Danielle Hartman, Adjunct Instructor of Communication, recently co-authored a piece on the arts as a great hub for interdisciplinary work and studies, entitled “Promoting Interdisciplinarity: Its Purpose and Practice in Arts Programming,” that was published in Journal of Performing Arts Leadership in Higher Education. … [Read more...]
Subramanian Publishes Story in Hakai Magazine
March 29, 2019 by
Sushma Subramanian, Assistant Professor of English teaching journalism, has published a story in Hakai Magazine about the Bajau, a people of Indonesia known for their special swimming and diving abilities, and how they might reveal something about our evolutionary past. The story is available online. … [Read more...]
Richards Presents on Panel about Published Essay
February 14, 2019 by
Professor Gary Richards was a member of a panel discussion of contributors to the collection of essays Teaching the Works of Eudora Welty Twenty-First-Century Approaches, edited by Mae Miller Claxton and Julia Eichelberger, held at the Eudora Welty House and Gardens in Jackson, MS on February 7. His essay in the collection is “Queering Welty’s Male Bodies in the Undergraduate Classroom.” … [Read more...]
Foss Publishes Article
February 13, 2019 by
Professor Chris Foss has published a peer-reviewed article entitled “Ann Yearsley, Earl Goodwin, and the Politics of Romantic Discontent” in the most recent number of Romanticism on the Net. RoN was one of the pioneering international open access journals when it was founded over thirty years ago now in 1996, and is by now of the most established venues for scholarship on British Romantic literature. The few substantial critical studies of Ann Yearsley’s tragic drama Earl Goodwin leave unexplored the ways in which Yearsley simultaneously is clarifying and extending her anger at and frustration with the class- and gender-based discrimination she experienced firsthand in the fallout with her mentor Hannah More over the profits from her first book of poetry. This article aims to fill this gap by delineating the many ways in which Earl Goodwin represents, on one level, her ongoing response to the defamation she suffered in the wake of More’s public campaign to ruin her reputation. … [Read more...]
Johnson-Young Publishes Article
February 12, 2019 by
Professor Elizabeth Johnson-Young and a research partner recently published the article "The CSR paradox: when a social responsibility campaign can tarnish a brand” in the peer-reviewed journal, Corporate Communications: An International Journal. The article looks at instances when a social campaign can hurt a brand even though it may successfully raise concerns for the campaign issues. The paper presents results of an experiment looking at prevention v. promotion-framed messages in a real-world CSR campaign to understand differences in concerns for the campaign issues and attitudes towards the sponsoring corporate brand. Results indicated that, even when message framing produced strong concerns for the issues, negative effects of the message framing were directed at the brand itself. The publication is now available online and will be in the next printed journal as well. … [Read more...]
Blevins Publishes Article on Augmented Reality
December 14, 2018 by
Brenta Blevins, Assistant Professor of English, recently published her article “Teaching Digital Literacy Composing Concepts: Focusing on the Layers of Augmented Reality in an Era of Changing Technology” published in the December 2018 Computers and Composition peer-reviewed journal. In an issue focusing on wearable technologies, ubiquitous computing, and immersive experiences, Blevins’s article addresses the challenges that instructors face in teaching composing using current digital tools, while also supporting students’ future digital literacy acquisition in technologies that do not yet exist. To address these pedagogical concerns, Blevins’s article explores educational composing in Augmented Reality (AR), a medium in which a digital “layer” is combined with the user's surroundings. She elaborates the benefits and challenges of a scaffolded, analysis-oriented pedagogy focused on the layer for preparing students to compose in AR for classwork and other purposes. Blevins contends … [Read more...]
Rochelle Story Accepted for Publication
December 14, 2018 by
Professor Warren Rochelle's story “Mirrors,” a gay-themed retelling of “Beauty and the Beast,” was accepted by Cuilpress and will be published in their forthcoming queering romance anthology So You Think You Know Love? … [Read more...]
Foss Publishes Book Review in The Historian
December 10, 2018 by
Professor of English Chris Foss has published a book review of Nicholas Frankel’s critical biography Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years (Harvard University Press) in the most recent number of The Historian. Foss endorses Frankel’s very readable book as an important revisionist take on Wilde’s life after prison, positing the longstanding insistence upon Wilde’s “decline and martyrdom” misrepresents his actual resilience. Wilde undeniably struggled with social opprobrium and creative self-doubt, not to mention relative poverty and ill health, but his “frank and unapologetic attitude” toward the openly gay lifestyle he pursued during his final four years shows him to have understood “his erotic relations with other men as a matter of personal identity,” leading Frankel to insist that “Wilde’s greatest achievement in exile was himself.” With over 13,000 subscribers, The Historian is one of the most widely circulated history journals worldwide. … [Read more...]
Hartman Publishes Article on Undergraduate Research
October 23, 2018 by
Professor Danielle Hartman recently published an article “How Science Plays Are Building Interdisciplinary Bridges in the Classroom and Inspiring Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity” in the summer volume of Scholarship and Practice in Undergraduate Research. Hartman's project grows out of her MFA thesis work. … [Read more...]
Lorentzen Publishes in Dickens Studies Annual
October 19, 2018 by
Professor Eric Lorentzen recently published an article in Dickens Studies Annual on Charles Dickens and education entitled "'This Schoolroom is a Nation': Subverting the Catechistic Method in Dickens." Dr. Lorentzen's article examines rote memorization as Victorian pedagogical practice and its relationship with social positions. His research surveys educational primers and early nineteenth-century British literature and analyzes how Dickens’s novels critique those practices in and beyond the arena of the Victorian classroom in relation to social control. … [Read more...]