English Department News

Students

The following students were inducted into the Sigma Tau Delta , The International English Honor Society, on April 26, 2011: Katie Gleitsmann, Chris Pallas, Jeff Percacciante, Danyelle Puleo, Corry Sauter, Alyssa Strife, Lindsay Valentine, and Tiffany Ziober.


The winners of the Joseph Vogel awards for poetry and fiction for 2011 are: Alyssa Strife, second place in fiction for, “Stuck. And Knocked Up;” Demian Morrisroe, first place in fiction for, “Third World Toilets.” Demian Morrisroe second place in poetry for, “Unobtanium;” and Autumn Mooney first place in poetry for, “Addicted.”

 

Faculty

Associate Professor Jason Denman has a piece forthcoming this fall in Notes and Queries: “The Influence of Shirley's The Coronation on Marriage A-La-Mode.”

 

Associate Professor Gary Leising has had the following poems published: "First Day of Class in British Literature" and "Pentimenti" appeared in Passages North (produced by Northern Michigan University), "What the Doctor Said" appeared in CutBank (from the U. of Montana), "About the Author" is in River and Sound Review, an independent online journal, and "William Carlos Williams at Paterson Falls" is in Visiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William Carlos Williams, an anthology from the University of Iowa Press.

On April 11, 2011 Professor Leising was the featured reader at Maysville Community College, Kentucky for their annual "Poetry Showcase"; he also served as judge for the Kentucky Technical and Community College system's student poetry contest as part of that "showcase."

Professor Gary Leising will be reading at Salisbury University MD, on March 9, 2011, as part of their "Writers-on-the-Shore" series. 

Lisa Orr will present a paper, "Ghosts in the Age of Realism," at the 2011 Popular Culture & American Culture Association Conference, to be held in San Antonio, Texas on April 20 – April 23, 2011.

 One of the poems from Gary Leising’s
recent poetry chapbook will be read on Oct. 26 by Garrison Keillor on his radio show "The Writer's Almanac." The show's broadcast on over 300 NPR stations nationwide. The reading will be available online (http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/). 

Gary Leising's poetry chapbook, Fastened to a Dying Animal, has just come out and is available from Pudding House Publications (www.puddinghouse.com).

Jason Denman spent June 2010 doing research for a book project at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C. The Folger houses the largest collection of the printed works of Shakespeare in the world and a major collection of rare books and manuscripts for the early modern period. His research is supported by a short-term fellowship from the Folger and by a summer fellowship from Utica College

Gary Leising received the Harold T. Clark summer fellowship to support a creative project, a collection of poems tentatively titled LDN, free verse poems dealing with London and other places in the United Kingdom. These quasi-comic, meditative poems will deal with places, people, art, London’s past and present, always with one thought about the city in mind: to quote Peter Ackroyd, England’s capital is ripe with “anomalies and contradictions—London is so large and so wild that it contains no less than everything.”

John Cormican was awarded the college’s Virgil Crisafulli Distinguished Teaching Award at graduation in May 2010.