English Faculty Research

Amanda "AJ" Campbell

Amanda Campbell Mrs. Campbell's research interests include nineteenth and twentieth-century British literature, critical digital humanities, intersectional feminist media scholarship, and gender and sexuality studies.

Recent Highlights:

2022 August—Contributed Research Entries to Dystopian States of America: Apocalyptic Visions and Warnings in Literature and Film published by ABC-CLIO.
2022 June—Presented a paper on menstrual representation in popularized media at the 2022 Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism.
2021 July—Presented doctoral research at the Menstruation Research Slam hosted by The Society for Menstrual Cycle Research (SMCR)
2019—Presented a paper titled “Revisiting Trauma and Revising the Gothic Female: Pedagogical Supplements in Teaching Frankenstein’s Monstrosities” at CEA: College English Association Conference
2018—Presented a paper titled “Menstrual Moments: How Dangarembga, Kincaid and Morrison Bleed” at the ASALH Conference: The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity.

Dr. Casey A. Cothran

Dr. Casey A. Cothran Dr. Cothran's research focuses on nineteenth-century British Literature and on the mystery/detective genre.

Recent Highlights:

"Ecofeminism in Mystery and Detective Fiction." The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature, editor Douglas Vakoch. Routledge, 2022.
"Wilkie Collins's Black and White: A Mystery Melodrama." Victorians Institute Journal. Volume 47 (2020).
New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified. Routledge Series on Interdisciplinary Studies. Editors Casey A. Cothran and Mercy Cannon. London: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2015.

Dr. Matthew Fike

Dr. Fike's research focuses on applying the depth psychology of C.G. Jung to literature.

Bryan R. Ghent

Recent Highlights:

Presented "'This Record Should be Destroyed' Teaching a Critical Interdisciplinary Approach to and Experiential Understanding of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its Aftermath" at the Rethinking Democracy in Literature, Language, and Culture conference at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece in May 2015.

Dr. Amanda L. Hiner

Dr. Amanda Hiner Dr. Hiner's research interests include eighteenth-century British literature, eighteenth-century women writers, the British novel, satire, cognitive cultural studies, and critical thinking theory and practice in education and business.

Recent Highlights:

“Thirty Years, Thirty Ideas: Women Writers and the Practice of Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Women Writers in Context. Women Writers Online. Co-written with Elizabeth Tasker Davis. 2023.
“Was Satire a Literary Boys’ Club in the Eighteenth Century?” Fifteeneightyfour. Cambridge University Press: (May 2022).
British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
“Equipping Students for Success in College and Beyond: Placing Critical Thinking Instruction at the Heart of a General Education Curriculum.” Critical Thinking and Reasoning: Development, Instruction, and Assessment. 2^nd Ed. Frank Fair and Daniel Fasko. Brill Publishing, 2020.
"Theory of Mind, Cognitive Cultural Studies, and Eighteenth-Century Literature." The 18th-Century Common. March, 2018.
"Truth-Seeking Versus Confirmation Bias: How the Paul/Elder Method of Critical Thinking Cultivates Authentic Research and Fair-minded Thinking." INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 31.1 (Spring 2017): 52 — 68.
"New Approaches to Eliza Haywood: The Political Biography and Beyond." Special Issue of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. Co-edited with Patsy Fowler. 14.4 (Winter 2014).
"Critical Thinking in the Literature Classroom, Part II: Dickens's Great Expectations and the Emergent Critical Thinker:" INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 28. 2. (Summer 2013): 53 — 61.
"Critical Thinking in the Literature Classroom, Part I: Making Critical Thinking Visible." INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 28.1 (Spring 2013): 26 — 25.
“Women Writers and the Practice of Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Forthcoming in “Thirty Years, Thirty Ideas,” Women Writers Online, Northeastern University.

Dr. Jo Koster

Dr. Jo Koster Dr. Koster's research focuses on the literacy and literate practices of English women in the late medieval period. She also works with popular literature and film, especially Sherlock Holmes, and writes poetry. She loves anything to do with medieval manuscripts.

Recent Highlights:

2021 - "The Prayers of Margery Kempe: A Reassessment." in Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe. Laura Kalas and Laura Varnam (eds.).
She presented a paper on the gender representation strategies of medieval Icelandic women at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages conference in Washington state. This was drawn from a class she taught in Spring 2018.
She is working on a book on women's literacy in the late Middle Ages and on an edition of a collection of prayers written by a medieval English anchoress.
She has published several poems in an ongoing series produced by Old Mountain Press.

Dr. Mary E. Martin

Dr. Martin focuses on writing poetry. She is almost done with a chapbook of poems focused on dance and movement. She also continues to develop workshops about writing, movement, and art in the community.

Recent Highlights:

2021 - Turning Air Into Gold. Main Street Rag.
Poem published in the 2018 Kakalak Anthology
Developed a project with Winthrop students and the women's shelter at Salvation Army. Students conversed with the women about their lives and then crafted poems from those conversations. A reading was held as part of the SC Humanities Festival in March 2019.

Dr. Allan Nail

Dr. Allan Nail Dr. Nail's research is interested in how high school students learn to develop their writing, and how teachers learn to teach writing.

Recent Highlights:

"Replicants, Vampires, and Other Outcasts: Examining Privilege through Genre Literature." in M. Fabrizi (Ed.), Horror Literature and Dark Fantasy: Challenging Genres.
"Do Teachers Dream of Electric Classrooms?: Future Teachers' Attitudes Toward Technology Integration and Writing Instruction." in Writing Pedagogy, Fall 2018.

Dr. Devon Fitzgerald Ralston

Dr. Devon Ralston Dr. Ralston's research focuses on the influence of technology on the circulation of texts as well as intersections of identity, online communities, and digital activism.

Her current project explores the complexities of intellectual property in artist and maker communities.

Recent Highlights:

2022- ""Hope in Rebellion: Layers of Queerness in Janelle Monae's 'Emotion Pictures'" at the Popular Culture/American Culture Association, April 14, 2022
2021 - "I didn't sign up for your research study: The ethics of using 'public' data." with Amber Buck in Computers and Composition, vol. 61.
2020 - "Engaging Podcasts as a Dynamic Genre for Invention." with Charles Woods in Writing Spaces.
2018 - "(Re)Locating Queerness: Techne, Identity, and the Hegemonic Fantasy" with Oren Whightsel in Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, 24.1-4.
"Resonances of Affect: The Writing Center and Queer Identities" at the International Writing Center Association Conference, October 10-13, 2018.
"Cockygate: Trademark, Bullying, Romance Novels and Intellectual Property" at Popular Culture/American Culture Association, April 17-20, 2019.

Dr. Kelly L. Richardson

Dr. Kelly Richardson

Dr. Richardson's research interests include topics related to literature, popular culture, and pedagogy; however, her primary scholarly focus is in nineteenth-century American Literature. She is particularly interested in examining how oceanic settings affect narrative and character construction as well as reflect historical contexts.

Recent Highlights:

“Contemporary Writers.” Mark Twain in Context, edited by John Bird, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020, pp. 130–138. Literature in Context.
“The Picaresque Novel.” Herman Melville in Context, edited by Kevin J. Hayes, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018, pp. 232–241. Literature in Context.