The English Department houses twelve full-time faculty, concentrations in both literature and creative writing, community workshops, a nationally recognized Writers' Series, an MA in English Literature and now an MFA in Creative Writing.
Below you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in the English Department.
Submissions from 2020
On Poetry and Music, Susan Neville
Reviewed Work(s): Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country by Hollars, Susan Neville
Submissions from 2019
Medical Rhetoric and the Sympathetic “Inebriet”: 1870–1930, Carol Reeves
Frontierwhorlroamer: Eugene Jolas’s Cosmopoetics, Ania Spyra
Submissions from 2015
Listen to Me, Bryan M. Furuness
Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, 1800, Jason N. Goldsmith
Winesburg, Indiana: Fork River anthology, Michael Martone and Bryan M. Furuness
Of Frogs & Rhetoric: The Atrazine Wars, Carol Reeves
Hamlet Reinvents Himself, William Walsh
Submissions from 2014
Jeff Rasley, Author and Coach, Tekneshia Day and Jeff Rasley
Notes on Narrative, Bryan M. Furuness
Second Coming, Bryan M. Furuness
Between the Lines speaks with Jeff Rasley, Corine La Font and Jeff Rasley
My Second Home, Basa Village, Jeff Rasley
The Phoenix Rises at the University of Chicago, Jeff Rasley
Life's Issues Cultivate More Meaningful and Authentic Lives, Lloyd Rosen, Jeff Rasley, Dolphin Kasper, and Susan Kasper
Life Changing Insights with Award Winning Celebrities, Alan Simberg, Jeff Rasley, and Letitia Wright
Submissions from 2013
World of Writing with Jeff Rasley, Lillian Brummet and Jeff Rasley
"Always Something of It Remains": Sexual Trauma in Ernest Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls, Natalie Carter
Advice Advice, Bryan M. Furuness
Ecclesiastes for Writers: A Furunessay in Six Answers, Bryan M. Furuness
Play from the Heart: Five Notes on Creativity, Bryan M. Furuness
The Art of Prayer, Bryan M. Furuness
The First Time I Figured Out What My Novel Was About, Bryan M. Furuness
What’s the Point? Five Writers Offer Lifelines for Post-MFA Despair, Bryan M. Furuness
Courtroom and Classroom Across the Curriculum: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Jason N. Goldsmith
Review of Notorious Facts: Publicity in Romantic England, 1780-1830, Jason N. Goldsmith
1/23 Guest: Jeff Rasley, Successful Retirement, David Holland and Jeff Rasley
Meaning through Adventure–Conversation with Jeffrey Rasley, Cloris Kylie and Jeff Rasley
An Enlightened Partnership, Jeff Rasley
Paddling the Perilous Paradise, Jeff Rasley
Pilgrimage to Wounded Knee: An Essay, Jeff Rasley
Enabling Faculty to Write; a Short Course on Successful Scholarly Publication for Faculty at a Liberal Arts College, Carolyn Richie, David Mason, and Michael Zimmerman
Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction, by Stella Bolaki., Ania Spyra
Submissions from 2012
Basa Village Project, Lillian Brummet and Jeff Rasley
Evolution, Bryan M. Furuness
On Deadlifting, Bryan M. Furuness
The Lost Episodes of Revie Bryson, Bryan M. Furuness
Coming in from the Margins: Reappraising and Recentering Katherine Mansfield, Lee Garver
Re-Drawing the Borders of Vision; or, The Art of Picturesque Travel, Jason N. Goldsmith
3 Requirements for Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
Author Spotlight 64: Jeff Rasley, Jeff Rasley
Meaningful Memoir Writing, Jeff Rasley
Memoir Writing from Diary to Publishable Piece, Jeff Rasley
Memoir Writing with a Purpose, Jeff Rasley
Pushing Hard: An Excerpt from Bringing Progress to Paradise, Jeff Rasley
Vocation: What Does it Mean to be Called or Led into a Profession, Career, or Life Project?, Jeff Rasley
Interview with Monsters of the Midway author Jeff Rasley, Jeff Rasley and John Warner
Jeff Rasley: Mountains of Meaning, Pam Richards and Jeff Rasley
Between Theory and Reality: Cosmopolitanism of Nodal Cities in Paweł Huelle’s Castorp, Ania Spyra
Patrick's Tuesday Night Review with Jeff Rasley, Patrick Walters and Jeff Rasley
Interview with Jeff Rasley, Kris Wampler and Jeff Rasley
Jeff Rasley; Trekker, Author, Todd Weaver and Jeff Rasley
Submissions from 2011
Parable of the Lost Finger, Bryan M. Furuness
Neither Progressive nor Reactionary: Reassessing the Cultural Politics of The New Age, Lee Garver
John Clare and the Art of Politics, Jason N. Goldsmith
Interview with Jeffrey Rasley, Jennifer Hodgson, Steven Hodgson, and Jeff Rasley
A Change to Violence, Jeff Rasley
A Resting Place in Nepal, Jeff Rasley
Interview with Bringing Progress to Paradise Author Jeff Rasley, Jeff Rasley
Philanthro-Trekking in Basa Village, Nepal, Jeff Rasley
Visual Rhetoric and the Promotion of Scientific Ideas: The Strange Case of the Prion, Carol Reeves
Fabulating Romania: review of Filip Florian’s Little Fingers and Alta Ifland’s Elegy for a Fabulous World, Ania Spyra
Submissions from 2010
Kittens in the Oven: Race Relations, Traumatic Memory, and the Search for Identity in Julia Alvarez’s How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, Natalie Carter
Adios, Ramon Gonzales, Bryan M. Furuness
Bible Bowl, Bryan M. Furuness
Bryan Furuness is Writing an Essay on Facebook Status Updates, Bryan M. Furuness
Excerpts From Two Lists, Bryan M. Furuness
Must Be Nice, Bryan M. Furuness
"Parable of the Lost Finger" Podcast, Bryan M. Furuness
Ten Words You May Want to Strike from Your Manuscript if Reading to Middle-Schoolers, Bryan M. Furuness
The Wonder of Geese, Bryan M. Furuness
Tempus Fugitive, Bryan M. Furuness, Sarah Layden, Andrew Scott, and Matthew Simmons
Review of Adrian Bingham’s Family Newspapers?: Sex, Private Life, and the British Popular Press, 1918-1978, Lee Garver
Review of Fashioning Faces: The Portraitive Mode in British Romanticism, Jason N. Goldsmith
The Metamorphosis; Or a Phenomenology of Teaching, Jason N. Goldsmith
How Teachers Need to Deal with the Seen, the Unseen, the Improbable, and the Nearly Imponderable, Marshall W. Gregory
Five Ways to Pick a Charity, Jeff Rasley
The Eye of a Whale in Tonga, Jeff Rasley
Trekking in Basa - Khmujung Nepal, Jeff Rasley
Western Pilgrimage, Jeff Rasley
Scientific Consensus, Carol Reeves
Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark as a Trans-Atlantic Tragic Mulatta Narrative, Ania Spyra
Self-Indulgence is the American Word for Flair, Ania Spyra
Submissions from 2009
Man of Steel, Bryan M. Furuness
On Tubes, by Ted Stevens, Bryan M. Furuness
Portrait of Lucifer as a Young Man, Bryan M. Furuness
Celebrity and the Spectacle of Nation, Jason N. Goldsmith
Ethical Engagements Over Time: Reading and Rereading David Copperfield and Wuthering Heights, Marshall W. Gregory
Junk-Yard Ride, Marshall W. Gregory
Hope in the Himalayas: The Strongest Men I Know, Jeff Rasley
The Man on the Bike Told the Truth: Adventure in Belize, Jeff Rasley
The Most Litigious People in the World, Jeff Rasley
Submissions from 2008
Do We Teach Disciplines or Do We Teach Students?—What Difference Does It Make?, Marshall W. Gregory
Humanities Education Then, Now and Why, Marshall W. Gregory
Submissions from 2007
Real Teaching and Real Learning vs Narrative Myths About Education, Marshall W. Gregory
Eugene Jolas’s Multilingual New Occident, Ania Spyra
Three Romanian Postcards, Ania Spyra