This collection features presentations by current and former faculty in the Department of English at Georgia Southern University.
Faculty may contribute works produced while serving at Georgia Southern by submitting a copy to digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu. Please provide the version licensed by the copyright holder (e.g., the publisher) for open access publication following any mandatory embargo period.
Submissions from 2017
Just Google It: Investigating Multilingual Writers’ Digital Information Literacy, Jinrong Li, Lilian Mina, and Jeanne Bohannon
Assessment Across Online Language Education: Documenting Interaction, Autonomy, and Learning Outcomes, Stephanie Link and Jinrong Li
Using Brain Science to Assess (Creative) Writing Assignments, Laura E. Valeri
Mentoring, Mansplaining, Mothering: Directing Creative Writing Programs While Female, Laura E. Valeri, Stephanie Vanderslice, Leanna James Blackwell, Judith Baumel, and Janet Sylvester
The Urge to Merge: Pressures, Politics, Practicalities, Kristen Williams, Lisa A. Costello, Kristi Branham, Janet Badia, and Tanya Saroj Bakhru
Submissions from 2016
Moral Malaise and Parable-form in Tolstoy’s ‘The Death of Ivan Ilych’, Christopher P. Baker
Satanic Sprinkling: Liturgical Parody in Milton’s Prose, Christopher P. Baker
“To ordain wisely in this world of evil”: King Lear, Cymbeline, and Shakespeare’s Utopian / Dystopian Vision of Britain, Christopher P. Baker
LILAC and Citation Project Workshop, Jeanne Bohannon, Sandra Jamieson, Jinrong Li, Janice R. Walker, and Carrie Wastal
Communal Memory Narratives: How Local Holocaust Museums Reflect and Shape Their Communities, Lisa A. Costello
Is it Happening Again? How Deferred Memories by Women Revive Public Memory and the Holocaust, Lisa A. Costello
Women and Mentorship in Academia: In the Classroom and in the Profession, Lisa A. Costello
Designing & Grading Multimodal Writing Assignments, Lisa Dusenberry
Nancy Drew, Vampire Slayer and Bella Swan, Vampire Lover: Drawing Out Emotions in Graphic Novel Adaptations, Lisa Dusenberry
Producing Games in the Writing Classroom: A Writing Workshop Approach, Lisa Dusenberry
Teaching Technical Communication as Storytelling: Using Infographics to Teach 21st Century Competencies, Lisa Dusenberry
Valuing Empathy: Technical Communicator as Storyteller, Lisa Dusenberry
Women in Windows in Victorian Literature, Helen E. Howells
Writing and (Re)Action: RTTP and Composition, Helen E. Howells
Peaceweaving Women in Westeros, Carol P. Jamison
An Unacceptable Suggestive Flavor’: Marilyn Monroe’s Films, Class, and the Weakening of the Hollywood Production Code, Amanda Konkle
Digital Mix: The Landscape of Digital Pedagogy in the Writing and Communication Classroom, Halcyon Lawrence, Liz Hutter, Joy Robinson, and Lisa Dusenberry
Analysis of College Writing Assignments, Jinrong Li
From Text-Based to Digital Feedback: What Has Changed?, Jinrong Li
Lexical Richness of L1 and L2 Students’ Writing, Jinrong Li
Rethinking Rubric Design: A Methodology for Reducing Variations in Student and Teacher Assessments of Writing, Peggy J. Lindsey and Jinrong Li
Neoliberal Universities and the Myth of the Dying Humanities: Activist Pedagogy & Global Learning, Jane V. Rago
‘Too Dark Altogether:’ Neoliberal Imperialism, Then & Now, Jane V. Rago
Collaborative Strategies for Distributed Teams: Innovation Through Interlaced Collaborative Writing, Joy Robinson, Lisa Dusenberry, and Halcyon M. Lawrence
We Don’t String Popcorn Necklaces Here: Brain Science and Assessment Beyond Craft, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2015
Mind the Gap: Practice and Preference in Digital Pedagogies, Rebecca Burnett, Lisa Dusenberry, Andy Frazee, Liz Hutter, and Joy Robinson
Gendering the Archive: Public Memory and Holocaust Testimony in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah and Beyond, Lisa A. Costello
Reimag(e)ing Holocaust Memory: Dancing in Auschwitz and Numbered as Collaborative Memory Across Generations, Lisa A. Costello
Information Storytelling: Blending Narrative and Data, Lisa Dusenberry
Instruction through Narrative: The High Stakes of Technical Communication Narratives for Youth, Lisa Dusenberry
Provoking Choice: Defamiliarizing Presentations with Multimodal Demonstrations, Lisa Dusenberry
Strategic Learning through Alternate Reality Games: The Reward of Risking a Semester with Linked Multimodal Projects, Lisa Dusenberry
The Chivalric Code of Westeros, Carol P. Jamison
The Potential Benefits of Semantic Mapping for L2 Writers, Jinrong Li
Understanding Variations Between Student and Teacher Application of Rubrics, Jinrong Li and Peggy J. Lindsey
A Story We Can Live With: Privatizing National Identity in the Fight to “Light Up Africa”, Jane V. Rago
To Go West: Travelogues, Nationality, and the Dissonance of Self, Jane V. Rago
Submissions from 2014
Satan’s Aspersions, Christopher P. Baker
Cultural Memory and the Holocaust in America: Gendered Touchpoints across the Kairotic Timescape, Lisa A. Costello
Beyond Don as Dorian: Fin de Siecle, Mad Men, & Aesthetics, Helen E. Howells
Beyond Don as Dorian: Fin de Siecle, Mad Men, and Aesthetics, Helen E. Howells
From Notecards to Evernote, From JStor to Google, From Indirect Sources to Tinyurls: The Composite Nature of Research in the 21st Century, Helen E. Howells
“Refreshing Transformations: Turnings Students’ Annoying Lemons into Instructional Lemonade.” Co-presented with Nancy Remler, Helen E. Howells
Annotated Learner Corpus and Revision for L2 Learners, Jinrong Li
‘So the Borders Here Are Not Really Fixed:’ Sustaining Gender Studies Through Global Literacy & Activist Pedagogy, Jane V. Rago
Teaching Global Citizenship Through Service Learning: Is Domestic or International Context a Contributing Factor?, Jane V. Rago
Books to Watch Out For: Gender and Sexual Minority Literature for Young People, Caren Town, Trina Smith, Laura E. Agnich, Dina Walker-Devose, and Scott A. Beck
Submissions from 2013
Servile Copulation in Milton’s Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, Christopher P. Baker
Envisioning the Relationships of Memory Narratives: Region as Strategy in Local Holocaust Museums in the United States, Lisa A. Costello
Teaching Genres of the Holocaust as a Dialogic of History and Memory, Lisa A. Costello
Using Savannah as Text, Helen E. Howells
Online and Blended Learning with Google and Folio, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2012
A Trip with the Strange Woman: Dutchman as Proverbial Spiritual Journey, Christopher P. Baker
Local Testimonies: How Regional Holocaust Museums in the United States Impact the Future of Holocaust Memory, Lisa A. Costello
Re-Framing the Holocaust for the Future: How Regional Holocaust Museums in the United States Impact Holocaust Memory, Lisa A. Costello
Interdisciplinary Teaching, Helen E. Howells
WAC + Undergraduate Research=Student Success, Helen E. Howells
Why all the Hate? The Dark Side of Mommy Blogging, Helen E. Howells
Journeying Through the Fallow Mind: Transcending Writers’ Block at The Desk and In the Classroom, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2011
Embodying Difference: Building Community through Critical and Transcultural Literacies, Lisa A. Costello
Feminist Art Activism: Mentoring Art Students through Genre Writing, Lisa A. Costello
Adrienne Rich’s ‘Diving into the Wreck, Helen E. Howells
Beyond Bob Dylan: Composition and Literature in the Classroom, Helen E. Howells
Willa Cather’s ‘Paul’s Case, Helen E. Howells
Research in the Creative Writing Classroom: Methods, Pedagogies, Dilemmas, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2010
‘Greedily she engorg’d: Eve’s Satanic Sacrament.’, Christopher P. Baker
Kairos and the Rhetoric of Mommy Blogs in the 21st Century, Helen E. Howells
Rocking the Cradle and Rocking the Boat: The Complicated Community of ‘Mommy Blogs, Helen E. Howells
Working/Mothers: Mommy Blogs and Separate Spheres, Helen E. Howells
Heavenly Genes: New Mothers of England, Jane V. Rago
Fledge: Promoting Student Research through Publication, Laura E. Valeri
The Road Less Taken and the Ivory Tower: Getting Creative about Creative Careers, Laura E. Valeri
The Soul and the Machine: Teaching Creativity with Technology, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2009
A New Testament Analogue for the Porter Scene in Macbeth, Christopher P. Baker
Blogging a Research Paper? How Genre Juxtaposition Improves Student Academic Research and Writing, Lisa A. Costello
Service Learning and ‘Action Research’: Comparing the Ripple Effect of Civic Responsibility in Local Spheres and Web/Blogospheres, Lisa A. Costello
Writing About Science/ Writing About Chemistry, Timothy D. Giles, Mark Richardson, and Jessica Orvis
Building Stories From The Sentence Up, Laura E. Valeri
Our Roots Are Deep with Passion – Creative Nonfiction Presents New Italian American Writers, Laura E. Valeri
Teaching Fiction with Technology, Laura E. Valeri
The Tree and the Leaves: Using Paradigms for Teaching Fiction, Laura E. Valeri
Writing Dialog That Breathes, Laura E. Valeri
Submissions from 2008
I think my wife be honest and I think she is not”: Othello’s Tragic (K)nots, Christopher P. Baker
And All the 'net a Stage: The Internet as Text in the First-Year Composition Classroom, Timothy D. Giles
Recruiting Technical Communication Students from First-Year Composition, Timothy D. Giles
Re-Presenting the Rhetoric of Retention and the Work of First-Year Composition: Learning to Revise as a WPA, Helen E. Howells
Southern Homes: Resistance, Curiosity, and Empowerment, Helen E. Howells
Grail Imagery in the Harry Potter Series, Carol P. Jamison
The ‘New’ Seven Deadly Sins, Carol P. Jamison
‘A Nice Paper to put in a Girl’s Hand’: Circulating the Erotic in The Beach of Falesá, Jane V. Rago
Heavenly Genes: Eugenic Motherhood and the Rebirth of a Nation, Jane V. Rago
Can Library Slam Dunk Comedy Central?, Laura E. Valeri
Querying WebCT, Laura E. Valeri
Sewanee Fellows, Laura E. Valeri
