Dr. Jacob Blevins, associate professor of English and head of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at McNeese State University, has been named a 2009-2010 recipient of a $5,000 Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist’s Fellowship for poetry.

Blevins has also been commissioned to edit “The Complete Works of Thomas Traherne,” an outstanding 17th-century English poet and religious author, to be published by Boydell and  Brewer.

Dr. Joe Cash,professor of English, will chair the folklore section at the Annual Conference of the South Central Modern Language Association Oct. 29-31 in Baton Rouge.