Summary of WFU Faculty Information Forms
English Department
2005-2006
I. Publications, Performances, Exhibits
III. Editorships, Offices, and Consultancies
IV. External Grants Received
I. Publications, Performances, Exhibits
Balzano, Wanda
“Una
Troy and Siobhan Piercy.” Women Emerging: A Decade of Irish Feminist Scholarship. Ed. Rebecca Pelan and Alan Hayes.
(With Jefferson Holdridge)
English translation of Eugenio Montale’s “La Madre di Bobi.” Poetry
Review: Linda Connolly, The Irish Women’s Movement: From Revolution
to Devolution.
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Boyle, Anne
Review: “Sensibility to Nature in
Richard Wright’s Haiku.” Mississippi
Quarterly
Review: “Suffering a Sea
Change: Marilyn French’s the Woman’s Room and the Quest for a
Modernist Female Identity.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of
Literature
Entry on Caroline Gordon for Southern Literary Biography
Bussey, Susan
“whose will be done.” African American Review (Fall 2005).
Catanoso, Justin
“A Saint in Our Family.” The Catholic Digest (November 2005).
“A Saint in the Family.” Abassador, quarterly magazine of the National Italian American Foundation (Spring 2006).
“Follow the Gondoliers.” US Airways Magazine (May 2006).
“The Napoleonic Code.” Delta Sky Magazine (May 2006).
DeShazer, Mary K.
Fractured Borders: Reading Women’s Cancer Literature.
“’Lifting Each Other Off Our Knees’: South African Women’s Poetry of Resistance,
1980-1989.” Cold War Literature: Writing
the Global Conflict, ed. Andrew Hammond.
Franco,
Dean
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Beloved.” Modern Fiction Studies 52.2, 2006.
Review: “Turning Up the Flame.” MELUS, 2006.
Groarke, Vona
Juniper Street. Gallery Press, March 2006.
Poems included in Modern Women Poets Anthology.
Featured Poet: Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 28. 2 (Fall 2005).
Featured Poet: Poetry Daily website: ‘Re-gifting’ and ‘Parnell’, 17 December 2005.
“Cubs.” Scéalta – Stories by Irish Women Writers.
Review: Derek Mahon’s Harbour Lights. Irish Times, 6 January 2006.
Featured Poet: Poetry Daily website: ‘The Game of Tennis in Irish History’, 2 February 2006.
“Quoits.” Times Literary Supplement, 25 March 2006.
Short Introductory
essay to Chidiock Tichborn’s
‘Elegy’, Poetry Daily Website, 4
April 2006.
“Ghosts.” Guardian newspaper,
“The Return.” A Public Space Literary Magazine Issue 2 (June 2006).
“American Dreamers
- King Kong and Irish Genealogy.”
No 23 (Summer 2006).
March 2006: Poetry
February 2006: Poetry
August 2005: Poetry Workshop
Director. Poetry
Hecht,
Paul
“Spenser out of His Stanza.” Style 39.3 (2005): 316-35
Review: Roger Apfelbaum, Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare Bulletin (2005)
Review: Derek Attridge, The Singularity of Literature. Shakespeare Bulletin (2006)
Holdridge, Jefferson
Edited
and introduced The WFU Series of Irish
Poetry: Volume 1, 2005.
“Reclaiming
the Wilderness: Nature and Perception in Caitríona O’Reilly.” Etudes
Irlandais (May 2006).
“Unspeakable
Home: the Postcolonial Aesthetics of Irish Poetry from Beckett to McGuckian.” Back to the Future-Forward to the Past. Eds. Patricia Lynch
and Joachim Fischer,
Review:
“Well Dreams: Essays on John Montague, Edited by Thomas Dillon Redshaw,
“Cratylus’ Finger.” Mindfire (April 2006).
“Lore.” Arabesques:
Cultures and Reviews Vol. 02, Issue 01 (Winter 2006).
“Apocrypha.” LiNQ (Literature in
“String
Theory,” “By the
“Return.”
The New Formalist Volume V,
Number 2 (2005).
Kairoff,
Claudia
“Living on the Margin: Alexander Pope and the Rural Ideal” Studies in the Literary Imagination 38. 1 (Spring 2005): 15-38.
47 article reviews to The Scriblerian, XXXVII, 2, and XXXVIII, 1, (Spring and Autumn, 2005).
Kuberski, Philip F.
Foreword to Adi
Da, The Mummery Book.
Martin,
John
"Anne
Bradstreet," "Sarah Helen Whitman," "Frances Sargent Osgood," and "Elizabeth Oakes
Smith," The
"Invocation," and "No Safe Words." disClosure: a journal of social theory 14 (2005).
McNally,
John
“Creature Features.” Virginia Quarterly Review (Winter 2006): 132-148.
“Creature
Features.” Before: Short Stories About
Pregnancy From Our Top Writers. Eds. Heather Swain and Emily Franklin.
“The New Year.” Behind the Short Story: From First Draft to Final Draft, by Todd
James Pierce and Ryan Van Cleave.
“The First of Your Last Chances.” Sex and
Chocolate. Eds. Richard Peabody and Linda Ebersole.
“A review of The
Reasons I Won’t Be Coming by Elliot Perlman.”
“I Want a New Drug: a review of Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel.”
“A Rush to Nowhere in Particular: a review of The Washington Story by Adam
Langer.”
April 2006: Fiction
September 2005: Fiction
September 2005:
Fiction
Moss, Bill
"Not ‘an
American first--he could be an artist first': Faulkner, the Individual Artist Versus
the Public Man.” William Faulkner Society Archives, American Literature Association
William Faulkner Society sessions 2005.
Niepold, Mary
Assisted in writing and research: Nurture Nature, Nurture Health, by Mitchell L. Gaynor, M.D. October 2005
O’Callaghan, Conor
Fiction, a collection of original poems.
“The Yew by Beech.”Poetry
“Enthusiasms – John Masefield.” Poetry (March 2006)
Review: “Derek Mahon’s Harbour Lights.” Poetry
Essay: “The Modern Pastoral Elegy.” Poetry – Humor Issue (July/August 2005)
“The Narrator.” Harper’s (July 2005)
17 June 2006: Poetry
February 2006: Poetry
17 November 2005: Poetry
August 2005: Poetry
Overing, Gillian
(with Clare
Lees) “Anglo-Saxon Horizons: Place of the Mind in the Northumbrian Landscape.”
“Swords and Signs: Dynamic Semeiosis in Beowulf.”
ThePostmodern Beowulf: A Critical Casebook, ed
Eileen Joy, Mary Ramsey with Bruce Gilchrist (West Virginia University Press,
2006) Reprint of Chapter Two of Language, Sign and Gender in Beowulf
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1990).
Powell,
Kersti
“The
Lighted Windows: Place in John Banville’s Fiction.”
“‘Not a son but a survivor’: Beckett… Joyce… Banville.” Yearbook of English Studies “Irish Writing since 1950” Vol. 35 (2005): 199-211.
“Maud Ellman’s Elizabeth Bowen: The Shadow Across the Page.” Irish Studies Review. 14: 2 (2006). “The Unbearable Alterity of the Other(s): Elke D’hoker’s Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville.” European Journal of English Studies. April 2006. Rapaport, Herman
“Restoration
Politics.”
“Spectres of Benjamin.” Textual Practice 19.4 (2005): 415-443.
“Dare to
Dream.” The Guardia.
Oct. 26, 2005.
“The
Death of Poignancy.”
Parallax 10.3 (2004): 99-112.
“Fractile Theory.” Clio
34.3 (2004): 64-80.
2 November 2005: “Hypothetical Universities,” Conference and
web-collaboration between University of Southampton, Ball State University,
University of Iowa, and Free University of Copenhagen.
July 2006:
Lecture, “Countersexuality in Proust”
December 2005:
Lecture, “Gothic Remains in Japanese Constructions of Sexuality,”
November 2005:
Lecture, “Art in the 60s,”
November 2005:
Lecture, “Art in the 60s,”
January 2005:
Keynote Lecture, European Forum for Philosophy, “Specters of Benjamin.”
August 2004:
Keynote Lecture, Future of Comp. Lit.;
2004: Lecture,
“Partly Writing, Partly Something Else,” Party Writing Conference, University
February 2004:
Lecture, “Lacan’s Anxiety Seminar,”
Wilson,
Eric
“Moviegoing and Golem-Making: The Case of Blade Runner.” Journal of Film and Video Vol. 57, No. 3 (Fall 2005).
“Hermetic Melancholia and the Suffering of Androids.” Esoterica: The Journal
Vol. 8 (Spring 2006).
“Shelley and the
Poetics of Glaciers.” The
II. Papers
and Presentations Presented at Professional Meetings
Balzano, Wanda
Paper: “Maeve Brennan
and ‘The Barrel of Rumours.’” 2005 International
Meeting of IASIL
(International
Association for the Study of Irish Literature), “
Paper: “Before the
Great Hunger: Sidney Owenson’s novels.” An Gorta Mór:
Great Hunger—Representation and
Preservation.
16-17 September 2005.
Co-organized with Lynn Book a panel of faculty and students on “Voice and Its Bodies.”
“Creative Action—Gender and the Arts” Conference. UNCG, 31 March 2006.
Paper: “Philomela and Echo Metamorphosed.” “Creative Action-Gender and the Arts”
Conference.
Paper: “Maeve Brennan's Transnational Identity and the Aesthetics of the Gift." Conference
on “Transnational Feminisms.”
Paper: “Lady Morgan and the Abject in the Great 'O' Novel. " National ACIS (American
Conferencefor the study of Irish Literature).
Carr, Bonnie
Secretary of Permanent Session: “American Literature I:
Literature to 1870.”
Presentation: “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Reading Emerson’s
Essays.” NEH, Summer Seminar,
DeShazer, Mary K.
Paper: “Virginia Woolf, Rapture, and
Contemporary Women’s Cancer Fiction.” Modernist Studies Association Annual
Conference,
Franco,
Dean
Paper: “American Jewish Frontier
Literature and the New Pluralism.” American Culture Association Conference,
Hecht,
Paul
Paper: “Idioms of Hamlet.” Shakespeare
Association of America annual meeting,
Paper: “To Build a Stanza: Spenser’s
Poetic Development from The Shepheardes Calender to The Faerie Queene.”
41st International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Paper: “The Taste of Rosalind: Poetic
Evaluation in The Shepheardes Calender and As
You Like It.” “Spenser’s Civilizations,” Fourth
International Spenser Society Conference,
Holdridge, Jefferson
Paper:
“Lady Morgan’s Allegories of Union.” National ACIS,
Paper: “Landscape, Nature, and Original
Sin in William Carleton’s ‘Wildgoose Lodge’ and The
Black Prophet.”” Southern ACIS,
Paper:
“Great Hunger, Unspeakable Home: Landscape, Nature and Original Sin.” Annual Conference
on the Irish Famine,
Paper:
“Nature and Landscape in the Myth of Oisin.” IASIL
(International Association for the Study of Irish Literature) Conference,
Kairoff, Claudia
Panel participant: “’Thrice able Critics, and fellow-labourers’: Reviewing Eighteenth-Century Scholarship” Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Athens, Georgia, 2-4 March 2006.
Panel participant: “Mentoring.”
Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies,
Klein,
Scott
Organizer, Chair, and Panel participant: “Joyce, Culture, Adaptation.”
International
James Joyce Symposium,
Paper: “The Husband’s Dilemma: Adaptation and Joycean Marriage.”
International
James Joyce Symposium,
Kuberski, Philip F.
Public Lecture: “The
Anxious Image: Photography and Poetry in the 1960’s.”
Paper: “Eucalypse and Apocalypse: Prophetic Semiology
of the
Martin, John
Paper: “A German Fear, This Fear: Alfred Hitchcock’s Gothic Confessional.” “Image of Power” Conference, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado Springs, CO, March 2006.
McNally,
John
Chair and Panel Participant: “Grow Up!:
Writing from the Adolescent’s Point-of-View.” Associated Writing Program Annual
Conference,
Paper: “Two Workshops: ‘The Third Element in Fiction’ and
‘Point-of-view.’”
Paper: “Humor in Writing.”
Moss, Bill
Paper: "Nodding Over Emerson: Kate Chopin and
the Relevance of Emersonian Transcendentalism in a
Post-Romantic Age." Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Session: Emerson and Later
19th-Century Writers, American Literature Association 17th
Annual Conference,
Overing,
Gillian
Presentation: “Beowulf and Translation.” Medieval Seminar, King’s
College,
Panel Chair: Judith. “Anglo-Saxon Futures” Conference,
Sligh, Charles
Paper: “‘But it matters deeply’:
Lawrence Durrell’s Alexandria Quartet and the Ambience of Exile.” 34th
Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference,
Paper: “‘Making Ready for Death’:
Walter Pater and Posthumous Moment of ‘Dante Gabriel Rossetti.’” Midwest
Victorian Studies Association Conference,
Paper: “‘Winter Variants’: Durrell’'s Quarry Books and Typescripts for Justine at
the British Library.” On Miracle Ground XIV: The International
Presentation: “Nostalgia in Early
and Late Bertolucci.” Mountain Interstate Foreign
Language Conference (MIFLC),
Wilson,
Eric
Paper: “Thoreau’s Ironic
Optics.” The Annual Gathering of the
Thoreau Society,
Paper: “Thoreau’s Analogical
Science.” The Annual Gathering of the
Thoreau Society,
Annual Back to the Classroom Alumnae Lecture: “Poetry,
Ecology, and Some New Ways of Looking at Ice.”
III. Editorships,
Offices, and Consultancies
Balzano, Wanda
Edited (with Dr. Moynagh
Sullivan) The Irish Review 35—Special Issue on Irish Feminisms (Spring
2006), National
International editorial
advisory board, Virtually Ireland, an e-journal of Irish Studies,
2005-present.
Boyle, Anne
Co-Editor, IMEJ:
Interactive Multimedia Journal of Computer-Enhanced Learning through
spring 2006.
External Reviewer, English
Department,
Ettin, Andrew V.
Chair, Ohalah Rabbinic Conference Scholarship Committee
Franco, Dean
Guest Editor, Philip Roth Studies (special issue “Philip Roth and Race”)
Kairoff, Claudia
Co-Editor, The Scriblerian
Advisory Editor, New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century
McGohey, Tom
Member of Editorial Board of
Contributors, The Business Journal
McNally,
John
Contributing Editor,
Niepold, Mary
Member, The Author’s Guild
Overing, Gillian
Consultant and
Co-organizer, “Anglo-Saxon Futures” Conference.
Richard,
Jessica
Referree, Articles submitted to Eighteenth-Century Studies and European Romantic Review
Sigal, Gale
Review Board Member, New Chaucer Society
Chair, Executive Committee, MLA section on Middle English, excluding Chaucer
Sligh, Charles
Senior Researcher, The Complete Writings and Pictures of Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Hypermedia Research Archive
Associate Editor, AGORA: Online Graduate Humanities Journal
Member, Executive Committee, The International
Associate Editor, Innovate
Wilson,
Eric
Referee,
Balzano, Wanda
$ 800 “Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship for resident research in its rare
books and manuscript collection.” Lilly Library at
University
Groarke, Vona
$ 1,200 “Dillon
Johnston Writers Reading Series.”
Holdridge, Jefferson
$ 8,000 “
O’Callaghan, Conor
$1,200 “Dillon
Johnston Writers Reading Series (Mullen).”
$400 plus “Dillon
Johnston Writers Reading Series (Armitage).”
refreshments Brown Ale
Valbuena, Olga
$3,400 “Inquisitions
and Persecutions in Early Modern
V. Awards
for Distinguished Teaching, Research, or Professional Activities
Balzano, Wanda
Selected by the Golden Key Honor Society for the Faculty Appreciation Dinner, Spring 2006.
Recipient of the Student Government Certificate of
Appreciation “in recognition of valuable contributions to the students of
Bussey, Susan
Student-sponsored “outstanding” professor award from campus organizations, including Greek council, Golden Key, Kappa Kappa Gamma, and Alpha Pi.
Holdridge, Jefferson
“McCulloch
Family Fellow,”
McGohey, Tom
“2006 Advising Award,” presented at First Year Student Convocation.
Nominated for 2006 Pushcart Prize for essay “Friday Night Fights with Mom,” published in Fourth Genre, Spring 2005.
McNally,
John
“Young Alumni Achievement Award,”
“Outstanding Alumni Award,” Southern
“Ollen R. Nalley
Associate Professor of English,”
O’Callaghan, Conor
Fiction was shortlisted for The Irish Times/Poetry Now Prize, January 2006.
Sligh, Charles
“Archie Award,” for Rossetti Research.
Wilson, Eric
“Thomas H.
Pritchard Professor of English,”