English Department faculty research contributes to fostering a respect for difference within curriculum, scholarship, and community. Research inquiry includes topics in literature, creative writing, composition and rhetoric, technical and professional communication, linguistics, film, English education, and theory and criticism.
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Submissions from 2019
Revisiting Missions: Decolonizing Public Memories in California, Brenda M. Helmbrecht
The Spectrum of Service: Refocusing Academic Work through a Military Lens, Brenda M. Helmbrecht and Dan Reno
Submissions from 2017
Review of Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, Douglas Keesey
Shakespeare reading Paul: Heavenly fraud in The Winter's Tale, Steven Marx
Submissions from 2014
Essay Review of David G. Schuster, Neurasthenic Nation (Routeledge), J. Bradford Campbell
Submissions from 2013
Forming University and Teacher Partnerships in an Effort to Reframe and Rethink Mentoring Programs, Megan Guise
Looking Outside the Image: Trusting a "Few Bad Apples" in Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure (2008), Brenda Helmbrecht
Beatnik Buddhism in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums, Steven Marx
Genes in Genesis: Evolutionary Psychology and the Bible as Literature, Steven Marx
Submissions from 2012
Exploring the Significance of Social Class Identity Performance in the English Classroom: A Case Study Analysis of a Literature Circle Discussion, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, and DeAnn Long Sloan
Submissions from 2011
Review of Mikko Tuhkanen, The American Optic: Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory, and Richard Wright, J. Bradford Campbell
Problematizing Literature Circles as Forums for Discussion of Multicultural and Political Texts, Amanda Haertling Thein, Megan Guise, and DeAnn Long Sloan
Black Magic and White Guilt: Voodoo in Angel Heart, Douglas Keesey
Intertwinings of Death and Desire in Michele Soavi’s Dellamorte Dellamore, Douglas Keesey
Review of Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorsese, Douglas Keesey
Review of Super 8, directed by J.J. Abrams, Douglas Keesey
Review of The Killer Inside Me, directed by Michael Winterbottom, Douglas Keesey
The Poetics of James Dickey: The Early Motion, Douglas Keesey
“Foryet it thou,and so wol I”: Absolving Memory in Confessio Amantis, Paul D. Stegner
Submissions from 2010
The Schizophrenic Solution: Dialectics of Neurosis and Anti-psychiatric Animus in Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, J. Bradford Campbell
Neither a Wife nor a Whore: Deconstructing Feminine Icons in Catherine Breillat's Une vieille maîtresse, Douglas Keesey