Recent Faculty Research and Activity

Writing Department Chair Dr. Brian Clements’s 200-day project Every Atom: Reflections on Whitman at 200 appeared at North American Review from May through December in 2019.

At the Fall 2019 International Writing Centers Association Annual Conference in Columbus, Ohio, Writing Center Coordinator Dr. Kelli Custer presented the results of a research study with four student collaborators: Molly Clark (Creative & Professional Writing MFA); Joseph Oliveri (Communication, Journalism minor); William Silvia (Psychology & Interdisciplinary Studies, Writing minor); and Anna Simoes (Professional Writing). The panel presentation, “Tutors’ Development of Self-Efficacy: An Exploration in Four Genres,” was grounded in a mixed-methods, semester-long study of what factors affect a peer tutor’s perception of their effectiveness and confidence over time.

MFA Coordinator Prof. Anthony D’Aries’s essay “Memorial Day” appeared in 2021 at Grub Street.

Writing Professor Dr. Oscar De Los Santos has launched a podcast with Writing Department Adjunct Assistant Professor Kelly Goodridge called Talking the Weird, a never-ending exploration of high strangeness, ufology, the paranormal, conspiracy, and more.

CSU Distinguished Professor Dr. Ed Hagan published “The Chimera of Irish-American Identity,” a review of Follow the Sun and The Big Impossible by Edward J. Delaney in Irish Literary Supplement 40.1.

Freshman Writing Coordinator Dr. Michael Lewis’s paper “Leo Braudy’s ‘Lockstep’ Thirty Years Later: Anecdotal and Polemical Reflections” appeared in the ADE Bulletin in 2020.

Writing Professor and Journalist Prof. John Roche continues to write on a freelance basis for several regional magazines and newspapers. Most recently, his interview with Margaret Brennan, moderator of Face The Nation on CBS, centering on the news media’s evolving role, the political turmoil of the past year and the impacts of the pandemic, was published in Connecticut Magazine.