English Faculty Research
Amanda “AJ” 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. Cothran’s research focuses on nineteenth-century British Literature and on the
mystery/detective genre.
Recent Highlights:
Dr. Matthew Fike
Dr. Fike’s research focuses on applying the depth psychology of C. G. Jung to literature.
Recent Articles:
- “‘We Are All Haunted Houses’: The Rector in Lindsay Clarke’s The Chymical Wedding.” Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, vol. 19, no. 1, 2024, pp. 9-30. https://doi.org/10.29173/jjs266s.
- “The Castaway Archetype in Two Tales of an Island Year.” Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, vol. 18, Apr. 2023, pp. 9-30. https://doi.org/10.29173/jjs219s.
- “Marie Hay’s The Evil Vineyard and Jung’s Memories, Dreams, Reflections.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, vol. 36, no. 1, Apr. 2023, pp. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2023.2197018.
- “Jung’s Letter to Major Donald E. Keyhoe.” Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, vol. 17, 2022, pp. 32-56.
- “The Work of Redemption: King Lear and The Red Book.” Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, vol. 16, 2021, pp. 24-44.
- “Four Perspectives on Teaching Jeannette Walls’s Memoir, The Glass Castle.” The CEA Forum, Spring 2019.
Books:
Bryan R. Ghent
Recent Highlights:
Dr. Amanda L. 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:
- “Teaching Anne Finch’s Satire in the British Literature Survey Classroom.” ABO: Interdisciplinary Journal for Women in the Arts 1650 – 1830, vol. 13, iss. 2, art. 3 (Winter 2023).
- “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. 2nd 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.
- “British Women Satirists in the Eighteenth Century.” Satire – Handbuch, Metzler Press. Co-written with Elizabeth Tasker-Davis. Forthcoming spring of 2025.
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. Heather Listhartke
Dr. Listhartke’s research interests focus on issues of accessibility in writing classrooms
and writing environments, community building in composing spaces, and writing pedagogy
across the disciplines. She also has published work on supporting graduate students
who are parents. Her work specifically deals with the intersections between multimodal
writing across disciplines, rhetoric, and pedagogy.
Recent Highlights:
- October 2024: Professor for Affordable Learning Award, for OER development and use
in professional writing courses
- 2024 Publication: “embodiment,” “Intellectual property,” and “peer response” entries
in Keywords in Making: A Rhetorical Primer, edited by Jason Tham. (Parlor Press).
- October 2023: Conference at SIGDOC. “Making Community Methods: Crafting a Framework
for Inclusive Community Building Practices in Composing Spaces.”
- July 2023: Conference and Publication: Banville, Kalodner-Martin, Gresbrink, Jordan, Listhartke, Gray. “Imagining a Social Justice Technical Communication ‘Dream’ Course,” 2023 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm),
Ithaca, NY, USA, 2023, pp. 33-40.
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. 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
Dr. Fitzgerald’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. 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.
