Research & Scholarship

The research and scholarly efforts of our faculty ensure that our students are educated in a vibrant and engaged environment. Recent research and scholarship projects are listed below.

Books

Krummel, M. A. (2011). Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present (pp. 264). New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Book Chapters

Haan, J., Mallett, K. E. (2011). "Introduction: The Pursuit of Transformative Education." In Mallett, K. E., Habib, A. S. (Ed.), Diversity at Mason: The Pursuit of Transformative Education (pp. 11-16). Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Publications.

Hughes, S. M. Hassell, (former student), K. D. (2011). "A Circle of Shared Memory, Meaning, and Table." In Ginsberg, A. (Ed.), And Finally We Meet: Intersections and Intersectionality Among Feminist Activists, Academics, and Students (pp. 18 pp.). Towson, MD: Institute for Teaching and Research on Women.

Strain, M. M., Farmer, F. M. (2011). “A Repertoire of Discernments: Hearing the Unsaid in Oral History Narratives.” In Cheryl Glenn and Krista Ratcliffe (Ed.), Silence and Listening as Rhetorical Arts (pp. 231-49). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Book Reviews

Krummel, M. A. (2011). "Rev. Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic. Gendering Disgust in Medieval Religious Polemic" (vol. 80, pp. 159-161). Florida: Church History.

McCombe, J. P. (2011). "Review of Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison." Northern Illinois University: Popular Music and Society.

McCombe, J. P. (2011). "Review of Catholic Modernists, English Nationalists." Miami, FL/University of Miami: James Joyce Literary Supplement.

McCombe, J. P. (2011). "Review of There Will Be Rainbows: A Biography of Rufus Wainwright." Northern Illinois University: Popular Music and Society.

Grants

Bardine, B. A. (Principal). “Humanities Commons Proposal.” Sponsored by Office of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, $2,500. (May 20, 2011-December 16, 2011).

Carrillo, A. (Co-Principal). “Language and Our World.” Sponsored by Common Academic Program, $2,500. (December 15, 2011-Present).

Haan, J. (Principal). “Research Council Grant in Aid.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council, $725. (May 2011-September 2011).

Haan, J. (Principal). “Research Council Summer Seed Grant.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council, $4,275. (May 2011-September 2011).

McCombe, J. P. (Prinipal). “Humanities Commons Grant.” Sponsored by College of Arts & Sciences, $2,500. (May 1, 2011-December 16, 2011).

Potter, R. C. (Principal). “Humanities Commons Pilot Grant.” Sponsored by Common Academic Program/College of Arts and Sciences, $2,500. (2011).

Szeghi, T. (Principal). “Grant-in-Aid.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council, $528. (May 2011-August 2011.

Journal Articles

McCombe, J. P. (2011). "Minstrelsy, Masculinity, and ‘Bob Dylan’ as Text in I’m Not There." POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humantities, 30(3), 12-25.

McCombe, J. P. (2011). "Not 'Only Sleeping': The Beatles and a Neo-Romantic Aesthetic of Indolence." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 44(2), 137-152.

Slade, R. A. "Fight Club and the Ethics of Masculinity." Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 28(3).

Strain, M. M., Potter, R. C. (2012). "'’The Twain Shall Meet’: Rethinking the Introduction to Graduate Studies Course as Interdisciplinary Pedagogy.” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, 12(1), 139-160.

Szeghi, T. (2011). "The Vanishing Mexicana/o: (Dis)Locating the Native in Ruiz de Burton’s Who Would Have Thought It? and The Squatter and the Don." Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 36(2), 89-120.

Other

Bardine, B. A. “Community Building Among Teaching Assistants: Bridging the Gap from Training to the First-Year Classroom.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Conference on Colllege Composition and Communication, Atlanta, Georgia. (April 7, 2011).

Biswas, A. E. “Understanding Plagiarism and the Internet Generation.” Computers & Writing Conference 2011, Computers & Writing, University of Michigan. (May 19, 2011).

Carrillo, A. (2011). In Wayne Crawford (Ed.), Bear’s Visit Provokes H. to Remember a Boyish Past (15th ed., pp. 2). Las Cruces, NM: Sin Fronteras: Writers without Borders.

DeAloia, L. “N/A.” Conference on Christianity and Literature, University of Dayton, Department of English, University of  Dayton; Dayton, OH. (August 22, 2011).

DeAloia, L. “N/A.” The Image of the Outlaw in Literature Media and Soceity, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado State University; Pueblo, Colorado. (March 15, 2011).

Doench, M. In Doench, M. (Ed.), “Mercy.” University of Colorado at Boulder: Palimpsest: A Creative Journal of the Humanities.

Farrelly, J. P. “New Perspectives on Film and Irish Broadcasting.” American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting, ACIS, Madison, WI. (March 31, 2011).

Haan, J. “From Graduate Student to the Tenure Track; Negotiating Roles in and out of the Academy.” Lilly Graduate Fellows Program Conference, Lilly Graduate Fellows Program, University of Dayton. (May 23, 2011).

Hughes, S. M. Hassell (2011). “Depression’s Lover” (poem). In Ginsberg, A. (Ed.), And Finally We Meet: Intersections and Intersectionality Among Feminist Activists, Academics, and Students. Towson, MD: Institute for Teaching and Research on Women.

Hughes, S. M. Hassell (2011). “Sleeping Like a Widow” (poem) (13th ed.). on-line: Phantom Kangaroo. www.phantomkangaroo.com.

Hughes, S. M. Hassell (2011). “Mid-Life” (poem) (16 (Autumn Equinox) ed.). on-line: Mused: The Bella On-line Literary Review. www.bellaonline.com/review.

Iromuanya, J. "An Arranged Honeymoon." Gambier, Ohio: Kenyon Review: The International Journal of Literature.

Iromuanya, J. "The Wife." Gambier, Ohio: KRO: Kenyon Review Online. http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=iromuanya.php.

Papers

Cron, A. W. “Self as Contested Space: Writing, Culture, and Identity in a Multilingual FYC Course.” All Our Relations: Contested Space, Contested Knowledge, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Atlanta, GA. (April 9, 2011).

DeAloia, L. “What Would Gibbs Do/ Familial Transference and the Outlaw Within in Television Crime Drama.” The Image of the Outlaw, Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery, Colorado State University; Pueblo, Colorado. (March 15, 2011).

Farrelly, J. P. “The Death of Cuchulain: Yeats’s Heroic Farewell to His Tragic Mask.” American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Meeting, ACIS, Madison, WI. (March 31, 2011).

Haan, J. “Language and University Internationalization.” American Association of Applied Linguistics, AAAL, Chicago, IL. (March 26, 2011).

Haan, J., Mallett, K. E. “Constructing a Glocalization Model of English Education and Internationalization.” Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, TESOL, New Orleans, LA. (March 18, 2011).

Hughes, S. M. Hassell “Advancing Women’s Leadership on a Catholic Campus: Overt and Covert Feminist Deployments.” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (November 12, 2011).

Hughes, S. M. Hassell “Lippy Women: Combating Pornography and Censorship on a Catholic Campus.” National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education (NAWCHE), Seattle, WA. (June 16, 2011).

Hughes, S. M. Hassell “Literature and the ‘Real World’: Re-designing the Senior Seminar in Light of Student Learning Outcomes, Department Culture, and Institutional Mission.” MLA, Modern Languages Association, Los Angeles. (January 6, 2011).

Iromuanya, J. “Citizenship, Nation, and Sexual Violence in the Short Stories of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” 37th Annual African Literature Association Conference, African Literature Association, Athens, Ohio. (April 13, 2011).

Iromuanya, J. 2011 Annual AWP Conference, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Washington, DC. (February 3, 2011).

Iromuanya, J. “Rotten English: Exploring the Vernacular in the Fiction Writing Workshop.” 2011 AWP Annual Conference, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Washington, DC. (February 3, 2011).

Keane-Sexton, M. B. “Using Literature to Teach Peace between Christianity and Islam.” Mideast Regional Meeting, Conference on Christianity and Literature, University of Dayton. (October 29, 2011).

McCombe, J. P. “’Common People’: Realism, Class Difference, and the Male Domestic Sphere in Nick Hornby’s Collision With Britpop.” Modern Language Association Convention, Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, CA. (January 8, 2011).

Morgan, T. L. “Taking on the Press: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Representation of Blackness.” American Literature Association Conference, American Literature Association, Boston, MA.
(May 24, 2011).

Morgan, T. L. “Specters of Belief: Race and Metaphor in Sherman Alexie’s Poetry.” Modern Language Assocciation Annual Conference, Los Angeles, Ca. (January 9, 2011).

Slade, R. A. “Hope Without Reprieve.” Mid-East Conference On Christianity and Literature, Dayton. (October 19, 2011).

Trollinger, S. L. “From Reading to Revering the Good Book, Or How the Word Became Fossil at the Creation Museum.” Maryville Symposium on Faith and the Liberal Arts, Maryville College, Maryville, TN. (September 30, 2011).

Trollinger, S. L., Trollinger, W. V. “The Politics and Rhetoric of the Creation Museum.” Popular Culture Association Annual Conference, Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX. (April 21, 2011).

Trollinger, W. V., Trollinger, S. L. “Disciplining Readers of the Word, Reconstructing the Proper Christian, and Purging the Disobedient: Argument and Narrative at the Creation Museum.” American Studies Association Annual Convention, American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD. (October 21, 2011).

Vorachek, L. J. “Playing Italian: Investigative Social Journalism of Organ-Grinders at the Fin de Siecle.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Canterbury, England. (July 22, 2011).

Vorachek, L. J. “Curious Journalism: Female Reporters’ Undercover Exposés of Italian Organ-Grinders.” 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference, British Women Writers Association, Columbus, OH. (April 1, 2011).

Wilhoit, S. W. “Leadership Theory and TA Education.” The Council of Writing Program Administrators Conference, The Council of Writing Program Administrators, Baton Rouge. (July 18, 2011).

Performances

Carrillo, A. (Performer). “Caves Below the Mountain Top and In Our Lives.” Gary Pacernick/Wright State University/Dayton Peace Museum, Dayton, OH. (November 9, 2011).

Carrillo, A. (Performer). “New Poems by Albino Carrillo.” Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH. (May 13, 2011-May 14, 2011).

Carrillo, A. (Performer). “Romance en Ciernes.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, San Antonio, TX. (April 22, 2011).

Kimbrough, R. A. (Performer). “Organ Recital.” Christ Church, Bradenton, FL. (March 17, 2011).

Ramnarayan, A. (Performer). “Mathemagician.” JustUs Repertory, National School of Drama, New Delhi, India. (January 14, 2011).

Presentations

Biswas, A. E. “Building Community and Teaching Academic Integrity through Collaborative, Research-Based Writing.” Ohio Teaching and Learning Conference, Southwestern Ohio Council for Higher Education, Dayton, OH. (October 28, 2011).

Haan, J. “Situating ESL/SLS in the Context of Internationalization.” Purdue University Graduate Student Symposium on Second Language Studies and English as a Second Language, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. (April 2, 2011).

Pici, J. R. “Short Story.” University of Dayton. (November 9, 2011).

Pici, J. R. “Author Tim O’Brien.” Chaminade-Julienne High School. (May 10, 2011).

Potter, R. C. “The Property of Fiction.” University of Bayreuth, Germany, English and American Literature Dept., University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth Germany. (June 22, 2011).

Potter, R. C. “The Biosemiotics of Aldo Leopold.” The Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich Germany. (April 29, 2011).

Trollinger, S. L. “The Amish: Origins, Tradition, and Change.” Centerville-Washington Township Historical Society Lecture, Centerville-Washington Township Historical Society, Centerville, OH. (March 15, 2011).

Sponsored Research

Strain, M. M. (Co-Principal), Phillips-Young, L. (Co-Principal), Archer, M. (Supporting), Doench, M. (Supporting), Johnston, W. H. (Supporting), Mullins, M. M. (Co-Principal), Reid, P. A. (Supporting), Szeghi, T. (Supporting). “Building Community through Social Justice LLC CAP Pilots.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Committee on the Common Academic Program and the College of Arts and Sciences, $20,000. (May 10, 2011-May 2012).

Szeghi, T. (Co-Principal). “Humanities Commons Pilot Grant.” Sponsored by University of Dayton College of Arts and Sciences, $2,500. (May 2011-August 2011).

Szeghi, T. (Principal). “Summer Research Fellowship.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council, $5,000. (May 2011-August 15, 2011).