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.

Artistic Contributions

Carrillo, A. (Performer). “Duende Poetry Series Presents Albino Carrillo.” Duende Poetry Series, Placitas, NM. (June 13, 2010).

Carrillo, A. (Performer). “Poems from ‘Romance Nuevo Mexicano’.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, Albuquerque, NM. (February 11, 2010).

Book Chapters

Haan, J., Mallett, K. (2010). From the Classroom to the Boardroom: Strategies for ESL Professional Writing. In Kasten, S. (Ed.), Effective Second Language Writing. Baltimore, MD: TESOL.

Hughes, S. M. Hassell (2010). “Red Mother”: The Missing Mother Plot as Double Mystery in Louise Erdrich’s Fiction. In O’Reilly, A., and Podneiks, E. (Eds.), Textual Mothers, Maternal Texts (pp. 79-93). Waterloo, Ontario: Association for Research on Mothering/Wilfred Laurier University Press.

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.

Strain, M. M., Lucas, B. E. (2010). On Starting, Continuing, and Keeping the Conversation Going: The Archive Thrives on Interviews and Oral Histories. In Barbara L’Eplattenier, Lisa Mastrangelo, Wendy Sharer, and Alexis Ramsey (Ed.), Working in the Archives: Methods, Sources, Histories. (pp. 259-77). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.

Grants

Krummel, M. A. (Principal). “Grant-In-Aid.” Sponsored by University of Dayton, Research Institute, $1,000. (June 2010 - August 2010).

Krummel, M. A. (Principal). “Summer Research Council Seed Grant.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council, $5,000. (June 2010 - August 2010).

Morgan, T. L. (Principal). “The Correspondence of Paul Laurence Dunbar.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council Seed Grant, $5,000. (June 1, 2010 - August 15, 2010).

Szeghi, T. (Principal). “Learning Teaching Center Research Fellows Grant-in-Aid.” Sponsored by University of Dayton, $1,238. (May 2010 - August 2010).

Szeghi, T. (Principal). “Summer Research Fellowship.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council, $5,000. (May 2010 - August 2010).

Vorachek, L. J. (Principal). “Whitewashing Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century England: Female Banjo Players in Punch.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council Research Fellowship, $5,000. (June 15, 2010 - August 15, 2010).

Vorachek, L. J. (Principal). “Whitewashing Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century England: Female Banjo Players in Punch.” Sponsored by University of Dayton Research Council Grant-in-Aid, $850. (June 2010).

Journal Articles

Marre, K. E. (2009). The Companionship of Literary Books. The International Journal of the Book, 6(4), 89-92.

McCombe, J. P. (2010). Henry James, Shakespeare’s Biography, and the Question of National Identity in “The Birthplace” and “The Introduction to The Tempest.” The Henry James Review, 31(2), 169-87.

Slade, R. A. Mixing Mourning and Desire: Y Tu Mama Tambien. Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture.

Vorachek, L. J. (2010). Reading Music: Representing Female Performance in Nineteenth-Century British Piano Method Books and Novels. CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History, 39(3), 1-29.

Vorachek, L. J. (2010). Dangerous Women: Vera Caspary’s Rewriting of Lady Audley’s Secret in Bedelia. Clues: A Journal of Detection, 28(2), 69-76.

Magazines/Trade Publications

Krummel, M. A. (2010). Darkness (vol. 65, pp. 71). Accord, NY: Jewish Currents.

Other

Carrillo, A. (Autumn 2010). In Gary Brower (Ed.), After “yo soy Joaquin” (vol. 1, issue 2). Placitas, NM: Malpaís Review.

Carrillo, A. (2010). Poems from In the City of Smoking Mirrors. In Gonzalez, R. (Ed.), CAMINO DEL SOL: 15 Years of Latina and Latino Writing (pp. 31-33). Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press.

Hughes, S. M. Hassell (2010). “A Winter’s Tale.” In Dewald, M. (Ed.), A Snake in the Chicken (pp. 2). Dayton, OH: Erma Bombeck Writer’s Contest. A Collection of 2010 Winning Contest Entries.

Hughes, S. M. Hassell (2010). Reading Lesson (poem) (vol. 16, pp. 26-28). Sage: Violence Against Women.

Iromuanya, J. (2010). An Arranged Honeymoon (vol.32, issue 4). Gambier, OH: Kenyon Review: The International Journal of Literature.

Iromuanya, J. (2010). The Wife (vol. 4, issue 1). Gambier, OH: KRO: Kenyon Review Online.

Vorachek, L. J. (2010). In Alexis Easley (Ed.), Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Bibliography: 2007-2009 (3rd ed., vol. 43, pp. 217-261). USA: Victorian Periodicals Review.

Other Intellectual Contributions

Marre, K.E. (2010). Officer/Committee Member, Board of Directors, National Accrediting Association of Engineering and Technology.

Performances

Kimbrough, R. A. (Performer). “Organ Recital.” Christ Episcopal Church, Bradenton, FL. (March 18, 2010).

Presentations

Adams, N. F. “Training New Grant Writers and Tips for Experienced Ones.” Grant Professionals Association, Miami Valley Grant Professionals, Dayton, OH. (September 7, 2010).

Bardine, B. A. “Heavy Metal Music and Composition: A New Approach to Teaching Writing.” College English Association of Ohio Annual Conference, College English Association of Ohio, Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, OH. (April 16, 2010).

Bardine, B. A. “Reading and Writing Assessment in Middle and High School.” Reading and Writing Assessment, National Writing Project at Kent State University, Kent State University, Kent, OH. (July 12, 2010).

Bardine, B. A. “TA Training: New Approaches to Building Community.” Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts Annual Conference, Ohio Council of Teachers of English Language Arts, Columbus, OH. (March 26, 2010).

Boehnlein, J. M. “Meridel LeSueru’s ‘Spring Story’.” Society for the Study of Midwest Literature, Society for the Study of Midwest Literature, Michigan State, East Lansing, MI. (May 8, 2010).

Hughes, S. M. Hassell. “Art, Sex, and Censorship on a Catholic Campus: Navigating the Politics of Sexual Representation.” National Women’s Studies Association, National Women’s Studies Association, Denver, CO. (November 12, 2010).

Hughes, S. M. Hassell. “Autoethnography in Feminist Pedagogy, Theory, and Writing.” National Women’s Studies Association, National Women’s Studies Association, Denver, CO. (November 12, 2010).

Iromuanya, J. “Mr. and Mrs. Doctor.” Midwest Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL. (November 7, 2010).

Iromuanya, J. “The Middleman Speaks: Race, Citizenship, and Labor in Dinaw Mengestu’s The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears.” Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ. (November 12, 2010).

Keane-Sexton, M. B., Adams, N. F. “Grantwriting Basics.” Grant Professionals Association of the Miami Valley, Montgomery County Children’s Services, Dayton, OH. (September 7, 2010).

Kimbrough, R. A. “Elgar and Vaughan Williams.” Bach Society of Dayton Concert Preview, Bach Society of Dayton, Kettering, OH. (May 23, 2010).

Kimbrough, R. A. “Going for Baroque.” Bach Society of Dayton, Centerville High School, Centerville, OH. (March 22, 2010). Also, presented at Stebbins High School, Dayton, OH. (February 19, 2010).

Kimbrough, R. A. “Mozart and (Im-) Mortality.” Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Schuster Center, Dayton, OH. (October 15 and 16, 2010).

Kimbrough, R. A. “Richard Strauss’s ‘Death and Transfiguration’.” Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Schuster Center, Dayton, OH. (March 11 and 13, 2010).

Krummel, M. A. “Rendering the Unseen Visible: The Language of 13th-Century Manuscript Pictorials.” Medieval Academy of America, Medieval Academy of America and Yale University, New Haven, CT. (March 20, 2010).

Krummel, M. A. “The Constraints of Sex and Gender in John Gower’s ‘The Tale of Tereüs’.” 43rd International Congress of Medieval Studies, Exemplaria, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. (May 13, 2010).

Krummel, M. A. “The Touch of Happenstane or a Staged Encounter? The Medieval in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.” 17th International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, New Chaucer Society, Siena, Italy. (July 23, 2010).

McCombe, J. P. “John Lennon and a Neo-Romantic Aesthetic of Indolence.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, University of Louisville Department of English, Louisville, KY. (February 18, 2010).

McCombe, J. P. “Teaching Gender in First-Year Humanities Courses.” Faculty Exchange Series, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (September 27, 2010).

Morgan, T. L. “‘He was like a little dog’: Reading ‘The Monster’ with Toni Morrison.” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. (May 25, 2010).

Morgan, T. L. “Specters of Belief: Race and Metaphor in Sherman Alexie’s Poetry.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. (February 19, 2010).

Morgan, T. L. “The Life and Fiction of Paul Laurence Dunbar.” Dayton Metro Library, Dayton Metro Library, Huber Heights, OH. (February 9, 2010).

Potter, R. C. “Developing a Program in Sustainability, Energy, and the Environment.” Many Shades of Green: Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, Portland, OR. (June 18, 2010).

Potter, R. C. “Property and Propriety: Aldo Leopold’s Land Ethic.” Many Shades of Green, Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, Portland, OR. (June 19, 2010).

Potter, R. C. “Session: Aldo Leopold-New Perspectives.” Many Shades of Green, Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences Annual Conference, Portland, OR. (June 19, 2010).

Potter, R. C. “The New Agrarianism: Property, Land and Mr. McGregor’s Garden.” Environmental Change-Cultural Change, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, United Kingdom, Bath, England. (September 3, 2010).

Ramnarayan, A. “New Directions in Postcolonial Studies.” Project Narrative, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. (February 6, 2010).

Szeghi, T. “Locating Cultural Identity in Ana Castillo’s The Mixquiahuala Letters.” National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Conference, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Seattle, WA. (April 8, 2010).

Szeghi, T. “María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Competing National Origin Stories.” English 254: Readings in Early American Literature, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. (April 8, 2010).

Szeghi, T. “Revisiting Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: 21st Century Visions, Challenges, and Possibilities.” Western Literature Association Conference, Western Literature Association, Prescott, AZ. (October 22, 2010).

Vorachek, L. J. “Musical Passing: Blackface Minstrelsy and Female Banjo Players in Punch.” 31st Annual Conference: Theatricality and the Performative, Nineteenth Century Studies Association, Tampa, FL. (March 13, 2010).

Vorachek, L. J. “The Nineteenth-Century Piano.” 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Dayton Region Chapter of JASNA, Jane Austen Society of North America, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (May 15, 2010).

Vorachek, L. J. “The Piano in the World of Jane Austen.” University of Dayton Arts Series, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (November 3, 2010).

Vorachek, L. J. “Whitewashing Blackface Minstrelsy in Nineteenth-Century England: Female Banjo Players in Punch.” Colloquium for Research on Women and Gender, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (February 18, 2010).

Wilhoit, S. W. “Assessing Faculty Teaching.” Chairs’ Collaborative, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (January 12, 2010).

Wilhoit, S. W. “Fostering Commonality and Connections.” University of Dayton Humanities Base, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. (May 5, 2010).

Wilhoit, S. W. “Taking the Lead: Perspective on WPAs as Campus Leaders.” Council of Writing Program Administrators, Philadelphia, PA. (July 12, 2010).

Wilhoit, S. W. “Teaching Source-based Writing.” University of Alabama, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL. (August 20, 2010).

Wilhoit, S. W. “Why Us? Making the Move from Composition Programs to Learning Teaching Centers.” Conference on College Composition and Communication, National Council of Teachers of English, Louisville, KY. (March 20, 2010).

Wilhoit, S. W. “Writing and Faculty Development.” York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA. (April 2010).