Archive of English Department Faculty Accomplishments
Faculty Awards
Dr. James M. Aton was recognized as the 2010 "Outstanding Educator" for SUU.
Drs. Kyle Bishop and Wynne Summers were named as SUU "Distinguished Educators" in 2010.
Dr. Todd Robert Petersen has won the 2009 Association for Mormon Letters Award for his novel, Rift.
Faculty Books
Dr. James M. Aton's book The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green has been published by Utah State University Press.
Faculty Publications
Dr. Kyle Bishop's essay "Vacationing in Zombieland: The Classical Functions of the Modern Zombie Comedy" appears in the current issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.
Dr. James M. Aton's article with Steven L. Gerber, "Empires and Homesteads: Making a Living in Range Creek," just appeared in the Winter 2011 issue of Utah Historical Quarterly.
Dr. Bryce Christensen's sonnet "Ultimate Grammar" appears in the December issue of First Things.
Dr. Jessica Tvordi's essay "Banishing Ganymede at Whitehall: Jove’s 'loathesome staines' and Fictions of Britain in Thomas Carew’s Coelum Britannicum" has been published in volume 31 of Quidditas (2010).
Professor Charles Cuthbertson's poems "Jenny on the Water, Jenny on the Beach" and "Flying" can be found in the latest issue of new graffiti.
Dr. Bryce Christensen has published a sonnet titled "Final Perspective" in Lucid Rhythms. In addition, his poem "Bayside Immortals" has been anthologized in Grace Notes, edited by Paul Lake and Losana Boyd, an anthology of poetry selected from poems published during the last twenty years in the monthly journal First Things.
Dr. Bryce Christensen's essay “Schooling for ‘the Democracy of the Dead’: How the Liberal Arts Connect Us with the Legacy of the Past” has been published in The Democratic Discourse of Liberal Education, edited by Lee Trepanier (Southern Utah University Press/Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, 2010).
Dr. Jessica Tvordi's essay, "The Comic Personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity through Self-Directed Humor" has been published in Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times (De Gruyter, 2010).
Dr. Bryce Christensen's essay “In the Beginning, the Word. In the End, the Image? The Cultural and Political Consequences of the Visual Mentality” has been published in Technology,Science, and Democracy, edited by Lee Trepanier (Southern Utah University Press/Grace A. Tanner Center for Human Values, 2010).
Dr. Kyle Bishop's article, "Assemblage Filmmaking: Approaching the Multi-Source Adaptation and Reexamining George Romero's Night of the Living Dead," has been published in Adaptation Studies: New Beginnings (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2010).
Dr. Kyle Bishop's essay, "The Idle Proletariat: Dawn of the Dead, Consumer Ideology, and the Loss of Productive Labor," was published in the April 2010 issue of The Journal of Popular Culture (43.2).
Dr. Bryce Christensen published two poems, the original "The Portals of Sheol" and the translation "A Song to Death," in the summer 2009 issue of Lucid Rhythms.
Dr. Jessica Tvordi's essay "'In quarter and in terms like bride and groom': Reconfiguring Marriage, Friendship, and Alliance in Othello" was published in the 2009 issue of The Journal of the Wooden O Symposium.
Three of Dr. Bryce Christensen’s poems were accepted for publication in spring 2009: “Dragonfly” (in Lucid Rhythms) and “John von Neumann” and “Alamogordo” (in The Centrifugal Eye).
Dr. Kyle Bishop’s essay "Dead Man Still Walking: Explaining the Zombie Renaissance" was published in The Journal of Popular Film and Television in May 2009.
Dr. Julie Simon's essays, "Voiceprinting—How Its Failures Speak," was published in a Cambridge Scholars Publishing anthology entitled Negotiating a Meta-Pedagogy in February 2009.
Dr. Julie Simon's article "'Tutorizing' Certification Programs" was published in The Writing Lab Newsletter in January 2009.
Faculty Presentations and Readings
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented "Black Magic vs. White Magic: The Science of Control vs. the Poetics of Imagination in Hawthorne’s 'Birthmark'" at the Tanner Summer Symposium: Great Teachers and Texts, August 11, at Southern Utah University.
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented "From Inert Insight to Incendiary Indictment: The Rhetorical History and Future of C.P. Snow's Two Cultures" at the 9th Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, June 8-11, at the University of Granada in Spain.
A number of SUU English faculty presented at the April 2011 nation conference the Popular and American Culture Associations in San Antonio, Texas: Dr. Kyle Bishop: "They’re Supposed to be Scary: How The Walking Dead Remembers What George Romero Forgot"; Dr. Bryce Christensen: "The Tang Dynasty’s 'Tell-Tale Heart': Li Ho as Chinese Literature's Edgar Allan Poe"; and Charles Cuthbertson: "Bourne into Bond-age: Redefining Espionage Film Heroes in the Post-9/11 Era".
Dr. Kurt Harris gave a guest lecture to 150 students of the Foreign Studies College of Hunan Normal University in Changsha, China, on December 21. His lecture's title was "British Literature and the Legacy of Charles Dickens."
Dr. Aton was a keynote speaker at the "Writers of the Purple Sage" writing conference, preseting "John Wesley Powell: Surveying the Arizona Strip and the Colorado Plateau" in Kanab, Utah (October 8).
Dr. James M. Aton was the keynote speaker at the Escalante Canyon Arts Festival, presenting “John Wesley Powell: Surveying in Escalante and Beyond”(September 2010).
Dr. Wynne Summers presented " Native American Women Elders Significance in Maintaining Cultural Autonomy and Sovereignty" at the Tenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations in Belfast, Northern Ireland (July 2010).
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky enjoyed a two-week residency fellowship the summer of 2010 for the Virginia Center of Creative Arts, competing a collection of poems and giving a lecture at Sweet Briar College.
Dr. Wynne Summers presented "Importance of Elders for Culture Continuity and Sovereignty" at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association conference in Tucson (May 2010).
Julia Combs presented "If I Were a Man: Intersections of Genre and Gender in A Mother’s Blessing, Dorothy Leigh’s Seventeenth-century Conduct Manual" at the 2010 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Minneapolis (May 2010).
Dr. Rosalyn Eves presented "'To Be a More Distinct People': Spatial Rhetoric as a Resource for Identification" at the 2010 Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America in Minneapolis (May 2010).
Dr. Jessica Tvordi presented her essay, "Constructing the Early Modern Criminal through Suetonius: The Cases of Buckingham and Castlehaven," at the 8th International Symposium on Medieval and Early Modern Culture, University of Arizona, Tucson, May 6-9, 2010. The special topic for the conference is "Crime and Punishment."
Dr. Kyle Bishop discussed the origins and history of the cinematic zombie as part of the 2010 Thunderbird Film Festival on Friday, April 9.
Dr. Todd Robert Petersen was a featured reader at the King's English Bookshop's quarterly "Local Author Showcase" event on April 6, 2010, at 6:30 p.m.
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented a paper ("The Mandarin Manqué and the Reckless Rebel: The Improbable Literary Friendship of Du Fu and Li Bai") at the 2010 Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference, in St. Louis, Missouri, 31 Mar.–3 Apr. 2010.
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky was featured in "Our Visions, Our Voices: A Mormon Women's Literary Tour," a historic multi-state, multi-university readings series by established and emerging Mormon women writers on March 25.
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky gave a poetry reading on March 23 at Arizona State University.
Dr. Kyle Bishop presented "Defending Zombieland: How the Apocalypse Saved the American Family" at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando (March 2010).
Charles Cuthbertson presented "'Is it the Terrorists?': Cultural Anxiety in Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds" at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Orlando (March 2010).
Julia Combs presented “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not the Professor's: Inviting Peer Reviews into Composition Wikis," at the 2010 Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Louisville (March 2010).
Dr. Rosalyn Eves presented "Finding Place to Speak: Sarah Winnemucca's Place-Based Rhetorical Strategies" at the 2010 Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Louisville (March 2010).
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky was a guest writer for the Redrock Writers Seminar, March 12-13, in St. George where she gave a reading as well as a workshop titled "Imagery and Landscape."
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky gave a presentation on March 11 for SUU's National Women's Week titled "Understanding Our Vision and Voice through Writing."
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky was the featured writer for the Z-Arts Creative Writing Workshop on February 6, 2010, in Springdale, Utah.
Dr. James M. Aton was invited to give a convocation lecture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on February 9, 2010. He discussed his latest book, The River Knows Everything.
Jon M. Smith's and English Professor James M. Aton's film, Jimmie Jones: Redrock Painter, premiered on October 15; Jones's recent paintings are currently showing at the Braithwaite Gallery. The DVD of the film is included in the show's catalog about Jones's life and work, for which Aton has also written the article "Coming Home to the Land."
Dr. James M. Aton gave the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies lecture on Wednesday, October 21, at BYU. He was also an invited author for the Utah Humanities Book Festival on Saturday, October 24, at the Salt Lake City Library. At both venues he discussed his new book, The River Knows Everything: Desolation Canyon and the Green.
Dr. Kyle Bishop presented "The Homes fires Are Burning: Domestic Conflagration as Failed Ganacea for Twentieth-Century Racial Tension" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented "Tragedy without Tears? Confronting the Contradictions in C.P. Snow's Understanding of Tragedy in a Scientific World" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Julia Combs presented "Let the Sheepman Ride: Rhetorical Analysis of a Southern Utah Rancher's Letter of Advice to the College of Southern Utah" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Charles Cuthbertson presented "'Those Departed Days': The War of the Worlds and Cultural Anxiety" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Rosalyn Eves presented "Leaving Switzerland: Discipline-Based Tutoring and the Complex Interrelationship between Professors and Tutors" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Nozomi Irei presented "Storytelling and Writing in Our Time: Decoded Flows of Desire in Silko's Ceremony" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Todd Petersen presented "From Robin Hood to Danny Ocean: Theft as Restorative Transgression" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. Jessica Tvordi presented "Reformation Nostalgia and Sexual Politics in Andrew Marvell's 'Upon Appleton House, To my Lord Fairfax'" at the Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association in Snowbird in October 2009.
Dr. James M. Aton presented the 2009 Grace A. Tanner Distinguished Faculty Lecture, A Region of the Wildest Desolation: History Along the Green River.
Dr. Tvordi presented her paper "Donne's Family Romance: The Eroticization of Domestic Space in 'The Perfume'" at the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Conference in Flagstaff in April 2009.
Dr. Kyle Bishop presented his essay “‘If Only Your Father Were Here!’ The Threat of the Gothic Patriarchy in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds” at the Popular and American Culture Associations Conference in New Orleans in April 2009.
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented his essay “Omar Khayyám on the Yangtze: Li Bai’s Drinking as Defiance, or as Despair?” at the Popular Culture Association Conference in New Orleans in April 2009.
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky gave a poetry reading at the KJ Templeton Studion in Helper, Utah.
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky’s poems “What is Visible” and “Retrieval” were on exhibit in the Zion National Park Museum as part of “Zion: A Creative Response.”
Dr. S.S. Moorty read selections of his poetry to the Center for the Study of Ethics at Utah Valley University in Orem in March 2009.
Dr. Danielle Dubrasky' s poem “The Tree Spirits of Takasago” was performed at the SUU Faculty Dance Show through the choreography of Paul Ocampo and with original composition by Gerard Yun.
Dr. Bryce Christensen presented “Schooling for ‘the Democracy of the Dead’: How the Liberal Arts Connect Us with the Legacy of the Past” at the SUU Tanner Center Symposium on “Democracy and Education” in January 2009.
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