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Reading The Gaps: On Women’S Nonfiction And Page Space, Amie S. Reilly

English Faculty Publications

Recently, I read Maggie O’Farrell’s book I am I am I am, wherein she writes seventeen different essays, all describing ways she has nearly died. Each essay is named for a part of the body and, in parenthesis, the year the event that nearly killed her occurred. Certain body parts are used more than once (“Lungs,” for example, since there are three occasions when O’Farrell nearly drowned). After reading, I was stuck on the idea that she broke her body up into pieces in order to tell a complete story, that some parts needed to be touched twice, that …

Anthropomorphize, Amie S. Reilly

English Faculty Publications

Jules is twenty-nine. She is sitting in her cold car, in a parking garage attached to the building where she works, in the concrete and leaded glass city of New Haven, the only anthropologist involved in a study of capuchin monkeys. The monkeys are being taught to exchange coins for fruit. Most of her coworkers are men, some are psychologists, and the others are economists. The economists call the monkeys “insatiable stomachs of want” and the psychologists call them “pre-capitalistic mind models” and although she knows better, Jules calls them each by human names. In the mornings, a zoology graduate …

Fruit Fly, Amie S. Reilly

English Faculty Publications

A fruit fly has been hovering around my face for days, though maybe it isn’t the same fruit fly, since I’ve been told that fruit flies only live for twenty-four hours, yet there it is ...

Ursa Minor, Amie S. Reilly

English Faculty Publications

In the last minutes of sleep, Nick dreamed a bear crawled out of his mouth and he woke up scratching at his beard, unsure whether he feared birth or death. He reached below the bed where yesterday’s checkered chef pants were still in a heap on the floor and pulled them on even though he wasn’t a chef. He worked at the deli in the supermarket.

Slip Of Southern Hospitality, Grace O'Rourke

Writing Across the Curriculum

Personal narrative of a family trip and stop at upscale South Carolinian restaurant.

My Interview With Akan, Uwem Akpanikat

Writing Across the Curriculum

Editor’s Note: This Newsletter interview is a fictional story written by Uwem Akpanikat, a senior majoring in Theology and Religious Studies. Inspired by the film “Dear White People,” which was shown to the students in his Human Rights course, the piece aims to explore the intersection of race, free speech, higher education, media, and religion, in light of the critical and ethical thinking that is central to the Catholic intellectual tradition.

Foreword To Visual Imagery, Metadata, And Multimodal Literacies Across The Curriculum, Jonas Zdanys

English Faculty Publications

As one of those educated to consider the primacy of the word – written and spoken – as the vehicle for creating and transferring knowledge, I am often surprised by the evidence around me that we live in a world inwhich technological devices of variousshapes and sizes have blunted the reliance on the layerings of words to define and engage in favor of various shortcuts to knowledge. Complexity of expression in the textures of language has given way, because of those devices and their applications, to abbreviations, neologisms, emojis, deliberate misspellings, instagrams, tweets, and other avenues of expression that focus …

Infinite Regress And The Illusion Of Actuality And Participation In Borges's 'The Aleph', Robin Mcallister

English Faculty Publications

Borges wants his reader to use imagination to participate in his fiction, to imagine the vision of the universe as an Aleph. The vision of the Aleph is paradoxical, impossible, inexpressible—a point in space, in the basement of a house in Buenos Aires, where all other points in the universe are simultaneously present. The reader sees the Aleph—or the illusion of the Aleph, watching it emerge as if through Borges’ own eyes, as an unrequited lover and frustrated poet gradually accommodating the infinite vision to the limitations of actual perception. The illusion of actual presence the reader evokes seems to …

Best Friends, Brent A. Middleton (Class Of 2015)

English Undergraduate Publications

“Best Friends” is a dialogue that between two close pals about what a best friend is, and how important it is to have one. One of the two then tells the story of how he lost the only best friend he ever had, and reflects on the impact of such a loss.

Brigid's Peace: An Examination Of The Influences Of The Catholic Intellectual Tradition On One Writer's Creative Work, Marie A. Hulme

Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

The genesis of my novel, Brigid’s Peace, which I began in the spring of 2013 coinciding with my studies in the Presidential Seminar, was an interest in examining the need for luminosity, for transcendence, for beauty in the face of dark despair and evil. My work centers on the story of an Irish Catholic family living in Belfast, Northern Ireland during the time of sectarian conflict known as “the troubles,” but more specifically on the impact of events related to that time on one young woman, Brigid Donegan, an artist and one of seven sisters. Through a close, third person …

A Woman’S Heart Drives Forces In Directions Distant, Justine Quammie Bassomb (Class Of 2013)

English Undergraduate Publications

The Insider -- Maelstrom -- My Story of "The Veil".

Three pieces from the portfolio for the Senior Writing Capstone course with Dr. Jonas Zdanys, English Department, Sacred Heart University.

Presented at the 2013 Sacred Heart University Academic Festival.

My First Book: Reflections On The Steps And Struggles, Steven Michels

Political Science & Global Affairs Faculty Publications

A personal narrative is presented in which author Steven Michels discusses the process of writing his first book, "The Case Against Democracy."

Re‐Energize Your Career From The Inside Out, Debbie Danowski

Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications

After surgery, the author went on an all- out campaign to re-energize her career and discover the passion for writing that had once ruled her life. Here are some of the things she tried which she hopes can help you if you’re stuck. Remember, these tips are not about publishing more. They are about writing more and discovering the passion that brought you into this business in the first place.

Lucille Clifton's Mercy, Angela Dipace

Presidential Seminar on the Catholic Intellectual Tradition

In Mercy, Clifton situates herself and the reader amid the terror of September 11, 2001, and excavates from this horrific tragedy a sign of redemptive liberation. Clifton's most sensitive readers also point to the affirmative tone of her poetry which sustains and uplifts what otherwise might be a nihilistic view of life.

In her thirteenth book of published poetry - Mercy (2004), Lucille Clifton encapsulates many concepts which have evolved in nearly four decades of poetry making. Mercy demonstrates Clifton’s consistent and persistent adaptation of various spiritual traditions to arrive - at a vision of interconnectedness between the ordinary …

Beyond 'Hot Lips' And 'Big Nurse': Creative Writing And Nursing, Sandra Young

English Faculty Publications

This essay describes a special topics creative writing course designed for nursing students, and argues that creative writing strategies work to improve nurses' compositional skills. Also discussed are other potential benefits from creatively writing patients' lives, notably, the blending of arts and sciences, and the ways in which medical schools are encouraging their students to study the humanities, especially literature and creative writing. The essay includes student creative writing samples.

The essay also discusses the depiction of nurses in popular culture. M*A*S*H*, Richard Hooker’s black comedy about the antics of doctors and nurses during the Korean War, gave us “Hot …

Writing The Lives Of Others: The Veterans Project, Sandra Young

English Faculty Publications

This essay describes an advanced composition course in which the students studied the ethics, politics, history, and rhetorical strategies involved in writing the lives of others. The heart of the course was a service-learning project that introduced college juniors and seniors to veterans of World War II and the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The students interviewed, wrote brief biographies, and transcribed the wartime stories of a group of veterans from a local American Legion post and its women’s auxiliary. The stories were collected in a volume made available to local American Legion posts, veterans hospitals, and libraries in Connecticut.

Thinking Along With Foucault (Book Review Of 'Ways Of Reading: An Anthology For Writers,' 5th Ed., Edited By David Bartholomae And Anthony Petrosky), Jeffrey P. Cain

English Faculty Publications

Book review by Jeffrey Cain.

Bartholomae, David and Anthony Petrosky. Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999. ISBN 9780312178932

Women Writing Auto/Biography: Anna Banti’S Artemisia And Eunice Lipton’S Alias Olympia, Claire Marrone

Languages Faculty Publications

Neat definitions of biographical and autobiographical writing have been challenged in the twentieth century. This essay offers a comparative study of two texts which may be classified as autobiography or biography or both, and which, because of their blurred generic boundaries, bring to light several theoretical questions about life writing.

Breaking Into Print With Feature Articles, Ralph L. Corrigan

English Faculty Publications

If you are anxious to get started as a published writer but don't know where to begin, feature articles for newspapers provide an ideal way to break into print.

Winter Geese [Poem], Jonas Zdanys

English Faculty Publications

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At Aunt Meg's Funeral [And] Poetic License, David F. Curtis

English Faculty Publications

Two poems by David Curtis, an associate professor of English at Sacred Heart University, published in Coe Review, a contemporary anthology which publishes a variety of writings from within the Coe community and throughout the country.