Faculty Publications and Presentations

English faculty on retreat
Faculty at the 2009 Faculty Retreat. Photo by the Graylynn Inn Staff.

DIYA ABDO

  • “How to be a Successful Double Agent: Displacement as Strategy in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt” forthcoming in Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature ed. Dr. Layla Almaleh, Rodopi. An early version of this paper was presented at WOCMES 2 (World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies 2) held in Amman, Jordan, June 11-16, 2006.
  • “Textual Migration: Self-Translation and Translation of the Self in Leila Abouzeid’s Return to Childhood: The Memoir of a Modern Moroccan Woman and Ruju ‘Ila Tufula” in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Volume 30 Issue 2. University of Nebraska Press, Fall 2009. An early version of this paper was presented at Self and Identity in Translation: A Postgraduate Symposium at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom on February 4-5, 2006.
  • "Chameleonic Text: Peritextual Transformation in Fatima Mernissi’s Dreams of Trespass and Nisa' 'Ala Ajnihat Al-hilm" in Life Writing. Volume 6 Issue 3. Routledge, Fall 2009.
  • "Narrating Little Fatima: A Picture is Worth 1001 Tales: 'Multiple Critique' in Fatima Mernissi's Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood" in Image and Narrative, Issue 19: Autofiction and/in Image, November 2007.
  • "Sacred Frontiers: Looking for Fissures to Construct an Alternate Feminist Subjectivity" in Womanhood in Anglophone Literary Culture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Perspectives edited by Dr. Robin Hammerman, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2007. An early version of this paper was presented at the Language of Images: An International, Interdisciplinary Conference on Text and Image at Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, U.S.A. on March 29-30, 2007.
  • “Redefining the Warring Self in Hanan Al-Shaykh’s The Story of Zahra and Frank McGuinness Carthaginians” In Pacific Coast Philology, Journal of the PAMLA (Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, the Western Regional Division of the MLA), Special Issue: Transoceanic Dialogues. Volume 42. Number 2. 2007. Early version of this paper was presented at Transatlantic Poetics: An International Symposium in Honour of Denis Donoghue at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland on June 13, 2003.
  • “Uncovering the Harem in the Classroom: Tania Kamal Eldin’s Covered: The Hejab in Cairo, Egypt and Hollywood Harems within the context of a course on Arab women writers” in Women’s Studies Quarterly . Volume XXX. Numbers 1 & 2. Spring/Summer 2002.
  • “The Emperor Jones: A Struggle for Individuality” in Eugene O’Neill Review. Volume 24. Nos. 1 & 2, Spring/Fall 2000.
  • “Thaqafa Dun Ightirab: Nisa’ ‘Ala Ajnihat Al-hilm li Fatima Al-Mernissi” (Education without Alienation in Fatima Mernissi’s Women on the Wings of Dreams). Paper presented in Arabic at The Academic Day for Women’s Studies conference at The College for Graduate Studies, University of Jordan in Amman, Jordan on March, 29, 2005.

TRACI O CONNOR

Book:

Fiction:

  • “Starla and June.” Gargoyle. 53 (2008)

  • “The Flying Codona.” Mid-American Review. XVIII Number 2. Fall (2008)

  • “Van Gogh Dreams.” H_NGM_N. 6 (2007).

  • “Pleasure.” Southern Gothic Online. (2006).

  • “Maui.” DIAGRAM. 5.4 (2005).

  • “Marina.” DIAGRAM. 5.4 (2005).

  • “Cat.” New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills. (2005).

  • “Love Like That.” The Madison Review. Spring (2005).

  • “This Part.” The Georgia State University Review. Spring (2005).

  • “A Photographic Catalog of the Trip to San Antonio.” Red Rock Review. Fall (2004).

  • “Cat.” Fourteen Hills: The San Francisco State University Review. Spring (2003).

  • “Three Johns.” Spork Magazine. 2.2 Spring/Summer (2003).

Poetry:

  • “At My Husband’s Graveside.” Contemporary Verse 2. Spring (2008).

  • “When You Wanted Him Dead” Contemporary Verse 2. Spring (2008).

  • “Horror.” Margie. 6. Fall (2007).

  • “The Drift of the Sun.” Limestone: A Journal of Art and Literature. (2005).

  • “The Stairs to My Basement.” Barrowstreet. Winter (2004).

  • “Bathwater.” Poet Lore. 99 Fall/Winter (2004).

  • “Red.” Poet Lore. 99 Fall/Winter (2004).

Conference Presentations:

  • “How to Make a Zombie”: Changing the World by Exploring the Dark (ACLA 2009)

HEATHER HAYTON

  • "Manufacturing Consent: Capellanus’s De Amore and the Rhetoric of Punishment," Neophilologus (accepted).
  • Seminar leader, "Vamps, Zombies, and the Undead: Sexual Citizenship and the Politics of Visibilty" and presentation, "Perfect Citizens: The Undead as Living Witness in 21st-Century Film and Literature" (ACLA 2009).
  • "Reading the Past in Medieval Literature," Comparative Literature Studies 45.2 (2008): 247-52.
  • "Reanimating Beowulf for the 21st century" (ACLA 2008).
  • "Dante's Undead: Resurrecting Infernal Landscapes for a Post-human World" (SCLA 2007).
  • 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.

JIM HOOD

  • “John Keats and Ethical Practice.”   Quaker Higher Education   2 (Nov. 2008):  19-25.  Web.  <http://www.earlham.edu/~fahe/publications/qhe2-2.pdf>.
  • “Quakerism’s Five Testimonies and International Education.”   Insights in International Exchange  1 (March 2007):  9-16.
  • Review of Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope  (Dandelion, et al.).   Friends Journal   52 (August 2006):  30-33.
  • Review of Any Approaching Enemy  (novel by Jay Worrall).   Friends Journal  52 (August 2006):  28-29.
  • Review of Sails on the Horizon  (novel by Jay Worrall).   Friends Journal   51(August 2005):  26.
  • Review of Imagination and Spirit:  A Contemporary Quaker Reader .   Friends Journal   49 (May 2003):  35.
  • "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).
  • "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.
  • Divining Desire: Tennyson and the Poetics of Transcendence. Aldershot (U.K.): Ashgate Publishing, 2000.

JEFF JESKE

  • “Jigsaw as Moralist: the Ascetic’s Way in ‘Saw III’.” American Culture Conference. New Orleans, March 2009.

  • “First Things First: Recruiting--And Then Retaining a Dynamic Staff for the College Weekly.” National College Media Convention. Kansas City, October 2008.
  • Storied Words: The Writer's Vocabulary and Its Origins. New York, iUniverse, 2004.
  • "Fusing Comp 2 and History." Conference on College Composition and Communication. San Antonio, March 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.
  • "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

CYNTHIA NEARMAN

  • 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

  • Vanished, a collection of poems, originally named a finalist for the 2005 Ohio State University/The Journal Prize in Poetry, won the 2006 Naomi Long Madgett Prize in Poetry
  • Individual poems published in the following journals: 13th Moon, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Mochila Review, African American Review, Tiger’s Eye, Tar Wolf Review, Dos Passos Review, Cold Mountain Review, Callaloo, 5 A.M., Crab Orchard Review, Obisidian II, Obisidian III, Many Mountains Moving, Mockingbird, The Lyricist, Indiana Review, Steppingstones, Northeast Journal, and more.
  • Articles and Poetry published in the following anthologies:

    Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English, 2009

    Kakalak: an Anthology of Carolina Poets, 2006

    Gathering Ground, 2006

    Taboo Haiku: An International Selection, 2006

    Crossroads: Creative Writing Exercises in Four Genres, 2005

    The Paradelle: An Anthology, 2005

    Open Roads: Exercises in Writing Poetry, 2005

    Cave Canem 10th Anniversary Reader, 2005

    Cave Canem VIII Anthology, 2003

    Writing Your Rhythm, 2002

    The History of the Paradelle, 2002

    What Matters (Audio Book), 2002

    Touched by Eros, 2002

    American Diaspora: Poetry of Exile, 2000

    A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women, 1994

  • Selected as one of ten North Carolina poets to appear on the 1997 PBS series "Poetry Live" hosted by Charles Kuralt
  • Fiber Artist whose work can be viewed at http://www.colorquiltsbycarolyn.com/