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

2-3 teaching load Fall 2005- Fall 2007 (pre-tenure sabbatical Spring 2008)

2-0 teaching load Fall 2008-Spring 2009 – Director of Undergraduate Studies (maternity leave Spring 2009)

2-3 teaching load Fall 2009-Spring 2010

2-2 teaching load, Fall 2010 – Assistant Director, Women’s & Gender Studies Program
Graduate Courses:

ENGL 529-61: Staging Gender in the Eighteenth-Century Theater, Spring 2010, Fall 2006

ENGL 529-61: Gothic Bodies, Fall 2008

ENGL 529-61: Restoration Women Writers: Spring 2005

ENG IHP 104: Information Overload, Fall 2010

ENG 419W(find number): Jane Austen, Fall 2010

ENG 102: Thinking and Writing, Spring 2010

ENG 203: Introduction to Drama: Love and Madness, Spring 2010, Fall 2009, Spring 2007, Fall 2007

ENG 413W: Eighteenth-Century Women Playwrights, Fall 2009

ENG 403W: Contemporary Women Playwrights, Fall 2008

ENG 301W: Playwriting, Spring 2007. Spring 2006

ENG 203: Introduction to Drama: Family Dramas, Fall 2007, Spring 2005

ENG 450: The Libertine: Spring 2007

ENG 300: Critical Issues in Literary Study: Spring 2006
Dissertation Work:
Directing Dissertations:

Suzanne Cook, “Fops and Rakes: Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Drama and Novel”

Melissa Wehler, “Shakespeare’s Other Daughters: Gothic Nationalism in the Long Eighteenth-Century”
Master’s Thesis Director:

Danielle Gissinger, “Lost in a Forgetfullness of My Real Self: The Performative Bodies of Charlotte Charke and Cindy Sherman” (completed Spring 2007)

Co-Organizer, East Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 4-7, 2010.

Speaker’s Committee (Fall 2010)

Search Committee Member for Seventeenth Century Hire (Fall 2009)

Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)

Chair, Undergraduate Studies Committee (Fall 2008-Spring 2009)

Chair, Speaker’s Committee (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)

Theater Arts Committee (Fall 2004-Spring 2006; Fall 2008-present)

Graduate Studies Committee (Fall 2005-Spring 2007)

MA exam committee (Fall 2005-Spring 2007)

Theater Arts Director Search Committee (Spring 2005)

College Promotion and Tenure Committee (Fall 2010-)

Assistant Director Women’s and Gender Studies Program (Fall 2010-)

Women’s and Gender Studies Board Member (Fall 2006-present)

Presidential Scholarship Award Committee, Fall 2008

“Mississippi.” Spout Press. Minneapolis, MN. Summer 2010. Second runner-up in Spout Fiction Contest of the Year.

“Nueve.” North American Review. University of Northern Iowa. Fall 2010.

“Chicago.” The Gettysburg Review. Gettysburg College. Spring 2010. 89-97.

“This Treatment Isn’t In Any Way Cruel.” The Minnesota Review. Issue 73. December 2009: 65-79.

“Birthday Season.” Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. New York: Columbia University, Issue 45. January 2008: 123-29. (This short story tied for the winner of 2007 Fiction Contest for Columbia University’s literary journal.)

“Refrain.” Front Range Review. Fort Collins: Front Range Community College. Spring 2008. 5-8.

“On the Summer of 1980, Dressed to Kill, and Epiphany.” Southeast Review. Talahassee: Florida State University. November 2007.

“Michael Myers has Some Issues: Recontextualizing the Adolescent Monster in Halloween (1974/2007).” Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia, PA. December 30, 2009.

"The Politics of the Contemporary Horror Remake: Rehistoricizing The Hills Have Eyes." West Virginia University's Film and Literature conference. Morgantown, WV. September 12, 2008.

“A Different Conversation; Teaching Creative Writing One-on-One.” Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Chicago. Feb 11-14, 2009.

“Look Ma, No Chainsaw: Genre Reinvention and Repetition in Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever.” Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association. Presented paper Oct 4-6, 2007.
TEACHING—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010

3-2 Teaching load Fall 2005-Fall 2010 (Sabbatical Fall 2009)

ENGL 101 Multi-Genre Creative Writing, Spring 2008

ENGL 205 Intro to Film, Fall 2005, Fall 2010

ENGL 301 Fiction Writing Workshop I, Fall 2005 (2 sections), Fall 2006, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010

ENGL 400 Fiction Writing Workshop II, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2010

ENGL 404 Fiction Writing Workshop III, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2010

ENGL 309 Horror Film, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2010

ENGL 309 Film Noir, Fall 2006, Spring 2008

ENGL 450 Senior Seminar: Fiction and Form, Spring 2007

ENGL 309 Documentary Flim, Fall 2008

ENGL 442 Kubrick & Genre, Fall 2007

ENGL 445 Directed Studies, Fall 2007, Spring 2009

Jesse Gipko

Fiction Editor, Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, PA, Fall 2010

Chair, Readings & Visiting Creative Writers Committee, 2005-2010

Organizer, Coffee House Reading Series, 2005-2010

Undergraduate Committee member, 2007-2008, Fall 2010

Film Concentration Guidelines Committee, Duquesne University, 2004-2005

Mentor, undergraduate majors

Human Rights Film Festival Committee, Spring 2008-Spring 2010

McAnulty College Magazine Committee, Spring 2010-Fall 2010

Kathy L. Glass

Associate Professor, Department of English

Ph.D. English, UC San Diego, June 2004
SCHOLARSHIP—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Book:

Courting Communities: Black Female Nationalism and Syncre-Nationalism in the Nineteenth-Century North (Routledge, 2006).
Book Chapters:

“Calling All Sisters: Continental Philosophy and Black Feminist Theory.” In Convergences: Black Women and Continental Philosophy, edited by Maria Lupe Davidson, Kathryn Gines, and Donna-Dale Marcano. (SUNY Press, 2010). 225-239.

“Love Matters: bell hooks on Political Resistance and Change.” In Critical Perspectives on bell hooks, edited by George Yancy and Maria Del Guadalupe Davidson. (Routledge, 2009).167-185.
Journal Article:

“Tending to the Roots: The Sociopolitical Activism of Anna Julia Cooper.” Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 6.1 (2005): 23-55.

“Women at Work: Reassessing Love in Frances Harper’s ‘The Two Offers.’” Presented at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers in Philadelphia in October 2009. National.

“Love at Work: The Politics of Uplift in Frances Harper’s Iola Leroy.” Presented at the Midwestern Modern Language Association Conference. Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 2008. Regional.

“A ‘Daughter of Africa’ Speaks in America: Maria W. Stewart’s Discourse on the Nation.” Presented by Dr. John Ernest at the American Studies Association Conference. Oakland, California. October 14, 2006. National.

“The Sociopolitical Activism of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart.” Presented at the American Literature Association Conference. Oakland, California. May 26, 2006. National.

“Inheriting Community, or Educating Iola.” Presented at the Celebrating the African American Novel Conference. Pennsylvania State University. April 2, 2005. Regional.

“The Multicultural Classroom.” CTE Series, Duquesne University. March 10, 2008.

“Dr. King and the Sermonic Tradition.” Presented at the Graduate Studies Conference, “The Indeterminacy of Allusion.” Duquesne University. April 21, 2007.

“More Than Just Comma Hunting: Research Methods in Literary Studies.” CIQR Panelist. Duquesne University. January 18, 2007.

“Love in Action: A Reflection on Service.” Presented at the Libermann Luncheon, Duquesne University. January 16, 2007.

“The Power of Love and Social Change.” Presented at the Duquesne University Chapel. Sponsored by the Multicultural Student Advisory Council. January 16, 2006.

“Love and Civil Rights.” Presented at Duquesne University to the Women and Spirituality Group. February 13, 2006.

“A Legacy of Love: Baldwin, King, and Social Transformation.” Black History Month Program, Duquesne University, February 16, 2005.

Race Theory (1 section)

African American Literature (1 section)

Nineteenth-Century African American Literature (2 sections)

Black Women Writers (2 sections)

Survey of American Literature (4 sections)

Introduction to African American Literature (1section)

Critical Issues in Literary Studies (4 sections)

Literature and Spirituality (1 section)

Literature and Social Change (1 section)

The Nineteenth-Century American Novel (1 section)

Race Images in Literature and Film (2 sections)

Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing (1 section)

Literature and Diversity (2 sections)
Dissertation Work:

Second Reader. Amal Abdelrazek. Arab-American Literature. Defended 2005

Second Reader. Jessica Chainer. Trauma and Near-Death Experiences in Ethnic Literature. Defended 2009.

Second Reader. Mindy Boffemeyer. Race Theory and American Literature. Active.

Undergraduate Studies Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2006; Fall 2010

English Department Speakers Committee, Fall 2005-Spring 2009

Graduate Studies Committee, Fall 2006-Spring 2008

Litterae Learning Community, Director, Fall 2010

Faith and Politics Committee, Fall 2004-present

Faculty Senate Assembly, Fall 2010

President’s Advisory Council on Diversity, Spring 2008-present

Major’s Fair, Volunteer, Spring 2008; Spring 2009

English Festival, Volunteer, Spring 2008

Women Studies Essay Contest, Judge, Spring 2008

Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Ed. Susan Kubica Howard. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2010.

Lennox, Charlotte. Euphemia. Ed. Susan Kubica Howard. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 2008.

Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent. Ed. Susan Kubica Howard. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishers, 2007.

“In the Public Eye: The Structuring of Spectacle in Frances Burney’s Evelina.” In “The Public’s Open to Us All”: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England. Ed. Laura Engel. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009.

“Transcultural Adoption in the Eighteenth-century Transatlantic Novel: Questioning National Identities in Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia.” Festshrift in honor of Jerry Beasley. Ed. Christopher Johnson. University of Delaware Press, 2011.
Journal Articles:

“Seeing Colonial America and Writing Home about It: Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia Epistolarity, and the Feminine Picturesque.” Studies in the Novel 37.3 (Fall 2005): 273-91.

“Narrative Surrogacy in Scott’s and Edgeworth’s Nationalist Novels.” International Society for Narrative. Cleveland, OH, April 2010.

“Family Portraits in Austen and Edgeworth: Adoptive and Blended Families in Fact and Fiction. Adoption and Culture Conference. Boston, MA, April 2010.

“Maria Edgeworth’s Blended Families in Fact and Fiction: Castle Rackrent and Belinda as Bookends in the Debate on the Union between England and Ireland.” Midwest Conference on British Studies. Pittsburgh, PA, October 2009.

“Family by Design: The Orphan and the Surrogate Family in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Novel and Film.” College English Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2009.

“Transracial Adoption in Eighteenth-century Transatlantic Novels: Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia Questions National Identities.” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Dartmouth College, Oct. 2007.

“Transracial Adoption in Eighteenth-century Transatlantic Novels: Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia Questions National Identities.” Adoption and Culture Conference, Pittsburgh, Oct. 2007.

“Courtship, Marriage, and Family (Re)Configurations in Charlotte Lennox’s Euphemia: The American Revolution as Absent Presence.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Montreal, March 2006.

Chair, “Landscapes through Women’s Eyes.” ASECS Conference, Montreal, March 2006.
Teaching
Undergraduate:

English 300W-01 Critical Issues in Literary Studies (Spring 2005)

English 305-01 Gothic Novels (Spring 2005)

English 434W Approaches to Literature: Poetry, Drama, Fiction (Summer 05)

English 217W-01 Survey of British Literature I (Fall 2005)

English 305-01 Literature of Crime and Detection (Fall 2005)

English 416W-01 Austen and Film (Spring 06)

Core 102C-02 Imaginative Literature and Critical Writing (Orbis Learning Community) (Spring 06)

English 434W Approaches to Literature: Poetry, Drama, Fiction (Summer 06)

English 201-01 Introduction to Fiction (Fall 06)

IHP 102-02 Logic and Rhetoric (Fall 06)

English 217W British Literature Survey I (Fall 06)

English 305-01 Literature of Crime and Detection (Spring 07)

English 415W-61 Jane Austen and Film (Summer 07)

English 416W-01 Transatlantic Voyages (Fall 07)

IHP 101-02 Logic and Rhetoric (Fall 07)

English 217W-01 British Literature Survey I (Fall 07)

English 440W-01The Brontes and Film (Spring 08)

English 414W-01 The Family, Sex and Marriage (Summer 08)

English 416W-01 The Family in 18th c. Brit. Fiction (Fall 08)

English 305-01 Novels of Crime and Detection (Spring 09)

English 201-01 Introduction to Fiction (Summer 09)

English 201-01 Introduction to Fiction (Fall 09)

English 450W-01 Gothic Novel (Spring 10)

English 2010-01 Introduction to the Short Story (Spring 10)

English 440W-01 Brontes and Film (Summer 10)

IHP 104-02 Honors Freshman Seminar (Fall 10)
Graduate:

English 568 Approaches to Literature: Poetry, Drama, Fiction (Summer 05)

English 529 18 c. Travel Literature: Gender, Travel, and Imperialism (Fall 2005)

English 568 Approaches to Literature: Poetry, Drama, Fiction (Summer 06)

English 692-61 Seminar in Early Novels (Spring 07)

English 529W-61 Jane Austen and Film (Summer 07)

English 529-01 The Romantic Novel (Spring 08)

English 529-01 The Family, Sex and Marriage (Summer 08)

English 529-01 Transatlantic Narratives (Spring 09)

English 539-01 Brontes and Film (Summer 10)

English 692-01 Scottish Nationalist Literature (Fall 10)
Dissertation Work:

Director for dissertations:

Jessica Jost-Costanzo’s dissertation entitled “Changing Texts: The Development of Scholarly Editing in the Long Eighteenth Century,” completed 09

Mary Ann Tobin’s dissertation entitled “Ignorance and Marital Bliss: Women’s Education in the English Novel, 1796-1895,” completed 2006.

Kathy Pivak’s dissertation entitled “‘A Spot of Misrule in the General Order’: The Mother’s Place in the Novels of Mary Augusta Ward,” completed Nov. 2005.

Bill Hooton, “The British ‘Inquisition’ and the Politics of Unitarianism in Romantic-Era England.”

Of 2 critical editions of Charlotte Lennox’s novels, Sophia and Henrietta, for 18th c. British Fiction (Fall 09)

Of Kristina Straub’s Domestic Affairs, for New Perspectives on the 18th c. (forthcoming Spring 11)
MS reader:

for University of Delaware Press, Novel Properties: Education and the Heiress in 18th c. Fiction (Fall 08)

for Oxford University Press, How to Interpret Literature (2007)
Speaker:

Graduate Student Caucus (roundtable), ASECS Conference, Montreal, March, 2006.

Graduate Director (July 08-present) (Mentoring @85 graduate students)

Chair, 3rd year Review Committee for Jr. Faculty Member (Fall 09)

Mentor, Undergraduate Majors (2005-08)

Mentor, Ph.D. student (2007)

Mentored Students Expanding Course Papers: 2 in 2007;2 in 2010

Undergraduate Committee, Film Studies (Fall 05-Spring 08)

Ph.D. Exam Committee (2005)

Chair, MA Examining Committee (2005-2006)

Chair, Graduate Studies Committee (Fall 08-present)

Chair, PhD Applications Committee (Spring 08-present)

Chair, MA Applications Committee (Spring 11)

Faculty Search Committee for Director of Writing Center (Spring 08)

English/Secondary Education Committee, Graduate Liaison (Fall 08-present)

Reader, Women’s and Gender Studies Graduate Essay Contest, Spring 06
College:

College Promotion and Tenure Committee (Fall 06)

Graduate Council (Fall 08-present)
University:

Duquesne Program Coordinator, Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies

“Jackie Kay Reads The Adoption Papers and Later Poetry” (Fall 08)

“Cheri Register: Thirty Years Later, A Mother’s Perspective on

International Adoption” (Spring 09)

“Barbara KatzRothman, “What Should White Adoptive Parents of

African-American Children Know?” (Spring 11)

University Honors Advisory Committee (Fall 05-present)

“The Internationalized Midwest in the Poetry of John Matthias.” The Salt Companion to John Matthias. Ed. Joe Francis Doerr. London: Salt Publishing. (forthcoming 2010).

“Postmodernism and the Language of Poetry: Feminism’s Experimental ‘work at the language-face’.” The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women’s Poetry. Ed. Jane Dowson. Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming 2010)

“Lyric, Self, and Subjectivity in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry by Women.”A Concise Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry. Eds. Charles Blanton and Nigel Alderman. Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2009. 176-199.

“Modernist Moments, Feminist Mappings.” The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English. Eds. Brian McHale and Randall Stevenson. Edinburgh University Press, July 2006: 23-34.
Journal Article:

“ ‘An Incremental Shaping’: Kathleen Fraser and a Visual Poetics in Discrete Categories Forced Into Coupling.” Contemporary Women’s Writing 4.1, March 2010.

“Introduction: American Women Poets of the Fifties.” Sagetrieb: Poetry and Poetics After Modernism 19.3 (Fall 2006), Special Issue: Women Poets of the Fifties: 3-10.

“ ‘A Right Good Salvo of Barks’: Essays on Marianne Moore, ed. Robin Schulze, Cristanne Miller, and Linda Leavell,” The William Carlos Williams Review (forthcoming Summer 2007; 8 manuscript pages).

“Perception and the Visual Lyric: Wayne Miller’s Only the Senses Sleep and Katherine Peterson’s This One Tree,” Notre Dame Review 25 (Winter/Spring 2007): 203-211.
Encyclopedia Articles:

William Carlos Williams Encyclopedia, eds. Bryce Conrad and Richard Frye. Greenwood

Press, forthcoming. Authored entries: “Marianne Moore” (1500 wds.); “Denise Levertov” (1000 wds.); “Harriet Monroe” (750 wds.); “Mina Loy” (750 wds)

Editorial Advisory Board, HOW(2), 1999-present http://www/departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2

HOW(2) is an on-line journal devoted to women’s innovative writing, composed of critical articles and creative work. Submissions to the journal are refereed, unless solicited for a particular section.
Advisory Board, University of Iowa Series on North American Poetry, edited by Lynn Keller, Alan Golding, and Dee Morris, 2001-present

This series, begun in 2001 and focusing on North American poetry since 1950, publishes critical studies of recent poetry, collections of essays on poetics, biographies of individual poets or groups of poets, as well as correspondence and memoirs.

“Lola Ridge, Social Justice, and Poetic Form.” Twelth Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association. Victoria, British Columbia, November 2010.

“Photojournalism and War in the Documentary Surrealism of Mina Loy and Lee Miller.” Conference for the European Society for the Study of English, Turin, Italy, August 2010.

“Experimental ‘work at the language-face’ in Contemporary British Poetry by Women.” Contemporary Women Writer’s Conference. San Diego, CA, July 2010.

“Caroline Bergvall’s Hybrid Encounters with the Hans Bellmer’s Dolls.” Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, KY, February 2010.

“Mina Loy’s Late War Poems, Social Witness, and the Rise of Photojournalism.” Eleventh Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Montreal, November 2009.

“Loy’s War Poems and the Surrealist Broken Body,” Tenth Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Nashville TN, November 2008.

“The Poetry of Mina Loy and Radical Representation of Poverty.” The Poetics of Conflict and Resolution: The Conference on Christianity and Literature, Mid-east Region, Bridgewater College, October 2008.

“Mina Loy, Fashion, and Visual Surrealism.” American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco CA, May 2008.

“Mina Loy and a Poetics of Urban Documentary.” Ninth Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Long Beach CA, November 2007.

“Reading Language Through the Visual in Kathleen Fraser’s Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston MA, May 2007.

“Arrangement by Rage: Mina Loy’s War Poems.” Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville, KY, February 2007.

“Loy’s Late Poetry and Photographing Atrocities.” The New Modernisms: Eighth Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Tulsa OK, October 2006. (Seminar position paper)

“ ‘pining my ear to his desperation’: Loy’s Lyric Subject in the Post-War Age of Economic (Wo)man.” The New Modernisms: Seventh Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Chicago, November 2005.

1-1 teaching load, Fall 2003 to Spring 2007—Department Chair

2-3 teaching load, Fall 2007 to Spring 2010 (Sabbatical, Spring 2008)

2-1 teaching load, Fall 2010 to Spring 2011, Acting Director of Center for Women’s and Gender Studies

ENGL 695, Twentieth Century Literature & Economics, Spring 2010

ENGL 568, Feminist Theory, Fall 2009 (Cross-listed as WSGS 568)

ENGL 558 Contemporary American Poetry, Fall 2008

ENGL 566 Modernism and the Feminist Context, Fall 2007 (Cross-listed as WGS 566)

ENGL 558 Twentieth-Century American Poetry & Visual Culture, Spring 2006

ENGL 450W, Twentieth-Century British Poetry (senior seminar), Spring 2009

ENGL 453 Modernism, Gender, and Visual Art, Fall 2005

ENGL 400W & 404W Poetry Writing Workshop II & III, Spring 2006, Spring 2009, Fall 2009

ENGL 403W, American Women Poets (cross listed as WSGS 403W), Spring 2007, Fall 2010

ENGL 301W, Poetry Writing Workshop I, Fall 2007, Fall 2008

ENGL 300W Critical Issues in Literary Studies, Spring 2009, Spring 2010

ENGL 220W, Survey of American Literature II, Fall 2006, Fall 2010

ENGL 101W, Multi-Genre Creative Writing, Spring 2010
Dissertation Work:

Director of Dissertations :

Michelle Gaffey, “American Documentary Poetics” (in process)

Justin Kishbaugh, “The Imagist Anthologies” (in process)

Benji Jones, “August Wilson’s Play Cycle and Pittsburgh’s Hill District” (expected defense, Spring 2010)

Ruth Newberry, “Wallace Stegner, Place, and the Western Myth” (expected defense, Spring 2010)

Richard Clark, “War and Women in the Early Fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald,” Summer 2009.

Megan Jewell, “Experimental Poetry and the Use of Scholarly Devices in Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis,” Fall 2006.

Timothy Vincent, “Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority,” Fall 2005

Claire Barbetti (Spring 2010)

John Zedolik (Spring 2010)

Rose McTier (Spring 2009)

Rita Allison, (Spring 2009)

Kristianne Kalata (Spring 2008)

Sean Martin (Spring 2008)

Jenny Bangsund (Spring 2007)

Kara Mollis (Spring 2006)

Amal Abdelrazek (Fall 2005)

Erin Rentschler

Mindy Boffemmyer

Beth Buhot Renquist

Jennifer Jackson

Greg Harold

Justin Jackovic

Sharon George

Kevin French, English, University of Pittsburgh (in process)

Srila Nayak, English, CMU (in process)
Director of MA Thesis:

Courtney Pfahl (Spring 2007)

Iowa University Press, North American Poetry Series, 2008

Iowa University Press, 2006
Reviewing Articles for Journals:

Contemporary Women Writers, Spring 2010; Spring 2009 (2 articles reviewed)

Christianity & Literature, Fall, 2006; Fall 2008; Fall 2010

Contemporary Literature, Spring 2010 (2 articles reviewed); Fall 2009

Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Spring 2010

Mosaic, 2008

Paiduma, 2008

2005-2008: several other article manuscripts for these and other journals

Oxford Brookes University, England (2010)

Wayne State University (2010)

UNC, Charlotte (2010)

Stonehill College (2008)

University of Nevada, Reno (2007)

Colorado State University (2006)

Washington and Lee University (2006; promotion to Full Professor)

Penn State, Altoona (2005)

CUNY (2005)

Department Chair, 2003-2007

Chair, Tenure and Promotion Review for two Faculty Members, 2010, 2009

Chair, Search Committee in Global/Ethnic Literature, 2009-2010

Chair, Search Committee for Writing Center Director, 2006-2007, & 2007-2008

Chair, Search Committee in Fiction Writing, 2005-06

Member, Search Committee in Theater Arts, 2004-2005

Graduate Studies Committee, 2009-2010

Undergraduate Committee, 2007-2009

Creative Readings Committee, 2004-present

Mentor to three Junior Faculty Members, 2005 to present

Mentor, undergraduate majors

Mentor, PhD students
College:

Chair, Promotion Review, for faculty member in JMA Department applying for Full, 2010

Acting Director, Center for Women’s & Gender Studies, 2010-2011

Steering Committee, Center for Women’s & Gender Studies, 2005-present

College Council, Fall 2003-Spring 2007
University:

CTE Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Award Committee, Spring 2010

University Core Curriculum, Theme Areas Committee, 2006-2010

Vera Heinz Scholarship Award Committee, 2000-2010 (recommends awards for overseas study for undergraduate women)

Advisory Board, Duquesne University Press, 2006-2010

University Council for Teacher Education, 2003-2007 (charged with coordinating efforts of departments and schools involved in training primary and secondary teachers)

Teacher Evaluation Committee, 2005

THOMAS P. KINNAHAN

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Ph.D., English, West Virginia University, December 2003
SCHOLARSHIP—Fall 2007 to Fall 2010
Journal Article:

“Charting Progress: Narratives of Western Expansion in F.A. Walker’s Statistical Atlas of the United States.” American Quarterly: Journal of the American Studies Association 60 (2008): 399-423.

“War and the Recovery of Puritan Virtue in Timothy Dwight’s Greenfield Hill (1794).” East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 41^st Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (November 2010)

“Environmental Utopianism and the American Georgic: An Ecocritical Study of Timothy Dwight’s Greenfield Hill.” The Ecology of Utopia Conference: Ecological Concerns and Utopianism in American Literature. University of La Coruna. La Coruna, Spain (September 2010)

“‘Everything looked as I thought it would’: Responses to Niagara Falls in Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes, in 1843.” Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Louisville, Kentucky (November 2008)

“'When hell’s terrific region scream’d anew': The Destruction of the Pequots in Timothy Dwight’s Greenfield Hill." Poetics of Conflict and Reconciliation Conference, organized by the Modern Language Association’s Conference on Christianity and Literature, Mideast Region. Bridgewater College (October 2008)
TEACHING—Fall 2007 to Fall 2010

2-2 teaching load, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008

3-2 teaching load, Fall 2008 to Fall 2010
Graduate Courses:

ENGL 549: American Autobiography, Pre-1900, Spring 2009

ENGL 549: American Literature and Landscape, Spring 2008

ENGL 541: Early American Literature, Fall 2009

ENGL 450W: Ecocriticism and American Literature, Spring 2010

ENGL 450W: Tell About The South: Myth, Memory and History in Literature of the Southern Renaissance, Fall 2008

ENGL 426W: American Autobiography and Cultural Identity, Spring 2009

ENGL 425W: 19^th-Century American Literature and Visual Arts, Fall 2007

ENGL 220W: Survery of American Literature II, Spring 2010

ENGL 219W: Survey of American Literature I, Spring 2008 and Spring 2009

ENGL 204: American Music in Literature and Film, Fall 2007

ENGL 201: Introduction to Fiction, Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2010

ENGL 112: Popular Culture and Literature [McAnulty College Learning Community: Populus], Fall 2008 and Fall 2010

Gina Bessetti: 19^th-century American Literature/Ecocriticism [convener]

Marianne Holohan: 19^th-century American Literature/ Autobiography and the Literary Marketplace [convener]
Doctoral Examination Committees (specialization or field exam only):

Justin Kishbaugh: 19^th and 20^th Century Poetry

Michelle Gaffey: Documentary Poetics
SERVICE—Fall 2007 to Fall 2010
Service to Department:

Undergraduate Committee, 2009-2011

Assessment Subcommittee: Human, Financial, Physical Resources, 2010-2011

Graduate Studies Committee, 2007-2008

M.A. Admissions Subcommittee, Spring 2008

Ph.D. Admissions Subcommittee, Spring 2009

Speakers Series Committee, 2007-2008

STUART M. KURLAND

Associate Professor of English

PhD, English, University of Chicago, 1984
SCHOLARSHIP—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Conference Papers:

“Loyal Service? Political Transgression at Court and on Stage,” Staging Transgression in the Early Modern Period Conference, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland), August 2010

“Heredity and Succession Anxiety: The Case of Macbeth,” Research Seminar on “The Scottish Play,” 2006 Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting
TEACHING—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Graduate Courses:

English 518/618, Late Shakespeare: Romance and Power, Spring 2010

English 519/WSGS 518, Shakespeare and Gender, Spring 2008

English 519: Special Studies: Politics and Renaissance Drama, Fall 2007

English 500, Aims and Methods of Literary Scholarship, Fall 2006
Undergraduate Courses:

English 450W, Senior Seminar: Shakespeare, Fall 2010

English 204, Shakespeare and Film, Fall 2010

English 300W, Critical Issues in Literary Studies, Fall 2009, Fall 2010

English 217W, British Literature Survey I, Spring 2005, Spring 2007, Fall 2009

English 412W, Special Studies: Renaissance Literature and Politics, Spring 2009

English 204, Literature and Politics, Fall 2008

English 302W, Technical and Professional Writing, Fall 2008

English 411W/WSGS 411, Special Studies: Gender and Shakespeare, Spring 2008

English 203, Introduction to Drama, Spring 2008

English 109C, Great Ideas through Time, Fall 2007, Fall 2008, Fall 2009

English 305, Special Studies: Disaster and Literature, Fall 2006

English 411W, Special Studies: Shakespeare in His Time, Fall, 2005

English 302W, Writing for Business and Industry, Fall 2005

William Racicot, “’If We Shadows Have Offended’: Reflections on Attitudes Toward Reform in Late Medieval and Reformation Dream Visions” (Reader), completed Spring 2010

Shayne Confer, “’Falling to a Devilish Exercise’: The Occult and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage” (Reader), completed Fall 2009

Julia R. Davis, [Invocations to the Muse in Renaissance Poetry] (Reader), in progress

Rebecca Cepek, “‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall’: The Changing Nature of the Theatrical Audience in Medieval through Eighteenth-Century Drama” (Reader), in progress
M.A. Expanded Papers (Director):

Whitney Robinson, “Do Clothes Make the ‘Man’? The Intrinsic Androgyny of The Roaring Girl” (completed Fall 2008)

Christopher Assenza, “Prospero's ‘potent art’: Jacobean Absolutism in The Tempest” (completed Spring 2010)


SELECTED SERVICE—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Director, Litterae Learning Community, McAnulty College of Liberal Arts, Fall 2007-Spring 2010

Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta International Honor Society Pi Delta Chapter

McAnulty College Ad Hoc Academic Integrity Committee (Chair), Appointed, Fall 2005

McAnulty College Academic Integrity Committee (Chair), Elected, Fall 2006-present

McAnulty College Promotion and Tenure Committee, Elected, Fall 2008-Fall 2009

Duquesne University Academic Integrity Committee, College Representative, Fall 2005-present

Duquesne University Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Elected, Fall 2010-Spring 2012

English Department, Early Modern Faculty Search Committee (chair), 2009-10

Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society, Fall 2008-present

Community: Mt. Lebanon Volunteer Fire Department, ongoing

“Narrative Multiplicity and the Construction of a Multi-layered Self in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin.” In Margaret Atwood: The Robber Bride, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, edited by Brooks Bouson. New York: Continuum Press, 2010. 88-102.

“Writing Fiction in the Post-9/11 World: McEwan’s Saturday.” In From Solidarity to Schisms: 9/11 and After in Fiction and Film from Outside the U.S. from outside the U.S., edited by Cara Cilano. New York: Rodopi Press, 2009. 25-51.

“Telling History Other-Wise: Grace Nichols’ I Is a Long Memoried Woman.” In Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History: African American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Literature in the Twentieth Century, edited by Marie Drews and Verena Theile. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2009. 212-234.

“Morrison, Toni (1931- ).” Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics: Censorship, Revolution, & Writing, Volume Two. Ed. M. Keith Booker. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. 495-96.

“Foreword” to Amal Talaat Abdelrazek’s Contemporary Arab American Women Writers: Hyphenated Identities and Border Crossings. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2007. ix-xv.

“Gender and Community: Contemporary American Fiction,” Women’s Studies Program Scholarly lecture Series, Villanova University, November 2006.

“Facing 9/11 via Metafiction: Frédéric Beigbeder’s Windows on the World.” Narrative: An International Conference, Cleveland, April 2010.

“The Draw of Narrative in the Face of 9/11: Charles Bernstein’s ‘Some of These Daze’.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, U of Louisville, Feb. 2010.

“An Anti-War Novel for the 21^st Century: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.” Narrative: An International Conference, Birmingham, UK, May 2009.

“Imagining the Other/Terrorist as Human: McEwan’s Gesturing toward the Ethical in Saturday,” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, U of Louisville, Feb. 2009.

“Writing Fiction in the Post-9/11 World: Narrative Borrowings in McEwan’s Saturday,” Narrative: An International Conference, Austin, May 2008.

“Representing the Unrepresentable: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, U of Louisville, Feb. 2008.

“Telling History Other-Wise: Grace Nichols’ I Is a Long Memoried Woman,” Narrative: An International Conference, Washington, D.C., March 2007.

“Hybrid Form in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Crescent,” Narrative: An International Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 2006.

“History via Multiple Narrative Forms: Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms,” Narrative: An International Conference, Louisville, April 2005.

1-1teaching load, Fall 2007 to Fall 2010—Department Chair

2-2 teaching load, Fall 2005 to Spring 2007—Women’s & Gender Studies Program Co-Director
Graduate Courses:

ENGL 558 American Fiction since the 1960s, Fall 2010

ENGL 558 British Literature since the 1960s, Fall 2009

ENGL 695 21^st Century Literature and the Politics of Terror (seminar), Fall 2008

ENGL 568 Feminist Theory, Fall 2007

ENGL 558 History and Contemporary Fiction, Spring 2007

ENGL 568 Feminist Theory, Fall 2005
Undergraduate Courses:

ENGL 400 & 404 Fiction Writing Workshop II & III, Spring 2008, Spring 2010

ENGL 300 Critical Issues in Literary Studies, Fall 2006, Spring 2007

ENGL 430 Contemporary American Fiction, Fall 2006

UCOR 102C Imaginative Literature & Critical Writing (Learning Community), Spring 2006

ENGL 304 Women Writers and the Novel, Spring 2006

ENGL 301 Fiction Writing Workshop I, Fall 2005, Spring 2009
Dissertation Work:

Directing Dissertations:

Erin Rentschler (Dissertation Proposal in Progress)

“Mutable Times and Possible Worlds: Representing September 11^th,” Lee Ann Glowzenski (Dissertation in Progress)

“Environmental Justice Poetics in Contemporary American Women’s Novels,” Mindy Boffemmyer (Dissertation in Progress)

“Redefining Self and Community: Women and the Suburbs in American Fiction and Film from 1990-2001,” Beth Buhot Renquist (Ph.D. expected Spring 2011)

“Post-Colonial Power Houses: The Symbol of the Great House in the Contemporary Post-Colonial Novel,” Julie Kloo (Ph.D. Fall 2009)

“‘The Blessed of the Earth’: Trauma, Transformation, and the Near-Death Experience in Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Novels ,” Jessica Nowacki (Ph.D. Summer 2009)

“Dwelling among Mortals: Disability and Christology in Twentieth-Century American Fiction,” Jenny Bangsund (Ph.D. Spring 2007)

“Heart Matters: Contemporary American Fiction by Women and the Sentimental Tradition,” Kara Mollis (Ph.D. Spring 2006)

“Hyphenated Identities and Border Crossings in Contemporary Literature by Arab American Women,” Amal Abdelrazek (Ph.D. Fall 2005)

Jesse Gipko, Benji Jones, Ruth Newberry (Dissertations in Progress)

Kathy Pivak (Ph.D. Fall 2005), Tim Vincent (Ph.D. Fall 2005).
SERVICE—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Service to the Profession:

Reviewing Books for Presses:

Edited Collection for SUNY Press, Spring 2007

Department Chair, 2007-present

Readings & Visiting Creative Writers Committee, 2005-2010

Mentor to two Junior Faculty Members (2004/2006 to present)

Graduate Studies Committee, Spring 2005-2007

Readings & Visiting Creative Writers Committee, 2007-2010

M.A. Exam Committee, chair, 2005-2007

Search Committee for Writing Center Director, 2007-2008

Search Committee for Americanist, Chair, 2006-2007

Search Committees for Fiction Writer, 2005-06

Chair, Third-Year Review Committee for Junior Faculty Member, 2005, 2006

Mentor, undergraduate majors

College Council, Fall 2007-present

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

Women’s & Gender Studies Program Steering Committee, 2005-present

Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005-2006
University:

McGinley Endowment for the Rice Lecture Committee, 2006-present

Faculty Senate Representative for the College, 2006-2010

College representative to the University Advisory Board, 2005-2007

Member of CIQR (Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research)

University Social Justice Committee

Presidential Scholarship Award Committee, Spring 2006

Emad Mirmotahari, PhD

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Scholarship
Book:
Islam in the Eastern African Novel (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
Conferences:
“The Question of Secularity in the Sub-Saharan African Novel” presented at the Religion and Spirituality in Society Conference in Chicago, Illinois, 15 February 2011.
Courses:

Fall 2010
English 206 “The Immigrant Experience Through Literature”

English 424W “African and Western Novels in Dialogue”

English 559 “Postcolonial Author as Exile”

Member of the University Diversity, Retention, and Graduation Committee

“Hawthorne & Emerson on England & History,” Transatlanticism in American Literature: Emerson, Hawthorne , and Poe. St. Catherine’s College, Oxford University, 13–16 July 2006.

“Early Hawthorne and His Biographers,” Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Conference, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (13 June 2008).
Invited Presentations:

“The Hawthorne We Scarcely Know but Should,” invited paper presented at University of California Los Angeles (7 March 2007).

“Fact and Fiction in Biographies on Hawthorne’s ‘Solitary Years,’” invited paper presented at University of California, Los Angeles (4 November 2008).
Teaching
Fall 2005: On sabbatical leave.

Eng. 305: The Western: Myth & Reality (Spring 06).

Eng. 220: Survey of American Literature 2 (Spring 06, 09).

Eng. 204: Literature of American West (Fall 06).

Core 102: Imaginative Literature & Critical Writing (Fall 06, Spring 2010).

Eng. 219: Survey of American Literature 1 (Fall 06, 07, 09, 2010; Spring 07, 08, 2010).

English 545, American Romanticism & Reform (Spring 07).

English 427 & 549, Hawthorne & Melville (Summer 07).

English 305, Detective Fiction (Fall 07).

English 693, Graduate Seminar in American Realism (Fall 07).

English 426, American Romanticism (Spring 08).

English 556, Faulkner & Other Southern Writers (Spring 08).

English 205, The Western: Text & Film (Fall 08).

English 300, Critical Issues (Fall 08).

Senior Seminar: Transatlantic American Writers (Spring 09).

English 427 & 549: Short Fiction of Hawthorne & James (Summer 09).

English 425: American Realism (Fall 09).

English 546: Graduate course: American Realism & Naturalism (Spring 2010).

English 201: Mystery Fiction (Fall 2010).

English 450: Senior Seminar: Modern American Novel (Fall 2010).

Director: Stephen Wells. completed and defended Spring 2008.

Director: Rosemary McTier completed and defended Spring 2009.

Reader: Mary Ann Tobin, completed and defended Spring 2007.

Reader: Richard Clark, completed and defended Spring 2010.

Director: Jesse Gipko, ongoing.

Served on Editorial Board of ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance (2005–2008).

Served as monitor at 12^th Annual Duquesne University Integrated Honors Society competition (March 2006).

Served as judge of writing competition at English Festival (May 2006).

Served on Search Committee for department’s Americanist position (07).

Served on department’s M.A. Exam Committee (05–06).

Helped with Duquesne University’s Academic Challenge competition (March 06, 07).

Served on English Department’s M.A. application sub-committee (08–09).

Served on English Department’s Graduate Studies Committee (08–2010).

Served as faculty advisor to Alpha Delta Fraternity (08–2010).

JAMES P. PURDY

Assistant Professor, Department of English

Director, University Writing Center

Ph.D. in English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 2006
SCHOLARSHIP—Fall 2005 to Fall 2010
Book Chapters:

Purdy, James P. “Wikipedia Is Good for You!?” Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing. Vol. 1. Ed. Charlie Lowe and Pavel Zemliansky. Fort Collins, CO and West Lafayette, IN: WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, 2010. 205-224. Print/Web.