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Faculty Publications, Awards, and Upcoming Projects

 

Recent publications:

 

Anthony, David. “‘Gone Distracted’: ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ Gothic Masculinity, and the Panic of 1819,

               ” Early American Literature, March 2005 (40.1): 111-144.

 

Anthony, David. “Banking on Emotion: Financial Panic and the Logic of Male Submission in the

               Jacksonian Gothic,” American Literature, December 2004 (76:4): 719-747.

Anthony, David. “Class, Culture, and the Trouble with White Skin in Hawthorne's The House of

               the Seven Gables,” The Yale Journal of Criticism, Fall 1999 (12:2): 249-268. [Reprinted

               in Norton Critical Edition of The House of the Seven Gables, Ed. Robert Levine, 2005,

               pp. 438-459.

 

Anthony, David. "The Helen Jewett Panic: Tabloids, Men, and the Sensational Public Sphere in

                Antebellum New York,”  American Literature, September 1997 (69:3): 487-514.

 

Anthony, David. “‘Bad Trash,’ or, Scenes of Middlebrow Taste in Antebellum Literature,” in

               Gabler-Hover and Sattelmery, Eds. American History Through Literature, 1820-1870

               (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons), 2005.

 

Benedict, Pinckney. “Mercy” (short story), Ontario Review # 65 (Princeton, NJ), Fall/Winter 2006-07.
 
Benedict, Pinckney. “Pig Helmet & the Wall of Life” (short story), StoryQuarterly #42 (Kenilworth, IL), 

               October 2006.
 
Benedict, Pinckney. “Rescuing Moon” (short story), reprint, I Feel (magazine), Kinokuniya

               Publishing (Tokyo), October 2006.

 

Bogumil, Mary. " August Wilson’s relationship to Black Theater." Cambridge University Press's Companion

               Series (December 2007).

 

Boulukos, George. "Olaudah Equiano and the Eighteenth-Century Debate on Africa,” Eighteenth-Century Studies (2007).

 

Boulukos, George. “The Horror of Hybridity: Enlightenment, Anti-slavery and Disgust in Charlotte Smith’s ‘Story of Henrietta,’”

                Essays and Studies (2007).

 

Boulukos, George. “The Politics of Silence: Mansfield Park and the Amelioration of Slavery,” in Novel: a Forum on Fiction (Summer 2006).

 

Dively, Ronda Leathers.  Preludes to Insight: Creativity, Incubation and Expository Writing.

               Crosskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc., 2006.

 

McEathron, Scott. ed. English Labouring-Class Poetry, 1800-1830 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2006).

McEathron, Scott. "An Infant Poem of War: Bloomfield's 'On the Launch of the Boyne,'" in Robert Bloomfield: Lyric, Class, and the

               Romantic Canon (Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2006).

 

Nelms, Gerald. "Chapter 6: Documentation of Nutrition Care." Nutrition Therapy and Pathophysiology. By Marcia Nelms, Kathryn

               Sucher, and Sara Long. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2007. Pp. 137-148.

 

Nelms, Gerald. "Can Transcendentalist Romanticism Save Education? In Search of an Active Learning Countertradition" (Review of

               Minding American Education: Reclaiming the Tradition of Active Learning by Martin Bickman [NY: Teachers College Press,

               Columbia University 2003]), Pedagogy 4. (Fall 2004): 475-83.

 

Netzley, Ryan. “The End of Reading: The Practice and Possibility of Reading Foxe’s Actes and Monuments,” ELH 73 (2006): 187-214.

 

Netzley, Ryan.“‘“Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven,” Is That It?’: Ethics, Apocalypticism, and Allusion in The Devil’s

               Advocate, ” in Milton and Popular Culture, eds. Greg Colon- Semenza and Laura Lunger Knoppers (Palgrave, 2006).

 

Wells, Jeremy. "The Arrival of Regions: The Blackwell Companion to the Regional Literatures of America" (Review Essay).  Western

               American Literature 41.2 (Summer 2006).

 

Zimra, Clarisse. Debra Kelly's Autobiography and Independence in North African Postcolonial Writing in  H-NET: FRANCE REVIEW 

               Vol. 6  (October 2006), No. 123. 

 

Zimra, Clarisse. “Hearing Voices or Who You Calling Post-colonial”  in   Research in African Literatures (Winter  2004): 149-60.
 

Zimra, Clarisse.“Can the Empire Really Write Back: Maximin’s Unbounded Narrative” in  The American Journal of Semiotics  vol. 18 

               (Winter 2006): 37-55. 

 

Zimra, Clarisse. “Daniel Maximin: L’isole soleil " in  The Novel (Princeton U. P. 2 vols. 2006)

 

Zimra, Clarisse. Three  entries:  Routledge Encyclopedia of African Literature.  Ed. Simon Gikandi et al  (2003): "Assia Djebar"; 

               "Jean Amrouche";  "Tao Amrouche"

 

Zimra, Clarisse. “The Architectural Memory/Cadastre de l’imaginaire dans le Quatuor” in  Assia Djebar: Nomade Entre les Murs. 

               Ed.Calle-Gruber (Paris: Maisonneuve-Larose and Brussels: Royale Académie 2005): 171-84.

 

Zimra, Clarisse. “A New Kind of Algerian Woman,”  Afterword to Children of the New World: A Novel of the Algerian War (NUY Press:

               The Feminist Press  2005): 201-33.   
         

 

 

Honors and Recent Awards:

• Dr. Ronda Dively assumed the position of Director of Writing Studies in June 2006, overseeing ongoing revisions to the common English 101 syllabus and the organization and execution of the 2006 Pre-Semester Workshop.

• Professor Rodney Jones is the 2007 recipient of the Kingsley Tufts Prize in Poetry. 
  This annual award, given to a poet in mid-career, is a prize of $100,000.
• Associate Allison Joseph was awarded the Writecorner Poetry Prize for her poem
  "A Love Note to Teenagers"--read the poem at www.writecorner.com

• Associate Professor Allison Joseph is an award winner in the 2006 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg
  Poetry Competition. She will be awarded $5000 for her poems "Cartography" and "Emergency Librarian."

• Associate Professo Allison Joseph was awarded a $7000 Artists Fellowship in Poetry for 2007 from the Illinois Arts Council.
• Dr. Jeremy Wells was awarded the ORDA Faculty Seed Grant (2006) for archival research in support of current book project, "White Men's Burdens: Empire and the Culture of the Plantation Romance."
• Dr. Clarisse Zimra was elected a Fellow of the American Semiotics Association in 2004. She is currently on sabbatical Fall 2006, as a Taft Fellow in the Humanities at the University of Cincinnati, to finish a book on women writers and Islam, “Islam's Imaginary  Architectonics.”  This project looks at gendered discourse as a transcultural  variable.
  Simultaneously, she has just finished two entries for the on-going Routledge Encyclopedia of African Thought (as distinct from the Encyclopedia of African Literatiure), "Apuleius" and "Berber."

Recent Research Fellowships:

David Anthony:

2005 American Antiquarian Society, Short-Term Fellowship
2001 Andrew Mellon Short-Term Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia.
2000 American Antiquarian Society, Short-Term Fellowship.
2000 SIU Carbondale Summer Research Fellowship.
1997 American Antiquarian Society, Short-Term Fellowship.

 

Recent Presentations:

• Dively, Ronda, and Gerald Nelms. "The Transfer of Composition Knowledge from the First-Year Composition Course to Courses in the Major." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Qualitative Research Network Forum. March 2006.

• Nelms, Gerald."Intentional Plagiarism: Its Causes and Detection." University Core Curriculum Workshop, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 11 October 2006.

• Nelms, Gerald."Plagiarism as Educational Opportunity." University Core Curriculum Workshop, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 4 October 2006.

 

Upcoming Projects and Presentations:

• The University of Illinois Press will publish new editions of Chicago writer James T. Farrell's monumental O'Neill-O'Flaherty pentalogy of novels with an introduction by Charles Fanning. The first two, "A World I Never Made" (first published in 1936) and "No Star Is Lost" (1938) will appear in March 2007. The other three, "Father and Son" (1940), "My Days of Anger" (1943), and "The Face of Time" (1953) will appear in fall 2007. The editing and introduction were completed during Dr. Fanning's sabbatical in spring 2006, part of which was spent on a fellowship at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

• Dr. Nelms has a book contract with Parlor Press: The Book on Plagiarism. West Lafayette, IN: Parlor Press, anticipated publication in 2007.
• Dr. Gerald Nelms has an upcoming presentation at the next CCCC: "Plagiarism and Self-Efficacy: Forces at Work in Student Underlife." Conference on College Composition and Communication. New York, NY, March 2007.

 

 

Lecturer Publications:

• Michael Meyerhofer is the author of three collections of poetry—Leaving Iowa, which won the Liam Rector First Book Award; Cardboard Urn, winner of the 2005 Copperdome Chapbook Contest; and The Right Madness of Beggars, winner of the 2006 Uccelli Chapbook Contest. He also won the 2006 Annie Finch Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in Arts & Letters, Green Mountains Review, Fugue, North American Review, Asimov’s Science Fiction
  Magazine and others.
  
• Meyerhofer, Michael. "Not all that glitters is gold, not all who wander are lost." JRR Tolkien

 

Lecturer Awards:

• Michael Meyerhofer's third chapbook, Real Courage, won the Terminus/Jeanne Duval
  Editions Chapbook Contest and will be published in an edition of 200 copies.
• Michael Meyerhofer was awarded the 2006 James Wright Poetry Award from
  Mid-American Review for his poem "Ode to Dogs."
• Michael Meyerhofer won the Laureate Prize for Poetry from National Poetry Review