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Department of English

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

Congratulations to Dr. Girard on her tenure and promotion to Associate Professor.

Publications:

  • “Forgiving the Sonnet:  Modernist Women’s Love Poetry and the Problem of Sentimentality,” A History of Twentieth-Century American Women’s Poetry,
    ed. Linda Kinnahan. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, July 2016.
  • “J. Saunders Redding and the ‘Surrender’ of African American Women’s Poetry” 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:

  • “Early Modern Receptions of Iphigenia at Aulis.” 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:

  • “Text, Paratext, Context: The Scribal and Print Publications of Tichborne’s Lament,” Huntington Library, 2019. 
  • “Remembering Greece in Shakespeare’s Rome,” Rome, 2016, Washington, DC 2019.  
  • “Lost and Found in Translation: Early Modern Receptions of Oedipus at Colonus,” Verona, 2018, Toronto 2019. 
  • “Orestes and the Light of Day.” The Tyrant’s Fear . La Paura del Tiranno, Boston, 2016, Verona, 2016.
  • “Shakespeare and Classical Comedy: The Dark Legacy,” 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:

  • “‘I’ll Never Make It Alone’: The Beatles’ ‘Oh! Darling’ in its Contexts.” Rock Music Studies. Online; print version forthcoming 2025.

  • “Unhitched: Joan Harrison’s Noir Marriage Plots.” Alfred Hitchcock and Film Noir: The Darker Side. Ed. R. Barton Palmer and Homer B. Pettey. Edinburgh UP, 2024. 90-107.

  • “(Not) Moving Deathward: The Living and the Undead in DeLillo’s Late Works.” Don DeLillo in Context. Ed. Jesse Kavadlo. Cambridge UP, 2022. 217-26.

  • “‘Sirens’: Jazz Joyce.” Joyce Studies Annual 2022. Ulysses Centenary Issue. 127-45.

  • “‘Salient points caused by foot pressure’: The Language of Feet in Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly 59.4 (Summer 2022): 579-96.

  • “Grow Your Brain! Contemporary Art on the Autism Spectrum.” The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability. Ed. Keri Watson and Timothy W. Hiles. Routledge, 2022. 417-35.

  • “‘A Spoonful of Sugar’: Watching Movies Autistically.” Autism in Film and Television: On the Island. Ed. Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer. U of Texas P, 2022. 240-54.

  • “Versions of Vertigo: They Wake up Screaming.” Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock’s Masterpiece Then and Now. Ed. Sidney Gottlieb and Donal Martin. John Libbey/Indiana UP, 2021. 157-75.

Creative Nonfiction:

  • “Why I Break Stuff.” The Maine Review 7.3 (Fall 2021).  

  • °äŽÇČÔ±čŽÇłŠČčłÙŸ±ŽÇČÔ.”Ars Medica 15.2 (Fall 2020). Featured essay. .
  • “PČčČÔ±đ.” Kaleidoscope 77 (July, 2018): 8-13. Featured Essay. .  
  • “A Man Down There.” New Letters 83.2 & 3 (2017): 71-95. Winner of the Dorothy Churchill Cappon Prize in Nonfiction, 2016. 

Lectures/Speeches:

  • “Why Don DeLillo Deserves the Nobel.” Online webinar with Gerald Howard, sponsored by the Library of America, Jan. 17, 2024.
  • “On Don DeLillo”: 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:

  • "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.
  • “Free Trade Masculinities and the Literature of NAFTA,” in Routledge Companion to Literature & Economics. Matt Seybold, ed. (Routledge 2018).
  • “Haunting the Plantation: The Global Southern Gothic in Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death,” 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.

 

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