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Instructor Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “The Black Book: An Ekphrastic Landscape.” Essays Interpreting the Writings of Novelist Orhan Pamuk: The Turkish Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ed. Nilgün Anadolu-Okur. New York: Edwin Mellen P, 2009. 29–51.
Katherine C. Bassard Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Signs and Wonders: The King James Bible and African American Literature.” The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences. Ed. Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010. 294–317. Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender and Community in Early African American Women’s Writing. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999. Featured
John Brinegar Education
Research/Teaching Focus Recent/Selected Publications
Winnie Chan Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “‘The Eaters of Everything’: Etiquettes of Empire in Kipling’s Tales of Imperial Boys.” Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature. Eds. Scott Pollard and Kara Keeling. New York: Routledge, 2009. 125–35. The Economy of the Short Story in British Periodicals of the 1890s. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. “Curry on the Divide in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckham.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 36 (2005): 1–23.
Susann Cokal Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “The Bed of Imaginary Loves.” The Journal 32.2 (2008): 91–112. “Clean Porn: The Visual Aesthetics of Hygiene, Hot Sex, and Hair Removal.” Pop(Porn): The Proliferation of Pornography in Popular Culture. Ed. Mardia Bishop and Ann Hall. Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood Publishers, 2007. 137–54. Breath and Bones (novel). Denver: Unbridled Books, 2005. Mirabilis (novel). New York: BlueHen / Penguin Putnam, 2001. Web Sites
Gretchen Comba Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “William Maxwell: A Checklist of the Primary Sources.” Resources for American Literary Study 32 (2009): 267–96. “The Art of Atonement: The Emergence of the Jewish Character in William Maxwell’s Short Fiction.” MidAmerica XXXV (2008): 66–79. “The Close and Faraway.” The South Carolina Review 39.1 (2006): 181–87. “The Pretty People Dancing.” Alaska Quarterly Review 21.3–4 (2004): 23–33.
David Coogan Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Moving Students into Social Movements: Prisoner Reentry and the Research Paper.” Active Voices: Composing a Rhetoric of Social Movements. Ed. Patricia Malesh and Sharon Stevens. Albany: SUNY P, 2009. 149–65. “Service Learning and Social Change: The Case for Materialist Rhetoric.” College Composition and Communication 57.4 (2006): 667–93. Electronic Writing Centers: Computing the Field of Composition. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1999. Web Site
Marcel Cornis-Pope Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “From Alternative Forms of Realism to Post-Realism: Transitional Literature in the East-Central European Region in the 19th and 20th Century.” Serbian Studies Research 3.1 (2012): 41–58. “Local and Global Frames in Recent Eastern European Literatures: Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and Postcoloniality.” JPW (Journal of Postcolonial Writing) 48.2 (May 2012): 143–54. Ed. with John Neubauer. History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe. 4 vols. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2004–2010 “East-Central Europe and the Search for a Literature of the ‘Third Way.’” Ed. A. N. Hammond, Global Cold War Literatures: Western, Eastern and Postcolonial Perspectives. London and New York: Routledge, 2011. “Shifting Paradigms: East European Literatures at the Turn of the Millennium.” Ed. Christian Moraru. Postcommunism, Postmodernism, and the Global Imaginary. New York: Columbia UP, 2010. “‘In Black Inkblood’: Agonistic and Cooperative Authorship in the (Re)writing of History.” Ed. Jeffrey Di Leo, Federman’s Fictions: Innovation, Theory, Holocaust. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2010. “Urban Cartographies in the Post-Cold War Era: Postmodern Challenges to Ethnocentric and Globalist Mappings.” World Literature Studies 1.18 (2009): 14–27. Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After. New York and London: Palgrave, 2001. Ed. with Ronald Bogue. Violence and Mediation in Contemporary Culture. Albany: SUNY P, 1995. Hermeneutic Desire and Critical Rewriting: Narrative Interpretation in the Wake of Poststructuralism. New York: St. Martin’s, 1992. Curriculum Vitae
Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications Ed. with Andrew Blossom and Brian Castleberry. Richmond Noir. New York: Akashic Books, 2010. It’s Superman! (novel); San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005. Dugan Under Ground (novel). New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2001. Funny Papers (novel). New York: Viking, 1985. Web Site
Thom Didato Education Professional/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications Editorship Featured
Gregory Donovan Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications Torn from the Sun (poems). Los Angeles, CA: Red Hen Press, forthcoming 2015. “Besides” and "The blue breath in the red branch." Crazyhorse, Issue 83 (Spring 2013), 129–131. “Night Hours in the Office of the Dead” and “After the Fire and the Big Bang and All That.” Copper Nickel, Issue 18 (October 2012): 29–33. “Ravens at Tamalpais,” “Triumph of the Will as Underwater Ballet,” “Sleepwalker in the Medicine Wheel,” and “Sputnik as Holy Ghost.” 42opus 10.2–3 (2010). 42opus.com/authors/gregorydonovan “Is This Where It Hurts,” “Angel of the Waters,” “Milagros,” and “Portrait of the Artist with Columbus in Chains,” diode, 4.1 (Fall, 2010). http://www.diodepoetry.com/v4n1/content/donovan_g.html “Taste,” “Portbou: Walter Benjamin at the Border of Dream.” Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 22.2 (2010): 145–147. “Is There a Dead Mule in It.” storySouth 27 (Spring 2009). http://www.storysouth.com/2009/03/is-there-a-dead-mule-in-it.html Calling His Children Home (poems). Columbia and London: U of Missouri P, 1993. Editorship Web Site Featured Online Literary Journals Come of Age: 15 Top Online Journal Gregory Donovan on Blackbird at AWP 2011 [streaming video]
Joshua Eckhardt Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “‘From a servaunt of Diana’ to the Libellers of Robert Cecil: The Transmission of Songs Written for Queen Elizabeth I.” Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing. Ed. Peter Beal and Grace Ioppolo. London: British Library, 2007. 115–31. “‘Love-song weeds, and Satyrique thornes’: Somerset Libels and Anti-Courtly Love Poems.” Huntington Library Quarterly 69.1 (2006): 47–66.
Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “American Authorship and the Ghost of Moral Rights.” Book History 10 (2010): 218–50. “‘Snakes in Our Midst’: The Media, The Military and American Policy Toward Vichy North Africa.” Journalism History 27.4 (2010): 59–82. West of Eden: Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993. [Reprinting with new preface of Hollywood and the Profession of Authorship (1983)]. James M. Cain and the American Authors’ Authority. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 1992. Curriculum Vitae
Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Writing a Shadowbox: Joseph Cornell & the Lyric Essayists.” The Writer’s Chronicle 40 (March/April 2008): 44–52. “Beautiful City of Tirzah.” The Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007: 190–200. “Among the Broken Angels.” Puerto del Sol 42 (Spring/Summer 2007):73–90. “White,” Fourth Genre. 8 (Spring 2006):57–62. Descanso For My Father: Fragments Of A Life (memoir). University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series, 2012. Editorship Web Sites
Nicholas Frankel Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications Ed. The Sphinx, by Oscar Wilde, with Decorations by Charles Ricketts. Houston: Rice University Press, 2010. Online critical edition located at: cnx.org/content/col11196/latest “Embodying the City in A London Garland.” Victorian Poetry 48.1 (2010): 95–136. Masking the Text: Essays on Literature & Mediation in the 1890s. Buckinghamshire: Rivendale P, 2009. “The Designer’s Eye: Ancient Spanish Ballads, Poetry, and The Rise of Decorative Design.” Romanticism and Victorianism On the Net 54 (May 2009) http://www.ron.umontreal.ca Oscar Wilde’s Decorated Books. Ann Arbor: U Michigan P 2000. Curriculum Vitae Featured
Instructor Education
Research/Teaching Focus Recent/Selected Publications “Cultural Resistance and ‘Playing Indian’ in Thomas King’s ‘Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre’.” Western American Literature 45.3 (2010): 229–51.
David Golumbia Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “The Future of New Media: Embodying Kurzweil’s Singularity in Dollhouse, Battlestar Galactica, and Gamer.” In Kelly Gates, ed., Media Studies Futures. New York and London: Blackwell (forthcoming 2012). “Cultural Studies and the Discourse of New Media.” In Paul Smith, ed., The Renewal of Cultural Studies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. 83–92. “Minimalism Is Functionalism.” Language Sciences 32.1 (2010): 28–42. The Cultural Logic of Computation. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2009. “Games Without Play: Deconstructing World of Warcraft.” New Literary History 40.1 (2009): 179–204. Curriculum Vitae Web Sites
Kathleen Graber Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Loggia,” “The Telephone.” The Kenyon Review, new series 32.3 (2010): “The Drunkenness of Noah.” The New Yorker May 17, 2010: 86–87. Correspondence. Philadelphia, PA: Saturnalia Books, 2006. Web Site Featured
William Griffin Education Research/Teaching Focus Recent/Selected Publications (2004). The Split-INFL Hypothesis and AgrsP in Universal Grammar. Proceedings of the 5th Annual Texas Linguistics Society Conference, The Role of Agreement in Natural Language, Texas Linguistics Forum. (2003). Cross-linguistic Variation in the Development of INFL: A New Argument for Universal Grammar. Proceedings of the 2001 WECOL. (2003). On the Syntactic Distribution of Expletive THERE. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Student Conference In Linguistics, MIT Working Papers 45, 49–66. (2000). Variation and Continuity in Language Acquisition: An Analysis of Early Child German and French. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.
Les Harrison Education
Research/Teaching Focus Recent/Selected Publications The Temple and the Forum: The Museum and Cultural Authority in Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe and Whitman. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 2007. Recent Grants Featured
Elizabeth S. Hodges Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Defining Our Terms.” Rev. of Keywords in Creative Writing, ed. by Wendy Bishop and David Starkey, and Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project, ed. by Anna Leahy. College English 71.3 (2009). With Jean Yerian. “The First-Year Prompts Project: A Qualitative Research Study Revisited.” Proving and Improving, Volume II: Tools and Techniques for Assessing the First College Year. Ed. R. L. Swing. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2004. What the River Means (creative nonfiction). Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1999.
Catherine
E. Ingrassia Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications Ed. with Paula Backscheider. British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2009. “Money and Sexuality in the Enlightenment: George Lillo’s The London Merchant.” Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 31.1 (2005): 93–115. Authorship, Commerce, and Gender in Early Eighteenth-Century England: A Culture of Paper Credit. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998. Curriculum Vitae Web Site
M.A. Keller Education Professional/Teaching Focus Recent/Selected Publications “Megan Sapnar’s ‘Car Wash’ as a New Media Sonnet.” RAW (Reading and Writing) New Media. Ed. Cheryl Ball and James Kalmbach. Cress Kill, NJ: Hampton, 2010. 83–99.
Selected Design and Production David Wojahn’s “Ochre.” Container design and build; TOC coconceived with Patrick Scott Vickers. Blackbird 9.2 (2010). Editorship (production & media) Web Sites
David E. Latané Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications William Maginn and the British Press, 1794–1842: A Critical Biography. Ashgate Publishing, September 2013. “Maginn and the Blackwood’s ‘Preface’ of 1826.” “An Unprecedented Phenomenon”: Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine. Ed. by Robert Morrison and Daniel Sanjiv. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 227–238. “The Banim Brothers,” “John Wilson Croker,” “Gerald Griffin,” “William Maginn.” Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, ed. Frederick Burwick, et al. 3 vols. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. “A Companion to Companions.” Victorians Institute Journal 39 (2011): 127–33. Editor-in-Chief, Victorians Institute Journal, 27–37 (1999–2009), including special issues on Victorian Scotland; Political Matters; Poetry and the Colonies, et al. “Alaric ‘Attila’ Watts, the Fraser’s Portrait Gallery, and William Maginn.” The Lure of Illustration in the Nineteenth Century: Picture and Press. Ed. Laurel Brake and Marysa DeMoor. London: Palgrave, 2009. 60–75. “Charles Molloy Westmacott and the Spirit of The Age.” Victorian Periodicals Review 40.1 (2007): 44–71. Ed. Victorians Institute Journal: Poetry and the Colonies 34 (2004). Browning’s Sordello and the Aesthetics of Difficulty. Victoria: U of Victoria ELS Monograph Series, 1987. Web Site
Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Preface.” F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Ed. Bryant Mangum. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. xxi–xxiv. “Letters.” F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Ed. Bryant Mangum. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. 24–33. “Fitzgerald’s Southern Narrative: The Tarleton, Georgia, Stories.” F. Scott Fitzgerald in Context. Ed. Bryant Mangum. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. 154–66. “Altering the Dresses: The Two Versions of Irwin Shaw’s ‘The Girls in Their Summer Dresses.’” Resources for American Literary Study 33 (2010): 171–204. “The Shelf Life of ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.’” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 7.1 (2009): 16–19. Ed. Best Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Modern Library, 2005. A Fortune Yet: Money in the Art of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Short Stories. New York: Garland, 1991. Featured Web Site
Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications Dead Languages (poems). Tallahassee: Anhinga, 2008. The Weatherman (novel). Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2004. War Memorials (novel). Minneapolis: Graywolf, 2000. The Member-Guest (novel). New York: Doubleday, 1995. Web Site
Katherine Saunders Nash Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Narrative Structure.” The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Novel. 2 vols. Ed. P. Logan et al. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 2: 545–547. “John Cowper Powys’s ‘great new art’: Intermental Influence in the Lecture Career.” The Powys Journal 18 (2008): 38–66. “Narrative Progression and Receptivity: John Cowper Powys’s Glastonbury Romance.” Narrative 15.1 (2007): 4–23.
Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Late-19th-Century Literature.” American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (1999): 259–88. “Zola and Mark Twain's Public Writing.” Excavatio: Emile Zola and Naturalism 10 (1997): 34–39. Ed. with Rosalie Hewitt. Index to Reviews of Bibliographical Publications. Boston: Hall, 1980.
Jennifer Rhee Education
Research/Teaching Focus Recent/Selected Publications Collaborative scholar, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, eds. Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Nicholas Sharp Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Herbert and the Prose Style of King James I.” Cross-Bias: The Newsletter of the Friends of Bemerton Honoring George Herbert 16 (1992): 2–4. “‘Privy Discourse’ and Public Facade in the Early Stuart Court: The Earl of Salisbury’s ‘Treatise to His Majesty.’” Renaissance Papers (1991): 11–29.
Sachi Shimomura Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications“Remembering in Circles: The Wife’s Lament, Conversatio, and the Community of Memory.” Source of Wisdom: Old English and Early Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Thomas D. Hill. Ed. Charles D. Wright et al. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2007. 113–29. Odd Bodies and Visible Ends in Medieval Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. “Visualizing Judgment: Illumination in the Old English Christ III.” Via Crucis: Essays on Early Medieval Sources and Ideas in Memory of J. E. Cross. Ed. Thomas N. Hall et al. Morgantown: West Virginia UP, 2002. 27–49.
R. Dale Smith
Research/Teaching Focus Recent/Selected Publications “Navigating David Leavitt’s ‘Territory’: Exploring LGBT Experience in a Freshman College Class.” California English 16.4 (2011): 9–11. Web Sites Featured
Cristina Stanciu Education
Research/Teaching Focus Recent/Selected Publications “‘That Is Why I Sent You to Carlisle’: Indian Poetry and the Demands of Americanization Poetics and Politics.” (Forthcoming, American Indian Quarterly 37.2, Spring 2013). “Where’s My Redskin?” Seeing Red: American Indians and Film. Eds. LeAnne Howe, Denise Cummings, and Harvey Markowitz. Lansing: Michigan State U P (Forthcoming 2012). “The Art of Rejection” (with Melissa Girard). The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 22, 2012. “‘The Last Indian Syndrome’ Revisited: Metamora, Take Two.” Intertexts 10.1 (Spring 2006): 25–49.
Rivka Swenson Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Optics, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Gaze: Looking at Eliza Haywood’s Anti- Pamela.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 51.1–2 (2010): 27–43. Ed. with Elise Lauterbach. Imagining Selves: Essays in Honor of Patricia Meyer Spacks. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2009. “‘A Soldier is her Darling Character’: Susanna Centlivre, Desire, Difference, and Disguise.” Journal of Narrative Theory 31.4 (2007): 16–43. “Representing Modernity in Jane Barker’s Galesia Trilogy: Jacobite Allegory and the Patch-Work Aesthetic.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 38.1 (2005): 55–80. Curriculum Vitae
Patrick Scott Vickers Education Professional Focus Recent/Selected Publications "The Aphasic Quilt." Failbetter.com. 15 May 2007. Web. 20 Feb. 2012. www.failbetter.com/23/VickersAphasiaQuiltedGbox.php.
Selected Design and Production Editorial staff photographs and underlying flash animations, Blackbird. 2008–2012. Editorship (production & media) Web Site
Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications “Gilbert Sorrentino’s Burial and Rebirth of Modernism.” Critique 50.4 (2009): 315–339. “Samuel Beckett’s Redeptive Negation of theological Transcendence: Searching for a Postmetaphysical Perspective.” Crossings: a Counterdisciplinary Journal 8 (2006): 101–24.
Education Research/Teaching Focus
Recent/Selected Publications Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2006. Spirit Cabinet (poems). Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2002. Strange Good Fortune: Essays on Contemporary Poetry. Fayetteville: U of Arkansas P, 2001. The Falling Hour (poems). Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1997. Icehouse Lights (poems). Foreward by Richard Hugo. New Haven: Yale UP, 1982. Web Sites Featured |
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