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FACULTY RECOGNITION

DR. CHRIS CAIRNEY, professor of English and assistant chair
of the Department of English, presented “From Hermeneutic
Phenomenology to Student Engagement: Intertextuality and
Intratextuality as Tools for Decoding Meaning in a Work of
Literature” as the keynote address at the 11th World Conference
on Educational Sciences in 2019. He served as editor of the
university-affiliated journal Culture in Focus in Spring 2018. He
presented “Intertextuality and Intratextuality as Aids in De-
coding Meaning in a Work of Literature” at the South Atlantic
Modern Language Association Conference in 2018. He also
published “Other Dragons or Dragon Others? A Cultural View
of the Loch Ness Monster” in Monsters of Fiction, Film, and Fa-
ble: The Cultural Links between the Human and Inhuman.
DR. MATTHEW CAVERLY, lecturer of political science, reviewed
Richard A. Koenisberg’s Hitler’s Holocaust in the article “The
Logic of War as the Logic of Genocide.” He presented “Presi-
dential Magnificence” at the 2018 Northeastern Political Science
Association Conference as well as “Issue Areas in the Age of
Jackson” at the 2018 Conference on American Political History.
DR. MARY CHRISTIAN, assistant professor of English, reviewed Bernard Shaw’s Bridges to Chinese Cul-
ture for ELT and Bernard Shaw’s Marriages and Misalliances for Culture in Focus. She presented “Card-
players and Clergymen: Bernard Shaw, Henry Arthur Jones, and the Theater of the 1890s” at the Compar-
ative Drama Conference in 2018. She also presented “Sighting for Andromeda: Astronomy, Morality, and
World-Making in Late-Victorian Drama” at the 2018 North American Victorian Studies Association.
DR. LORETTA CLAYTON, professor of English and director of graduate student policy and support, pre-
sented “Dress as Performance: Modernism and Fashionable Activism” as part of the “Fashion as Expres-
sion and Activism” panel she organized and chaired at the 2018 South Atlantic Modern Language Associ-
ation Convention. She also presented “The Construction of Victorian Male Authorship through Aesthetic
Agendas: Fashion, Gender, and the ‘Sense of the Modern’ in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White and Lewis
Carroll’s Alice” at the North American Victorian Studies Association Conference in 2018. She organized
the Spring 2018 Georgia Council of Graduate Schools Conference as president of that organization.
DR. SHARON E. COLLEY, professor of English, presented “Tayari Jones’s Leaving Atlanta and the Atlanta
Child Murders” at the 2018 Modern Language Association Conference. She presented “Dueling Banjos or
Literary Harmony: Lee Smith as a Southern and/or Appalachian Writer” at the 2018 Bicentennial Society
for the Study of Southern Literature Conference. She also took undergraduate Writing Center tutors to
present “Planning Publicity: Connecting with Students” at the 2018 Southeastern Writing Center Associa-
tion Conference.
DR. LORRAINE DUBUISSON, associate professor of En-
glish, presented “Writing Marathons: Reducing Writing
Anxiety in Adolescent Writers” at the 2018 conference
of the Georgia Philological Association. She published
“President’s Forward” in volume 7 of the Journal of the
Georgia Philological Association. She reviewed The Fan-
fiction Reader: Folk Tales for the Digital Age by Fran-
cesca Coppa for volume 28 of Transformative Works and
Culture.
DR. SUSAN DURR, professor of social science, reviewed
The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell and John Gray in
CHOICE.

DR. MARY LOU BRYANT FRANK authored the book The
Mind of a Peacemaker: The Psychology of Mediation.

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