College of Liberal Arts – English Department
Katherine Attié had two articles published last year: “Passion Turned to Prettiness: Rhyme or Reason in Hamlet” in Shakespeare Quarterly 63 (2012) and “Selling Science: Bacon, Harvey, and the Commodification of Knowledge” in Modern Philology 110 (2013).
David Belz read his “Gift of the Cicadas” on WYPR-88’s “The Signal” on May 31. His short story, “Paper Clip,” appears in the summer issue of The Loch Raven Review.
Fran Botkin organized her ninth international conference in Jamaica of Maroon culture. Click here for the TU newsroom report.
Alan Britt’s and Silvia Scheibli’s book of poems, Parabola Dreams, was published by Bitter Oleander Press.
Sara Gunning presented “Proposal Writing Pedagogy Beyond the RFP: Incorporating Research Methods, Personnel Strategies, and Project Management Skills into Social Writing” to the Association of Teachers of technical Writing in March at Las Vegas.
Jacob Hovind is the author of “Figural Interpretation as Modernist Hermeneutics: The Rhetoric of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis” in Comparative Literature 64 (2012) and “The Persistence of Character” in Novel: A Forum on Fiction 45 (2012). Dr. Hovind also had a chapter, “Beckett and the Narrative Voice: What Remains in Company,” in Beckett Remembered: After the Centenary. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012.
Salvatore Pappalardo presented “Faithful Forgeries: Translation and Enlightened Priesthood in Leonardo Sciascia’s Il Consiglio d’Egitto: The Monk, the Priest, the Nun” at the University of Pennsylvania in March; “Nostalgic of the Future: Robert Musil and Landespatriotismus in The Man Without Qualities” at the MLA in January in Boston.; and “The Rise and Fall of the Nation: The Political Aesthetics of European Modernism” in November at Villanova University.
Lana Portolano’s chapter, ”John Quincy Adams’s Higher Learnings,” was published last May in A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams by Wiley-Blackwell.
Reiner Prochaska’s stage adaptation, Antigone Through the Ages, was published by New Theatre Publications. The play premiered last spring at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre.
Carol Quinn read from her poetry for the Joaquin Miller Poetry Series in Washington, D.C. on June 23. One of her poems, “Motorhome Agon,” appears in the anthology, Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence, published in the spring by Hyacinth Girl Press.
Andrew Reiner received the Faculty of the Year Award from the Honors College at its convocation on May 4.
Diane Scharper reviewed James Salter’s novel, All That Is, in America, July 1-8.
Zosha Stuckey’s article, “In Pursuit of the Common Life: Rhetoric and Education at the New York State Asylum at Syracuse, 1854-1884,” appeared in Rhetoric Review 32.3 (2013).
Robert Valasek had a poem published last spring in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
