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Faculty Highlights

Faculty Achievements: Publications, Honors, and Invited Lectures

Dr. Juniper Ellis

Publications:

  • Ellis, Juniper.  "Decolonizing Grace:  Samoan Women Confront Trauma and Abuse."  Accepted for publication in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.  34 pages in manuscript.
  • Ellis, Juniper.  "Convergence: Irony and Urban Indian Epistemologies in Tommy Orange鈥檚 There There." Postcolonial Text vol. 15, no. 2, 2020, pp. 1-16.
  • Ellis, Juniper.  "Da decolonizing real: Liberating humour in Joe Balaz's Pidgin Eye." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature October 2020, 14 pages.
  • Ellis, Juniper.  鈥淟aughter鈥檚 Truths: Hurston, Ellison, and Open-Ended Dialogue,鈥 Studies in American Humor, vol. 6, no. 1, 2020, pp. 91-109.
  • Ellis, Juniper.  鈥淥ceanian Knowing and Decolonial Love in Sia Figiel鈥檚 Freelove.鈥&苍产蝉辫;New Oceania: Modernisms and Modernity in the Pacific.  Eds. Matthew Hayward and Maebh Long.  Routledge, 2019, pp. 210-226.
  • Ellis, Juniper.  鈥淗umour as Indigenous Liberation: A Tattooed Anus for World Peace in Kisses in the Nederends,鈥 Journal of Postcolonial Writing, vol. 55, issue 5, 2018, pp. 614-626. Published 7 Feb. 2019.

Dr. Kathleen Forni

Publications:

  • Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film (2018).
  • Chaucer's Afterlife (2013).
  • The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Selection (2005).
  • The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Counterfeit Canon (2001).

Honors/Awards:

Dr. Forni is the 2020 winner of the Nachbar Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Humanities. This award, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, is Loyola's most prestigious scholarly prize, as it recognizes a scholar's career-long achievement.

Dr. Melissa Girard

Congratulations to Dr. Girard on her tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.

Publications:

  • 鈥淔orgiving the Sonnet:  Modernist Women鈥檚 Love Poetry and the Problem of Sentimentality,鈥 A History of Twentieth-Century American Women鈥檚 Poetry,
    ed. Linda Kinnahan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming July 2016.
  • 鈥淛. Saunders Redding and the 鈥楽urrender鈥 of African American Women鈥檚 Poetry鈥 was accepted for publication by PMLA, the flagship journal of the Modern Language Association, in October 2015.

Dr. Nicholas Miller

Honors/Awards:

Dr. Miller was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Transformative Teaching at Loyola in 2017. This award recognizes Dr.  Miller's commitment to imaginative and effective teaching. 

Dr. Miller delivered a talk at the Grand Seminar, "The Magician's Microscope: Animation, 'Talking' Bacteria, and the Scientific Imagination" on April 12, 2016.

Dr. Robert Miola

Publications:

  • 鈥淓arly Modern Receptions of Iphigenia at Aulis.鈥 Classical Receptions Journal (2020), 1-20.
  • Robert Miola's edition of Chapman's Iliad (2017) received a nomination from Brian Vickers for Book of the Year, London Times Literary Supplement, November 29, 2019; his article "Ben Jonson's Reception of Lucian" won the 2019 Beverly Rogers Literary Award from the Ben Jonson Journal
  • Hamlet, 2nd edition. Norton, 2019.  
  • Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources. Oxford University Press, 2007.  
  • Macbeth for The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition (2015). 

Invited Lectures and Papers:

  • 鈥淭ext, Paratext, Context: The Scribal and Print Publications of Tichborne鈥檚 Lament,鈥 Huntington Library, 2019. 
  • 鈥淩emembering Greece in Shakespeare鈥檚 Rome,鈥 Rome, 2016, Washington, DC 2019.  
  • 鈥淟ost and Found in Translation: Early Modern Receptions of Oedipus at Colonus,鈥 Verona, 2018, Toronto 2019. 
  • 鈥淥restes and the Light of Day.鈥 The Tyrant鈥檚 Fear . La Paura del Tiranno, Boston, 2016, Verona, 2016.
  • 鈥淪hakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Dark Legacy,鈥 Plenary address, University of Campinas, Brazil, 2015. 

Dr. Mark Osteen

Recent Publications:

  • Author: Fake It: Fictions of Forgery. Forthcoming from Univ. of Virginia Press, August, 2021. 
  • Editor: Don DeLillo: Novels of the 1980s: The Names, White Noise, Libra. Library of America, forthcoming, 2022. 
  • Editor: The Beatles through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album. University of Michigan Press, 2019. 
  • Guest Co-editor: Caregiving, Kinship and the Making of Stories. Special issue of Journal of Medical Humanities 38.1 (Spring, 2017). Includes his essay 鈥淧as de Deux鈥 (25-37). 

Scholarly Essays:

  • 鈥淏ut Is It Art?: Welles鈥檚 Cubist Portrait of the Forger in F for Fake. New Perspectives on Old Masters.鈥 Special issue of South Atlantic Review 85.4 (Winter 2020): 65-96.
  • 鈥溾榃e came for the dirt but stayed for the talk鈥: Don DeLillo鈥檚 Theatre.鈥 Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives. Ed. Katherine Da Cunha Lewin & Kiron Ward. Bloomsbury, 2018. 79-93. 
  • 鈥淭urning Us On: Artifice as Authenticity in Sgt. Pepper鈥檚 Lonely Hearts Club Band.鈥 The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper, and the Summer of Love, ed. Kenneth Womack and Kathryn B. Cox. Lexington Books, 2017. 43-66. 
  • 鈥淚rish Haptoglyphics: The Manual and the Tactile in Joyce鈥檚 Fiction.鈥 Joyce Studies Annual 2017: 3-39.  
  • 鈥淎lfred in Wonderland: Hitchcock through the Looking-Glass.鈥 South Atlantic Review 80.3-4 (2016): 194-214. Winner of the SAMLA Essay Prize for 2016-17. 

Creative Nonfiction:

  • 颁辞苍惫辞肠补迟颈辞苍.鈥Ars Medica 15.2 (Fall 2020). Featured essay. .
  • 鈥淧补苍别.鈥 Kaleidoscope 77 (July, 2018): 8-13. Featured Essay. .  
  • 鈥淎 Man Down There.鈥 New Letters 83.2 & 3 (2017): 71-95. Winner of the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize in Nonfiction, 2016. 

Honors/Awards:

Seventeenth Annual Deans' Symposium Award in recognition of outstanding achievement in research, teaching and service (2014).
Nachbahr Award for outstanding scholarly accomplishment in the Humanities (2000).

Dr. Stephen Park

High-Impact Practices Faculty Fellow (2019-2021)

Publications:

  • The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth Century Literature. New World Studies Series, University of Virginia Press, 2014. 
    Nominated for the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship.
  •  鈥淔ree Trade Masculinities and the Literature of NAFTA,鈥 in Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics. Matt Seybold, ed. (Routledge 2018).
  •  鈥淗aunting the Plantation: The Global Southern Gothic in Eric Walrond鈥檚 Tropic Death,鈥 Southern Quarterly 55.4 (Summer 2018), Special Issue: The Caribbean South.

Dr. Thomas Scheye

Dr. Scheye was awarded the Cardinal Newman Medal at Loyola's 2021 Commencement.