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Fall 2019 English Department Accomplishments

Fall 2019 English Department Accomplishments

STUDENTS

Lesley Brooks, PhD Literature Candidate

Lesley was hired as the Coordinator of Library Operations for the ±«Óătv Tampa Library. She largely works as the production editor for ±«Óătv’s open access journals.

Mary Isabella Fraraccio, English Literary Studies Major

  • --. “The Search for Postcolonial Identity in Tayeb Salih’s Seasons of Migration to the North.” Undergraduate Humanities Conference, 21-22 Nov. 2019, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL. Conference Presentation.

Courtney Holzwarth, English Literary Studies Major

  • --. “Narrative Perspective in Sherlock Holmes Short Stories and Television.” Undergraduate Humanities Conference, 21-22 Nov. 2019, ±«Óătv, Tampa, FL. Conference Presentation.

Angelica Johnson, English Literary Studies Major

  • --. “The Patriarchal Voice in Jamaica Kincaid’s Girl.” Undergraduate Humanities Conference, 21-22 November 2019, ±«Óătv, Tampa, FL. Conference Presentation.

Lynette Kuliyeva, PhD Literature Candidate

  • --. "The Transformation of the Shakespearean Clown in the Romances." PAMLA Annual Conference, 17 Nov. 2019, San Diego, CA. 

Victoria Vadell, English Literary Studies Major

  • --. "Literature and Character Development in Shelly's Frankenstein." Undergraduate Humanities Conference, 21-22 Nov. 2019, ±«Óătv, Tampa, FL. Conference Presentation.

McKenzie Zalopany, MFA Candidate

  • McKenzie was accepted for publication for The Boiler journal for fiction piece "Buena Vista Bonded," and at Gargoyle Magazine for "Stamp Bingo," which will be published later this year. 
  • McKenzie was nominated for a pushcart award for fiction piece "Scratchers and Fried Gizzards," and was nominated for the AWP awards for fiction piece, "Boulder," and for poem "Oral." 

ALUMNI

Carmella Guiol, MFA, 2017

  • --. “I Gave Up All Social Media for One Full Year. Here’s My Report from the Other Side.” SELF, 7 Aug. 2019.
  • --. “In ‘Ordinary Girls,’ Jaquira DĂ­az Explores the Dark Side of Youth.” Zora/Medium, 4 Dec. 2019.

Zachary Lundgren, MFA, 2013

  • Zachary received an instructor position at the University of Northern Colorado, teaching in rhetoric, composition, and scientific writing.
  • --. “An Inconvenient Apocalypse.” Imagining the End: The Apocalypse in American Popular Culture, edited by Jim Holte, ABC-CLIO, 2019. 
  • --. Review of Topic-Driven Environmental Rhetoric, edited by Derek G. Ross. Technical Communication Quarterly, 2019. 

FACULTY

Michael Albrecht

  • --. Review of Make America Meme Again: The Rhetoric of the Alt Right, by Heather Suzanne Woods and Leslie A. Hahner. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, vol. 8, no. 2, 2019.
  • --. Review of True Detective: Critical Essays on the HBO Series, edited by Scott F. Stoddart and Michael Samuel. Popular Culture Studies Journal, vol. 7, no. 2, 2019, pp. 351-354. 
  • --. Review of Talking White Trash: Mediated Representations and Lived Experiences of White Working-Class People, by Tasha R. Dunn. Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 52, no.4, 2019, pp. 959-62.
  • --. “First as Farce, Then as Tragedy: The Hilarious Nihilism of the Final Season of Veep in the Era of Trump” Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association, 2019, Pittsburgh, PA. Conference Presentation.

Alex Cendrowski

  • --. "Gator Bait." Smokelong Quarterly, 18 Nov. 2019, http://www.smokelong.com/gator-bait/.

Rita Ciresi

  • --. “Mona Lisa.” Ovunque Siamo, v. 3, no. 1, Sept. 2019.
  • --. “Lowlands.” Fiction Southeast, Sept. 2019.
  • --. “On His Way to American History.” Fictive Dream, Nov. 2019.
  • --. “Bonds.” Ad Hoc Fiction, Nov. 2019.
  • --. Wild Boys. Finalist, Los Galesburg Press Novella Contest. Nov. 2019.

Nelli Cirineo

  • -- served as a site reviewer for the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA), a specialized accrediting agency that focuses on post-secondary intensive English language programs and institutions. CEA conducts accreditation activities in the U.S. and internationally. This summer Dr. Cirineo served as a team leader on one of the sites in the U.S.
  • Dr. Cirineo also received the ATLE participation letter.

Steven Jones

  • --. “‘A New Humanism’: Expo ’58, Roberto Busa, and the First Humanities Computing Center.” Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (CÂČDH), The University of Luxembourg, 6 Nov. 2019. Invited lecture.
  • --. “The Cold War and a ‘New Humanism’: The History of the First Humanities Computing Center.” New College of Florida, 26 Sept. 2019. Invited lecture.
  • --. Foreword to One Origin of Digital Humanities: Father Roberto Busa in His Own Words, edited by Julianne Nyhan and Marco Passarotti. Springer, 2019.

Lisa Melonçon

  • --. Jay R. Gould Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Society for Technical Communication, 2019.
  • --. “Quiet Feminism.” DIY Feminist Activism, Feminisms and Rhetorics Biennieal Conference, 13-16 Nov. 2019, Harrisonburg, VA. Plenary Address.
  • Schreiber, Joanna and Lisa Melonçon. "Creating a Continuous Improvement Model for Sustaining Programs in Technical and Professional Communication." Journal of Technical Writing & Communication, vol. 49, no. 3, 2019, pp. 252-278.

Cynthia Patterson

  • --. "'Notes of Travel' in the A.M.E. Church Review, 1903-1912.: A Precursor to The Green Book?" Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), 3 Oct. 2019, Charleston Airport Hotel & Convention Center. Conference Presentation.

Laura Runge

  • --. “Austen and Computation 2.0.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language: What’s Next for Jane Austen, vol. 61, no. 4, December 2019, pp. 397-415.
  •  
  • --. Panel on Eighteenth Century Women Poets and the Public Good, Aphra Behn Society, Auburn University, 8 Nov. 2019. Respondent.
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  • --. Publishing with ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, Aphra Behn Society, Auburn University, 9 Nov. 2019. Workshop leader.
  •  
  • --. The Cambridge Edition of Aphra Behn’s Works: a Roundtable, Aphra Behn Society, Auburn University, 7 Nov. 2019. Panel Chair.

EMERITI

Sara Munson Deats

  • --. The Faust Legend: From Marlowe and Goethe to Contemporary Drama and Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Pat Rogers

  • --. "The Topographical Sources of Defoe’s Tour.” Review of English Studies, vol. 70, 2019.
  • --. “Some Unidentified Figures in Defoe’s Tour.” Notes & Queries, vol. 66, 2019.

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