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Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

This page collects the research and creative activity of the faculty of the Department of English at Eastern Illinois University.

Submissions from 2020 2020

Heroism and Indeterminacy in Oliver Stone's JFK and Don DeLillo's Libra, Tim Engles

Reenvisioning Reproductive Labor, Jeannie Ludlow

Fourth graders’ (Re-)Reading, (historical) thinking, and (revised) writing about the black freedom movement, John Bickford, Jeremiah Clabough, and Tim Taylor

Kicking Ass in Flip-Flops:: Inappropriate/d Generations and Monstrous Pregnancy in Comics Narratives, Jeannie Ludlow

The great raced and gendered outdoors: white male spatiality in Alexander Payne's Nebraska and David Lynch's The Straight Story, Tim Engles

Submissions from 2019 2019

Josef Benson's Review of White Male Nostalgia

Graphic Abortion: The Grotesque in Diane Noomin's 1990s Abortion Comics, Jeannie Ludlow

Writing Reproductive Activism, from Abortion Reform to Reproductive Justice, Jeannie Ludlow

Creating a Cross-disciplinary Hub for Active Student Learning in the EIU Library, Zach Newell, Newton Key, Todd Bruns, Stacey Knight-Davis, and Charles Wharram

Flower Poems, or Cobridme de flores // Poemas florales, o Cobridme de flores, Robin Murray

Hollywood’s Dirtiest Secret: The Hidden Environmental Costs of the Movies. By Hunter Vaughan, Robin Murray and Joseph Heumann

Book Review: The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States, by Claudia Sadowski-Smith, Tim Engles

Claudia Sadowski-Smith, The New Immigrant Whiteness: Race, Neoliberalism, and Post-Soviet Migration to the United States (New York: New York University Press, 2018, $28.00). Pp. 217. isbn978 1 4798 0671 3., Tim Engles

Submissions from 2018 2018

Media Criticism and Morality Policing on Twitter: Fan Responses to 'How to Get Away with Murder', Melissa Ames

Using Dystopian Texts to Promote Social Responsibility in the Composition Classroom, Melissa Ames

A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375–1650 trans. and ed. by Lisa Kaborycha (review), Julie Campbell

Failure to replicate using dialogue videos in learning: Lessons learned from an authentic course, Lu Ding, Joshua Adams, Michelle Stephens, Sara Brownell, and Michelene Chi

Denying White Male Nostalgia: Don DeLillo’s Underworld, Tim Engles

Epilogue: Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last and the Futures of Domineering White Masculinity, Tim Engles

Ethnicized White Male Nostalgia: Sloan Wilson’s The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, Tim Engles

Introduction: Making America White Male Again, Tim Engles

Moralizing White Male Nostalgia: Richard Wright’s Savage Holiday, Tim Engles

Possessive White Male Nostalgia: Louis Begley’s About Schmidt, Tim Engles

Spatialized White Male Nostalgia: Carol Shields’s Happenstance, Tim Engles

White Male Nostalgia in Contemporary North American Literature, Tim Engles

Bernard Shaw and Modern Advertising, Christopher Wixson

Introduction: “Press as Corrected, G.B.S.”, Christopher Wixson

Prescription and Petrifaction: Proprietary Medicine, Health Marketing, and Misalliance, Christopher Wixson

“The Biggest Scoop in Advertising History”: Personality Marketing, G.B.S., and the Near-Testimonial, Christopher Wixson

“The Shadow of Disrepute”: G.B.S. and Testimonial Marketing, Christopher Wixson

“Those Magic Initials, G.B.S.”: Copywriting for the Irish Clipper, Christopher Wixson

Humanism, Religion, and Early Modern Englishwomen in Their Transnational Contexts, Julie Campbell

Literary Circles and the Inscription of the Querelle des femmes, Julie Campbell

Louise Labé, l'Imparfaicte Amye, Julie Campbell

Pastoral Defenses and the Nymphs of the Salon Vert, Julie Campbell

Querelle Resonance and Literary Circle Ritual in English Romances 1, Julie Campbell

The Amyes of the English Court, Julie Campbell

The Querelle over Silvia: La Mirtilla and Aminta in Dialogue, Julie Campbell

Tullia d'Aragona, Sperone Speroni, and the Inscription of Salon Personae, Julie Campbell

From Slut Shaming to Cultural Commentary: What Live Tweeting Practices of Viewers of ABC’s The Bachelorette Reveal about Gender Policing and Digital Activism on Twitter, Melissa Ames

Beckett and trauma, Julie Campbell

James L. Harner: In Memoriam, Laura Estill, Lingui Yang, Monica Matei-Chesnoiu, José González, Jacob Heil, Julie Campbell, Youmi Jung, and Nicole Hagstrom-Schmidt

"Echo’s Bones" and Beckett’s disembodied voices, Julie Campbell

Submissions from 2017 2017

Exploding Rhetorics of 9/11: An Approach for Studying the Role that Affect & Emotion Play in Constructing Historical Events, Melissa Ames

Book Review of Kirsten Dyck's Reichsrock: The International Web of White-Power and Neo-Nazi Hate Music (2016) and Nancy S. Love's Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy (2017), Tim Engles

Racialized Slacktivism: Social Media Performances of White Antiracism, Tim Engles

A Beautiful Song, Very Melancholy and Very Old, Bess Winter

Acts of Revision: Bernard Shaw, Noël Coward, and "Born Bosses", Christopher Wixson

Looking After the Drainage: Health, Marketing, and the Turkish Bath in Bernard Shaw's Misalliance, Christopher Wixson

Introduction: Revolutionary American Women Writers in Literary History, Angela Vietto