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Congratulations to our graduate students graduating tomorrow! 👨‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓🧑🏽‍🎓👨🏻‍🎓 Sammy Oswald, Yndiana Montes Fogelquist and Jesse Barber. @Jesse_jpg @MontesYndiana @AppLatinx @AppalachStudies #AppStateAppStudies

De. Sandra Ballard will serve as the macebearer for the 5 p.m. ceremony. Dr. Ballard is a 1979 graduate of App State. In 2000, she joined the Department of English and the Center for Appalachian Studies as editor of the Appalachian Journal.

Like the Percival Everett novel “Erasure” on which it is based, the Oscar-nominated “American Fiction” calls out white expectations about the performance of Blackness. @Meredith_McC reflects on the multiple questions it raises, for @newlinesmag. newlinesmag.com/argument/the-l…

Dreams that come true with our App Studies master’s degree program. For graduate student @MontesYndiana to become a documentarian was an important goal to accomplish. @AppalachStudies

Do you research Appalachia? The Journal of Appalachian Studies is the place for you! For more information check out our website at: appalachianstudies.org/journal-of-app… #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction #jas #journalofappalachianstudies

‘Remembering and Forgetting’ musical performance to honor victims of gun violence wataugademocrat.com/news/local/rem… via @WataugaDemocrat

Q5: What are your thoughts on recitation & its absence in the classroom? Did it cut a leg off the poetry table? #WonderChat #poetry

I have news! A dream project of mine is happening.

Meet the 2025 conference team! “Rural Reimagined: A Grand Challenge for Appalachia” Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee, March 20-22, 2025 #appstudies2025 #Ruralreimagined #appalachianstudies #appalachia #appalachian #appstudies #asa #Asainaction

“Captures in gripping detail how the effects of a disaster like the Buffalo Creek flood can continue to haunt the sturdiest of people even years later.” — Yale University

We can’t wait! cas.appstate.edu/news/joseph-ba… #josephbathanti #nclhof #appstate 📸 @MontesYndiana

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Patrick Bizarro reflects on “Yellow Leaves: Poems” by Alana Dagenhart. To read the full article (and more like it) subscribe to Appalachian Journal online today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Lacy Snapp examines Stephanie Kendrick’s “In Any of These Towns: Poems.” To read the full article (and more like it) subscribe to Appalachian Journal online today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Charles Dodd White considers the poetry collection “Tamp: Poems” by Denton Loving. To read the full article (and more like it) subscribe to Appalachian Journal online today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Jessica Cory examines “In Plena Vita—The Full Life: The Collected Poems of Timothy Russell,” edited by Marc Harshman and Larry Smith. To read the full article subscribe today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Neema Avashia reviews “Gay Poems for Red States” by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. @AvashiaNeema Subscribe to Appalachian Journal online today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Elise Johnson reflects on “The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South,” edited by Kami Ahrens. Suscribe to Appalachian Journal today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Mark Powell reviews Ron Rash’s “The Caretaker: A Novel.” To read the full article (and more like it) subscribe to Appalachian Journal online today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Maggie Anderson considers “Genesis Road” by Susan O’Dell Underwood. To read the full article (and more like it) subscribe to Appalachian Journal online today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions

APPALACHIAN JOURNAL is proud to present insightful book reviews! Phillip Obermiller reviews Max Fraser’s “Hillbilly Highway: The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class.” Subscribe to Appalachian Journal online today! appjournal.appstate.edu/subscriptions