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2019

English Language and Literature

St. John Fisher University

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Blanket Dance, Lloyd Milburn Oct 2019

Blanket Dance, Lloyd Milburn

English Faculty/Staff Publications

Lloyd Milburn's poem “Blanket Dance” depicts a memorial dance at a Seneca Ganondagan Festival, and has just been published in The New Guard literary review Volume VIII, Fall 2019. The poem illustrates shared grieving, and music's tension and resolution to help the process.


Cs The Day: The Trading Card Game, Wendi Sierra Mar 2019

Cs The Day: The Trading Card Game, Wendi Sierra

English Faculty/Staff Publications

In many ways, Cs the Day: The Card Game is an ode both to academia, which is imperfect but can at times be wonderful, and to my personal passion and research interest, which has helped me to find a place within this profession. It is also, as is discussed in more detail below, an extension of an existing game, and as such embodies many of the same goals and principles of that game. Thus, designing Cs the Day: The Card Game required careful attention to how the mechanics and narrative reflect both the profession and the original game. There are …


Patricia Akhimie. Shakespeare And The Cultivation Of Difference: Race And Conduct In The Early Modern World. Routledge, 2018. 220 Pp., Deborah Uman Jan 2019

Patricia Akhimie. Shakespeare And The Cultivation Of Difference: Race And Conduct In The Early Modern World. Routledge, 2018. 220 Pp., Deborah Uman

English Faculty/Staff Publications

In lieu of an abstract, here is the review's first paragraph:

In Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference, Patricia Akhimie sets an ambitious goal: in addition to exploring how race, class, conduct, and drama are intertwined in the early modern period, Akhimie seeks to show readers how to recognize the pain of racism, which she reads as “a persistent and particular kind of injustice, the signs of which are as fluid as they are injurious” (9). Despite the variability of signs of human differences and despite the promise of self-improvement offered by conduct literature, Akhimie argues that social immobility …


Editorial Introduction: We All Write: Reclaiming A Sacred Space, Deborah Uman, Barbara Lesavoy Jan 2019

Editorial Introduction: We All Write: Reclaiming A Sacred Space, Deborah Uman, Barbara Lesavoy

English Faculty/Staff Publications

The project of the Seneca Falls Dialogues is founded on hope in the face of continued discrimination and inequities, and the essays in this journal continue to move that agenda forward.