Scott Banville:
Conferences:
“Tony Pastor and his Theaters: Crossroads of Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Popular Culture.” North American Victorian Studies Association. “Victorian Networks” at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI. Sept 27-30, 2012.
“The Real World as New Media Classroom: Four Takes on Digital Citizenry.” Computers and Writing 2011. May 19-22, 2011. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Writing Program Administrators Conference. “Frameworks for Success,” July 14-17, Baton Rouge, LA., attended on behalf of the Department of Languages and Literature to gather information for continued development of First Year Writing Program.
Scholarly Publications:
“A Bookkeeper, Not an Accountant: Representing the Lower Middle Class from Victorian Novels and Music Hall Songs to Television Sitcoms.” Journal of Popular Culture. 44.1 (Feb. 2011): 16-36.
Published Poetry:
“North & East of Boise,” “Desert Rising,” and “Word by Word.” North Dakota Quarterly. 76.3.
Grants Awarded:
Hobby Family Fund Fellow at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. $3,000. Research the business and personal papers of Tony Pastor. June 2012.
Student Technology Fee Grant, Nicholls State University. $37,509.70. Upgrade to the Languages and Literature computer classroom in PEL 120. April 2012.
Student Technology Fee Grant. $38,355.20 to upgrade the Languages and Literature computer classroom in Peltier 131, April 2011.
Dean’s Library and Equipment Grant. $6,100.00 to upgrade faculty computers and equipment for Languages and Literature’s Multimedia Project Studio, April 2011.
Student Government Grant. $418.29. Assisted undergraduate student Gavin Johnson in applying for the grant for a flat bed scanner for Languages and Literature’s Multimedia Project Studio, March 2011.
Kathy Conner:
Short Stories Published:
“Neshoba,” Shenandoah.” Washington and Lee University’s literary magazine
“Panther Stalks Hinds County.” Blackbird, Virginia Commonwealth University’s literary magazine
“The Giraffe Keeper.” Copper Nickel
“Scraps,” Burnt Bridge (nominated for Pustcart Prize)
Book Reviews:
My Bright Midnight by Josh Russell in The Southeast Review
How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly by Connie May Fowler in The Southeast Review
Tiffany Duet:
Grant:
$120,000 LaSIP Grant, “Incorporating WETSHOP in the Louisiana Science Curriculum, 2011-2012.” (Project Director)
Richmond Eustis:
Award:
Louisiana State University’s Distinguished Dissertation Award : Reading Out of Doors: How Nature Becomes Text and Vice-Versa
Publications:
“Buying the Wilderness Experience: The Commodification of the Sublime” Perspectives (UC, Dublin), (Fall 2012)
“Songs for Maria Luisa” (translations of four poems by Basilio Fernández), Stand, Vol. 8 (2)pp. 27-29 (Spring 2008)
Presentations:
“Ventoux’s Oracle: Reconsidering Petrarch’s Ep. Fam. IV.1”: International Congress on Medieval Studies, (Kalamazoo, May 2012)
“Convivencia in Place and Poetry: Mozarabic Poetry of al-Andalus”: Sociedad Expañola, (New Orleans, Nov. 2010).
“The Gita and the Concord: Resurrecting River and Language in H.D. Thoreau’s A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”: Southern Comparative Literature Association (Baton Rouge, 2010)
“Garden and Wilderness: Thoreau and Knowing Beans”: Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Colloquium (Baton Rouge, LA September 2010).
(Seminar organizer): “Polluted Places/Impure Spaces”: American Comparative Literature Association (New Orleans, 2010) -“Mountain Awe: Petrarch and Thoreau at the Limits of Language”: Association of Literary Scholars and Critics Colloquium (Baton Rouge, LA, March, 2010)
Disstertation:
“Reading Out of Doors: How Nature Becomes Text and Vice-Versa” (Don’t know if this matters, but it won the award for best dissertation in the humanities at LSU in 2010).
Todd Kennedy:
Articles:
“Off with Hollywood’s Head: Sofia Coppola as Feminine Auteur.” Film Criticism. XXXV, 1 (Fall 2010): 37-59.
Reviews:
“Films by Gordon Ball.” Studies in American Culture. (Fall 2011)
Conferences:
“On the Road to ‘Some’ Place: The Postmodern Hobo – Hero in Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere,” presented at Popular and American Culture Associations of the South Conference, October 2011.
Nick Maineri:
Short stories published:
“Bird Shot”, Southern Review.
“Whose Will They Be?” Ellipsis
Essay published:
“Landscapes,” Fwriction: Review.
Major League Final Standings Projection:
“Major League Central, Final Standings,” in Hobart
Award:
MFA Thesis, short story collection, The Tools of Ignorance, awarded distinction at University of New Orleans
Jena Portier:
Article:
Profile on Kevin George for Voila!
Poems published:
Six poems published in the 13th (2011) Jubilee Jambalaya publication.
Literary Judge:
Poetry Out Loud competition hosted by the Houma Regional Arts Council
Marly Robertson:
Article:
“The Web He Weaves,” for the “Faces” section of Voila!
Abigail Scherer:
Articles:
“Celebrating Idleness: Antony and Cleopatra and Play Theory.” Comparative Drama
“Embracing Lucia: Reading Robert Herrick’s ‘The Vine.’” The John Donne Journal
“Otiose Leisure: Idleness and Idolence in British Literature,” chapter in Idleness in Early Modern England, forthcoming
Conference:
“William Faulkner’s ‘Barn Burning”: Ante-bellum Architecture and ‘Negro Sweat,’” presented at 36th Southern Comparative Literature Association Conference.
Bryant Smith:
Co-Founder:
“Tac Tac in 218”
Conference Presentation:
“Cradle Rocker to Knife Wielder: The Evolution of the Horror Heroine.” South Central Modern Language Association (November, 2012)
Conference Presentation:
“Cradle Rocker to Knife Wielder: The Evolution of the Horror Heroine.” South Central Modern Language Association (November, 2012)
Katherine Tracy:
Creative non-fiction:
“What Mama Said: A Child’s Memoir.” Apalachee Review. 61. Summer 2011.
Poem:
“The Lacemaker.” Jubilee Anthology 2010.
Myron Tuman:
Conference Presentation:
“Travelin’ Light: Teaching Travel Lit Online.” Louisiana Conference on Composition, March 19, 2011.
Software Production:
Created first cloud-based software system for managing writing assignments: courseDocs (courseDocs was also represented at three prestigious conferences on writing: Louisiana Conference on Composition, March; Conference on College Composition and Communication, April; Writing Program Administrators’ Conference, July.
Keri Turner:
Grant:
Awarded $183,456.00 for “Teaching What Matters: Building Literacy Skills Using Content Reading and Writing Knowledge” (received the Top Ten Grant Writer’s Award from OSRP).
Jay Udall:
Publications:
Recent poems have appeared in North American Review, Verse Daily, International Psychoanalysis, Rattle, and The Pedestal.
Literary Fellowship:
2010-2011, Nevada Arts Council: gave readings and conducted workshops with various audiences, including elementary and high school students, homeless families, and the elderly.
Performance:
Featured in “Beats and Blue Notes” at the University of Nevada, performing his original poetry while accompanied by graduate students from the Department of Jazz and Improvisational Studies.
Robin White:
Conference Presentations:
“Bayou Region French Activists,” Invited Session of the American Association of Anthropologists, New Orleans, LA
“Eloi Landry Plantation Log: A Reading of Acadian Material Culture,” The Symposium of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Madison, GA
“Creole Contradictions: A Reading of Sidonie de La Houssaye’s National and Ethnic Fallacies in Les Quarteronnes de la Nouvelle-Orleans (1895), Southern Comparative Literature Conference
Publication:
“George Rapp and the Harmony Society,” Translation from the French and Introduction. Communal Societies: Journal of Communal Studies Association, Vol. 30: 1.
Reader for Advanced Placement, French, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 2011.