Current Projects

Darwin Matters: Modernism and Mate Choice in Wharton, Joyce, and Hurston.  Book proposal under consideration by academic presses.

Translation.  Writing a series of seven interconnected short stories about an Irish-American family. 

 

Invited Talks and Presentations

        

          Madame Bovaries Ovaries,  Spirit of the Senses, Phoenix, February 2008

           

          Avoiding Grading Disasters, ASU Teaching Assistant Orientation, January 2008.

          Sample documents available here.

         

          "words, words, words": Stories about Family, Food, Memory, and Place,

          Barrett Drescher Talks, November 2007

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          Social and Biological Theories of Race, Spirit of the Senses, Phoenix, September 2007

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          Engaging Students I: Course Design for 100% Participation, ASU CLTE, Sept. 2006

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          Race and Contemporary Disease Studies, Barrett Drescher Talks, September 2005

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          Obtaining Learner-Centered Education Grants, Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence,

          August & September 2005

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          First-Year Success in The Human Event, Barrett Honors College Fall Assembly, October 2005

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Conferences and Workshops    

    On the Road with Creative Nonfiction, Spring 2008

     Creative writing seminar with Lee Gutkind, ASU, January-May 2008    

    Journeys: Travel Writing and Memoir, Mid-south Creative Nonfiction Writers’ Conference,

     Oxford, MO, February 2008

    Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, New York City, January 2008

    Fiction Seminar, Fall 2007-Spring 2008
     MFA creative writing seminar with Anjana Appachana, ASU August 2007-May 2008

    Intensive Fiction Workshop, Spring 2007
    MFA Creative Writing workshop with Anjana Appachana, ASU, January-May 2007

    Key West Literary Seminar, Key West, Florida, January 2007

    Creating a Culture of Teaching Excellence, ASU Distinguished Teaching Academy, April 2006

    Forms of Fiction, Spring 2006

MFA Creative Writing seminar with T.M. McNally, ASU, January-May 2006.

    Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Austin, TX, March 2006.

         

With poet Ruth Ellen Kocher and Clackamas

Literary Review Editor Amanda Coffey at AWP 2006.

    Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, ASU, February 2006

Three day Fiction Writing Workshop with novelist Indu Sundaresan.
 

    Indiana University Writers Conference, IU, June 2005

Five day Fiction Writing Workshop with Director of IU Creative Writing Program, Tony Ardizzone. 

   
    Tri-University Collaboration on Learner-Centered Practice, 2002-2003

One of 15 ASU faculty chosen to join University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University participants in a year-long Arizona Board of Regents sponsored project that assists faculty in enhancing student learning through learner-centered pedagogical strategies.

Refereed Conference Presentations (selected):

“Authoritative Performances: Challenges to the Science of Race from the Harlem Renaissance to the Human Genome.”  Midwest Modern Language Association, St. Louis, MO, November 2004.

“Dismantling Legacies of "Race": Toni Morrison’s "Recitatif" and Challenges for 21^st-Century Literary Criticism.”  American Literature Association Conference, Cambridge, MA, May 2003.

“Conceptualizing ‘Afro-Celtic Connections: The Harlem and Irish Renaissances.’”  Pedagogy, Praxis, and Politics: Multi-Ethnic Literature in U.S. Education, MELUS, Seattle, WA, April 2002.

“The ‘lift of a broken wing’: Darwinian Themes of Descent and Selection in Edith Wharton’s Summer.”  Edith Wharton at the Mount, Lenox, MA, June 1997. 

“Composing the Literary Survey Course.” College Composition & Communication, Tempe, AZ, March 1997.

“Summer: Wharton’s Revision of Bond/age in Community.” Edith Wharton at Yale, New Haven, April 1995.

“Mary Doyle Curran” and “Mike Quinn.”  The Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature.  Ed. Emmanuel Nelson.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 2005.  535-6, 1829-31.

 

“Postwar Play: Gender Performatives in Faulkner's Soldiers’ Pay.”  The Faulkner Journal 14.1 (Fall 1998): 3-20.  Lead article in volume guest-edited by Michael Zeitlin.

“Review of Edith Wharton's Brave New Politics” by Dale M. Bauer.  MELUS 23.2 (Summer 1998): 237-41.

   

    Grants for Curriculum Development

Grants for Scholarship

Sol & Esther Drescher Faculty Research Grants