Research & Publications in English Studies

The Department of English is actively engaged in ongoing research.

  • Books

    Darren Crovitz, Michelle D. Devereaux and Clarice M. Morgan, Next Level Grammar for a Digital Age: Teaching with Social Media and Online Tools for Rhetorical Understanding and Cricital Creation, (Routledge, 2022)

    Michelle D. Devereaux and Chris C. Palmer, Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom, (Routledge, 2022)

    Rob and Amanda Montgomery, A Place to Write: Getting Your Students out of the Classroom and into the World, (NCTE, 2021)

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    John C. Havard and Ricardo Miguel-Alfonso, editors. Spain, the United States, and Transatlantic Literary Culture throughout the Nineteenth Century. Routledge, 2021.

    Miriam Brown Spiers, Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction. Michigan State University Press, 2021.

    Garcia, A., Dail, J.S., & Witte, S. (Eds.). Playing with teaching: Considerations for implementing gaming literacies in the classroom. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2020.

    Garcia, A., Dail, J.S., & Witte, S. (Eds.). Studying gaming literacies: Theories to inform classroom practice. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2020.

    David King, Cinema and Catholicism: 125 Years of Spirituality in Film. Collegium Institute of U Pennsylvania, 2020.

    Chris C. Palmer and Colette Moore, Teaching the History of the English Language. MLA, 2019.

    Michelle D. Devereaux and Chris C. Palmer, Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom, Routledge, 2019.

    Letizia Guglielmo and Sergio Figueiredo, Immigrant Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication: Memoirs of a First Generation, NCTE, 2019.

    Anne Richards edited with Adrienne Lamberti. Communication and Conflict Studies: Disciplinary Connections, Research Directions. New-York: Palgrave-Macmillan. 2019.

    Lara Smith-Sitton, Tea Rozman-Clark, Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from an Atlanta High School (Wise: 2018; Green Card Youth Voices/Ingram: 2019)

    Tony Grooms, The Vain Conversation, (University of South Carolina Press, 2018)

    Jennifer Dail, Towards a More Visual Literacy: Shifting the Paradigm with Digital Tools and Young Adult Literature, (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018)

    Letizia Guglielmo, Misogyny in American Culture: Causes, Trends, Solutions. 2 vols. (ABC-CLIO, 2018)

    Andy Plattner, Dixie Luck: Stories and the Novella Terminal, (Mercer 2018)

    Linda Niemann, Cosas: Folk Art Travels in Mexico, (University of New Mexico Press, 2018)

    Jennifer Dail, Shelbie Witte, and Steven Bickmore. Young Adult Literature and the Digital World: Textual Engagement through Visual Literacy, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)

    Cherif Diop, Violence and Trauma in Selected African Literature, (Africa World Press, 2018)

    Darren Crovitz and Michelle D. Devereaux, Grammar to Get Things Done: A Practical Guide for Teachers Anchored in Real-World Usage, (Routledge and NCTE, 2017)

    Ashley Shelden, Unmaking Love: The Contemporary Novel and the Impossibility of Union, (Columbia University Press, 2017)

    Larrie Dudenhoeffer, Anatomy of the Superhero Film, (Palgrave, 2017)

    Clarice Moran, Applying the Flipped Classroom Model to English Language Arts Education, (IGI Global, 2017)

    Sergio Figueiredo, Inventing Comics: A New Translation of Rodolphe T枚pffer鈥檚 Reflections on Graphic Storytelling, Media Rhetorics, and Aesthetic Practice. Trans. Sergio C. Figueiredo. (Anderson, SC: Parlor Press, 2017)

Articles and Creative Activity

John C. Havard, Lilian Mina, and Eric Sterling. 鈥淢aking Pedagogically Responsible Decisions in Online Course Programming.鈥� English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities, edited by Susan Spangler and Will Banks, Parlor P, 2021, pp. 60-83.

David King, 鈥淐ulture and the Church,鈥� The Georgia Bulletin First Prize Catholic Press Awards of the Catholic Media Association, 2021.

Oumar Diop

  • "Lost & found memories: letters to Dr. P. from his Senegalese students." Journal of the African Literature Association, 2021, DOI: 10.1080/21674736.2021.1900262.
  •  "Violence and鈥疭ilencing Systems in鈥疦awal El Saadawi鈥檚鈥疓od Dies by the Nile," The New York African Studies Association Newsletter 73鈥�(Spring/Summer 2020).  
  •  鈥淰oices from the Margins: Female Protagonists Navigating Power-geometries.鈥� The Routledge Handbook of Minority Discourses edited by Tanure Ojaide and Joyce Ashuntangtang, pp. 218-232. May 2020, Routledge. New York.
  • 鈥淗appiness, The Wound and the Word: Aminatta Forna Joins the Conversation on Trauma.鈥� Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 6(3), pp 388鈥�399 September 2019. 漏 Cambridge University Press, 2019. doi:10.1017/pli.2019.5

Michelle D. Devereaux, Chris C. Palmer, and Victoria E. Thompson. "Pandialectal Learning: Teaching Global Englishes in a 10th-Grade English Class." American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage, vol. 96, no. 2, 2021, pp. 235-52.

Katarina Gephardt,

  • 鈥淧andemic Consciousness and Narrative Perspective in Sheri Holman鈥檚 The Dress Lodger.鈥� Victoriographies 10.1, 2021, pp. 185鈥�205.  
  • 鈥淕ender, Genre, and Geography in M茅nie Dowie鈥檚 A Girl in the Karpathians.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Continental Exploration: Tourism and Travel Writing, 1815鈥�1915.  Eds. Benjamin Colbert and Lucy Morrison. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. 243鈥�267.
  •  鈥淒ervla Murphy.鈥� Handbook of British Travel Writing. Ed. Barbara Schaff. De Gruyter, 2020. 515鈥�533.
  •  鈥淧roductive Uses of Nostalgia in Contemporary Slovak Fiction: Veronika Sikulov谩鈥檚 and Maro拧 Kraj艌ak鈥檚 Experiments with Generational Memory.鈥� Canadian Slavonic Papers (2018).

Patrick Herald,

  • 鈥淚ntroducing Analysis with YouTube.鈥� The National Teaching & Learning Forum. vol. 30, no. 6, 2021, pp. 8-9.
  •  鈥淭he Anxiety of Authorship: Zadie Smith鈥檚 On Beauty, Fields, and Professional Jurisdiction.鈥� Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 60, no. 5, 2019, pp. 600-612.

Kristin Rajan,

  • 鈥淣ight Hike鈥� and 鈥淩oad Trip.鈥� Wayfinding: Poetry Celebrating American鈥檚 Parks and Public Lands. Finishing Line Press, 2021.
  •  鈥淪miles in the Fog鈥�; 鈥淪undays and Shadows鈥�; 鈥淟akeview Cemetery.鈥� Inscape Magazine. June 2020.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Change Seven Magazine. Winter 2020.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥�, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 22 November 2020. DOI: 10.1080/0895769X.2020.1844557
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Inlandia: A Literary Journey. Fall 2019.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥淗ibernation.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Vitamin ZZZ: 40 Winks. February, 2019.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥淲hat We Find Along The Way.鈥� Surprised by Joy, 2018.
  •  鈥淚dentity in Katherine Mansfield鈥檚 鈥楳iss Brill鈥� and Virginia Woolf鈥檚 Orlando: A Biography.鈥� Katherine Mansfield Society, 2018.
  •  鈥淭iger Lily.鈥� Rorschack鈥檚 Ink: Writer鈥檚 Guild of Iowa State University Anthology. November 2017.
  • 鈥淪moking Cigars.鈥� Postcard Poems and Prose. June 2017.
  •  鈥淣ight Hike鈥� and 鈥淩oad Trip: Indiana Dunes National Seashore.鈥� Parks and Points. April 2017.
  •  鈥泪苍惫颈迟补迟颈辞苍蝉.鈥� Apeiron Review. April 2017.
  • 鈥淢y Grandmother鈥檚 Funeral鈥� in Just A Little More Time: 56 Writers on Loss and Love. Corbin Lewars, editor. March 2017.

Jennifer Dail,

  • Foreword. In C. Moran (Ed.), Affordances and constraints of mobile phone use in English language arts classrooms. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
  • Goss, S., The student X: Centering identity and agency via public art and young adult literature. In B. Maldonado (Ed.). Arts integration and young adult literature: Strategies to enhance academic skills and empower student voice. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
  • Witte, S., What have we lost?: Using young adult literature narratives to examine grief journeys. In N. Sieben & S. Shelton (Eds.). Humanizing grief in higher education: Narratives of allyship and hope. New York, NY: Taylor & Francis, 2021, pp. 38-48.
  • Goodsite, M.B, Using All American Boys to contextualize Othello. In V. Malo-Juvera, P. Greathouse, & B. Eisenbach (Eds.). Shakespeare and adolescent literature: Pairing and teaching. New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021, pp. 87-102.
  • Witte, S., with Latuszek, L., Thompson, V., & Watson, A, A practice of passion: Advocacy in online spaces. In A. Garcia & C. Fleischer (Eds.). Everyday advocacy: Teachers who change the literacy narrative. New York, NY: Norton Press, 2020, pp. 140-147.
  •  Jones, W.K., & Chance, G, Leading students to Exit through the Gift Shop: Reading Banksy's public art through documentary film and director's cuts. In Literacy engagement through peritextual analysis. In S. Witte, D. Latham, & M. Gross (Eds.). Chicago, IL: American Library Association & National Council of Teachers of English, 2019, pp. 155-166.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥淟eading Students to Exit through the Gift Shop: Reading Banksy鈥檚 Public Art through Documentary Film and Director鈥檚 Cuts.鈥� Literacy Engagement through Peritextual Analysis, ALA and NCTE, 2019.
  • Anete Vasquez. "Google Drive: Facilitating Collaboration and Authentic Community Beyond the Classroom." Voices from the Middle, 25(4), 24-28, 2018. 
  •  Michelle Goodsite, and Stephanie Sanders. "Teacher Empowerment through Dynamic State-level Partnerships: Aspiring toward a Sustaining Model of Professional Development." English Journal, 107(4), 20-25. 2018.
  • Shelbie Witte . "Graphic Young Adult Literature Representations of Brutalized Communities: Exploring Loss through Don Brown's Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina & New Orleans." In M.M. Falter & S.T. Bickmore (Eds.), Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving: Discussing Death's Social Impact through Literature in the Secondary ELA Classroom. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

Bahl, Erin Kathleen.

  • 鈥淏otanicals: An Interactive Pedagogical Webcomic.鈥� Special issue on 鈥淐ritical Making, Critical Design鈥� of The Digital Review edited by Lai-Tze Fan. Accepted peer-reviewed webtext. Published Fall 2021.  
  • Kaustavi Sarkar. 鈥溾�� Published at Kairos: A Journal of Technology, Rhetoric, and Pedagogy, Issue 25.2, Spring 2021.
  •  Sergio Figueiredo, and Rich Shivener. 鈥�.鈥� Special Issue of Technical Communication Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 30, 2020.
  • Rich Shivener. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;enculturation: a journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture, 12 June 2020.
  • Sergio Figueiredo, and Jeffrey Greene. 鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Films for the Feminist Classroom special feature 鈥淧edagogy and Play: The Theory and Practice of Teaching with Video Games,鈥� Summer 2019.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥�.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;DRC Sweetland Blog Carnival 15: 鈥淢ultimodal Design and Social Advocacy,鈥� edited by Jason Tham and Jialei Jiang, 17 May 2019. 
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥�.鈥� Chapter in edited collection The Archive as Classroom, ed. Ben McCorkle, Kate Comer, and Michael Harker. Computers and Composition Digital Press, January 2019.

Laura McGrath.

  • 鈥溾�楾hat鈥檚 the Wonder of It鈥�: Affective Dimensions of Visual Rhetoric for Biodiversity Conservation.鈥� Res Rhetorica 8 (2): 82-96. 2021.
  •  鈥淎chieving Visibility: Midlife and Older Women鈥檚 Literate Practices on Instagram and Blogs.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Literacy in Composition Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2018.

Anna Weinstein (writer),

  • The Jack Tales, a one-hour television pilot script based on the book by Richard Chase. Developed with Robert Mitas (producer) and Jay Russell (director). Los Angeles: Voyage Media, 2021.  
  • Broads of Bohemian Greenwich Village, a one-hour television pilot script. Developed with funding from an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Arts Fellowship, 2021.
  •  Foreword. In S. Bailey (Ed.), Creative Arts Therapy Careers (PERFORM: Succeeding as a Creative Professional), (pp. xi-xiii). New York: Routledge, 2021.
  •  Foreword. In S.R. Meyer (Ed.), Interactive Storytelling for the Screen (PERFORM: Succeeding as a Creative Professional), (pp. ix-xi). London: Routledge, 2021.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥�.鈥� Film International, Intellect, May 8, 2021.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥�.鈥� Film International, Intellect, May 21, 2021.
  • When Dreams Come True, a feature film script based on the novel by Betty Lowrey. Developed with Robert Mitas (producer). Los Angeles: Voyage Media, 2020.  
  •  Foreword. In A. D鈥橝damo (Ed.), Producing for the Screen Careers (PERFORM: Succeeding as a Creative Professional), (pp. xiii-xv). London: Routledge, 2020.
  •  Foreword. In M.L. Belli (Ed.), Acting for the Screen Careers (PERFORM: Succeeding as a Creative Professional), (pp. xii-xiv). New York: Routledge, 2019.  
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥淭he History of Women in Silent Film: What Is It Really? An Interview with Jane M. Gaines.鈥� Film International, Intellect, 17(1), 2019.

Mitch Olson,

  • Producer & "Story By", Allison Lobel (Writer), Diane Foster (Executive Producer), Will Amato (Producer and "Story By"). Easter, Bloody Easter. Feature screenplay. Wallybird Productions and Point South Productions, 2021.
  •  Creator/Producer/Host. Six-Page Scripts. Ep. 1-33. Audio podcast, 2020.
  •  Edward Stephens, Writers. A House Divided one-hour Drama Pilot. 2019.
  •  (Writer & Producer), Emily Skye (Director) and Murray Mile (Co-Producer).  Shewolf Films, 2019.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥�7 Tips and Tricks to get the Most out of Networking Events.鈥� ScreenCraft.org. 2019.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥淜icking Off the ScreenCraft Writers Summit in Atlanta.鈥� ScreenCraft.org. 2019.
  • 鈥�8 Takeaways from the ScreenCraft Writers Summit in Atlanta.鈥� ScreenCraft.org. 2019.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥淭he Importance of Screenwriting Competitions and Fellowships.鈥� ScreenCraft.org. 2019.

Mary Behrman, 鈥淎ngle-Ing for Arthur: Erasing the Welsh in Guy Ritchie鈥檚 King Arthur: Legend of the Sword.鈥� Studies in Medievalism XXIX: Politics and Medievalism (Studies), edited by Karl Fugelso, Boydell & Brewer, 2020, pp. 49鈥�66.

David Johnson,

  • Irish Accents are Cool, Valley Girl Accents are So Annoying: Voice actors and accent considerations for recorded lectures in online linguistics courses. Southern Journal of Linguistics, 44 (2), 2020, pp. 53-72.
  • Cox, Jennifer, The Linguistic Deception of the Phrase Best Practices: A Critical Analysis of Articles Discussing 鈥淏est鈥� Practices in Online Learning. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration, 2020, 23(1).
  • Easy Preparation for Online Courses: Why Professors as Educators Should be Anxious About Becoming Non-Essential. Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning,
    2019.
  •  A Linguistic Analysis of the Word Pain in the Age of American Secularism. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. 14 (9). 2018.

Miriam Brown Spiers,

  • 鈥淐ommunities of Grief: Surviving War in the Fiction of Ralph Salisbury,鈥� Transmotion 6.1, 2020.
  • 鈥溾�橳he Yellow Monster鈥�: Reanimating Nuclear Fears in Cherokee Science Fiction,鈥� Native South vol. 12, 2019.

Anne Richards

  • with Adrienne Lamberti, 鈥淒ynamic Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Conflict and Communication.鈥� An introduction to Communication and Conflict Studies: Disciplinary Connections, Research Directions. 2019.
  • &苍产蝉辫;鈥淭he World Parliament of Religions, the Swami, and the Evangelist: Contextualizing Late 19th-Century American Responses to Hinduism.鈥� Journal of Global Initiatives (2018).

Jenny Sadre-Orafai.  "Geminis," NELLE (University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2019)

Lara Smith-Sitton,

  • Darlene Xiomara Rodriguez, and Paul McDaniel, "When Local Community Writing Initiatives Crashed into White House Public Policy: Green Card Youth Voices: Stories from an Atlanta High School," Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal, Volume 1, 2019.
  •  "鈥淚nterview of Tea Rozman Clark on the Power of Storytelling in Activist Work,鈥� Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal, Volume 1, 2019.
  •  Shannan Rivera, "Why Writing Matters: Helping Students Rethink the Value of English and Writing Studies.鈥� Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing, Volume 6, 2018. 

Beth Giddens et al.

  • 鈥淪ustainability Education and Organizational Change: A Critical Case Study of Barriers and Change Drivers at a Higher Education Institution.鈥� Sustainability 2019, 11, no.2: 501.
  •  鈥淟iving 鈥極n Own Account鈥�.鈥� Smokies Life Magazine (2018).

Khalil Elayan, 鈥淪ana鈥檃 Sunrise.鈥� A Gathering of the Tribes, 2019.

Chris Martin, 鈥淕od.鈥� New Southerner, 2018.

Figueiredo, Sergio C.

  • 鈥淭he Same as it Ever Was: Invention as the Future of Digital Rhetorics.鈥� Digital Rhetoric Collaborative, Blog Carnival 14 [鈥淒iscerning Digital Rhetorics鈥� Futures鈥漖. Eds. Lauren Garskie, Derek Mueller, and Jason Tham. (Oct. 2018).
  • S. Andrew Stowe. 鈥淓xperimenting with Flash Reason, the H鈥橫MM Disciplines, and Affect in Scattered Media Ecologies鈥� Textshop Experiments 5 (Aug. 2018).
  • Sundvall, Scott , 鈥淯lmerian Bingo Card鈥� (Graphic Design Project). Textshop Experiments 5 (Aug. 2018).
  • Memmott, Talan, Davin Heckman, Claire Donato,  Jeremy Hight, Jeff T. Johnson, Kelly Lydick, Mark Marino, Craig Saper, Orchid Tierney, and Erik Zepka. 鈥淢eme Culture, Alienation Capital, and Gestic Play.鈥� Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 32 (May 2017). (International Journal)

Leah Benedict. "Impotence Made Public: Reading Sex on the Stage and in the Courtroom," ELH , vol. 85, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 441-469.

Jeanne Bohannon. 鈥淕oogle, Baidu, the Library, and ACRL Framework: Assessing Information-Seeking Behaviors of First-Year Multilingual Writers Through Research-Aloud Protocols.鈥� Purdue Information Literacy Handbook, First-year Writing, Purdue University Press, 2018.

Andrew Plattner.

  • 鈥淪election,鈥� New World Writing (Spring 2018)
  •  鈥淟补苍诲蝉濒颈诲别,鈥� The Southern Review (Spring 2018)
  •  "Pontiac," Birmingham Arts Journal (Fall 2018)
  •  鈥淟颈产谤补谤测,鈥� New World Writing (Spring 2017)

Keith Botelho.

  • 鈥淥ccult Testimonies in John Aubrey鈥檚 Miscellanies.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Cahiers 脡lisab茅thains: A Biannual Journal of English Renaissance Studies 94:1 (2017): 93-108.
  • 鈥淲instanley and Post-Revolutionary Soil." Ground-Work: English Renaissance Literature and Soil Science. Ed. Hillary Eklund (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2017). 117-128. 

Chris Palmer (with co-author Elan Louis). 鈥淭remble and Tremor: Etymology, Usage Patterns, and Sound Symbolism in the History of English.鈥� Neurology, vol. 88, no.7, 2017, pp. 706-10.