English Language and Literature Commons^™

Eng 5009-001: Recovering Emily Dickinson, Stephen Swords

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3099-099: Myth And Culture, M. Leddy

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eiu 4192-099: Film And Contemporary Society, Honors, P.A. Boswell

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Wst 2309-002, 004: Women, Men, And Culture, Jeannie Ludlow

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3807-001: Victorian Literature, Dagni Bredesen

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 5011-001: Studies In Compsition & Rhetoric: Genre Theory & Pedagogy, Donna Binns

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Film 3759-001: History Of Cinema, Robin Murray

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3001-001: Advanced Composition, John Moore

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-002: English Composition And Language, William Feltt

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3903-001: Women, Literature And Language, Melissa Ames

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-011: Composition & Language, Steven Nathaniel

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 1001-005: Composition & Language, L. A. Berry

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3001-007: Advanced Composition: "Writing In The Professional Workplace", Tim Engles

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3802-001: Shakespeare, Chris Wixson

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

The Novel Of Sentiment In A Short Story: Reflections On Teaching “Theresa”, Adam Kotlarczyk

Faculty Publications & Research

I introduced “Theresa” in between units on “The Age of Reason” and “American Romanticism.” Thus it was foregrounded by works like Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography and Phyllis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” and followed by stories by Irving, Hawthorne, and Poe. Strictly speaking, this puts “Theresa” slightly out of sequence; its serialization in 1828 precedes by at least ten years the works of Poe, Hawthorne, and Irving that we study. Despite this, the text functioned well as a transitional piece, although I would consider moving it deeper into the Romantic unit. The exotic setting, relative to our other …

Eng 1001-007: Composition & Language, Robert Zordani

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 5502-001: Mentored Composition Teaching, Tim Taylor

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3009-001: Myth And Culture, M. Leddy

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 2009-001: Love, Hate, Ovsession, R. Beebe

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 1002-022: Composition And Literature, Donna Binns

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 2005-001: Creative Writing: Drama, Olga Abella

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 3705-001: Multicultural American Literature, Robin Murray

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Eng 4904-001: Studies In Film, P.A. Boswell

Spring 2015

No abstract provided.

Features Of Independence: Teaching “Theresa - A Haytien Tale”, Michael P. Dean

Faculty Publications & Research

One of the core beliefs of the Illinois Math and Science Academy (IMSA) states that we believe that “diverse perspectives enrich understanding and inspire discovery and creativity,” and in keeping with that aim, I chose to participate in the Just Teach One: Early African American Print project. As a school primarily focused on STEM subjects, IMSA still offers a robust English curriculum that values and supports a diverse literary canon, and our incoming sophomores are asked to complete a two-part Literary Explorations course that features America texts from colonial era up to the 21^st century.

Neurodiversity’S Lingua Franca?: The Wild Iris, Autobiography Of Red, And The Breakdown Of Cognitive Barriers Through Poetic Language, Dani Alexis Ryskamp

The Hilltop Review

Persons with mental and emotional disabilities, including self-advocates in the fledgling "neurodiversity" movement, often find themselves at a loss to communicate effectively with the "neurotypical," abled majority when experiences of language differ dramatically across typical and atypical populations. This paper explores the possibility of poetic language as a "lingua franca" permitting communication of neurodiverse experiences. It does so by examining examples of animism, synesthesia, and metonymy in Louise Gluck's The Wild Iris and Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red - poetic elements that also appear frequently in the writing of activists with depression, autism, and other neuroatypical conditions. I argue that, …

The Rhetoric Of Exile In The Preaching And Teaching Of The Anglo-Saxon Church: Glimpses Of The Cultural Ideology In Old English Homilies, Yi-Chin Huang

The Hilltop Review

Abstract.

This article explores how the early medieval vernacular homiletic discourse produced in Anglo-Saxon England strategically employs the rhetoric exile, a theme whose significance is also articulated widely in Old English poetry. As words denoting such similar ideas as exile, banishment, exclusion, casting/driving out, etc., recur significantly in the homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, including the homilies of Ælfric, Wulfstan, and the Blickling and Vercelli Codices, I propose an analysis of the instances in which the rhetoric about exile is used in preaching and theology in order to reveal not only the Church authors/teachers’ ability and effort to translate Latin …

Feminist Markup And Meaningful Text Analysis In Digital Literary Archives, Hannah M. Schilperoort

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

In this research paper, I examine three digital archives of women writers--University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Willa Cather Archive, Northeastern University’s Women Writers Online, and University of Alberta’s Orlando Project--for evidence of encoding practices and computational text analysis experimentation that supports feminist scholarship. I provide a brief overview of text encoding practices and controversies in digital literary studies, emphasizing research that suggests heavily detailed and interpretative markup results in more meaningful text analysis outcomes. I situate feminist text encoding and analysis practices and technologies within a larger argument for the use of detailed, interpretative and critical markup. I begin my research on …

Tale Of The Whale, Joel Schlaudt

Aidenn: The Liberty Undergraduate Journal of American Literature

In his critique of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, A.N. Deacon accurately captures one of the main tenets if not the central theme of the book; however, he also makes several claims about the novel that do not seem to fit with the evidence seen in the actual story. For example, Deacon holds that Melville is attempting to show that the power and attributes of Moby Dick are the source, symbolically, of truth and meaning. However, this is not the impression we get when we look closely at the work itself and note Melville’s treatment of the subject. Furthermore, Deacon …

“In Fellowship Of Death”: Animals And Nonhuman Nature In Irving Layton’S Ecopoetics, Jacob Bachinger

The Goose

Irving Layton is not usually considered a “nature poet,” yet his work often features careful observations of nonhuman nature. Jacob Bachinger’s ecocritical reading of a few of Irving Layton's most frequently anthologized poems examines the underappreciated ecopoetic aspect of his work. Bachinger pays specific attention to a recurring theme in many of Layton's best known poems, such as “The Bull Calf” and “A Tall Man Executes a Jig”—the poet’s examination of a dead or dying animal. Layton’s examination of the deaths of these animals exists on a continuum in which the poet moves from an antipastoral to a postpastoral position.

I Would Prefer Not To Help You, Christen Dunn

Aidenn: The Liberty Undergraduate Journal of American Literature

Bartleby, the Scrivener recounts a story of a scrivener who would prefer not to do anything, whether that be parts of his job, changing his location, or eating his dinner. The narrator’s reaction to Bartleby’s lazy desires seem to be admirable, but his selfish motivation and false compassion are evident. The way the narrator views and treats Bartleby is consistent with the standards of philanthropy of the wealthy during the mid-nineteenth century. The narrator truly believes he has helped Bartleby to the best of his ability, yet fails to connect with Bartleby outside of offering him money and future assistance …