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“Moulder[Ing] Into Nothingness Among The Rocks”: Sharpshooters In Gardner’S Photographic Sketch Book Of The Civil War, Harrison Dietzman

Faculty Publications - Department of English

During the American Civil War, sharpshooters were contested igures in the Northern media. Magazines published romanticized proiles of Union snipers, while simultaneously worrying about the deadliness of Confederate sharpshooters. Years after the war, in 1896, the aging painter Winslow Homer wrote that the sharpshooters’ task was as “near to murder as anything I ever could think of in connection with the army.” Accompanying this sentiment, Homer sketched, in the letter, a soldier trapped within the crosshairs of a sniper’s scope. I use this sketch, along with Homer’s words to his friend, as a way to understand the signiicance of two …

Intersectionality And Feminist Pedagogy: Lessons From Teaching About Racism And Economic Inequity, Lisa Cunningham, Pao Lee Vue, Virginia B. Maier

English Faculty/Staff Publications

This paper utilizes Rochester, NY, as a case study to argue that approaching race intersectionally and across disciplines creates a stronger model of feminist pedagogy. It is based on our work in the classroom and on the Fisher Race Initiatives—a series of three interactive workshops we created on our campus to create change in the aftermath of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, MO, and in the subsequent rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Our goals were to promote dialogue on race, to expose participants to factual information on race, and to emphasize the intersectional causes of poverty in the Rochester …

Editorial Introduction: Women Have Achieved This, I Follow: What If?, Deborah Uman, Barbara Lesavoy

English Faculty/Staff Publications

In turning to questions of gender, economics and entrepreneurship, the 2016 Seneca Falls Dialogues asked participants to explore how various forms of labor and compensation affect individual lives, societal movements, and institutions. One of the sub-themes for the conference was “Arts and Activism,” which led to our choice of keynote speaker Brenda Ann Kenneally and inspired Eastman professor of music education, Philip Silvey, to propose a performance of the University of Rochester’s women’s chorus at the Dialogues. With the full support of the Department of Music at University of Rochester, chaired by Professor Honey Meconi, and the full enthusiasm of …

I Need A Prince To Watch Over Me. Really?! Re-Visioning "Happily Ever After" In Gloria Naylor's Women Of Brewster Place, Anita August

English Faculty Publications

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I Need a Prince to Watch Over Me. Really?! Re-Visioning ‘Happily Ever After’ in Gloria Naylor’s The Women of Brewster Place

Birmingham Poetry Review 44 (Front Matter), Birmingham Poetry Review Staff

Birmingham Poetry Review

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We Were Three, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 23-24

Featured Poet: Claribel Alegría, Carolyn Forché

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 1-5

Gimpel The Adjunct, Ned Balbo

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 104-106

I Sit Atop A Compost Toilet, David Basilico

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 107

My Paradise In Mallorca, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 19-20

To My Mother, Claribel Alegría

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 17

Mind Of Winter, Nausheen Eusuf

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 159

About Halfway Down The Page, Michelle Boisseau

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 109

Comeback With Swans, Eamon Grennan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 175

I'M Not Really A Waitress, Lisa Hammond

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 176-177

Overture, Anna Lena Phillips Bell

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 108

Dodo, Stephen Kampa

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 180

Four Broken Ways To Pray, Rob Cook

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 146-147

The Chauffeur's Daughter Recalls Miss Borden, Juliana Gray

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 171-173

Particle Search In D Minor, Jeffrey N. Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 178

A Scholar's Vacation, Kyle Norwood

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 216-217

A Half Wave, Will Schutt, Francesco Scarabicchi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 226

Hibakusha, Tyler Mills

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 209-210

Pietà, Rachel Morgan

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 212

Our House On Fire, Burt Myers

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 213

Calaveras Big Trees, Amy Pence

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 218

Incipit, Will Schutt, Francesco Scarabicchi

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 225

What We Carry, Ellen Doré Watson

Birmingham Poetry Review

p. 239

Overheard In A Drug Store And Other Poems, Brad Johnson

Birmingham Poetry Review

pp. 275-278

Gathering Sense From Song: Robert Browning And The Romantic Epistemology Of Music, Laura Clarke

Publications and Research

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