Faculty and Graduate Student Research and Creative Activity
Faculty Research Reassigned Time Abstracts
2008
Kirk Hughes published Evidence and Argument in International Transplant Science: a developmental curriculum (Palm Springs, CA: Annenberg Center for Health Sciences, 2008). He also presented "Revisiting Rote: Memory, Epistemology and Student Critical Thinking" at the Southern CT State University 10th annual Faculty Research Conference (March 2008) and "Multi-cultural Teaching Skills" (a faculty development workshop) at the Baylor College of Medicine/American Association of Diabetes Educators in Houston, Texas (January 2008).
Lois Lake Church had her poem "Again" published in Broken Bridge Review (Fall 2007) and won the February "Naming the World" contest for her short story "Journey." She also was awarded the CSU 2008 essay prize for "Wordperson," which will appear in the CT Review this spring, and her piece "A Letter to My Daughter" was published in the anthology Mourning Sickness this spring.
Valerie McKee, former chair of EDGE (English Department Graduate Ensemble), was a $1,000 prize winner in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry competition, details for which are on http://www.dorothyprizes.org/ (go to the 2007 Prizewinners Winning Poems link on the left).
Val McKee, Sarah Rizzuto, and Lois Lake Church were invited to read their poetry at New Haven's ArtWalk on Saturday, May 10, 2008.
Graduate students Sarah Rizzuto, Mike Mulvey, Jill Bodach, and Lois Lake Church edited Noctua Review's inaugural edition, just published.
2007
Kalu Ogbaa published his book, General Ojukwu: The Legend of Biafra, with Triatlantic books.
Kirk Hughes presented papers at several conferences: "Translating Science: Thoughts on Literacy and Literary Resources for Health Promotion" at the Penn State University Medical Center, Hershey, State College, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (video simulcast) in November 2007; "Old Traditions for New Readers: lectio divina, and Developing Young Liturgists" at the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut, Liturgy Alive Conference, Hartford Connecticut in October 2007; "Speaking Fears: Effective Teaching in Emergency Preparedness" (faculty development workshop) at the University of California San Francisco-Fresno California Preparedness Education Network (CalPEN), Yosemite, CA, in November 2007; "Teaching Facts and the Figures of Health" (faculty development workshop) at the Indian Health Service-Sioux San Hospital in Rapid City, SD, in August 2007; and "Recitation and Writing: Integrating Rhetorical Skills in Advanced ESOL" at the Yale English Language Institute, New Haven, CT, in June 2007.
Andrea Beaudin presented a multimedia analysis, "Taking It to The Streets: Changing Perceptions of Rhetoric," at the International Computers and Writing Conference at Wayne State University in Detroit, May 18, 2007. Her review of the 2007 CCCC presentation "Identifying the Writer as Re-mixer: Rearticulating 'Writing' in New Media," was published in KairosWikis.
Tony Rosso's essay, "Popular Millenarianism and Empire in Blake's Night Thoughts," was published in Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture, eds. Steve Clark and Jason Whitaker (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007). He also presented two conference papers: "Re-reading Blake's 'London'" at the International Conference on Text and Image at Central Connecticut State University, March 29-30, 2007, and "William Blake on the Long 18th Century," for the CUNY Graduate Center 18th Century Interdisciplinary Group, March 9, 2007.
Dana Sonnenschein has published Natural Forms, a book of poetry, with Word Press. She also published poems in The Pinch (formerly River City), Mississippi Review, PoemMemoirStory (PMS), Measure, and The Iowa Review as well as in the online journals The Pedestal Magazine and Poemeleon.
Kelly Ritter's book, Can It
Really Be Taught? Resisting Lore in Creative Writing
Pedagogy, which she co-edited with Stephanie Vanderslice, was published by Boynton/Cook (2007). She also published "Ethos Interrupted: Diffusing 'Star' Pedagogy in the Creative Writing Classroom" in the journal College English 69.3 (January 2007):
283-292.
Scott Ellis published his article "'Reviewers Reviewed': John Davis and the Early American Literary Field" in Early American Literature 42.1 (2007): 157-88. He also published an essay, "Learning Unbound: Using MOOs for Classroom Collaboration," co-written with Jason B. Jones, in the journal Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 7.2 (Spring 2007): 258-64. He also presented a paper, "In Debt to Letters: The Literary Response to Incarceration for Debt in the Early Republic," at the Society of Early Americanists' biennial conference in Williamsburg, VA (June 7-10, 2007).
2006
Nicole Fluhr has recently published two articles, "Empathy and Identity in Vernon Lee's Hauntings." Victorian Studies 48 (Winter 2006): 287-294 and "'Their calling me 'mother' was not, I think, altogether unmeaning': Maternal Personae in Mary Seacole's Wonderful Adventures." Victorian Literature and Culture 34 (2006): 95-113.
Cindy Stretch had her essay "Socialist Housekeeping: The Visioning, Sisterhood, and Cross-Class Alliance" published in Disclosing Intertextualities: The Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell, Eds. Martha C. Carpentier and Barbara Ozieblo (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 223-238).
Dana Sonnenschein has published numerous poems over the past year: "To the Patricide on Death Row" in Crab Orchard Review on Defining Family 11.2 (Summer/Fall 2005); "Rattlesnake Prayer" and "Foundlings" in
Bob McEachern published "Incorporating Reflection into Business Communication Service-Learning Courses" as part of the "Focus on Teaching" column in the September 2006 issue of Business Communication Quarterly. He also presented the paper "School Sucks Across the Curriculum: 'File' Sharing, 'Sampling,' and Ethics for WPAs" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in March 2006. He and Lois Lake Church designed and presented a series of workshops on "Incorporating Writing into Subject Areas" for teachers at the Jared Eliot Middle School in Clinton, CT in October and November 2005.
Tony Rosso published a review of David Shafer's The Paris Commune: French Politics, Culture, and Society at the Crossroads of the Revolutionary Tradition and Revolutionary Socialism in Utopian Studies 17.1 (2006) and delivered two papers: "Is Globalization Imperialism?" at the Interdisciplinary Research Conference at SCSU, April 8, 2006; and "Protecting Academic Freedom: Principles and Strategies of the AAUP" at the Society for the Study of Social Problems Conference in Montreal August 12, 2006.
Scott Ellis published his essay, "'Truth-Telling Accents': The Business of Storytelling in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Legends of Province House" in Auto-poetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-century British and American Fiction, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2006. He also presented "'The Ravages of the Critical Scalping Knife': John Davis and the American Review" at the conference, Brown and the Bayou: Politics, Writing, and Borderlands in the Postrevolutionary Circumatlantic World in New Orleans, Nov. 2-5, 2006.
Will Hochman published Freer, a book of poetry, with Pecan Grove Press. He also published his poems "Tenure Decision" on www.insidehighered.com on January 23, 2006 and "Pain Illusionist Stresses the Reality of Preparation" in Tattoo Highway, February 12, 2006.
Kelly Ritter published "Buying In, Selling Short: A Pedagogy against the Rhetoric of Online Paper Mills" in Pedagogy 6:1 (2006) and "Extra-Institutional Authority and the Public Value of the WPA." WPA: Writing Program Administration 29.3 (Spring 2006): 45-64.
Will Hochman, Andrea Beaudin, Lois Lake Church, Chris Dean, and Andy Piscitelle collaboratively presented multimedia on "Converging Learning Literacies and Diverging Learning Spaces in First Year Composition: Where Is the Class in This Class?" to the 2006 Academic Computing Conference and to the International Computers and Writing Conference.
Andrew Smyth presented "Roughing It on the Border in Nancy Farmer's House of the Scorpion" at the International Society of Travel Writers conference in Denver (September 2006).
2005
Paul Petrie's book, Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather, has been published by the University of Alabama Press (2005). Conscience and Purpose is part of the Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism series.
Kelly Ritter has published "Teaching Lore: Creative Writers and the University" (Co-Authored with Dr. Stephanie Vanderslice) in Profession 2005 (MLA: December 2005): 102-112 and "Course Design for English 200: Rhetoric, Argument, and the Law in American Culture" in Composition Studies 33.2 (November 2005): 89-112.
Vivian Shipley was awarded the 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Literary Community from the Library of Congress Connecticut Center for the Book and the 2005 Faculty Scholar Award at SCSU for her book When There is No Shore (Word Press, 2002). Professor Shipley joins Timothy Parrish, James Rhodes, and Kalu Ogbaa, who are previous recipients of the Faculty Scholar Award from the English Department. Prof. Shipley also held poetry readings at Trinity University in Hartford, CT and the United States Military Academy at West Point, where she also held a writing workshop. She also participated in a National Public Radio Interview with Grace Cavalieri on The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress.
Dana Sonnenschein has published several poems, including "Abitur" in The MacGuffin 22.1 (Fall 2005), "Ave Maria Gratia Plena" in Ruah 15 (2005), "On the Origin of Species" in Northwest Review 43.3 (2005), and "Ode to the Bear of Feasting" in Seneca Review 35.2 (Fall 2005).
Corinne Blackmer presented "Cooking the Books: Women as Object of Contract in the Presumed Prohibition on Male Homosexuality in Leviticus" at the Research Reassigned Time colloquium on December 2, 2005.
Scott Ellis presented "Scholarship in the Digital World: Preparing for the Future" at the MLA Convention in Washington, D.C. on December 29, 2005, and he has established and moderates the blog for the journal Pedagogy (from Duke University Press). You can find the blog at http://pedagogyjournal.blogspot.com/
August 2004 - August 2005
Christopher Dean, Will Hochman, Robert McEachern, and Carra Hood collaborated to write "Fashioning the Emperor's New Clothes: Emerging Pedagogy and Practices of Turning Wireless Laptops Into Classroom Literacy Stations" in Kairos Volume 9 Issue 1 (Fall 2005)
Tim Parrish's short story, "Orderly," was published in War, Literature, and the Arts (U.S. Air Force Academy) in the Fall 2004 issue. It was nominated for Pushcart Prizes 2005. His short story, "Riotous," was published in Hotel Amerika (Ohio University) in the Spring 2005 issue, and another short story, "Magnetic Resonance Imaging," was published in the Spring 2005 issue of the Cincinnati Review (University of Cincinnati). He was also invited to read fiction at the Eudora Welty Festival, Mississippi College for Women in Columbus, MS, on October 14, 2004 and at Boise State University, February 24, 2005. Moreover, he gave a public reading of a nonfiction piece, "My Last Fist Fight," as part of Arts and Sciences' Dean's Research Reassigned Time Colloquia, April 25, 2005. Tim also presented a workshop entitled "Where's the Story?" at Connecticut Authors and Publishers University on May 7, 2005, and he participated in panel on "Workshopping the Novel" at the Associated Writing Programs' annual conference in Vancouver, Canada, on March 30, 2005. Additionally, on April 27 and 28, 2005, he taught two classes who had studied his book, "Red Stick Men," in Johns Hopkins University's M.A. in Creative Writing Program.
Audrey Elisa Kerr received a Minority Recruitment and Retention Committee grant to present a paper at the Hawaii International Conference in the Social Sciences and conduct regional research on HIV/AIDS and native Hawaiian communities in Honolulu. She has also recently published "The Myth and Motion of Colorism in Black Washington, D.C." in the Journal of American Folklore, 118:3 (469) (Summer 2005) and "The Legacy of DuBois in the Work of MaryNell Morgan" in The Women's Times (March 2005).
Cindy Stretch was awarded a Fulbright Senior Lectureship to the University of Barcelona, Spain, where she will teach one Ph.D seminar and one undergraduate course in American literature during the fall 2005 semester.
Dana Sonnenschein published "The Table" in the peer-reviewed journal West Branch 56 (Spring/Summer 2005): 52, and her sonnet "On Reading Silently" was awarded first prize in the Parini Poetry Contest for poems about the teaching of poetry. Her poetry chapbook, No Angels But These, was published in the peer-reviewed Editor's Choice Series, Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2005.
Will Hochman published his essay "'A Note To The Difficult One': How Reading and Writing a Poem Becomes A Teaching Essay" in Amarillo Bay Volume 6 Number 3 (August 2004). With Chris Dean, he published "Hypertext 101" in Inside Higher Education April 4, 2005. He also published two poems, "Ghost Riding in Kicking Horse Reservoir" and "Breaking the Sun," in Living Waters Issue 10 (Spring 2005) and another, "Smoke in Your Eyes," in The Connecticut Review Volume XXVII, Number 1 (Spring 2005). Additionally, he edited the Interactive Review of the 2005 CCCC (with Jonathan Alexander and Chris Dean) and the poetry in Volume 16 Number 1&2, (Spring 2005) of War, Literature & the Arts.
Kelly Ritter published "The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition" College Composition and Communication 56.4 (June 2005): 601-631. She also presented "The First-Year Composition Sequence at SCSU: Student Versus Faculty Perceptions" at the Second Annual CSU Assessment Conference, Williamantic, Connecticut, April 29, 2005; "The Economics of Authorship: Online Paper Mills, Student Writers, and First-Year Composition" at the Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 28, 2004; and "Whither Collaboration? WPAs and Upper-Level Administrators Define Basic Writing." at the Thomas R. Watson 2004 Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Louisville, Kentucky, October 9, 2004. She was also an invited speaker at the Eastern Connecticut State University Plagiarism Forum ("Guilty in Whose Eyes?"), where she presented "Economics, Authorship, and Plagiarism."
Bob McEachern has published "WAC Directors and the Politics of Grading" in Writing Across the Curriculum Journal 14 (2004): 67-80 and presented "What Do We Know about Writing in Small Nonprofit Organizations?" at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Business Communication, Boston, October 2004.
Andrew Smyth published a review of Sexuality and Citizenship: Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse, by Jim Ellis in the Sixteenth Century Journal 35 (2004): 1248-49. He also presented a paper,"'So fair a Landscape charm'd the wondring Knight': Edmund Spenser, Gilbert West, and Maria Edgeworth's Charm for Ireland," at The Voyage Out: Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Society for Travel Writing, Milwaukee, WI, October 2004.
Démian Pritchard presented "Whose class is it, anyways?: Language Politics and Academic Entitlement in U.S. Latina/o Literature Classes" in April at the National Association for Chicana/Chicano Studies Annual Meeting in Miami, Florida. She also presented "Theorizing Spoken Word: Keeping the Funk of the Memory Theater" for the Arts and Sciences' Dean's Research Reassigned Time Colloquia at SCSU on October 18, 2004.
Tony Rosso published a review of a recent scholarly edition of Frankenstein that appeared in Utopian Studies 15.2 (2005). He was also a cast member in Outcry for Justice: Poetry in the Struggle for Freedom of Sacco and Vanzetti, created and directed by Paula Panzarella, in New York at the Theatre for the New City on May 7 and May 14, 2005, and at The Brecht Forum on August 27, 2005.
Paul Petrie was a respondent for the "Howells and Masculinity" panel at the American Literature Association in Boston, May 2005.
Scott Ellis published an essay, "Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond, Property Exchange, and the Literary Marketplace in the Early American Republic" in Studies in the Novel 37.1 (Spring 2005). He also presented "Robert Morris, `The Man at Home,' and Brown's Fictionalized Debtor" at the biennial Charles Brockden Brown Conference ( New York, NY, 21-23 October 2004) and "Learning Unbound: Using Technology for Cross-Campus Collaboration" (with Jason Jones from CCSU) at the CSU Academic Computing Conference at Western Connecticut State University (April 9, 2005). He was also the Chair and Organizer for the panel, "The Economies of Early American Literature" at the biennial Society of Early Americanists conference in Arlington, VA, March 31-April 02, 2005.
Back to the TopGraduate Student News, 2005-2006
Lisa Siedlarz won the prestigious John Holmes Poetry Award, presented by the New England Poetry Club, for her poem "Enduring Freedom." She also had two poems published in Caduceus III (Fall 2005), "Thank You Bobby Vinton" and "Great Gams".
She read her poetry for the Caduceus III release on November 17, 2005 and for the SCSU Poetry
Contest on December 7, 2005. Siedlarz was also named (with Valerie McKee) the 2005-2006 SCSU Graduate Student Poet.
She was the feature poet at Kafe International in Cheshire (Sept. 2005), the feature poet for FOLIO (Dec. 2005),
and the feature poet for the Wednesday Night Poetry Series in Bethel (Feb. 22, 2006). Her poems, "A Pronunciation
Guide to Some Things Polish," "Beneath the Grain," "Learning Curve Removed," "M. Shelley Steps in Spezia Bay After
P. Drowned in an Unexpected Storm," and "The Personality Extraction of Frances Farmer," will appear in the 2006
issue of Folio, of which "Pronunciation Guide to Some Things Polish" took second place in the Folio contest.
Her poem, "The Personality Extraction of Francis Farmer" will also appear in the Spring 2006 issue of Louisiana
Literature. Finally, a book review she wrote will appear in Rattle in Summer 2006.
Lois Lake Church, Valerie McKee, and Joseph Mangino were awarded Graduate Student Graduate Assistantships (2006-2007), while Patricia LaFayllve and Adam Floridia were awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship (2006-2007).
For the 7th Annual Graduate Student Conference hosted by SCSU's English Dept. on Apr. 22, 2006, most SCSU students accepted to present presented: Valerie McKee moderated the panel titled "Masks and Passing in African American Literature" and presented on "Whitman's Celebration of Every Man; Slavery, Racism and Equality in Song of Myself"; Paul Ferrino (History) on "On Passing"; David DiSarro presented on "Individual identity versus Social Bonding: An Examination of the Homosexual Bonds Between the Pardoner, the Summoner, the Host, and the Knight in the Pardoner's Tale" and moderated the panel titled "Jazz in African American Poetry and Literature"; Mihaela Harper presented on "Redefining 'Shiftlessness' as Reflective Action During the Harlem Renaissance" and "The Border Cross: Perpetual Identity, Redefintion and Self-Search in Sandra Cisneros Mericans," and contributed to the panel titled "The Graduate Assistantship Teaching Experience."
Ben Kowalsky (undergraduate) on "The Possibility of Divine Inspiration and Divine Experience in Germanic Poetry"; Patrice LaFayllve on "Clan Loyalty and Family Feuds: Njal's Saga and the Mafia"; John Christie presented on "ton esw angrwpou: Revelation and Paul's Innermost Man" and contributed to the panel titled "The Graduate Assistantship Teaching Experience"; Kristen DelGrego on "We Be Learning English"; Daniela Ragusa on "Classroom Practices: Reading and Writing Rhetorical Texts for Ethical Social Action"; Jessica DeStefano on "An Integrated Tolerance and Diversity Unit: Building Awareness in the High School Community"; Lois L. (Lake) Church contributed to the panels titled "Techie Teaching: How Cyberspace Becomes Learning Space in English Studios" and "The Graduate Assistantship Teaching Experience," and presented on "To Seem, But Not To Be: Aspects of Appearance in Sir Philip Sydney's Sonnets"; Andrew Piscitelle contributed to the panel titled "Techie Teaching: How Cyberspace Becomes Learning Space in English Studios."
Andrea Beaudin contributed to the panel titled "Techie Teaching: How Cyberspace Becomes Learning Space in English Studios"; Jennifer Jerolman contributed to the panel titled "Techie Teaching: How Cyberspace Becomes Learning Space in English Studies" and presented on "Breaking Silence: An Adoption Memoir"; Holly Stephens on "Easing the Transition: High School and University Composition Pedagogy"; Bekka Van Horn on "Secrets and Struggles: What It Means to Teach Composition" and "Listening and Responding to David Bartholmae's Writing on the Margins"; Meghann England on "Pie-The Literary Magazine - A Literary Project"; Sandra Siena on "The Rapturous Union of Thanatos and Eros in Section 5 of Whitman's Song of Myself"; Dina Secchiroli on "Emerson and Pedagogy"; Mattea Heller on "The Effects of Vietnam on Veterans in David Rabe's Sticks and Bones"; Deborah Mattson on "Mother Never Warned Me There Would Be Days Like These: A Memoir"; Michael Murphy (Physics, undergraduate) on "The Effectiveness of Incorporating Context-Rich Conceptual Writing into Physics Education"; Melissa McCarthy on "Excursions: A High School Travel Abroad Program"; David Zeidler on "The Fanatic's Guide to the Modern Horror Film."
Juliana Fraenza on "The Pen Pal Project"; Emily Cole on "Complicating the Conversation: Insights into 21st Century Education in the No-Child-Left-Behind Era"; Anthony Brano on "Mixing Screams and Tracking Pornography in Two Early Woody Allen Films"; Joseph Selvaggio on "The (Sub)Texture of Comedy: Muted Colors and Grainy Images in Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run"; Stephanie Pixley on "Ultimate Reality or Neorealism"; John Mattson on "'As It Is, In the Intricate Evasions of As...' Discontinuity, the Anxiety of Influence, and an American Crisis in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens"; Marika Georgiou on "Know You the Hand? Tis Claudius' Character Revealed in the First Folio"; Katherine Meikle on "Othello's Unraveling Rhetoric"; Emily Saglimbeni Archer on "Hamlet's Need for Control: A Conversation with the Worthy Adversary Ophelia"; Chris Briggs on "Hamlet for Beginning Actors"; Patricia A. Catalano on "How to Raise Milk Chocolate Babies: A Guide for Parents of Biracial Children"; Vanessa Raney moderated the panel titled "Visual Studies: Mythologization in Comics" and presented on "King Arthur Gets a New Look: Comics and the Myths of the Round Table"; Erik Good on "The Writing on My Margins"; and Peter Sagnella on "Revisioning My Current Traditional and/or Liberal Humanist-Self: Interference and Influence in an English 519 Narrative."
Congratulations to all the participants of the conference!
On March 3, 2006, Ed La Salle presented "'Media is the Massage, Using Film and Music When Teaching Composition and Literature" at the Connecticut Coalition of English Teachers (CCET), Spring Conference, "The Balancing Act: Teaching Writing in the Two-Year College."
Michael Razer won Second Honorable Mention for his poem, "Luna," as part of the 2006 EDGE (English Department Graduate Ensemble) Poetry Contest at SCSU.
Dave Zeidler won Third Honorable Mention for his poem, "Halloween," as part of the 2006 EDGE (English Department Graduate Ensemble) Poetry Contest at SCSU.
Valerie McKee has published several poems recently. "She is her Sunday Best" and "White Lightnin' and Peaches" appear in Louisiana Literature, "Corporeal" in The Connecticut River Review, and "'Go Pick Your Switch'" and ""New Yorker," in Caduceus III (Fall 2005). She also read her poetry for the Caduceus III release on November 17, 2005 and for the SCSU Poetry Contest on December 7, 2005. McKee was also named (with Lisa Siedlarz) the 2005-2006 SCSU Graduate Student Poet. She also won the Leo Connellan Poetry Prize for her poem "Heirloom." The poem appears in the Spring 2006 Connecticut Review and Folio, the latter of which also includes her poems "Last Will and Testament" and "She is her Sunday Best.".
Amy Ashton Handy won first place for her fiction, "Loving Girl," as part of the 2006 SCSU Fiction Contest. Her poems, "Character Driven," "Nick's Eulogy for Jay," and "Eyelids," and her fiction, "Simplicity," were published in Folio (2006).
Lois Lake Church won second place for her fiction, "Shards," as part of the 2006 SCSU Fiction Contest. She was awarded the 2006-2007 Roger P. Blood, Jr. Memorial Scholarship offered by SCSU, and a 2005-2006 Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Composition offered by the English Department at SCSU. She also played the role of the Townswoman in the Connecticut Gilbert and Sullivan Society's production of "The Sorcerer" at Middletown High School, CT (Nov. 4-6, 2005).
Vanessa Raney published her book review on Kate T. Williamson's A Year in Japan (2006) in www.guttergeek.com (Mar. 2006). Her "Review of 2005 International Comic-Con in San Diego: 2005 Comic-Con Shines a Light on Eisner: A Look at Two Documentaries and a Tribute" was published in ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies (Winter 2005), available online. Her essay, "Child Labor and Lewis Hine: His Life and Work," was published in The 49th Parallel: An Interdisciplinary Journal of North American Studies (Autumn 2005), available online. She also presented at the 2006 "Study of Narrative Literature: An International Conference" (6-9 Apr. 2006); the "2006 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention" (Mar. 2-5, 2006); the "2006 Meeting of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters" (Mar. 3-4, 2006; in absentia); "The Future of Memory: An International Holocaust and Trauma Studies Conference" (Nov. 10-12, 2005); the "2005 Vernacular Colloquium: Affirming Human Values at a Time of War" (Oct. 26-29, 2005); and the "9th Connecticut State University (CSU) Faculty Research Conference" (Oct. 22, 2005). She was also awarded a Travel Award from the Graduate Student Affairs Committee (Fall 2005). She currently serves as the 2006-07 Graduate Caucus Director for NeMLA, as a 2006 Member of the Teaching and Learning Working Group of SCSU's University Strategic Planning Steering Committee, and as the 2005-2006 English Department Representative for SCSU's Graduate Student Affairs Committee.
Pat Bjorklund published her poem "To Presidio" in Big Tex[t], Texas A & M University (March 2005). She also published a story, "Simply Natural," in the December 2004 issue of Post Road Literary Magazine, Boston University. She also presented a work of creative nonfiction, "The Color of My Bus," at the American Popular Culture Association (PCA/ACA National Conference) in San Diego, CA, March 2005 and another, "Nine Lives in Purgatory," at "Writing By Degrees," a Graduate Conference at SUNY-Binghamton in October 2004.
Holly Stephens was awarded a 2005-2006 Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Composition offered by the English Department at SCSU. She also competed as a member of 6 Trained Monkeys and placed fifth during the Ultimate Frisbee National Championships held in Sarasota, FL (October 26-29, 2005). She also presented a paper entitled "Antoinette: the Zombie in Wide Sargasso Sea" at the Southern Connecticut State University "Graduate English Conference" (April 16, 2005).
Mihaela Harper was awarded a 2005-2006 Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Composition offered by the English Department.
Anthony Bano's story "Landscaping" appears in the 2006 issue of Folio.
Jean Copeland's poem, "Civil Union," appears in the 2006 issue of Folio.
