Recent Faculty Publications and
Presentations
Dabney Bankert was interviewed on The Bosworth-Toller Anglo-
Saxon Dictionary and Carrier Library's unique copy, with Sarah McConnell. With
Good Reason, National Public Radio
(Virginia). February 12, 2011.
She has published “Legendary Lexicography: Joseph Bosworth’s Hidden
Debt to Henry J. Todd’s Edition of Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English
Language," in Michael Adams (ed.), "Cunning passages, contrived corridors":
Unexpected Essays in the History of Lexicography (Milan: Polimetrica Press,
2011), pp 25-55.
Her essay "Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Manuscript and Print
Culture in Theory and Practice” has been accepted for a special issue on
“Teaching Book History” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching,
2012. (written with Mark Rankin)
She has presented “Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.887: An
Unpublished Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Saxon Glossary by Nathaniel
Spinckes,” at the Center for Medieval Studies, University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities, Early Medievalisms 1600-1800 session at The 45th International
Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI (May 2011).
She will present “R.T. Hampson’s ‘Lost’ Transcript of Cotton Tiberius B.i
and Joseph Bosworth’s 1858 Edition of Orosius,” at the Institute for Medieval
Studies, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, England, July 2011.
Erica Bleeg presented “A Star to Follow” at the Peace Corps and Africa
Conference, University of Wisconsin–Madison, March 2011.
Jean Cash published Larry Brown, A Writer’s Life (Jackson, MS:
University Press of Mississippi, 2011). It is the recipient of the Eudora Welty
Award..
She presented “Styron’s Letters to My Father: Revelations” at the annual
meeting of the American Literature Association, Boston, May 2011.
She presented “Flannery O’Connor and Writers of the ‘Rough South’:
Unlikely Connections” at a conference on “Startling Figures: A Celebration of
the Legacy of Flannery O’Connor” at Georgia College and State University,
Milledgeville, GA, April 2011.
She presented “Larry Brown and Clyde Edgerton: A Fortunate Friendship”
at the annual meeting of the College English Association, St. Petersburg, FL,
March 2011.
Katey Castellano's essay “Romantic Conservatism and the
Intergenerational Imagination in Edmund Burke,
William Wordsworth, and
Wendell Berry” is forthcoming in SubStance.
Allison Fagan's essay “Negotiating Language: Latino/a Glossaries,
Translations, and Codeswitching” is forthcoming in The Routledge Companion
to Latino/a Literature (estimated publication 2012).
Her essay "'Damaged Pieces’: Embracing Border Textuality in Revisions
of Ana
Castillo’s Sapagonia" is forthcoming in MELUS.
She will present “‘La vida es el honor y el recuerdo’: Oscar Zeta Acosta
and Paratextual Survival” at
LERMA: Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherche sur
le Monde
Anglophone International Conference on Race, Ethnicity, and
Publishing in March 2012, Aix-en-Provence, France.
Annette Federico's essay "The Violent Deaths of Oliver Twist" is
forthcoming in PLL: Papers on Language and
Literature.
Samar Fitzgerald published “Where Do You Go?” in the New England
Review 32.1 (Spring 2011).
She published “Hopper’s Girl” in Story Quarterly
Online 44 ( 2011). “You’re a Big Success” appeared in The Carolina
Quarterly 60.3 (Fall 2010).
Richard Gaughran published, in February, 2011, “David Lynch’s
Road Films: Individuality and Personal Freedom?” in The Philosophy of David
Lynch, edited by Shai Biderman and William J. Devlin as part of the University of
Kentucky Press’s series on Philosophy and Popular Culture.
He also presented the paper “The Value of the Thomson Baseball in Don
DeLillo’s Underworld” at the College English Association Conference, St.
Petersburg, FL. March 30-April 1, 2011.
He presented “‘We could simply immure her!’ The Coen Brothers’
The Ladykillers and the Unquiet Mind of Edgar Allan Poe” at the Popular Culture
Association in the South/American Culture in the South Joint Conference. New
Orleans, LA. October 6-8, 2011
Brooks Hefner received a 2011 Erle Stanley Gardner Endowment for
Mystery Studies Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center
for the Humanities,
University of Texas at Austin. He is also a recipient of a 2011 JMU Edna T.
Shaeffer Humanist Award.
His essay “‘Slipping back into the vernacular’: Anzia Yezierska’s Vernacular
Modernism,” is
forthcoming in MELUS.
Lilah Hegnauer was a finalist for the 2011 Dorset Prize with Tupelo
Press for her manuscript Pantry.
Debali Mookerjea-Leonard's essay “The Unmaking of Citizenship:
Nasreen’s Lajja and the Minority Man in Postcolonial
South Asia" is forthcoming
in Social Text 108 (2011).
Mark Parker has published The DVD and the Study of FIlm: The
Attainable Text
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
(With Deborah Parker)
Matt Rebhorn 's monograph, Pioneer Performances: Staging the
Frontier, 1829-1893 is under contract and forthcoming at Oxford
University
Press.
His essay "Minding the Body: Reading Melville's Body Language in Benito
Cereno" is forthcoming in Studies
in the Novel.
Mark Rankin will co-direct a National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) 2012 Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers on “Tudor
Books and Readers: 1495-1603.” It will convene in Antwerp, Belgium; and
London and Oxford, England.
He received a 2010-11 short-term research fellowship at the Folger
Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, for his monograph project Representing
Henry VIII in Early Modern England: Literature, History, and Polemic.
His essay "Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Manuscript and Print
Culture in Theory and Practice” has been accepted for a special issue on
“Teaching Book History” in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching,
2012. (written with Dabney Bankert)
His articles on “John Foxe,” “John Northbrooke,” “John Ponet,” “Nicholas
Sanders,” and “Luke Shepherd” have been accepted for Alan Stewart and
Garrett Sullivan (eds.), The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, forthcoming 2011).
He has published “Henry VIII, Shakespeare, and the Jacobean Royal
Court” in Studies in English Literature 50 (2011): 349-66.
He will speak on “The Polemical and Literary Afterlife of Henry VIII,” at a
roundtable discussion on “Representing Henry VIII in Early Modern England,”
at the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Forth Worth,
TX, in October 2011. He will present “Writing the Magnificence of Henry VIII,
Protestant and Catholic, 1558-1625,” at the same conference.
He presented “Genre, Nostalgia, and Polemic: Henry VIII in Early Modern
Prose Fiction,” at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America,
Montreal, Canada, in March 2011.
Siân White published “Elizabeth Bowen” in The Cracked
Lookingglass: Essays in Honor of the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish
Prose Writers, Princeton University Friends of the Library, February 2011.
