Archive of English Department Faculty Announcements
Dr. James M. Aton gave the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies lecture on Wednesday, October 21, at BYU. He was also an invited author for the Utah Humanities Book Festival on Saturday, October 24, at the Salt Lake City Library. At both venues he discussed his new book, The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green.
Dr. Kyle Bishop presented "The Homes fires Are Burning: Domestic Conflagration as Failed Ganacea for Twentieth-Century Racial Tension" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented "Tragedy without Tears? Confronting the Contradictions in C.P. Snow's Understanding of Tragedy in a Scientific World" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Julia Combs presented "Let the Sheepman Ride: Rhetorical Analysis of a Southern Utah Rancher's Letter of Advice to the College of Southern Utah" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Charles Cuthbertson presented "'Those Departed Days': The War of the Worlds and Cultural Anxiety" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Rosalyn Eves presented "Leaving Switzerland: Discipline-Based Tutoring and the Complex Interrelationship between Professors and Tutors" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Nozomi Irei presented "Storytelling and Writing in Our Time: Decoded Flows of Desire in Silko's Ceremony" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Todd Petersen presented "From Robin Hood to Danny Ocean: Theft as Restorative Transgression" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Jessica Tvordi presented "Reformation Nostalgia and Sexual Politics in Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House, To my Lord Fairfax'" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. James M. Aton presented the 2009 Grace A. Tanner Distinguished Faculty Lecture, A Region of the Wildest Desolation: History Along the Green River.
Dr. Bryce Christensen published two poems, the original "The Portals of Sheol" and the translation "A Song to Death," in the summer 2009 issue of Lucid Rhythms.
Dr. Jessica Tvordi's essay "'In quarter and in terms like bride and groom': Reconfiguring Marriage, Friendship, and Alliance in Othello" was published in the 2009 issue of The Journal of the Wooden O Symposium.
Three of Dr. Christensen’s poems were accepted for publication in spring 2009: “Dragonfly” (in Lucid Rhythms) and “John von Neumann” and “Alamogordo” (in The Centrifugal Eye).
Dr. Kyle Bishop’s essay "Dead Man Still Walking: Explaining the Zombie Renaissance" was published in The Journal of Popular Film and Television in May 2009.
Dr. Tvordi presented her paper "Donne's Family Romance: The Eroticization of Domestic Space in 'The Perfume'" at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference in Flagstaff in April 2009.
Dr. Kyle Bishop presented his essay “‘If Only Your Father Were Here!’ The Threat of the Gothic Patriarchy in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds” at the Popular and American Culture Associations Conference in New Orleans in April 2009.
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented his essay “Omar Khayyám on the Yangtze: Li Bai’s Drinking as Defiance, or as Despair?” at the Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans in April 2009.
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky gave a poetry reading at the KJ Templeton Studion in Helper, Utah.
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky’s poems “What is Visible” and “Retrieval” were on exhibit in the Zion National Park Museum as part of “Zion: A Creative Response.”
Dr. S.S. Moorty read selections of his poetry to the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University in Orem in March 2009.
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky' s poem “The Tree Spirits of Takasago” was performed at the SUU Faculty Dance Show through the choreography of Paul Ocampo and with original composition by Gerard Yun.
Dr. Simon's essays, "Voiceprinting—How Its Failures Speak," was published in a Cambridge Scholars Publishing anthology entitled Negotiating a Meta-Pedagogy in February 2009.
Dr. Julie Simon's article "'Tutorizing' Certification Programs" was published in The Writing Lab Newsletter in January 2009.
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented “Schooling for ‘the Democracy of the Dead’: How the Liberal Arts Connect Us with the Legacy of the Past” at the SUU Tanner Center Symposium on “Democracy and Education” in January 2009.
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