News from the English Department

Fall 2011 - Spring 2012 • Volume 5, Issue 1

In this Issue: Frederick Newberry and Theater Performances...... 3 Faculty Spotlight...... 3 Bernard Beranek Retire by Linda Kinnahan Alumni Updates...... 4

Visiting Speakers...... 5 It is a pleasure to help honor the two English department professors retiring this year, Fred Newberry and Bernie Beranek. I’ve known both Fred and Bernie for many years, and it is Graduate Student difficult to sum up those years. I’ll make a try, though, in each case. Achievements...... 6 FRED NEWBERRY Faculty Updates...... 7 BA and MA at the University of Redlands and New Faculty...... 8 his PHD in American Studies at Washington State University.

Fred came to DU in 1986, to teach American literature, primarily in the period of 19th century American literature, but also branching back into the colonial period and forward into the early 20th century.

As a scholar, Fred’s career-long focus on Nathaniel Hawthorne includes his monograph, Hawthorne’s Divided Loyalties: England and America in His Works, and numerous articles and essays on Hawthorne and other 19th century American writers. As editor of the Hawthorne Review for 16 years, he contributed valuably to the international study of this author For questions or and devoted many, many hours to mentoring submissions, contact: the scholarly work of others.

Nora McBurney Fred is known for his characteristic combination Administrative Assistant of intellectual curiousity and skepticism — a refusal to sit comfortably with standard English Department explanations or methods. Such an attitude [email protected] flavors his current book project on Hawthorne’s (412) 396-6420 biographies, which he describes as “speculative, unreliable creations of the man as remote from the biographical record as could be imagined.” Above: Pictures from We’ll look forward to this dissection of the narrated life Retirement Reception, April 27 of Hawthorne. McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts continued on next page Frederick Newberry and Bernard Beranek Retire continued from page 1

This spring, Fred was named Professor Emeritus of English, a high and long conferences with Dr. Newberry going over honor bestowed by the University President. In announcing each paper in detail—emerged with pride as stronger the award, President Dougherty stated that Dr. Newberry has writers and better thinkers; “authoritative knowledge in [his] field and the recognition of • For posing the difficult questions and not shying away [his] peers as a scholar and educator. [He has] made major from difficult discussions; contributions to the academic life of and to • For remarkable loyalty to his friends, colleagues, and [his] scholarly discipline.” students, and for taking the time to support what he saw as good work, even if he didn’t agree with it— Enough about the big stuff. Here are some of the ways the something that I experienced personally in his ongoing department has known and valued Fred: encouragement of my work, even though my love of • For his fascination with the history and culture of the Gertrude Stein has never ceased to puzzle him; American experience and the important role that • For his handwritten notes sent to colleagues upon good literature has played in defining & expressing the news (tenure, book, award); formation of ideas integral to that experience; • For his cowboy hats and kick-ass boots; • For the reputation his classes gained as boot camps for • And for his love of (very) good wine, a good discussion, writers, and the students who—after complaining a lot and a good laugh. but then writing even more, and finding their papers the We will miss all of these things, and more. object of intense specific attention in written feedback

BERNIE BERANEK BA from Notre Dame and MA/PhD from them. But what really strikes me when I stand in Bernie’s office, Duquesne University surrounded by row upon row of books—this temple of literature This spring marks his fortieth year of teaching at —is how much the shelves reflect the habits of his mind, his love Duquesne. He came here in the late fall of 1971 of the intellectual life, and his absolute faith in this life as a way as a graduate Teaching Fellow and then joined the English to enrich the human experience, individually and as a society. Department’s faculty after graduating. Bernie’s own intellectual quest has been both deep and wide- ranging, for he absorbs knowledge from everything, welcoming Bernie has taught Medieval and Renaissance literature for us, in the most difficult, arduous routes of reading, thinking, and talking. courses devoted to luminaries like Spenser, Chaucer, Dante, and At the same time, he seeks a grace in language that I can only Milton; the breadth of his teaching is remarkable, having ranged describe as poetic. from the ancient classics of Plato and Socrates to medieval poetry to J.R.R.Tolkien and contemporary global literatures. Bernie’s Bernie loves language, and that includes a good conversation, various courses in Catholic writers have engaged students with whether it’s about the form of T.S. Eliot’s long poem The Four the integration of intellect and faith that marks the achievement Quartets or about the merits of real grass on a baseball field. and the struggle of so many of the writers he taught. He never tired Along with my English department colleagues, I have always of imagining new courses, drawing upon the seeming infinity of found Bernie to be generous with his knowledge (and his books), authors he has read. but more importantly, to insist upon the humanity of the work we do as teachers and scholars and the way in which we connect And so—books. To walk into Bernie’s office is to encounter more with and conduct ourselves with each other. That human quality books than you could ever imagine could occupy that small has taught me much more, finally, than all of the books on those space. Bernie has more books than anyone I know, and he is shelves. impressively artful in designing ways to construct shelves to store

So, in saying goodbye to Fred and Bernie, it’s difficult to say enough about either of these colleagues. And while I’m struck, always, with their unstinting love of literature and fascination with the written word, there’s a particular quality they also share that I feel I need to mention before closing. I want to praise their ability to disagree. As colleagues engaged in literary studies, we have not always agreed on everything, from departmental policy to scholarly method to literary value, but I always counted on Bernie and Fred to be honest and true to their principles. The Romantic visionary poet William Blake imagined a cosmic order energized by what he called “contraries,” and he wrote in his epic Heaven and Hell, “Without contraries is no progression.” I want to thank Bernie and Fred for their valuable moments of contrariness over the years, the coming together of differences that has generated much life and progress and moving forward, and to take this moment to say, again in praise, that you’ve taught me—us—a lot. Retirement Reception, April 27

2 www.duq.edu/english Theater Faculty Spotlight: Performances 2012-2013 THEATER Dr. Linda Kinnahan

PRODUCTIONS We are proud to announce that Dr. Linda A. Kinnahan, Professor of English, WSGS steering committee member, and Red Masquers 100th co-founder of the Women’s and Gender Studies program, Anniversary was named the Hillman Endowed Professor at Duquesne

University on July 1, 2011.

“I’m honored and humbled to receive this appointment, 2012 especially among so many deserving people at Duquesne who I admire,” says Dr. Kinnahan. “This opportunity will support a range of September 8 research activities that include traveling to important archives, interviewing Pittsburgh Monologue Project poets, and gaining time to think, read, and write.”

In particular, this endowed professorship will help her support her current book September 27, 28, 29 project, Modernist Poetry and the Gendering of Economics, which is a study Variety Show Benefit of early twentieth century women poets Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, and Lola (Sept 29 – Alumni Event to benefit the Ridge. Keenan/Lane Scholarship) “The study places their work within the contexts of changing economic

October 11 – 13 and 18 – 20 ideas and practices related to the rise of consumer capitalism in this period, World Premiere of “Be Our Guest” especially as the ideas of value labor and possession respond to new by Pittsburgh Playwright F.J. Hartland economic systems and theories,” Kinnahan says.

Dr. Kinnahan specializes in 20th century poetry, women’s and gender studies, December 5 – 8 and feminist theory. In 2008 she coordinated Lifting Belly High, an international Masquer One Acts for Charity conference hosted by Duquesne that celebrated women poets from the 20th and 21st centuries. She served as the director of the Center for Women’s 2013 and Gender Studies from 2010-2011, and this past summer she was invited to deliver the keynote speech on Mina Loy at the University of Louisville’s

January 12 campus in Madrid, Spain. Pittsburgh Monologue Project The Hillman Endowed Professorship rotates among Duquesne’s ten schools for a five-year term. Please help us congratulate Dr. Kinnahan on receiving such January 19 a distinguished and well-deserved honor. Cabaret Show in Shepperdson Suite (TBA) Article written by Michelle Gaffey; taken from the Women’s and Gender

February 7 – 9 and 14 – 16 Studies Fall 2011 newsletter World Premiere of “American Tragedy” by Duquesne Alumus Dave Katzin

April 11 – 13 and 18 – 20 World Premiere of “March” John Lane by Matt Smith, Duquesne Alumnus Granted Tenure In Fall 2011, longtime Duquesne University Theater Arts professor and Red Masquers faculty director John Lane was granted tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of English. A fixture of Pittsburgh’s theater community for decades, John has been involved with Duquesne University since the late 1980s and has directed, designed, and acted in dozens of plays at Duquesne and elsewhere in that time. In 2011, John received the McAnulty College Award for Excellence in Service to the Mission, and generations of students recall John’s classes with love and admiration.

3 Visiting Speakers Alumni Updates

Janine Bayer (Ph.D. 2010) won two and will coordinate a reading/roundtable Both are non-credit certificates designed to teaching awards this past year at La Roche on disability studies at the University of help graduate student teaching assistants College: the Faculty Commitment to Pittsburgh. Upcoming featured readings grow as teacher-scholars. Amy also co- Excellence Award for service to the college include Hemingways Cafe in Pittsburgh authored an article with her former CTE community, chosen by the faculty and staff; on June 12, the Words in Process/Allegory colleagues–Laurel Willingham-McLain and and The Brother Gregory Nugent Award for Cafe series in Ligonier on July 19, and the Steven Hansen–entitled, “Leveraging Existing Teaching and Mentoring Excellence, chosen Morgantown Poets series on October 18. PFF Resources to Create a Certificate of by students. No one has ever won both In June, she will be presenting her paper, University Teaching.” The article is slated awards in the same year before! “Gendre: Women’s Prose Poetry in the to be published in Volume 14 of Studies 1980s,” at the National Poetry Foundation in Graduate and Professional Student Timothy Bintrim (Ph.D. 2004) earned Poetry of the 1980s conference at the Development in 2012. Amy and her promotion to Associate Professor and tenure University of Maine, Orono. Recent flash husband, Mark, were also blessed with the at Saint Francis University this March. He has fiction publications include Weave, The arrival of their son, Benjamin Mark Phillips, in an essay in the new edited book collection Shadyside Review, and Switchback, where February. Willa Cather and Aestheticism from Fairleigh her story, “On Its Way to Some Long Fable,” Dickinson UP. Titled “Exit Smiling: The Case won the online journal’s February 2012 Kathryn Pivak (Ph.D. 2005) was awarded for Paul’s Dandyism,” the essay examines competition. Her poems have been recently tenure and promoted to Associate Professor the eponymous character of Cather’s 1905 published or are forthcoming in: Sententia: at Cottey College in Nevada, Missouri. story “Paul’s Case” as a fin de siècle dandy, All-Women Issue, 5 AM, The American Poetry with side glances at other varieties of male Review, and the online sites “The Poetry of Bill Racicot (Ph.D. 2010) presented butterfly such as the dude, the fop, the Yoga” and “99 Poems for the 99 Percent.” For on Chaucer at the Annual Medieval masher and the chappie. 2011 work, Smith has been nominated for a Conference held in Kalamazoo in May 2012. Pushcart Prize and for inclusion in Meridian’s His press, Pink Narcissus Press, also recently Best New Poets; her book-length collection, published a new book entitled Feasting with Ellen Foster (Ph.D. 2005) is co-editor, with Bender: Yoga, Alcohol, Poems, is currently a Panthers. Melissa J. Homestead of University of finalist in the New Rivers Press Many Voices Nebraska-Lincoln, of the Broadview Press competition. Elizabeth Savage (Ph.D. 1998) was edition of Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s promoted to full professor last spring at Clarence; or, A Tale of Our Own Times Laurie McMillan (Ph.D. 2004) presented Fairmont State University. Jane & Paige (1830), available as of October 2011. Ellen is “Performing Gender on Youtube: The or Sister Goose, a poetry chapbook, was also Coordinator of the Venango Campus Rhetoric of Jenna Marbles,” with Lindsey published in September and Grammar, a Honors Program at Clarion University- Wotanis at the College English full-length collection, came out in March, Venango Campus and was recently Association Conference in Scranton, PA in both from Furniture Press Books. Last fall, elected Chair of Clarion University’s Faculty April 2012. She also presented “Spiraling into Feminist Teacher published her article, Senate. Activisim: Writing about Feminist Writing” at “What We Talk Around When We Talk about the Conference on College Composition The Dick,” and another essay “ ‘The Relations Sally Rosen Kindred (M.A. 1998) received and Communication held in St. Louis Between Poetry and Painting’: Elizabeth a Fellowship to the Virginia Center for during March 2012. Dr. McMillan will also be Willis’s Turneresque” will be out soon in Creative Arts for a November residency. In publishing “Undergraduate Writing Research Contemporary Women’s Writing. October, she visited Linda Kinnahan’s poetry Shapes Pedagogy & Curriculum” in Council workshop and Duquesne’s Coffee House on Undergraduate Research Quarterly on Sr. Rita Yeasted (Ph.D. 1981) was elected to Reading Series to read from her book, No the Web this fall. a two-year term as President of the Western Eden. Her poems have recently appeared Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English. and are forthcoming in Quarterly West, Amy Criniti Phillips (Ph.D. 2011) is currently She also has a book forthcoming from diode, and Hunger Mountain. working as a Visiting Assistant Professor of iUniverse, entitled JON: John Oliver Nelson English at Wheeling Jesuit University. Before and the Movement for Power in the Church. Ellen McGrath Smith (Ph.D. 2002), whose graduating from Duquesne last spring, work is included in Beauty Is a Verb: The New Amy was proud to work as the Instructional Poetry of Disability, took part in readings this Consultant for TAs in the Center for Teaching spring for the groundbreaking anthology at Excellence. While there, she started a the AWP Convention in Chicago and the program for graduate students to obtain Split This Rock Festival in Washington D.C.; a Certificate of University Teaching or an this fall, she will take part in a reading for the Advanced Certificate of University Teaching. book at St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York

4 www.duq.edu/english Visiting Speakers Dr. Batchelor Presentation On Wednesday, September 21, 2011, Dr. Jennie Batchelor, of the University of Kent-Canterbury, presented on The Lady’s Magazine to a large group of students and faculty. Hosted in part by the English department, Dr. Batchelor’s Above, L-R: Rachel VanCampenhout, Jacob presentation, entitled “Gaining a ‘Footing in the Inclosure’: The Lady’s Wadsworth, Carolann Holland, Ben Johnson, Magazine & Women’s Literary Histories,” examined the historical and social Molly Lurie-Marino, Melissa Unger, Natasha contexts of the eighteenth-century periodical, The Lady’s Magazine. Dr. Gatian, Varun Ravindran, Greta Harman Batchelor argued that the periodical engendered community in its writers and readers, offering alternative ways to conceptualize women’s writing and reading during the late eighteenth century. Even though, as Dr. Batchelor 2012 stated, the periodical has been marginalized within the world of literary Senior Award Winners studies, scholars from as far as West Virginia University came to listen to the Each spring, the O’Donnell Awards are given to those seniors enlightening presentation, which illuminated both eighteenth-century life who have achieved excellence as an English or Theater major. and the contemporary field of literature. Each recipient is given an award in the amount of $150.

Congratulations to the 2012 Recipients of the O’Donnell Gang Expert Visits Duquesne Excellence Awards:

Best English Majors: Excellence in Service: Can crack-dealing street gangs be a positive influence Greta Harman and Natasha Rachel Van Campenhout in a poor community? Can we understand criminal Gatian and Carolann Holland activity with the tools we would use to analyze any other business? What happens to a community when the Best Writing Center Excellence in Poetry: police and the government withdraw, leaving the “bad Consultants: Molly Lurie-Marino and Natasha Gatian guys” in charge? Renowned writer and sociologist Sudhir Greta Harman and Melissa Unger Venkatesh addressed these and many other questions in Excellence in Fiction: a visit to Duquesne University on November 2, 2011. Best Theater Major: Varun Ravindran and Ben Jacob Wadsworth Johnson The English Department and the Honors College hosted Venkatesh, the William B. Ransford Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, who visited several UCOR 101 and IHP 104 classes that had read his 2008 book Gang Leader for a Day. Venkatesh also presented a formal lecture to an Duquesne faculty, students audience of 500 that evening. and alumni in the “We wanted first-year students to engage with a writer who addresses Pittsburgh Marathon many of the experiences that they are encountering,” noted Greg Barnhisel, director of the first-year writing program and organizer of Venkatesh’s visit. “In Gang Leader for a Day, he talks about the importance of learning things for yourself, rather than relying on received wisdom about the danger of the city. He weighs the relative value of data-driven quantitative analysis against the qualitative, ethnographic approach that he eventually takes. Finally, his work is valuable for Duquesne students because he is explicitly concerned with the ethical obligations students and professors have to the poor and disadvantaged communities around them.”

Visiting two sections of UCOR 101 during the day, Venkatesh engaged in a spirited back-and-forth with the first-year students, who were a bit awed by the presence of an intellectual celebrity in their midst. “I think my students Above, L-R: Greg Barnhisel, Josh Zelesnick, have a crush on Sudhir,” instructor Craig Bernier joked. Journalism professor Glencora Pipkin, Ian Butcher, Caitlin Zajko Maggie Patterson, who teaches IHP 104, agreed. “My students really liked This year, for the first time, the English Department had a relay Venkatesh and felt friendly enough to refer to him as Sudhir,” Patterson team in the Pittsburgh Marathon. The team consisted of junior remarked. “They were particularly interested in the ways he juggled his English/Education major Caitlin Zajko, Ph.D. student Ian Butcher, identity as he went back and forth between his buddies in the gang and his alumna Glencora Pipkin (M.A. 2011), instructor Josh Zelesnick, mentors in the graduate program.” and Dr. Greg Barnhisel. The team finished in 3:21:31, good enough for 15th place of the 639 co-ed teams, 25th place among all of Venkatesh’s visit was the second in the annual series of visiting writers the 925 marathon teams. Dr. Barnhisel said it was a wonderful sponsored by the Honors College’s first-year writing program. English morning and “we showed all the city what a gang of literature department faculty members coordinate the course and teach many of its students and teachers—we are all both—can achieve. Fear the sections. The event was co-sponsored by the Center for Nursing Research, bookish!” the Center for the Study of Catholic Social Thought, the Department of Sociology, and the Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research. 5 Graduate Student Doctoral Achievements Graduates Maureen Gallagher, Graduate Student FALL 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching Ruth Newberry, Ph.D. Congratulations to Ph.D. student Dissertation: “Wallace Stegner’s ‘Wolf Willow’ and Maureen Gallagher, who was the 1960s Critical Essays: Renarrativizing Western American recipient of a 2011-2012 Graduate Literature for the West and For America” Student Award for Excellence in Linda Kinnahan, director; Magali Michael, first reader; Teaching. Two of these awards are given and Mike Cahall (History), second reader annually to graduate students enrolled in the McAnulty College and Graduate Beth Buhot Runquist, Ph.D. School of Liberal Arts. At least one Dissertation: “Women and the Suburbs in late 20th and English Graduate Student has received Early 21st Century American Film and Fiction” this award eight out of the last nine Magali Michael, director; Linda Kinnahan, first reader; years that it has been presented. Judy Suh, second reader Essay Winner, Melissa Wehler Congratulations to doctoral student, Melissa Wehler, who received the 2011 Eric Molin New Graduate Graduate Student Essay Prize from the East Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The judges praised Melissa’s paper, “‘Ready to burst’: Dorothy Jordan, Leigh Hunt, and Students Restraining Desire” for the originality and sophistication of her “interdisciplinary, feminist, and literary analysis of the cultural debate on a series of issues: the theater as a social FALL 2011 institution and its cultural practices, how this woman actor demonstrated her resistance to Master of Arts the discipline and punishment procedures that presumed to control public performances on stage by women, and also men, and the dynamics of acting out gender roles, which Samina Ali Jennifer Kane gave discriminatory , differential treatment of women versus men as actors and performers.” Penn State University Eastern College This essay is part of Melissa’s dissertation entitled “(Il) Legitimate Celebrity in the British Long Kayla Berkey Lindsey Kurtz Eighteenth Century,” directed by Laura Engel, with Anne Brannen and Sue Howard as Messiah College first and second readers. This year Melissa was also the recipient of the McAnulty College Alicia Broudy Danielle Leach Dissertation Fellowship Award, and the Eleanore Holveck Graduate Student Essay Prize St. Francis University awarded annually from the center for Women’s and Gender Studies. University of Pittsburgh James Clarke Amanda Miller Westminster College New York University Graduate Student Panel at ACLA Mariah Crilley Rebecca Penn Six graduate students from the department of Westminster College English —Jennifer Collins, Ian Butcher, Robert Foschia, Danielle LaCava, Rachel Luckenbill, Lisa DePasquale Willard Powell and Shreyashi Mukherjee—organised a panel Abilene Christian and presented papers relating to the theme University Jonathan Fecik of exile at the annual American Comparative Alexandra Reznik Quinnipiac University Literature Association conference. The Chatham University Elizabeth Gowers conference was held at Brown University Abraham Schneider (Providence, RI) from 30 March to 1 April Carlow University University of Kansas Front L-R: Danielle LaCava, Ian 2012. Their work, individually and as a group, Butcher, Robert Foschia; Back L-R: was professional, intellectually rigorous, and Doctorate Shreyashi Mukherjee, Jennifer Collins, historically relevant. Rachel Luckenbill Matthew Durkin The contribution of these six students at the conference contributes to rendering State University of New York- Buffalo Duquesne’s English department visible, reputable, and desirable for developing literary Michael Smith scholars, not just regionally, but across the country. The ACLA is a highly influential Boston College organisation nationally and internationally, and its annual conference is where the most Johanna Sullivan important figures in literary studies convene. Carnegie Mellon University Bryon Williams These six graduate students are part of a larger culture of scholarship and excellence at Stanford University Duquesne’s English department. Other graduate students in the department regularly present at prestigious conferences, publish in peer-reviewed journals, engage in creative writing, and regularly receive campus-wide teaching accolades and awards.

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Greg Barnhisel, along with alumnae 251), “Economics and Gender in Mina Loy, the Black Atlantic: Definitions, Readings, Elizabeth Savage and Megan Jewell, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore,” in The Practices, Dialogues. Dr. Mirmotahari also presented on “Modernist Visions and Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century has a forthcoming article in Interventions: Revisions” at the Modernist Studies American Poetry, and “Postmodernism International Journal of Postcolonial Association Conference (Buffalo, New York, and the Language of Poetry: Feminism’s Studies entitled “‘A Cloud of Semitic October 2011). Dr. Barnhisel also served as Experimental ‘work at the language-face’” in Mohammedanism’: The African Novel and the Acting Chair of the department during The Cambridge Companion to British and Irish the Muslim Question in the National Age.” the spring 2012 semester and published a Women’s Poetry. Frederick Newberry retired this year, textbook, Connecting with Cultures. Dr. Kinnahan also presented at two receiving emeritus status and a plaque conferences: “The ‘abstract poetic theatre’ during Commencement. During his Bernard Beranek presented a paper at of Caroline Bergvall,” ASAP/3 Conference retirement, Dr. Newberry’s hopes to “read, the Shakespeare: Literature and Philosophy (The Association for the Study of the Arts write, landscape, and learn how to prepare Conference (Carlow University, March 17, of the Present, Carnegie Mellon University, French sauces.” 2011). His revisionist reading of the ending Pittsburgh PA, October 2011), and “Mina of King Lear, “The Sanity of King Lear,” was Loy Among the Photographers,” Thirteenth Jim Purdy was a contributing author to supported by a dramatic reading of Lear’s Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies the article “Computers and Composition final scene by Jay Keenan, whose credits Association (Buffalo, New York, October 20/20: A Conversation Piece, or What Some include a long run as Chairman of the 2011). She also presented “‘A Foliage of Very Smart People Have to Say about English Department of Duquesne University Mass Production’: Photography and the the Future” published in Computers and and an even longer tenure as Director of Modern Urban Scene in Mina Loy’s Poetry” Composition 28.4. Dr. Purdy also published the Red Masquers. as an invited speaker at The Cultural “Three Gifts of Digital Archives” in The Theory/Historical Practices Lectures (Carlow Journal of Literacy and Technology 12.3. At Anne Brannen served as the Acting University, Pittsburgh PA, November 10, 2011). the Conference on College Composition Director of First-Year Writing in the spring and Communication in St. Louis in March Furthermore, Dr. Kinnahan was appointed 2012 semester. 2012, he presented “Scholarship on the the Associate Editor of Poetry for the journal, Move: Digital Manifestations of Scholarly Contemporary Writing by Women (Oxford Activity” and was a speaker at the “Student- Laura Engel published a book review of UP), and is currently acting as a member Centered Plagiarism Policy for the 21st Felicity Nussbaum’s Rival Queens: Actresses, of the host committee for the 16th annual Century” roundtable for the Intellectual Performance and the Eighteenth-Century conference of the Modernist Studies Property in Composition Studies Caucus. Theater in the journal Women’s Writing Association which will be held in Pittsburgh He was also invited to be a curator for the (Women’s Writing, Volume 18, Issue 4, in 2014. pages 567-571). She also presented “Mrs. International Debate Education Association online debate on Wikipedia. Wells Was Here: Thinking Through Absence Jessica McCort presented “‘The interrupted and Presence in Archival Materials about story’: Children’s Literature and Elizabeth Danielle St. Hilaire presented a paper, “The Theatrical Women” at the East Central Bishop’s Exploratory Aesthetics,” at the 23rd Labor of Free Will in Paradise Lost,” at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Annual American Literature Association 2011 Conference on John Milton (Middle Studies ECASECS (Penn State University, National Conference (May 2012), “’Off with Tennessee State University, October 13-15, November 3-6, 2011) and “Vanishing Acts: her head!’: Children’s Literature and the 2011, Murfreesboro, TN). She also received Telling Stories about Theatrical Women” Wonderland of Horror,” at the PCA/ACA a Presidential Scholarship Award from at the American Society for Eighteenth- National Conference (Boston, Massachusetts, Duquesne University for summer 2011. Century Studies (San Antonio, Texas, March April 2012), and “’Hansel and Gretel’ and

21-25, 2012). Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘The Farmer’s Children,’” at Tim Vincent published “From Sympathy the SWTX PCA/ACA Regional Conference. Furthermore, as part of the Carnegie Library’s to Empathy: Baudelaire, Vischer, and Early The People’s University, Dr. Engel will present Modernism” in Mosaic 45.1 (Spring, 2012), “A History of Celebrity” in August 2012. Magali Michael was on sabbatical during a special issue on the intersection of the spring 2012 semester, working on a book poetry and philosophy. He also presented Linda Kinnahan published “The project. “Strange Empathy: Wyndham Lewis’s ‘Eye’ Internationalized Midwest in the Poetry of and Virginia Woolf’s ‘Being’” at the SAMLA John Matthias” in The Salt Companion to John Emad Mirmotahari published “History as Annual Convention, November 4-6, 2011, Matthias (Ed. Joe Francis Doerr, London: Salt Project and Source in Achebe Things Fall Atlanta. Publishing, September 2011), “An Interview Apart” in Postcolonial Studies 14.4 and with Caroline Bergvall,” in Contemporary “Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic in Africa’s Women’s Writing (5:3 November 2011: 232- Other Diaspora” in New Perspectives on

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Welcoming New Faculty

Ava C. Cipri joined the full-time faculty of the Dr. Jessica McCort joined the full-time faculty of Duquesne English Department in the 2011-2012 the Duquesne English Department in the 2011-2012 academic year. Prior to this, she taught at Duquesne academic year. She received her Ph.D. from Washington University, establishing ties with the English Department University in St. Louis in the fall of 2009, specializing in through teaching primarily first-year writing, presenting American literature and women’s writing. Here at with colleagues, sharing her experience in meeting our Duquesne, she teaches primarily in the first-year writing UCOR curriculum objectives, and contributing as a creative writer. program, working closely with the Orbis Learning Community.

Cipri brings to her appointment experience as an artist and educator, Dr. McCort’s scholarship focuses on the appropriation of children’s earning her M.F.A. in Poetry from Syracuse University. Her award- literature, particularly Grimm’s and Andersen’s fairy tales and Lewis winning Tanka Sequence “From the Barre” is featured in AHA Books’ Carroll’s Alice books, by women writers. Using scholarship devoted to anthology Twenty Years Tanka Splendor: 1990-2009. Her recent poetry children’s literature, childhood and girls’ culture studies, and women’s publications include “Of Last Things,” in Georgetown Review; a tanka appropriation of the fairy tale and fantasy story, she explores how string “Eye of Horus,” “Marsh Loon,” “Nuit,” & “Three-tier Necklace,” female authors employ children’s literature and examine girls’ reading in Atlas Poetica: A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary practices and authorship in order to come to terms with questions of Tanka; and an invitation for her haibun “Character Study” and “Third identity, femininity, sexuality, psychological trauma, and both literary and Anniversary” appears in Red Moon Press’ contemporary haibun familial inheritance. She is especially interested in how the children’s anthology. Additionally, she was interviewed by Jan Beatty on WYEP’s book becomes embedded in confessional aesthetics and women’s PROSODY, a radio show featuring poets and writers. representations of girlhood and womanhood, particularly in the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton. Dr. McCort also serves Active in Duquesne’s creative writing community, she teaches poetry on the editorial board of Plath Profiles, an interdisciplinary journal for workshops and serves on the English Department’s Creative Readings Sylvia Plath studies. Committee. Cipri continues teaching in the Core Curriculum, invested in the Personae Learning Community, where she serves as both instructor and director.