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 2005
6 Miles Up, Kevin Clark
Poetic Modernism and the Oceanic Divide: Review on New British Poetry, Kevin Clark
Regs, Kevin Clark
Review of Mary E. Hocks and Michelle R. Kendrick, Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media, Laura J. Gurak and Amy Propen
A Phantom Fly and Frightening Fish: The Unconscious Speaks in Sports Night, Douglas Keesey
Submissions from 2004
Cast-Mistresses: The Widow Figure in Oroonoko, Kristina Bross and Kathryn Rummell
The Grapes, Kevin Clark
The New Naturalism and the New Nature Poet: Ralph Black’s Lyric of Doubt, Kevin Clark
The Vigil of Astonishment, Kevin Clark
A Mediatic Pedagogy: Rhetoricizing Images Within Composition Curriculum, Brenda M. Helmbrecht
Submissions from 2003
Review of Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in Daily Life by Penny Gurstein, Mary A. Armstrong
Review of Susan Wells, Out of the Dead House: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Writing of Medicine, Amy Propen and Mary M. Lay
Submissions from 2002
"Your Legs Must Be Singing Grand Opera": Masculinity, Masochism, and Stephen King's Misery, Douglas Keesey
Cal Poly Land: A Field Guide, Steven Marx
Toni Morrison's Beloved: Transforming the African Heroic Epic, Kathryn Rummell
Submissions from 2001
Highball, Princeton Station, Kevin Clark
Platter, Kevin Clark
They Kill for Love: Defining the Erotic Thriller as a Film Genre, Douglas Keesey
Greenaway's Books, Steven Marx
Submissions from 2000
Our Children Playing Catch in the Evening of No Warning, Kevin Clark
Appraising The Whole Motion: Dickey's Place in Literary History, Douglas Keesey
Book Review: Joanne M. Braxton. Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. 162p., Kathryn Rummell
Submissions from 1998
The Assignment, Kevin Clark
Patriarchal Mediations of Carrie: The Book, the Movie, and the Musical, Douglas Keesey
Weir(d) Australia: Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave, Douglas Keesey