A 麻豆直播 English professor received a book contract for her upcoming scholarly work about a historic writer.

Dr. April D. Fallon, professor of English, received a contract to publish 鈥淢aeve Brennan: A Migrant Mind.鈥

鈥淭he book is about Maeve Brennan, fiction writer and essayist for the New Yorker,鈥 Fallon said. 鈥淪he was the first full time woman writer on the staff of the New Yorker. The book examines Brennan鈥檚 writing through the lens of her viewpoint as a keen eyed migrant in both Ireland and the US.鈥

Fallon has worked at Kentucky State for 22 years. Her main research interests are women鈥檚 literature, Modernism, Irish literature and poetry.

鈥淭his is my first scholarly book,鈥 Fallon said. 鈥淚 have published two books of poetry: 鈥楳indseye鈥檚 Consort鈥 in 2013 and 鈥楿niverse of Discourse鈥 in 2011.鈥