Research Spotlights | Department of English

Several times during the year, the Communications Team reaches out to members of the Department of English faculty and asked them to elaborate on a current research or creative project they are working on or have recently completed.

Archive

Elizabeth Hewitt — early speculative fiction

Angie Romines — creative nonfiction about the women in her family tree

Zoë Brigley Thompson — poetry and ecojustice

Kay Halasek — Making the work of writing program administrators visible

Susan Lang — Virtual, asynchronous tutoring in writing

Michelle Herman — Close-Up

Dorothy Noyes — Exemplarity in Western culture

Carolyn Skinner — The reception of historical gender arguments

Beverly Moss — Literary practices in African American communities

Jill Galvan — Fictional realism in 19th and early-20th century portrayals of marriage

John Jones — Digital media's impact on communication and thought

Molly Farrell — The relationship between colonization and mathematics

Margaret Price — The experiences of disabled faculty and staff at universities

David Brewer — 18th-century readers’ construction of authors as reputations

Robert Hughes — "What is art?"

Kathy Fagan — Her manuscript of poems, Bad Hobby

Joe Ponce — Transnational representations of Asia and America

Brian McHale — Theorizing narrative in poetry

Wendy Hesford — Violent Exceptions: Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

Lee Martin — The Glassmaker’s Wife

Clare Simmons — Her book about medievalist celebration in 19th-century Britain

Doug Sutton-Ramspeck — Black Flowers