Faculty Highlights
Faculty Achievements: Publications, Honors, and Invited Lectures
Dr. Kathleen Forni
Publications:
- Beowulf's Popular Afterlife in Literature, Comic Books, and Film (2018).
- Chaucer's Afterlife (2013).
- The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Selection (2005).
- The Chaucerian Apocrypha: A Counterfeit Canon (2001).
Honors/Awards:
Dr. Forni is the 2020 winner of the Nachbar Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the
Humanities. This award, sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, is Loyola's most
prestigious scholarly prize, as it recognizes a scholar's career-long achievement.
Dr. Melissa Girard
Publications:
- 鈥淔orgiving the Sonnet: Modernist Women鈥檚 Love Poetry and the Problem of Sentimentality,鈥�
A History of Twentieth-Century American Women鈥檚 Poetry,
ed. Linda Kinnahan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, July 2016. - 鈥淛. Saunders Redding and the 鈥楽urrender鈥� of African American Women鈥檚 Poetry鈥� was accepted for publication by PMLA, the flagship journal of the Modern Language Association, in October 2015.
Dr. Nicholas Miller
Honors/Awards:
Dr. Miller was chosen as the inaugural recipient of the Faculty Award for Excellence in Transformative Teaching at Loyola in 2017. This award recognizes Dr. Miller's commitment to imaginative and effective teaching.
Dr. Miller delivered a talk at the Grand Seminar, "The Magician's Microscope: Animation, 'Talking' Bacteria, and the Scientific Imagination" on April 12, 2016.
Dr. Robert Miola
Publications:
- 鈥淓arly Modern Receptions of Iphigenia at Aulis.鈥� Classical Receptions Journal (2020), 1-20.
- Robert Miola's edition of Chapman's Iliad (2017) received a nomination from Brian Vickers for Book of the Year, London Times Literary Supplement, November 29, 2019; his article "Ben Jonson's Reception of Lucian" won the 2019 Beverly Rogers Literary Award from the Ben Jonson Journal.
- Hamlet, 2nd edition. Norton, 2019.
- Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources. Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Macbeth for The Norton Shakespeare, 3rd edition (2015).
Invited Lectures and Papers:
- 鈥淭ext, Paratext, Context: The Scribal and Print Publications of Tichborne鈥檚 Lament,鈥� Huntington Library, 2019.
- 鈥淩emembering Greece in Shakespeare鈥檚 Rome,鈥� Rome, 2016, Washington, DC 2019.
- 鈥淟ost and Found in Translation: Early Modern Receptions of Oedipus at Colonus,鈥� Verona, 2018, Toronto 2019.
- 鈥淥restes and the Light of Day.鈥� The Tyrant鈥檚 Fear . La Paura del Tiranno, Boston, 2016, Verona, 2016.
- 鈥淪hakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Dark Legacy,鈥� Plenary address, University of Campinas, Brazil, 2015.
Dr. Mark Osteen
Recent Publications:
- Editor: Don DeLillo: Mao II & Underwold. Library of America, 2023.
- Editor: Don DeLillo: Novels of the 1980s: The Names, White Noise, Libra. Library of America, 2022.
- Author: Fake It: Fictions of Forgery. Univ. of Virginia Press, August, 2021.
- Editor: The Beatles through a Glass Onion: Reconsidering the White Album. University of Michigan Press, 2019.
Scholarly Essays:
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鈥溾�業鈥檒l Never Make It Alone鈥�: The Beatles鈥� 鈥極h! Darling鈥� in its Contexts.鈥� Rock Music Studies. Online; print version forthcoming 2025.
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鈥淯nhitched: Joan Harrison鈥檚 Noir Marriage Plots.鈥� Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir: The Darker Side. Ed. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey. Edinburgh UP, 2024. 90-107.
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鈥�(Not) Moving Deathward: The Living and the Undead in DeLillo鈥檚 Late Works.鈥� Don DeLillo in Context. Ed. Jesse Kavadlo. Cambridge UP, 2022. 217-26.
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鈥溾�楽irens鈥�: Jazz Joyce.鈥� Joyce Studies Annual 2022. Ulysses Centenary Issue. 127-45.
- 鈥溾�楽alient points caused by foot pressure鈥�: The Language of Feet in Ulysses.鈥� James Joyce Quarterly 59.4 (Summer 2022): 579-96.
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鈥淕row Your Brain! Contemporary Art on the Autism Spectrum.鈥� The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability. Ed. Keri Watson and Timothy W. Hiles. Routledge, 2022. 417-35.
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鈥溾�楢 Spoonful of Sugar鈥�: Watching Movies Autistically.鈥� Autism in Film and Television: On the Island. Ed. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer. U of Texas P, 2022. 240-54.
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鈥淰ersions of Vertigo: They Wake up Screaming.鈥� Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock鈥檚 Masterpiece Then and Now. Ed. Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin. John Libbey/Indiana UP, 2021. 157-75.
Creative Nonfiction:
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鈥淲hy I Break Stuff.鈥� The Maine Review 7.3 (Fall 2021).
- 颁辞苍惫辞肠补迟颈辞苍.鈥�Ars Medica 15.2 (Fall 2020). Featured essay. .
- 鈥淧补苍别.鈥� Kaleidoscope 77 (July, 2018): 8-13. Featured Essay. .
- 鈥淎 Man Down There.鈥� New Letters 83.2 & 3 (2017): 71-95. Winner of the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize in Nonfiction, 2016.
Lectures/Speeches:
- 鈥淲hy Don DeLillo Deserves the Nobel.鈥� Online webinar with Gerald Howard, sponsored by the Library of America, Jan. 17, 2024.
- 鈥淥n Don DeLillo鈥�: Speech for the Board of Trustees of Library of America, New York City, Oct. 11, 2023.
Honors/Awards:
Seventeenth Annual Deans' Symposium Award in recognition of outstanding achievement
in research, teaching and service (2014).
Nachbahr Award for outstanding scholarly accomplishment in the Humanities (2000).
Dr. Stephen Park
High-Impact Practices Faculty Fellow (2019-2021)
Publications:
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"Credible Fears: The Asylum Narrative as form in Lost Children Archive." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 79.4 (Winter 2023). 49-70.
- The Pan American Imagination: Contested Visions of the Hemisphere in Twentieth Century
Literature. New World Studies Series, University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Nominated for the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship. - 鈥淔ree Trade Masculinities and the Literature of NAFTA,鈥� in Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics. Matt Seybold, ed. (Routledge 2018).
- 鈥淗aunting the Plantation: The Global Southern Gothic in Eric Walrond鈥檚 Tropic Death,鈥� Southern Quarterly 55.4 (Summer 2018), Special Issue: The Caribbean South.
Dr. Thomas Scheye
Dr. Scheye was awarded the Cardinal Newman Medal at Loyola's 2021 Commencement.