Evaluative criterion 1—Program quality Committee: Michael (chair)

The course will introduce students to issues of modernism, particularly as they apply to fiction and react against the conventions often ascribed to the Genteel Tradition preceding the modernist movement. The novels likely to be read are Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, Caroline Gordon’s None Shall Look Back, Richard Wright’s Native Son, and Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men. One short paper (5–6 pp.), one critically informed paper (10–12 pp.), and a final exam will comprise the main assignments, yet 10% of the course grade involve active participation in class discussion. Fulfills: Senior Seminar requirement (ALL TRACKS), 400-level American Literature requirement (LT).

Samuel L. Clemens, Mark Twain, was a man of many roles and occupations:

printer, riverboat pilot, reporter, adventurer, world traveler, raconteur, platform lecturer, social critic, and man of letters. His writings are not only a record of his extraordinary life; they define forever aspect of our national experience that some critics call "Mark Twain's America." In the seminar we will read several short pieces, selections from longer works such as Innocents Abroad, Roughing It, Life on the Mississippi, and The Autobiography of Mark Twain as well as two novels, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Pudd'nhead Wilson. The seminar format will combine lecture and discussion. Students will have the opportunity to do individual research projects on Twain and his era.

Fulfills 400-level American Literature Requirement OR Satisfies requirement for Senior Seminar in Literary Studies. Open ONLY to ENGLISH MAJORS (including English Education majors) who are seniors or second-semester juniors.

The country house is for many readers a metaphor for England—an emblem of the countryside and the “good life” for some, an impervious symbol of hierarchy and cultural insolence for others. In this course, we will study diverse representations of the country house as setting and character in order to grasp dramatic changes in British culture in the twentieth century. We will encounter various genres including poetry, fiction, memoir, and film. Likely authors include Evelyn Waugh, Nancy Mitford, Elizabeth Bowen, V.S. Naipaul, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Requirements include essays, research paper, presentation, and quizzes. Satisfies requirement for Senior Seminar in Literature OR British Literature requirement OR Literature and Diversity requirement.

This course is designed as a workshop for advanced students in fiction writing, in which students will work to develop their imaginative writing and critical skills beyond the introductory level. Students taking this course must be committed to extensive writing, careful reading, active participation in class, and extremely regular attendance. Much of the class time will be spent discussing one another’s writing; as a workshop focused on writing as a process, substantial writing, revision, and group critique will be expected. In addition, students will be reading and discussing published fiction, since in learning to read well one learns much about writing. Pre-Requisite: ENGL 404W Fiction Workshop III. Fulfills a Writing concentration requirement (WT).

Mellon Fellowship ($3000), Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, 2007–8.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($5000), 2005.
Scholarly Book (edited):

Barnhisel, Greg, and Cathy Turner, eds. Pressing the Fight: Print, Propaganda, and the Cold War. Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010.

“Pound and his Publishers.” In Ezra Pound in Context, edited by Ira Nadel. New York: Cambridge UP, 2010.

Barnhisel, Greg, Jennifer Collins, and Evan Stoddard. “Process-Based Writing Pedagogy in Learning Communities.” Under consideration at Journal of General Education.

Barnhisel, Greg. “Cold Warriors of the Book: The USIA and American Book Programs in the 1950s.” Book History 13 (2010).

Barnhisel, Greg. “Perspectives USA and the Cultural Cold War: Modernism in Service of the State.” Modernism/Modernity 14.4 (November 2007): 729–54.

Desselle, Shane, Christopher K. Surratt, Janet Astle, Leigh Ann White, Lina Yacovelli, Greg Barnhisel, Megan Jewell, Heather Shippen, Erin R. Holmes. “Evolution of a Required Service-Learning Course: Lessons Learned and Plans for the Future.” Journal of Pharmacy Education 12.1 (2005): 23–40.
Encyclopedia Article:

“James Laughlin.” Tryphonopoulos, Demetres, and Stephen J. Adams, eds. The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: The Greenwood Press, 2005.

“The Informational Media Guaranty Program in the Eastern Bloc.” Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies, Library of Congress, Washington D.C., September 2008.

“Cold Warriors of the Book: The USIA and American Publishers in the 1950s.” Modern Book History Conference, Oxford University, Oxford, England, November 24, 2007.
Invited Lectures and Presentations at Duquesne

“Two Magazines and Three Editors Fight the Cultural Cold War.” Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research, Duquesne University, September 2007.

“Writing Assessment Inside and Outside the English Department.” Roundtable organizer and presenter. Northeast Modern Language Association conference, New Brunswick, NJ. April 2011.

“Encounter Magazine, Literary Modernism, and the Roots of Neoconservatism.” Cold War Cultures conference (international), University of Texas at Austin, October 2010.

“Modernism and Copyright.” Seminar participant. Modernist Studies Association (international), Nashville, November 2008.

“Modernisms in the 1950s.” Seminar participant. Modernist Studies Association (international), Long Beach, November 2007.

“Print Culture in the Cold War.” Roundtable respondent. Modern Language Association (international), Philadelphia, December 2006.

“Perspectives USA and the Cold War Liberal Imagination.” Modernist Studies Association (international), Chicago, November 2005.

“Power and Persuasion in an Election Year.” National Council of Teachers of English, Pittsburgh, November 2005.

ENGL 591 “Teaching College Writing,” every fall semester

ENGL 556 “American Modernism,” Fall 2009

ENGL 566 “Literary Theory,” Spring 2007

ENGL 558 “International Modernism: 1922,” Fall 2006

ENGL 500 “Aims and Methods of Literary Study,” Fall 2005

IHP 104 “Honors Freshman Seminar,” Fall 2010

UCOR 102 “Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing,” Spring 2010

ENGL 450W “Ethics, Writing, and Culture,” Spring 2006, Fall 2009

UCOR 101c “Thinking and Writing Across the Curriculum” in Populus learning community, Fall 2007 & 2008

IHP 101 “Logic and Rhetoric,” Spring 2008

ENGL 450W “American Modernism,” Spring 2008

ENGL 300 “Critical Issues in Literary Study,” Fall 2007

ENGL 434W “Literary Theory,” Spring 2007

UCOR 101c in Orbis learning community, Fall 2006

ENGL 204 “The Jazz Age,” Spring 2006

UCOR 101c in Quaestio learning community, Fall 2005

“Modernism and the Collecting Impulse,” Gregory Harold (Dissertation in Progress)

Marianne Holohan, Justin Jakovac (Dissertation in Progress)

Richard Clark. Fitzgerald’s Early Stories: War and Women. (Ph.D. Fall 2009)

Megan Jewell. A Poetics of Scholarly Inquiry: Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Rachel Blau Du Plessis. Defended 2006.

Courtney Pfahl, “[un]Defining Poetry: The Poetry of Rene Magritte and Art of Steve McCaffery.” completed Spring 2007.

SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) liaison to the Modern Language Association, Oct. 2010–present.

Judge, Marywood University Faculty Award for Excellence in Writing Pedagogy, 2010.

Regional editor, Wake: A Journal of the Great Lakes.

Steering Committee, Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research, 2006–07

Local organizing committee, NCTE 2006 conference

Chaired panels at CCCC 2006, 2008
Service Work at Duquesne:

Departmental Service

First-Year Writing Committee (chair, 2003–present)

Graduate Studies Committee 2003–present

Library Committee 2005–2008

M.A. Exam Committee 2005–06

M.A. Admissions Committee 2009–10.

Speakers Committee 2005–06

Visiting Writers Committee 2005–06

Academic Integrity Committee 2004–6

Organized workshop for graduate students and part-time faculty on “Public Speaking for Academics,” 2009

Chair, James Purdy’s 3^rd-Year Review Committee

Chair, Writing Instructor Search Committee, 2008 & 2011.

Learning Communities Advisory Council, 2007–present.

McAnulty College Academic Integrity Committee 2006–9 (elected)

McAnulty College Academic Integrity Committee 2005–6

Middle States Self-Study Committee: Standards 11, 12, and 13 2006–07

Organized and ran seven Center for Teaching Excellence workshops:

“Teaching Writing If You’re Not a Writing Teacher,” Feb. 2004

“Preventing Plagiarism” November 2005

“Responding to Student Writing” Jan. 2007

“Reflection Through Writing” October 2007

“Teaching Research Using the Relevance-Credibility Model,” October 2008 and November 2009.

“Assessment Minigrants Support Student Learning and Faculty Success: Three Cases from Duquesne.” October 2010

Provost’s Information Literacy Steering Committee 2004–present

University Academic Integrity Committee 2006–07

University Core Curriculum Committee 2003–06, 2006–pres. (ex-officio)

University Honors College committee 2006–present

University Library Committee 2006–07

Writing Center Director Search Committee, 2006–08

ANNE L. BRANNEN

Associate Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. English, University of California at Berkeley, 1992
SCHOLARSHIP—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Book Chapters:

"Medieval Meditations on the Passion: Gibson and York. In Passionate Dialogues: Critical Perspectives on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Daniel Burston and Rebecca Denova, editors. Pittsburgh: Mise Publications, 2005, 65-74.

“Using Historical Documents in the Literature Classroom: Elizabethan and Jacobean Church Court Cases.” In Involving Students in REEDing: Teaching With the Records of Early English Drama. Elza C. Tiner, editor. September, 2006, 87-96.
Poetry:

“Bad Mothers.” Cabinet des Fées, January 2010. (http://cabinet-des-fees.com/index.php/2010/01/14/bad-mothers/)

“Diana Gets a Corgi.” Cardigan Corgi Club of America Bulletin. Fall, 2009.

“Appeasing Brigid in Pittsburgh.” Shelter of Daylight, Spring 2010. (Anthology)

“Letter to a Woman in Albuquerque, 1977.” New Mexico Poetry Review, Spring 2010.

Finishing the Milkyway. Collection under review at Etched Press.

“Vasilissa’s Doll.” Literary Mamas, Fall 2010.

“Mnemosyne: Meeting Stephanie for Dinner. Fickle Muses, November 2010.
Conference Presentations:

"Spiritual Drama at Little Gidding." 41st Annual Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 3-7, 2006.

“‘We will come give you a Christmas song’: The Spiritual Dimensions of Performance Space in Medieval Drama.” 43^rd Annual Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 7-10, 2008.

“Strictly Speaking, the Study of Questions: Reading Around Lost Documents in Cambridgeshire.” International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2008.

“Speaking Subtleties.” 45^th Annual Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2010.
TEACHING—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010

3-2 Teaching Load; sabbatical Fall 07

ENGL 558 -- 20^th Century Irish Literature, Spring 06

ENGL 501 – Medieval Women Writers, Summer 06

ENGL 510 – Medieval Drama, Spring 07, Fall 09

ENGL 502 – Chaucer, Spring 08

ENGL 507 – Medieval Literature, Fall 08

ENGL 500 – Aims & Methods (Graduate Introductory Course), Fall 10
Undergraduate Courses:

UCOR 101 – Thinking & Writing (Learning Community), Fall 05

ENGL 306 – Drama & Politics, Fall 05, Spring 09

ENGL 301 – Poetry Workshop I, Fall 05, Fall 10

ENGL 422 – Irish Drama, Spring 06

ENGL 202 – Introduction to Poetry, Fall 06

ENGL 432 – Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Theatre, Fall 06

ENGL 203 – Introduction to Drama, Fall 06, Summer 10

UCOR 102 – Writing About Literature (Learning Community), Spring 07

ENGL 406 – Medieval Drama, Spring 07, Fall 09

ENGL 403 – Drama and Performance Space, Spring 08

ENGL 407 – Chaucer, Spring 08

ENGL 217 – Survey of British Literature I, Fall 08

ENGL 300 – Critical Issues (Undergraduate Introduction to Major Course), Fall 08

ENGL 405 – Medieval Literature, Fall 08

ENGL 450 – Pearl Poet Seminar, Spring 09

ENGL 204 – Horror Literature, Fall 09

ENGL 101 – Multi-Genre Creative Writing, Fall 09

UCOR 102 – Writing About Literature (not in Learning Community), Spring 10

ENGL 306 – Irish Drama, Spring 10

UCOR 101 – Thinking & Writing (not in Learning Community), Fall 10
Dissertation Work:

Directing Dissertations:

Sean Martin, finished fall 2008. Claire Barbetti, finished December 2009. Nicole Andel, finished spring 2008. William Racicot, finished May 2010. John Zedolik, finished May 2010. Janine Bayer, finished December 2010. Justin Jacovak, apparently stalled out. Rebecca Cepek, active.

Jess Jost-Costanza, finished; Patricia Callahan, finished; Patricia White (in Theology dept.), finished; Heather Shippen, finished; Bettina Jones, active; Michelle Gaffey, active; Melissa Wehler, active; Suzanne Cook, active; Julia Davis, apparently stalled out.

First Year Writing Committee, 2005

Theatre Arts Committee, 2005-2007

M.A. Exam Committee, 2005

Search Committee for Director of University Writing Center, 2005-07

Chair of Laura Engel’s Third Year Review Committee, 2005

Mentor, Junior Professors Laura Engel, 2005-2006 and John Lane, 2005-2010

Faculty Sponsor, Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors Society), 2005-2006

Faculty Sponsor and Chief Dramaturge, Duquesne Medieval and Renaissance Players, 2005 – 2010

Chair of John Lane’s 3^rd Year Review Committee, 2006

chair, M.A. admissions committee, 2007

chair of John Lane’s Promotion and Tenure Review, 2010

Academic Integrity Appeals Board, 2006-2010

faculty sponsor, Asian Culture and Anime Club, 2008-2010
University:

Faculty Sponsor, Lambda (Gay-Straight Alliance), 2005-2010

University Support Council, 2005-2010

University Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2009-2010

Diversity Survey Committee, 2010
Though I was on sabbatical in the Fall of 2007, there were service obligations which would have been difficult for others to walk into temporarily; I therefore continued my work for Lambda, the University Support Council, the Players, and the Academic Integrity Appeals Board, as well as continuing to oversee the departmental process for John Lane’s third year review.

LAURA CALLANAN

Associate Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. English, Emory University, May 1999
SCHOLARSHIP—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Book:

Deciphering Race: White Anxiety, Racial Conflict, and the Turn to Fiction in

Mid-Victorian English Prose. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2006.
Journal Article:

“‘Three Cheers for Eve’: Feminism, Capitalism, and Artistic Subjectivity in Janet Fitch’s White Oleander.” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 37.5 (July-August 2008): 495-518.

Review of Vanessa D. Dickerson’s Dark Victorians (University of Illinois Press, 2008) for Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net (RaVoN). Issue #54 (2009).

“Lucy Snowe’s New Creed: Narrative Indeterminacy and the Question of Happiness in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette (1853)” accepted for presentation at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference (Saratoga Springs, NY; April 24-26, 2009)

“The Trauma of Social Isolation in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette (1853).” Presented at the College English Association Conference (Pittsburgh, PA; March 26-28, 2009)

“The Politics of Textual Flooding in Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping and Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms. Presented at Narrative: An International Conference (Austin, Texas; May 1-4, 2008).

“Woolf’s Houses Through Morrison’s Eyes” Virginia Woolf Conference (International, Birmingham, England; June 22-25, 2006).

“Lytton Strachey’s Florence Nightingale: Trauma at the Crossroads” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference (Regional, Detroit, Michigan; April 21-22, 2006).

“Traumatic Artifacts: Representing and Repairing the Damaged Self in Nightwood and White Oleander,” Narrative: An International Conference (Ottowa, Canada; April 6-9, 2006).
TEACHING—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Graduate Courses:

ENGL 500: Aims and Methods, Fall 2009

ENGL 536: Victorian Literature, Fall 2008

ENGL 539: Trauma and the British Novel, Spring 2010

ENGL 566: Literary Theory, Spring 2006, Spring 2009

ENGL 693: Victorian Literature, Fall 2006

ENGL 113: Diversity and Literature (Litterae Learning Community), Spring 2009

ENGL 204: Women and Trauma, Fall 2005

ENGL 204: The Bad Girls of Fiction, Spring 2010

ENGL 302: The Memoir, Fall 2008, Fall 2010

ENGL 304: Bad Girls of Fiction and Film, Spring 2007

ENGL 418: 19^th Cent. English Novel, Spring 2007

ENGL 434: Literary Theory, Spring 2006

ENGL 450: Writers on Writing (Senior Seminar), Spring 2008

ENGL 450: Trauma and the Victorian Novel, Fall 2009

IHP 104: Freshman Honor’s Seminar, Fall 2010

Rita Allison, “A History of Survival: Modernist Women Writers and the Female Non-Combatant Experience of War” (Dissertation Completed and Graduated Spring 2010)

Amanda Johnson, (Proposal Approved Fall 2008; Dissertation in-process)

Amy Criniti Phillips, “Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the 19^th-Century Female Revisionist” (Dissertation Completed and Graduated Spring 2011)

Heather Shippen, “Keeping Grace: A Study of Devotional Poetry” (Dissertation Completed Summer 2008; Graduation Fall 2008)

Kristianne Kalata Vaccaro, “Transatlantic Reenactment: Nation and Self-Narration in Victorian and Modernist Women Writers’ Autobiography” (Dissertation Completed Summer 2008; Graduation Fall 2008)

Amy Cook (University of Pittsburgh), “Romantic Irony in German Philosophy and Victorian Literature” (Defended, Summer 2007)

Sharon George, “Re-visionary Poetics: Fantasy, Folklore, and Legend in Nineteenth-Century Poetry by Women” (Dissertation in-process)

Lee Ann Glowzenski, “ “ (Dissertation in-process)

Julie Kloo, “Post-Colonial Power Houses: The Symbol of the Great House in the Contemporary Post-Colonial Novel” (Dissertation Completed and Graduated Spring 2009)

Sean Martin, “Modernism, The Grotesque, and the Works of H. P. Lovecraft” (Dissertation Completed and Graduated Spring 2009)

Jessica Chainer Nowacki, “‘Because they would not stop for death’: Near-Death Experiences and Surviving Personal and/or cultural Trauma and Death in Contemporary Multicultural American Women’s Literature” (Dissertation Completed and Graduated Summer 2009)

Kathryn Pivak, “‘A Spot of Misrule in the General Order’: The Mother’s Place in the Novels of Mrs. Humphry Ward” (Completed and Graduated Fall 2005)

Edited Collection for The Edwin Mellen Press, Summer 2010

Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2008-Present

Graduate Studies Committee (Fall 2008-present)

Chair—M.A. Admissions Committee (Spring 2009)

Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall 2005-Spring 2008)

Chair—Undergraduate Studies Committee (Fall 2005-Spring 2008)

Mentor, undergraduate majors

College:

Assistant Director, Women’s & Gender Studies Program, 2005-2007

Women’s & Gender Studies Program Steering Committee, 2008-present
University:

Presidential Scholarship Award Committee, Spring 2009

Editor, The Public’s Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).

“’The Personating of Queens’: Lady Macbeth, Sarah Siddons, and the Creation of Female Celebrity in the Late Eighteenth Century” in Macbeth: New Critical Studies, Nicholas Moschovakis ed. (New York: Routledge Press, 2008) 240-249.

“The Muff Affair: Fashioning Celebrity in the Portraits of Late Eighteenth-Century Actresses” in Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture Vol 13, Number 3. 279-298.

“Notorious Celebrity: Mary Wells, Madness and Theatricality” in Eighteenth-Century Women, Volume V, 2008 181-205. Reprint in The English Malady: Enabling and Disabling Fictions, Glen Colburn ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008) 305-325.
Book Introduction:

Introduction and notes for Charlotte Bronte’s Villette, (New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2005).

“Dangerous Liaisons: The Intricate Friendship Between Sarah Siddons and Sir Thomas Lawrence.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Alburquerque, New Mexico. March 16-20, 2010.

“Phantasmic Performances: Representations of Maternity in Mary Robinson’s Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Robinson Written by Herself.” East Central Eighteenth-Century Society. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. October 8-11, 2009.

“Mommy Diva: Thomas Lawrence, Sarah Siddons, and the Siddons Sisters.” College English Association Conference. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. March 21-23, 2009.

“A Wild Half-Crazy Woman: Frances Burney, Mary Wells, and the Shakespeare Gallery.” Frances Burney Society Conference. Chicago, Illinois. October 2-3, 2008.

“Much Ado About Muffs: Actresses, Accessories, and Austen.” Jane Austen Society of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. April 5, 2008.

“The Libertine: Cultural Studies in the Eighteenth-Century Classroom.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, Illinois. December 28-30, 2007.

“Going Ghostly: Staging Gothic Celebrity in Mary Robinson’s Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Robinson Written by herself.” International Conference on Romanticism. Towson, Maryland. October 18-21, 2007.

“’Mrs. Wells was here’: The Public and Private Worlds of Mary Wells and Elizabeth Inchbald.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Atlanta, Georgia. March 21-25, 2007.

“More Than Just Comma Hunting: Research Methods in Literary Studies.” Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research, Duquesne University. January 18, 2007.

“Tips for Teaching Tricky Texts: Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Charke.” East-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. October 27-October 30, 2006.

“A Noted and Infamous Woman: Mary Wells, Madness, and Celebrity.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Montreal, Canada. March 29-April 2, 2006.

“Scandalous Lives: Contemporary Biographies of Eighteenth-Century Actresses.” East-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, October 27-30, 2005.