Department Accomplishments July 2022 – February 2023

Department of English Accomplishments

July 2022 - February 2023

Featuring

Faculty

Pamela Brown, Mary Burke, Ellen C. Carillo, Julie Choffel, Jason Courtmanche, Martha J. Cutter, Thomas Deans, Sarah DeCapua, Darcie Dennigan, Tom Doran, Anna Mae Duane, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Serkan Görkemli, Patrick Hogan, Yohei Igarashi, Heon Jeon, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Grégory Pierrot, Alexander Menrisky, Frederick Roden, and Debapriya Sarkar

Emeriti

Donna Krolik Hollenberg

Graduate Students

Kyle L. Barron, Sophie Buckner, Adam McLain, Psyche Ready, and Kathryn Warrender-Hill

Collage of Department Members

Awards and Honors

Burke, Mary

Dennigan, Darcie

  • Forever Valley in New Directions’ 2022 Novel Prize Shortlist, 17 January 2023.

Duane, Anna Mae

  • Scholarship and Collaboration in Humanities and Arts Research (SCHARP) Development Award  for her podcast, The Children’s Table Podcast Development. UConn Office of the Vice President for Research.

Igarashi, Yohei

  • Scholarship and Collaboration in Humanities and Arts Research (SCHARP) Development Award for his book project, “Word Count.” UConn Office of the Vice President for Research.

      Books

      Burke, Mary

      Cutter, Martha J

      Hogan, Patrick

      Hollenberg, Donna Krolik

      Pierrot Grégory

      • editor. Toussaint Louverture et après. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2022.
      • Dekolonisiert Den Hipster. Jan-Frederik Bandel, translator. Hamburg: Edition Nautilus, 2022.

      Publications

      Barron, Kyle L, Kathryn Warrender-Hill, Sophie Wallis Buckner, and Psyche Z. Ready

      Bercaw Edwards, Mary K.

      • Typee and Omoo.” In Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville. Eds. Wyn Kelley and Christopher Onge. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 202255-65.
      • "All Astir." Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 25.1 March 2023: 51-54.
      • “All Astir.” Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies, 24.3 October 2022: 121-26.

      Brown, Pamela

      Burke, Mary

           

           

          Carillo, Ellen C.

          • “What I Learned About Teaching While Teaching Mrs. Dalloway During the Pandemic." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 23, no. 1, 2022.
          • MLA Guide to Digital Literacy, 2nd edition. MLA, 2022.
          • Reading Critically, Writing Well, 13th edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2022.
          • Instructor’s Resource Manual for Reading Critically, Writing Well, 13th edition. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2022.

          Choffel, Julie

          • The Inevitable Return of What We Do Not Love. Finishing Line Press, 2022. “What Was Happening,” in Orion, Winter 2022, p. 51.
          • “Another Story” in Barrow Street, Winter 2022-23, p. 22.

          Courtmanche, Jason

          • “The Stillness of Wild Things.” 2023 CT Literary Anthology, Woodhall Press, 2023.

          Cutter, Martha J.

          • “Picturing Race: African Americans in US Visual Culture Before the Civil War.” Race in American Literature and Culture. Ed. John Ernest. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 241-61.

          Deans, Thomas

          • “What Can We Learn about WID from Exceptionally High-Achieving STEM Majors?” Across the Disciplines, vol. 19, no. 1–2, The WAC Clearinghouse, 2022, pp. 160–174. Crossref, doi:10.37514/atd-j.2022.19.1-2.10.

              Publications (cont.)

              Dennigan, Darcie

              • “On Claire-Louise Bennett's Checkout 19.” Annulet, 1 October 2022.

              Görkemli, Serkan

              • "Pride." Ploughshares, vol. 48 no. 4, 2022, p. 71-85. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/plo.2022.0136.
              • “Runway.” The Iowa Review, vol.51-52, no.3-1, 2022, pp. 57-71.

              Hogan, Patrick

              • “Simulation, stories, and fictional worlds.” The Behavioral and brain sciences vol. 45 e285. 18 Nov. 2022, doi:10.1017/S0140525X21002107.
              • “Blood and Soil: Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony. In Ethnic American Literatures and Critical Race Narratology. Ed. Alexa Weik von Mossner, Marijana Mikić, and Mario Grill. New York: Routledge, 2022, 167-182. (Adapted from American Literature and American Identity: A Cognitive Cultural Study from the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century. [New York: Routledge, 2022].)
              • “Cultural Memory: Sharing Recollections We Don’t Have About Things That Never Happened.” In Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities. Ed. Donald Wehrs, Suzanne Nalbantian, and Don Tucker. New York: Routledge, 2023, 107-120.

              Igarashi, Yohei

              • “Romanticism and Data” special issue of The Wordsworth Circle 53.3, Summer 2022.
              • co-author, “Limericks and Computational Poetics: The Minimal Pairs Framework,” Journal of Computational Literary Studies 1.1, November 2022.

                 

                 

                • Shared Data, Personal Data," The Wordsworth Circle 53.3 (Summer 2022).

                Jeon, H.

                McLain, Adam

                Menrisky, Alexander

                • “Hicks, Homos, and Home Cooking: Literary Recipes in Queer Appalachia.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 28, no. 3, 2022.
                • Anson, April, Cassandra Galentine, Shane Hall, Alexander Menrisky, and Bruno Seraphin. “Stemming the Creep of Ecofascism: A Primer.” Environmental Politics, December 2022.

                Pelizzon, V. Penelope

                • “Cliché.” 32 Poems, no. 40, Fall/Winter 2022, pp. 1-2.

                Pierrot, Grégory

                Sarkar, Debapriya

                • “The Utopian Hypothesis.” English Literary Renaissance, 52.3, 2022, 371-384.

                Book Reviews

                Cutter, Martha J

                • Review of Selling Antislavery: Abolition and Mass Media in Antebellum America. Teresa Goddu. U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Summer 2022.

                Hogan, Patrick

                • Review of Hannah Walser, Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American Fiction. Nineteenth-Century Contexts 44.5, 2022, 545-546.

                McLain, Adam

                 

                 

                • "Queerness Is Mormonism Is Queerness." Review of Queer Mormon Theology: An Introduction by Blaire Ostler. Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, vol. 55, no. 4, 2022, pp. 193–195.

                Pierrot, Grégory

                Roden, Frederick

                • Jonathan Freedman, The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity. Religion and the Arts 26.5, 2022, 694-698.
                • Chene Heady, Worlds of Common Prayer: Liturgical Time and Poetic Re-enchantment, 1827-1935 and Krista Lysack, Chronometres: Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading. Victorian Studies 64.3, 2022, 517-519.
                • Martin Lockerd, Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism. Religion and the Arts 26.3, 2022, 401-405.

                 

                Presentations and Talks

                Bercaw Edwards, Mary K.

                • Invited Lecture, “Sailor Talk: A Melville Scholar Chases the Law of Whaling into the 21st Century,” Law Librarians of New England conference entitled Chasing the Law of Whaling into the 21st Century, New Bedford, MA, 7 October 2022.

                Brown, Pamela

                Burke, Mary

                • White Wedding: Grace Kelly, George Kelly and Irish-American Assimilation.” Columbia University Irish Seminar, 3 Feb 2023.
                • “George Kelly’s Drama.” Grace Kelly Home/Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 9 December 2022.
                • Public talk. Race, Politics, and Irish America University of Galway, Ireland, 24 November 2022.
                  • University of Limerick, Ireland, 14 November 2022.
                  • Maynooth University, Ireland, 10 November 2022.
                • “Ireland, Irish America, and George Floyd.” ASA, New Orleans, 6 November 2022.
                • “Recovering the Matrilineal Line in Irish Gothic Fiction.” Recovering the Vampire Conference. Edgehill University, UK, 5 November 2022. Online.
                • “Frank Yerby’s The Foxes of Harrow (1946): A Black Irish-American rejoinder to Margaret Mitchell.” MA and NE American Conference for Irish Studies, St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, 14 October 2022.

                 

                 

                • Reading/launch event for Juanita Casey. The Horse of Selene edition. International Association.

                Carillo, Ellen C.

                • Panelist. CLAS Teaching Conversation, "Exploring the Efficacy of Engagement-Based Grading in ENGL 2407: The Short Story." 1 February 2023.
                • Invited Speaker. "Exposing Bias in Assessment Practices: A Critique of Labor-Based Grading and a More Inclusive Path Forward." Spring Symposium. Writing Program, University of Arizona. 9 January 2023.
                • Invited Speaker. “Teaching Mindful Reading at Access-Oriented Institutions.” MLA Teaching Institute on Reading and Writing Pedagogy at Access-Oriented Institutions, Princeton University, 14 July 2022.

                Choffel, Julie

                • Third Thursdays Poetry, 19 January 2023, Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA. Reading.
                • WordHouse Reading Series, 10 December 2022, Noah Webster House, West Hartford, CT. Reading.
                • Creative Sustenance Benefit, Storrs, 3 November 2022, UConn Bookstore, Storrs, CT. Reading.

                Deans, Tom

                • “Strategies—Especially Artificial Intelligence—for Supporting Neurodiverse STEM Graduate Writers.” International Writing Centers Association Annual Conference, Vancouver, October 2022.

                  Presentations and Talks (cont.)

                  Dennigan, Darcie

                  • Luscious Lawns.” 28-30 July 2022, Providence, WaterFire Arts Center.

                  Doran, Tom

                  • “On Renovation.” Colby Environmental Institute, 3 August 2022, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Conference Presentation.

                  Igarashi, Yohei

                  • “Literary Data and the Discipline.” “The Anxiety of the Computational” Working Group, Santa Fe Institute, August 2022.

                  Jeon, H., & DeCapua, S.

                  • Development of Assessment Literacy through Video Feedback Innovation in Second Language Writing Classrooms (Presented at Language Assessment Research Conference, 15-17 September 2022).

                  McLain, Adam

                  • “The Gendered Voice Project: An Introduction." University of Connecticut Humanities Institute, October 2022.
                  • "'Only an Echo': The Archive of Memory and the Memory of the Archive in Lois Lowry's The Giver." 7th Annual City Tech Science Fiction Symposium, December 2022. Conference Presentation.

                  Menrisky, Alexander

                  • “Intergenerational Environmental Humanities.” Modern Language Association (MLA). San Francisco, CA, January 2023.

                   

                   

                  • "Against the Ecofascist Creep: A Collaborative Digital Resource.” Modern Language Association (MLA), Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Session. San Francisco, CA, January 2023.
                  • “Everyday Ecofascist Effects.” American Studies Association (ASA). New Orleans, LA, November 2022.

                  Pierrot, Grégory

                  • “Round the Decay: Umar Rashid, Art at the Edge of History,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present annual conference, UCLA, 16 September 2022.
                  • Roundtable on Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An AnthologyHaitian Studies Association annual conference. With Marlene L. Daut and Marion Rohrleitner. Howard University, DC, 8 October 2022.
                  • "Speculative Fictions: Past, Present and Future." with Pam Bedore, Fred Lee, Dexter Gabriel. RoundtableThe William Benton Museum of Art. 8 November 2022.
                  • "Until Emmet Till Rests" On Abolition: A Symposium. Duke University Department of Romance Studies. 2-3 February 2023.

                  Sarkar, Debapriya

                  • “The Arts of English Poesie: Making Worlds and Making Race.” RaceB4Race: Poetics. Arizona State University, January 2023.

                  Interviews

                  Deans, Tom

                  Burke, Mary

                  Bercaw Edwards, Mary K.

                  • Interviewed by Roberto Mighty for Season 2, Episode 6, "Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, NY" [where Herman Melville was buried], of "World's Greatest Cemeteries" on PBS, aired 19 February 2023.
                  • Interviewed by Mike Allen for podcast “Amazing Tales from Off and On Connecticut's Beaten Path,” aired 16 February 2023.

                  Pierrot, Grégory

                   

                   

                   

                   

                   

                   

                   

                   

                  Congratulations!