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 2010
Review of Inception, directed by Christopher Nolan, Douglas Keesey
Split identification: Representations of Rape in Gaspar Noé’s Irréversible and Catherine Breillat’s A masoeur!/Fat Girl, Douglas Keesey
Book review: Adam N. McKeown. Soldier Poets in the Age of Shakespeare, Steven Marx
Understanding Genre through the Lens of Advocacy: The Rhetorical Work of the Victim Impact Statement, Amy D. Propen and Mary Lay Schuster
Degrees of Emotion: Judicial Responses to Victim Impact Statements, Mary Lay Schuster and Amy Propen
Submissions from 2009
The BUSTin' and Bitchin' Ethe of Third-Wave Zines, Brenda M. Helmbrecht and Meredith A. Love
Psychoanalysis of a Sequel: The Disinterment of Pet Sematary Two, Douglas Keesey
Submissions from 2008
Stable Identity: Horses, Inversion Theory, and The Well of Loneliness, Mary A. Armstrong
Making Academic Work Advocacy Work: Technologies of Power in the Public Arena, Amy Propen and Mary Lay Schuster
Submissions from 2007
The making of ‘American’: race and nation in neurasthenic discourse, Brad Campbell
Giving Grades, Taking Tolls: Assessing the Impact of Evaluation on Developing Writers, Brenda Helmbrecht
Graduate Students Hearing Voices: (Mis)Recognition and (Re)Definition of the jWPA Identity, Brenda M. Helmbrecht and Connie Kendall
Teaching the Conflicts: (Re)Engaging Students with Feminism in a Postfeminist World, Meredith A. Love and Brenda M. Helmbrecht
Visual Communication and the Map: How Maps as Visual Objects Convey Meaning in Specific Contexts, Amy Propen
Rewriting the Passing Novel: Danzy Senna's Caucasia, Kathryn Rummell
"Try what repentance can": Hamlet, Confession, and the Extraction of Interiority, Paul Dustin Stegner
Of þam him aweaxeð wynsum gefea”: The Voyeuristic Appeal of Christ III, Paul Dustin Stegner and Timothy D. Arner
Submissions from 2006
Review of Break, Blow, Burn, Kevin Clark
From Caricature to Character: The Intellectually Disabled in Dickens's Novels (Part 1), Paul Marchbanks
From Caricature to Character: The Intellectually Disabled in Dickens's Novels (Part 2), Paul Marchbanks
From Caricature to Character: The Intellectually Disabled in Dickens's Novels (Part 3), Paul Marchbanks
Jane Air: The Heroine as Caged Bird in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca, Paul Marchbanks
Critical GPS: Toward a New Politics of Location, Amy D. Propen
A Reconciled Maid: A Lover's Complaint and Confessional Practices in Early Modern England, Paul Dustin Stegner