Faculty Accomplishments

Sean Desilets presented his paper “Death Alive: Jaws” at the Popular Culture Association conference in New Orleans, April 8-11, 2009.

Georgi Donavin became Vice President of the Medieval Association of the Pacific. This year she is seeing two projects off to press: an article entitled "Rhetorical Gower: Aristotelianism in the Confessio Amantis's Treatment of 'Rethorique'" (forthcoming in John Gower: Readers, Manuscripts, Contexts, ed. Malte Urban) and Romance and Rhetoric: Essays in Honour of Dhira B. Mahoney, co-edited with Anita Obermeier, including her own essay entitled "The Light of the Virgin Muse in Lydgate's Life of Our Lady" (forthcoming as Disputatio 18, Brepols Press).

Susan Gunter’s book Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James (Un. of Nebraska Press) came out in March 2009, receiving a feature-length positive review by Colm Toibin in the June/July 2009 issue of New York Review of Books. Prof. Gunter also presented her paper "Biography as Creative Response: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James" at American Literature Association in May 2009.

Chris LeCluyse presented a paper at the International Writing Centers Association Conference in October 2008 as part of a panel on applying post-process composition theory in the writing center. His article "Medieval Literacy in the Writing Center" is forthcoming in the Writing Lab Newsletter. He was elected as a regional delegate for the Modern Language Association and is currently serving as president-elect of the Rocky Mountain Writing Centers Association.

Jeff McCarthy’s book Contact: Mountain Climbing and Environmental Thinking (Un. of Nevada Press, 2008) won this year’s Manford A. and June Shaw prize for Westminster faculty publications.

Fatima Mujcinovic presented at the 2009 National American Culture Association Conference held on April 8-11 in New Orleans. Her paper was entitled “The Primacy of Male Homosociality in A Streetcar Named Desire.”

Lance Newman published two articles this year: “Free Soil and the Abolitionist Forests of Frederick Douglass’s ‘The Heroic Slave,’” American Literature 81.1 (March 2009): 127-152 and “Global Warming, Globalization, and Environmental Literary History,” Critical Ecologies Thread, Electronic Book Review (May 2009): n.p. www.electronicbookreview.com.

Natasha Sajé was awarded a Camargo Foundation fellowship for Spring 2010. She had essays published in The American Poetry Review, The Writer's Chronicle, and The New York Times.