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English Faculty Research
Dr. Chen Chen
Dr. Chen's research focuses on professional and technical communication, writing pedagogy,
writing across the curriculum, rhetoric and social media, professionalization and
disciplinarity in rhetoric and composition.
Recent Highlights:
- 2019 - "#MeToo China: An Analysis of Contemporary Chinese Feminist Rhetoric on Social
Media Platforms." University of Alabama English Symposium Digital Rhetoric/Digital Media in the Post-Truth
Age (Tuscaloosa, AL) (with Belle Xiaobo Wang from Oxford College at Emory University).
- 2018 - "Enacting Disciplinary Networks at CCCC." Conference on College Composition and Communication (Kansas City, MO).
- Forthcoming - "Considering What They Say: An Analysis of Key Terms used by Faculty
Across the Curriculum." In Considering What We Know: Threshold Concepts for Writing Studies. Linda Adler-Kassner and Elizabeth Wardle (ed.). (with Chris Anson, NC State and Ian
Anson, University of Maryland-Baltimore County).
- Under Publisher Review - "From 1993-2017: Exploring Disciplinary Lore on WPA-L." In
Composition As Big Data. Amanda Licastro and Ben Miller (ed.).
- Work in Progress - "How We Teach How to Teach Multimodality: A Survey of Institutional/Professional
Training/Support for Teaching Multimodality." For Council of Writing Program Administrators.
- Co-Editor: Computers and Writing Conference Proceedings 2018 (forthcoming in February 2019).
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 Highlights:
- Anima and Africa: Jungian Essays on Psyche, Land, and Literature. Routledge, 2017.
- "C.G. Jung on Plagiarism in Pierre Benot's L'Atlantide." International Journal of Jungian Studies, vol. 9, no. 3, 2017, pp. 167-82.
- "Depth Psychology in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza." Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, vol. 13, 2018, pp. 52-70.
- "Collapsing the Binary in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands." The CEA Forum, vol. 46, no. 2, Summer/Fall 2017, pp. 88-126.
- "Four Perspectives on Teaching Jeannette Walls's Memoir, The Glass Castle." Forthcoming in The CEA Forum, Spring 2019.
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:
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:
- She is revising an article on the prayers of Margery Kempe for a book on Margery Kempe
in the Twenty-First Century published by Leicester University Press.
- 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:
- Poem published in the 2018 Kakalak Anthology
- Developing an ongoing project with Winthrop students and the women's shelter at Salvation
Army. Students converse with the women about their lives and then craft poems from
those conversations. A reading will be held the last Saturday in March as part of
the SC Humanities Festival at the Salvation Army. Both students and women will participate.
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. Robert Prickett
Recent Highlights:
- 2019 February - with C. Cothran: "Chewing with Your Mouth Eyes Open: Food & Graphic Novels." The World of Food: Winthrop University's 2nd Interdisciplinary Conference, Rock Hill, SC.
- In Process - with C. Cothran: "Graphic Crime Fiction" In Janice M. Allan, Jesper Gulddal,
Stewart King & Andrew Pepper (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction. Routledge.
- 2018 November - with K. Beasley, C. Young, and S.L. Groenke: "Finding their true voice:
Teaching female coming-of-age graphic novels (for all)." National Council of Teachers of English Annual Conference, Houston, TX.
- 2018 August - with C. Cothran: "The Double Detective: Compounding Complexity in The Fade Out, a Noir Graphic Novel." Clues: A Journal of Detection. 36.2. McFarland & Co.
Dr. Devon Fitzgerald 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.
Current research interrogates the impact of digital apps and the circulation of gifs
on the visibility and invisibility of queer sexuality.
Recent Highlights:
- "(Re)Locating Queerness: Techne, Identity, and the Hegemonic Fantasy" with Oren Whightsel
forthcoming in Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory, 24.1-4.
- Recently presented "Resonances of Affect: The Writing Center and Queer Identities"
at the International Writing Center Association Conference, October 10-13, 2018.
- Upcoming Presentations: "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 focuses on nineteenth-century American literature, twentieth-century
American literature, composition, and pedagogy.
Recent Highlights: