English

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English Philosophy Faculty

• Recent research, scholarly, and creative
  activities of some of our full-time faculty
  members

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Dr. Stacey Ake

• Scholarly Publications
• Apuleius Direct and Indirect influences on the
  Thought of Kierkegaard IN Kierkegaard and the
  Roman World, Volume 3 in the series Kierkegaard
  Research Sources, Reception, and Resources,
  Ashgate Publishing, Ed. Jon Stewart, Kierkegaard
  Research Center, Copenhagen,
• DK
• Ake, Stacey E. 2003. Un clon,
• o como se le llame, es un ser
• humano. IN Ciencia y religión
• hoy Diálogos en torno a la
• naturaleza, Editorial UPAEP,
• Puebla, Mexico.

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• Popular Publications
• Percy and Mrs. ONeill. IN Writing Centered An
  Online Publication of the Drexel Writing Center,
  http//www.drexel.edu/writingcentered/staceyake.ht
  ml - 2007
• History of a Marriage The Violence of Love in A
  History of Violence. IN ASK The Journal of the
  College of Arts Sciences at Drexel University,
  http//www.drexel.edu/coas/ask/essays-articles/1-2
  3-history-of-marriage1.asp - 2007
• When Humanity Fails An Interview with Romeo
  Dallaire. . IN ASK http//drexel.edu/academics/c
  oas/ask/featured-interviews/3-28-dallaire.asp -
  2007
• Mediagate. IN ASK http//drexel.edu/academics/coa
  s/ask/essays-articles/11-10-mediagate1.asp - 2006
• In Defense of Danish Cartoons. IN ASK
  http//www.drexel.edu/coas/ask/essays-articles/dan
  ish-cartoons.asp - 2006

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• Paper Presentations
• Why timing is more important than time emergence
  and synergism in biosemiotic processes. Semiotic
  Society of America, 31st Annual Meeting,
  Biosemiotics Symposium, Purdue University, 28
  September-01 October 2006.
• Semiosis and Biosemiosis The Emergence of
  Meaning in Life. Star Island Conference on
  Emergence Natures Mode of Creativity of the
  Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, 29
  July-05 August 2006.
• From Semiotics to Biosemiotics The Insurrection
  of Life. Sixth International Congress on
  Biosemiotics, Salzburg, Austria, 5-9 July 2006.
• When God Does Roll Dice Finitude and Natural
  Evil in the Thought of C.S. Peirce. Society for
  the Advancement of American Philosophy, Central
  Division American Philosophical Association
  Meeting, Chicago, IL, 26-29 April 2006.

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• Book Reviews
• Roush, Sherrilyn. Tracking Truth Knowledge,
  Evidence, and Science. ZYGON Journal of Religion
  and Science, in press.
• Herzfeld, Noreen. In Our Image Artificial
  Intelligence and the Human Spirit. ZYGON Journal
  of Religion and Science, in press.
• Pollack, Robert. The Faith of Biology The
  Biology of Faith Order, Meaning and Free Will in
  Modern Medical Science. ZYGON Journal of
  Religion and Science, Vol. 41 No. 2, June 2006.
• Barbour, Ian. Nature, Human Nature, and God.
  Reports of the National Center for Science
  Education, Vol. 24, No. 3, May 2004.

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• Funded Grants
• NEUROENGINEERING PROGRAM BRAIN-MACHINE INTERFACE
  FOR RESTORATION OF SENSORY AND MOTOR FUNCTION,
  Karen Anne Moxon and Jonathan Nissanov, funded by
  Drexel MRI (Major Research Initiative).
• Unfunded Grants
• Personal Tissue Engineering and Regenerative
  Medicine, MRI, Peter Lelkes, et al.
• Brain-Machine Interface, IGERT
• Personal Tissue Engineering, IGERT
• Penn Humanities Forum, Mellon Regional Research
  Fellowships, 2007-2008, Origins
• Penn Humanities Forum, Mellon Regional Research
  Fellowships, 2004-2005, Belief
• Cambridge Templeton Consortium The Emergence of
  Biological Complexity, 2005

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Dr. Valarie Arms

• As a continuation of her interest in innovation,
  she developed English Alive, a three term hybrid
  composition/reading course that used the cultural
  resources of the city as supplemental course
  material. The pilot sequence was well received by
  faculty and students and elements have been
  incorporated into the freshman sequence.

• IRT used our experience to make significant
  changes in the course technology.

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• For her sabbatical, entitled  "Pedagogy for a
  Digital Age," she proposes to research the use of
  technology as a humanistic endeavor at a number
  of universities in Australia and New Zealand in
  hopes of improving the quality of our required
  English sequence and thereby, the retention of
  freshmen. The opportunity to create engaging
  courses may lie in the use of an online English
  sequence that relies on a well developed
  curriculum, well-trained teachers, and meaningful
  learning using technology. She will incorporate
  her research into possibly an e-book or online
  resource for faculty development sessions that
  Drexel faculty, as well as other faculty, may
  take to prepare them to teach freshmen. Adjunct
  and auxiliary faculty teach the majority of these
  courses, often with little consistency between
  sections, and with little allegiance to the
  particular university. EDUCAUSE and other major
  organizations have identified the need for our
  pedagogy to keep pace with the growth in
  technology and its use globally. If she is
  successful, her work should have broad impact in
  promoting teaching English in the digital age and
  thus engaging students with long term benefits.

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Dr. Richard Astro

• Grants
• Florida Learn and Serve (State Agency) - 24,500
  (2007-2008)
• State Farm Foundation - 94,000 (pending - made
  the first cut and decision in mid to late
  November)
• Dr. Astro also serves as the Chief Academic
  Officer for the National Consortium for Academics
  and Sports

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Dr. Raymond Brebach

• Assistant Editor of the Cambridge Edition of the
  Works of Joseph Conrad, Cambridge University Press

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Dr. Paula Marantz Cohen

• Novels
• Jane Austen in Scarsdale, or Love, Death, and the
  SATS (2006)
• Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan (2004)
• Jane Austen in Boca (2002)

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• Contributions to Books
• George Eliot, Literary Genius Reflections on
  Twenty-Five Great English and American Writers,
  Ed. Joseph Epstein (Philadelphia Paul Dry Books
  2007)
• The Dynamo, the Salesman, and the Playwright,
  New Essays on Death of a Salesman, Ed. Eric
  Sterling (Atlanta Rodopi Press), forthcoming.
• Play
• The Triangle

• Scholarly Articles, Essays, and Stories
• New Books on Hitchcock, Times Literary
  Supplement (forthcoming)

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• Scholarly Articles, Essays, and Stories contd
• The Moral Life and the Novel, Michigan
  Quarterly Review (Spring 2007)
• The Elusive Aesthetics of Vernon Lee, The Yale
  Review (January 2007)
• Why Read George Eliot? The American Scholar
  (Spring 2006)

• Henry James The Master of Suspense, The Yale
  Review (January 2006)

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• Radio
• Interviewed on Radio Times on novel writing
  (2004) on Jane Austen (2007)
• Radio essay In Praise of Silent Film on NPRs
  Been There Done That (March 2003)
• Television
• The Drexel InterView (Host and writer) 2002-
  present (currently broadcast on DUTV and WYBE)
• Editor
• Co-editor, jml The Journal of Modern Literature
  (the journal of record in modern literature)

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• In Progress
• Novel What Alice Knew (a novel about Henry,
  William, and Alice James)
• Short Story collection Suburban Tales
• Novel French Lessons
• Essay Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the
  Writing of Aurora Leigh
• Text on contemporary painter Nelson Shanks for
  Rizzoli

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Dr. Elaine DeLancey

• She received a grant in 2004-2005 from the
  Pennsylvania Humanities Council Arts Commentary
  for BMa The Sonia Sanchez Literary Review, for
  which she is the Editor

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Dr. Gabriella Ibieta

• Dr. Ibieta wrote an essay entitled Fragmented
  Memories in the book ReMembering Cuba

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Dr. Miriam KotzinDirector of Certificate Program
in Writing and Publishing

• Founding editor of Per Contra The
  International Journal of the Arts, Literature and
  Ideas editor for fiction, poetry and visual
  arts. (www.percontra.net), 2005 to present.

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• Contributing editor for Boulevard since its
  inception.
• Author of
• A History of Drexel University, Philadelphia,
  l983.
• Short fiction more than 75 stories published in
  periodicals.
• Poetry more than 125 poems published in
  periodicals and anthologies.
• Three nominations for Pushcart Prize in poetry.
• Fiction Country Music chosen as one of the
• Notable Stories of the Web 2005 in the Million
• Writers Contest.

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Dr. Stephen Mandell

• Co-Author of the Brief Wadworth Handbook and
  Literature Reading, Reacting, Writing

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Dr. Abioseh PorterDepartment Head

• PART OF A MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT
• RE Knowledge is more than mere words.
• Wey Dehn Sey? Dehn Sey Kapu Sehns Nor Kapu Word
• A Critical Introduction to Sierra Leonean
  Literature
• Eustace Palmer and Abioseh Porter (hereinafter
  called the Editors) hereby grant and assign to
  Africa World Press, Inc (hereinafter called the
  Publisher) the sole and exclusive right to print,
  publish, distribute, sell or license the
  artistic/literary work (hereinafter called the
  Work), in book form, and in electronic format,
  under its own name or imprints, throughout the
  world. (To be published in 2008)

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• Local Reflections, External Memories,
  Unspeakable Thoughts Writers Re-Viewing Recent
  'Civil' Wars in West Africa. Presented at
  Association of New Literatures in English
  (ASNEL) Conference in Jena, Germany, May 17-20,
  2007.

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• Nov. 15-19, 2006 Chaired panel and Presented
  Paper on "The End and the Beginning Reading
  Africa and the World at the End of the Twentieth
  and the Dawn of the Twenty First Centuries, ASA
  Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA
• September 19-22, 2006 (Distinguished
  Invitation) "Confronting and Attempting to
  Resolve New Challenges to African Culture The
  Desk Top Publishing and the Internet as Useful
  Cultural/Pedagogical Tools in Twenty First
  Century Africa," 50th Anniversary of the First
  International Congress of Black Writers and
  Artists, UNESCO/Sorbonne, Paris, France.

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• Fictional Worlds, Symbolism and Struggles of
  (Under-)Development Kolawole Omotosos The
  Combat, West African Worlds Paths Through
  Socio-Economic Change, Livelihoods and
  Development Harlow, UK Pearson,/Prentice Hall,
  2005, 87-108.

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• Un anglophone et la francophonie in Autrement
  memes Homages à Roger Little Cass, London, 2002.

•  Revitalizing an Existing Cultural Phenomenon
  Treatment of the Abiku in La Naissance dabikou
  and Les Appels du voudou by Olympe Bhêly Quénum
  in www.obhelyquenum.com, and published in L
  Afrique des profondeurs Melanges offerts à
  Olympe Bhêly-Quénum (Paris Gallimard,
  2002)

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• Dr. Porter is also the Editor of the JALA, the
  Journal of the African Literature Assocation

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Dr. Doreen Alvarez Saar

• Conference Papers
• Hearth, Health and Herbs," American Society for
  Eighteenth Century Studies
• T o the right, lives a Catholic his belief,
  his prayers offend nobody The Case of
  Michel-Guillaume-Jean de Crèvecoeur, a Catholic
  in New York"  Anti-Popery Conference September
  2008 sponsored by McNeil Center for Early
  American Studies

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• Conference Papers
• "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography the View From
  the Tercentennial" for RMMLA
• A Colonial Makes Good" for David Nicol Smith
  Seminar, University of Otsago, New Zealand
• "A Publishing Mystery Crevecoeur's Letters." 
  Society for the History of Authorship. Reading
  and Publishing (SHARP)

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• Book Reviews
• Review Essay of Julie H. Kim, ed, Race and
  Religion in the Postcolonial British Detective
  Story and Gillian Mary Hanson, City and Shore
  the Function of Setting in the British Mystery 
  for the Journal of Modern Literature.
• Review of Angela Viettos Women and Authorship in
  Revolutionary America for The Eighteenth-Century
  Intelligencer
• The Eighteenth Century Novel. Volume 3. Edited by
  Albert J. Rivero and George Justice for The
  Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer

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Dr. Eva Thury

• Narratives in Various Forms
• Mythology
• Readers and Libraries
• Students as Readers of Literature

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Mythology
2005 edition
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Readers and Libraries

• Advisor, The Delaware County Library System.
  Facilitated grant from the Pennsylvania
  Humanities Council for initiating adult library
  programming (with Doreen Saar). Duties involved
  administering program, recruiting and training
  facilitators for discussion groups, identifying
  and hiring guests speaker for seven separate
  sessions coordinated with the discussion groups,
  serving as a facilitator for groups of adults who
  read American and English mystery stories. Total
  grant budget was 79,700.00. 2003.
• Discussion leader, Pennsylvania Humanities
  Council. Library Book Discussion Groups. 2001,
  2003, 2004, 2006.

Library Discussion Group, KC Public Library
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Students as Readers of Literature

• Past Work "A Study of Reader Response Journals
  Students' Interaction with Literary Texts" (with
  Alexander Friedlander) in Empirical Approaches to
  Literature and Aesthetics, ed. Mary Sue MacNealy
  and Art Graesser, 1995, Ablex.
• Recipient Drexel Seed Grant. Study of readers'
  attitudes toward literature and their cognitive
  and imaginative processes in reading a complex
  literary text (by Borges), with László Halász,
  Ph. D, D. Sci., Research Institute for Psychology
  of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
  International (Hungary, Italy, U.S.) project on
  student readers interactions with literature.
• Goal External Funding, perhaps NEH, on further
  phases of this project.

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Dr. Scott WarnockDirector of the Freshman
Writing Program

• Recent conference papers
• (Accepted) A hurricane relief online writing
  course as a site of community. Conference on
  College Composition and Communication. New
  Orleans. April 2008.

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• Recent conference papers, contd
• (Accepted) With Frank Linnehan. Responding to
  accreditation pressure An assessment structure
  to evaluate business student writing. Third
  International Santa Barbara Conference on Writing
  Research Writing Research Across Borders. Santa
  Barbara, CA. February 2008.
• (Accepted) With Valarie Arms and Dan
  Driscoll.English Alive Using the learners
  environment to build 21st century literacy.
  National Council of Teachers of English. New
  York. November 2007.

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• Recent conference papers, contd
• Online writing instruction and the disappearing
  educational interface. Rhetorics Technologies
  20th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and
  Composition. Collegeville, PA. July 2007.
• Then there were two an online writing
  initiatives growing pains. Distance Learning
  Administration 2007. St. Simons Island, GA. June
  2007.
• Using screen capture software to provide
  audio-visual feedback for student writing.
  Telecommunications Cooperative for Colorado
  Technology Conference. Estes Park, CO. April
  2007.

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• Publications
• And Then There Were Two The Growing Pains of an
  Online Writing Course Faculty Training
  Initiative. Proceedings of the Distance Learning
  Administration 2007 Conference. June 2007.
• With Michael Kahn. Expressive/Exploratory
  Technical Writing (XTW) in Engineering Shifting
  the Technical Writing Curriculum. The Journal of
  Technical Writing and Communication. 37.1 (2007)
  39-59.
• Could Trump U Help E-learning Advocates?
  Academic Exchange Extra. August 2006.
  http//asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/2006/
  8/index.html.

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• Recent Grant Applications
• Microsoft Tablet Grant. PI Craig Scott (Dr.
  Warnock was co-author). Microsoft.
• Inquiry letter to support English Alive
  program. PI Valarie Arms and Scott Warnock. The
  Lenfest Foundation. 450,000 (submitted 2/13/06).
• Assessment Coordinator. REBOUND Research
  Experience in Biofabrication for Outstanding
  Undergraduates at Drexel. Primary investigator
  Dr. Wei Sun (submitted 8/05).
• Co-primary investigator with Valarie Arms and
  Elizabeth Haslam. Vertical Teaming through
  Technology Developing Writing Assessments and
  Determining Outcomes Significance. Department of
  Educations Institute of Education Sciences
  Reading and Writing Education Research Grants
  Program (submitted 7/05).
• Aligning Assessment with Stated Learning
  Outcomes. PI Stephanie Gradwell and Scott
  Warnock. Blackboard Greenhouse Project (submitted
  1/26/05).

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• Publications, contd
• With Andrew McCann. Structured, Online
  Evaluations and the First-Year Design Process.
  Learning Technology (a publication of IEEE
  Computer Society). 6.4 (October 2004) 4-5.