This collection features articles and book reviews written by faculty in the Department of English at Fairfield University.
Submissions from 2005
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
Four Puzzles in Adult Literacy: Reflections on the National Adult Literacy Survey, Betsy A. Bowen
Chaucer's Scogan and Scogan's Chaucer, Robert Epstein
The Moment of Modernism: Schopenhauer’s ‘Unstable Phantom’ in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Stevenson’s The Master of Ballantrae, Nels C. Pearson
Submissions from 1998
Responsible Practice in the Writing Center, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Childcare Workers Clamor for Respect—and a Raise, Sonya Huber
Debt-Free Jubilee, Sonya Huber
“Rereading Wharton’s ‘Poor Archer’: A Mr. ‘Might-have-been’ in The Age of Innocence, Emily J. Orlando
"Silent Eloquence": The Social Codification of Floral Metaphors in the Poems of Frances Sargent Osgood and Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth A. Petrino
Political socialization in the classroom revisited: The Kids Voting program, James L. Simon and Bruce D. Merrill
Nurturing democracy, citizenship and civic virtue: The Kids Voting program revisited, James L. Simon, Bruce D. Merrill, and Nicholas Alozie
Submissions from 1997
Review of "The Seductions of Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth A. Petrino
The next generation of news consumers: Children’s news media choices in an election campaign, James L. Simon and Bruce D. Merrill
Efforts to increase diversity on college forensic teams, Cynthia Valdivia and James Simon
Submissions from 1996
Book Review: Writing Center Perspectives, eds. Byron Stay, Christina Murphy, and Eric Hobson, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Voice of My Voice: Mutual Submission and Transcendental Potentiality in Jane Eyre, Nels C. Pearson
Review of "Emily Dickinson’s Fascicles: Method & Meaning, Elizabeth A. Petrino
Media use and voter turnout in a presidential election, James L. Simon
Telling the truth: Respondent accuracy in mass media polling, James L. Simon, T. U. Smith, and Bruce D. Merrill
Submissions from 1995
Book Review: Intersections: Theory-Practice in the Writing Center, edited by Joan Mullin and Ray Wallace, Elizabeth H. Boquet
Response to "Early Writing Centers: Toward a History", Elizabeth H. Boquet
Review of "The Passion of Emily Dickinson", Elizabeth A. Petrino
Submissions from 1994
"Feet so precious charged": Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Child Elegy, Elizabeth A. Petrino
War, Peace, and Writing Center Administration, Jeanne Simpson, Steve Braye, and Elizabeth H. Boquet
Submissions from 1993
Review of "Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet" and "Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory", Elizabeth A. Petrino
Revisiting media choice and election turnout, James L. Simon and Bruce D. Merrill
Submissions from 1991
Difference and Continuity: The Voices of Dalloway, Johanna X. K. Garvey
Submissions from 1989
The problem-solving processes of writers and readers. Occasional Paper No.7, Ann Rosebery, Beth Warren, Bertram Bruce, Linda Flower, Betsy Bowen, Margaret Kantz, and Ann Penrose
Submissions from 1985
Mass. officials working hard to pass seatbelt law, James Simon
Submissions from 1983
Bay State warns organized crime: Don’t dump hazardous waste on us, James Simon
Submissions from 1982
Locke asks court to cut sentence, James Simon
Submissions from 1981
If Thoreau could see it now…, James Simon
