Recent Faculty Publications and Awards

2008-09 Academic Year

Nicola Mason’s story “Soul Music” has been selected to appear in the upcoming anthology Online Writing: The Best of the First Ten Years, to be published in traditional book form by Snowvigate Press in 2009.  Congratulations, Nicola!

Our own Jennifer Glaser has just had her essay, “The Jew in the Canon:  Reading Race and Literary History in Philip Roth’s The Human Stain,” published in the October 2008 issue of PMLA.  Way to go, Jennifer!

Our own Kathy Rentz has just won the Outstanding Teaching Award given annually by the Association of Business Communication, her national professional organization.  Congratulations to Kathy!

2007-08 Academic Year

English department faculty published a total of 12 books during the 2007-08 academic year:

• Birmingham, 35 Miles, by James Braziel, Bantam Books, 2008. 

• Diaspora:  An Introduction, by Jana Braziel, Blackwell, 2007.

• Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora, by Jana Braziel, Indiana University Press, 2007.

• An Arsonists’ Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England, by Brock Clarke, Algonquin Books, 2007.

• The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers, Volume Two:  20th Century, edited by Lisa Hogeland and Shay Brawn, Aunt Lute Press, 2007.

• Pink Triangles and Rainbow Dreams:  Essays about Being Gay in the Real World, by John Maddux, Boson Books, 2007.

• Doing Emotion:  Rhetoric, Writing, Teaching, by Laura Micciche, Boynton/Cook, 2007. 

• A Historical Guide to James Fenimore Cooper, edited by Lee Person, Oxford  University Press, 2007.

• The Cambridge Introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne, by Lee Person, Cambridge University Press, 2007.

• Business Communication:  Making Connections in a Digital World, 11th Edition, by Raymond Lesikar, Marie Flatley, and Kathryn Rentz, McGraw-Hill, 2008. 

• Updike in Cincinnati:  A Literary Performance, edited by James Schiff, Ohio University Press, 2007.

• Weather Reports from the Autism Front:  A Father’s Memoir of His Autistic Son, by James Wilson, McFarland, 2008. 

In addition to the abovementioned books, 28 different faculty members published 26 articles, essays, and book chapters.  Authors include Lisa Beckelhimer; Bill Zipfel, Lisa Beckelhimer, Ron Hundemer, and Judy Sharp; Jana Braziel; John Bryan (2); John Drury; Russel Durst (3); Michael Griffith (2); Tamar Heller; Bill Lasher; Joanie Mackowski; Lisa Meloncon; Kathy Rentz; Jim Schiff (4); Jay Twomey; Jim Wilson (2); and Elissa Sonnenberg (2).   Faculty also published 38 book reviews and 30 poems and gave a total of 90 conference presentations, invited talks, and readings. 

English department faculty also won numerous awards of various kinds, including:

• The Witter/Brynner Poetry Translation Fellowship, Santa Fe residency, Don Bogen.

• A National Endowment for the Arts Award, Brock Clarke.

• An American Library Association Book of the Year Award, Brock Clarke

• New York Times Editor’s Choice, Brock Clarke

• The Emily Dickinson Poetry Prize, Joanie Mackowski.

• The Society for Professional Journalists Award, Jon Hughes (photography), Jenny Wohlfarth (feature writing).

• George Rieveschl Award for Creative Work, John Drury

• The Taft Research Center Fellowship, Stan Corkin, John Drury, Michael Griffith.

• The Taft Summer Research Fellowship, Julia Carlson, Joanie Mackowski, Lisa Meloncon, Leah Stewart, and Barbara Wenner.

• University Research Council Summer Fellowship, Gary Weissman.

• Faculty Development Grants, Lora Arduser, Jana Braziel, Julia Carlson, Norma Jenckes, Lisa Meloncon, Judy Sharp, Elissa Sonnenberg, Gary Weissman, Barbara Wenner, Jenny Wohlfarth, Bill Zipfel.

In addition, 17 faculty members served as editors or editorial board members, including: Don Bogen, Jana Braziel, John Bryan, Brock Clarke, Sharon Dean, John Drury, Russel Durst, Michael Griffith, Tamar Heller, Lisa Hogeland, Norma Jenckes, Deb Meem, Laura Micciche, Lee Person, Jim Schiff, Lucy Schultz, and Jim Wilson.