JOHN LOWNEY English Department 37 Morningside Drive St. John’s University Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 8000 Utopia Parkway (914)-271-2190 Queens, NY 11439 lowneyj@stjohns.edu (718)-990-5631 EDUCATION Ph.D. Brown University, 1991: English and American Literature M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986: English and American Literature B.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1979: English and American Literature PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2008-present Professor, St. John’s University 2002-2008 Associate Professor, St. John’s University 1996-2002 Assistant Professor, St. John’s University 1992-1996 Assistant Professor, Illinois Benedictine College 1991-1992 Adjunct Lecturer, Brown University 1987-1991 Advanced Teaching Fellow, Brown University 1985-1986 Teaching Assistant, University of Massachusetts, Amherst PUBLICATIONS Books: History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968. Contemporary North American Poetry Series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1997. Book Chapters: “William Carlos Williams: The New Poetries and Legacy” (forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to William Carlos Williams, ed. Christopher MacGowan, Cambridge University Press, 2015). “‘Frank-ly Speaking’: Frank Marshall Davis, the African American Left, and Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father” (forthcoming in Barack Obama’s Literary Legacy: Readings of Dreams From My Father, ed. Richard Purcell and Henry Veggian, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). “Langston Hughes, Modernism, and Modernity.” Langston Hughes: Critical Insights. Ed. R. Baxter Miller. Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2012. 275-93. “‘The Air of Atrocity’: ‘Of Being Numerous’ and the Vietnam War.” Thinking Poetics: Essays on George Oppen. Ed. Steven Shoemaker. Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2009. 143-59. “‘Truths of Outrage, Truths of Possibility’: Muriel Rukeyser’s ‘The Book of the Dead.’” “How Shall We Teach Each Other of the Poet?”: The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser. Ed. Anne F. Herzog and Janet E. Kaufman. New York: St. Martin’s, 1999. 195-208. “‘Homesick for those memories’: The Gendering of Historical Memory in Women’s Narratives of the Vietnam War.” Burning Down the House: Recycling Domesticity. Ed. Rosemary Marangoly George. Boulder, Colo.: Westview/HarperCollins, 1998. 257-78. Journal Articles: “‘A New Kind of Music’: Jazz Improvisation and the Diasporic Dissonance of Paule Marshall’s The Fisher King.” MELUS 40.1 (Spring 2015): 99-123. “Jazz, Black Transnationalism, and the Political Aesthetics of Langston Hughes’s Ask Your Mama.” American Literature 84.3 (Sept. 2012): 563-87. “Langston Hughes’s Cold War Audiences: Black Internationalism, The Popular Front, and The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1949.” The Langston Hughes Review 23 (Fall 2009): 50-71. “‘Why Not Say What Happens?’ Modernism, Traumatic Memory, and Lawrence Joseph’s Into It.” University of Cincinnati Law Review Law and Literature Symposium: “‘Some Sort of Chronicler I Am’: Narration and the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph.” University of Cincinnati Law Review 77.3 (Spring 2009): 843-61. “William Carlos Williams and Modern Poetry: From Modernism to Modernisms.” The William Carlos Williams Review 25.2 (Spring 2005): 39-54. “Reading the Borders of ‘The Desert Music.’” The William Carlos Williams Review 24.2 (Fall 2004): 61-77. “Haiti and Black Transnationalism: Remapping the Migrant Geography of Home to Harlem.” African American Review 34.3 (Fall 2000): 413-29. “Langston Hughes and the ‘Nonsense’ of Bebop.” Unsettling Blackness. Ed. Houston A. Baker, Jr. Spec. issue of American Literature 72.2 (June 2000): 357-85. “‘Littered with Old Correspondences’: Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and the 1930s.” Arizona Quarterly 55.2 (Summer 1999): 87-114. “Poetry, Property, and Propriety: Lorine Niedecker and the Legacy of the Great Depression.” Sagetrieb 18.1 (Spring 1999): 29-40. “‘A material collapse that is Construction’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca and the Poetics of Counter-Memory.” MELUS 23.3 (Fall 1998): 3-20. “The ‘Post-anti-esthetic’ Poetics of Frank O'Hara.” Contemporary Literature 32 (Summer 1991): 244-64. “Thoreau’s Cape Cod: The Unsettling Art of the Wrecker.” American Literature 64 (June 1992): 239-54. “‘A Plot of Ground’: The Problem of Cultural Identity in the Emergence of Williams’ Avant-Garde Stance.” Sagetrieb 9.3 (Winter 1990): 97-119. with Audrey R. Duckert, “From the Linguistic Atlas Archives: The Hanley Disks.” Journal of English Linguistics 19 (October 1986): 206-21. Reviews: “Jazz Historiography and the New Black Poetry of the 1960s.” Review essay on Jazz Griots: Music as History in the 1960s African American Poem, by Jean-Philippe Marcoux. Twentieth-Century Literature. (forthcoming, Fall 2015). Untitled review essay on Along the Streets of Bronzeville: Black Chicago’s Literary Landscape, by Elizabeth Schroeder Schlabach. American Literary History Online Review, Series III (Summer 2015). Untitled review essay on The Ethics of William Carlos Williams’s Poetry, by Ian D. Copestake. William Carlos Williams Review 31.1 (Spring 2014): 95-98. Untitled review essay on The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance, by James Smethurst. African American Review 45.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2012): 258-61. Untitled review essay on Hog Butchers, Beggars, and Busboys: Poverty, Labor, and the Making of Modern American Poetry, by John Marsh. Journal of American Studies 46.3 (Aug. 2012): 775-76. Untitled review essay on Remarkable Modernisms: Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art, by Daniel Morris. Studies in the Novel 36.1 (Spring 2004): 137-40. Untitled review essay on Complete Poems, by Claude McKay. Ed. William J. Maxwell. St. John’s University Humanities Review 2.2 (Spring 2004): 56-61. Untitled review essay on Caribbean Waves: Relocating Claude McKay and Paule Marshall, by Heather Hathaway. Modern Fiction Studies 46.4 (Winter 2000): 1028-30. Untitled review essay on American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge, by Ronald E. Martin. American Studies International 31 (April 1993): 149-51. Reprints: “‘Why Not Say What Happens?’ Modernism, Traumatic Memory, and Lawrence Joseph’s Into It.” Lawrence Joseph: Poet with a Steady Job. Ed. Eric Selinger. Spec. issue of Jacket II, 9 Feb. 2012. Web. “‘A material collapse that is Construction’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca and the Poetics of Counter-Memory.” Gwendolyn Brooks: Critical Insights. Ed. Mildred M. Merkle. Pasadena, CA: Salem, 2010. 186-209. The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory. Excerpted in Bloom’s Major Poets: William Carlos Williams. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 2002. 35-38, 97-103. “The ‘Post-anti-esthetic’ Poetics of Frank O'Hara.” Excerpted in Modern American Literature, vol. 2. 5th ed. Ed. Joann Cerrito and Laurie DiMauro. Detroit: St. James, 1999. “The ‘Post-anti-esthetic’ Poetics of Frank O'Hara.” Excerpted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, 78. Ed. James P. Draper. Detroit: Gale, 1994. 372-76. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Jazz (book). “Poetry at the End of the Millenium.” The Blackwell Companion to American Literature, vol. 3: “1914 to the Present Day.” Ed. Susan Belasco, Theresa Strouth Gaul, Linck Johnson, and Michael Soto. (solicited essay). HONORS AND AWARDS Merit Awards, St. John’s University, 1998-2000, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 Faculty Outstanding Achievement Award, St. John’s University, 2009 Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University: “Langston Hughes: Jazz, Internationalism, and African American Modernism,” 2004 African Heritage Month Outstanding Faculty Award, St. John’s University, 2004 Honorary Faculty Induction, Skull and Circle Honor Society, St. John’s University, 2003 St. John’s University Summer Support of Research Grant: “Langston Hughes, Black Transnationalism, and Cold War American Culture,” 2002 St. John’s University Summer Support of Research Grant: “Regionalism and Internationalism in Late Modernist American Poetry,” 2000 St. John’s University Summer Support of Research Grant: “Geographies of Memory: Historical Amnesia and the American Long Poem, 1930s-1960s,” 1998 St. John’s University Summer Support of Research Grant: “Rethinking Postmodern American Poetry: History, Memory, and the 1930s,” 1997 National Endowment for the Humanities Study Grant: “Twentieth-Century African-American Poetry and Culture,” 1994 Teaching Stipend and Tuition Fellowship, Brown University, 1987-1990 Untermeyer Fellowship, Brown University, 1989 University Fellowship, Brown University, 1986-87 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “‘Of Langston & Langston Manifestoes’: Langston Hughes and the Revolutionary Jazz Poetry of Amiri Baraka.” Amiri Baraka Society Program: “‘In the Tradition of...’: The Relationships between Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, and the Black Avant-Garde.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, May 2015. “William Carlos Williams, Amiri Baraka, and the New American Poetries.” “The New American Poetries in Black and White.” American Literature Association Poetry Symposium. Savannah, Oct. 2014. “‘Frank-ly Speaking’: Frank Marshall Davis, the African American Left, and Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father.” “The Literary Histories of Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, Jan. 2014. “Langston Hughes, Afro-Modernism, and the Cold War Politics of Jazz.” Langston Hughes Society Program: “Langston Hughes and Literary Radicalism.” American Literature Association Conference. San Francisco, May 2012. “Jazz Modernism and the Intercultural Politics of Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem.” Modernist Manhattan Conference. New York Institute for Technology. New York City, March 2012. “‘Do you sing for a living?’: The Popular Front, Jazz Fiction, and Ann Petry’s The Street.” American Literature Association Program: “Race, Labor, and Left Politics in Postwar U.S. Fiction.” Boston, May 2011. “Jazz Internationalism: Langston Hughes, Jazz, and African American Literary Studies.” Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean at the City University of New York Conference: “The State of African American and African Diaspora Studies: Methodology, Pedagogy, and Research.” CUNY Graduate Center. New York City, Jan. 2011. “Black Transnationalism and the Political Aesthetics of Langston Hughes’s Ask Your Mama.” Langston Hughes Society Program: “Langston Hughes and Transnational Liberation: Aesthetic Overtures.” Modern Language Association Conference. Philadelphia, Dec. 2009. “‘A New Kind of Music’: Paule Marshall, Jazz Fiction, and the Dissonance of Diaspora.” New York Metro American Studies Association Conference: “A More Perfect Union?” St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus. New York City, Nov. 2009. “‘Why Not Say What Happens’: Trauma, Memory, and Modernist Poetics in Lawrence Joseph's Into It.” Law & Literature Symposium: “Law, Narration, and the Poetry of Lawrence Joseph.” University of Cincinnati College of Law. Cincinnati, Feb. 2008. “Uncommon Ground.” Langston Hughes Society Program: “Langston Hughes’s Audiences.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, May 2007. “Gwendolyn Brooks and the Black Arts Movement: The Afrocentric Modernism of In the Mecca.” The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas Conference. The City University of New York: Hostos Community College, Bronx, NY, Nov. 2006. “Elizabeth Bishop’s Key West and the Locations of Modern Poetry.” Seminar Paper. Modernist Studies Association Conference: “Other Modernisms, Modernism’s Others.” Vancouver, Oct. 2004. “William Carlos Williams and Third-Phase Objectivism.” Modern Language Association Conference. San Diego, Dec. 2003. “Beyond Mecca: The Multiple Publics of Gwendolyn Brooks.” American Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC, Nov. 2001. “Amnesiac Modernism: Kenneth Fearing and the Erasure of Memory.” Material Modernisms Conference. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, July 2001. “‘A Metamorphic Palimpsest’: The Underground Memory of Thomas McGrath’s Letter to an Imaginary Friend.” National Poetry Foundation Conference: “The Opening of the Field: North American Poetry of the 1960s.” University of Maine, Orono, June 2000. “‘Disc-tortions’ of a Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes, Bebop, and the Idea of Social Justice.” MELUS 2000 Conference: “Multi-ethnic Literatures and the Idea of Social Justice.” New Orleans, March 2000. “Claude McKay, American Imperialism, and the Harlem Renaissance.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, Dec. 1999. “‘The Eagle and the Dollar’: Claude McKay and New World Imperialism.” American Studies Association Conference: “American Histories and the Question of Empire.” Seattle, Nov. 1998. “Post-Americanist Williams.” William Carlos Williams Society. American Literature Association Conference. San Diego, May 1998. “Immigration and the Harlem Renaissance.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Baltimore, Apr. 1998. “‘Dream within a dream’: Langston Hughes, Post-World War II Harlem, and Black Counterpublic Spheres.” American Studies Association Conference: “Going Public: Defining Public Cultures in the Americas.” Washington, DC, Nov. 1997. “‘Littered with Old Correspondences’: Elizabeth Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and the 1930s.” Elizabeth Bishop Conference. Worcester, MA, Oct. 1997. “The Diagnostic Practice of William Carlos Williams.” New York College English Association Conference: “The Healing Art of Literature.” St. John’s University, Queens, New York, Apr. 1997. “Remapping Oppen’s “Return.’” National Poetry Foundation Conference: “American Poetry in the 1950s.” University of Maine, Orono, June 1996. “‘A material collapse that is Construction”: Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca and the Poetics of Counter-Memory.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, Dec. 1995. “‘The janitor’s poems of every day’: Sites of Waste, Sites of Memory.” Canadian American Studies Association Conference: “TRASH: Class, Culture, and Waste in America, 1607 to the Present.” Vancouver, Oct. 1995. “Objectivism, Feminism, and the Modernist Canon: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Impropriety.” Modern Language Association Conference. San Diego, Dec. 1994. “Utopian Space, Dystopian Place: History and Counter-Memory in Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca.” California American Studies Association Conference: “Cities on the Edge.” San Diego, May 1994. “Vietnam, Historical Amnesia, and Joan Didion’s Democracy.” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. Chicago, Apr. 1994. “Poetry, Property, and Propriety: Lorine Niedecker and the Legacy of the 1930s.” National Poetry Foundation Conference: “The First Postmodernists: American Poets of the 1930s Generation.” University of Maine, Orono, June 1993. “Technologies of Memory: Recollecting the Vietnam War in Jayne Anne Phillips’ Machine Dreams and Bobbie Ann Mason’s In Country.” New England American Studies Association Conference: “The Cultures of Technology: Science, Media, and the Arts.” Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, May 1993. “Rewriting the War: Teaching the Literature of the Vietnam War.” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. New Orleans, Apr. 1993. “Another Usable Past: On Teaching the Multiculturalism Debate.” New England American Studies Association Conference: “Multiculturalism and the Americas.” University of Massachusetts, Boston, Apr. 1992. “‘On the verge of vertigo’: George Oppen and Cold War American Culture.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Buffalo, Apr. 1992. “On the Margins of Modernism: William Carlos Williams and the American ‘Avant-Garde Tradition.’” Conference on “The Canon and Marginality.” State University of New York, Binghamton, May 1991. “Cultural Nationalism, Immigrant Ethnicity, and the Avant-Garde Poetics of William Carlos Williams.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Hartford, Apr. 1991. “Re-interpreting ‘The War’: Frank O'Hara’s Revision of Williams’ Objectivist Poetics.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Toronto, Apr. 1990. INVITED PRESENTATIONS “US vs. Them” (with Dohra Ahmad): “Vietnam War Poetry.” Sigma Tau Delta (English Honor Society) Series: “War: Poetry.” St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, Apr. 2007. “History, Memory and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968.” New York Metro American Studies Association Salon Talk. Hunter College, New York City. Mar. 2007. “The Art of Crossing Boundaries: Langston Hughes and the Locations of Poetry.” Writing Center Series: “The Art of Digging.” St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, Mar. 2005. “The Harlem Renaissance and Its Impact.” African Heritage Month Program: “The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: A Rebirth in the Spirit of Africa.” St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, Feb. 2002. “Claude McKay and American Imperialism.” City College of New York, New York City, Apr. 2000. “Segue to Bop: Langston Hughes and Post-World War II Harlem.” English Department Graduate Colloquium. St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY, Apr. 1998. “‘A material collapse that is construction’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s In the Mecca and the Poetics of Counter-Memory.” Arts and Humanities Division Faculty Colloquium. Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL, Nov. 1995. “Multiculturalism and Modernism: William Carlos Williams and the Subject of American Literature.” Roberts Lecture. Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, Mar. 1994. PANELS ORGANIZED OR CHAIRED “The Literary Histories of Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, Jan. 2014. Bookmarks Discussion with Paul Devlin and Phil Schaap: Rifftide: The Life and Opinions of Papa Jo Jones. By Jo Jones, as told to Albert Murray. Ed. Paul Devlin. With an afterword by Phil Schaap. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2011. St. John’s University, Feb. 2012 (moderator). “9/11 Literary Symposium.” St. John’s University, Manhattan Campus. Sept. 2011 (co-moderator, with Dohra Ahmad). “Race, Labor, and Left Politics in Postwar U.S. Fiction.” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, May 2011 (co-organizer with Joseph Entin). “William Carlos Williams and Objectivism.” Modern Language Association Conference. San Diego, Dec. 2003. “William Carlos Williams: His Publishers and His Public.” Modern Language Association Conference. Chicago, Dec. 2000. “Literature of the Vietnam War.” Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association Conference. Chicago, Apr. 1994. MANUSCRIPT REVIEWING Articles: College Literature Contemporary Literature MELUS Mosaic Paideuma PMLA Twentieth-Century Literature William Carlos Williams Review Books: Bloomsbury Press, 2015 Continuum Books, 2013 Camden House Press, 2009 University of South Carolina Press, 2008 Prentice Hall, 2001 Houghton Mifflin: 1994, 1997 Basil Blackwell, 1994 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Editorial Board: William Carlos Williams Review Consultant, Great Books Foundation (Chicago): African American Literature, 2015 External Promotion Referee, University of Colorado, 2013-2014 External Tenure and Promotion Referee, Ohio University, 2012-2013 External Tenure and Promotion Referee, SUNY, Old Westbury, 2012-2013 External Tenure and Promotion Referee: University of Tennessee, 2012-2013 Subject Matter Expert: Course Reader: American Literature (Cengage Learning & Gale Databases), 2010 Consultant, English M.A. Program Review, Texas A & M University, Corpus Christi, 2010 External Tenure and Promotion Referee: SUNY, Old Westbury, 2009 Judge, Louis Martz Prize Committee, William Carlos Williams Society, 2008 Judge, Scott Peterson Prize Committee, William Carlos Williams Society, 2008 External Tenure and Promotion Referee: Colorado State University, 2006-2007 External Tenure and Promotion Referee: Pennsylvania State University, 2006-2007 President, William Carlos Williams Society, 2002-2004 Co-Coordinator, Queens Library Foundation Program (funded by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation): “Writing American: Literature, Memory, and Diversity,” 2000-2001 Program Coordinator, Queens Library Foundation Scholarly Panel on Asian-American Literature, 2001 Program Coordinator, Queens Library Foundation Scholarly Panel on Hispanic-American Literature, 2000 Vice-President, William Carlos Williams Society, 2000-2001 Secretary, William Carlos Williams Society, 1998-99 New York College English Association Conference Committee, 1997 Consultant, Queens Library Foundation National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Proposal: “Writing American: Literature, Memory, and Diversity,” 1997 Submissions Referee, Modern Language Studies, 1992-93 Copyeditor, Berg Publishers, Providence, 1991-92 Assistant Editor, Copper Beech Press, Brown University, 1987-92 Researcher and Proofreader, NOVEL, Brown University, 1987-92 Submissions Referee, Massachusetts Studies in English, 1984-86 MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Modern Language Association (1990-present) William Carlos Williams Society (1991-present) American Studies Association (1993-present) The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States (1994-present) Modernist Studies Association (2004-present) Langston Hughes Society (2007-present) Northeast Modern Language Association (1990-92, 1998-99) New York College English Association (1996-97) American Culture Association (1993-94) ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY SERVICE Academic Program Review Committee, St. John’s College, 2015 Personnel and Budget Committee, English Department, 2003-2008, 2012-2015 Africana Studies Curriculum Committee, 2006-present Director of Graduate Studies, English Department, 2006-2011 Academic Program Review Committee, St. John’s College, 2010 Undergraduate Education Policy Committee, English Department, 2000-2006 Academic Program Review Committee, St. John’s College, 2002-2003 Graduate Education Policy Committee, English Department, 1996-2003 Faculty Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta (English Honors’ Society), 1997-2002 English Department Representative, Liberal Arts Faculty Council, 1999-2001 Budget Committee, Liberal Arts Faculty Council, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 General Committee, Liberal Arts Faculty Council, 2000-2001 American Studies Planning Committee, 1999-2000 Learning Outcomes Committee, 1999-2000 TEACHING EXPERIENCE St. John’s University Graduate Courses: American Ethnic Literatures The American Novel to 1914 Contemporary American Fiction Contemporary American Poetry The Harlem Renaissance Jazz and Literature Literature and the Related Arts: American Literature and Culture of the 1930s Modern American Novel Seminar in Modern American Literature: Jazz Age New York Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature and Culture: Modernist New York Topics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature: Afro-Modernism St. John’s University Undergraduate Courses: American Ethnic Literatures American Literature, 1870-Present The Harlem Renaissance Introduction to American Literature Introduction to English Studies Literature and the Other Arts: Jazz and Literature Literature in a Global Context Modern Fiction Modern Poetry Postmodern Poetry Senior Seminar: American Literature and Culture of the 1930s Senior Seminar: The Civil Rights Movement and African American Literature Senior Seminar: Jazz Age New York Twentieth-Century African American Literature Writers of American Realism and Naturalism St. John’s University Thesis Committees: Doctoral Dissertations, Department of English: Jennifer Schonwetter, Post Colonial Stress Disorder: The Manifestation and Healing of Trauma in the African American Community: chair Alison Carley, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf: Rejecting Absolutes and Creating the Modernist Tradition: reader Edward Marx, Representations of Aesthetic Imagination in the Modernist Artist-Hero Novel: Anticipating Reader Response and Process Philosophy: reader Patricia A. Milanes, Destabilizing the Line: Representations of Depression in the Works of Kate Chopin, Nella Larsen, and Jesse Redmon Fauset: reader Marie-Therese Miller, An Oxymoronic Study: An Academic Analysis of James Thurber’s Humorous Writing: reader David Price, Transcendent Realities: The Search for Meaning in the Modernisms of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, and Stevens: reader Donna Scully, Healing “The Lost Generation” through Cult, Creed, and Culture: reader Stephanie Hartman, 9/11 Novels of Home: An Attempt to Find “Normalcy” and “Home” Amid Global Chaos (Ph.D. 2015): chair Daniel Dissinger: Kerouac's Dulouz Legend: reader (Ph.D. 2015): reader Erin Ponton Fiero: Signifyin’ on Sigmund: Harlem Renaissance Women Speak Back to Freud (D.A. 2015): reader John Misak, The Delusion of the Damned: The Pipe Dream as Escape in Eugene O’Neill’s Late Plays (D.A. 2015): reader Tuli Chatterjee, The Reading of Fetish in Postcolonial Literature (D.A. 2014): reader Todd Craig, SPINificent Revolutions: 360 Degrees of Stylus as Pen (D.A. 2013): reader Michael Jacobs, Documentary Modernism: An American Literary Tradition (D.A. 2012): chair Jessica Barros, Cape Verdean Rhetorical Discourse Strategies in Bandera (D.A. 2012): reader Michelle Liptak, Rewriting the Scripts: Marriage, Motherhood, and Family in the Novels of Dorothy Allison, Barbara Kingsolver, Toni Morrison, and Susan Monk Kidd (D.A. 2010): chair Denise Feldman, The Exotic Other and Feminine Virtue: Dilemmas of African American Female Self Representation in the Novels of Jessie Fauset and Nella Larsen (D.A. 2009): chair Margaret Torrell, Making Men Sick: Disabled Masculinities in Women’s Literature (D.A. 2009); reader Pattianne Stabile, “Talking Story”: The Evolution of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in Twentieth-Century Women’s Immigrant Literature (D.A. 2006): chair Maria L. Plochocki, Narrative Construction and Revelation of Knowledge in Detective Fiction (D.A. 2005): reader Sharon Moore-Hourihan, The Development of the Irish Catholic Family in Twentieth Century Irish Fiction (D.A. 2004): reader Judy Phagan, Triple Threat: Blues Women Challenge Patriarchy (D.A. 2003): chair Rhona Mollard, Testaments of Colonialism: Six Native American Novels (D.A. 2002): reader Joseph Sora, Revaluing the Master’s in English: An Answer to the Ph.D. Employment Crisis (D.A. 2002): reader Sr. Barbara Sudol, CSFN, Elements of Mysticism in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot (D.A. 2002): reader John McDermott, Wallant and O’Connor: Kindred Spirits in Spirituality (D.A. 2000): reader Rochelle Almeida, The Politics of Mourning: Variation in Grief-Management in Contemporary Cross-Cultural Fiction (D.A. 1999): reader Dennis Claire, Return to Realism: Particularity and Epiphany in the Irish Short Story, 1903-1950 (D.A. 1999): reader Charlene Knadle, Contemporary American Writers of Desperate Survival: Edward Albee, Maya Angelou, Pat Conroy, and Leslie Marmon Silko (D.A. 1998): chair Rebecca Neuhedel, “Going Home”: Journeys of Self-Exploration in Baseball Literature (D.A. 1998): chair M.A. Theses, Department of English: Callie DiSabato, African American Rhetorical Responses to Christianity (M.A. 2012): chair Jennifer Lebowitz, Word, Life: A Look at the Uses and Purposes of the Vernacular Language and Sound in the Work of Baraka, Brathwaite, Kweli, and Nas (M.A. 2005): reader Laura Finn, Fragments of the Vietnam War: Tim O’Brien, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Joan Didion (M.A. 2004): chair Nicolette Porochnia, What to Take Home: A Collection on the Poetics of Place (M.A. 2001): reader Anthony Gangi, Cultural Reflections of Masculinity in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick and James Dickey’s Deliverance, (M.A.1999): reader Craig Stormont, Charles Olson’s The One and the Many: A Post-Democratic Argument (M.A. 1999): chair McNair Scholars Program Thesis: Anita Baksh, The Problematic Mother-Daughter Relationship in Caribbean-American Literature (B.A. 2004): mentor Illinois Benedictine College Undergraduate Courses: African American Literature: The Civil Rights Movement American Ethnic Literatures Argumentation and Research American Literature Contemporary American Fiction Feature Writing Freshman Honors Colloquium History of Poetry Literature of the Vietnam War Modern American Fiction Modern British Fiction Modern Poetry Poetry Writing Postmodern Poetry Senior Seminar: Literature of the Jazz Age Brown University Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Fiction: Critical Reading and Writing Journalistic Writing and the Media The Process of Writing Scholarly and Critical Writing Survey of English Literature: 1660 to the Present Writing and Style University of Massachusetts Undergraduate Course: School of Management Writing Seminar REFERENCES Mutlu Konuk Blasing, Department of English, Brown University Daniel Morris, Professor, Department of English, Purdue University Mark Sanders, Department of English, Emory University Stephen Sicari, Chair, Department of English, St. John’s University