English Faculty Publications

English Faculty Publications

 
Faculty in the University of Dayton's Department of English publish, present, perform and produce new scholarship, commentary, reflections and creative works every year. Our department takes pride in the quality of our teaching, the outcomes our students achieve, and the faculty and student scholarship that reinforces our reputation as a leader among U.S. Catholic institutions of higher learning. In this repository, you can find a sampling of scholarly work produced by our faculty and students.

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Publications from 2023

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Culturally Responsive Persuasion in Alexander Posey’s Fus Fixico Letters, Tereza M. Szeghi

Publications from 2021

Identity Formation and Dislocation, Tereza M. Szeghi

Publications from 2020

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‘To Sing the Haiku the American Way is a Beautiful Thing’: The Haiku of Etheridge Knight, Thomas Lewis Morgan

National, Transnational, and Human Rights Frames for Teaching María Amparo Ruiz de Burton's 'The Squatter and the Don', Tereza M. Szeghi

Publications from 2019

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A Student Journal to Celebrate, Preserve, and Improve Beginning Undergraduate Writing, Ann E. Biswas, Maureen E. Schlangen, and Heidi Gauder

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Deadeye, Meredith Doench

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South Carolina, 2012, Meredith Doench

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Innovation in L2 Writing Instruction: Toward Nurturing Confident, Motivated, and Academically Honest L2 Writers, Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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“His Appearance Is against Him”: Race and Criminality in Dorothy L. Sayers’s Unnatural Death, Laura Vorachek

Publications from 2018

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Farsi Translation of 'Who’s Afraid of Multilingual Education?', Amir Kalan

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Fighting for Indigenous Rights in the Trump Era, Tereza M. Szeghi

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Literary Didacticism and Collective Human Rights in US Borderlands: Ana Castillo's 'The Guardians' and Louise Erdrich's 'The Round House', Tereza M. Szeghi

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Luchar por los Derechos Indígenas en la Era de Trump, Tereza M. Szeghi

Publications from 2017

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Forsaken Trust, Meredith Doench

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A Sociolinguistic Profile of English in Lebanon, Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the Other, Miriamne Ara Krummel and Tison Pugh

Ophelia’s Mother: The Phantom of Maternity in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Rebecca Potter and Elizabeth Mackey

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'Why Don’t You Just Go Back Where You Came From?' or 'Slight Yams': 'Pangs' of Regret and Unresolved Ambivalence in Joss Whedon’s California, Tereza M. Szeghi and Wesley Dempster

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The Bible and Creationism, Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger

Publications from 2016

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Unbalancing Acts: Plagiarism as Catalyst for Instructor Emotion in the Composition Classroom, Ann E. Biswas

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Access, Oppression, and Social (In)Justice in Epidemic Control: Race, Profession, and Communication in SARS Outbreaks in Canada and Singapore, Huiling Ding, Xiaoli Li, and Austin Caldwell Haigler

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Freedom is a Good Book and a Sugar High, Meredith Doench

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The Status of ESL/EFL Writing in Lebanon, Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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Teach the Partnership: Critical University Studies and the Future of Service-Learning, David J. Fine

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Teaching Anglo-American Academic Writing and Intercultural Rhetoric: A Grounded Theory Study of Practice in Ontario Secondary Schools, Amir Kalan

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Who’s Afraid of Multilingual Education?, Amir Kalan

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Mobilizing Practitioner Action Research to Foster Critical Pedagogy in a Large Online Undergrad University Course, Amir Kalan and Michelle Troberg

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Fictions of Identity: (Re) Imagining the Stories We Tell, Miriamne Ara Krummel

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Staging Encounters: The Touch of the Medieval Other, Miriamne Ara Krummel

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The Biosemiotics of Aldo Leopold, Rebecca Potter

NCTE on 'Why Get an M.A. in English?', Rebecca C. Potter and Margaret M. Strain

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Adolescent Literacy and Collaborative Inquiry, Rob Simon and Amir Kalan

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Degree of Change: The MA in English Studies, Margaret M. Strain and Rebecca C. Potter

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Response: Are American Christians Persecuted?, Susan L. Trollinger

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Righting America at the Creation Museum, Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger

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‘How Little I Cared for Fame’: T. Sparrow and Women’s Investigative Journalism at the Fin de Siècle, Laura Vorachek

Publications from 2015

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Metal and Gothic Literature: Examining the Darker Side of Life (and Death), Bryan Bardine

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'I Second that Emotion': Minding How Plagiarism Feels, Ann E. Biswas

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When Emotion Stands to Reason: A Phenomenological Study of Composition Instructors’ Emotional Responses to Plagiarism, Ann E. Biswas

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Branded Cowboy, Meredith Doench

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Crossed, Meredith Doench

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For All the Mias of this World, Meredith Doench

Screenplay: Mark of the Apprentice, Meredith Doench and Nancy Zafris

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Cohesion and Perceived Proficiency in ITA Oral Communication across Engineering and the Sciences, Jennifer Haan

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English Language Literacy and the Prediction of Academic Success in and beyond the Pathway Program, Jennifer Haan and Karyn E. Mallett

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Jewish Culture and Literature in England, Miriamne Ara Krummel

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Familiar Strangers: International Students in the U.S. Composition Course, Elena Lawrick and Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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Familiar Strangers: International Students in the U.S. Composition Course, Elena Lawrick and Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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Navigating the “Delicate Relationship Between Empathy And Critical Distance”: Youth Literacies, Social Justice, and Arts-Based Inquiry, Rob Simon, Sarah Evis, Ty Walkland, Amir Kalan, and Pamela Baer

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The Possibilities and Pitfalls in Teaching Sherman Alexie’s 'The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian', Tereza M. Szeghi

Literacy in Practice: Writing in Private, Public, and Working Lives, Patrick W. Thomas and Pamela Takayoshi

Publications from 2014

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Lessons in Citizenship: Using Collaboration in the Classroom to Build Community, Foster Academic Integrity, and Model Civic Responsibility, Ann E. Biswas

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English Language Teaching in Lebanese Schools: Trends and Challenges, Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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A Practice-Oriented Definition of Post-Process Second Language Writing Theory, Amir Kalan

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Integrating Speaking and Listening Activities into Teaching Anglo-American Academic Writing Rhetoric, Amir Kalan

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Reading Poetry in Standardized EFL Test Preparation to Increase Meaningful Literacy Engagement, Amir Kalan

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Criticizing Local Color: Innovative Conformity in Kate Chopin’s Short Fiction, Thomas Lewis Morgan

Violence and Beauty: Jacques Lacan's 'Antigone', Andrew Slade

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Weaving Transnational Identity: Travel and Diaspora in Sandra Cisneros’s 'Caramelo', Tereza M. Szeghi

Publications from 2013

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Whose Code of Conduct Matters Most? Examining the Link Between Academic Integrity and Student Development, Ann E. Biswas

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The Impact of Canadian Social Discourses on L2 Writing Pedagogy in Ontario, Amir Kalan

‘Him Jesus, That Jew!’—Representing Jewishness in the York Plays, Miriamne Ara Krummel

Invisible Monsters and Palahniuk's Perverse Sublime, Andrew Slade

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Scientific Racism and Masculine Recuperation: Charles Lummis and the Search for 'Home', Tereza M. Szeghi

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With 'cheekbones and noses like eagles and hawks': Indigeneity and Mestizaje in Ana Castillo’s 'The Mixquiahuala Letters' and Leslie Marmon Silko’s 'Almanac of the Dead', Tereza M. Szeghi

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Speculation and the Emotional Economy of 'Mansfield Park', Laura Vorachek

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Whitewashing Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century England: Female Banjo Players in 'Punch', Laura Vorachek

Publications from 2012

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Training Graduate Assistants, Bryan Bardine

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A Primer on Copyright and Fair Use, Ann E. Biswas and Charles J. Russo

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Well-Worn, Meredith Doench

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Essay Writing Instructional Lexicon and Semantic Confusion, Amir Kalan

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Black Naturalism, White Determinism: Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Naturalist Strategies, Thomas Lewis Morgan

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Remake as Erasure in 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre', Andrew Slade

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'The Twain Shall Meet': Rethinking the Introductory Course to Graduate Studies, Margaret M. Strain and Rebecca Potter

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Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia, Susan L. Trollinger

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Playing Italian: Cross-cultural Dress and Investigative Journalism at the Fin de Siècle, Laura Vorachek

Publications from 2011

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This I Believe: The Do-Over, Meredith Doench

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Review: 'Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic', Miriamne Ara Krummel

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Inverting the Haiku Moment: Alienation, Objectification, and Mobility in Richard Wright’s ‘Haiku: This Other World’, Thomas Lewis Morgan

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To Live Like Fighting Cocks: 'Fight Club' and the Ethics of Masculinity, Andrew Slade

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The Vanishing Mexicana/o: (Dis)Locating the Native in Ruiz de Burton’s 'Who Would Have Thought It?' and 'The Squatter and the Don', Tereza M. Szeghi

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From Reading to Revering the Good Book, Or How the Word Became Fossil at the Creation Museum, Susan L. Trollinger

Publications from 2010

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Comment 4 on 'Lingua Franca or Lingua Frankensteinia? English in European Integration and Globalization', Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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Dangerous Women: Vera Caspary’s Rewriting of 'Lady Audley’s Secret' in 'Bedelia', Laura Vorachek

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Reading Music: Representing Female Performance in Nineteenth-century British Piano Method Books and Novels, Laura Vorachek

Publications from 2009

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Elements of the Gothic in Heavy Metal: A Match Made in Hell, Bryan Bardine

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World Englishes: Practical Implications for Teaching and Research, Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240), Kyle McIntosh, Cindy Torres, Elena Lawrick, Cristine McMartin-Miller, and Shih-Yu Chang

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Meir b. Elijah of Norwich and the Margins of Memory, Miriamne Ara Krummel

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Mixing Mourning and Desire: Alfonso Cuarón's 'Y Tu Mamá También', Andrew Slade

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On Mutilation: The Sublime Body of Chuck Palahniuk's Fiction, Andrew Slade

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'The Injin is civilized and aint extinct no more than a rabbit': Transformation and Transnationalism in Alexander Posey’s 'Fus Fixico Letters', Tereza M. Szeghi

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Mesmerists and Other Meddlers: Social Darwinism, Degeneration, and Eugenics in 'Trilby', Laura Vorachek

Publications from 2008

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Reflective Revision: The Effects of Reflective Memos on Students’ Revision Strategies, Bryan Bardine and Anthony Fulton

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Comment 4 on 'Lingua Franca or Lingua Frankensteinia? English in European Integration and Globalization', Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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Working Paper: Spatial Deixis and Gesture in English: Adults vs. Children, Fatima Esseili (0000-0003-1127-6240)

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Globalizing Jewish Communities: Mapping a Jewish Geography in Fragment VII of 'The Canterbury Tales', Miriamne Ara Krummel

The Pardoner, the Prioress, Sir Thopas, and the Monk: Semitic Discourse and the Jew(s), Miriamne Ara Krummel

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Heritage versus History: Amish Tourism in Two Ohio Towns, Susan L. Trollinger

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A Fresh Riff on J. Denny Weaver’s A-Theology or Prolegomenon to a Stewardship Rhetoric, Susan L. Trollinger and Jason R. Moyer

Publications from 2007

The German We Loved to Hate: Erich von Stroheim’s Hollywood Villain, and Its Legacy, Rebecca Potter