Awards, Publications & Presentations
Awards
Internships
Publications
Presentations
Awards
Aldrich, Tate. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Bain, Gracie. Ph.D. program, Bridge Fellowship, Gender Studies Program, University of Arkansas (for research support)
Bain, Gracie. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Bliss, Collette. M.A. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Byrd, Janette. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Carabio, Mitchell. M.A. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Cash, Olivia. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Cole, Bethany. Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Comer, Aura. M.A. program, John Idol Graduate Student Award (to support and reward research by graduate students), English Department, University of Arkansas
Farris, David. Ph.D. program, accepted to the PCA Summer Research Institute at Bowling Green State University
Farris, David. Ph.D. program, Duncan Eaves Memorial Scholarship (for a student who is interested in American, Southern, or early literature), English Department, University of Arkansas
Greenhill, Jesse. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Hendry, Scott. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Houston, Tyler. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
LaCrue, Michel. Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Lynch, Olivia. M.A. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Meeks, Samantha. Ph.D. program, Rising Star Award, Arkansas Council for Women in Higher Education (Samantha was also recently hired in Spring of 2023 as Coordinator of Graduate Recruitment at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, AR.)
Menase, Michael. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Oliver, Skye. Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Award in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Oliver, Skye. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Plavcan, John. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Ross, Abigail. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Sharpe, Lydia. M.A. program, John Idol Graduate Student Award (to support and reward research by graduate students), English Department, University of Arkansas
Townsend, Zoë. Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Webb, Russell. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Weeks, Taylor. Ph.D. program, John Idol Graduate Student Award (to support and reward research by graduate students), English Department, University of Arkansas
Internships
Akers, Morgan. Internship with the Fulbright College Communications Team, Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, University of Arkansas.
Aschliman, Shelley. Internship with the Marshallese Educational Initiative (MEI), Springdale, AR.
Kasem, Forhad. Internship with the Writing Studio, Student Success Center, University of Arkansas.
Mercer, Anna. Internship with the Business Communication Lab, Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas.
Uddin, Mohi. Internship with the Writing Studio, Student Success Center, University of Arkansas.
Publications
Bain, Gracie. “Jill the Ripper: Adapting Gender in Jack the Ripper Narratives.” South Atlantic Review. Forthcoming, Winter 2023.
Blair, Dana, with Bradley Kilmer and Anne Raines. “Integrating Writing Throughout the Curriculum in Doctor of Nursing Practice program: A Collaborative Model for Success.” The Journal of Nursing Education, vol. 62, no. 4, June 2023, pp. 241-248. https://doi.org/10.3928/01484834-20230208-06
Rikard, Nicole R. “Speculative Possibilities: Indigenous Futurity, Horror Fiction, and The Only Good Indians.” Transmotion, vol. 8, no. 2, 2023.
Presentations
Aldrich, Tate. “Henry David Thoreau and the Wildness Within: Moving from the Performative to the Reformative.” American Literature Association Symposium. Santa Fe, NM. 26-28 Oct. 2023.
Allee, Jessica. “Creating More Inclusive College Classrooms: A Lesson in Empathy.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
Bain, Gracie. Bridge Fellow Participant in Gender Studies Spring Roundtable, University of Arkansas, 7 April 2023.
Bain, Gracie. “Adapting the Academy: My Podcast Dissertation.” Literature Film Quarterly/Association of Adaptation Studies Conference. Virtual. 16-17 Feb. 2023.
Blair, Dana, with Bradley Kilmer and Anne Raines. Poster Presentation. “Integrating Writing Across the Curriculum Strategies in DNP Programs: A Collaborative Model Approach to Enhance Writing Comprehension and Understanding in the CBE Era.” National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Conference. Orlando, FL. 26-30 April 2023.
Bliss, Collette. “The Magic of Friendship, Creation, and Lesbian Romance: Replacing the Master’s Tools with Feminine Power in My Little Pony, Miraculous, and She-Ra.” Popular Culture Association (PCA) Conference. San Antonio, TX. 5-8 April 2023.
Bliss, Collette. “‘Work Ethic’ is a Bullshit Concept: A Philosophical Critique of the Moralization of Labor.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
Burris, Camden. “Disappearance of the Theoretical Audience: Mechanical Work on Kindle Unlimited.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
Carey, Jenna. “Classical University: How I Play Their Game by My Rules.” Classical Christian Education Conference. School of the Ozarks. Branson, MO. 3-4 March 2023.
Carey, Jenna. “The Correlation Between Suppression and Sin in Milton’s Paradise Lost.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
Comer, Aura. Roundtable Discussion Participant. “Practicing Transparency in Alternative Assessment, Troubling #Ungrading, and Moving Toward More Honest Assessment Futures.” Southern Regional Composition Conference. UA - Pulaski Technical College. Little Rock, AR. 14 April 2023.
Farris, David. “‘Ooowee! What a Season!’: Rick and Morty’s Mr. Poopybutthole and the Labor of Meta Commentary.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
Farris, David. “Queering Chucky: A Horror Icon’s Attempt at Slashing Out of Genre Boundaries.” Popular Culture Association (PCA) Conference. Virtual. 5-8 April 2023.
Fox, Sharon. “Humanities Roundtable.” OE-AR Symposium. UARK/NWACC. October 2023.
Fox, Sharon. “The Latest CAPR Research on Developmental Education Reforms: Implications for Policy and Practice.” Community College Research Center. October 2023.
Hendry, Scott. “The Labor of Representation: Jesse James, the Jesus Movement, and Narrative Iconography.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
LaCrue, Michel. “Fostering Digital Citizenship with the Metaverse.” Southern Regional Composition Conference. UA - Pulaski Technical College. Little Rock, AR. 14 April 2023.
Lynch, Olivia. “Off the Clock: On the Road and Women’s Invisible Labor.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
Lynch, Olivia. “This Account is Private: Finstas and Rejecting Essentialism in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism.” Popular Culture Association (PCA) Conference. Virtual. 5-8 April 2023.
McManus, John. “Call of Cthulhu: Collaborative Fiction, Roleplaying, and the Labor of Writing.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
Rikard, Nicole R. “Slashing into the [Indigenous] Future.” 34th Annual American Literature Association (ALA) Conference. Boston, MA. 25-28 May 2023.
Rivera, Ana Rodriguez. Panel Participant. “Considering Veterans in the Composition Classroom.” Southern Regional Composition Conference. UA - Pulaski Technical College. Little Rock, AR. 14 April 2023.
Sharpe, Lydia. “Eating Diets of Slaves with Regard to Modern Black Diets.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. 4 March 2023.
Sharpe, Lydia. “The Madness in Shakespeare’s Plays: How Literary Madness Translates into Film.” Popular Culture Association (PCA) Conference. San Antonio, TX. 5-8 April 2023.
Simpson, Mitchell. “How Late Medieval Welsh Poetry Tamed a Dragon,” presented as part of the panel on “Writing Identity in Medieval Ireland and Wales.” International Medieval Congress. Leeds, UK. 3-6 July 2023.
Simpson, Mitchell. “Thomistic Evil in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings,” presented as part of the panel on “Tolkien and the Middle Ages: Tolkien and the Scholastics.” 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 11-13 May 2023.
Taylor, Braden. Panel Participant. “Considering Veterans in the Composition Classroom.” Southern Regional Composition Conference. UA - Pulaski Technical College. Little Rock, AR. 14 April 2023.
Trammell, Victoria. “The Symbiosis Between K-Pop and Parasocial Relationships.” Popular Culture Association (PCA) Conference. San Antonio, TX. 5-8 April 2023.
Uddin, Mohi. “Re-reading An Enemy of the People in the Light of Gresham’s Law Syndrome.” 2nd International Conference on Refugee, Resistance, and Recognition: Global Literary Representations in [Post]pos-tcolonial Perspectives. Department of English at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sylhet, Bangladesh). Virtual. 24-25 Feb. 2023.
Awards
Aldrich, Tate. Ph.D. program, Duncan Eaves Memorial Scholarship (for a student who is interested in American, Southern, or early literature), English Department, University of Arkansas
Allee, Jessica. M.A. program, James R. Bennett College English Association Award (to fund 2022 CEA Conference attendance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Allee, Jessica. M.A. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Allee, Jessica. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Bain, Gracie. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Cash, Olivia. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Cole, Bethany. M.A. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Davis, Ellie. M.A. program, Invitation received to be a guest speaker at the 2022 McGraw Hill Composition Course Leaders Symposium, Phoenix, AZ (unable to attend due to COVID)
Elder, Tiffany. Ph.D. program, acceptance into the University of New Mexico's Summer Seminar on Paleography (Institute for Medieval Studies), supported by an outside fellowship (CARA) from The Medieval Academy of America
Elder, Tiffany. Ph.D. program, participation in Digital Humanities Workshop, University of Arkansas
Hendry, Scott. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Leathers, Kaitlin. Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Meeks, Samantha. Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Menase, Michael. M.A. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Menase, Michael. Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Oliver, Skye. Ph.D. program, participation in Digital Humanities Workshop, University of Arkansas
Pearce, Martha. M.A. program, participation in Digital Humanities Workshop, University of Arkansas
Plavcan, John. Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Rhodes, Bailey. M.A. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Riley-Adams, Ann. Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Riley-Adams, Ann. Ph.D. program, Linda K. Overstreet Scholarship, Division of Student Affairs, University of Arkansas
Riley-Adams, Ann. Ph.D. program, Margaret J. Hoffman Scholarship, Division of Student Affairs, University of Arkansas
Ross, Abigail. M.A. program, "Best in Show" award for best graduate student presentation, 2022 Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas
Simpson, Mitchell. Ph.D. program, acceptance into the University of New Mexico's Summer Seminar on Paleography (Institute for Medieval Studies), supported by an outside fellowship (CARA) from The Medieval Academy of America
Simpson, Mitchell. Ph.D. program, participation in Digital Humanities Workshop, University of Arkansas
Taylor, Braden. M.A. program, appointed as the Assistant Program Chair of the 2022 Arkansas Philological Association Conference
Taylor, Braden. M.A. program, awarded the Tiffany Marcantonio Research Grant, Graduate Professional Student Congress, University of Arkansas
Internships
Brown, Val. Internship with the Magdalene Serenity House, Fayetteville, AR.
Green, Kayla. Internship with Two Friends Books, Bentonville, AR.
Moats, Heathermarie. Internship with the Magdalene Serenity House, Fayetteville, AR.
Pike, Taylor. Internship with the Magdalene Serenity House, Faytteville, AR.
Rogers, Andrea. Internship with Lawrence Panther, University of Arkansas.
Ross, Abigail. Internship with Prose Creative, Fayetteville, AR.
Publications
Bain, Gracie. “‘Frankenbitch[es]’: Adapting Frankenstein’s Female Monster in Literature and Film.” Forthcoming in Literature/Film Quarterly.
Rogers, Andrea. Man Made Monsters. Levine Querido, 2022.
Taylor, Braden. Book review of Beowulf: A New Translation, by Maria Dahvana Headley. Accepted for publication in the next issue of the Philological Review.
Presentations
Allee, Jessica. “Teaching Close Reading, Narrative Competence, and Reflective Writing Skills to Engender Empathy and Promote More Inclusive College Communities.” College English Association (CEA) Conference. Birmingham, AL. 31 March - 2 April 2022.
Bain, Gracie. “‘Is Jack Back?’: Adaptive Hauntings of Jack the Ripper.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 1 April 2022.
Bain, Gracie. “Jill the Ripper: Adapting the Whitechapel Murders.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference. Jacksonville, FL. 11-13 Nov. 2022.
Bain, Gracie. “Monsters of the Metropolis: Neo-Victorian Mapping of the City.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Salt Lake City, UT. 24-27 March 2022.
Bain, Gracie. “Ripperature: Crossing Gender and Genre.” Bridge Fellows, GNST Roundtable. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 22 April 2022.
Farris, David. “The Dead Narrator in Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing.” Faulkner and Ward Conference. Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies. Cape Girardeau, MO. 20-22 Oct. 2022.
Farris, David. “Do Plastic Dolls Dream of Mutilated Sheep?” Popular Culture Association (PCA) Conference. Virtual. 13-16 April 2022.
Farris, David. “Malcolm X: Civil Rights Icon or Pop Culture Reference in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?” Popular Culture Association (PCA) - South Conference. New Orleans, LA. 13-16 Oct. 2022.
Meeks, Samantha. “The Dangers of Moll Flanders: How Defoe Created a Negative Role Model.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 1 April 2022.
Meeks, Samantha. “The Terror of the Water: The Affects of the Gothic Waterways in Ann Radcliffe’s Mysteries of Udolpho.” 48th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SEASECS). Ft. Myers, FL. 17-19 Feb. 2022.
Moats, Heathermarie. “Relationships in Jane Austen's Persuasion.” The 2022 Visions Conference. Department of Languages and Literature, Northeastern State University. Tahlequah, OK. 9 April 2022.
Oliver, Skye. “Destabilizing Binary Definitions in Chrétien’s Yain and Launcelot and Beroul’s Tristan.” (“Arthurian Obstacles” session). 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Virtual. 9-14 May 2022.
Pearce, Martha.“‘Love Persevering’: An Examination of Grief and Depression in Marvel's WandaVision.” Popular Culture Association (PCA) Conference. Virtual. 13-16 April 2022.
Rikard, Nicole R. “True Crime Podcasting is Transforming Popular Culture and Activism: But Who's Missing?” 43rd Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWAPCA) Conference. Albuquerque, NM. 23-26 Feb. 2022.
Riley-Adams, Ann. “Elis Gruffydd and Welsh Historical Tradition.” Ninth Annual Symposium on Medieval & Renaissance Studies. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Saint Louis University. 21-23 June 2022.
Rodriguez-Mesa, Ana. “Confronting Trauma, Horror, and the Grotesque in Toni Morrison’s Beloved.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 1 April 2022.
Rogers, Andrea. Speaker Panel. “Horror in Indigenous Literature.” With Darcie Little Badger, moderated by Arely Guzman. Color of Children's Literature Conference. Kweli. Virtual. 25-27 March 2022.
Rogers, Andrea. Speaker Panel. “In Conversation: Tackling Tough Topics in Children’s Literature.” With Jacquetta Nammar Feldman, moderated by Samantha M. Clark. 2022 Agents & Editors Conference. Writer's League of Texas. Austin, TX. 25 June 2022.
Rogers, Andrea. Speaker Panel. “Nail Biters.” With Courtney Summers, moderated by Jennifer Hubert Swan. School Library Journal (SLJ) Day of Dialog 2022 Spring. Virtual. 19 May 2022.
Rogers, Andrea. Speaker Panel. “The State of Kids’ Lit Today.” With Jason June and Sera Rivers. 2022 Agents & Editors Conference. Writer's League of Texas. Austin, TX. 25 June 2022.
Rogers, Andrea. Webinar. “Native Voices in YA.” With two other Levine Querido authors, Eric Gansworth (Onondaga Nation) and Anton Treuer (Leech Lake, Ojibwe); moderated by Levine Querido Executive Editor Nick Thomas. Mackin's Lifting Voice Series. Virtual. 20 April 2022.
Ross, Abigail. “The Monstrous-Feminine of Thomas Cullinan's The Beguiled.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 1 April 2022.
Shepherd, Devin, with Juliette Walker. “Wal*Smartification: Documenting the Superimposition of Dockless Shared Electric Scooters on Fayetteville, Arkansas.” The Smartification of Everything — A Symposium and Exhibition Connecting Diverse Fields and Media. University of Ottawa. Virtual. 10-17 March 2022.
Simpson, Mitchell. “Irish and Muslim Contact in Otherworld Narratives: W(h)ither the Boundaries.” 14th Annual Meeting of The Japan Society for Medieval European Studies. Tokyo, Japan. 18-19 June 2022.
Simpson, Mitchell. “Merch a'r Ddraig, or St Margaret in Wales.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Virtual. 9-14 May 2022.
Taylor, Braden. “Educating the Modern Working-Class in Victorian Idealism.” Victorians Institute Conference. Spartanburg, SC. 14-15 Oct. 2022.
Taylor, Braden. “Hag Empowerment Through Feminine Magic.” UVA Wise Medieval - Renaissance Conference XXXV. Wise, VA. 15-17 Sept. 2022.
Awards
Bain, Gracie. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Bain, Gracie. Ph.D. program, Bridge Fellowship, Gender Studies Program, University of Arkansas
Blair, Dana. Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Borntrager, Christopher. Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Award in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Borntrager, Christopher. Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Brown, Heathermarie. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Causey, Gabrielle. M.A. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Clarkson-Guyll, Meagon. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Clarkson-Guyll, Meagon. Ph.D. program, Leading with Brilliance Award, Academic Advising Council, University of Arkansas
Farris, David. Ph.D. program, Diane Blair Fellowship for the Study of Southern Literature, Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, University of Arkansas
Farris, David. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Figgins, Kristen. Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Figgins, Kristen. Ph.D. Program, Excellence in Research Award, Graduate-Professional Student Congress, University of Arkansas
Figgins, Kristen. Ph.D. Program, Humanities without Walls Pre-Doctoral Workshop Fellow
Green, Kayla. M.A. Program, Razorgrad Institute for Success and Engagement (RISE), University of Arkansas
Greenhill, Jesse. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Hendry, Scott. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Kunsang, Tenzin. M.A. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
LaCrue, Michel. Ph.D. Program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
McManus, John. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Meeks, Samantha. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Plavcan, John. M.A. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Riley-Adams, Ann. Ph.D. program, SEC Emerging Scholars Career Preparation Workshop, Hosted by LSU (virtual)
Rogers, Andrea. Ph.D. program, NPR's "Best Books of 2020," for Rogers's middle-grade novel Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story (pub. Feb. 2020 by Capstone Press)
Rosenbaum, Sharla. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Simpson, Mitchell. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Swehla, Tessa. Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Townsend, Zoë. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Weeks, Taylor. Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Publications
Farris, Christopher. The Fountain. Adams Basin, NY, Wild Rose Press, 2021.
Menase, Michael. “‘Unkinged’ King Richard's Sense of Self in Richard II.” To be published in Vol. 36 (Oct. 2023) of Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England.
Rogers, Andrea. “The Ballad of Maggie Wilson.” Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith, HarperCollins, 2021.
Presentations
Aldrich, Tate, with Yolanda Williams. Keynote Speakers. “Racism & Institutionalized Violence: Coalition Building for Targeted Policy Change.” National Teacher Leadership Conference. Virtual. 14-16 July. 2021.
Allee, Jessica. “The Car Analogy: A Pedagogical Approach to Rhetorical Analysis.” Pedagogy, Practice and Philosophy Conference. University of Florida. Virtual. 5-6 Feb. 2021.
Allee, Jessica. “Sharpening Close Reading, Narrative Competence, and Reflective Writing to Engender Diverse Thinking and Meaningful Inclusion in the Classroom.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 8-9 April 2021.
Allee, Jessica. “William Wordsworth’s Advocacy for Nostalgia and How to Effectively Engage with Memories.” Georgetown University English Graduate Student Association Conference. Virtual. 30 April 2021.
Bain, Gracie. “Bad Witnesses: Trauma and Space in The Book of Disappearance and The Queue.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 8-9 April 2021.
Cash, Olivia. “Constructing a Communal Masculinity: How Hegemonic Structures are Subverted and Supported in Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 8-9 April 2021.
Cole, Bethany. Paper accepted; student was not able to attend: “Notes from The Frame: How Literature and Alterity Challenge the Secular Age.” NeMLA Conference. University at Buffalo. Virtual. 11-14 March 2021.
Farris, David. “The Innocent Archetype and Lena Grove in Faulkner’s Light in August.” Arkansas Philological Association Conference. Arkansas State University. 11-13 Nov. 2021.
Figgins, Kristen. “Darwin’s Influence on Literature and Culture.” Invited guest speaker for interdisciplinary Honors Darwin Seminar. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 6-9 March 2021.
Figgins, Kristen. “‘He Spreads His Cape Like a Bat’: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as Invasive Species in Adaptation.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 8-9 April 2021.
Meeks, Samantha. “Nursing from the Breasts of Mary and Jesus: Analyzing the Symbolism in Medieval Female Religious Practice of Partaking in the Blood and Milk of the Virgin and Christ.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 8-9 April 2021.
Meeks, Samantha. “The Paternal Relationship as a Factor in Female Agency in The Female Quixote.” Arkansas Philological Association Conference. Arkansas State University. 11-13 Nov. 2021.
Oliver, Skye. “Into the Woods with Middle English Lyric.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 8-9 April 2021.
Rhodes, Bailey. “Obscuring the Battle Plain: Examining Melville’s Psychological Turmoil in Benito Cereno.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 8-9 April 2021.
Rikard, Nicole R. “Colonialism’s Influence on Food Practices in the Pacific and Craig Santos Perez’s Malologues.” 42nd Annual Southwest/American Popular Culture Association (SWAPCA) Conference. Virtual. 22-26 Feb. 2021.
Rikard, Nicole R. “What Exactly Does Native Look Like? The Multiplicity of American ‘Indianness.’” Assemblages of Empire: an American Studies Symposium. University of Texas, Austin. Virtual. 4-5 Mar. 2021.
Rikard, Nicole R. “Illuminating the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two Spirit Atrocity: Building a Hybrid Culture of Advocacy.” Building Bridges/Dismantling Racism for the Common Good International Workshop and Conference. Hosted by Oklahoma Humanities, the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma (USAO) Foundation, the Institute for Healing of Memories (IHOM), and the Respect Diversity Foundation. Virtual. 9-11 June 2021.
Rodriguez-Mesa, Ana. “Ruby, Heart of Paradise: Toni Morrison’s Protagonist.” Arkansas Philological Association Conference. Arkansas State University. 11-13 Nov. 2021.
Ross, Abigail. “Impertinence of the Southern Gothic Genre in Lee, Cullinan, and Capote.” Arkansas Philological Association Conference. Arkansas State University. 11-13 Nov. 2021.
Shepherd, Devin. “The Tyranny of Completion; Or, How Electronic Art Can Engage the Firehose.” ELO 2021 Conference and Festival: Platform (Post?) Pandemic. Electronic Literature Organization. Virtual. 24-28 May 2021.
Shively, Lauren. “‘The Black [...] Doesn’t Come Off’: Performativity and the Body in Kindred.” Graduate Students in English Conference. University of Arkansas. Virtual. 8-9 April 2021.
Simpson, Mitchell. “The Anti-Semitic Nature of Some Middle English Religious Lyrics.” South Central Modern Language Association. Hybrid (Houston/Virtual). 7-9 Oct. 2021.
Taylor, Braden D. “Heroes and Victims in the ‘Knight of the Cart’ Tale.” Medieval-Renaissance Conference XXXIV. The University of Virginia’s College at Wise. Virtual. 16-18 Sept. 2021.
Taylor, Braden D. “Posthumous Publications.” Arkansas Philological Association Conference. Arkansas State University. 11-13 Nov. 2021.
Awards
Aguayo, Emmy. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Aldrich, Tate. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Andrews, Anson. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Bain, Gracie. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Blair, Dana. Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Bonkoski, Elizabeth. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Borntrager, Christopher. Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Cajias Calvet, David. M.A. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Elder, Tiffany. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Figgins, Kristen. Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Award in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Figgins, Kristen. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Greenhill, Jesse. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Henderson, Dylan. M.A. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Johnston, Leah Beth. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Meeks, Samantha. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Oliver, Skye. Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Powell, Katie Wilson. Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Rikard, Nicole. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Riley-Adams, Ann. Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Rogers, Andrea. Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Simpson, Mitchell. Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Swehla, Tessa. Ph.D. program, Fulbright College Dissertation Research Award, University of Arkansas
Weeks, Taylor. Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Publications
Figgins, Kristen. (co-editor with Sheena B. Stief and Rebecca Day Babcock ) Boom or Bust: Narrative, Life, and Culture in the West Texas Oil Patch, Oklahoma University Press, 2020.
Figgins, Kristen. (book chapter) “Crude: The Unrefined Communities and Landscapes of Petrofiction.” Boom or Bust: Narrative, Life, and Culture in the West Texas Oil Patch, edited by Sheena B. Stief, Kristen L. Figgins, Rebecca Day Babcock, Oklahoma University Press, 2020.
Figgins, Kristen. (book chapter) “‘The Integrity of Nature’: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Anxieties in the Fictions of H.P. Lovecraft and Jeff VanderMeer.” Fiction and the Sixth Mass Extinction: Narrative in an Era of Loss, edited by Jonathan Elmore, Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, 49-66.
Figgins, Kristen. (co-author with Sheena Stief and Rebecca Babcock) “Testimonies of the Permian Basin.”Oil Fictions: World Literature and our Contemporary Petrosphere, edited by Stacey Balkan and Swaralipi Nandi, Penn State UP, 2020.
Henderson, Dylan. “Crazy Mountains.” Penumbra: A Journal of Weird Fiction and Criticism, no. 1, 2020, pp. ____.
Henderson, Dylan. “Missing the Punchline: The Subversive Nature of H. P. Lovecraft’s Occult Detective.” Lovecraft Annual, no. 14, 2020, pp. _____.
Presentations
Figgins, Kristen. “Taming the Jungle: Adaptation and Appropriation.” Literature/Film Association. Virtual. 6 Nov. 2020.
Figgins, Kristen. “‘You Should Not Peep at Goblin Men’: Tracking the Animal Body in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market’ and Adaptations.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Virtual. 13-15 Nov. 2020.
Awards
Albright, Rebecca, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Bain, Gracie, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Blair, Dana, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Brochu, Renee, M.A. program, JoAnn Rushton and Linda Rushton Selman Endowed English Scholarship (for undergraduate English Major, with an interest in American or British literature, intending to go on to graduate school in English literature), English Department, University of Arkansas
Darst, Coty, M.A. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Daugherty, Erin, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Desmond, Isaiah "Bo," M.A. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Eaton, Christopher, Ph.D. program, Dr. T.C. Duncan Eaves Memorial Fellowship (for scholarship in modern American poetry), English Department, University of Arkansas
Fayard, Nathan, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Figgins, Kristen, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Fox, Sharon, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Fox, Sharon, Ph.D. program, Teaching Excellence Award, Department of English, University of Arkansas
Greenhill, Jesse, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Henderson, Dylan, M.A. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Henderson, Dylan, M.A. program, R.D. Mullen Fellowship, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (will fund archival research at the John Hay Library at Brown University in Providence, RI)
Johnston, Leah Beth, Ph.D. program, Member, The Bedford New Scholars Advisory Board, The English Community, The Macmillan Community (https://community.macmillan.com/)
LaCrue, Michel, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Paganelli Marin, Luis, Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Paganelli Marin, Luis, Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Award in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Peters, Shiloh, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Powell, Katie W., Ph.D. program, selected to participate in the May 2019 RSA Project in Power, Place, and Publics in Reno, NV. Katie was part of the working group, Memory and Lost Communities, with Jenny Rice.
Rosenbaum, Sharla, Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Savage, Jordan, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Weeks, Taylor, Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Publications
Bain, Gracie. “Romantic Reimaginings: Adapting Mary Shelley’s Female Monster.” BARS Blog, 4 Nov. 2019, British Association for Romantic Studies. 4 Nov. 2019.
Figgins, Kristen. “‘Are We Not Men?’: Science, Sympathy, and Women in Adaptations of H.G. Wells’s The Island of Doctor Moreau.” Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 3, Summer 2019.
Henderson, Dylan. “‘The Inability of the Human Mind’: Lovecraft, Zunshine, and Theory of Mind.” Lovecraft Annual, no. 13, 2019, pp. 91-101.
Morris, Sam. “‘Pain demands to be felt’: Language and Power as Structures in John Green's The Fault in Our Stars .” Children's Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 45, no. 2, 2019, pp. _____ (forthcoming).
Presentations
Andrews, Anson. “Chaucer in Drag: The Rhetoric of Gender Performance in The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 9-12 May 2019.
Angyal, Patrick. “Elegiac Sympathy: Evocation of Emotion as a Generic Marker of the Old English Elegy.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 9-12 May 2019.
Bain, Gracie. “Killing Joy, Killing Monsters: Willful Potential in Frankenstein's Bride.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 9 March 2019.
Borntrager, Christopher, panel presenter. “Dual Identities within the Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. 13-16 March 2019.
Clarkson-Guyll, Meagon. “The Genre of the Advising Note.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. 13-16 March 2019.
Cornwell, Addison. “The Ruin of Romance: Lanval to Sir Launfal.” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference. 14-16 November 2019.
Cornwell, Addison. “Where No Woman Has Gone Before.” South Central Modern Language Association. Little Rock, AR. 24-26 Oct. 2019.
Darst, Coty, panel presenter. “Dual Identities within the Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. 13-16 March 2019.
Field, Brigitta. “Marian Devotion and Feminine Identity in the Middle Ages.” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference. 14-16 November 2019.
Figgins, Kristen. “‘They'd Eaten Every One’: Predation, Consumption, and Consent in Lewis Carroll's ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’ and Adaptations.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Atlanta, GA. 15-17 Nov. 2019.
Fox, Sharon. “Anchoring Canon: Ibi Zoboi’s Pride takes on Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.” College English Association. New Orleans, LA. 28-30 March 2019.
Fox, Sharon. “Austen Comes to America: Ibi Zoboi’s Pride brings the Bennets to America in the 21st Century.” Southwest Popular/American Culture Association. Albuquerque, NM. 20-23 February 2019.
Fox, Sharon. “Darcy Swipes Left: Exploring Pride and Prejudice in the Social Media Age.” South Central Modern Language Association. Little Rock, AR. 24-26 Oct. 2019.
Fox, Sharon. “Opening Doors: Conversations on Pedagogy and Humor.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 9 March 2019.
Henderson, Dylan. “The Master's House” (short story). Southern Writing Graduate Conference, University of Mississippi. Oxford, MS. 18-20 July 2019.
Johnston, Leah Beth. “Service-Learning as Text: Facilitating Difficult Conversations in the First Year Composition Classroom.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 9 March 2019.
Meeks, Samantha. “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Analyzing the Endless and Unnamable.” South Central Modern Language Association. Little Rock, AR. 24-26 Oct. 2019.
Meeks, Samantha. “Growing ‘Food,’ Growing Families: Social Structure in My Year of Meats.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Washington, DC. 17-20 April 2019.
Morris, Sam. “The Hate U Give on Campus: Social Justice, Young Adult Literature, and a University’s Common Reading Program.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Washington, DC. 17-20 April 2019.
Paganelli Marin, Luis. “American Exceptionalism in Behold the Dreamers: Parsing the American Dream.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Washington, DC. 17-20 April 2019.
Pitts, Michael. “Dorothy Bryant and the Role of Feminist Utopian Fiction in Imagining New Masculinities.” South Central Modern Language Association. Little Rock, AR. 24-26 Oct. 2019.
Pitts, Michael. “Future Shock and Time Dilation: Masculinities and Speculative Tech-nologies across Space and Time in Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Washington, DC. 17-20 April 2019.
Powell, Katie W. “Doing the Work of Cultivating a Participatory Public.” Conference on Community Writing. Philadelphia, PA. 17-19 October 2019.
Riley-Adams, Ann. “The Space Between: Medieval and Modern in the Chronicle of Elis Gruffydd.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 9-12 May 2019.
Rosenbaum, Sharla. “Transformation and Vampire-Cyborg Transgressions in Blade.” South-Central Modern Language Association. Little Rock, AR. 24-26 October 2019.
Sadegh Beigi, Leila. “Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Embroideries: A Graphic Novelization of Sexual Revolution across Three Generations of Iranian Women.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Washington, DC. 17-20 April 2019.
Savage, Jordan. “‘How Many Times Have You Watched Pac-Man Die?’: Black Mirror's Bandersnatch Choose Your Own Masculinity, Technology, and Death.” South Central Modern Language Association. Little Rock, AR. 24-26 Oct. 2019.
Spence, Sheffield. “Come One, Come All, to the Debutant Gender Reveal Ball!” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association. Oxford, MS. 7-9 March 2019.
Swehla, Tessa. “Becoming Anyone: Discursive and Material Constructions of the YA Body in Cinder.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. Washington, DC. 17-20 April 2019.
Weeks, Taylor, panel presenter. “Dual Identities within the Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. 13-16 March 2019.
Wheeler, Noel. “Edo Japan: Tales of the Supernatural as Commodified Properties.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 9 March 2019.
Awards
Andrews, Anson, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Borntrager, Christopher, Ph.D. program, James R. Bennett College English Association Award (for English graduate students to travel to the College English Association's annual conference), English Department, University of Arkansas
Clarkson-Guyll, Meagon, Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Eaton, Christopher, Ph.D. program, Dr. T.C. Duncan Eaves Memorial Fellowship (for scholarship in modern American poetry), English Department, University of Arkansas
Eubanks, Ellen, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Fox, Sharon, Ph.D. program, Travel Award (to attend the 2018 MMLA Conference in Kansas City, MO), Midwest Modern Language Association
Fox, Sharon, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Haydon, Nathan, Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Johnston, Leah Beth, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Marin, Luis, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Meeks, Samantha, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Messimer, MaryKate, Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Messimer, MaryKate, Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Nelson, Timothy, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Riley-Adams, Ann, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Sadegh Beigi, Leila, Ph.D. program, American Dissertation Fellowship, American Association of University Women
Swehla, Tessa, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Publications
Daugherty, Erin (with Sean P. Connors). “Critiquing, Resisting, and Remixing Promotional Peritextual Elements of YA Fiction." Literacy Engagement through Peritextual Analysis, edited by Shelbie Witte, Don Latham, and Melissa Gross, American Library Association with NCTE, forthcoming Fall 2018.
Eaton, Christopher, Quartet. Ahsahta, 2018.
West, Sara (with Adam Pope). “Corporate Kairos and the Impossibility of the Anonymous, Ephemeral Messaging Dream.” Present Tense Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, Special Issue on the Rhetorics of Platforms, 26 March 2018, http://www.presenttensejournal.org/volume-6/corporate-kairos-and-the-impossibility-of-the-anonymous-ephemeral-messaging-dream/. Accessed 26 March 2018.
Presentations
Albright, Rebecca. “Adaptation as Adaptability in Octavia E. Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy and Earthseed Series.” South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. 11-14 Oct. 2018.
Bain, Gracie. “Insanity or Necessity: Foucauldian Power in Lady Audley's Secret.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
Blair, Dana. “Do You Like Greek Eggs and Ham? Examining the Messages Found in the Literature of Dr. Seuss Through the Lens of Plato's Republic.” Arkansas Philological Association. University of Arkansas at Little Rock. 28 Oct. 2017.
Borntrager, Chris. “Responding to Writer ‘Helplessness’: Strategic Identity Construction in Writing
Center Tutorials.” College English Association. St. Petersburg, FL. 5-7 April 2018.
Cockrell, Emalie. “Medium as Message: Issues of Authority in Home Education.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
Daugherty, Erin. “The Push and Pull of Language: Artifacts and Place as Texts in FYC.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. 14-17 March 2018.
Figgins, Kristen. “Dumbing Down Nature: How the Mythology of an Unintelligent Nature Supports Systems of Power and Abuse in Jeff Vandermeer's Area X.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
Fox, Sharon. “Authorial Collaboration or Appropriation?: Adopting Canonical Authors' Names on New Texts.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
Fox, Sharon. “Lizzie and Lydia are Dating, YA’ll: Pride and Prejudice takes on the 21st Century.” Midwest Modern Language Association. Kansas City, MO. 15-18 Nov. 2018.
Green, Jonathan. “The Expert's Paradox: Acknowledgin the Risks of Instructor Authority.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
Holmes, Emily. “Non-Consensual Identification: 'Passive' Readers and Walt Whitman.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
Ibiši, Sait. “Ottoman Empire as an Allegory for Communism in Balkans Literature.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
Jeter, Garrett. “Frankenvistas: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Critiques.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Philadelphia, PA. 15-17 March 2018.
Jeter, Garrett. “Serial Memos: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Repetition Compulsion as Anamnetic Psychological Device.” Interdicsiplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies. San Francisco, CA. 1-4 March 2018.
Meeks, Samantha. “(Dys)topian Families: Harboring Disorder and Heralding Chaos.” Arkansas Philological Association, University of Central Arkansas. Conway, AR. 19-20 Oct. 2018.
Meeks, Samantha. “Whose Side Are You On?” (original play) South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. 11-14 Oct. 2018.
Messimer, MaryKate. “Embodied Empathy in Opposition to Climate Change in Octavia Butler and N.K. Jemisin.” National Women's Studies Association. Atlanta, GA. 8-11 Nov. 2018.
Morris, Sam. “Looking for (and Finding) the Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Problematic Characterizations in John Green's Looking for Alaska and Paper Towns.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Indianapolis, IN. 28-31 March 2018.
Morris, Sam. “From Page to Screen: The Benefits of Adaptation Analysis in First-Year Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Kansas City, MO. 14-17 March 2018.
Nelson, Timothy. “Counting on Corineus.” 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 12 May 2018.
Nelson, Timothy. “Healdath Min Beor!: The Secular and Religious Roles of Alcohol in Beowulf.” 18th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies. Minneapolis, MN. 23 March 2018.
Nelson, Timothy. “Recollecting Corineus’ Contribution to the Founding of Britain.” 25th International Medieval Congress. Leeds, England. 2 July 2018.
Paganelli Marin, Luis. “Assembling Transatlantic Diasporic Identities in Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing.” 32nd Annual MELUS Conference. Las Vegas, NV. 3-6 May 2018.
Paganelli Marin, Luis. “Resistance and Border Fictions: A Decolonial Poetics in Layli Long Soldier's Whereas.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Birmingham, AL. 2-4 Nov. 2018.
Paganelli Marin, Luis. “Securing Rightlessness: Social Death and the SECURE Act of 2017.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
Peters, Shiloh. “‘Heathcliff, You Are My Master, Truly, Forever’: Voyeurism and Kink in Wuthering Heights Erotica.” South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. 11-14 Oct. 2018.
Pitts, Michael. “Resisting Normative Gender Scripts: An Interplanetary Dialectic of Masculinities in Ursula K. Le Guin's The Dispossessed.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Birmingham, AL. 2-4 Nov. 2018.
Rosenbaum, Sharla. “‘That Female is My Mother:’ Moogie is the Ferengi Feminist Movement in the Star Trek Universe.” South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. 11-14 Oct. 2018.
Sadegh Beigi, Leila. “Persepolis Reading Tehran & Reading Lolita in Tehran.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. Indianapolis, IN. 28-31 March 2018.
Sadegh Beigi, Leila. “Simin Daneshvar, Exile at Home and Savushun.” Twelfth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference. University of California, Irvine. 14-17 Aug. 2018.
Sweet, Vanessa. “Networks of Power: Feminist and Queer Theories and Performances of Female Masculinity.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 3 March 2018.
West, Sara (with Lauren Cagle, Jordynn Jack, Jennifer Malkowski, Lisa Meloncon, and Sarah Singer). “Rhetorical Research Methods and Ethical Quandaries: A Roundtable Discussion.” The Rhetoric Society of America. Minneapolis, MN. 31 May - 3 June, 2018.
West, Sara (with Adam Pope). “Rubles and Rhetoric: Corporate Kairos and Social Media's Crisis of Common Sense.” Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Kansas City, KS. 13-14 March 2018.
Wheeler, Noel. “The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Japan: Can Pictures Bridge a Cultural Gap?” South Central Modern Language Association. San Antonio, TX. 11-14 Oct. 2018.
White, Amanda. “Unraveling the American Bible through Book Materiality.” Graduate Student Internship. Special Collections, Mullins Library. University of Arkansas. 26 April 2018.
Awards
Akhter, Farzana, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Albright, Rebecca, Ph.D. program, Diane Blair Fellowship for the Study of Southern Literature, Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, University of Arkansas
Albright, Rebecca, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Borntrager, Christopher, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Daugherty, Erin, Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Figgins, Kristen, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Fox, Sharon, Ph.D. program, Chair, Nineteenth-Century Literature Committee, South Central Modern Language Association
Green, Jonathan, Ph.D. program, James R. Bennett College English Association Award (for English graduate students to travel to the College English Association's annual conference), English Department, University of Arkansas
Green, Jonathan, Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Jeter, Garrett, Ph.D. program, Alex Marino Service Award, Graduate Student Congress, University of Arkansas
Jeter, Garrett, Ph.D. program, Chancellor's Community Service Award (awarded to students who have completed 50-74 hours of community service during the school year), University of Arkansas
Jeter, Garrett, Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Jeter, Garrett, Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Messimer, MaryKate, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Morris, Sam, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Nelson, Timothy, Ph.D. program, Membership (Two-Year Term), Board of Directors, Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies
Nelson, Timothy, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Pitts, Michael, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Sadegh Beigi, Leila, Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Scholz, Morgan, M.A. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Shaffer, Linda, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Stout, John Taylor, M.A. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Swehla, Tessa, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Vallowe, Megan, Ph.D. program, Fulbright College Dissertation Research Award, University of Arkansas
White, Paula, Ph.D. program, Academic Scholarship, African and African American Studies Program, University of Arkansas
White, Paula, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
West, Sara, Ph.D. Program, 2017 Computers & Writing Travel Grant, Computers & Writing Graduate Research Network (http://www.gradresearchnetwork.org/)
Publications
Cunningham, Daniele, and Shiloh Peters (with David Jollife and Julia Paganelli-Marin). “The SISTA Project: Literacy Outreach in Response to Community Needs.” Writing for Engagement: Responsive Practice for Social Action, edited by Mary P. Sheridan, Megan J. Bardolph, Megan Faver Hartline, and Drew Holladay, Lexington Press, 2018, pp. 167-178.
Ellis, Robert. “A Happening on Calvin Street.” Sagebrush Review, edited by Zach A. Linge, vol. 12, Sagebrush Review, 2017, pp. 98-104.
Figgins, Kristen. “For Zelda.” Come As You Are, edited by E. Kristin Anderson, Anomalous Press, 2017, pp. 16-18.
Messimer, MaryKate. “‘Did You Just Smell Me?’: Queer Embodiment in NBC's Hannibal.” The Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 51, no. 1, 2018, pp. 175-193.
Morris, Sam. “From Twilight to The Satanic Verses: Unexpected Discoveries about Reading and Writing in the High School Classroom.” Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom, edited by Patrick Sullivan, Howard Tinberg, and Sheridan Blau, NCTE, 2017, pp. 23-32.
Pitts, Michael (with Lisa Hinrichsen). “Nineteenth-Century Southern Literature,”The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, Oxford University Press, May 2017. Oxford Research Encyclopedias, doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.298.
West, Sara. “Confronting Negative Narratives: Challenges of Teaching Professional Social Media Usage.” Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, vol. 80, no. 4, 2017, pp. 409-425.
Conference Presentations
Barfield, Justin. “In Defense of Games: How Video Game Narrative Has Moved Away From Escapism.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Carothers, Luke. “The Race Question: Liminality and Critical Reception in James Weldon Johnson's The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Dang, Uyen. “Contrastive Rhetoric and Cross-Cultural Processes in Academic Writing.” MIDTESOL Conference 2017. Kansas City, MO. 29-30 Sept. 2017.
Dang, Uyen. “Enculturation or Adaptation: ESL Academic Writing.” TESOL 2017 International Convention and English Langauge Expo: Doctoral Research Forum. Seattle, WA. 21-24 March 2017.
Dang, Uyen. “Self-centered and Discovery Learning Through Classroom Techniques and Dynamics.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Daugherty, Erin. “Writing Past Conflict, Writing for Your World.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. 15-18 March 2017.
Eaton, Karly. “Mockingbird and Watchman: Building a Foundation for Narratives of Southern Adolescence(ts).” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Fayard, Nathan. “As Above, So Below: Medieval Echoes in the Underworlds of C.S. Lewis's Fiction.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Figgins, Kristen. “Bats, Beasts, and Bullets: Comic Book as Fable.” Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. St. Louis, MO. 20 Oct. 2017.
Fox, Sharon. “What about Lydia?: Adapting the ‘Bad Girl’ of Pride and Prejudice for a New Century.” South Central MLA. Tulsa, OK. 5-7 Oct. 2017.
Fox, Sharon. “The Originals: New Orleans, Race, and the Monstrous.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Gibeault, Michelle (with Michel LaCrue). “RSS Feeds for Investigating Discourse Communities in the Composition Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. 15-18 March 2017.
Green, Jonathan. “Each Student Is an Island: The Value of Individualizing Instruction.” College English Association Conference. Hilton Head Island, SC. 30 March - 1 April 2017.
Green, Jonathan. “Here Come the Newbies: Cultivating Confidence in Novice Instructors.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. 15-18 March 2017.
Green, Jonathan. “The Tricky Business of Sustainable Funding in a Community Writing Project." Co-presented with David Jolliffe and Julia Paganelli-Marin. Conference on Community Writing. Boulder, CO. 18-21 Oct. 2017.
Gul, Sinan. “Adapting Documents to Re-Construct History: An Overview of Contemporary Documentary Drama and I Am My Own Wife.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Haydon, Nathan. “The Breast-Hoard: Adapting Anglo-Saxon Homiletics in Beowulf.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Hilliard, Logan. “Creatively Composing: Engaged Liberation in First-Year Composition.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. 15-18 March 2017.
Jeter, Garrett. "Anti-Vox-Populi Activism: Shelley's Monster as Class Threat." Midwest MLA. Cincinnati, OH. 9-12 Nov. 2017.
Jeter, Garrett. “Body by Gothic: The Other as Anti-Aesthetic.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference. Allentown, PA. 16-19 March 2017.
Jeter, Garrett. “Civilized Survivalism as Cultural Narrative in the 21st Century.” (Garrett created and moderated this MLA Convention panel.) Modern Language Association. Philadelphia, PA. 5-8 Jan. 2017.
Jeter, Garrett. “Living Beyond the Moment: Diachronic Frankenstein Adaptions.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Jeter, Garrett. “Not a Solitary Activity: Gothic Reading Experience and Narrative as Four-Part Community.” International Conference on Narrative. Lexington, KY. 23-26 March 2017.
Jeter, Garrett. "Textual Arena: Gothic as Reader-Author Power Struggle." South Central MLA. Tulsa, OK. 5-7 Oct. 2017.
LaCrue, Michel (with Michelle Gibeault). “RSS Feeds for Investigating Discourse Communities in the Composition Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. 15-18 March 2017.
Marin, Luis. “Harboring Affect in the Body: Sexual Violence and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory.” 31st Annual MELUS Conference. Cambridge, MA. 27-30 April 2017.
Messimer, MaryKate. “Utopian Movements in Mad Max: Fury Road.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. San Diego,
CA. 12-15 April 2017.
Morledge, Davis. “The Omnitemporality of the Boethian God and Germanic Verb Tense.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Morris, Sam. “Adolescent Idenitity and Young Adult Literature.” Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference. Knoxville, TN. 20-23 July 2017.
Morris, Sam. “Gladdening the Process: Voice, Social Identity, and Young Adult Literature.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. 15-18 March 2017.
Morris, Sam. “Writing Hermione Granger: The Possibility of Genuineness and Empathy in Young Adult Literature.” South Central MLA. Tulsa, OK. 5-7 Oct. 2017.
Nelson, Timothy. “Becoming Better Britons: The Early Vernacular Traditions of the Trojan Colonization of Britain.” Lawman 2017. Park City, UT. 27-29 June 2017.
Nelson, Timothy. “Colonizing Britain in the Early Vernacular.” 17th Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies. South Bend, IN. 9-11 March 2017.
Paganelli-Marin, Luis. “Chicanas and Culture: Appropriating Aztlan and Archetypes.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Parmain, Cal, II. “Prisoner of Verse.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Pitts, Michael. “‘For Everywhere the Sky Is the Same’: Queer Identity, Intergroup Coalitions, and the Reification of Racist Ideologies in Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. San Diego, CA. 12-15 April 2017.
Sadegh Beigi, Leila. “Exile, Translation, and Contemporary Iranian Women Novelists.” Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. San Diego, CA. 12-15 April 2017.
Sadegh Beigi, Leila. “Reflecting the Voice of Iranian Women Writers in Translation: A Postcolonial Translation of Zoya Pirzad's Novel by Franklin Lewis.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Shackelford, Ashley J. “Visual Worldbuilding in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's ‘Phase One.’” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
Simpson, Mitchell. “God Damned Dear Men: The Usage of Leof in Beowulf.” Mid-America Medieval Association Conference. Kansas City, MO. 15-17 Sept. 2017.
Simpson, Mitchell. “Ogling Extinction: The Welsh and Their Prophecy.” Southeastern Medieval Association Conference. Charleston, SC. 16-18 Nov. 2017.
Vallowe, Megan. “Cartographic Mythmaking: Adapting Savage Illustrations in 16th Century Maps of the Americas.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 4 March 2017.
West, Sara. “Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Role of Researcher in Ephemeral Social Media Spaces.” Conference on College Composition and Communication. Portland, OR. 15-18 March 2017.
West, Sara (with Anne Gere, Brandee Easter, Brandy Dieterle, David Coad, Adrienne Raw, and Naomi Silver). “What ‘Counts’ in Digital Scholarship?: Contributions to the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Wiki.” Co-led mini workshop. Computers and Writing Conference. Findlay, OH. 1-4 June 2017.
White, Amanda. “The Poet, the Painter, the Printer: Exploring the Illuminated Books of William Blake.” Graduate Student Internship. Special Collections, Mullins Library. University of Arkansas. 7 Dec. 2017.
White, Amanda. “Resolving Social Anxiety in the Roman de Silence.” Mid-America Medieval Association Conference. Kansas City, MO. 15-17 Sept. 2017.
Awards
Ardeneaux, Edward, IV, Ph.D. program, Best Paper (Student Award), Science Fiction and Fantasy Area, Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association Conference, 2016
Borntrager, Christopher, M.A. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Dang, Uyen, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Davis, Christy, Ph.D. program, Fulbright College Dissertation Research Award, University of Arkansas
Davis, Christy, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Eaton, Karly, M.A. program, Delaware Tribe of Indians Trust Fund Higher Education Award, Delaware Tribe of Indians Education Program
Fox, Sharon, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Fox, Sharon, M.A. program, Secretary, Nineteenth-Century Literature Committee, South Central Modern Language Association
Green, Jonathan, Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Green, Jonathan, Ph.D. program, James R. Bennett College English Association Award (for English graduate students to travel to the College English Association's annual conference), English Department, University of Arkansas
Holland, Sarah (Nikki), Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Jeter, Garrett, Ph.D. program, Regional (Midwest) Director of Communications (Two-Year Term), National Association of Graduate-Professional Students
Martin, Whitney, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Moore, Rebecca, Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Paganelli-Marin, Luis, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Rosenbaum, Sharla, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Savage, Jordan, Ph.D. program, Diane Blair Fellowship for the Study of Southern Literature, Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, University of Arkansas
Savage, Jordan, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Vallowe, Megan, Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Vallowe, Megan, Ph.D. program, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship (“On Native Grounds: Studies of Native American Histories and the Land”), Library of Congress
Vallowe, Megan, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
West, Sara, Ph.D. program, 2016-2017 Graduate Fellow, Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative
West, Sara, Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Publications
Bontempo, Eric. “In Memoriam: Reader-Response and the Virtual Construction of Consolation.” The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies 14.4 (2016): 11-18.
Nicholson, Sara. “The Middle Ages.” (poem) Harper's Magazine. Harper's Magazine Foundation. April 2016. Web. 15 March 2016.
Nicholson, Sara. What the Lyric Is. (collection of poems) Brooklyn, NY: The Song Cave, 2016. Print.
Paganelli-Marin, Luis F. “Creating a ‘Novel’ Dominican Male Subjectivity: Genre and Narrative in Junot Díaz's Drown.” CEA Critic 78.3 (2016): 334-339.
Pitts, Michael. “Hercules, Felix Eugene Michael.” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Eds. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. Print.
Pitts, Michael. “Marcelin, Frederic.” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography. Eds. Franklin W. Knight and Henry Louis Gates Jr. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2016. Print.
Sadegh Beigi, Leila. “Reflecting the Voice of an Iranian Woman Writer in Translation.” Exchanges Literary Journal Blog, 6 Nov. 2016, University of Iowa, https://exchanges.uiowa.edu/blog/reflecting-the-voice-of-an-iranian-woman-writer-in-translation/. Accessed 23 Jan. 2017.
West, Sara (with Brandy Dieterle). “Pokémon Go and Collaborative Gameplay.” Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. 29 Oct. 2016, www.digitalrhetoriccollaborative.org/2016/10/29/pokemon-go-collaborative-gameplay/. Accessed 10 May 2017.
West, Sara. “Yik Yak and the Knowledge Community.″ Communication Design Quarterly 4.2B (2016): 11-21.
Conference Presentations
Akhter, Farzana. “The Spectacular City: The Golden Cage Where Subjects Are Created and Power Is Negotiated.” South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX. 3-5 Nov. 2016.
Ardeneaux, Edward, IV. “Oracular Transmissions: Market Speculation in the Novels of William Gibson and Neal Stephenson.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Seattle, WA. 22-25 March 2016.
Ardeneaux, Edward, IV. “Periodization as Border: Utopian Energies in Hollywood Hacker Films of the Liminal 1990s.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 5 March 2016.
Bontempo, Eric. “In Memoriam: Reader-Response and the Virtual Construction of Consolation.” New Directions in the Humanities. Chicago, IL. 8-10 June 2016.
Davis, Christy. “Erna Brodber's Louisiana and Marcus Garvey.” South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX. 3-5 Nov. 2016.
Davis, Christy. “Peeling Away the Layers of Revision in Roberto Fernández's Holy Radishes!” Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference. Boston, MA. 10-12 March 2016.
Davis, Christy. “The Portrayals of Fulgencio Batista.” African and African American Studies Symposium. Fayetteville, AR. 17 February 2016.
Davis, Christy. “The Recorder of the South: Ethnographic Sounds.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 5 March 2016.
Davis, Christy. “Social Media as a Liberatory Literacy.” CCCC Computer Connection. Houston, TX. 6-9 April 2016.
Ferguson, Sally. “A Thousand Slimy Deformities: Perelandra's Ransom as an Interplanetary Mariner.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Seattle, WA. 22-25 March 2016.
Fox, Sharon. “Besant's The Revolt of Man: Fantasy or Prophecy.” College English Association. Denver, CO. 30 March - 2 April 2016.
Fox, Sharon. “Misogyny in Dystopia: Walter Besant’s Call for the Return of Women to the Domestic Sphere.” South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX. 3-5 Nov. 2016.
Fox, Sharon. “Propaganda: Nineteenth-century Children's Periodicals and Gender Normativity.″ Midwest Modern Language Association. St. Louis, MO. 10-13 Nov. 2016.
Green, Jonathan. “Putting the ‘Compose’ Back in ‘Composition’: Music and Writing as Twin Arts.” College English Association. Denver, CO. 30 March - 2 April 2016.
Green, Jonathan. “Stricken by the Muse: Invention in Music and Writing.″ Arkansas Philological Association. Heber Springs, AR. 13-15 Oct. 2016.
Haydon, Nathan. “‘He who pays attention to them is illumined’: Peter of Damaskos, Repetition, and Lectio Divina,’” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 12-15 May 2016.
Haydon, Nathan. “‘His wife has prepared herself’: The Vita Angelica, Virginity, and Embodiment in ‘Holy Maidenhood.’” Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies. Houston, TX. 18-20 Feb. 2016.
Haydon, Nathan. “The Liturgical Context of Lyric.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 5 March 2016.
Haydon, Nathan. “Myth and Meaning in the Theology of Charles Williams.” C.S. Lewis & Inklings Society, John Brown University. Siloam Springs, AR. 31 March - 2 April 2016.
Jeter, Garrett. “A Dark-Portraited City: Wilde and Stevenson's London.” South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX. 3-5 Nov. 2016.
Jeter, Garrett. “Frenemy at the Gates: Border as Desirable Gothic Consumer-Reader Model.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 5 March 2016.
Marin, Luis. “Border Discourse in El Norte and Biutiful.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 5 March 2016.
Marin, Luis. “Creating a ‘Novel’ Dominican Male Subjectivity: Genre and Narrative in Junot Díaz’s Drown.” College English Association. Denver, CO. 30 March - 2 April 2016.
Messimer, MaryKate. "Queering Hannibal : Bending Genres and Sexualities." Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Seattle, WA. 22-25 March 2016
Moore, Rebecca. “Modes of Translation, Modes of Subversion: Women's Approaches in the Late Henrician Court.” College English Association. Denver, CO. 30 March - 2 April 2016.
Moore, Rebecca. “Timeliness and Youth in the Devonshire Manuscript.” Modern Language Association. Austin, TX. 6-10 Jan. 2016.
Moore, Rebecca. “What Henry Wrote: Henry VIII's Political Aesthetics and Their Legacy in Henry VIII, or All is True.” Shakespeare Association of America. New Orleans, LA. 23-26 March 2016. Seminar Paper.
Morris, Sam. “Demigods, Love, and Sexuality: Eros and Identity in Rick Riordan’s The Heroes of Olympus.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Seattle, WA. 22-25 March 2016.
Nelson, Timothy. “Grappling With Giants: The Trojan Conquest of Britain in the Early Vernacular Tradition.” 40th Annual Mid-America Medieval Association. Emporia, KS. 17 Sept. 2016.
Nelson, Timothy. “Relaying the Foundation of Britain in 14th Century Wales.” 51st International Congress of Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 12-16 May 2016.
Panxhi, Lindsey Zachary. “Broken Borders: Fairy Love and Christian Faith in the Twelfth-Century Lai of Desiré.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 5 March 2016.
Panxhi, Lindsey Zachary. “C.S. Lewis and ‘The Longaevi ’: Recalling Fairies from the Margins of Orthodoxy.” C.S. Lewis & Inklings Society, John Brown University. Siloam Springs, AR. 31 March - 2 April 2016.
Pierse, Kristi. “Gore Drama: Coping with Post-Traumatic Stress through Televised Evisceration.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Seattle, WA. 22-25 March 2016.
Pitts, Michael. “‘Check Your Network Connection’: Separation Among Compatriots in Sleep Dealer.” South Central Modern Language Association. Dallas, TX. 3-5 Nov. 2016.
Pitts, Michael. “Kansas City, Jazz, and the Blurring of the North/South Border.” The Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Boston University. Boston, MA. 10-12 March 2016.
Vallowe, Megan. “Border Migrations in El Norte.” Latin American and Latino Studies Colloquium on Transnational Migration, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 27 April 2016.
Vallowe, Megan. “The Hemispheric Indian Problem in the Works of Clorinda Matto de Turner and Charles Eastman.” American Literature Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. 26-29 May 2016.
Vallowe, Megan. “Rape on the Border: The Migration of Violence Against Indigenous Women." Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 5 March 2016.
West, Sara. “Social Media, Professional Writing, and the English Department.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 5 March 2016.
West, Sara. “Teaching While Tweeting: Using Social Media in Traditional FYC Classrooms.” CCCC Computer Connection. Houston, TX. 6-9 April 2016.
Awards
Ardeneaux, Edward, IV, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Blomstedt, Alex, M.A. program, Diane Blair Fellowship for the Study of Southern Literature, Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, University of Arkansas
Daugherty, Erin, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Davis, Christy, Ph.D. program, Carson McCullers Society Prize for Outstanding Conference Paper
Davis, Christy, Ph.D. program, African and African American Studies Graduate Fellowship (for dissertation research in African and African American Studies)
Eaton, Christopher, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Eaton, Karly, M.A. program, Delaware Tribe of Indians Trust Fund Higher Education Award, Delaware Tribe of Indians Education Program
Eaton, Karly, M.A. program, Diane Blair Fellowship for the Study of Southern Literature, Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, University of Arkansas
Eaton, Karly, M.A. program, Mary Love Collins Memorial Scholarship, Chi Omega Foundation
Fox, Sharon, M.A. program, Guest Speaker, NorthWest Arkansas Community College Academic Awards Night
Hermansen-Webb, Paige, Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Hermansen-Webb, Paige, Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Hunt, Matthew, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Messimer, MaryKate, Ph.D. program,Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Morris, Sam, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Nelson, Timothy, Ph.D. program, Member, Graduate Student Committee, Medieval Academy of America
Nicholson, Sara, Ph.D. program, Dr. T.C. Duncan Eaves Memorial Fellowship (for scholarship in modern American poetry), English Department, University of Arkansas
Nicholson, Sara, Ph.D. program, Fulbright College Dissertation Research Award, University of Arkansas
Nicholson, Sara, Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Pitts, Michael, Ph.D. Program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Price, Rachael, Ph.D. program, acceptance to and participation in the Futures of American Studies Institute (summer program at Dartmouth College)
Price, Rachael, Ph.D. program, Fulbright College Dissertation Research Award, University of Arkansas
Robinson, Ashley, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Smith, Erin, Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Troutman, Megan, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
White, Paula, Ph.D. program, African and African American Studies Graduate Fellowship (for dissertation research in African and African American Studies)
White, Paula, Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
White, Paula, Ph.D. program, Travel Award (for an outstanding proposal submitted to the Gender, Sexuality, and Power Student Research Conference), Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities, California State University, Los Angeles
Publications
Bailey, Jocelyn L. “‘The Body Police’: Lena Dunham, Susan Bordo, and HBO's Girls.” HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege. Eds. Elwood Watson, et al. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2015. 27-42.
Panxhi, Lindsey Zachary. “Rewriting the Werewolf and Rehabilitating the Irish in the Topographia Hibernica of Gerald of Wales.” Viator 46.3 (2015): 21-40.
Price, Rachael. “‘the void and the missing’: History, Mystery, and Throwaway Bodies in Monique Truong's Bitter in the Mouth.” The North Carolina Literary Review 24 (2015): 50-64.
Conference Presentations
Cunningham, Daniele. “The I and the We: Autoethnography, Autobiography, and the Development of Southern Identity in The Making of a Southerner.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities. Honolulu, HI. 10-13 January 2015.
Davis, Christy. “Arvay Meserve’s Role as ‘Pet’ in Zora Neale Hurston’s Seraph on the Suwannee.” American Literature Association. Boston, MA. May 2015.
Fox, Sharon. “Not a Man and Not Yet a Woman: Considering the Role of the Transgendered Native American.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 14 Mar. 2015.
Fox, Sharon. "Weapons of Mass Construction: Plenty-coups and Pretty-shield." South Central Modern Language Association Conference. Nashville, TN. 31 Oct. - 3 Nov. 2015.
Hodges, Amy, Cannon Varnell, and Jeannie Waller. “Caught in the Middle: The Roles of Writing Fellows and Writing Centers in EAP and WID.” The 14th Symposium on Second Language Writing. Auckland, New Zealand. 19-21 Nov. 2015.
Jackson, Joshua R. “The Monstrosity of Technology: Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Evolution of Creation Scenes from 1931-2009.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA. 1-4 April 2015.
Jeter, Garrett. “Hyde and Seek: Stevenson's Creature Challenges Utilitarianism's Quest.” College English Association. Indianapolis, IN. 26-28 Mar. 2015.
Jeter, Garrett. “Moveable Text: Dracula and Hyde Relocate Beneath, Between, and Outside Their Narrative.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, Mobilities Conference. Atlanta, GA. 16-19 April 2015.
Jeter, Garrett. “Repeat-Visitor Jekyll and Hyde: Freud and Duality as Compulsive Guests.” College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research Symposium. University of Central Arkansas. Conway, AR. 22-23 April 2015.
Jeter, Garrett. “Transdiegesis: Frankenstein's Life-Frame Narratives.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 14 March 2015.
Mitchell, Kristi. “The Virtues of Corruption: Veneration of the Anti-Hero in 21st Century Popular Culture.” College English Association. Indianapolis, IN. 26-28 Mar. 2015.
Moore, Rebecca. “The King and His Queen: Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon as Center of Chivalric Court.” European Conference of Arts and Humanities. Brighton, England. 13-16 July 2015.
Moore, Rebecca. “Mary Shelton's Use of Transcription as Subversive Poetic Technique.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 14 March 2015.
Moore, Rebecca. “Teaching the Literature of the Early Renaissance.” College English Association. Indianapolis, IN. 26-28 Mar. 2015.
Nelson, Timothy. “Revising Religion in the Historia regum Britanniae.” 41st Annual Southeastern Medieval Association Conference. Little Rock, AR. 22-24 Oct. 2015.
Nelson, Timothy. “The Revisionist History of the Cotton Cleopatra Brut y Brenhinedd. 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 14-17 May 2015.
Panxhi, Lindsey Zachary. “Passages to the Otherworld and Purgatory: Marie de France's Yonec and L'espurgatoire seint Patriz.” Southeastern Medieval Association, University of Central Arkansas. Little Rock, AR. 22-24 Oct. 2015.
Panxhi, Lindsey Zachary. “Rewriting the Werewolf: Gerald of Wales's Eucharistic Inquiry.” Harvard University’s Celtic Languages and Literatures Conference, “New Perspectives on Gerald of Wales: Texts and Contexts.” Cambridge, MA. 10-11 April 2015.
Panxhi, Lindsey Zachary. “Supernatural Lovers and Sacred Practices in Walter Map's De nugis curialium.” 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 14-17 May 2015.
Price, Rachael. “Blue Northers and Barbed Wire: Modernization and the Village in Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show.” The Futures of American Studies Summer Institute. Dartmouth College. Hanover, NH. 22-28 June 2015.
Robinson, Ashley Sufflé. “‘To Infinity…and Beyond!: Pixar Films, Westerns, and the Narrative of the Frontier.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. New Orleans, LA. 1-4 April 2015.
Stephenson, Alexis. “Derridean Inspired Notions of Adaptation: Supplementing Vocabulary in Search of a Better Understanding.” College English Association. Indianapolis, IN. 26-28 March 2015.
Trevathan, Andy. “Teaching Pound's ‘Green World’ in a Red State.” Ezra Pound International Society. Dorf Tirol, Italy. 7-11 July 2015.
Vallowe, Megan. “Environmental Borderlands: Transnational Space in Linda Hogan's Power and Louise Erdrich's Tracks." American Literature Association. Boston, MA. 21-24 May 2015.
West, Sara. “Imagine You’re Not Writing for Your Teacher: Mediating ‘Imagined’ Contexts by Using Online Writing.” College English Association. Indianapolis, IN. 27 Mar. 2015.
West, Sara. “‘Have you ever heard of Google?’: Information/Misinformation Transfer on Yik Yak.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 14 Mar. 2015.
West, Sara. “Let’s Play with Tech Comm: Using Social Media in Technical and Professional Communication Classes.” Conference of Writing Program Administrators. Boise, ID. 16-19 July 2015.
West, Sara. “Yik Yak, Web 2.0, and the Rhetoric of Transparency.” South Central Modern Language Association. Nashville, TN. 31 Oct. - 3 Nov. 2015.
White, Paula. “Sexual Passing in E. Lynn Harris' Invisible Life.” Center for the Study of Genders and Sexualities at California State University, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA. 12 May 2015.
Awards
Bailey, Jocelyn, Ph.D. program, Claude W. Faulkner Endowed Award (for teaching and academic performance), English Department, University of Arkansas
Cox, Angela, Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy,
composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Fayard, Nathan, Ph.D. program, Distinguished Doctoral Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Green, Jonathan, Ph.D. program,Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Haydon, Nathan, Ph.D. program,Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Hermansen-Webb, Paige, Ph.D. program, Golden Tusk Award for Teaching, Division of Student Affairs, University of Arkansas
Jeter, Garrett, Ph.D. program, Karen Lentz Madison Award for Scholarship (for the best graduate student paper at the College English Association Conference)
Martin, Whitney, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Moore, Rebecca, Ph.D. program, James R. Bennett College English Association Award (for English graduate students to travel to the College English Association's annual conference), English Department, University of Arkansas
Panxhi, Lindsey, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Award (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Panxhi, Lindsey, Ph.D. program, James J. Hudson Doctoral Fellowship in the Humanities (for dissertation research), Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Price, Rachael, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Schaffner, Rachael, M.A. program, Catharine Macaulay Prize (for the best graduate student paper on a feminist or gender studies subject at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference)
Schaffner, Rachael, M.A. program, Fulbright Scholarship (for English teaching assistantship at Ataturk University in Erzurum, Turkey)
Zeenat, Afrin, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Publications
Bailey, Jocelyn. Rev. of Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America by Jason Berger. The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture. 5 (2014): 109-110.
Hermansen-Webb, Paige. “‘There Was No One Coming With Enough Power to Save Us’: Waiting for ‘Superman’ and the Rhetoric of the New Education Documentary.” Rhetoric & Public Affairs 17.3 (2014): 511-540.
Jeter, Garrett. “Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry: Toward a Corporeal Epistemology and Politics.” The CEA Critic 76.3 (2014): 239-245.
Price, Rachael. “‘To Honor a Man’: The Decline of Hegemonic Masculinity in Henry Bellamann's Kings Row.” MidAmerica 40 (2014): 16-28.
Shackelford, Ashley (with Owen R. Horton). “Fantasy Elsewheres, Sutured Realities, and the End of Camp: Comics in Contemporary Film and Television.” Critical Insights: The American Comic Book. Ed. Joseph Michael Sommers. Ipswitch, MA: Salem P, 2014. 178-188.
Trevathan, Andy. “The Globalization of the Teaching of Poetry in the 21st Century.” Going Global: Transnational Perspectives on Globalization, Language, and Education. Ed. Leslie Seawright. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars P, 2014. 148-153.
Waller, Jeannie. “African American English and Code Switching in School.” Going Global: Transnational Perspectives on Globalization, Language, and Education. Ed. Leslie Seawright. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars P, 2014. 98-112.
Zeenat, Afrin. “‘Lord What Fools These Mortals Be’: Islamophobia, Neoliberalism, and Neo-nationalism in Tabish Khair's How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position.” Nation and Its Discontents. Spec. issue of South Asian Review 35.3 (2014): 117-130.
Conference Presentations
Akhter, Farzana. “Negotiating the Politics: Tahmima Anam’s The Good Muslim and Women’s Role in Nation Building.” South Asian Literary Association. Chicago, IL. 8-9 Jan. 2014.
Akhter, Farzana. “Perceptions of Literacy: Teaching Composition as an International Teaching Assistant.” National Council of Teachers of English. Washington, D.C. 20-25 Nov. 2014.
Altindis, Huseyin. “Labor Exploitation, Changing Economies and Spaces in the U.S. South: Immigrants as ‘The Other’ in Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Arlington, VA. 26-30 March 2014.
Bailey, Jocelyn. “‘Nature, if you love her, will teach you′: Sedgwick's Romantic Countryside.” South Central Modern Language Association. Austin, TX. 18-22 Oct. 2014.
Bailey, Jocelyn. “Sentimentality and the Second Great Awakening: A Case Study.” Graduate Students in English Conference, University of Arkansas. Fayetteville, AR. 8 March 2014.
Cunningham, Daniele. “Epistemology and Zen.” Arkansas Philological Association. Little Rock, AR. 23-26 Oct. 2014.
Davis, Christy. “Beyond Language in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby.” Arkansas Philological Association. Little Rock, AR. 23-26 Oct. 2014.
Davis, Christy. “‘Good Black Talk’: Establishing Identity through Language.” University of Tulsa English Graduate Student Association. Tulsa, OK. 10-11 April 2014.
Davis, Christy. “‘A Kind of Cuban Expression’: Carson McCullers’s Vision of Cuba in The Member of the Wedding.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Arlington, VA. 27-29 March 2014.
Jeter, Garrett. “Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry: Towards a Corporeal Epistemology and Politics.” College English Association. Baltimore, MD. 27-29 March 2014.
Jeter, Garrett. “Wollstonecraft's Vindication and Shelley's Frankenstein: An Intertextual Approach to Mentorial Infidelity.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Harrisburg, PA. 3-6 April 2014.
Moore, Rebecca. “Education and Agency in The Miseries of Mavillia.” College English Association. Baltimore, MD. 27-29 March 2014.
Panxhi, Lindsey. “Gerald of Wales and the Wolves: Recensions of the Topographia Hibernica and Gerald’s Positive Portrayal of the Irish.” International Congress on Medieval Studies. Kalamazoo, MI. 8-11 May 2014.
Panxhi, Lindsey. “Positive Perceptions of the Irish in Recensions of the Topographia Hibernica.” Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference. Durham, England. 8-10 July 2014.
Schaffner, Rachael. “Matters of Imag(in)ed Memory and Happy Forgetting in Frances Burney’s Camilla: A Picture of Youth.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Williamsburg, VA. 20-22 March 2014.
Troutman, Megan. “Frankenstein, Vampires, and Ghosts, Oh My!: Monster Types and Functions in Children’s Animated Horror Film.” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association. Riverside, CA. 31 Oct. – 2 Nov. 2014.
Troutman, Megan. “IT’S ALIVE...Again: Frankenweenie and the Postmodern Horror Genre.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Chicago, IL. 16-19 April 2014.
Vallowe, Megan. “Insular Spaces and the Nation: Time and Space in Gloria Naylor's Mama Day." American Comparative Literature Association. New York, NY. 20-23 March 2014.
Varnell, Cannon. “Writing Center & ELL: Show, Don't Tell.” College English Association, Baltimore, MD. 27-29 Mar. 2014.
Varnell, Cannon. “Preparing Writers for the World: The Role of the WPA.” Council of Writing Program Administrators. Normal, IL. 13-20 Jul. 2014.
Varnell, Cannon. “Professionalizing and Americanizing Second Language Learners' Business Writing: When the Second Language Learner Wants to Assimilate.” Symposium on Second Language Writing, Tempe, AZ. 13-15 Nov. 2014.
Zeenat, Afrin. “Far Far Away and Hollywood: Pastiche, Paradox, and Shrek!” Midwest Modern Language Association. Detroit, MI. 13-16 Nov. 2014.
Zeenat, Afrin. “Islamism, Neo-Liberalism, and Terror: Fixing Fixity in Tabish Khair's How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position.” South Asian Literary Association. Chicago, IL. 8-9 Jan. 2014.
Zeenat, Afrin. “Veiled Anxieties in Mani Ratnam’s Bombay.” MLA Convention. Chicago, IL. 9-12 Jan. 2014.
Awards
Akkawi, Aya, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Altindis, Huseyin, Ph.D. program, Diane Blair Fellowship for the Study of Southern Literature, Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, University of Arkansas
Altindis, Huseyin, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Gul, Sinan, Ph.D. program, Ben Kimpel Memorial Fund (for literary scholarship), English Department, University of Arkansas
Hermansen-Webb, Paige, Ph.D. program, Larry Guinn Endowed Award (for academic achievement in rhetoric, literacy, composition, and/or linguistics), English Department, University of Arkansas
Jeter, Garrett, Ph.D. program, Blair Rouse Scholarship (for academic achievement), English Department, University of Arkansas
Leigh, Mary, Ph.D. program, Vance and Mary Celestia Parler Randolph Fellowship in English (for leadership and academic achievement in language, literature, and/or folklore), English Department, University of Arkansas
Martin, Whitney, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Nicholson, Sara, Ph.D. program, Dr. T.C. Duncan Eaves Memorial Fellowship (for scholarship in modern American poetry), English Department, University of Arkansas
Peters, Shiloh, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Rash, Shirley, M.A. program, Diane Blair Fellowship for the Study of Southern Literature, Diane D. Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, University of Arkansas
Vallowe, Megan, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
West, Sara, Ph.D. program, Doctoral Academy Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Arkansas
Publications
Ardeneaux, Edward, IV. “Writing the Nation and the Impossibility of Form: Reading the Nature of Genre in Ralph Ellison’s Unfinished Novel.” The CEA Critic 75.3 (2013): 285-292.
Bailey, Jocelyn. Rev. of The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom by Marcus Rediker. The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture. 4 (2013): 112-113.
Robinson, Ashley Sufflé. “Go West, Young Woman: Transforming Southern Womanhood through the Myth of the American West in Doris Betts’s Heading West and The Sharp Teeth of Love.” The CEA Critic 75.2 (2013): 109-128.
Conference Presentations
Akhter, Farzana. “Quest for Home in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace.” British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference. Savannah, GA. 15-16 Feb. 2013.
Anderson, James. “Locating Literacy/ies—Using ‘Community Mapping’ to Promote Student Inquiry and Teachers’ Connections to Schools.” Kansas Association of Teachers of English. Wichita, KS. 25 Oct. 2013.
Ardeneaux, Edward, IV. “Speculative History in Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.” Arkansas Philological Association. Little Rock, AR. 26 Oct. 2013.
Ardeneaux, Edward, IV. “Unmasking the Speculative Self: Subject Formation and Collective Belonging through Education in Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer.” South Central Modern Language Association. New Orleans, LA. 4 Oct. 2013.
Ardeneaux, Edward, IV. “Writing the Nation and the Impossibility of Form: Reading the Nature of Genre in Ralph Ellison’s Unfinished Novel.” College English Association. Savannah, GA. 4-6 Apr. 2013.
Bailey, Jocelyn. “Sedgwick's Sick Bodies: Didacticism and Sentimentalism in The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, MA. 21-24 March 2013.
Bailey, Jocelyn. “Transatlantic Influences of Sentimental Sickness.” College English Association. Savannah, GE. 4-6 April 2013.
Moore, Rebecca. “Interruptions of Expectation: Milton's Use of Enjambment to Encourage Interrogation.” College English Association. Savannah, GE. 4-6 April 2013.
Nelson, Timothy. “Behold, the Bloody Bastard.” Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston, MA. 21 March 2013.
Nelson, Timothy. “The Logistical Challenges of Gawain’s Pilgrimage.” International Medieval Congress. Leeds, England. 1 July 2013.
Trevathan, Andy. “Ezra Pound: At Home/In Exile.” Ezra Pound International Conference. Dublin, Ireland. 9-13 July 2013.
Troutman, Megan. “Happily Ever After Take Two: Adapting Femininity in Fairy Tale Films.” Popular Culture Association / American Culture Association. Washington, D.C. 27-30 March 2013.
Zeenat, Afrin. “Challenges in Incorporating Multicultural Texts in the Writing Class.” Council of Writing Program Administrators. Savannah, GA. 18-21 July 2013.
Zeenat, Afrin, and Jennifer Mallette. “Let’s Talk Revision: Theories, Strategies, and Practices--An Interactive Workshop.” Council of Writing Program Administrators. Savannah, GA. 18-21 July 2013.