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THESIS, DISSERTATION, AND DOCTORAL EXAMINATION ADVISEMENT:
Doctoral Dissertations:
Director:
Lee Hobbs, "Expatriate Spaces, Ex-Soviet Spaces: Narratives of Americans Abroad in Turn-of-the-Millenium Post-Communist Europe," April 2008
Brad Lint, "Teaching College Literature: Educational Alignment and Literature Pedagogy," February 2008
John Hicks, "Randy Wayne White: American Social Philosopher and Practitioner of Ecological Noir," August 2007
Lauri Chose, "Uncharted Arctic Wilderness: Rediscovering the Literary Works of Lois Crisler, Margaret Murie, and Theodora Stanwell-Fletcher," April 2007
Joy Kennedy-O'Neill, "The Sacred and the Sublime: Caves in American Literature," April 2007
Stacey Guill, "Hemingway and 'The Spanish Earth': Art, Politics, and War," November 2006
Joyce Mosher, "Sound Practices: Transforming College Literature and Composition Courses through Aurality and Orality," November 2006
Melanie Wagner, "Raising Cultural Awareness to Enhance the Spirit of Teaching and Learning through the Introductory Literature Classroom of the Community College," October 2006
Sharon Gallagher, "Three Nineteenth-Century Irish Novelists, Their Gothic Myth, and National Literature: Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Bram Stoker," March 2004
Claire Norris, "Samuel Beckett and Trauma: Laughter and Tears," February 2004
Patricia Kane O'Connor, "The Stages of Nationalism: A Study of Post-Partition Irish Drama," April 2002
David Pozza, "The Unity of Opposites in the Works of Edward Abbey," November 2001
Mohammed El Nahal, "The Impact of Place on Women Characters in Edna O'Brien's
Fiction", August 2000
Robert Simola, "Teaching in a Postmodern World: A Study of Applications of
Literary Theory to Teaching of High-School English," April 2000
Dennis McFadden, "A House Divided: Strains in the
Modern Irish Big House Novel," June 1999
Shawn Holliday, "`A Passionate and Obscure Hunger for Voyages': Thomas Wolfe
and the American Milieu of Travel Writing," December 1998
Patsy Daniels, "The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the
Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa,
and America," November 1998
Michael Gooch, "Medieval Theory, Modernist Text: `Auctoritas' in Pound,
Eliot, Yeats, and Joyce," April 1997
Kurt Krueger, "The Search for Meaning: A Logotherapeutic Approach to Ernest
Hemingway's Life and Work," July 1996
Dallas Dillon, "Reading Differently in Introduction to Literature Courses: A
Study of Contemporary Critical Reading Strategies as They Apply to Classroom
Practice," September 1996
Mark Crilly, "The Political Vision of John Millington Synge," April 1995
Gail Tayko, "Narratives of Exile: Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook and Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna", May 1994.
Hwa Soon Kim, "The Counterpoint of Hope, Obsession, and Desire for Death in Five Plays by Samuel Beckett," 1992
Qingxiang Wang, "Who Troubled the Waters? A Study of the Motif of Intrusion in Five Modern Dramatists: John Millington Synge, Eugene O'Neill, Edward Albee, Tennessee Williams, and Harold Pinter," 1991
Reader:
Katrina Quinn, a dissertation on Samuel Bowles, August 2007 (Director: Prof. Karen Dandurand)
Jose Irizary, The Harlem and Latino literary revivals, Fall 1999 (Director:
Prof. Cecilia Rodriguez Milanes)
Peter Narusewicz, The Idea of Wilderness in U. S. Literature, December 1998 (Director:
Prof. Malcolm Hayward)
Charles Baker, "William Faulkner's Postcolonial South," March 1997 (Director:
Prof. Ronald Emerick)
Patricia Linton, "A Floating Perspective: the Relational Self in Contemporary American Fiction," January 1996 (Director: Prof. Patrick Murphy).
Patrick McLaughlin, "Narrative Structure and Narrative Sense: Women's Writing and Identity in the Works of Zora Neal Hurston, Margaret Drabble, and Isabel Allende" (1994) (Director: Prof. David Downing).
Etaf Elbanna, "The 'Mean Streets': A Study of Arthur Morrison's Slum Fiction" (1989) (Director: Prof. Malcolm Hayward).
Adjunct Faculty Advisor, Paula Pratt, Youngstown, Ohio, doctoral project on Irish women writers through the doctoral program of the Union Graduate School based in Cincinnati, 1989-91.
John Woznak, "Loose Compositions: James Arbuckle and the Irish Literary Journal" (1988). (Director: Prof. John McManmon).
Master's Theses:
Director, Heather Lowcock, a thesis on Northern Irish writers, unfinished
Director, James Ishler, "Teaching American and English Literature to EFL Students in Tunisia: Methods of Solving Contextual Problems," November 1995
Director, Steven Hazenstab, "Life in the Void, or Watt is Knott is Nought: a Glimpse of the Existential Human Experience as Implied in Samuel Beckett's Watt (1988).
Committee Member, Susan Graf, "Per Amica Silentia Lunae: Yeats's Kabbalism"(1985). (Director: Prof. Richard Hazley).
Doctoral Comprehensive Examinations:
Deborah Galliher, Ecofeminist Theory, February 2008
Andrew Andermatt, Regional Place-Based Contemporary American Fiction, November 2007
Jill Wagner, John Fowles, September 2007
Matt Babcock, Robert Francis, August 2007
Katrina Quinn, Ecocriticism, 2006
Lee Hobbs, Literature of the Irish Famine, 2005
Brad Lint, Pedagogy, 2005
John Hicks, Randy Wayne White and other detective fiction writers, 2005
Lauri Chose, Ecocriticism, 2005
Joy Kennedy-O'Neill, Cave literature and other nature writing, 2005
Stacey Guill, Hemingway, 2005
Joyce Mosher, Pedagogy, 2005
Melanie Wagner, Pedagogy, 2005
Katrina Thacker, Appalachian Literature, April 2004
Claire Norris, Samuel Beckett, 2002
Yeonman Kim, Ecocriticism and Postmodernism, September 2001
Deborah Penner, New Historicism, 2001
Heidi Nichols, New Historicism and Feminism, 2000
Mohammed El Nahal, Modern Irish Literature, 1998
Rebecca Steinberger, Twentieth-century Irish literature, December 1998
Mohammed Gamal, Modern Irish drama and novel, December 1998
Michael Kussmaul, Reception and Reader-Response Theory, November 1998
Ron Grummick, English and Irish modernism, September 1998
Sharon Gallagher, modern Irish literature, April 1998
David Pozza, Edward Abbey and related writers, April 1998
Patricia Kane, Modern Irish Literature, September 1997
Robert Simola, Literary Pedagogy, March 1997
Dennis McFadden, Modern Irish Literature, 1997
Shawn Holliday, Modern Irish literature, September 1996
Deborah Young, Feminism and New Historicism, September 1996
Jose Irizarry, Four literary revivals since 1798, January 1996
Luciana Bohne, Modernist Fiction, November 1995
Peter Lecouras, Yeats, February 1995
Margery Vagt, Modern Irish, British, and Irish-American Literatures, January 1995
Kurt Krueger, Hemingway, November 1994.
Patricia Linton, Contemporary International Fiction, November 1994.
Peter Narusewicz, Edward Abbey and related writers, October 1994
Michael Gooch, Modernism, May 1994
Celeste Calderón, Doris Lessing, April 1994
Mark Crilly, Modern Irish Literature, October 1991
Dallas Dillon, Literary Pedagogy, October 1991
Andrew Williams, Modern Irish Drama and Novel, May 1991
Sandra Vrana, Contemporary Fiction, June 1991
Gail Tayko, Modern Novel, July 1990
Hwa Soon Kim, Samuel Beckett and Absurdist Fiction, May 1990
Ross Coombes, Modern Drama, May 1990
Qingxiang Wang, Modern Drama, May 1989
William Yahner, Literary Theory, November 1987
DIRECTION OF SELECTED STUDENT PROJECTS PUBLISHED, PRESENTED, OR RECEIVING
AWARDS:
Andermatt, Andrew S. “Humor, History, and Tall Tales: Rereading the
Adirondack College Student.” Voices: Journal of New York Folklore
33.3-4 (2007): 12–14; written under my direction in ENGL 785 Hometown
Literature (summer 2006).
David Pozza, Bedrock and Paradox: The Literary Landscape of Edward Abbey, New York: Peter Lang, 2006; dissertation written under my direction.
Patsy J. Daniels, The Voice of the Oppressed in the Language of the Oppressor: A Discussion of Selected Postcolonial Literature from Ireland, Africa, and America, New York: Routledge, 2001; dissertation under my direction.
Shawn Holliday, Thomas Wolfe and the Politics of Modernism, New York: Peter Lang, 2001; dissertation under my direction.
Shawn Holliday, entries on Austin Clarke, Patrick Kavanagh, and Thomas Kinsella, in Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, ed. Alexander G. Gonzalez (Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1998); written under my mentorship.
Patricia Kane, entry on John B. Keane, in Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook; written under my mentorship.
Hwa Soon Kim, The Counterpoint of Hope, Obsession, and Desire for Death in Five Plays by Samuel Beckett, New York: Peter Lang, 1997; dissertation written under my direction.
Shawn Holliday, "'These Were Elaborate Sagas': Ciaran Carson's (Re)construction of the City in Belfast Confetti," Middle-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, California Univ. of Pa., November 1995; written under my direction in EN 784 Literary Theory Applied to Major Modern Theme: Yeats and Postcolonial Irish Writers (Spring 1995).
Mark Crilly, "Myth and the Politics of J. M. Synge," Middle-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, California Univ. of Pa., November 1995; written under my direction as part of his dissertation.
Gail Tayko, 1995 Summer Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, on my recommendation, to pursue research on multicultural literatures as begun in her 1994 dissertation written under my direction.
Mark Crilly, Scholarship to the Synge Summer School, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1994, on my recommendation.
Joyce Stavick, "A Vegetarian Critical Response to Dakota Bones: Becoming a Wrangler of Moral Dilemmas with Linda Hasselstrom," South Dakota Review 33.2 (Summer 1995): 120-29; written under my direction in EN 752 Literary Theory for the Teacher and Scholarly Writer (Summer 1994).
Patricia Kane, "Beyond Nationalism: 'Guests of the Nation' as Postcolonial Project," Ninth Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, University of Notre Dame, March 1995; written under my direction in EN 752 Literary Theory for the Teacher and Scholarly Writer (Summer 1994).
Shawn Holliday, "Sex and Comedy in Patrick Kavanagh's "'The Great Hunger'," Notes on Modern Irish Literature 7 (1995): 24-41; submitted for publication under my mentorship.
Amy Scher, "Preaching an Ecological Conscience: Liam O'Flaherty's Short Stories," Éire-Ireland 19.2 (Summer 1994): 113-22; also presented at the 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Irish Literature, Culture, and Politics, at the University of Illinois, February 1991; written under my direction in EN 764 Topics in British Literature since 1660: Modern British and Irish Fiction (Spring 1990).
Patricia Linton, "'What Stories the Wind Would Tell': Representation and Appropriation in Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men," MELUS 19.4 (1994): 37-49; written under my direction in EN 752 Literary Theory for the Teacher and Scholarly Writer, Summer 1992.
John D'Ambrosio, "William Butler Yeats's Evolving Drama of Self-Analysis: The Psychoanalytical Process of On Baile's Strand and Purgatory," forthcoming in Literature and Psychology, and presented at the annual meeting of the English Association of the Pennsylvania State Universities (EAPSU), Kutztown University, October 1990 (EN 784, Summer 1990).
Charles Wright, "Hand Imagery in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Fifth Annual English Graduate Colloquium, IUP, May 1, 1993; written under my direction in EN 764 Modern Irish Literature, Spring 1992.
Robin Pennell, "Jane Gone Mad: Caught between Romantic Paganism and Christianity in Yeats's Crazy Jane Poems," Seventh Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, Boston College and Harvard University, March 1993; written under my direction for EN 764 Modern Irish Literature (Spring 1992).
Greg Carpenter, "Postmodern Voices: Nature's Anti-Language in Liam O'Flaherty's The Black Soul and Werner Herzog's Cinematic Vision," Seventh Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, Boston College and Harvard University, March 1993; written under my direction for EN 764 Modern Irish Literature (Spring 1992).
Charles Wright, "'Red Barbara' and Liam O'Flaherty: Weaver of Words, Weaver of Worlds," Seventh Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, Boston College and Harvard University, March 1993; written under my direction for EN 764 Modern Irish Literature (Spring 1992).
Karoline Szatek, "An Ethnographic Study of Joyce's Dubliners," Seventh Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, Boston College and Harvard University, March 1993; written under my direction for EN 784 Seminar in Major Author: James Joyce (Fall 1992).
Sharon Gallagher, "James Joyce, a Closet Celt? The Language of the Irish Oral Tradition in Ulysses' 'Cyclops'," Seventh Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, Boston College and Harvard University, March 1993; written under my direction for EN 784 Seminar in Major Author: James Joyce (Fall 1992).
Peter Narusewicz, "The Father of All Silences: The Affair of the Unsaid in James Joyce's Ulysses," Seventh Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, Boston College and Harvard University, March 1993; written under my direction for EN 784 Seminar in Major Author: James Joyce (Fall 1992)
Gail Tayko, "Teaching Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits)," College Literature, 19.3/20.1 (October 1992 / February 1993): 228-32; written under my direction as part of a dissertation in progress.
José Irizarry, "'There It Is': An Exercise in Breaking Away," Carribbean College English Association, Pargueras, Puerto Rico, Fall 1992.
Mitsuhiko Ito, "Naming the Characters of Synge's Playboy of the Western World," Éire-Ireland: The Journal of Irish Studies 27.2 (Summer 1992): 93-101; written under my direction in a Spring 1990 independent study on Irish-English linguistics and literature.
Andrew Williams, "Hero Bloom: The Development of Character in the Calypso Chapter of Joyce's Ulysses," Midwest Quarterly 33.4 (Summer 1992) (EN 764, Spring 1990).
Patrick McLaughlin, "Brian Friel: Working Out Translations," Mid-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, Penn State at Ogontz; Abington, PA, November 1991; written under my direction in EN 764 Topics in British Literature since 1660: Modern British and Irish Drama (Spring 1991)
Mark Noon, "Under Parnell's Shadow: Ireland's Uncrowned King in the Historical Novel," delivered at both the 5th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Irish Literature, Culture, and Politics, at the University of Illinois, February 1991, and the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Irish Studies, Penn State at Ogontz; Abington, PA, November 1991 (EN 764, Spring 1990)
Bettye Williams, "Shaw's Use of Ironic Reversals in Mrs. Warren's Profession," EAPSU, October 1991 (EN 764, Spring 1991).
Jennifer Gehrman, "Hermione's Defense: A Character's Deconstruction of Women in Love," EAPSU, October 1991 (EN 764, Spring 1990).
Terri Symonds, "A 'Great Wind of Love and Hate': Yeats's View of Female Potency," 32nd annual conference of the Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, April 1991; written under my direction in EN 784 Literary Theory Applied to Major British Author: Yeats (Summer 1990).
Williams, "Amiri Baraka and The Dutchman," Graduate English Colloquium, IUP, April 1991 (EN 674, Fall 1990).
Kathy Haskell, "The Use of Subversive Voice in the Writings of Osgood," Graduate English Colloquium, IUP, April 1991 (EN 674, Fall 1990).
Qingxiang Wang, "From Romance to Tragedy: The Motif of Intrusion in O'Neill's Anna Christie and Desire Under the Elms," SSHE Graduate Research Conference, IUP, 21 April 1990, and EAPSU, October 1990 (written under my direction as part of his 1991 dissertation on this theme in five modern American dramatists.
Gail Tayko, "'Anything at all but not words': Language as Illness in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook," EAPSU, October 1990 (EN 764, Spring 1990).
Sue Amendt, "Isabella: Confused Nun, or Bawd?" presented at the Spring 1990 Pennsylvania College English Association (PCEA) conference; written under my direction in EN 674 Bibliographical Methods in English (Fall 1989).
Diane Canale, "Jaques: Outside Society in Shakespeare's As You Like It," presented at the Spring 1990 PCEA conference (EN 674, Fall 1989).
Karen Sulkowski, "Ivanhoe and Weasel's Luck," SSHE Graduate Research Conference, IUP, 21 April 1990 (EN 674, Fall 1989).
Judith Washburn, "Objective Narration in Liam O'Flaherty's Short Stories," Éire-Ireland: the Journal of Irish Studies 24.3 (Fall 1989); written under my direction in EN 766 Topics in Comparative Literature: Modernism (Summer 1988).
Terri Symonds, "Dave Etter: Poet of the Prairie," Minnesota Council of Teachers of English, 20 April 1990; written under my direction in EN 752 Literary Theory for the Teacher and Scholarly Writer (Summer 1989).
Nancy Johnson, "Woman as Sacrifice in Kate O'Brien's Without My Cloak: Christina as Unique Among Feminine Irish Literary Characters," IUP English Graduate Student Conference, 10 May 1989, and EAPSU, Indiana, 7 October 1989; written under my direction in EN 764 Topics in British Literature since 1660: Modern Irish Literature (Spring 1989).
Regis Sabol, "Looking at O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars through Northrop Frye's Eyes," IUP English Graduate Student Conference, 10 May 1989, and EAPSU, 7 October 1989 (EN 764, Spring 1989).
Sandra Vrana, "Joyce's References to Money in Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses," IUP English Graduate Student Conference, 10 May 1989, and EAPSU, 7 October 1989 (EN 764, Spring 1989).
Gail Tayko, "A Foot Fetish? Six Poems in The Wind Among the Reeds," IUP English Graduate Student Conference, 10 May 1989 (EN 764, Spring 1989).
Candance Henry, "The Exile of Moore's Judith Hearne," IUP English Graduate Student Conference, 10 May 1989 (EN 764, Spring 1989).
Lee Ann Huff, a paper on Kate O'Brien, IUP English Graduate Student Conference, 10 May 1989 (EN 764, Spring 1989).
Janet Steffish, "Views of Ireland as Seen Through a Selection of Poems by Three of Her Poets," IUP English Graduate Student Conference, 10 May 1989 (EN 764, Spring 1989).
Jay Pomponio, "Male Relationships in Jennifer Johnston's The Captains and the Kings and How Many Miles to Babylon?," awarded a 1987 IUP Graduate Student Research Award; written under my direction in EN 681 The Irish Novel (Fall 1986).
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December 31, 2007