For the Love of Stories: Re-examining Academia’s Responsibility in Presenting Literature in the 21st Century
Honors College Theses
Part of the English Language and Literature Commons
Works in English Language and Literature
2023
Marilyn Monroe, Murderess: How a Femme Fatale Role Shaped Monroe's Star Persona
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Opening Doors and Opening Minds: Best Practices for Inclusive Teaching of Information Literacy
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
2022
Writing as Perceiving: Defamiliarization, Normalization and Juxtaposition
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
2021
Review of The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction by Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
Kendra Parker
Noble Savages, Magical Negroes, and Exotic Others, Oh My! Black Female Vampires in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2
Kendra Parker
Intergroup Dialogue and Difficult Conversations: Teaching Butler at a Private, Christian, Predominantly White Institution
Kendra Parker
“The Portrait was a Black Madonna”: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church
Kendra Parker
‘The Portrait Was a Black Madonna’: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church
Kendra Parker
To be Black, female, and immigrant—oh, the horror!: The Vampire Queen in Richard Wenk’s Vamp
Kendra Parker
Abolition in American Literature: A Nation Removes Its Shackles—Frederick Douglass, David Walker, and Harriet Jacobs
Kendra Parker
I Studied My History; I Studied My Past: Culture, Gender, and Race in Beyoncé’s Homecoming
Kendra Parker
As the World Burns: “Checking In” (An Annotated Letter to My Students with Lessons from Octavia E. Butler)
Kendra Parker
‘The Portrait Was a Black Madonna’: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Irish Rock Music Amid a Time of Troubles: Thin Lizzy and U2 as a Bridge During a Time of Division
University Honors Symposium
“The Portrait was a Black Madonna”: Octavia E. Butler, Politics of Representation, and the Black Church
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
A Tale of Two CUREs: Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences and Online Information Literacy Instruction
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
2020
‘...in the fresh young darkness close together ’:Teaching Redefining Realness
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
The Play and Meaning of Courtoisie in Romanz de un Chivaler et de sa Dame et de un Clerk
Carol Jamison
Review of Barking Abby and Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship and Authority in a Female Community
Carol Jamison
Review of Do You Make These Mistakes in English?The Story of Sherwin Cody’s Famous Language School by Edwin L. Battistella
Carol Jamison
Review of Writing the Map of Anglo-Saxon England: Essays in Cultural Geography by Nicholas Howe
Carol Jamison
Chivalry without Borders: A Classroom Collaboration between English and Spanish Medievalists
Carol Jamison
To be Black, female, and immigrant—oh, the horror!: The Vampire Queen in Richard Wenk’s Vamp
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
I Studied My History; I Studied My Past: Culture, Gender, and Race in Beyoncé’s Homecoming
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Fixing a Hole Where the Rain Gets In: Building Information Literacy Support for International Students
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Mixing up the Menu: Info Lit as an Appetizer and not the Main Course
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Review of Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe by Lydia Zeldenrust
Department of Literature Faculty Publications
Abolition in American Literature: A Nation Removes Its Shackles—Frederick Douglass, David Walker, and Harriet Jacobs
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
2019
Harnessing the Shadows: Ghosts, Vampires, and Undying Relationships to Our Past
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Her Bondage and Her Freedom? Roxane Gay’s Hunger as Kin to Emancipatory Narratives
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Noble Savages, Magical Negroes, and Exotic Others, Oh My! Black Female Vampires in Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2
Department of Literature Faculty Publications
Challenging Star Wars: How The Last Jedi Borrows from Kurosawa
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
Merging Film and Literary Conventions to “Make New” William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
Defning Ourselves: A Selection of Black, Immigrant, Women Authors on Identity
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
Intergroup Dialogue and Difficult Conversations: Teaching Butler at a Private, Christian, Predominantly White Institution
Department of Literature Faculty Publications
2018
Better Together: Changing the Model of Freshman English Instruction through Partnership
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Start Here: Scaffolding Information Literacy Skills for First-Year Composition Students
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
From Information Literacy to Critical Thinking: Reaching and Teaching Millennials on a Community College Budget
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Soucouyants, Ol’Hige, and Lougarou, Oh My!: Shedding Skin, Breaching Boundaries, and Creating Change
Kendra Parker
Review of The Child Savage, 1890–2010: From Comics to Games ed. by Elisabeth Wesseling
Lisa Dusenberry
The Great Biracial Divide and Connection: Magical Realism and Identity in Abeng and No Telephone to Heaven by Michelle Cliff
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
“A Dark, Abiding, Signing Africanist Presence” in Walker Percy’s Dr. Tom More Novels
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Women as Predators in Life & Lit; or, How I Spent Grad School Writing About Black Female Vampires
Kendra Parker
Postfeminism the Musical: The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
2017
If We Burn, You Burn With Us!’ Reflections on Teaching African American Literature at a Private, Christian, Liberal Arts PWI
Kendra Parker
From Information Literacy to Critical Thinking: Reaching and Teaching Millennials on a Community College Budget
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Assigning Vs. Teaching: Utilizing Research and Composition Skills Across Disciplines
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Postfeminism the Musical: The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
COLA Dean’s List celebration: Guest Speaker, Prof.Carol Parrish Jamison
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Tablets and Research Assignments: Increased Access or a Waste of Time?
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Disability and Monstrosity in Transnational Modern Literatures
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Before Jane Austen: Some Forgotten English Women Writers
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Frederick II, the Baptized Sultan of Sicily, Bridge-maker between Italian and Arab culture
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
2016
Information Literacy in the Writing Spotlight
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
An Unacceptable Suggestive Flavor’: Marilyn Monroe’s Films, Class, and the Weakening of the Hollywood Production Code
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Identity and Ostentation in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Sooooooooo Real, Sooooooooo Much Trouble: The Familiar Tormenting Textuality of Mark Z. Danielewski
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Intergroup Dialogue and ‘Difficult Conversations’: Teaching Octavia Butler at a Private, Christian PWI
Kendra Parker
Building Motivation on False Information: Understanding the Environmental and Generational Affects on Family and Community
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
PASS (Portable Assisted Study Sequence): Expanding Success Opportunities
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
Neoliberal Universities and the Myth of the Dying Humanities: Activist Pedagogy & Global Learning
Jane Rago
"Decolonizing the University: A Battle for the African Mind" a special issue of College Language Association Journal
Kendra Parker
2015
Unchaining Selves: Contemporary Slavery and Health Care Freedom in Tananarive Due’s Blood Colony
Kendra Parker
Understanding Multiculturalism through Lucille Clifton’s “Wednesday”
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
Familiar versus Formal Language in Merle Hodge’s Crick Crack Monkey
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
Beyond the Stigma: Exploring the Relationship between Victimized Mothers and Their Children
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
Text Mining and Digital Humanities: Quantitative Analysis of African American Poetry
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
If You Build It... You Know the Rest: Personalizing Digital Literacy Based Instruction in Higher Education
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Fictional Story-Telling for Teaching Research & Ethics? A discussion on the permissibility of fiction and its potential as an exploration of cultural and moral biases.
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Loving the Library: Fostering Curiosity Through Hands-on Library Instruction in the First-Year Writing Program
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
Review of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
Richard Flynn
Review of Robin Bernstein's Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights
Richard Flynn
Her Bondage and Her Freedom; or, the ‘Heroic Resisting Woman’: Reconfiguring Eve, Hagar, and Lot’s Daughters in Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed
Kendra Parker
"There Was That in Her Face and Form which Made Him Loathe the Sight of Her": Disfiguration of Female Characters in Female Literature
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
Impresas and Impositions: Female Marginalization through the Impresa in Petrarch, Wyatt, and Sidney
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
The Material Gothic and Aesthetic Female in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey
GS4 Georgia Southern Student Scholarship Symposium
Tapping into What They Know: Contextual Grammar Instruction and Student Writing
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
Linguistic and Cultural Gaps in Foreign Language Teaching
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
Samuel Beckett’s All that Fall and Dante’s Purgatorio
South East Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures (SECCLL)
2014
Lily Bart’s “Process of Crystallization”: Becoming Brier Rose in The House of Mirth
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
“Lasting As Long As This Phrase Lasts”: The Collision of Elizabeth Bishop, Octavio Paz, and Joseph Cornell in “Objects & Apparitions”
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
Writing, Identity, and Giving Voice in Oscar Wao
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
Significance of Hair as a Means of Racial Identity in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Georgia Undergraduate Research Conference (2014-2015)
Books to Watch Out For: Gender and Sexual Minority Literature for Young People
Department of Literature Faculty Presentations
Active Learning in, through, and beyond the University Library and Classroom.
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
How Can Common Reading Programs Impact Information Literacy?
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
The Internet Conundrum: Teaching Web Research Through Collaborative, Creative Library Instruction
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
I’m not the vampire he is. I give in return for my taking’: Tracing Vampirism and Issues of Consent in Octavia E. Butler’s Patternist Series and Xenogenesis Trilogy
Kendra Parker
University of West Georgia Institutional STEM Excellence (UWISE)
Interdisciplinary STEM Teaching & Learning Conference (2012-2019)
2013
Pain, Pleasure, & Vampiric Penetration: Katrina’s Occidental Foreplay and Feasting in Richard Wenk’s Vamp
Kendra Parker