Faculty Publications and Presentations

BECKY GIBSON

Poems in journals:

  • EMRYS Journal, May 1998
  • Southern Poetry Review, Winter 1998
  • Yemassee, Summer/Fall 1999
  • Feminist Studies, Spring 1998, Summer 2001
  • Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. XX, No. 3, 1999
  • Ekphrasis: A Poetry Journal, Spring/Summer 2000
  • Kalliope: A Journal of Women's Literature and Art, Vol. XXII, No. 2, 2000
  • Brooklyn Review 18, 2001
  • Poems in anthologies:
  • Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry, 1999
  • Earth and Soul: An Anthology of North Carolina Poetry, 2001 (published in Kostroma, Russia)

Awards/grants:

  • Residency at Vermont Studio Center ($1,500), February 2000
  • Finalist, Kalliope Sue Saniel Elkind Poetry Prize, 2000
  • Regional Artist Project Grant, Winston-Salem Forsyth County Arts Council ($1,350), 2000

HEATHER HAYTON

  • Panel organizer of "The Future of the Past: How to Reclaim the Humanities" at the International Conference on Arts & Humanities Jan. 11-12, 2006; delivered panel paper entitled "Looking Back and Seeing Ahead: Navigating the Middle Ages After Tolkien".
  • Translating Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Co-edited with Craig Berry. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe: Arizona State University Press, 2005).
  • The Future of the Premodern in Comparative Studies. Special Issue of the annual Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 51 (Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2005). Guest Editor and introduction.
  • "Educating the Lover in Brunetto Latini's Tesoretto." In Translating Desire in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Craig Berry and Heather Richardson Hayton. Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Tempe: Arizona State University Press, 2005), 157-190.

JIM HOOD

PUBLICATIONS

  • "Quakerism's Five Testimonies and International Education." Insights in International Exchange 1 (March 2007): 9-16.
  • "Tunneling in Hampstead," a reflection piece in the October 2005 newsletter of Hampstead Friends Meeting (London).
  • Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence. Aldershot (U.K.): Ashgate Publishing, 2000.
  • "Tennyson, D.W. Griffith, and Victorian Pneumatography." Victorians Institute Journal 25 (1997): 59-75.
  • "Overreading Tennyson: Antebellum Appropriations of the Lady Poems." Victorian Poetry 32 (Spring 1994): 75-87.
  • "The Indefatigable Yardley Warner." The Southern Friend 15 (Autumn 1993): 3-11.
  • "A Note on Revisions to Tennyson's 'The Sea-Fairies.'" Tennyson Research Bulletin 5 (Nov. 1991): 275-78.
  • "A Peculiar Mercy." [Poem.] The Christian Century 111 (23-30 Nov. 1994): 1103.
  • "Fallen Apples" and "Regret." [Poems.] The Cloverdale Review (1991): 35-36.
  • "Home." [Poem.] Southern Humanities Review 17 (Spring 1983): 132.

PRESENTATIONS

  • "Costly Funerals: Tennyson's Enoch Arden and Queen Victoria." Victorians Institute Conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. October 19-20, 2001.
  • "Presenting the Dead: Tennyson, Victoria, and the Commodification of Spirit." International Tennyson Conference sponsored by the Tennyson Society, Lincoln, England. July 20-23, 2001.
  • "Countering Violence in our Schools." Panel presentation. Friends Association for Higher Education conference. June 23, 2000.
  • "Using Microsoft Office to Teach Writing and Critical Thinking Skills." Appalachian College Association Technology Summit, Knoxville, Tennessee. October 1-3, 1998.
  • "Enoch Arden Goes to the Movies: Tennyson, D.W. Griffith, and Victorian Pneumatography." Tennyson Society, MLA Convention, Chicago. December 27-30, 1995.
  • "Skirmishing in the Provinces: Or, The Politics of Curriculum Change at the Small, Regional College." MLA Convention, San Diego. December 28, 1994.
  • "Overreading Tennyson: Antebellum Appropriations of the Lady Poems." Tennyson Society Meeting, MLA Convention, New York. December 30, 1992.
  • "Tennyson and the Penetrating Light." SAMLA Convention, Knoxville, Tennessee. November 13, 1992.
  • "The Uses of Poetry." Mercyhurst College Faculty Colloquium. April 23, 1992.
  • "Values and Literature; Literary Value." Carpe Diem Luncheon Series, Mercyhurst College. November 14, 1991.
  • "The Seduction of Ida: Creativity and Sexuality in Tennyson's The Princess." Graduate Student Forum, UNC-Chapel Hill. February 1990.
  • "Empty Labor: Sexuality and Art in Tennyson's 'Lancelot and Elaine.'" Graduate Student Symposium, The Victorians Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill. October 1987.
  • "Henry James and The Turn of the Screw." Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina. April 1987.

JEFF JESKE

PUBLICATIONS

  • Storied Words: The Writer's Vocabulary and Its Origins. New York, iUniverse, 2004
  • "How Will We Write? A Report from the National College Media Convention." The Writing Instructor. Beta 3.0. 2004. http://www.writinginstructor.com/
  • "Nurturing Rich General Education Courses." Journal of General Education. 51 (2002): 103-114.
  • The Return of the War Pigs. San Jose: Writer's Club Press, 2002
  • "Edward Taylor and the Traditions of Puritan Nature Philosophy." 27-67. The Tayloring Shop. University of Delaware Press, 1997.
  • "Balancing the Peer-Response Group Triangle." 11-17. Perspectives on Practice in Developmental Education. Ed. Patricia Malinowski. New York: NYCLSA, 1993.
  • "Troubleshooting the 'W' Course." ERIC, 1994. ED 362 871. Rev.of Gracious Laughter: The Meditative Wit of Edward Taylor by John Gatta. vol. 13 of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography. New York: AMS Press, 1994.
  • "Creating the Institution-Specific Writing Guide." Writing Program Administration 16 (1993): 27-36.
  • "Peer Response Groups: Answering the Critique." ERIC, 1989. ED 309 446.
  • "Borrowing from the Sciences: A Model for the Freshman Research Paper." The Writing Instructor 6 (1987): 62-67. Rpt. in The Bedford Handbook for Writers: Background Readings for Instructors. 4th ed. Ed. Glenn Blalock. NY: St. Martin's, 1994. 315-319.
  • "Resources for Graduate Writing Instruction." ERIC, 1987. ED 273 975.
  • "Cotton Mather: Physico-Theologian." Journal of the History of Ideas 47 (1986): 583-594. Rpt. in The American Enlightenment. Rochester, NY: U of Rochester Press, 1993.
  • "Demystifying the Dissertation." ERIC, 1986. ED 268 529.
  • "Gender and the Official Language." International Journal of Women's Studies 7 (1984): 322-35, with Kathleen Overman.
  • "Thomas Budd," "Ebenezer Gay," and "Francis Makemie" in American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734. ed. Emory Elliot. Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research Co., 1984.
  • "Using the Short Art Film as Model." The Writing Instructor 2 (1984): 17-23.
  • "Antony as a Source for Pierre: The Saga of the Male Psyche." American Transcendental Quarterly 50 (1983): 117-128.
  • "Clough's Mari Magno: A Reassessment." Victorian Poetry 20 (1982): 21-32.
  • "Macbeth, Ahab, and the Unconscious." American Transcendental Quarterly 31 (1976): 8- 12.
  • "Solomon Stoddard's Arguments for the Proposition." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 80 (1976): 75-111, with Thomas M. Davis.
  • "Walden and the Confucian Four Books," American Transcendental Quarterly 24 (1974): 20-24.

PRESENTATIONS

  • "Fusing Comp 2 and History." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, March 2004.
  • "Ethical Choices in Advertising and Editorials," National College Media Convention, Washington, D.C., November, 2000
  • "Shaping the College Curriculum Revision Process," Albion College, August, 2000
  • "The Liberal Arts Faculty in the New Millennium," Association of American Colleges and Universities Regional Meeting, Greensboro, October, 1998
  • "What Makes 12 Monkeys Film Noir." American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Convention, San Antonio, March, 1997.
  • "Edward Taylor's Symbology: Garden, Book and Machine." Modern Languages Association, Chicago, December 1995.
  • "Creating the Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Staff Manual." Second National Conference on Writing Across the Curriculum. Charleston, February 1995.
  • "What Makes "W" Courses Go Bad-and How to Fix Them." First National Conference on Writing Across the Curriculum. Charleston, February 1993.
  • "Balancing the Peer-Group Triangle." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Cincinnati, March 1992.
  • "What's Happening with Invention?" Conference on College Composition and Communication. Chicago, March,1990.
  • "Using Student Peer-Groups: State-of-the-Art Methods." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Seattle, March 1989.
  • "Arnold Schwarzenegger Meets Joseph Campbell: A New Mythos for the 80's?" American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Conference. New Orleans, March 1988.

CYNTHIA NEARMAN

PRESENTATIONS

  • Participant, "The Future of the Past: How to Reclaim the Humanities" at the International Conference on Arts & Humanities Jan. 11-12, 2006, in Honolulu, Hawaii; delivered panel paper entitled "Not That Past, the Other One: The Future of Writing and Assessment in Higher Education"

CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW

PRESENTATIONS

  • "Poetic Voices of the Harlem Renaissance," paper presented at Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, NC, 2002 Panelist for "African American Literature: The Academy vs. the Community for Writer and Audience," North Carolina Writers' Conference, Statesville, NC, 2000
  • "A Litany for Poetry," presented at the Poetry Society of America's 90th Anniversary Celebration - Visions for American Poetry, Y2K AWP Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2000
  • Panelist for Feminism and Poetry: "Black Feminist Formalists, Or, 'We Could Always Hear the Music and Dance,'" paper present at the Y2K AWP Conference, Kansas City, MO, 2000
  • "Blues in Black and White," paper presented at Exploring Form and Narrative: A Conference of Scholars and Writers on New Trends in American Poetry, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA, 1997.
  • Panelist for "Things That Move Me to Write - Different Approaches," Women Writers Festival, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 1997
  • Panelist for "Stories and Poems to Savor," Women Writers Festival, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, 1997
  • Panelist for "Redefining Culture Through Literature," North Carolina Writers' Network Fall Conference, "Making Literature Matter," Fayetteville, NC, 1995.
SELECTED POETRY READINGS
  • Poetry Society of America, New York City
  • North Carolina Poetry Society, Southern Pines, NC
  • Poetry Society of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
  • The Poetry Project, New York City
  • Barnard College, New York City
  • The Wolfe Institute, Brooklyn College, New York City
  • Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
  • Brown University, Providence, RI
  • University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  • Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
  • University of Massachusetts/Dartmouth, MA
  • University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  • Salem College, Winston-Salem, NC
  • North Carolina A & T State University, Greensboro, NC
  • Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC
  • Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
  • Elon University, Elon College, NC
  • Barton College, Wilson, NC
  • University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
  • Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
  • Mitchell Community College Poetry Series, Statesville, NC
  • Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, NC
  • Barnes and Noble, Greensboro, NC
  • Barnes and Noble, Raleigh, NC
  • Cave Canem, Detroit, MI
TELEVISED POETRY READINGS
  • Carolyn Beard Whitlow and Alan Shapiro on "Poetry Live," hosted by Charles Kuralt, a co-production of UNC-TV (a PBS affiliate) and Eleanor Brawley Productions, October 5, 1997.
  • Carolyn Beard Whitlow and Michael S. Harper on "Shades," hosted by Ray Rickman, WSBK-TV, Providence, RI, November 6, 1988.
  • Carolyn Beard Whitlow on "Shades," hosted by Ray Rickman, WSBK-TV, Providence, RI, April 6, 1987.
PUBLICATIONS
  • Wild Meat, Lost Roads Publishers, Providence: 1986. (BOOK)
Poems in Anthologies:
  • "Soap Opera" in What Matters (Audio Book), ed. by Anne Kreilkamp. San Carlos, CA: Ladybug Press, forthcoming 2002.
  • "Travel Paradelle" in The History of the Paradelle, ed. by Billy Collins. TBA, forthcoming 2002.
  • "Beckoning" in Touched by Eros, edited and with an introduction by George Held. Islip, New York: Live Poets Society, 2002.
  • "Rockin' A Man, Stone Blind" in Writing Your Rhythm, ed. by Diane Theil. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, forthcoming 2002.
  • "Local Call" in Cave Canem 2000 Anthology: V. Cave Canem Workshop. Baltimore: Black Classics Press, 2001.
  • "Book of Ruth" in American Diaspora: Poetry of Exile, ed. by Ryan G. Van Cleave and Virgil Suarez. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000.
  • "Rockin' A Man, Stone Blind" and "Book of Ruth" in Word and Witness: 100 Years of North Carolina Poetry, ed. by Sally Buckner. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
  • "Book of Ruth," "Rockin' a Man, Stone Blind," and "Poem for the Children" in A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women, ed. by Annie Finch. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994.
Poems in Poetry Journals:
  • "Baptismal," African American Review, forthcoming 2003.
  • "from Sorrow Songs," African American Review, forthcoming 2003.
  • "Chamois," 13th Moon, forthcoming Vol. 17, 2003.
  • "Over," 13th Moon, forthcoming Vol. 17, 2003.
  • "Soap Opera," Crone Chronicles: A Journal of Conscious Aging, #45, Winter Solstice, 2000-2001.
  • "Local Call," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Winter 1996.
  • "Choo-Choo," Obsidian II, Vol. II, nos. 1 & 2, Fall-Winter, 1996.
  • "Tortoise," Obsidian II, Vol. II, nos. 1 & 2, Fall-Winter, 1996.
  • "Fugue," Many Mountains Moving, Vol. III, No. 1, December 1996.
  • "Positions," Many Mountains Moving, Vol. III, No. 1, December 1996.
  • "Space," Mockingbird, fall/winter 1996.
  • "Three Songs for the Boston Subway," Mt. Olive Review, fall 1996.
  • "Giving," Mt. Olive Review, fall 1996.
  • "Giving, Too," Mt. Olive Review, fall 1996.
  • "Water Song," Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, fall/winter 1996
  • "Mercurial," Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, fall/winter 1996
  • "Still Life," Crab Orchard Review, Vol. 2, No. 1, fall/winter 1996
  • "Pickpocket," Many Mountains Moving, Vol. II, No. 2, March 1996.
  • "Wheatstraws," Many Mountains Moving, Vol. II, No. 2, March 1996.
  • "Sky Streaked Gray, A Smear of Rain," Many Mountains Moving, Vol. II, No. 2, March 1996.
  • "Verily, Vérité," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XVII, Nos. 3/4, Summer/Fall 1995.
  • "Black, I," GW Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 6, June/July 1995.
  • "Story Problem," GW Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 6, June/July 1995.
  • "Luggage," The Lyricist, Vol. XXIX, Spring 1995.
  • "The Hour of Blue," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XVI, No. 3, Summer 1994.
  • "Book of Ruth," The Kenyon Review, Vol. XIV, No. 2, Spring 1992.
  • "Herndon's," Indiana Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 1991.
  • "Three Cent Stamp," Indiana Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring 1991.
  • "South County," 13th Moon, Vol. IX, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring 1991.
  • "Supermarket Blues," 13th Moon, Vol. IX. Nos. 1 & 2, Spring 1991.
  • "On Charlevoix: Detroit, 1962," Callaloo #32, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer 1987.
  • "Black, I," Callaloo #32, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer 1987.
  • "A Virgin Man Sleeps With a Woman," Cleavage, Vol. 1, 1987.
  • "Trinidadian Dawn," Cleavage, Volume 1, 1987.
  • "A Blues Black Song," Ithaca Women's Anthology, Vol. 8, Summer 1985.
  • "Mercedes," The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, Spring 1985.
  • "Trinity," 13th Moon, Vol. IX, Nos. 1 & 2, Fall 1984.
  • "Poem for the Children," Steppingstones, Anniversary Issue I, 1984.
  • "Little Girl Blue," Northeast Journal, Vol. 4, November 1984.
  • "Rockin' A Man, Stone Blind," The Massachusetts Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 2, Summer 1983.
  • "Snap, Crackle, Pop," Obsidian, Vol. VIII, Nos. 2 & 3, Summer/Winter 1982.
  • "11% Chance," Obsidian, Vol. VIII, Nos. 2 & 3, Summer/Winter 1982.
  • "Pressure Cooker," Obsidian, Vol. VIII, Nos. 2 & 3, Summer/Winter 1982.
  • "A Ten-Year-Old Rides to Day Camp," Ithaca Woman's Anthology, Vol. 7, 1982.
  • "Boomerang," Ithaca Women's Anthology, Vol. 6, 1981.
  • "When I Grow Up," Umoja Sasa, Vol. 6, No. 1 September 1979.
  • "Land of Milk'n Honey," Umoja Sasa, Vol. 6, No. 1, September 1979.
  • "Story Problem," Sojourner: The New England Women's Journal of News, Opinions and the Arts, Vol. 4, No. 3, November 1978.
Articles, essays, and book reviews:
  • "Blues in Black and White" in Beyond New Formalism: Contemporary Essays on Poetic Form and Narrative, Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1997.
  • "A Poem is Sculpture" in Strategy and Structure: Short Readings for Composition, ed. by William J. Kelly. Needham Heights: Allyn & Bacon, 1995
  • "Langston Hughes: American Treasure," Providence Journal-Bulletin, November 27, 1988.
  • "Walker's Latest: A Pleasant Scrapbook," Providence Journal- Bulletin, May 22, 1988.
  • "Morrison's 'Beloved' a Slave to Haunting Past," Providence Journal-Bulletin, October 25, 1987. Gregory, Robert J. and Carolyn Beard Whitlow, Milton Levine, WilliamWasmuth. "The Techniques of Work Adjustment," Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring 1982.