Browsing Faculty Works, Department of English by Title
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Abstract social categories facilitate access to socially skewed words
(PLOS, 2019-02-04)Recent work has shown that listeners process words faster if said by a member of the group that typically uses the word. This paper further explores how the social distributions of words affect lexical access by exploring ... -
Autism and Rhetoric
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2011-05)By understanding the verbal and nonverbal manifestations of autism as a rhetorical imperative, a perspective that involves applying Krista Ratcliffe's concept of rhetorical listening, scholars can do much to dissolve the ... -
Blake and Rousseau on Children's Reading, Pleasure, and Imagination
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2011) -
From Master to Brother: Shifting the Balance of Authority in Ursula K. Le Guin's Farthest Shore and Tehanu
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1993) -
Holy Cards/Immaginette: The Extraordinary Literacy of Vernacular Religion
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2008-12)Like other seemingly ordinary materials (cookbooks, street art, scrapbooks, etc.) the subject of our investigation-holy cards or (in Italian) immaginette-often function as rich repositories of personal and cultural memory ... -
In God we troust - Derek Walcott and God
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2005) -
Louise Fitzhugh, Marisol, and the Realm of Art
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1999) -
Not Going It Alone: Public Writing, Independent Media, and the Circulation of Homeless Advocacy
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2009-09)This article argues that the teaching of public writing should not neglect issues of circulation and local need. In a series of case studies involving small press papers and homeless advocacy, the authors seek to extend ... -
Object and Character in The Dark Is Rising
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1986) -
Of School and the River: The Wind in the Willows and its Immediate Audience
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1998) -
On Using Balloons Sparingly
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 1990) -
Repeat what after whom? Exploring variable selectivity in a cross-dialectal shadowing task
(Frontiers Media, 2015-05-12)Twenty women from Christchurch, New Zealand and 16 from Columbus Ohio (dialect region U.S. Midland) participated in a bimodal lexical naming task where they repeated monosyllabic words after four speakers from four regional ... -
Research Centers as Change Agents: Reshaping Work in Rhetoric and Writing
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2010-12)This article defines research centers as associative enterprises for solving scholarly and societal problems that cannot be adequately addressed by individuals. We identify more than fifty research centers in rhetoric and ... -
Rhetorics of Displacement: Constructing Identities in Forced Relocations
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2012-03)Forced displacement has often involved the use of rhetoric, both by government institutions and by people who struggle not only to survive displacement, but also to resist it. The author analyzes such discourses through ... -
Stephen Crane: A life of fire
(2014-09-23)With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's short, compact life—"a life of fire," he called it—continues to be surrounded ... -
The Devil's Own Art: Topiary in Children's Fiction
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2005) -
The Sturdy Fabric of Cultural Imperialism: Tracing Its Patterns in Contemporary Children's Novels
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2005) -
Things (not) to do with breasts in public: Maternal embodiment and the biocultural politics of infant feeding
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2007)This article offers a biocultural analysis of public representations of breastfeeding, identifying underlying social conflicts that infant feeding controversies mask. If the traditional biocultural approach to breastfeeding ... -
Twenty years in: An essay in two parts
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2006-12)Part I of this essay traces the evolution of my understanding of the exploratory essay as a discursive form and a genre for teaching writing. Part II explores my motivations for advocating a polarized definition of the ... -
Two comments on "Neurodiversity"
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2008-01)
