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Faculty Spotlight - Dan Stockwell

High School Matters: (Re)Discovering Joy in the Discouraging Moment
by Dan Stockwell & Sergio G. Espain
This column shares the perspectives and experiences of a current high school English language arts teacher and provides action steps for (re)discovering joy in teaching.
Faculty Spotlight - Dan Stockwell

Teaching for CHANGE in the ELA Classroom: Integrating Social Justice and Critical Literacy for Grades 9-12
by Dan Stockwell
This book can help you incorporate critical literacy pedagogy into your high school English Language Arts (ELA) classroom, so that your students can use what they study in class to work toward making a more just and equitable world.
Through the acronym CHANGE, the book explores how critical literacy pedagogy can support students as they Challenge injustice to Help make a difference in the world by Asking and answering tough questions and Noticing ways to Get involved and Engaged in making the world a better place. It first centers on the theory behind critical literacy pedagogy with Bob Fecho鈥檚 concept of wobble, the tensions teachers experience when different points of view collide in the classroom, and why being mindful of and responding to moments of wobble can help educators grow in their teaching practice. The book then provides practical, specific suggestions by grade level for high school ELA teachers to implement critical literacy pedagogy in their classrooms, and address the tensions and moments of discomfort and uncertainty they might experience while providing critical literacy pedagogy.
With detailed lesson plans and case study examples from in-service ELA teachers, this
book is an incredible resource for high school language arts teachers who are interested
in teaching for social justice and integrating critical literacy pedagogy into their
classrooms.
Monica Ayuso

- "Toward a Broader Definition of the Unrealistic: Louise Erdrich's Future Home of the Living God and Ernesto Quinonez's Tania." Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Vol. 34, No. 3. (2023).
- 鈥淭he Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat.鈥 English Studies 103 (2022): 642 - 644.
- "How Lucky for You That Your Tongue Can Taste the 'R' in 'Parsley'": Trauma Theory
and the Literature of Hispaniola.鈥 Afro-Hispanic Review 30 (2011): 47.
- 鈥淎 stereoscopic reading of Rosario Ferr茅鈥檚 鈥淓l cuento envenenado鈥 and 鈥淭he Poisoned
Story鈥.鈥 Translation and Interpreting Studies (2019).
- 鈥淭oward Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Three Novels from Haiti.鈥 Journal of Haitian Studies 22 (2016): 104 - 83.
- 鈥淰irginia Woolf in Mexico and Puerto Rico.鈥 Woolf Studies Annual 14 (2008): 1.
Robert Carlisle

- The adaptation of vampire motifs from folklore into literature and film. Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance, 11 (3), 337-356. 2018.
- Environmental markedness in Portuguese-English contact. In M. Yavas, M. Kehoe, & W. Cardoso (Eds.), Romance-Germanic Bilingual Phonology (pp. 157-180). Sheffield, England: Equinox Publishing Ltd. 2017.
- The production of /.sC/ onsets in a markedness relationship: Investigating the Ontogeny Phylogeny Model with longitudinal data. With Cutillas Espinosa, J. A. In M. Yavas (Ed.), Unusual Productions in Phonology: Universals and Language-Specific Considerations (pp. 183-205). New York: Psychology Press / Taylor Francis. 2015.
- Segments. In C. Chapelle (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell. 2012.
- Word-final sonority as an environmental constraint on prothesis. In A. Rauber, M. Watkins, R. Silveira & R. Koerich (Eds.), The Acquisition of Second Language Speech: Studies in Honor of Professor Barbara O. Baptista (pp. 243-266). Santa Catarina: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. 2010.
- The sonority cycle and the acquisition of complex onsets. In B. Baptista & A. Watkins (Eds.), English with a Latin Beat: Studies in Portuguese/Spanish-English Interphonology (pp. 105-137). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2006.
- The acquisition of two and three member onsets: Time III of a longitudinal study. In A. James & J. Leather (Eds.), New Sounds 2000 (pp.42-47). Klagenfurt, Austria: University of Klagenfurt Press. 2002.
- Syllable structure universals and second language acquisition. International Journal of English Studies, 1 (1), 1-19. 2001.
Emerson Case

- "Reading, discussing, and sharing: Creation of a vibrant transnational online learning community through the International Book Club.鈥 With Angieszka Kaczmarek and Sebastian Zatylny. Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, vol. 10, no. 1, 13 Mar. 2024, pp. 1鈥25.
- "Risk in the Teaching and Learning of Speaking in Poland in the Early Covid-19 Pandemic Period." With Sebastian Zatylny. In Risk in Global Communication (Agnieszka Irena Kaczmarek, ed.), Leipziger Universit盲tsverlag, 2022. pps. 33-50.
- 鈥淐onnecting Intensive English Program Students to Campus and Community through a Common Reader Program.鈥 Proceedings of MAC 2018 in Prague. Prague, Czech Republic: MAC
Prague Consulting s.r.o., May 2018. - 鈥淐ollaborating with Local High Schools: Your Senior Will Be My First Year Student.鈥 In Lacy, Meagan (Ed.), The Slow Book Revolution: Creating a New Culture of Reading on College Campuses and Beyond. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2014.
- 鈥淲ith a Village: Community One Book Partnership Ameliorates College Preparation Deficit.鈥 With Sarah Philips. Imagine, Innovate, Inspire: The Proceedings of the ACRL 2013 Conference. Association of College & Research Libraries, March 29, 2013.
- 鈥淐ontextualizing Information Literacy Enrichment Through a Common Reader in a First-Year Experience Seminar.鈥 With Sarah Philips. College & Undergraduate Libraries, Volume 20, Number 1, March 2013.
- 鈥淪erving Generation 1.5: Academic Library Use and Students from Non-English Speaking 贬辞耻蝉别丑辞濒诲蝉.鈥 With Curt Asher and Ying Zhong. College & Research Libraries, Volume 70, Number 3, May 2009.
- 鈥淎 Generation in Transition: A Study of the Usage and Attitudes Toward Public Libraries by Generation 1.5 Composition Students.鈥 With Curt Asher. Reference & User Services Quarterly. Volume 47. Number 3, Spring 2008.
- Making the Transition from an Intensive English Program to Mainstream University Classes: An Ethnographic Study. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press. 2004.
Carol Dell'Amico

- 鈥淕ender and Sexuality.鈥 John Banville in Context. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2025.
- 鈥淩adical Vulnerability in Sally Rooney鈥檚 Conversations with Friends.鈥 New Hibernia Review 27 (3), 2023.
- 鈥淧er Petterson鈥檚 Out Stealing Horses: On World Literature and the Logic of the Beneficiary.鈥 CEA Critic 83 (1), 2021.
- 鈥淛ean Rhys鈥檚 鈥楾emps Perdi鈥: Space, Disability, and the Second World War.鈥 Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal 16 (2), 2020.
- Irish Migration Studies in Latin America. Guest Editor, 9 (3), 2020.
- 鈥淛ohn Banville and Benjamin Black: The Mundo, Crime, Women.鈥 E虂ire Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 49 (1-2), 2014.
- 鈥淎nne Enright鈥檚 The Gathering: Trauma, Testimony, Memory.鈥 New Hibernia Review 14 (3), 2010. *Reprinted, Gale Cengage, 2017.
- Introduction. Bliss and other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006.
- Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys. Routledge, 2005. *Reissued in paperback, Routledge, 2010, *solicited for the broader overseas market by Lambert Academic as Postcolonial Rhys: The Modernist Period, 2011.
- Foreword. Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Nonfiction Works. Vols. 1-2 (2001), vols. 3-4 (2002), vol. 5 (2003). Detroit, Mich: Thomson Gale, 2001-2003.
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf in Novels for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Novels. Ed. Elizabeth Thomason. Vol. 12. Detroit, Mich: Thomson Gale, 2001, pp. 148-167.
- A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf in Nonfiction Classics for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context and Criticism on Commonly Studied Nonfiction Works. Vol. 2. Ed. Anne M. Hacht. Detroit, Mich: Thomson Gale, 2001, pp. 316-339.
Kim Flachmann

- The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading, and Writing, with Michael Flachmann (Prentice Hall/Pearson, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005,
2006, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020).
- Mosaics: Reading and Writing Paragraphs (Pearson, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2020).
- Mosaics: Reading and Writing Essays (Pearson, 2011, 2014, 2017).
- Nexus: A Rhetorical Reader for Writers, with Michael Flachmann (Pearson, 2012, 2014).
- 鈥淧edagogies of Inclusive Excellence (PIE),鈥 Strategies for Equity, 糖心Vlog视频 (May 2024).
- 鈥淚mproving Equity through Writing Assignments: A Path to Student Success," Student Success Network (Mar 2023).
- 鈥淪ealing our 50-Year Time Capsule,鈥 糖心Vlog视频 (Nov 29, 2022).
- 鈥淎daptations and Successes: Insights from Teaching During the Pandemic,鈥 Digital Learning Webinar, Pearson Publishing (Dec 7, 2021).
- 鈥淩eading, Writing, Ready!鈥 with Zulmara Cline and Chris Street, Leadership (May/June 2008).
Steve Frye

- "'An Unknown Tongue': God, Complexity, and the Limits of Secular Epistemology in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger and Stella Maris." MFS: Modern Fiction Studies (Forthcmong Winter 2025).
- Unguessed Kinships: Literary Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2023.
- "Cormac McCarthy," Oxford Online Biblography. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022.
- "McCarthy and the Nineteenth-Century: Melville, Dostoevsky, and the American Romance Tradition." Approaches to Teaching Cormac McCarthy. (Peebles, S. and West, B., eds). Modern Language Association. (2021).
- Cormac McCarthy in Context. Cambridge University Press. (Editor and Contributor). 2020.
- "Naturalism, Aesthetics, and the New Hollywood Cinema." Studies in American Naturalism. (Summer 2020).
- "Naturalistm and the LIterature of the American West." Studies in American Naturalism. (Summer 2020).
- Understanding Larry McMurtry. University of South Carolina Press. Understanding Contemporary American Literature Series. 2017.
- The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West. Cambridge University Press. (Editor and Contributor). 2016.
- The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy. Cambridge University Press. (Editor and Contributor). 2013.
- "Melville and Metaphysics." Critical Insights: Herman Melville, EBSCO Publishing and Salem Press. (2013).
- Crosscurrents: Reading in the Disciplines. With Eric Link. Pearson Education, 2012.
- "Naturalism and Religion."The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Naturalism. Oxford University Press (2011).
- Understanding Cormac McCarthy. University of South Carolina Press. Understanding Contemporary American Literature Series. 2009.
- "Presley's Pretense: Irony and Epic Convention in The Octopus." American Literary Realism. (Spring 2007).
Brooke Hughes

- Round Table Discussions, Case Western Reserve University, 2024.
- Write Here: Developing Writing Skills in a Media-Driven World. With Randi Brummett. Broadview, 2020.
- Contributor to 鈥淯se of Digital Courseware for a Developmental Writing Course in Higher Education.鈥 White House Initiative Report, 2018.
- 鈥溾橳he Road Less Traveled鈥: Course Redesign at CSU, Bakersfield.鈥 CiTE Annual Online Learning Conference, Chicago, IL, 2013.
- 鈥淐ourse Redesign: Solving Today鈥檚 Classroom Challenges with Technology.鈥 Course Redesign Conference, Keynote Presentation, Seattle, WA, April 2012.
- 鈥淐ourse Redesign in English Courses/Case Study.鈥 National Center for Academic Transformation Presentation, Orlando, FL, 2011.
- 鈥淗ow to Engage Students.鈥 National Center for Academic Transformation Presentation, Orlando, FL, 2011.
- 鈥淯sing Technology to Engage Students and Improve Results.鈥 Changing Times Changing Students Panel Discussion and Presentation, Stanford, CA, March 2011.
- 鈥淯sing Technology to Create a More Effective Learning Environment.鈥 Changing Times Changing Students Keynote Presentation, Boston, MA, April 2011.
- 鈥淥vercoming Barriers to Entry: Changing the Culture for Faculty.鈥 National Center for Academic Transformation, San Diego, CA, 2010.
Charles MacQuarrie

- 鈥淲ork-in-Progress鈥撯擫anguage, Culture, and Heritage: The VR Experience The Book of Distance and Teaching the Family Folklore Project.鈥 With R. Tatro-Duarte. 7th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN), 2021
- The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea: Manann谩n. and his Neighbors. Charles MacQuarrie, Joseph Nagy (eds). Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam Press, 2019.
- 鈥淭he Isle of Man in Medieval Gaelic literature,鈥 Vol 3 of A New History of the Isle of Man. (University of Liverpool). Aug 2015.
- The Waves of Manannan. Isle of Man: Lily Publications, 2013.
- 鈥淐elticity in the works of William Shakespeare: 鈥楬eavens defend me from that Welsh fairy, lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!' Celts and Their Cultures at Home and Abroad: A Festschrift for Nalcolm Broun, pp. 149鈥167. (2013)
- Handbook for Doing Grammar, fourth edition. Oxford UP, 2010.
- 鈥淩ecognizing gods in guises. Identity, performance, and performative reading in O鈥橠onnell鈥檚 kern.鈥 CSANA Yearbook 2010. Colgate University Press.
- "Yoknapatawpha County and 'Cracker Culture: A Study of the 'Celtic' Component in Faulkner's Mythical South," published in English and Japanese by the Faulkner Journal of Japan (University of Tokyo). June 2005.
- The Biography of the Irish God of the Sea. Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales: Edwin Mellen, 2004.
- From Manann谩n to Bercilak: The Green Knight and the Gaelic Otherworld God in Disguise.鈥 The Journal of Manx Studies/ Studeyrys Manninagh.1.3. (2003).
- 鈥淚nsular Celtic Tattooing: History, Myth, and Metaphor鈥 in Written On the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History,鈥 edited by Jane Caplan. Reaktion Books, 2000. 32-45. Hardback and paperback Published by Princeton University Press, 2000.
Adam Schuster

- 鈥淪ynthesizing Sounds: Vibration, Poetry, and Belonging in Sun Ra鈥檚 Space Age.鈥 JMMLA: Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association (forthcoming).
- 鈥溾楤oundaries Bind Unbinding鈥: Jazz and Cold War Cosmopolitanism in the Margins of
Langston Hughes鈥檚 Ask Your Mama.鈥 MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 46, no. 1, March 2021.
- 鈥淐omics and Stuff: Why Popular Culture Matters,鈥 Moderator: A Conversation with Henry Jenkins III and Ramzi Fawaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(October 2021).
- 鈥淚mproper Archives: Big Bill Broonzy and the Revised Musical Record.鈥 The Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (June 2019).
Dan Stockwell

- "High School Matters: (Re)Discovering Joy in the Discouraging Moment." English Journal, 114(6), 15-17.
- "Retaking the teaching profession: A case for being brave." English Journal, 114(2), 68-75.
- 鈥淭eaching for CHANGE in the ELA Classroom: Integrating Social Justice and Critical Literacy for Grades 9-12.鈥 Routledge, 2025.
- 鈥淭he impact of analyzing young adult literature for racial identity / social justice orientation with interdisciplinary students.鈥 With R. S. Savitz and L. Roberts. Journal of College Reading and Learning, 52(4), 264鈥289, 2022.
- 鈥淪tudent voice is power: Incorporating critical witness and testimony in middle school classrooms.鈥 With R. S. Savitz. In J. Dehart., C. Meyer., & K. Walker (Eds.), Connecting theory and practice in middle school literacy: Critical conversations (pp. 25鈥41). Routledge, 2022.
- Teaching for CHANGE in Secondary ELA Classrooms. Session presentation at California Association of Teachers of English Annual Conference in Los Angeles, CA, March 1, 2024.
- Social justice pedagogies in social studies and English language arts instruction. With E. McDonald. Paper presentation at Journal of Language and Literacy Education
(JoLLE) Winter Conference in Athens, GA, February 6, 2021.
- Video essays and digital literacies. Session presentation at the Building Bridges Annual Conference in Bakersfield, CA,
April 12, 2024.
- Learning from moments of wobble: Pushing through tensions to provide critical literacy instruction. Paper Presentation at Literacy Research Association Annual Conference in Atlanta, GA, November 29, 2023.
Matthew Woodman

- "Park Fire Minor Arcana.鈥 (Winner of 2024 Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize). Puerto del Sol, vol. 60, no. 1, Spring 2025. Forthcoming.
- Writing Covid. Contributing Editor. 2022.
- 鈥淩ufino Tamayo鈥檚鈥Prometheus Bringing Fire to Mankind.鈥鈥UNESCO Art Collection: Selected Works, 2021, pp. 52-54.
- This Is Not Your Moon. Holding for Dissolve Press, 2020.
- 鈥凄别肠辞濒辞苍颈锄补迟颈辞苍.鈥 Storm Cellar, vol. 7, no. 2, 2019.
- 鈥淩eason to Believe鈥 and 鈥淕eography Lessons.鈥 Shut Down Strangers and Hot Rod Angels: An Anthology Inspired by the Music of Bruce
Springsteen, edited by Jessie Lynn McMains, Bone & Ink Press, 2019, pp. 82, 153.
- 鈥淪pectral Bird鈥 and 鈥淲oman with Bird Cage.鈥 Sugar House Review, vol. 19, 2019, p. 53.
- 鈥淥de to a Roadrunner.鈥 Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems, edited by David Meischen and Scott Wiggerman. Dos Gatos Press, 2018, p. 10.