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Fall 2020 English department accomplishments[12/17/2020]
Ciresi, Rita. “Big Feet,” Fast Funny Women, Woodhall Press, 2020.
---. “Bodyguard.” Harmony, 2020.
---. “Fair: 1923.” Chasing Light, Yellowjacket Press, 2020
---. “Jump.” Longlisted for the Cambridge Flash Fiction Award, 2020.
---. “Icicles.” Multiplicity, 2020.
---. “Mona Lisa.” Best Small Fictions 2020, Sonder Press, 2020.
---. “Motherhood.” Fractured Lit, 2020.
---. “Mouth.” Fractured Lit, 2020.
---. “Puzzle.” Gulfstream Literary Magazine, December 2020.
Nelli Cirineo served on the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation conducting a school site visit as a team leader.
Cirineo, Nelli. “Combining Writing Assessment Practices to Enhance Their Effectiveness.” Critical and Creative Thinking Conference, 29 September 2020, University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, FL. Conference Presentation.
Davidson, Wilma and Diana deAvila. “How to Become More Digitally Savvy.” The Pen Woman, Fall 2020, pp. 7.
---. “Art Explosion.” The Pen Woman, Fall 2020, pp. 9.
---. “Experts Weigh in on Current Job Market Trends.” Zippia, the Career Expert, 4 December 2020. Online.
Jeremy Ekberg completed USF's Online Instructor Certification.
---. “History Commodified: Identity and Simulacra in England, England.” Narratives of Displacement International Conference, The University of the Balearic Islands, Spain, 2 November 2020. Online conference presentation.
Nathan R. Johnson responded to a panel written about his 2012 article, "Information infrastructure as rhetoric: Tools for analysis." Kristen Grafton's MA thesis, which he directed, was awarded a 2020 USF Outstanding Thesis Award.
---. “Architects of Memory: Information and Rhetoric in a Networked Archival Age.” U of Alabama P, 2020.
---, & Meredith A. Johnson. "Precarious Data: Affect, Infrastructure, and Public Education." Rhetoric Society Quarterly, vol. 50, no. 5, 2020, pp. 368-382.
---, & Meredith A. Johnson. "Spatial Imaginaries as Material and Method." National Communication Association’s 106th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN. 20 November 2020. Virtual Presentation due to COVID-19.
---. "Critiquing the [Cross]Roads: Rhetorical Perspectives for Understanding Infrastructure." National Communication Association’s 106th Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN. 19 November 2020. Virtual Presentation due to COVID-19.
Lennon, John and Magnus Nilsson, editors. Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives. vol. 2, Stockholm University Press, 2020.
---, Jeffrey Ian Ross, and Ronald Kramer, editors. Visual Inquiry. vol. 9, no. 1-2, 2020.
--- and Magnus Nilsson. "Reexamining the Proletarian Fictional Autobiography: Class, Gender and Aesthetics in Agnes Smedley’s Daughter of Earth." Nordic Journal of English Studies, vol. 19, no. 5, 2020, 1-28.
--- and Magnus Nilsson. "Introduction: Evolving Perspectives on Working-Class Literature." Working-Class Literature(s): Historical and International Perspectives. Volume 2., 2020, 1–14.
---, Jeffrey Ian Ross, and Ronald Kramer. "Moving beyond Banksy and Fairey: Interrogating the co-optation and commodification of modern graffiti and street art." Visual Inquiry. vol. 9, no. 1-2, 2020, 5-23.
---. "Gentrifying Activism? Washington, DC's Black Lives Mural," Association for the Study of Arts of the Present (ASAP), October, 2020. Online conference presentation.
McCracken, Jill. “Ethics as Obligation: Reconciling Diverging Research Practices With Marginalized Communities.” SAGE Journals, 16 October 2020.
Jan Melnik is pleased to announce the December release of a six-part audio podcast series to augment her recent book, Modernize Your Executive Job Search: Get Noticed… Get Hired.
Lisa Meloncon chaired the 2020 Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium.
Melonçon, Lisa., et al., editors Rhetoric of Health and Medicine As/Is: Theories and Approaches for the Field. Ohio State University Press, 2020.
---, et al., editors. “A National Snapshot of the Material Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Composition and Technical and Professional Communication.” Special issue, Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020.
---, et al. “Introduction to ‘A National Snapshot of the Material Working Conditions of Contingent Faculty in Composition and Technical and Professional Communication.’” Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020, pp. 6–26.
---, et al. "Results and Findings from the Survey." Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020, pp. 27–64.
---, et al. "Data Takeaways." Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020, pp. 65-87.
---, et al. "Affective Investment." Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020, pp. 88-112.
---, et al. "Politics of Service." Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020, pp. 113–131.
---, et al. “Looking Forward: Considering the Next Steps for Contingent Labor Material Work Conditions.” Academic Labor: Research and Artistry, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020, pp. 132–156.
Cynthia Patterson was featured in The Library Company of Philadelphia E-News Brief, “Fellow Highlight: Cynthia Patterson.”
Patterson, Cynthia Lee. "Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Living in Periodicals." American Periodicals, vol. 30, no. 2, Fall 2020, pp. 126-48.
---. "Visual Culture Studies: From Theory to Practice to Products." Teaching Creativity in the HyFlex Environment panel, USFSP Critical & Creative Thinking Conference, 2 October 2020. Virtual Conference.
---. "Writing at the Margins: Mary Effie Lee (Newsome) and the A.M.E. Church Review." The Harlem Renaissance at 100 panel, South Atlantic Modern Literature Association (SAMLA) 92 Conference, 14 November 2020. Virtual Conference.
Erin Scheffels led a workshop series, "Shifting Narratives to Prevent Bicyclist and Pedestrian Deaths," throughout 2020. The series was funded by a "Road to Zero" grant from the National Safety Council, awarded based on the findings of an interdisciplinary paper Erin co-authored and published in 2019, entitled "Framing the Bicyclist: A Qualitative Study of Media Discourse About Fatal Bicycle Crashes."
Sellers, Heather. The Practice of Creative Writing, Fourth Edition. Macmillan Learning, 2020.
---. The Practice of Creative Writing Fourth Edition Instructor’s Manual. Macmillan Learning, 2020.
---. "Florida." The Cincinnati Review, 2020.
---. "On a Late June Evening in My Driveway." Finalist in Narrative's 12th Annual Poetry Contest, Fall 2020.
---. "Just This Breath." Honorable mention in the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) Annual Writing Awards.
Sipiora, Phillip. “Cultural Codes in Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets.” Italian American Studies Association International Conference, 7 August 2020. Virtual Conference Presentation.
---. “Norman Mailer, Film Critic.” Eighteenth International Norman Mailer Society Conference, October 17, 2020. Virtual Conference Presentation.
BA English, Creative Writing
Abigale Brown won the Fall 2020 LGBT Research Award from USF Libraries.
Alkishawi, Yasmeen. “Nakba.” Indiana Review, vol. 42, 2020, pp. 73.
---. “How Them Became Us.” Peregrine, vol. 42, 2020, pp. 25.
---. “Internalized Pain: A Couple’s Argument.” Crab Creek Review, vol. 34, 2020, pp. 4.
---. “Laylatul Qadr.” Crab Creek Review, vol. 34, 2020, pp. 5.
---. “Arabian Dream Broadcast.” The Florida Review, vol. 44, 2020, pp. 88.
PhD English candidate, Literature
Garcia, Anca. "Books Betrayed." Harrer Award Essays, Sleepy Zebra Press, pp. 11-16.
---. “A Parent’s Loss Can Never Be Fully Healed: Patterns of Trauma and Mourning in the Middle English Poem Pearl.” SAMLA 92 (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference, 13-15 November 2020, Online. Presentation.
---. "Politics and Pleasure in Women's Writing B." SAMLA 92 (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) Conference, 13-15 November 2020, Online. Session Chair.
MFA Creative Writing, Poetry
Grilli, Gabrielle. “Father’s Foreign Cars.” Panoply, A Literary Zine, Issue 16, September 2020.
Harder, Sarah. "On Giving CPR to the Man in Room 204." Rock & Sling, vol. 15, 2020, pp. 119.
---. "poem w/ no ghosts in it." Our Shared Memory, 2020, pp. 15.
PhD English candidate, Rhetoric & Composition
Walkup, Katie. “Mental Health, Predictive Analytics, and State Surveillance." Association for the Rhetoric of Science, Technology, and Medicine Virtual Pre-Conference on Social Justice at the National Communication Association Annual Convention. 18 November 2020.
---. "Disrupting Dominant Narratives: Early Warning Systems and Threat Construction." Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication. Denton, TX, 5-9 October 2020.
MFA Creative Writing, 2014
Snow, Sharon Lee. “Heart Failure.” Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, Fall 2020.
---. “To the Hiring Committee.” Underwood, no. 4, September 2020.
Rogers, Pat. "William Diaper." The Literary Encyclopedia, 11 September 2020.
---. "James Boswell: Journal of the Grand Tour." The Literary Encyclopedia, 15 September 2020.
---. "James Boswell: London Journal, 1762-1763.” The Literary Encyclopedia, 16 September 2020.
---. “John Arbuthnot: The History of John Bull." The Literary Encyclopedia, 16 September 2020.
---. "John Arbuthnot: Annus Mirabilis." The Literary Encyclopedia, 18 September 2020.
---. "Edmund Curll: Mr. Pope’s Literary Correspondence." The Literary Encyclopedia, 7 October 2020.
---. "Daniel Defoe: A Plan of English Commerce." The Literary Encyclopedia, 8 October 2020.
---. "John Gay: The Mohocks." The Literary Encyclopedia, 8 October 2020.
---. "Alexander Pope: The Worms." The Literary Encyclopedia, 14 October 2020.
---. "John Gay: Mr. Pope’s Welcome from Greece." The Literary Encyclopedia, 14 October 2020.
---. "Jonathan Swift: The Virtues of Sid Hamet the Magician’s Rod." The Literary Encyclopedia, 14 October 2020.
---. "Matthew Prior: The Viceroy, A Ballad." The Literary Encyclopedia, 14 October 2020.
---. "Alexander Pope, Pamphlets on Edmund Curll." The Literary Encyclopedia, 15 October 2020.
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