Category: Literary Criticism
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The Story of the Warrior Women Project: Using Technology to Connect Intersectionality and Digital Humanities Theory and Praxis.
Link to Essay at The Warrior Women Project Abstract: Digitized early English broadside ballads are widely available copyright-free, indexed and searchable complete with high-resolution images of their signature woodcut illustrations, transcriptions and facsimile copy-views on well-established databases including the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Early English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), Gale’s Eighteenth Century Collections Online…
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Marketing Empire: Military and Companionate Marriage Recruitment in Early English, “Warrior Women” Broadside Ballads
Link to Essay at The Warrior Women Project Abstract: Early English broadside ballads are frequently seen as an entryway into the life of the typical commoner, into the mainstream popular culture, with scholars such as Joy Wiltenburg arguing that despite limitations, “the evidence of popular literature provides insights into a decisive link between the mainstream,…
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ECF, Spring 2020: “Book Review: Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney by Jessica A. Volz”
My review of Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney by Jessica A. Volz [Anthem Press, 2017. 252pp. ISBN 978-1783086603] will appear in the Spring 2020 issue of Eighteenth-Century Fiction (32.3).
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Oakland University Literary Nonfiction Contest, 2018: “The Legend of Pamela: Or, ‘Oh the Sword! The Sword!’”
Emerging victorious after conquering the first bosses presented in Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, the Would-Be Ravishing Rake Mr. B. and his servant, “do as I’m told” Beastly Mrs. Jewkes, by marrying then subduing him, Pamela, our hero, has not seen the last of her trials on the quest from poverty to prosperity. Combining damsel-in-distress and hero qualities, she…
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Oakland University Honors College Newsletter, Echo Cognitio, April 2008: “Shakespeare Behind Bars”
This article appeared in the April 2008 issue of Echo Cognitio, the Oakland University Honors College newsletter.
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The Oakland Press’s Suburban Lifestyles weekly: “The Meaning of Words” column
This article appeared in the Feb. 25, 2008 issue of Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper by The Oakland Press.
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The Oakland Press’s Suburban Lifestyles weekly: “Documentary Focuses on Prison Production of The Tempest”
This article appeared in the Feb. 18, 2008 issue of Suburban Styles Community Newspaper by The Oakland Press. It is cited on the ShakespeareBehindBars.org website.
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Cover Story: The Oakland Press’s Suburban Lifestyles weekly: “OU Art Gallery Hosts Professors Work”
This article appeared in the Feb. 4, 2008 issue of Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper by The Oakland Press.