The Lubeznik Center for the Arts located in Michigan City, Indiana is featuring the special exhibition Citizen. Soldier. Citizen. The exhibition is a collection of art made by former military service-personnel, many of whom have been featured in JME. The exhibition is curated by JME’s Art Editor, Tara Tappert. The entire catalogue of the art exhibition is available…
Spotlight: Brian Mockenhaupt
Please join us in congratulating Brian, Managing Editor of the Journal of Military Experience for winning the Michael Kelly award for his story “The Living and the Dead.” His short story won him $25,000 for his exemplary, 18 month research-journalism on a platoon (and often outside the wire). You can read experts on the Kelly award page…
Pedagogy Spotlight: Michael Lund
In his basic composition course, Michael Lund used poet Gabriel A. Tolliver’s recently published piece (In the inaugural issue of The Blue Falcon Review) “The Afghan Blood House.” As Lund explained, Tolliver’s piece helped elucidate the concept of plot, “I tell them [his students] sometimes hands–images of hands–are a shortcut to agency, to who has…
Spotlight: Eric Hodges
Eric Hodges, MEA Scholarship Editor recently gave a TEDx talk on the implications of the military–civilian divide (see above video). Hodges is a PhD candidate at Virginia Tech, his dissertation research like his TEDx talk advances research in veteran studies. In fact, as Hodges explains in the video, he is responsible for establishing the Virginia Tech Veteran Studies conference….