This collection features articles and book reviews written by faculty in the Department of English at Fairfield University.
Submissions from 2021
Caffeine During Quarantine; Or, Sabbaticaling in the Time of Corona, Michelle Farrell, Shannon M. Harding, and Elizabeth Boquet
Submissions from 2019
Student Partnerships in Service Learning: Assessing the Impact, Karen Pritchard and Betsy Bowen
Submissions from 2018
How to Make a Grocery List, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Book Review: Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance by Walter Wadiak, Robert Epstein
Recovering Islands: Scotland, Ocean, and Archipelago in To the Lighthouse, Nels C. Pearson
Towards an Oceanic Dubliners, Nels C. Pearson
Bennett's Archive I: Lydia Sigourney, Elizabeth A. Petrino
Can you say… Thanks, and we miss you?, Matthew R. Tullis
Submissions from 2017
Calling Mom Home, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Making Do, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Such a Lady, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Getting on the Map: A Case Study in Digital Pedagogy and Undergraduate Crowdsourcing, Shannon Kelley
Passionate Love-Letters to a Dead Girl: Elizabeth Siddall in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Emily J. Orlando
‘Perilous Coquetry’: Oscar Wilde’s Influence on Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., Emily J. Orlando
The ‘Queer Shadow’ of Ogden Codman in Edith Wharton’s Summer, Emily J. Orlando
Submissions from 2016
Desire, a Crooked Yearning, and the Plants of Endymion, Shannon Kelley
Book Review: "Dickinson in Her Own Time: A Biographical Chronicle of Her Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates", Elizabeth A. Petrino
The Gyms of Holmes County, Matthew R. Tullis
Submissions from 2015
It’s All Coming Together, Right Before My Eyes: On Poetry, Peace, and Creative Placemaking in Writing Centers, Elizabeth H. Boquet
What Remains, What Sustains: Companions in Mission, Colleagues in Action, WPAs for Life, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Just Care: Learning From and With Graduate Students in a Doctor of Nursing Practice Program, Elizabeth H. Boquet, Meredith Wallace Kazer, Nancy Manister, Owen Lucas, Michael Shaw, Valerie Madaffari, and Cynthia Gannett
Book Review: The Queen’s Dumbshows: John Lydgate and the Making of Early Theater by Claire Sponsler, Robert Epstein Dr.
The lack of interest in the Shipman’s tale: Chaucer and the social theory of the gift, Robert Epstein
Amber, the Heliades, and the Poetics of Trauma in Marvell's 'The Nymph Complaining, Shannon Kelley
Edith Wharton and the New Narcissism, Emily J. Orlando
Irreverent Intimacy: Nella Larsen’s Revisions of Edith Wharton., Emily J. Orlando
“Jeanne Marie Laskas and ‘Guns ‘R Us’”, Matthew R. Tullis
"Justin Heckert and ‘Lost in the Waves'", Matthew R. Tullis
“Michael J. Mooney and ‘The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever’”, Matthew R. Tullis
The Ghosts I Run With: Surviving Childhood Cancer is a Race that Never Ends, Matthew R. Tullis
What 14 Great Writers Taught One Journalism Class, Matthew R. Tullis
Submissions from 2014
Analyzing Résumés of Military Veterans during Transition to Post-Service, Colleen Arendt and David Alan Sapp
“We unman ourselves”: Colonial and Mohegan Manhood in the Writings of Samson Occom, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
What is the Value of the GED?, Betsy Bowen and Kathryn Nantz
Dismal Science: Chaucer and Gower on Alchemy and Economy, Robert Epstein Dr.
The King's Coral Body: A Natural History of Coral and the Post-Tragic Ecology of The Tempest, Shannon Kelley
Contradictory and Missing Voices in English Education: An Invitation to English Faculty, Emily R. Smith, Faith-Anne Dohm, and Betsy Bowen
Dear Johnny Football: A Crash Course for Cleveland’s Next Quarterback (and we do mean crash), Matthew R. Tullis
The dynamic interplay of interaction goals, emotion, and conflict styles: Testing a model of intrapersonal and interpersonal effects on conflict styles, Qin Zhang, Michael Andreychik, David Alan Sapp, and Colleen Arendt
Submissions from 2013
Writer’s Block on the Dark Side, Elizabeth H. Boquet
After the International Bill of Human Rights (IBHR): Introduction to special issue on human rights and professional communication, David Alan Sapp, Gerald Savage, and Kyle Mattson
Gangrey: The Podcast, Matthew R. Tullis
Getting the Story: A roundtable discussion, Matthew R. Tullis
In Newtown, 8th Graders Prepare for the Next Tragedy, Matthew R. Tullis
Land of Hope and Dreams? Ashland Women’s Hoops Program Learns Faith Will be Rewarded, Matthew R. Tullis
The Eye In The Sky, Matthew R. Tullis
Who Was Stella Walsh: The Story of the Intersex Olympian, Matthew R. Tullis
Psychological Reactance and Resistance Intention in the Classroom: Effects of Perceived Request Politeness and Legitimacy, Relationship Distance, and Teacher Credibility, Qin Zhang and David Alan Sapp
Teacher Requests and Student Resistance in College Classrooms, Qin Zhang and David Alan Sapp
Submissions from 2012
Feet of Clay, Heart of Iron, Matthew R. Tullis
Submissions from 2011
Book Review: Cave Rock: Climbers, Courts, and a Washoe Indian Sacred Place by Matthew S. Makley and Michael J. Makley, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Book Review: Pilgrims of the Vertical: Yosemite Rock Climbers & Nature at Risk by Joseph E. Taylor, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
The U.S. Mint, the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial, and the Perpetuation of the Frontier Myth, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Book Review: Facing the Center: Toward an Identity Politics of One-to-One Mentoring by Harry Denny, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Learning new media through collaboration: Creating a collaborative online reporting course at the small college level, Gretchen Dworznik and Matthew R. Tullis
Breastfeeding Dick Cheney, Sonya Huber
"Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion", by Katherine Joslin, Emily J. Orlando
‘May I trespass on your valuable space?’: Ulysses on the Coast, Nels C. Pearson
Review of "Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America", Elizabeth A. Petrino
Submissions from 2010
Beckett’s Cosmopolitan Ground, Nels C. Pearson
Elizabeth Bowen and the New Cosmopolitanism, Nels C. Pearson
Emergent Properties: Team Teaching in Literature and Biology, Nels C. Pearson and Ashley Byun-McKay
Allusion, Echo, and Literary Influence in Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth A. Petrino
In Case You Missed It: Selected Scholarship in the Discipline, Gerald Savage and David Alan Sapp
SPIG veteran accepts group’s 2010 teaching award, James L. Simon
Moles, Matthew R. Tullis
Submissions from 2009
Book Review: Lydgate Matters: Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century, edited by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown, Robert Epstein
""That I May Not Faint, Or Die, Or Swoon”: Reviving Pre-Raphaelite Women", Emily J. Orlando
Trends in Industry Supervisor Feedback on Business Communication Internships, David Alan Sapp and Qin Zhang
The Effect of Perceived Teacher Burnout on Credibility, Qin Zhang and David Alan Sapp
Submissions from 2008
Charles Alexander Eastman's From the Deep Woods to Civilization and the Shaping of Native Manhood, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Record and Reflect: iPod Use in Writing Center Staff Development, Elizabeth H. Boquet, Betsy Bowen, Catherine Forsa, Devin Hagan, and Mary A. McCall
Reconsiderations: After "The Idea of a Writing Center", Elizabeth Boquet and Neal Lerner
Where Ideas Are Garbage and All Writing is Free: Doubting and Believing in Freewriting, Michele Eodice, Elizabeth H. Boquet, Garrick Brown, and Sean Ringey
"Fer in the north; I kan nat telle where": Dialect, Regionalism, and Philologism, Robert Epstein Dr.
Dear Co-Authors: Epistolary Revelations of Five Writing Center Directors, Anne Geller, Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll, Elizabeth H. Boquet, and Michael Spooner
Homage to a Bridge, Sonya Huber
Taking Care of Business: Are Corporate-Funded Research Programs Influencing the Search for Environmental Solutions?, Sonya Huber
Beauty Enshrined in Edith Wharton’s Fiction, Emily J. Orlando
Environment reporters and U.S. journalists: A comparative analysis, David B. Sachsman, James L. Simon, and JoAnn Meyer Valenti
A Burning Issue in Teaching: The Impact of Perceived Teacher Burnout and Nonverbal Immediacy on Student Motivation and Affective Learning, Qin Zhang and David Alan Sapp
Submissions from 2007
Larry Watson's Montana 1948 and Euroamerican Representation of Native/Euroamerican History, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Putting women at the center: Sustaining a woman-centered literacy program, Betsy Bowen
The Real Who, What, When, and Why of Journalism, Sonya Huber
Whirr’ is King: Global Capitalism and the Paradox of Consciousness in Conrad’s Typhoon, Nels C. Pearson
Teaching Business Communication in Nicaragua, David Alan Sapp
Submissions from 2006
William Apess’s Manhood and Native Resistance in Jacksonian America, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Hard Work in the Big Easy, Elizabeth H. Boquet
More Than a Claim of Faith: If Darwin Ran the Writing Center, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Resume Writing in Russia and the Newly Independent States, Betsy Bowen and David Alan Sapp
Resume writing in Russia and the Newly Independent States, Betsy Bowen, David Alan Sapp, and Nelly Sargsyan
Eating their words: food and text in the coronation banquet of Henry VI, Robert Epstein Dr.
Regional issues, national norms: A four-region analysis of U.S. environment reporters, David B. Sachsman, James L. Simon, and JoAnn Meyer Valenti
The Lone Ranger as Technical Writing Program Administrator, David Alan Sapp
Review of The Environmental Communication Yearbook Volume 2; Susan Senecah, ed., James L. Simon
Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom: Civic Journalism and the Freedom of Information Act, James Simon and David Alan Sapp
Submissions from 2005
Strengthening partnerships between sites and universities: Tips from site directors, Betsy Bowen, Ellen Brinkley, Meg Peterson, and Rick Vanderweghe
Technical Communication, Participatory Action Research, and Global Civic Engagement: A Teaching, Research, and Social Action Collaboration in Kenya., Robbin D. Crabtree and David Alan Sapp
