This collection features articles and book reviews written by faculty in the Department of English at Fairfield University.
Submissions from 2018
Book Review: Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance by Walter Wadiak, Robert Epstein
Submissions from 2017
Getting on the Map: A Case Study in Digital Pedagogy and Undergraduate Crowdsourcing, Shannon Kelley
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
Submissions from 2015
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
Irreverent Intimacy: Nella Larsen’s Revisions of Edith Wharton., Emily J. Orlando
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
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
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 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.
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
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.
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
Late Bloomer: The Gentian as Sign or Symbol in the Work of Dickinson and Her Contemporaries, Elizabeth A. Petrino
Review of "A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson" and "The Gardens of Emily Dickinson", Elizabeth A. Petrino
"We are rising as a people": Frances Harper's radical views on class and racial equality in Sketches of Southern Life, Elizabeth A. Petrino
Wrestling with objectivity and fairness: U.S. environment reporters and the business community, David B. Sachsman, James L. Simon, and JoAnn Meyer Valenti
Comparing grades in online and face-to-face writing courses: Interpersonal accountability and institutional commitment, David Alan Sapp and James L. Simon
As easy as 1-2-3: Building student confidence and experience in the basic news writing course, James Simon
AEJMC’s mysterious chip process… Or, ‘Why didn’t I get that panel I wanted?’, James L. Simon
Submissions from 2004
Exploration and Adventure in the 19th Century American West: Introduction, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Gator Bait: On Teaching, Writing, and Growing Up on the Bayou, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Your Culture, My Classroom, Whose Pedagogy?: Negotiating Learning and Understanding in a Brazilian MA-TESOL Program, Robbin D. Crabtree and David Alan Sapp
Book Review: Jill M. Kress, The Figure of Consciousness: William James, Henry James, and Edith Wharton (Routledge, 2002)., Emily J. Orlando
Risk and the environment reporters: A four-region analysis, David B. Sachsman, James L. Simon, and JoAnn Meyer Valenti
Technical Writing in Cuba (Cover Story), David A. Sapp
Book Review - Global Contexts: Case Studies in International Technical Communication (D. Bosley), David Alan Sapp
Global Partnerships in Business Communication: An Institutional Collaboration between the U.S. and Cuba, David Alan Sapp
Juvenile crime stories use police blotter without comment from suspects, James L. Simon and Sean Hayes
Submissions from 2003
Gender and political orientation in childhood, Nicholas Alozie, James L. Simon, and Bruce D. Merrill
Frederick Cook, Mountaineering in the Alaskan Wilderness, and the Regeneration of Progressive Era Masculinity, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Theoretical, Political, and Pedagogical Challenges in the Feminist Classroom: Our Struggles to “Walk the Walk”, Robbin D. Crabtree and David Alan Sapp
Book Review - Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge (D. Koplow), Lisa Donovan and David Alan Sapp
Lydgate's Mummings and the Aristocratic Resistance to Drama, Robert Epstein
Book Review - The Languages of Edison’s Light (C. Bazerman), David Alan Sapp
Submissions from 2002
Book Review: Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations by Gretchen M. Bataille, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Teacher testing: Advice for faculty in literature, rhetoric, and creative writing, Betsy Bowen
The environment reporters of New England, David B. Sachsman, James L. Simon, and JoAnn Meyer Valenti
Book Review - Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics (b. hooks), David Alan Sapp
Guest Editor’s Introduction: Practitioners of Action Research in International Education Settings, David Alan Sapp
A Laboratory in Citizenship: Service Learning in the Technical Communication Classroom, David Alan Sapp and Robbin D. Crabtree
Now I get it: How to use reflective memos in news writing, James Simon
Submissions from 2001
Book Review: West of the Border: The Multicultural Literature of the Western American Frontiers by Noreen Groover Lape, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Save Whom from Destruction? Alaska Natives, Frontier Mythology, and the Regeneration of the White Conscience in Hudson Stuck's The Ascent of Denali, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
'Outside of Here it’s Death’: Co-dependency and the Ghosts of Decolonization in Beckett’s Endgame, Nels C. Pearson
Review of "Disarming the Nation: Women’s Writing and the American Civil War", Elizabeth A. Petrino
Using GIS to identify clusters of potential donors to colleges and universities, Kurt Schlichting and James L. Simon
Submissions from 2000
Book Review: English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race and Slavery in the New World, an Inkle and Yarico Reader by Frank Felsenstein, Peter L. Bayers Dr.
Education as Apprenticeship for Social Action: Composition Instruction, Critical Consciousness, and Engaged Pedagogy, David Alan Sapp
Submissions from 1999
"Our Little Secret": A History of Writing Centers, Pre- To Post-Open Admissions, Elizabeth Boquet
