Faculty Scholarship

Selected publications, performances, activities and grants

2011-12 academic year

Bowers, Susan R. (Associate Professor)

Bowers, S. R. “Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God.” Weststar Institute, Lewisburg, PA. (September 10, 2011).

Dent, Catherine Z. (Assistant Professor)

Dent, C. Z. “At the Mouth.” Drunken Boat (14). http://www.drunkenboat.com/db14/2fic/dent/mouth.php. (2011).

Dent, C. Z. (Chair). “Literary Journals and the Writing Life.” Northeast Modern Languages Association, Rochester, NY.  (March 15, 2012).

Fincke, Gary W. (Professor)

Fincke, G. W. “After the Three-Moon Era.” The Southern Review. (2011).

Fincke, G. W. The History of Permanence. Nacogdoches, TX: Stephen F. Austin University Press. (2011).

Fincke, G. W. “The Chemistry of Entertainment.” Pleaiades. (2011).

Fincke, G. W. “The History of the Fire Escape”; “Translating the Hawk.” Prairie Schooner. (2011).

Fincke, G. W. (2011). Weepers. South Carolina Review.

Hubbell, John A. (Associate Professor)

Hubbell, J. Andrew. “Byron’s Nature: The Ecology of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage I & II.” Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Interdisciplinary Conference, DePaul University Humanities Center, Chicago, IL. (April 30, 2012).

Hubbell, J. Andrew. “Byron’s Flirtation with Natural Theology.” Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Asheville, NC. (March 22, 2012).

Hubbell, J. Andrew. “Cultural Imperialism V. Ecology: Byron’s Argument With Elgin.” 7th Annual International Byron Student Conference, The Byron Center, International Byron Society, Messolonghi, Greece. (June 20, 2011).

Kelsey, Karla A. (Associate Professor)

Kelsey, K. A. “Accordance.” Lana Turner. (2011).

Kelsey, K. A. “Architecture.” Sidebrow. www.sidebrow.net/posts/193-karla-kelsey-5515. (2011).

Kelsey, K. A. “Iteration Nets.” Jubilat. (2011).

Kelsey, K. A. “Poetry Reading.” Portland, OR. (August 2011).

Kelsey, K. A. “Poetry Reading.” Poet’s House Showcase, New York, NY. (July 2011).

Kelsey, K. A. “Poetry Reading.” Prague, Czech Republic. (April 2011).

Kelsey, K. A. “Poetry Reading.” Brussels, Belgium. (May 4, 2010).

Kelsey, K. A. “Conceptual Writing and Feminism.” Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO. (November 2011).

Nixon, Angelique V. (Assistant Professor)

Nixon, A. V. “Audre Lorde’s Revolutionary Desire: Diaspora Travel, Queer Sexuality, and Black Liberation Politics.” Women and Society Seminar, Columbia University, New York, NY. (February 27, 2012).

Nixon, A. V. “Respondent.” Lecture Series, Department of English and Humanities Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. (February 22, 2012).

Nixon, A. V. “Carnival and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat’s After the Dance.” Intersections Undergraduate Lecture, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, New York, NY. (November 30, 2011).

Retief, Glen (Associate Professor)

Retief, G. “Ex-Gay Versus Transgender” http://www.tampabay.com/news/perspective/ex-gay-versus-transgender/1185263. (2011).

Retief, G. “Interview with Spirit in Action.” Northern Spirit Radio. http://www.northernspiritradio.org/. (2011).

Retief, G. Friendly Vitality: Diary of a Quaking FGC-er. Quakerquaker.org. http://www.quakerquaker.org/profiles/blogs/the-quakers-are-coming-fgc-gathering-2011. (2011).

Retief, G. “Interview with Barbara DeMarco Barrett’s ‘Writers on Writing.’” KUCI-FM, Orange County, CA. http://www.barbarademarcobarrett.com/writersonwriting/audio/GlenRetief_7_20_2011.mp3. (2011).

Retief, G. “Reading from The Jack Bank.” Wild Goose Festival, Raleigh, NC. (June 25, 2011).

Roth, Laurence D. (Professor)

Roth, L. “Endless War and the Image of the Jew in Spy Fiction.” Association for Jewish Studies 43rd Annual Conference, Washington, DC. (December 20, 2011).

Roth, L. (Editor), Modern Language Studies 41(2). New York: Northeast Modern Language Association. (Winter 2012).

Roth, L. (Editor). Modern Language Studies, 41(1).New York: Northeast Modern Language Association.(Summer 2011).

Sachdev, Rachana (Associate Professor)

NEH East West Center Grant. “NEH Institute Attendance,” $3,900.00.

Winans, Amy E. (Associate Professor)

Winans, A. E. “Contemplative Pedagogy and Social Transformation.” Third Annual Conference for the Association of the Contemplative Mind in Higher Education, Amherst, MA. (November 9, 2011).
Winans, A. E. “Cultivating Emotional Literacy.” 11th Annual Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, Common Ground, Cape Town, South Africa. (June 2011).

2010-11 academic year

Dent, Catherine Z. (Assistant Professor)

Dent, C. Z. (Panel Organizer). “Quotation and Originality.” Northeast Modern Languages Association, New Brunswick, NJ. (April 9, 2011).

Dent, C. Z. (Presenter & Author). “So You Think You’re Original, Too: On Emerson’s ‘Originality and Quotation’.” American Literature Association, Boston, MA. (May 26, 2011).

Dent, C. Z. (Presenter & Author). “They Is We, and Other Great Coming of Age Moments.” College English Association 2011, St. Petersburg, FL. (March 31, 2011).

Fincke, Gary W. (Professor)

Fincke, G. W. “The Barter System.” Connotation Press. (November 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “Deodand.” Alaska Quarterly Review. (October 2010).

Fincke, G. W. (Visiting Writer). “Fiction Reading.” Beloit College, Beloit, WI. (October 20, 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “For Good.” Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review. (December 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “Heredity.” Associative Press. (December 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “The Hough District.” Paterson Literary Review. (September 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “Household Hints.” Beloit Fiction Journal. (October 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “In Theory.” Connotation Press. (November 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “A Miscellany of Vanishing.” Iron Horse Literary Review. (January 2011).

Fincke, G. W. (Presenter & Author). “Poetry Reading.” Lutheran Writers Conference, Luther College, Decorah, IA. (November 4, 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “Self-Defense.” Southern Humanities Review. (March 2011).

Fincke, G. W. “Somebody, Somewhere Else.” Cimarron Review. (October 2010).

Fincke, G. W. “Three Essays.” Lake Effect. (February 2011).

Fincke, G. W. “Weepers.” Under the Sun. (October 2010).

Fincke, G. W. (Presenter & Author). “Writing About Grief.” Roanoke College, Roanoke, VA. (February 16, 2011).

Hubbell, John A. (Associate Professor)

Hubbell, J. Andrew. “The Ancient Mariner Goes South.” Antarctic Visions: Cultural Perspectives on the Southern Continent, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. (June 21, 2010).

Hubbell, J. Andrew. “Green Speak: The Ecological Rhetoric Surrounding Elgin’s Marbles.” Money/Myths in the Nineteenth Century, Albuquerque, NM. (March 4, 2011).

Hubbell, J. Andrew. “ ‘It Was an Ancient Mariner’: Sir Ernest Shackleton Rewrites the Quest Romance.” Modern Language Quarterly, 71(3): 271–295. (2010).

Hubbell, J. Andrew (Presenter & Author). “Reading the Book of Nature: Cain and Geology.” International Byron Conference, Boston, MA. (July 31, 2010).

Kelsey, Karla A. (Associate Professor)

Kelsey, K. A. Iteration Nets. Boise, ID: Boise State Ahsahta Press. (2010).

Kelsey, K. A. “Poetry Reading.” Brussels, Belgium. (May 4, 2010–Present).

Kelsey, K. A. “Teaching Writing Through the Sonnet Tradition.” In Joshua M. Wilkinson (Ed.), Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook, Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press. (2010).

Retief, Glen (Assistant Professor)

Retief, G. “Arizona Flirts With Apartheid.” Pittsburgh, PA:Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. (August 1, 2010).

Retief, G. (Presenter & Author). “The Jack Bank.” Under the Radar: Virginia Tech Reading Series, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. (April 21, 2011).

Retief, G. “Judge Walker’s Prop 8 Ruling and the Foolishness of Crowds.” Pam’s House Blend: Front Page Selection. (August 16, 2010).

Retief, G. “On Being a Minority, Hazed.” St. Petersburg, FL: St. Petersburg Times. (October 3, 2010).

Retief, G. “Populist Backlash Is Related to the Economy.” Harrisburg Patriot-News. (August 22, 2010).

Retief, G. “What Glen Retief Knows.” Inside Higher Ed. (February 17, 2011).

Roth, Laurence D. (Professor)

Roth, L. (Presenter & Author). “The Case of Modern Language Studies.” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Los Angeles. (January 8, 2011).

Roth, L. “Drawing Contracts: Will Eisner’s Legacy.” In A. David Lewis & Christine Hoff (Eds.), Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books and Graphic Novels (pp. 44–62). New York and London: Continuum. (2010).

Roth, L. (Presenter & Author). “Jewish Bookselling on the Internet: Marketing Jewish Literacy.” Association for Jewish Studies 42nd Annual Conference, Boston, MA. (December 21, 2010).

Roth, L., Longaker, J., & Nagy, S. “The Holocaust.” In Eric Michael Mazur (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion and Film (pp. 225–231). Santa Barbara, CA; Denver, CO; Oxford, England: ABC-CLIO. (2011).

Roth, L. (Editor). Modern Language Studies, 40(1). New York: Northeast Modern Language Association.(Summer 2010).

Roth, L. “Unpacking My Father’s Bookstore.” In Sheila Jelen, Michael Kramer, & L. Scott Lerner (Eds.), Modern Jewish Literatures: Intersections and Boundaries (pp. 280–302). Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. (2010).

Sachdev, Rachana (Associate Professor)

ASIANetwork and Freeman Foundation Grant. “Street Children in Nepal,” $25,785.00.

Sachdev, R. “Contextualizing Female Infanticide: Ming China in Early Modern European Travelogues.” ASIANetwork Exchange. (Fall 2010).

Sachdev, R., “Representations of Infanticide in China and Japan in Early Modern European Travelogues.” Asian Studies Development Program National Conference, East-West Center, Honolulu, HI. (July 1, 2010).

Sachdev, R., Libhart, G. (Presenter & Author), & Harrington, C. (Presenter & Author), “Street Children in Nepal.” ASIANetwork Annual Conference, Chicago, IL. (April 16, 2011).

Verhoeven, Betsy (Assistant Professor)

Verhoeven, B. (Presenter & Author). “Sentiment in African-American Newspaper Rhetoric During the Revolutionary War.” International Society for the History of Rhetoric, Bologna, Italy. (September 2010).

Winans, Amy E. (Associate Professor)

Winans, A. E. “Book Review: Scott Slawinski (Ed.). Sukey Vickery. Emily Hamilton and Other Writings. Routledge: Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 39(8): 901–904. (2010).

Winans, A. E. (Presenter & Author). “Contemplative Approaches to Emotional Literacy and Difference.” Second Annual Association for the Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference, Amherst, MA. (September 26, 2010).

Winans, A. E. “Cultivating Racial Literacy in White, Segregated Settings: Emotions as Site of Ethical Engagement and Inquiry.” Curriculum Inquiry, 40(3): 475–491. (2010).

Zobal, Silas D. (Assistant Professor)

Zobal, S. D. “ ‘Immature Poets Borrow: Mature Poets Steal’: The Archeology of Originality.” Northeast Modern Language Association 2011 Convention, New Brunswick, NJ. (April 7, 2011).

Zobal, S. D. (Chair/Discussant). “The North American Review and the Making of American Literature.” 2011 American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. (May 27, 2011).

Zobal, S. D. “Wretchedness.” North American Review, 295(3): 15–20. (2010).