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
Wilhoit, S. W. (2008). A Brief Guide to Writing Academic Arguments. Boston: Longman.
Book Chapters
Krummel, M. A. (2008). "The Pardoner, the Prioress, Sir Thopas, and the Monk: Semitic Discourse and the Jew(s)." In Bishop, K. (Ed.), The Canterbury Tales, Revisited: 21st-Century Interpretations (pp. 88-109). Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Krummel, M. A. (2008). "Getting Even: Social Control and Uneasy Laughter in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament." In Hardwick, P., Hordis, S. (Ed.), Medieval English Comedy (pp. 171-193). Turnhout: Brepols.
Trollinger, S. L. (2008). "Heritage versus History: Amish Tourism in Two Ohio Towns." In Umble, D. Z., Weaver-Zercher, D. (Ed.), The Amish and the Media. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Trollinger, S. L., Moyer, J. R. (2008). "A Fresh Riff on J. Denny Weaver’s A-theology or Prolegomenon to a Stewardship Rhetoric." In Mast, G. J., Epp-Weaver, A. (Ed.), The Work of Jesus Christ in Anabaptist Perspective. Telford, PA: Cascadia Press.
Book Reviews
Krummel, M. A. (2008). Review of Anthony Bale’s The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms, 1350-1500 (1st ed., vol. 77, pp. 152-53). Oxford: Medium Aevum.
McCombe, J. P. (2008). Review of Modernist Heresies: British Literary History, 1883-1924. James Joyce Literary Supplement (22.2): 23-24.
Slade, R. A. (2008). Review of Affaires de famille. Contemporary French Civilization.
Grants
Farrelly, J. P. (Principal). "Institute for "Reassessing Yeats" Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities, $3,000. (July 7, 2008 - August 1, 2008).
Morgan, T. L. "The Correspondence of Paul Laurence Dunbar." Sponsored by Research Council Seed Grant, $5,000. (June 1, 2008 - August 15, 2008).
Potter, R. C. (Co-Principal), Strain, M. M. (Co-Principal). "Innovation Grant." Sponsored by Learning Teaching Center, $7,500. (May 15, 2008 - August 15, 2009).
Ramnarayan, A. (Principal). "Grant-in-Aid." Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council Seed Grant, $1,000. (May 15, 2008 - August 15, 2008).
Ramnarayan, A. (Principal). "Seed Grant." Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council Seed Grant, $5,000. (May 15, 2008 - August 15, 2008).
Slade, R. A. (Principal). "Research Council Seed Grant." $5,000. (June 15, 2008 - August 15, 2008).
Strain, M. M. "Graduate School Faculty Fellowship." Sponsored by University of Dayton Graduate School. (May 15, 2008 - August 15, 2008).
Strain, M. M. (Co-Principal), Potter, R. C. (Co-Principal). "Course Innovation Grant." Sponsored by Learning Teaching Center/Graduate School, $7,500. (May 15, 2008 - August 15, 2008).
Vorachek, L. J. (Principal). "Research Council Seed Grant." Sponsored by University of Dayton, $5,000. (May 15, 2008 - August 15, 2008).
Walker, A. L. "Faculty Fund for Vocational Development." Sponsored by College of Arts and Sciences Program for Christian Leadership, $3,000. (March 2008 - February 2009).
Wardle, E. A. (Principal), Krug, A. K. (Co-Principal). "Student Empirical Research about Language, Literacy, and Writing: Improving Engagement for First-Year Students." Sponsored by Ryan C. Harris Learning Teaching Center, $5,100. (August 2007 - May 2008).
Youngkin, B. R. (Supporting). "English 200 Pilot Course: The Significance of Money." Sponsored by English Department, University of Dayton, $1,500. (June 2008 - December 2009).
Youngkin, B. R. (Supporting). "CORE: Understanding Western Thought through its Global Encounters." Sponsored by The Provost’s Office, The University of Dayton, $7,500. (May 2008 - May 2009).
Invited Lectures
Farrelly, J. P. "The Origins of Halloween." Breakfast Meeting, Oakwood Rotary, Oakwood, OH. (October 31, 2008).
Farrelly, J. P. "Reading Horror Fiction." Annual Meeting, Montgomery County Retired Teachers’ Association, Kettering, OH. (October 21, 2008).
Hughes, S. M. "Reading and Riding the Cosmic Coil: Navigating Relations in the Work of Louise Erdrich." Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares: Writing Race and Faith, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. (July 2008).
Kimbrough, R. A. "Choral Traditions of the Organist." Bach Society of Dayton, Kettering Seventh-day Adventist Church. (October 19, 2008).
Krummel, M. A. "Lincoln, 1255; Jedwabne, 1941: The Pleasures of ‘Super-Obedience’." Dayton JCC, Roesch Library, and University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (September 2008).
Marre, K. E. "My REmarks." American Society of Information Science & Technology, Information Professionals Accreditation Meeting, Washington DC.
McCombe, J. P. "Redefining the Maternal: Tori Amos and the Mother Without Child." Colloquium for Research on Women and Gender, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (October 3, 2008).
Potter, R. C. "A New Generation: Environmental Education in a Wired World." College of Arts and Sciences Dinner for Women Faculty, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (November 12, 2008).
Potter, R. C. "Aldo Leopold in Germany." American Studies Lecture Series, American Studies Department, University of Munich, Munich, Germany. (July 7, 2008).
Ramnarayan, A. "New Directions in Theorizing Hybridity: Postcolonial Perspectives." Invited Lecture, English Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (March 2, 2008).
Trollinger, W. V., Trollinger, S. L. "Creationism, the Creation Museum, and a Longing to Know the Creator." Evolution Sunday, Cross Creek Community Church, Centerville, OH. (February 9, 2008).
Vorachek, L. J. "Xenophobia, Gender, and National Identity: Street Musicians in Nineteenth-Century England." Faculty Research Colloquium, Department of English, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (September 18, 2008).
Wardle, E. A. "Teaching about Writing in First-Year Composition." Department of English, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. (February 13, 2008).
Wendorf, T. A. "Faith and Fiction--Some Current Controversies." Meet Our Marianists Luncheon/Forum, Rector’s Office, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (October 22, 2008).
Wendorf, T. A. "The Sabbath and Holy Leisure." University of Dayton Campus Ministry Staff Retreat, Mount Saint John, Dayton, OH. (August 6, 2008).
Wendorf, T. A. "Discovering the Peace and Wisdom a Garden Gives." Winter Wisdom Retreat on Writing, Peace, and the Environment, Marianist Environmental Education Center, Mount Saint John, Dayton, OH. (February 2, 2008).
Wilhoit, S. W. "Using Writing to Promote Learning." University of Dayton Teaching Fellows, Dayton, OH. (October 2008).
Wilhoit, S. W. "Teaching Source-based Writing." Invited Lecture, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX. (August 2008).
Wilhoit, S. W. "Reflective Writing." University of Dayton Center for Christian Leadership Lecture, Dayton, OH. (July 2008).
Journal Articles
Boehnlein, J. M. (2008). "The Poetry of Tom McGrath." MidAmerica: Publication of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature.
Krummel, M. A. (2008). "Globalizing Jewish Communities: Mapping Jewishness in Fragment VII of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales." Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 50(2), 1-43.
Marre, K. E. "'Recognition' for Programs in New and Emerging Professional Disciplines." Journal of the World Universities Forum, 2, 4.
McCombe, J. P. (2008). "Cleopatra and Her Problems: T.S. Eliot and the Fetishization of Shakespeare’s Queen of the Nile." Journal of Modern Literature, 33(2), 23-38.
Wardle, E. A. (2008). Understanding Transfer as Generalization from FYC: Preliminary Results of a Longitudinal Study. WPA: Journal of Writing Program Administrators.
Other Intellectual Contributions
Carrillo, A. (2008). In Kathleen West (Ed.), Alamosa (1 & 2, vol. 43, pp. 208-209). Las Cruces, NM/New Mexico State University: Puerto Del Sol.
Farrelly, J. P. "Politics and Language." WMUB Public Television, Oxford, OH. (October 31, 2008).
Farrelly, J. P. "Standard Written English." WMUB Public Radio, Oxford, OH. (May 2, 2008).
Hughes, S. M. (2008). "A Prophet Overheard: A Juxtapositional Reading of Gwendolyn Brooks' 'In the Mecca'." Electronic reprint and redistribution. Gale Group.
Hughes, S. M. (2008). "Between Bodies of Knowledge There Is a Great Gulf Fixed: A Liberationist Reading of Class and Gender in Life in the Iron Mills." Reprint (excerpted). In Miller, Q., Nash, J. (Ed.), Connections: Literature for Composition. Cengage Learning.
Hughes, S. M. "Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literatures." Through Many Dangers, Toils and Snares: Writing Race and Faith, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL. (September 2008).
Hughes, S. M. "The State of the Field." Annual Meeting, National Women’s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH. (June 2008).
Johnson, P. A., Hughes, S. M. "From Me to You: Inter-generational Conversations About Turning Over and Letting Go of Programs." National Women’s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH. (June 19, 2008).
Strain, M. M., Potter, R. C. "Teaching English 601, Together." Research Colloquium, English Department, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (October 29, 2008).
Vorachek, L. J. (2008). In Alexis Easley (Ed.), Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Bibliography: 2005-2007 (3rd ed., vol. 41, pp. 183-224). Victorian Periodicals Review.
Wilhoit, S. W. "Writing Effective Abstracts." Stander Symposium, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (March 2008).
Papers
Bardine, B. A. "Course Goals and Requirements for English 101." Fall English Composition Welcome Back Conference, English Department, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (August 19, 2008).
Bardine, B. A. "Teaching Writing Open Forum Discussion." Fall English Composition Welcome Back Conference, English Department, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (August 19, 2008).
Bardine, B. A. "Using Portfolios in the Writing Classroom." Fall English Welcome Back Conference, English Department, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (August 19, 2008).
Bardine, B. A., Bardine, M. S. "Community Building: Exploring Assessment, Response Styles, and Rubrics and their Impact on Students’ Perceptions of Writing." Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, Columbus, OH. (March 2008).
Boehnlein, J. M. "Blankets: Midwest Graphic Novel." Annual Conference on the Society for the Study of Midwest Literature, Michigan State University. (May 2008).
Farrelly, J. P. "’There’s No Place Like Home’: Insiders and Outsiders in Brian Friel’s Ballybeg." Annual Conference, American Conference for Irish Studies, Davenport, IA.
Hughes, S. M. "’So we can talk to you even though we are dead’: Louise Erdrich’s Sacralization of the Book." Reception, Transformation, and Transgression, International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture, Aarhus, Denmark. (October 2008).
Hughes, S. M. "'Talking Out of School': Crossing and Extending Borders in Women's Studies, Girls Studies, and Teacher Education." Annual Meeting, Canadian Women’s Studies Association / l'association canadienne des etudes sure les femmes, Vancouver, British Columbia. (June 2008).
Hughes, S. M. "From Minor to Major: Challenges and Strategies." Program Administration and Development Pre-Conference, National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH. (June 2008).
Krummel, M. A. "Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Redactions of the Prioress's Tale." 16th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Wales, United Kingdom. (July 2008).
Krummel, M. A. "The Constraints of Sex in John Gower's 'The Tale of Tereüs'." First International Congress of the John Gower Society, London, England. (July 2008).
Krummel, M. A. "Publishing, Teaching, and Training the Next Generation: On Being Pete Beilder." 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI. (May 2008).
Morgan, T. L. "I needed her to tell me I am doing right": Nector Kashpaw and the Limits of Personal Responsibility." American Literature Association, San Francisco, CA. (May 2008).
Morgan, T. L. "Kate Chopin: New Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity." American Literature Association Conference, The International Kate Chopin Society, San Francisco, CA. (May 2008).
Slade, R. A. "The Post-traumatic Sublime." Local Knowledge, Global Arts, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Melbourne, Australia. (July 2008).
Strain, M. M. "Rhetoric and Composition Sound Archives." Conference on College Composition and Communication, New Orleans, LA. (April 2008).
Trollinger, S. L., Trollinger, W. V. "Creationism and the Creation Museum." Annual Convention, National Communication Association, San Diego, CA. (November 21, 2008).
Vorachek, L. J. "Dangerous Women: Braddon's Lady Audley and Caspary's Bedelia." Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, MN. (November 14, 2008).
Wardle, E. A. "School Writing is Just a Game, Not a Forum for Real Expression: Considering How Extensively School Genres Impact Student Identity." Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, New Orleans, LA. (April 2008).
Wardle, E. A. "What and Who do ePortfolios Represent? The Changing Realities of Electronically Supporting, Documenting, and Assessing Learning and Teaching." Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, New Orleans, LA. (April 2008).
Wilhoit, S. W. "Herding Cats: From WPA to Faculty Development." National Council of Writing Program Administrators, Denver, CO. (July 12, 2008).
Wilhoit, S. W. "How Can We Better Document, Preserve, Protect, and Share Our Learning." National Council of Writing Program Administrators, Denver, CO. (July 11, 2008).
Wilhoit, S. W. "Teaching Teachers: A Workshop on Faculty Development for Assistant Professor Administrators." National Council of Writing Program Administrators, Denver, CO. (July 11, 2008).
Performances
Hughes, S. M. (Poetry Reading). "Kinswomen." National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH. (June 21, 2008).
Posters
Hughes, S. M., Ridenour, C., Jennings, N., Roberts, L., Whitman, E. "Voices of Girls in Urban Schools: Collaborative Field Research with Undergraduates." Annual Meeting, National Women’s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH. (June 2008).
Workshops
Farrelly, J. P., Trick, K. A., Sweeney, P., Olive, J. "Organizing for Success: One Institution's Approach to Writing a Self Study." Annual Meeting, Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Accreditation Association, Chicago, IL. (April 12, 2008).
Wardle, E. A. "First-Year Composition as Writing Studies: Implementing a Writing-about-Writing Pedagogy." Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, New Orleans, LA. (April 2008).
