Brueggemann, Brenda

• Elected to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Executive Council, 10 Jan. 2022, Term of service: 2022-2026.

Cohen, Bruce

• “Born Homesick” (originally appeared Southern Review). Nominated by Southern Review for a Pushcart Prize.

Courtmanche, Jason

• ($5,600). 2021-2022 CLAS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Grant, Equity and Social Justice in Secondary English Education Reading Group.
• ($39,875). 2021-2022 Connecticut State Department of Education, Teacher Professional Development Grant.
• ($2,000). 2021-2022 CLAS Scholarship Facilitation Fund, The Deep Reading Project.

Cutter, Martha J

• ($6,000). “When Black Lives Really Do Matter: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Race, Gender, and Health Disparities.” DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Grant.

Igarashi, Yohei 

• ($5,000). (Co-PI), “Fact, Fiction, and Disinformation: A Computational Analysis of Fossil Fuel Writing Across Genres,” New England Humanities Consortium Seed Grant.

Brown, Pamela

• The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage: Agency, Theatricality, and the Innamorata. Oxford University Press, Dec 2021, UK.

Carillo, Ellen C

• Reading and Writing Instruction in the 21st Century: Recovering and Transforming the Pedagogy of Robert Scholes. Utah State UP, 2021.
• with Rise B. Axelrod, Charles R. Cooper, and Wallace T. Cleaves, editors. The St. Martin's Guide to Writing, 13th ed. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2021.
• The Hidden Inequities in Labor-Based Contract Grading. Utah State University Press, 2021.

Pelizzon, V. Penelope

• Of Vinegar Of Pearl. Quarterly West, 2021.

Burke, Mary

• “Transatlantic Railroad” (corrected, expanded, and updated Irish Times publication). Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, Special Issue on Reproductive Justice and the Politics of Women’s Health in Ireland, 35.3-4, 2021, pp. 59-80.
• “The Real Thing? The Irish immigrant ethnic hierarchy, S.S. McClure, and Henry James.” Henry James Review, 42.3, 2021, pp. 248-251.

Carillo, Ellen

• and Horning, Alice S. “Effectively and Efficiently Reading the Credibility of Online Sources.” Writing Spaces, vol. 4, Parlor Press, 2021, pp. 35-50.

Choffel, Julie

• “Nest”, “The Walk”. Trampoline, Issue 10.2, Nov 2021.
• “Professional Harpist.” The Connecticut Literary Anthology, Oct 2021.
• “Portals Are Having a Moment.” Zócalo Public Square, 17 Sept 2021.
• “Balm” and “Hibiscus.” New American Writing, 39, 2021.

Cohen, Bruce

• “Positive Liquid.” Laurel Review, Issue 54.1, pp. 131-133.
• “Making Room.” North Dakota Quarterly, 88, No. 3/4, pp. 226-227.

Courtmanche, Jason

• “Essaying Identity: Self-Definition and Student Voice.” English Journal, January 2022.
• “Archaeology of Memory, Part II.” 2021 Connecticut Literary Anthology, Connecticut Literary Festival.

Cutter, Martha J

• “The Fugitive Gazes Back: The Photographic Performance Work of Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth.” InMedia: The French Journal of Media Studies, 8.2, 27 Oct 2021 (Online in 2020).
• “Visual Insubordination within Early African American Portraiture and Illustrated Books.” African American Literature in Transition, 1800-1830, Ed. Jasmine Cobb, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 316-342.

Deans, Tom

• “Roundtable: Creating a Writing Centre in East Africa.” Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders, WLN: Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 8 Nov 2021.
• “Toward a Writing Centre in Uganda: The Proposal Stage.” Connecting Writing Centers Across Borders, WLN: Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 17 Dec, 2021.

Dennigan, Darcie

• Dolores Goes to Poetry City. Directed by Josh Short, Asst. Director Davis Alianiello, Wilbury Theatre Group at Waterfire Arts Center, 10-20 June, 2021.

Bercaw Edwards, Mary K

• “In the Tradition of Cannibal Talk: Call It Courage.” Dust Off the Gold Medal: Rediscovering Children’s Literature at the Newbery Centennial, Eds. Sara L. Schwebel and Jocelyn Van Tuyl, New York: Routledge, 2022.
• “Typee and Omoo.” Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, Ed. Wyn Kelley and Christopher Onge, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell (2022): [in press].

• "Inscription in Typee."Melville's Anatomies Two Decades Later: A Forum, Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, Ed. Brian Yothers, 24.1 (March 2022): [in press].
• “All Astir.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 24.1 (March 2022): [in press].
• “All Astir.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 23.3 (October 2021): 131-37.
• “All Astir.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 23.2 (June 2021): 123-31.

Hogan, Patrick

• “Covert Progression as Causal Complexity.” Style,1, 2021, pp. 47-53.
• “All’s Well That Ends Well?: Happiness, Ambivalence, and Story Genre.” In Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture. Ed. Cora Fox, Bradley J. Irish, and Cassie Miura, Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2021, pp. 199-214.

Igarashi, Yohei 

• (co-author): “Varieties of Plain Language,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (September 2021)
• (co-author): “Automating the Detection of Poetic Features: The Limerick as Model Organism,” Proceedings of the 5^th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (November 2021)
• “The Cliché Writes Back: Machine Writing is Closer to Literature's History Than You Know,” Aeon, September 9, 2021

Knapp, Kathy

• “House Rules: The New Yorker and the Making of the White Suburban Liberal Woman,” The City in American Literature and Culture,  Kevin McNamara, Cambridge UP, 2021, pp. 118-135.

Marsden, Jean I

• “Eliza Haywood: A Life in the Theatre,” A Spy on Eliza Haywood: Addresses to a Multifarious Writer Publisher, Aleksondra Hultquist and Chris Mounsey, New York: Routledge, 2022, pp. 109-130.

Pelizzon, V. Penelope

• “Elegy for ______.” Orion,  40, no. 3, Fall 2021, p. 87.

• “Euphorbia." Bennington Review, issue 9, summer/fall 2021, pp. 300-305.

Pierrot, Grégory

• “Who Needs to See This (Again)?: On Raoul Peck's Exterminate All the Brutes.” ASAP/J, Co-written with Sarah Wasserman, 11 October, 2021.
• Exhibition essay. “Umar Rashid: En Garde/On God.” Blum and Poe Gallery, 6 November-18 December 2021.

Ready, Psyche Z

• “The Transgender Imagination in Folk Narratives: The Case of ATU 514, ‘The Shift of Sex’” (based on MA thesis from George Mason University). Open Cultural Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 2021, pp. 221-234. 27 Nov 2021.

Sarkar, Debapriya

• “Shakespeare and the Social History of Truth” Forum on “Literature and Science.” Shakespeare Studies, 49, Oct 2021, 94-106.

Shea, Thomas F

• “Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier: Unearthing Fairy Forts of Memory.” Australasian Journal of Irish Studies, 21, 2021, pp. 16-32.

Winter, Sarah

• “From natural equality to frankpledge: the state of nature, ancient constitutionalism, and the rupture of the social contract in eighteenth-century antislavery writings.” The State of Nature: Histories of an Idea, Series on the History of Political and Constitutional Thought, Brill, Mark Somos and Anne Peters, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2021, pp. 274-302.

Brown, Pamela

• “Dark Lady, White Mask: The Two Faces of Portia.” University of Connecticut Department of English, Brown Bag Lecture, 8 December 2021.
• Invited speaker. “The Diva's Gift and the Public Staging of Gender in Shakespearean Drama.” Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 23 November 2021.

Brueggemann, Brenda

• “Reading Ilya Kaminsky’s Deaf Republic Rhetorically.” Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention, Washington, DC, 7 Jan. 2022. Online.
• Discussion leader. Common Book, ABOUT US: Disability Narratives from the NYTimes Series, University of Hartford, 21 Jan. 2022.

Burke, Mary

• Panel organizer, presider, and speaker. “Mixed: Race and Language in an Expanded Irish Modernist Canon.” 1922-2022: Ireland at One Hundred (with Zoë Henry and Michael Malouf), MLA Annual Convention, Washington, DC, 9 January 2022.
• “Irish after George Floyd.” Joint Mid-Atlantic and New England American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS), Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, 30 October 2021.
• “Highland Rape: Scotland’s Traumatic Past in Skyfall [James Bond movie].” NEPCA (Northeast Popular Culture Association) Conference, 22 October 2021. Online.
• Paper with Rachael Lynch. “The Life, Work, and Charity Network of Cecil Francis Alexander.” Irish Women’s Writing Network, 3 Sept 2021. Symposium. Online.

Carillo, Ellen C

• “Teaching Mindful Reading at Access-Oriented Institutions.” MLA Teaching Institute on Reading and Writing Pedagogy at Access-Oriented Institutions, Sonoma State University, July 8, 2021. East Tennessee State University, July 22, 2021.

Courtmanche, Jason

• Public Reading. “Archaeology of Memory: Part II.” Connecticut Literary Festival 2021, 22 October 2021.
• “Completing the Canon: Literature and Multimodality in the ECE Classroom.” ECE English Conference, 22 October 2021.
• “Conversation about Critical Race Theory in the ECE Classroom.” ECE English Conference, 22 October 2021.
• “The Future of African American Literature: Building a Culturally Responsive Curriculum Around Afrofuturist Literature.” NCTE Annual Convention, St. Louis, MI. 18-21 November 2021.

Cutter, Martha J

• “Revolutionary Multilingualism: Moving Beyond Translation as Trope,” MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference, Washington, DC, 6 January 2022.
• “Producing the Meaning of the Geography of Enslavement in the Past and Present,” MLA (Modern Language Association) Conference, Washington, DC, 6 January 2022.

Hogan, Patrick

• “Love and Sin in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony.” Keynote lecture. Narrative Encounters With Ethnic American Literatures Conference, University of Klagenfurt, Austria, September 4, 2021. Online.
• “Story Universals and the Diversity of Ethics.” First Annual Founders’ Lecture, Project Narrative, Ohio State University, November 17, 2021. Online.

Igarashi, Yohei

• “The Calculating Principle: Indexing Shelley.” 1820: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Legacies of Romanticism: A Stuart Curran Symposium, Keats-Shelley Association of America. October 2021

Igarashi, Yohei

• “Wordsworthian Data: On Revisiting Lane Cooper’s 1911 Concordance to the Poems of William Wordsworth.” Japan Association of English Romanticism conference. October 2021
• organizer and respondent, “Romanticism and Data,” MLA Annual Convention, Washington D.C., January 2022
• organizers and presider, “Romantic Epistemologies,” MLA Annual Convention, Washington D.C., January 2022

King’oo, Clare Costley

• “In Search of Hans Luft of Marlborow.” Sixteenth Century Society and Conference, San Diego, CA, 30 October 2021.

Knapp, Kathy

• panelist. “Becoming Utopian: The Post-Katrina Bildungsroman.” Just in Time: Millennial Fictions and the Question of Generations, MLA Annual Convention, January 2022.

Pierrot, Grégory

• and Shringarpure, Bhakti. “Publishing NOW: How to Start a Series and How to Write One” UCHI Talk Series, 27 September 2021
• “Theatre in Early Haiti: Can One Build a House with the Enslaver’s Words?” Rethinking French Universalism in the 21st Century seminar series, University of Buffalo, 4 October 2021.
• “The Work and World of Toni Morrison.” Ferguson Library Big Read, Stamford, CT, 18 October 2021.

• “Beyond Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.” Plenary Roundtable. Western Society of French Historians Conference, 22 October 2021.
• “Reciprocal Thinking.” Roundtable. Association for the Studies of the Arts of the Present 12th Conference, 28 October 2021.  
• “Facing History: A Faculty Dialogue with Elizabeth Athens and Grégory Pierrot.” William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, 5 November 2021.

Sarkar, Debapriya

• “Temporalities of Poetic Speculation.” Early Modern Temporalities Series, University of Texas at Austin, 6 October 2021. Online.
• “Extraction, Ecology, and Early Modern Poetics.” Ecologies and Economics: Premodern Extractions. Oecologies, 5 November 2021. Online.
• “Poetic Form and Racialized Environments in The Faerie Queene.” Loyola University New Orleans, 18 November 2021. Online.

Ziering, Anna

• “Black Radical Pleasure: A Black Scholar Roundtable.” American Studies Association, November 2021. Online.
• “Beyond Healing: Theorizing Masochism as Queer Technique.” University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, November 2021.

Dennigan, Darcie

• “Poets Theatre: An Interview with Darcie Dennigan” Poetry Society of America: Features, 30 June 2021.

Menrisky, Alex

• “New Books in Environmental Studies: Wild Abandon: American Literature and the Identity Politics of Ecology.” New Books Network, August 2021. Podcast episode. 

Pierrot, Grégory

• “What We Do to Define Ourselves: A Conversation with Zaka Toto.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 22 November 2021.
• “‘Remembering Is an Act of Protest’: A Conversation with Monique Kwachou.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 13 December 2021.

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