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Book Review Of A Stone To Carry Home By Andrea Potos, Tyler Farrell Jan 2019

Book Review Of A Stone To Carry Home By Andrea Potos, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Embodied Healthcare Intuition: A Taxonomy Of Sensory Cues Used By Healthcare Providers, Lillian Campbell, Elizabeth L. Angeli Jan 2019

Embodied Healthcare Intuition: A Taxonomy Of Sensory Cues Used By Healthcare Providers, Lillian Campbell, Elizabeth L. Angeli

English Faculty Research and Publications

Although healthcare providers’ decision-making is informed by data and proto­cols for care, recent research suggests that individuals’ intuition—which integrates previous experiences with situational awareness and sensory knowledge—also plays a large role in directing action. Drawing on two different datasets from research on EMS providers and nurses in clinical nursing simulations, this article intro­duces a taxonomy for the various cues that trigger intuitive action and unpacks how intuition manifests at different stages of care. We argue that healthcare providers rhetorically navigate a wide range of both external and internal intuitive cues, and that external cues draw on sensory engagement with bodies, …


Everyday Reflective Writing: What Conference Records Tell Us About Building A Culture Of Reflection, Rebecca Nowacek, Andrew Hoffmann, Carolyne Hurlburt, Lisa Lamson, Sareene Proodian, Anna P. Scanlon Jan 2019

Everyday Reflective Writing: What Conference Records Tell Us About Building A Culture Of Reflection, Rebecca Nowacek, Andrew Hoffmann, Carolyne Hurlburt, Lisa Lamson, Sareene Proodian, Anna P. Scanlon

English Faculty Research and Publications

Heeding previous scholars’ calls for a critical investigation of the role of reflection in the professional development of tutors, this article examines reflections written by tutors in the context of conference records. More specifically, the authors investigate the consequences of incorporating a prompt to reflect on tutoring strategies into our online conference-records database. The authors first present the results of their opening coding of nearly 300 conference records, offering a taxonomy of specific types of reflections found in the conference records. The authors then identify three shifts in the content of conference records written after the introduction of the reflection …


Textual Mediation In Simulated Nursing Handoffs: Examining How Student Writing Coordinates Action, Lillian Campbell Jan 2019

Textual Mediation In Simulated Nursing Handoffs: Examining How Student Writing Coordinates Action, Lillian Campbell

English Faculty Research and Publications

In clinical nursing simulations, a group of students provide care for a robotic patient during a structured scenario. As care is transferred from one group to another, they participate in a patient handoff, with outgoing students passing key information onto incoming students. In healthcare, the nursing handoff is a critical and perilous communication moment that is mediated by a range of participants and texts. Drawing on observations and video recordings of 52 simulation handoffs in the United States, this article examines how two student-designed texts – a collaborative patient chart and individual notes – are leveraged during the handoff. I …


Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: On Parable Of The Trickster And Utopia, Gerry Canavan Jan 2019

Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: On Parable Of The Trickster And Utopia, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

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The Legend Of Zelda In The Anthropocene, Gerry Canavan Jan 2019

The Legend Of Zelda In The Anthropocene, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

The Legend of Zelda (1986), for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, posited an immediately familiar fantasy milieu: a sleeping princess, an evil king, magical helpers, ancient artifacts of intense power, the rise of a hero. Players guide that hero, Link, through a series of increasingly difficult dungeons, accumulating tools and expanding their abilities in a linear narrative of personal development until they are finally able to defeat Ganon, rescue Zelda, and save the beleaguered kingdom of Hyrule. The end. But subsequent entries in the series cannot adhere to this narrative of linear progress and individual triumph, developing instead an increasingly …


Symposium On Science Fiction And The Climate Crisis, Gerry Canavan, Chan Kit-Sze Amy, Moritz Ingerwersen, Meolody Jue, Hua Li, Patrick D. Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Shaviro, Vandana Singh, Imre Szeman, Wong Kin Yuen Nov 2018

Symposium On Science Fiction And The Climate Crisis, Gerry Canavan, Chan Kit-Sze Amy, Moritz Ingerwersen, Meolody Jue, Hua Li, Patrick D. Murphy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Shaviro, Vandana Singh, Imre Szeman, Wong Kin Yuen

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


That Suggestion: Catholic Casuistry, Complexity, And Macbeth, John E. Curran Jr. Oct 2018

That Suggestion: Catholic Casuistry, Complexity, And Macbeth, John E. Curran Jr.

English Faculty Research and Publications

In a keeping with the view that Shakespeare harbored a sympathetic attitude to Catholic ways of seeing, this essay argues that Macbeth is a study in the dangers of oversimplification and certainty. In contradistinction to how Spenser’s Redcrosse Knight escapes the Cave of Despaire, Macbeth would benefit greatly from probing, questioning, nuancing, and sifting through ambiguity. He needs to examine the particular attenuation of his own moral thinking, and needs to engage equivocation, in the forms of both amphibology and mental reservation.


Living In The Future, Gerry Canavan Oct 2018

Living In The Future, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Translators And Their Prologues In Medieval England By Elizabeth Dearnley, Elizaveta Strakhov Oct 2018

Review Of Translators And Their Prologues In Medieval England By Elizabeth Dearnley, Elizaveta Strakhov

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Student-Designed Texts And Classroom Mediation: A Ux Analysis Of Clinical Nursing Simulations, Lillian Campbell Aug 2018

Student-Designed Texts And Classroom Mediation: A Ux Analysis Of Clinical Nursing Simulations, Lillian Campbell

English Faculty Research and Publications

This experience report draws on a unique pedagogical contextclinical nursing simulations-to examine how student texts can mediate a classroom exchange. Focusing on 52 student handoffs, I analyze frequency of text use, correlation between text use and student talk, and the impact of a text’s content on its mediating role. This methodology centers student texts and in the process, reimagines possibilities for UX pedagogy and assessment.


Review Of Conscience In Early Modern English Literature By Abraham Stoll, John E. Curran Jr. Aug 2018

Review Of Conscience In Early Modern English Literature By Abraham Stoll, John E. Curran Jr.

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Introduction: Buffy At Twentysomething, Gerry Canavan, James B. South Jul 2018

Introduction: Buffy At Twentysomething, Gerry Canavan, James B. South

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Whedon Studies After Whedon: A Conversation With Sherryl Vint, Gerry Canavan Jul 2018

Whedon Studies After Whedon: A Conversation With Sherryl Vint, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Predatory Value: Economies Of Dispossession And Disturbed Relationalities, Jodi A. Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, Jodi Melamed, Chandan Reddy Jun 2018

Predatory Value: Economies Of Dispossession And Disturbed Relationalities, Jodi A. Byrd, Alyosha Goldstein, Jodi Melamed, Chandan Reddy

English Faculty Research and Publications

This essay introduces and theorizes the central concerns of this special issue, “Economies of Dispossession: Indigeneity, Race, Capitalism.” Financialization, debt, and the accelerated concentration of wealth today work through social relations already configured and disposed by imperial conquest and racial capitalism. In the Americas broadly and the United States specifically, colonization and transatlantic slavery set in motion the dynamics and differential racialized valuations that continue to underwrite particular forms of subjection, property, commerce, and territoriality. The conception of economies of dispossession introduced in this essay draws attention to the overriding importance of rationalities of abstraction and commensurability for racial capitalism. …


The Limits Of Black Panther'S Afrofuturism, Gerry Canavan May 2018

The Limits Of Black Panther'S Afrofuturism, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Why The Marvel Cinematic Universe Can Show Us A Story, But Can’T Tell Us A Plot, Gerry Canavan May 2018

Why The Marvel Cinematic Universe Can Show Us A Story, But Can’T Tell Us A Plot, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Review Of Moana By Ron Clements And John Musker, Gerry Canavan Apr 2018

Review Of Moana By Ron Clements And John Musker, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Ode To The Dive Bar, C. J. Hribal Mar 2018

Ode To The Dive Bar, C. J. Hribal

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Political Animals: Form And The Animal Fable In Langland’S Rodent Parliament And Chaucer’S Nun’S Priest’S Tale, Elizaveta Strakhov Jan 2018

Political Animals: Form And The Animal Fable In Langland’S Rodent Parliament And Chaucer’S Nun’S Priest’S Tale, Elizaveta Strakhov

English Faculty Research and Publications

Chaucer and Langland have generally been read independently of one another, in large part due to the profound formal differences of rhyme, metre, and lexical features within their poetry. However, a broader definition of form, that sees texts receiving their shape from an animating concept at their core, affords richer purchase on the potential convergences between the two poets. I take as my paradigmatic example of this phenomenon Chaucer’s and Langland’s mutual choice to couch their rare topical references in retellings of well-known animal fables (Langland’s Rodent Parliament and Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale). Animal fables, I argue, are governed by …


Utopia, Gerry Canavan Jan 2018

Utopia, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Stichomythia, Tyler Farrell Jan 2018

Stichomythia, Tyler Farrell

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Law And Literature And History, Christine Krueger Jan 2018

Law And Literature And History, Christine Krueger

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Peak Oil After Hydrofracking, Gerry Canavan Jan 2018

Peak Oil After Hydrofracking, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Weather, C. J. Hribal Jan 2018

Weather, C. J. Hribal

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Fandom Edits: Rogue One And The New Star Wars, Gerry Canavan Oct 2017

Fandom Edits: Rogue One And The New Star Wars, Gerry Canavan

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Co-Constructing Writing Knowledge: Students’ Collaborative Talk Across Contexts, Misty Anne Winzenried, Lillian Campbell, Roger Chao, Alison Cardinal Oct 2017

Co-Constructing Writing Knowledge: Students’ Collaborative Talk Across Contexts, Misty Anne Winzenried, Lillian Campbell, Roger Chao, Alison Cardinal

English Faculty Research and Publications

Although compositionists recognize that student talk plays an important role in learning to write, there is limited understanding of how students use conversational moves to collaboratively build knowledge about writing across contexts. This article reports on a study of focus group conversations involving first-year students in a cohort program. Our analysis identified two patterns of group conversation among students: “co-telling” and “co-constructing,” with the latter leading to more complex writing knowledge. We also used Beaufort’s domains of writing knowledge to examine how co-constructing conversations supported students in abstracting knowledge beyond a single classroom context and in negotiating local constraints. Our …


Review Of Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, And The Novel Form By Claire Jarvis, Melissa J. Ganz Oct 2017

Review Of Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, And The Novel Form By Claire Jarvis, Melissa J. Ganz

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Exercise, Angela Sorby Oct 2017

Exercise, Angela Sorby

English Faculty Research and Publications

No abstract provided.


Intuition In Healthcare Communication Practices: Initial Findings From A Qualitative Inquiry, Elizabeth L. Angeli, Lillian Campbell Jul 2017

Intuition In Healthcare Communication Practices: Initial Findings From A Qualitative Inquiry, Elizabeth L. Angeli, Lillian Campbell

English Faculty Research and Publications

This brief paper reports on how healthcare providers negotiate stages of care and communication by using intuition. This focus shifts attention away from the product-patient records-and towards the process of medical communication. To support this claim, the paper presents preliminary findings from qualitative analysis of two individual ethnographic research projects with live-action clinical nursing simulations and emergency medical services. Using a grounded theory analysis that identified intuitive moments in the writing practices of healthcare providers, this brief paper demonstrates how intuition manifests in all five stages of care-anticipate, assess, plan, act and reassess, and document-and grounds medical assessment and decision …