As we start back this Fall term, the 91社区鈥檚 Department of English is immensely proud to highlight and celebrate our accomplished, award-winning faculty for the Fall 2022 term.
Faculty Publications
Justiss Burry
- Sonnenberg, M., Gubala, C., Burry, J., Griffith, J., Zarlengo, T., & Melon莽on, L. (2022). Implementing a continuous improvement model for assignment evaluation at the technical and professional communication program level. Journal of Technical Writing & Communication.
Herschel Conner
- "Post-Vital Prajnaparamita" co-authored with Richard Doyle, in the Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, Stefan Herbrechter et al. eds., 2022.
- "Dark Side of the Shroom? Erasing Indigenous and Counterculture Wisdoms with Psychedelic Capitalism and the Open Source Alternative: A Manifesto for Psychonauts," with Ne艧e Devenot and Richard Doyle, Anthropology of Consciousness special issue: current debates on sacred plants, August 2022.
- "I Say 鈥淐at鈥�, You Say 鈥淐radle鈥�: Ecstatic Signification and the Kitchen Songs of Avudai Akkal of Sengottai鈥� co-authored with Richard Doyle, in Global Rhetorical Traditions, eds. Tarez Graban and Hui Wu, Parlor Press, September 2022.
- "The Resonance is the Composer" co-authored with Emma Hamilton, Amber Nicol, Chris Burton, Kathleen Olinger, Alyssa Harmon, and Ivan Herenchak-Jones, in Amplifying Soundwriting Pedagogies: Integrating Sound into Rhetoric and Writing,eds. Michael J. Faris, Courtney S. Danforth, and Kyle D. Stedman, WAC Clearinghouse and University Press of Colorado, 2022.
Nicole Discenza
- 鈥淲onders Never Cease in the Old English Boethius.鈥� Textual Identities in Early Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, edited by Jaqueline Fay, Rebecca Stephenson, and Ren茅e Trilling, D. S. Brewer, 2022, pp. 34鈥�51.
Jessica Griffith
- --- and Zarlengo, T.; Melon莽on, L. (2022) A field wide snapshot of student learning outcomes in the technical and professional communication service course. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.
Regina Hewitt
- "Social Comment" in The International Companion to Nineteenth-Century Scottish Literature, edited by Sheila M. Kidd, Caroline McCracken-Flesher, and Kenneth McNeil (Glasgow: Scottish Literature International, 2022), pp. 100-07.
Emily Jones
- 鈥淚ntimate Creations: Margaret Cavendish and the Violent Desires of Fandom.鈥� Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 21.3 (2022).
- Sonnets 1.8, 3.10 (鈥淚n memory of Dr. Lorna M. Breen鈥�), and 5.8 (鈥淎nother upon bread鈥�) in The Sonnet Corona Project. Wachtung Review, September 2022. Special Issue produced by Shannon Garner, Megan McCormick, and Art Zilleruelo.
Lisa Melon莽on
- Melon莽on, Lisa. 鈥淧rogrammatic evaluation through learning experience design.鈥� Council of Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication, D27 October, 2022. Colorado Springs, CO. Workshop.
Nicole Musselman
- Editor of 2022 JourMS (Journal of Mother Studies), published October 2022.
Sharon Pinson
- 鈥淒riving the Skyway Bridge,鈥� The Bangalore Review, August 2022
- 鈥淗耻苍驳别谤,鈥� Thimble Literary Magazine, vol. 5, no. 1, Summer 2022
Lisa Starks
- 鈥淟evinas, Jessica, and Memory in Productions of The Merchant of Venice.鈥� Performing Shakespearean Appropriations: Essays in Honor of Christy Desmet, edited by Darlena Ciraulo, Matthew Kozusko, and Robert Sawyer, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2022, pp. 145 - 162.
- --- and Daniel G. Lauby. "Slings & Arrows (TV Series)." The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Shakespeare, edited by Alexa Alice Joubin, et al. Palgrave, 2022.
Faculty Accomplishments
Krysta Banke
- Completed a doctorate in English and a graduate certificate in health and wellness coaching in May 2022.
- Selected to receive a 2021 Outstanding Graduate Advising Award.
- Had presentation proposal accepted by the College Composition and Communication Conference 2023, titled The Basic Needs of Writers: Using Self-Determination Theory to Identify and Develop Motivation-Aligned Writing Supports in an Honors Thesis Program.
Justiss Burry
- Co-presented research about PTC programmatic student writing: Griffith, J. & Burry, J. (2022, Oct. 28). Engaging students in diversity, equality, and inclusion workplace practices: Opportunities and challenges [Conference panel]. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference: The Opportunities and Challenges of Program Administration, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, United States.
- Accepted to the Rhetoric Society of America鈥檚 Summer Institute held May 22-27, 2023 at Pennsylvania State University. He will be working with Drs. J. Blake Scott and Catherine Gouge to develop graphic medicine (comics) that can contribute to RHM methodologies for sex disclosure practices in queer communities.
Nicole Discenza
- Delivered paper: 鈥淐reation, Recreation, and Prayer in the Old English Boethius and Soliloquies.鈥� 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, Zoom, May, 2022.
Jessica Griffith
- Co-presented research about PTC programmatic student writing: Griffith, J. & Burry, J. (2022, Oct. 28). Engaging students in diversity, equality, and inclusion workplace practices: Opportunities and challenges [Conference panel]. Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication Conference: The Opportunities and Challenges of Program Administration, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, United States.
Julia Koets
- Invited to McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana for their Visiting Writers Series October 21-23, where she read from her creative work, gave a craft talk, and held individual conferences with graduate students.
Lisa Melon莽on
- 2022 Recipient of the Association for Business Communication鈥檚 Kitty O. Locker Outstanding Research Award Winner.
- Participated as a visiting scholar at University of North Carolina at Wilmington, September 2022.
- Graber, Cynthia and Twilley, Nicole. Prescription Dinner: Can meals be medicine, Gastropod, Season 17, Vox Media Podcast Network, October 25, 2022, .
Nicole Musselman
- Presented & moderated at SAMLA for 鈥淭he 鈥淟ost鈥� Lost Generation鈥� panel.
Robin Rogers
- Presented: 鈥淕uided Pathways: A Faculty Perspective,鈥� Association of 91社区 Colleges Annual Meeting & Conference, 16 Nov. 2022, BlueGreen Bayside Resort, Panama City Beach, FL. Conference Presentation.
- Presented: 鈥淩oots of Dystopian Literature and Social Theory,鈥� 91社区 College English Association, 13 Oct. 2022, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Orlando at SeaWorld, FL. Conference Presentation.
Lisa Starks
- Presented 鈥淜abbalah, Dybbuks, and the Religious Posthuman in the Shakespearean Worlds of Twin Peaks.鈥� The Shakespearean Theatre Conference. Stratford, Ontario, June 15 鈥� 18, 2022.
- Presented 鈥淏etween Two Worlds: The Dybbuk, Shakespeare鈥檚 Romeo and Juliet, and Reparative Tragedy.鈥� Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. Akron, Ohio, October, October 27 鈥� 28, 2022.
- Chaired on session: 鈥淎dapting Shakespeare for Contemporary Culture.鈥� Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference. Akron, Ohio, October, October 27 鈥� 28, 2022.
- Chaired on session: Alexa Alice Joubin, Keynote Address. The Shakespearean Theatre Conference. Stratford, Ontario, June 15 鈥� 18.