Centers and Projects

Appalachian Prison Book Project
Bolton Workshop
Center for Literary Computing
Victorian Poetry
West Virginia Dialect Project
West Virginia University Press


Appalachian Prison Book Project

The Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) is a student and community organization that sends free books to women and men who are imprisoned in the Appalachian region. More

The Bolton Writing Workshop

Writing workshop in the residence halls. More.

Center for Literary Computing

The Center for Literary Computing (CLC) provides specialized assistance in humanities computing to students in English courses, supports English faculty research projects, and serves students and faculty from the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences and the University at large. More….

Victorian Poetry Journal

John Lamb, Associate Professor of English, is the new editor of Victorian Poetry, replacing Dr. Hayden Ward after his retirement.

Victorian Poetry is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to British and colonial poetics of the Victorian age (1830-1914). VP welcomes articles from a variety of critical approaches. More

West Virginia Dialect Project

The West Virginia Dialect Project (WVDP) studies language variation and presents the results of its research to civic and academic organizations. Currently, the WVDP focuses on four aspects of language variation in West Virginia: Appalachian African-American Vernacular English; the Appalachian speech of southern West Virginia; the influence of families on sociolinguistic variation; and bidialectalism. Through these projects, the WVDP is investigating language variation around the state to build a socially and geographically comprehensive dialect survey of West Virginia. More…

West Virginia University Press

The West Virginia University Press considers itself “the press of West Virginia,” and is the primary publishing and distribution agency of scholarly and trade publications for West Virginia University. The Press also publishes scholarly and creative works treating the West Virginia and the Appalachian region as well as other scholarly and creative materials including books, journals, CDs and electronic media. More…