The Maryland Arts Council awarded Ron Tanner a 2013 grant for his novel-in-progress, Missile Paradise. Ron was also a finalist in both the Lamar York Fiction and Nonfiction competitions. His story, "Winnemucca," will be published in the Chattahoochee Review. The story is a chapter from Drummer Girl, his novel-in-progress.
Ron Tanner has published the following essays and articles in spring 2013: "House Love," in Style magazine; "Breaking and Entering," in Baltimore Fishbowl; "How to Sell a Book in America," in Poets and Writers magazine; and "Preserving America," in the Alliance Review.
Lisa Zimmerelli, had a co-authored essay published in the Spring Issue of Conversations about collaboration across multiple Jesuit Universities. Laurie A. Britt-Smith, Lisa Zimmerelli, Cinthia Gannett, and and John Kerrigan. "Spread Out, But Close. Conversations and Collaborations: Eloquentia Perfecta on 21st Century Jesuit Campuses." Conversations 43 (Spring 2013): 20-21.
Allen Brizee has published the co-authored article “From Class to Community: EP 2.0 and the New
Media Legacy of Jesuit Education,” with Jenn Fishman (Marquette University) in Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education 43 (Spring 2013): 31-32.
Terre Ryan’s essay “Scatology” appeared in issue 12.5 of DIAGRAM.
Ron Tanner published the essay “The Running Boy” in the latest issue of Defunct, a literary magazine.
Allen Brizee’s co-authored article, “Writing Centers and Students with Disabilities: the User-Centered Approach, Participatory Design, and Empirical Research as Collaborative Methodologies” has been published in Computers and Composition: An International Journal 29.4 (2012).
Cindy Moore’s recent publications include two book chapters, on graduate-student mentoring and writing-program assessment, respectively, published in 2012: “Mentoring for Change” in Rewriting Success in Rhetoric and Composition Careers, Parlor Press, and “Changing the Language of Assessment: Lessons from Feminism” in Writing Assessment in the 21st Century: Essays in Honor of Edward M. White, Hampton Press.
Lisa Zimmerelli has published “’The Stereoscopic View of Truth’: Frances Willard’s Woman in the Pulpit as a Feminist Rhetoric of Theology" in Rhetoric Society Quarterly 42.4.
Ned Balbo has been awarded the 2012 Poets’ Prize for his book, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (Story Line Press, 2010).
Peggy O’Neill recently had two book chapters published: “How Does Writing Assessment Frame College Writing Programs?” in Writing Assessment in the 21st Century (Hampton, 2012) and “Politics of Research and Assessment in Writing” in International Advances in Writing Research: Cultures, Places, Measures (Parlor Press and WAC Clearinghouse, 2012).
Allen Brizee’s co-authored book chapter, "The Engaged Dissertation: Three Points of View" was recently published in the edited collection, Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education (Graduate School Press, Syracuse University, 2012).
Terre Ryan was awarded a 2012 summer research fellowship at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks for her project, "Setting Liberty’s Table." Dr. Ryan's work examines the twentieth century's victory gardening movements and contemporary discourses about public health, energy, food production and security, and sustainability. For more information about Dumbarton Oaks and the fellowship program, visit http://www.doaks.org/.
Tim Houghton's fifth collection of poems, The Height in Between, has just been published (Orchises Press 2012). He worked on poems for that book at the MacDowell Colony and Hawthornden Castle International Retreat.
Terre Ryan's This Ecstatic Nation, a work of nonfiction, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in September 2011.
Jane Satterfield was awarded 1st prize in the 2011 Mslexia Poetry Competition judged by UK poet Jo Shapcott. Her winning poem, “The War Years,” was published in Mslexia 51 (2011). For more information, see: http://www.mslexia.co.uk/whatson/msbusiness/pcomp_past.php.
Andrea Leary won the 2011 Loyola University Maryland Faculty Award for Excellence in Service-Learning and Engaged Scholarship. Andrea also won the 2011 "Light the Fire" Meritorious Service Award for her service-learning work with the Arc Maryland in her Art of the Argument course.
Peggy O'Neill's most recent text is a co-authored volume, Reframing Writing Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning (2010), from Utah State University Press.
Ron Tanner won a 2009 Gertrude Press chapbook contest for his story "Wheels."
Cindy Moore and Peggy O'Neill published A Guide to College Writing Assessment with Utah State University Press in March 2009.
Brian Murray's The Bedside, Bathtub and Armchair Companion to Dickens (2009) is available from Continuum Press.
Jane Satterfield's book Daughters of Empire is available from Demeter Press (2009).
Peggy O'Neill's co-edited collection, Assessing Writing: A Critical Sourcebook, was published by Bedford St. Martin’s and NCTE (2008). The text includes articles on the history, theory, and practice of writing assessment.