revolution, the Vera Lloyd Home, and the Shepard Center Book Review Series.

·     The Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock has announced the upcoming exhibit beginning 12/7/07 – 01/20/08 to commemorate the 50th Annual Delta exhibition. 50/50� will include the 2003 Grand Award winner Chapter Eight: Friedrich Nietzsche & Michael Jackson� by UAM Art Professor, Tom Richard.  In addition, Tom will have an exhibit in May of 2008 at the Arkansas Arts Center.  Also, some of Tom's new drawings are on exhibition at the Blue Moon Gallery in Hot Springs during December. 

·     Allen H. Redmon presented a paper entitled “Repression and Revelation: Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Day of Wrath (1943) and Levitical Law” at the International Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion meeting in Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 4-7, 2007.  A paper entitled “Mediating the Apocalyptic: American Detective Films and Apocalyptic Discourse,” has been accepted for presentation at the Regional American Academy of Religion meeting in Dallas, Texas this coming March.  Allen also made a presentation entitled “Demystifying College Writing” at the Literary Share Day at UAM in October.  He led another discussion over "Linguistic Tolerance" for juniors and seniors at Drew Central High School in November.  His paper “The “Unfinished Business” of Kill Bill: Cinematic Discourse In and Out of the Dark” was accepted for publication in the Journal of Religion and Film a can be accessed at http://www.unomaha.edu/jrf/vol11no1/RedmonKillBill.htm.  A second paper considering David Fincher’s Se7en within the historical context of American detective films remains under review at Clues: a Journal of Detection.   Allen continues to work on a book-length study entitled At the End of the Crime: the Evolution of the Detective Film Genre in America, a project this fall supported by a research stimulation grant from UAM.

·      Kate Stewart  read “William Faulkner’s Indian Summer:  Intruder in the Dust and The Reivers at Arkansas Philological Associate on October 12; at the APA business meeting she was elected Executive Secretary/Treasurer.  Dr. Stewart served as the luncheon speaker at the Faulkner Festival in Ripley, MS on November 3.  On November 12, she attended the meeting of the Consortium of Faculty Senate Chairs at Henderson State.  The President of Erskine College and Seminary appointed Dr. Stewart to the Academic Strategic Planning Committee for the college.

·     Scott Lykens recently lectured at Henderson State University on his work as an artist, curated several shows in the library Gallery including internationally known artists Anderson Turner, Matt Long, and Conner Burns.  He managed the 3^rd Annual UAM National Juried Cup Show that had over 165 pieces to select from.  Scott also published works in 17 scholarly exhibitions including the 15^th Annual Strictly Functional Pottery National, http://www.strictlyfunctionalpotterynational.net/exhibit.html and Plated Platters, Salon Style, Philadelphia Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

·     Ron Sitton read a poem, then sang and played harmonica during the 20th Mocha Madness; attended the American Democracy Project - Southern Consortium's 3rd annual conference at Kennesaw State in Kennesaw, GA.; planned the American Democracy Project's campus chapter's celebration of "National Freedom of Speech Week" with a showing of "Good Night and Good Luck," a debate of "Is Freedom of Speech Really Free?" and a library display of the Bill of Rights and First Amendment issues including Robert Mapplethorpe's X portfolio (art), "Lady Chatterly's Lover" (literature), "The Song of the South" (film) and "The People vs. Larry Flynt" (magazine journalism);  helped the Journalism Club plan the second installment of "The Last Lecture Series" featuring English Professor Betty Matthews;  worked with the Arkansas Catholic's paginator to produce a design course for newspapers and magazine that will feature Adobe InDesign on both PCs and Macs as well as basic html for the Web;  published two articles in The Little Rock Free Press: "Businesses Not By-passed During Construction" and "Honky-tonk a Natural Fit in Arkansas";  initiated unpaid internship with the Pine Bluff Commercial and paid internship with Ashley County News Observer.  Helped the Journalism Club plan the third installment of "The Last Lecture Series" featuring Dr. Morris Bramlett, dean of Math and Sciences; Attended a Society of Professional Journalists' workshop on Web design featuring the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Business.