Faculty Accomplishments

2007-2008

Sue Abromaitis’s paper, “Civility in the Works of J. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis,” which she delivered at a meeting of the Oxford Round Table in July 2007, has been accepted for publication in Forum on Public Policy.

Jean Lee Cole’s Zora Neale Hurston:  Collected Plays, co-edited with Charles Mitchell, has been published by Rutgers University Press.

Dave Dougherty has completed the draft manuscript of Shouting Down the Silence, his critical biography of Stanley Elkin, and is currently rechecking facts.  Dr. Dougherty and Dr. Osteen were guests on the WYPR show “The Signal” in June, discussing James Joyce’s Ulysses in anticipation of Bloomsday, June 16th.

Juniper Ellis’s book, Claiming the World:  Pacific Tattoo in Print and Skin, was published by Columbia University Press in early 2008.  Dr. Ellis continues to serve as chair of the national steering committee on justice in Jesuit higher education.  In that capacity, she is pleased to report that Fordham University will publish Transforming the World and Being Transformed, the first book on justice in Jesuit higher education.  Notable national and international figures have agreed to contribute to the volume.  She is also pleased to report that the committee fielded nearly three times as many applications to speak at the 2009 national conference as for the 2005 national conference.

Kathy Forni has had an article, “Popular Chaucer:  The BBC’s Canterbury Tales” accepted at Parergon (The Journal of the Australian and new Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies).

Erin Goss was co-organizer of the International Romanticism Conference Romantic Objects, which was held in Baltimore in October and co-sponsored by Loyola College and Towson University.  Dr. Goss also organized and moderated the opening round table, “Why Romantic Objects Now?” and introduced keynote Judith Pascoe.  In July of 2007, Dr. Goss delivered two conference papers:  “Delighting in Form”:  Blake’s Generated Bodies,” at the Blake at 250 conference at the University of York and “Circumscribing Freedom in Blake’s Book of Urizen” for a special session at the British Association for the Study of Romanticism annual meeting at the University of Bristol.

Bob Miola saw the publication of a volume entitled Early Modern Catholicism:  An Anthology of Primary Sources from Oxford University Press in the summer of 2007.  Dr. Miola also wrote the introduction to the Aperio edition of Measure for Measure, as well as creating and guiding the student editing process.

Mark Osteen’s edited collection of essays entitled Autism and Representation was published in early 2008 by Routledge.  He also organized three panels of “Autistic Texts” for the 2007 SAMLA convention in Atlanta, where he also read an excerpt from his memoir.  In December, he served as a respondent for a panel at the MLA convention entitled “Sovereign Gifts,” and he gave a presentation called “Jazzing the Gift:  Improvisation, Reciprocity, Excess,” at the Surplus/Excess Conference at UC Riverside in April.  His article, “Noir’s Cars:  Automobility and Aspiration in American Film Noir,” appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Journal of Popular Film and Television. In addition, Dr. Osteen and Dr. Dougherty were guests on the WYPR show “The Signal” in June, discussing James Joyce’s Ulysses in anticipation of Bloomsday, June 16th.

2006-2007

Sue Abromaitis delivered a paper entitled "Tolkien as Moralist" at the 2006 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture / American Popular Culture Association October 2006.

Seemee Ali delivered a paper on "Piety in the Postmodern Age" as a fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture at their annual Fellows Conference in November 2006.

Laura Betz delivered a paper entitled "Finding a (Paratextual) Place: Materiality and Authorial Voice in Thomas Chatterton's 'An Excelente Balade of Charitie'" at the annual conference of the Society of Textual Scholarship at New York University held March 15-17, 2007.

Jean Lee Cole presented a scholarly paper, "A Rationale of Recovery: Or, What Zora Neale Hurston Can Teach Us About Scholarly Editing," at the 2006 Modern Language Association meeting in Philadelphia; and delivered the keynote address, "The Designs that Bind: Racializing the Books of Winnifred Easton, Charles Chesnutt, and Paul Lawrence Dunbar," as the Margaret Young Bell Distinguished Speaker at the Winnifred Eaton Symposium at Mt. Allison University in Sackville, NB, Canada, March 2007.

Jean also published two articles:
History of the Book in the American Literature Classroom: On the Fly and On the Cheap," in Teaching Bibliography, Textual Criticism, and History of the Book, ed. Ann R. Hawkins, Pickering & Chatto, 2006, which was recently reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement; and "'Information Wanted': Julia C. Collins's The Curse of Caste, F.E.W. Harper's Minnie's Sacrifice, and The Christian Recorder" in the African American Review (Winter 2006). Jean and Charlie Mitchell completed work this spring on Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays, which will be published by Rutgers University Press in Winter 2007-08. In addition, Jean received a Kolvenbach Fellowship for Spring 2007 to pursue the application of service-and community-based learning for the American Studies Program.

Bryan Crockett is under contract with Greenwood Press to write nine articles for the forthcoming five-volume Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia. His contributions are on Shakespeare's use of classical texts by Aesop, Appian of Alexandria, Apuleius, Cicero, Horace, Julius Caesar, Livy, Pliny the Elder, and Tacitus.

In April, Bryan performed a reading from and participated in a discussion of his novel-in-progress about John Donne, Love's Alchemy, which was the featured text for the spring semester's Catholic Studies Dinner Discussion. In attendance were Loyola faculty and twelve faculty representatives from colleges and universities participating in the Lilly Fellows Program in the Humanities and Arts.

David Dougherty's article, "Prospects of Recovery: Two Unpublished Sketches by Stanley Elkin" appeared in the New England Review 27 (2006), and he edited the two sketches discussed in that article, "Baseball Story" and "Colin Kelly's Kids," which were also published in that issue. The latter story, minus Dave's notes and introduction, will also be published in an upcoming issue of Harper's Magazine.

Juniper Ellis presented two conference papers and a keynote address during the year. She delivered one paper, "Tatto Marking the Space Between Us," at the American Studies Association Conference in Oakland, California, October 2006; and another, "Facing the Other/Tattooing the Edge: Le'vinas, Mike Tyson, and Shakespeare in the Pacific," at the American Comparative Literature Conference in Puebla, Mexico, April 2007. The title of her invited keynote address to faculty and administrators at John Carroll University was "Joy and Urgency: Faculty Life in Jesuit Universities."

June as a book under contract with Columbia University Press entitled Claiming the World: Pacific Tattoo in Print and Skin, forthcoming in February 2008. In addition, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend to pursue research.

Kathleen Forni has an article on Chaucer and popular culture forthcoming in Literature/Film Quarterly.

Erin Goss delivered three papers at academic conferences, including "' A manly beauty strange;' Mary Tighe and the Beautiful Male Object," for and invited session at the International Conference on Romanticism/"Romantic Praxis" at Arizona State University in November 2006; "Mary Tighe and the Disgusting Veils of Allegory," for a special session she organized for the British Women Writers Conference at the University of Kentucky in April 2007; and "'Blessed is he that readeth': Reading, Writing, and Revelation," for a session she co-organized for the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, Puebla, Mexico, April 2007.

Louis Hinkel addressed faculty at the Archbishop Spalding High School in October at the invitation of their English Department faculty. He spoke on handling diversity in their curriculum, integrating contemporary literature into the curriculum, and responded to special concerns about teaching contemporary literature in a Catholic school setting.

Gayla McGlamery delivered a paper entitled "Going Bollywood: Recent Film Adaptations of Austen and Thackeray" at the annual Literature/Film Conference in Baltimore, November 2006, and published an article, "Hardy Goes West: The Claim, the Western, and The Mayor of Casterbridge" in Literature/Film Quarterly (Winter 2007).

Robert Miola's collection, Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources has been published by Oxford University Press; and has editions of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and of The Comedy of Errors forthcoming from Barnes & Noble, also in 2007. Articles on Comedy and the Comic, Plautus, and Terence will appear in The Classical Tradition: A Guide (forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2008).

Bob also presented two papers at scholarly conventions: "The Power of Rome" at La Sapienza, Rome, May 2007, and "Two Jesuit Shadows in Shakespeare: William Weston and Henry Garnet" at the Renaissance Society of America Conference, March 2007. He presented one paper, "Dying for the Faith: Some Jesuit Martyrs," at St. Pius X Parish, May 2007; and was interviewed for a piece on Shakespeare and Italy by a writer for Primo Magazine for the April/May 2007 issue.

Mark Osteen delivered three conference papers in the past year" "Ecce Homo," a creative fiction work read at the Autism and Advocacy Conference at Fordham University, October 2006; "Noir's Cars: Automobility and Amoral Spaces in American Film Noir" at the South Atlantic Modern Languages Association Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, November 2006; and "Currents in New Economic Criticism," at the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia, December 2006.

Mark also published two articles, "Face Plates: T-men and the Problem of Noir Counterfeiting" in the Quarterly Review of Film and Video (Spring 2007); and "'The Natural Language of Culture': Exploring Commodities through White Noise" in Approaches to Teaching DeLillo's White Noise. Eds. Tim Engles and John N. Duvall. New York: MLA, 2006. He has a book, Autism and Representation, forthcoming from Routledge in 2007, which is an edited collection of 16 essays and non-fiction prose pieces and includes two works he authored: " Autism and Representation: A Comprehensive Introduction," and "Urinetown: A Chronicle of the Potty Wars" (creative nonfiction). Also forthcoming is an article entitled "Out of the Labyrinth: DeLillo's Dedalian Artists" in The Cambridge Companion to Don LeLillo, ed. John R. Duvall, Cambridge UP, 2007.

Thomas Scheye's article, "The Glass Menagerie: It's no tragedy, Freckles," has been reprinted in Modern Critical Interpretation: The Glass Menagerie, ed. Harold Bloom.