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Gregory Bassham, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy

PUBLICATIONS

Bassham, Gregory, James Wallace, Henry Nardone, and William Irwin, Critical Thinking: An Introduction, forthcoming from Mayfield, 2001.

Review of Keith E. Whittington, “Constitutional Interpretation: Textual Meaning, Original Intent, and Judicial Review,” The Review of Politics, forthcoming, 2000.

Review of Joseph Desjardins (ed.), “Environmental Ethics: Concepts, Policy, and Theory,” Teaching Philosophy, forthcoming, Dec. 2000.

Review of Geoffrey Scarre, “Utilitarianism,” Teaching Philosophy, forthcoming, 2000.

Bassham, Gregory, and Marc Marchese, “Work Family Conflict: A Virtue Ethics Approach,” under editorial review.

Bassham, Gregory, and Henry Nardone, “Emotional Appeals in the Film ‘12 Angry Men,’” in Frans H. van Emeren, Rob Grootendorst, J. Anthony Blair, and Charles A. Willard (eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, 1999.

Review of Steven D. Smith, “The Constitution and the Pride of Reason,” The Review of Politics 61:1, 159-60, 1999.

Review of Robert Lowry Clinton, “God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo- American Constitutionalism,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 599, 188-89, September 1998.

Review of Douglas Soccio, “Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy,” Teaching Philosophy, 21:3, 275-76, 1998.

“Freedom’s Politics: A Review Essay of Ronald Dworkin’s Freedom’s Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution,” Notre Dame Law Review, 72: 1235-1276, 1997.

Bassham, Gregory, and Henry Nardone, “Using the Film ‘JFK’ to Teach Critical Thinking,” College Teaching 45: 10-13, 1997.

“Original Intent and the Constitution: A Philosophical Study,” in Rowman and Littlefield, 1992.

“Feminist Legal Theory: A Liberal Response,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 6: 293-319, 1992.

“Rethinking the Emerging Jurisprudence of Juvenile Death,” Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy 5: 467-501, 1991.

“Morality and the Constitution: A Review of Graham Walker’s Moral Foundations of Constitutional Thought: Current Problems, Augustinian Prospects,” Review of Politics 53: 718-21, 1991.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Bassham, Gregory, and Marc Marchese, “Using the Plous Test to Teach Critical Thinking and the Psychology of Judgment and Decision Making,” ISETA-99, Tempe, Az., October 1999.

Bassham, Gregory, Donald Farmer, Jean O’Brien, and Robert Paoletti, “An Integrated Approach to Teaching Critical Thinking,” AAHE Conference on Assessment and Quality, Denver, Co., June 1999.

Bassham, Gregory and Henry Nardone, “Beyond Skills: Teaching the Intellectual Virtues of a Critical Thinker,” ISETA-98, Cocoa Beach, Fl., October 1998.

“Using Games to Promote Active, Student-Centered Learning,” ISETA-98, Cocoa Beach, Fl., October 1998.

Bassham, Gregory and Henry Nardone, “Emotional Appeals in the Film ‘12 Angry Men,’” International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 1998.

“Comment on Nicholas Plants’ Therapeutic Interpretation: Rorty’s Pragmatic Hopes and Fears,” American Catholic Philosophical Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 1998.

Bassham, Gregory, and Henry Nardone, “Are All Values Relative? Using Role Playing to Encourage Critical Thinking about Moral Relativism,” ISETA-97, Fredicton, New Brunswick, Ct., October 1997.

Bassham, Gregory, Donald Farmer, Jean O’Brien, and Robert Paoletti, “An Integrative Approach to Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking,” AAHE Conference on Assessment and Quality, Miami Beach, Fl., June 1997.

“The Case against Physician-Assisted Suicide,” University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Mn., October 1995.

“Pornography, Censorship, and Equality,” University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Mn., October 1995.

Bassham, Gregory and Henry Nardone, “Using the Film ‘JFK’ to Teach Critical Thinking,” International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, Sonoma, Ca., August 1995.

“Pornography, Censorship, and Equality,” College of Wooster, Wooster, Oh., April 1995.

Bassham, Gregory and Henry Nardone “Using the Film ‘JFK’ to Teach Critical Thinking,” ISETA-94, Tempe, Az., October 1994.

Bassham, Gregory and Henry Nardone, “Using the Film ‘12 Angry Men’ to Teach Critical Thinking,” ISETA-93, Ogden, Ut., October 1993.

“Higher Education in the United States,” Tsingua University, Beijing, China, June 1993.

“Comment on Weiss’ Nietzsche on Pessimism, Pity, and Cruelty,” Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association, May 1993.

“Confidentiality Under the Pennsylvania Rules of Professional Conduct,” Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association Continuing Legal Education Program on Professional Responsibility, October 1992.

William A. Drumin, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“The Thematic Role of the Psychopathic Killer in the Filmwork of Alfred Hitchcock,” International Conference on Madness and Bliss in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, State University of West Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., November 2000.

“Norman Malcolm’s Ontological Argument,” conference on Saint Anselm, His Origins and Influence, Saint Anselm College; Manchester, N.H., March 31 – April 1, 2000.

“The Anti-Utopian Vision of Alfred Hitchcock,” International Conference on Utopia and Dystopia in Literature and the Visual Arts, Including Cinema, State University of West Georgia, Atlanta, Ga., November 1999.

“Critical Thinking and the Postmodernist Critique of Modern Science,” 19^th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca., July 1999.

“Using the Film ‘Inherit the Wind’ as a Learning Tool in Critical Thinking Courses and Across the Curriculum,” 17^th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform. Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca., August 1997.

“Using Critical Thinking to Combat Deceptive Practices in Mail Offerings, Promotions, and Advertisements,” 16^th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca., July 1996.

“Using the Films of Alfred Hitchcock to Teach Introductory Philosophy,” Biennial Workshop/Conference American Association of Philosophy Teachers, Montreal Canada, August 1994.

Rev. Anthony R. Grasso, C.S.C., Ph.D., associate professor of English

PUBLICATIONS

“Carlyle and Elizabeth Gaskell,” The Carlyle Encyclopedia, Victorians Institute Conference, Fairleigh-Dickinson Press, 2000.

“Autumn Ghazal,” “Interstate,” and “The Storm,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal XLIII, Winter 1998.   

“November Journey” and “Arrival of the King,” The Scop, King’s College, April 1995.

“Boat People” and “Signal,” The Scop, King’s College, Dec. 1994.

“Winter Aubade,” Seasons to Come, Owings Mills, Md., National Library of Poetry, 1994.

“The Thirteen Winds,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, XXXIX, Oct. 1994.

“Time-Warp,” In the West of Ireland, Enright House, Dromlought, Ireland, July 1994.

“Words,” The Scop, King’s College, April 1994.

“Seawall,” The Scop, King’s College, April 1993.

“The Last Visit,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, XXXVII, October 1992.

“Seawall,” Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bristol Banner Books, Bristol, In., July 1992.

“Sorin’s Dream,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, XXXVII, March 1992.

“Cello Piece,” Poetic Voices of America, Sparrowgrass Poetry Forum, January 1992.

“Cello Piece,” Prize Poems, Pennsylvania State Poetry Society, April 1991.

“Time-Warp,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, XXXVI, January 1991.

“Erosion,” Emily Dickinson: A First Book Affair,  Bristol Banner Books Bristol, In., Wyndham Hall Press, 1991

“Theology and Structure in ‘The Dream of the Rood,’” Religion and Literature, Vol. 23.5, Summer 1991.

“Fr. Sorin: Pioneering Spirit of Notre Dame,” Introduction, Fr. Sorin of Notre Dame, Bristol Banner, 1991.

“Morning Alarum,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Journal, XXXV, December 1990.

“Argument,” Pennsylvania Conference on College Teaching, Teaching Strategies, October 1990.

“Anima Vitae,” The Poetry Peddler, No. 2, April 1990.

“Gregorian,” Newman of Oxford, Bristol Banner Books, Bristol, In., Wyndham Hall Press, 1990.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Christian Images Reinterpreted in Some Modern Fictions,” Glen Eyrie Conference sponsored by IMAGE: a Journal of the Arts and Religion, Colorado Springs, Co., August 9-14, 1998. 

“Christian Images Reinterpreted in Delillo’s ‘White Noise’ and Janowitz’s ‘Slaves of New York,’” Northeast Regional Meeting, Conference on Christianity and Literature, St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., Nov. 4-5, 1997.

“Teaching Victorian Literature in the Undergraduate Classroom,” Panel discussion, Victorians Institute Conference, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va., October 10-11, 1997.

“Religion and the World,” Northeast Regional Meeting of Conference on Christianity and Literature, Pace University, Pleasantville, N.Y., November 18, 1995.

“Elizabeth Gaskell’s, ‘North and South,’” the Northeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, Proceedings, St. Joseph’s College, November 1995.

“Gurth Disen-‘Thrall’-ed: Gaskell’s Response to Paternalism in Carlyle’s ‘Past and Present,’” Victorians Institute Conference on “Carlyle and Cultural Critique,” University of South Carolina, October 13-14, 1995.

“Our Mutual Meal: The Metaphor of Communion in Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘North and South,’” Northeast Regional Meeting, Conference on Christianity and Literature, St. Joseph’s College, Patchogue, L.I., N.Y., November 1994.

“Alfred Tennyson Symposium,” Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, Waco, Tx., Oct. 8-10, 1992.

“‘Theodicaea Novissima’: Arthur Hallam’s Influence on Tennyson’s Poetry,” International Tennyson Conference, Lincoln, England, July 24-27, 1992.

“Dicken’s Bleak House,” Proceedings, the Northeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature, SUNY, Farmingdale, N.Y., October 1991.

“Dickens’ Notion of Charity,” Delta Epsilon Sigma Induction Ceremony, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 4, 1991.

“Argument and Critical Thinking,” Project Learn, King’s College/Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., February 15, 1991.

“Newman’s Idea of a University,” Faculty Colloquium, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., May 13, 1990.   

“Building a Solid Foundation: The Parables in Dickens’s Bleak House,” Northeastern Regional Conference on Christianity and Literature, SUNY, Farmingdale, N.Y., October 27, 1990.

“Give Me an Argument,” Northeastern Pennsylvania Teachers of Writing, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., May 17, 1990.

George Hammerbacher, Ph.D., professor of English

PUBLICATIONS

Hammerbacher, George and Jacqueline Berke, “What Every Writer Should Know About Language,” Belmont, Ca: Wadsworth Publishing Company.  Under contract.

“King’s College: a Catholic College in the Holy Cross Tradition,” editor, A Report of the Task Force on Catholic Identity, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 1999.

“Expert Opinion,” Thinking Skills Newsletter, p. 14, April 1991.

“Thesis/Conclusion,” Thinking Skills Newsletter, p. 13, January 1991.

“Opinion and Taste,” Thinking Skills Newsletter, p. 10, October 1990.

“Appeals to Pity and Fear,” Thinking Skills Newsletter, p. 11, April 1990.

Hammerbacher, George and Mildred S. Lawson, “Masculine and Feminine Ways of Thinking,” Proceedings of the Conference on Critical Thinking, Montclair State College, Montclair, N.J., 1990.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Faculty Development in Thinking Across the Curriculum,” The 16th International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca., July 1996.

“Teaching Thinking Across the Curriculum,” Faculty Development Workshop, North Adams State College, North Adams, Ma., May 1993.

“Designing Faculty Workshops for Critical Thinking,” A Case Study on Integrating Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 1993.

“Teaching Critical Thinking,” Teacher Inservice, Wyoming Area School District, Wyoming, Pa., October 1991.

“Literary Temptations,” Conference on Christianity and Literature, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., October 1991.

“Teaching Thinking Across the Curriculum,” Faculty Development Workshop, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., June 1991.

“He Don’t Know Nuthin’, Hainna?: Nonstandard Dialects in the Classroom,” Project Learn Conference, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., February 1991.

Hammerbacher, George and Mildred S. Lawson, “Masculine and Feminine Ways of Thinking: Pedagogical Implications for Teaching Critical Thinking,” Project Learn Conference, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., February 1991.

“Faculty Development,” Pennsylvania Department of Education Conference: Creating a Climate for Learning, Harrisburg, Pa., October 1990.

Hammerbach, George and Mildred S. Lawson, “Masculine and Feminine Ways of Thinking: Some Pedagogical Implications,” International Conference on Critical Thinking, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Ca., August 1990.

“Preparing Faculty to Teach Thinking Skills,” AAHE National Conference, San Francisco, Ca., April 1990.

“Ethnic Dialects in Northeastern Pennsylvania,” North Pocono High School, Moscow, Pa., February 1990.

“Dealing with Nonstandard Dialects,” E.L Meyers High School, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., February 1990.

Margaret Monahan Hogan, Ph.D., associate professor of philosophy

PUBLICATIONS:

“An Examination of the Legal, Ethical, and Public Policy Considerations Underlying DES Market Share Liability,” Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 24, No. 2, March 11, 2000.

Review of Lundmemer’s “A Time to Heal,” published in SBandF: The Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, January/February 2000.

Hogan, Margaret M. and Bernard J. Healey, “Children at Risk: Ethical and Public Policy Implications of Tobacco Access and Use,” Journal of the Academy of Business Law, January 1999.

Review of Otto Rank’s “Psychology and the Ranks: A Study of the Origin, Conceptual Evolution, and Nature of the Soul,” SBandF: The Journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, January/February 1999.

“Tris Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Sentence First: Verdict Afterwards,” Reading Engelhardt, Brendan P. Minogue, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandes, and James E. Reagan, eds., Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.

“Environmental Ethics and the Ethical Environment of the Undergraduate Curriculum,” review for the The Journal of General Education,” February 24, 1997.

“The Liberal Arts Tradition and the Postmodern Challenge,” review for The Journal of General Education, July 15, 1996.

“Warning Signs in Medical Ethics,” Social Justice Forum, September 19, 1995. 

“Case Presentation: Treatment of the Jehovah’s Witness: Medical/Ethical/Legal Challenge,” December 28, 1994.

“One Woman’s Perspective: Spirituality in Saint John Chrysostom,” Eastern Christian Studies Center, October 25, 1994.

Marriage and Finality, Marquette University Press, 1993.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Academic Integrity: To Snitch or Not to Snitch,” Kenan Center Conference, Duke University, April 10, 1999.

Hogan, Margaret M. and Bernard J. Healey, “Children at Risk: Ethical and Public Policy Implications of Tobacco Access and Use,” Allied Academies International Conference, April 1999.

“Good Ethics is Good Business,” Conference: The Economic Development Council of Northeastern Pennsylvania and Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry, May 21, 1998

Hogan, Margaret M. and John L. Young, “A Foray into the Foundations of the Ethics of Forensic Psychiatry,” American Academy of Forensic Psychiatry, San Francisco, Ca., February 14, 1998.

Hogan, Margaret M., Elizabeth A. Barrett and Robert McGonigle, “Academic Integrity Code: Would an Honor Code by Another Name Work as Well?”  Institute for College Student Values, Florida State University and the Templeton Foundation, February 6, 1998.

“Implementing Ex Corde Ecclesiae: A Good Time for Catholic Institutions,” Seton Hall University, June 24, 1997.

Hogan, Margaret M., Edward J. Schoen, and Joseph S. Falchek, “An Examination of the Legal and Ethical Issues Underlying DES Market Share Liability,” Annual Meeting: Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, March 8, 1997.  (Revised in 1998 and accepted for publication by The Journal of Business Ethics.)

Hogan, Margaret M., Donald Farmer and John Ryan, “Recovering the Moral Dimensions of Collegiate Education,” Conference of the Center for Student Values, Florida State University and the Templeton Foundation, February 6, 1997.

Hogan, Margaret M. and Brett A. Brown, “The Case of C.W.: Non-Voluntary Sterilization of the Mentally Retarded,” The Reconceptualization of Autonomy Section of World Congress of Bioethics, November 24, 1996.

“Collegiate Experience: Catalyst for the Enlargement of the Mind,” John Henry Newman Society, August 1996.

“College Assessment: A Practitioner’s Perspective,” Pennsylvania Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, May 2, 1996.

“H. Tristram Engelhardt and the Queen of Hearts: Verdict First; Evidence Afterwards,” invited paper conference in Youngstown, Oh., September 30, 1995.

“Kenneth Bergstedt,” March 23, 1994.

“Sexuality: An Ecumenical Conversation,” Muhlenberg College, October 1993.

“Marriage as an Intimate Personal Union: Consequences for Reproductive Finality,” ACPA New York Philosophical Roundtable, December 7, 1991.

William Irwin, Ph.D., assistant professor of philosophy

PUBLICATIONS

The Deathand Resurrection of the Author?,” Westport, Ct., Greenwood Press (forthcoming).

“Philosophy and the Philosophical, Literature and and the Literary, Borges and the Labyrinthine,” in Garcia, Korsmeyer, and Gasche, eds., Literary Philosophers, Routledge (forthcoming).

Irwin, William, M. Conard and A. Skoble, Philosophy and the Simpsons: Meditations on Springfield, Chicago, Il., Open Court Press (forthcoming, Fall 2001).

Irwin, William, G. Bassham, H. Nardone, and J. Wallace, Critical Thinking: An Introductory Course, Mountain View, Ca., Mayfield Publishing Company (forthcoming, Fall 2001).

“What Is an Allusion?” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, forthcoming.

“Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: On the Advantage of Nietzsche?” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming).

Review of William Elford Rogers’s “Interpreting Interpretation,” International Studies in Philosophy (forthcoming).

“A Critique of Hermeneutic Truth as Disclosure,” International Studies in Philosophy (forthcoming).

“Die Kunst der Anspielung,” Zeitschrift für Philosophie (forthcoming 2000).

Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing, Chicago, Il., Open Court Press, 2000.

Intentionalist Interpretation: A Philosophical Explanation and Defense, Westport, Ct., Greenwood Press, 1999.

“An Author Construct There Must Be,” Diálogos 74, 169-177, 1999.

“A Modest Proposal to Students,” The Teaching Professor, 13, p.8, 1999.

“Intention and Foresight in the British Law of Murder,” Sorites 9, 6–15, 1998.

“Philosophical Literacy: Are There Things Every Philosopher Needs to Know?” American Philosophical Association Newsletters 98, 128–130, 1998.

“Existential Jeopardy: Reviews and Responsibility,” Journal for the Development of Philosophy Teaching 8, 8–11, 1998.

“Plato’s Two Immortalities,” Contemporary Philosophy 20, 3–8, 1998.

Review of Peter Bekowitz’s “Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist,” The Journal of Value Inquiry 32, 575–577, 1998.

Review of Theodore Schick, Jr. and Lewis Vaughn’s “How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age,” Teaching Philosophy 20, 325–326, 1997.

Review of Ray Perkins’s “Logic and Mr. Limbaugh,” Contemporary Philosophy 18, 26, 1996.

“Sartre on the Emotions: A New Evaluation,” Dialogue (PST) 38, 1–7, 1995.

Review of Jorge J. E. Gracia’s “A Theory of Textuality: The Logic and Epistemology,” Sorites 3, 64–68, 1995.

“Sartre, Freedom, and the Gambler,” Contemporary Philosophy 16, 9–13, 1994.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Family Resemblance, Literature, and the Literary,” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics at the University of South Carolina, March 25, 2000.

“Family Resemblance, Philosophy, and the Philosophical,” The Mid-South Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tn., February 25, 2000.

“Literature and the Literary,” The United States Military Academy at West Point, November 16, 1999.

Session Chair for “Insight and Intuition in the History of Philosophy,” American Catholic Philosophical Association, Minneapolis, Mn., November 5, 1999.

Session Chair at the conference “Literary Philosophers? Borges, Calvino,” Eco at The Center for Inquiry, Buffalo, N.Y., October 2, 1999.

“The Aesthetics of Allusion,” Central Division Meeting of The American Philosophical Association, New Orleans, La., May 6, 1999.

“What is an Allusion?” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics at Towson University, Baltimore, Md., March 20, 1999.

“Philosophy and the History of Philosophy: On the Advantage of Nietzsche?” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Denver, Co., October, 1998.

“Weird Things and Parallel Lives: Alternative Texts and Unorthodox approaches to Critical Thinking and Assessment,” ISETA Annual Conference, Cocoa Beach, Fl., October 1998.

Commentary on Pol Vandevelde’s “Poetry as Subversion of Narrative in Heidegger,” American Catholic Philosophical Association Seventy-second Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pa., March 28, 1998.

“A Critique of Hermeneutic Truth as Disclosure,” Pacific Division Meeting of The American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, Ca., March 27, 1998.

“An Author Construct There Must Be,” The Mid-South Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis, February 27, 1998.

“Illustrating the Fallacy of Appeal to Authority: A Case Study of Junk Science,” ISETA Annual Conference, New Brunswick, Canada, October 17, 1997.

Moderator of the “Roundtable on Truth and Religion,” Realia Conference Truth: Classical, Modern, Academic, Popular, Estes Park, Co., August 6, 1997.

“Truth Without Method: A Critique of Hermeneutic Truth as Disclosure,” Realia Conference Truth: Classical, Modern, Academic, Popular, Estes Park, Co., August 4, 1997.

“Texts Have No Meaning: A Critique of Hirsch in Defense of Humpty Dumpty,” Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Pittsburgh, Pa., April 25, 1997.

“An Analysis of Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: The Fusion of Horizons, Prejudice, and Tradition,” The Mid-South Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tn., February 28, 1997.

“Philosophical Literacy: Are There Things Every Philosopher Needs to Know?” The Phi Sigma Tau Lecture at King’s College Wilkes-Barre, Pa., November 11, 1996.

“Philosophical Literacy: Are There Things Every Philosopher Needs to Know?” The Tri-State Philosophical Association Fall Meeting Behrend College, Erie, Pa., October 26, 1996.

“Sartre on the Emotions: A New Evaluation,” The North American Sartre Society at Denison University, Granville, Oh., May 11, 1996.

“Interpretation and Medical Ethics: Text and Author,” 24th Conference on Value Inquiry D’Youville College, Buffalo, N.Y., April 19, 1996.

Commentary on Aeon J. Skoble’s “The Relevance of Artists’ Intentions in Interpretation and Criticism,” The Mid-South Philosophy Conference the University of Memphis, Tn., February 24, 1996.

“Reviving the Author,” The Mid-South Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis, February 23, 1996.

Commentary on Seon-Wook Kim’s “What is Dialogue for Gadamer?” SUNY Buffalo Graduate Philosophy Conference, February 9, 1996.

“Forget About the History of Philosophy: On the Advantage of Nietzsche,” American Catholic Philosophical Association Western New York Regional Conference, Niagara University, November 11, 1995.

“Intention and Foresight in Criminal Responsibility,” The Tri-State Philosophical Association Fall Meeting Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa., October 28, 1995.

“Plato’s Two Immortalities,” The Mid-South Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis, February 1995.

“The Voluntary and Involuntary Nature of Belief,” The Tri-State Philosophical Association Fall Meeting, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa., October 29, 1994.

“Sartre on the Emotions: A New Evaluation,” The Tri-State Philosophical Association Fall Meeting, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa., October 23, 1993.

“The Closed Nature of a Poem,” Syracuse University Graduate Philosophy Conference, March 1993.

Joseph V. Krawczeniuk, Ph.D., professor of modern languages and literatures

PUBLICATIONS

“Olena Kosach-Pchilka, Ukrainian Ethnographer and Writer,” Our Life (New York), Vol. 56, November 7-8, July-Aug. 1999, pp. 5-8.

“Gymnasium in 1820-1848,” pp 14-21; “Gymnasium in 1989-1930,” pp 33-50; “Gymnasium of the ‘Ridna Shkola’ Ukrainian Pedagagical Society,” pp. 78-94; “The Soviet Secondary School Nr. 1 in Ternopil,” pp. 115-117; “The Ukrainian State Gymnasium in Ternopil in 1941-1944,” pp. 123-127; “Reminiscences from the Gymnasium days,” pp. 288-293; “Teachers of the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Ternopil in 1898-1944,” pp. 397-404; “Graduates of the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Ternopil - Priests in the Diaspora,” pp. 563-569; “Brief biographies of the former students of the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Ternopil,” (in collaboration with two other co-authors), pp. 579-647; “Biographies of some outstanding graduates of the Ukrainian Gymnasium in Ternopil,” pp. 652, 653, 659, 665, Centennial Book of the Ukrainian Gymnasuim in Ternopil, 1898-1998, Ternopil and Lviv, 1999, 731 p. (Shevchenko Scientific Society and Lviv Regional Society “Ridna Shkola.”

“Maria Hrinchenko, Ukrainian Writer and Translator,” Our Life (New York), Vol. 55, Novemnber 7-8, July-Aug. 1998, pp. 5-7.

“Ukrainians in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania,” Ukrainian Diaspora (Kiev), Vol. VI, No. 10, pp. 41-52, 1997.

“The Cult of Lesya Ukrainka in America,” Almanac of the Ukrainian National Association 1997, pp. 151-158.

“The City of Lviv Under the Russian Occupation, 1914-1915,” Svoboda  (Jersey City, N.J.), November 18-21, 1997, 7p.

“Gerhart Hauptmann and Ukrainian Literature,” Memoirs of the Shevchenko Scientific Society, (Lviv, Ukraine), Vol. 211, 1996), pp. 261-274.

“Yakim Yarema: A Prominent Scholar and Educator,” The Voice of Conscience (Lviv, Ukraine) February 1996, 8p.

“Further Contributions to the History of the City of Rohatyn,” Rohatyn, The Town and its Region, Western Ukraine, (New York and Paris), 1996, Vol. II, pp. 22-28.

“Stephen Smal Stockyi and Vatroslav Jagic,” Memoirs of the Shevchenko Scientific Society (Lviv, Ukraine), Vol. 212, 1996, pp. 317-327.

“Bohdan Lepkyi, Ukrainian Novelist, in America,” Svoboda (Jersey City, N.J.), 10p., January 2, 1998.

“Rev. John Volyanksy: First Ukrainian Catholic Priest in America,” Ukrainian Diaspora  (Kiev), Vol. III), No. 6, 1994, pp. 148-154.

“Archbishop Antonin C. Stoyan and Metropolitan Andrew Sheptyski, Apostles of Church Unity,” Patriarchate, January 1995, pp. 13-17; February 1995, pp. 9-13.

“Ukrainians from the Buh River Area in America,” The Buh River Region of Western Ukraine (New York and Paris), 1994, Vol. III, pp. 31-37.

“Bishop Joseph Bocian,” Patriarchate, Sept. 1994, pp 21-23 and America (Philadelphia) October 11, 1994, pp 5and7.

“Volodymyr Semenyna: A Translator of Ukrainian Poetry into English,” Svoboda (Jersey City, N.J.) February 11, 1994, p.5.

“The Lemkos in America,” Narodna Volya (Scranton, Pa.) February 24-March 17, 1994. p.5.

“The First Officials of the Ukrainian National Association in America,” Almanac of the Ukrainian National Association, 1994, pp. 34-49.

“On the Paths of Rev. John Volyansky in America,” Almanac of the Ukrainian National Association, 1994, pp. 81-105.

“The First Ukrainian Diplomatic Mission in the United States, 1919-1921,” Almanac of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association, 1994, pp. 114-126.

“The Cult of Ivan Franko in America,” Almanac of the Ukrainian Fraternal Association, 1994, pp. 183-194.

“Ukrainians in Shamokin, Pennsylvania,” Svoboda (Jersey City, N.J.) August 31-September 3, 1994, p. 12.

“The City of Sokal Area in 1914-1924,” The Buh River Region of Western Ukraine, Vol. III, pp. 221-232, 1994.

“The One Hundredth Anniversary of the Ukrainian National Association, 1894-1994,” Commemorative Photographic Exhibit, a Catalog, J.V. Krawczeniuk, editor, (Jersey City, N.J.), 1994, p. 78.

“Who were the Editors-in-Chief of the ‘Svoboda Daily,’ 1893-1993?” Svoboda (Jersey City, N.J.) September 15, 1993 pp. 6-7.

“On the Paths of Taras Shevchenko and Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Ukraine,” Svoboda (Jersey City, N.J.) January 13-16, 1993, p.5.

“Contributions to the History of the Sheptytsky Family,” Patriarchate, December 1991, pp. 20-22; January 1992, pp 12-14.

“Poles and Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky,” Patriarchate, February 1992, pp. 20-22; March 1992, pp. 19-21; April 1992, pp. 18-20.

“Secondary Education in the City of Ternopil Before 1939,” Svoboda, (Jersey City, N.J.), July 7-8, 1992.

“Mykhailo Pavlyk and the Ukrainian Immigrants in the United States,” Narodna Volya, Scranton, Pa., December 17, 1992, p.5.

“Chronicle of the Life and Pastoral Activities of the Metropolitan Andrew Sheptytsky (1865-1944),” Patriarchate (New York), October 199, pp. 18-21; November 1991, pp 16-19.

18 Ecumenical Abstracts, Journal of Ecumenical Studies (Temple University), Vol. 27, November 1, Winter 1990, pp. 173, 177-178, 179, 184, 185, 196, 202.

Charles Kraszewski, Ph.D., assistant professor of English

PUBLICATIONS

Kraszewski, Charles and Adam Mickiewicz, “Dziady (Forefathers’ Eve, Dresden Text,)” (translated from the Polish with following essay.)

Kraszewski, Charles and Robert Southwell, “Poems,” “An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty,” (editor, translator of Latin poems), Lehman, Pa., Libella Veritatis, 1999.

Kraszewski, Charles, Ambrosius Aurelius (St. Ambrose of Milan), “Ambrosian Hymns,” (translator of Latin poems with following essay), Lehman, Pa., Libella Veritatis, 1999.

Kraszewski, Charles and Zygmunt Krasinski, “The Undivine Comedy,” (translated from the Polish with following essay), Lehman, Pa., Libella Veritatis, 1999.

“The Gospel of Matthew, with Patristic Commentaries,” translated from the original tongues, introduced, and annotated by C. S. K. Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999.

“Four Translation Strategies Determined by the Particular Needs of the Receptor: Translation Theory Backwards,” Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.

“The Romantic Hero and Contemporary Anti-Hero in Polish and Czech Literature: Great Souls and Grey Men,” Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998.

Kraszewski, Charles and Rio Preisner, “Visuté mosty: vybrané básn,” Hanging Bridges: Selected Poetry, (trans. from the Czech) Svitavy: Trinitas/Rome, Accademia Cristiana, 1996.

“Polish 100: Polish Culture and Civilization,” University Park: Department of Distance Education, 1995. 

Kraszewski, Charles and Jan Kochanowski, “The Dismissal of the Grecian Envoys,” translated from the Polish with following essay, Studio City, Ca., Players Press, 1994.

Numerous articles in scholarly journals as a member of the editorial staff of The Polish Review, New York, N.Y.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

“The Poor Man’s ‘Macbeth:’ Zbigniew Herbert’s Anti-Tragedy ‘Drugi pokój’ (‘The Other Room’),  The 56^th annual meeting of Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 13, 1998.

“A Greek Pedigree for Faustus’ ‘Final Soliloquy:’ Marlowe’s Ironic Use of Aischylos’ ‘Jikevtide,’ and Classical Stagecraft in Doctor Faustus,” 3^rd International Conference of Christopher Marlowe Society, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England, June 29, 1993.

Megan S. Lloyd, Ph.D., assistant professor of English

PUBLICATIONS

“Selections on Thomas Sackville, Thomas Elyot, Richard Burbage, Philip Henslowe, John Chamberlain, Thomas Lodge, and John Heywood in Reformations: Protestant and Catholic, 1500-1620: An Interdisciplinary Dictionary, forthcoming from Greenwood Press, 2000.

“Def(in)ying Difference: Women and Racial Others in Shakespeare, A Student Conference,” forthcoming in Shakespeare and the Classroom, 2000.

“Reflections of a York Survivor: The York Cycle and its Audience,” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama XXXIX, 2000.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Reflections of a York Survivor: The York Cycle and its Audience,” The Thirty-Fourth Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mi., May 1999.

“To Speak Welsh: Nonsense and Subversion in Henry IV, Part I,” The Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America, San Francisco, Ca., April 1999.

Lloyd, Megan and Laurie Sterling, “Cymbeline and Welsh Identity,” “Literature and the Looking Class: Analyzing the Beauty Myth in an Introductory Literature Classroom,” Mississippi Philological Association conference, Delta State University Cleveland, Mi., January 1999.

Lloyd, Megan and Laurie Sterling, “A Day Without Mirrors,” Women’s Resource Center Brown Bag Gathering, November 1998.

Session presider, Conference on Welsh Studies, Rio Grande, Oh., June 1998.

Session presider, Shakespeare at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo, Mi., Medieval Congress, May 1998.

“R.S. Sushi and Shakespeare: The Cross-Cultural Connections of an English Major,” Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony speaker, March 1998.

“Accessible is None But Milford Way:  Cymbeline, Britain and Welsh Identity,” The Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, Cleveland, Oh., March 1998.

Thomas P. Looney, C.S.C., Ph.D., assistant professor of theology

PUBLICATIONS

“The Ecumenical Significance of the Document, ‘The Pilgrimage in the Great Jubilee,’” Ecumenical Trends, Vol. 28, 1999.

“Koinonia Ecclesiology: A Paradigmatic or Nebulous Ecclesiological Foundation?” One in Christ.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“The Cross and the Death of Anti-Semitism,” College Theology Society Convention, Villanova University, Summer 2000.

“Koinonia Eclesiology: A Paradigmatic or Nebulous Ecclesiological Paradigm,” College Theology Society Convention, St. Louis, Mo., Summer 1998.

Philip A. Muntzel, Ph.D., professor of theology and director, Center for Ethics and Public Life

PUBLICATIONS

Review of Robert Wuthnow, “The Struggle for America’s Soul,” Affirmation, Journal of Union Theological Seminar, Vol. 4, Spring 1991 pp. 131-134.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Scholarly referee of paper presentations delivered at the Annual Meetings of the Society of Christian Ethics, Albuquerque, N.M., San Francisco, Ca., and Washington, D.C., 1998, 1999, 2000.

“The Galileo Affair as a Theological Conflict” paired with a presentation on Galileo by William Shergalis, Syracuse University Conference on Religion and Science, Syracuse, N.Y., Summer 1997.

Muntzel, Philip and William Shergalis, “Science, Theology and Culture,” Templeton Conference on Religion and Science, Gordon College, Boston, Ma., Summer 1996.

Muntzel, Philip and William Shergalis, “Science, Theology and Culture,” Templeton Foundation Course Competition for courses in Religion and Science, April 1996. (won prize).

Winner of National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for scholarly participation in Brown University Seminar on Justice and Compassion in Buddhism and Christianity, Providence, R.I., Summer 1996.

“Planting Chestnut Trees and Clearing Dead Wood: Images of Teaching, Tenure and Work,” 35th Annual Meeting of The Society for Christian Ethics, Chicago, Il., January 7, 1994.

Edmund A. Napieralski, Ph.D., professor of English

PUBLICATIONS

Napieralski, Edmund and D.W. Farmer, “Assessing Learning in Programs,” Handbook of the Undergraduate Curriculum, Jerry G. Gaff and James L. Ratcliff, editors, San Francisco, Ca., Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1997.

“Tennessee Williams’ ‘The Glass Menagerie’: The Dramatic Metaphor,” Southern Quarterly, 16, October 1977, 1-12.  Reprinted in Drama, eds. Jeffrey D. Hoeper, et al.  New York, Macmillan, 1994.

“Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye,’” The Explicator, 53, Winter 1994, 59-61.

“‘Miss Julie:’ Strindberg’s Tragic Fairy Tale,” Modern Drama, 26 (September 1983), 282-89.  Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 47, 1993.

“Thomas’s ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London,’” The Explicator, 50, Spring 1992, 172-175.

“Reading American Indian Poetry,” National Collegiate Honors Council Northeast Region Newsletter, Summer 1990.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

“Outcomes Assessment and Accreditation Conference,” Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education, Philadelphia, Pa., March 2, 2000 and San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15, 2000.

“Using Course-Embedded Assessment to Improve Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum,” the University of South Carolina, Spartanburg, S.C., January 3-4, 2000.

“Assessment at the Liberal Arts College,” Saint Peter’s College, Jersey City, N.J., November 11, 1999.

“Assessment in the Liberal Arts,” Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pa., August 25, 1999.

“An Evaluation of the Student Advancement Initiative at Bloomfield College,” Bloomfield, N.J., May 5, 1999.

“Assessment,” University of Portland, Portland, Or., January 1999.

“Student Learning Outcomes Assessment,” Nazareth College, Rochester, N.Y., August 1997.

“Assessment and the Learning Paradigm,” Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, Pa., March, 1997.

“A Symposium on Outcomes Assessment for Liberal Arts Colleges,” Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Commission on Higher Education, Philadelphia, Pa., February 1997.

“Assessment,” College of St. Rose, Albany, N.Y., January 1997.

“Assessment to Improve Teaching and Learning,” at William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo., February 1996.

“Assessment as Learning,” Medaille College, Buffalo, N.Y., November 1995.

“Clarifying the Vision of a Core Curriculum and Using Assessment to Connect Learning in the Core with Learning in the Major,” College of the Ozarks, Point Lookout, Mo., August 1995.

“Curriculum Renewal and Assessment,” Valencia Community College, Orlando, Fl., June 1995.

“Case Study 2: Integrating Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment,” Wilkes-Barre, Pa., March 1995.

“Assessment as Learning,” Taylor University, Fort Wayne, In., August 1993.

“Toni Morrison’s ‘The Bluest Eye:  Echoes of Sophocles,’ Oedipus the King,” 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, at the University of California, Berkeley, Ca., April 1993.

“A Case Study on Integrating Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment: The King’s College Experience,” Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 1993.

“Using Assessment to Improve and Audit Student Learning and to Connect General Education and the Major,” 22nd National Institute on Issues in Teaching and Learning sponsored by the University of Chicago, Chicago, Il., November 1992.

“Defining and Communicating Assessment Criteria to Enhance Student Learning,” Seventh AAHE Conference in Higher Education, Miami Beach, Fl., June 1992.

“The Remembered Earth in Contemporary Native American Poetry,” Northeast Region of the National Collegiate Honors Council Meeting, Pocono Manor, Pa., April 1992.

“Assessment as a Means to Better Learning and Teaching,” Lackawanna Junior College, November 1991.

“Improving Student Learning Through Assessment,” Stonehill College, North Easton, Ma., October 1991.

“Evaluating Progress and Students in General Education: Outcomes Models and a Constructivist Model,” Association for General and Liberal Studies, Seattle, Wa., October 1991.

“Involving Students in Your Assessment Program,” Sixth AAHE Conference on Assessment in Higher Education, San Francisco, Ca., June 1991.

“Peer and Self-Assessment in Creative Writing,” Northeastern Pennsylvania Writing Conference, Lehman, Pa., May 1991.

“Assessment in the Major,” Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pa., February 1991.

“Learning to Hear Native Voices:  Reading American Indian Poetry,” Northeast Region of the National Collegiate Honors Council Meeting, Salem, Ma., April 1990.

Henry Nardone, Ph.D., professor of philosophy

PUBLICATIONS

“The Use of Emotion in Argumentation,” in F.H. Eemeren, R. Grootendorst, A. Blair, and C. Willards, editors, Proceedings of the 4^th International Society for the Study of Argumentation, The Netherlands: International Centre for the Study of Argumentation, 1999.

Nardone, Henry and Greg Bassham, “Using the Film ‘JFK’ to Teach Critical Thinking,” College Teaching, 45, No. 1, (1997), pp. 10-13

Nardone, Henry, Edward Schoen, and Brian Bower, “Once Hailed as a Panacea and Now Relegated to the Legal Dustbin, Comparable Worth Still Belongs in Business Ethics,” Book of the Proceedings, the 7^th Annual National  Conference on Ethics, Long Beach, Ca., 1996.

“Using ‘12 Angry Men’ to Teach Critical Thinking,” in Fe. H. Eemeren, R Grootenndorst, A.. Blair and C. Willards, editors, Proceedings of the 3^rd International Conference on Argumentation, The Netherlands: International Centre for the Study of Argumentation, 1995.

“Ethics and Business: The Myth of Amoral Business,” editorial, The Times Leader, August 30, 1992.

“Common Fallacies in Business Ethics,” in Proceedings of the 2^nd International Conference on Argumentation, in Fe. H. Eemeren, R Grootenndorst, A.. Blair and C. Willards, editors, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: International Centre for the Study of Argumentation, 1992.

“Business Has a Code of Ethics To Adhere To,” invited editorial, Citizen’s Voice, February 26, 1990.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Name that Fallacy! Using a Game Approach to Teach Critical Thinking,” 28^th Conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, Cocoa Beach, Fl., 1998.

“Are All Values Relative? Using Role Playing to Encourage Critical Thinking about Moral Relativism,” 27^th Conference of the International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 1997.

“Comparable Worth Still Belongs in Business Ethics,” 7^th Annual National Conference on Ethics, 1996.

“Using the Film ‘JFK’ to Teach Critical Thinking,” 15^th International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, Ca., 1995.

“John Finnis’s Moral Absolutes: Tradition, Revision and Truth,” discussion leader, Faculty Book-Discussion Meetings, Washington, D.C., March 1993.

“The Limits of Advocacy: Role-Differentiated Morality as it Applies to December the Profession of Law in the Adversary System,” Continuing Legal Education on the Rules of Professional Conduct Seminar, Law and Library Association and King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., October 21 and December 9, 1992.

“Using the Film ‘Twelve Angry Men’ in a Critical Thinking Course,” 9th International Workshop-Conference on Teaching Philosophy, the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, The University of Vermont, August 7-10, 1992.

“Environmental Justice to Future Generations,” Earth Day Program Celebration, Environmental Awareness and Action Society, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 22, 1992.

“Using the Film ‘Twelve Angry Men’ to Teach Basic Concepts in Critical Thinking,” the 9th International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, Ca., August 4-7, 1991.

Participant, “Science, Technology, and Values,” the Values Program, Lemoyne College, Syracuse, N.Y., June 9-29, 1991.

“Euthanasia: Basic Distinctions Needed for Understanding the Issues,” “The Gift of Life and the New Reproductive Technologies: A Philosophical Perspective,” “Science, Technology, and Values,” Summer Institute, the Values Program, Lemoyne College, Syracuse, N.Y., June 9-29, 1991.

“Critical Thinking Skills for College Work,” Summer Visitation Day Program, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., July 20, 1991.

“Computer Software Packages for Teaching Critical Thinking/Formal Logic,” Project Learn: Inventing the Future: Teaching and Learning in an Information Age, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., February 15, 1991.

“Common Fallacies in Business Ethics,” the 2nd International Conference on Argumentation, the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, The University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 19-22, 1990.

“Ethics, Consumerism and the Environment,” Earth Day celebration, the Environmental Awareness and Action Society, King’s College, April 22, 1990.

Chairperson, Program Committee, Eastern Pennsylvania Philosophical Association Spring Meeting, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 10, 1990.

Laurie Anne Sterling, Ph.D., assistant professor of English

PUBLICATIONS

“‘A frail structure of our own rearing’: The Value(s) of Home in The Marble Faun,” ATQ: American Transcendental Quarterly, 14:2 (2000) (forthcoming).

Book Review, Ann Hagedorn Auerbach’s “Wild Ride” (Holt, 1994) in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature (forthcoming).

Sterling, Laurie and Megan Lloyd, “Literature and the Looking Glass: Analyzing the Beauty Myth in an Introductory Literature Classroom,”Publications of the Mississippi Philological Association (forthcoming).

“Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne,” Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Travel Writers, 1850-1901, Donald Ross and James Schramer, eds.,  Detroit, Mi., Bruccoli Clark Layman, 148-161, 1997.

Book Review, Edward Hotaling’s “They’re Off! Horse Racing at Saratoga,” (Syracuse UP, 1995) in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XIV: 2, Spring 1997.

Book Review, Jim Bolus’s “Remembering the Derby,” (Pelican, 1994) in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XII:2, 191-192, Fall 1995.

Book Review, Franci McMahon’s “Staying the Distance” (Firebrand, 1994) in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XIII:1 136-137, Fall 1995.

Book Review, Charlene R. Johnson’s “Florida Thoroughbred” (University of Florida Press, 1993) in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature XI:2, 175-176, Spring 1994.

“Paternal Gold: Translating Inheritance in ‘The Scarlet Letter,’” American Transcendental Quarterly, 6, 17-30, 1992.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Sterling, Laurie and Megan Lloyd, “Image is Everything: Sprite and the Spoken Word, or How to Say Who You Are,” The International Society for Exploring Teaching Alternatives, Arizona State University, Tempe, Az., October 1999.

“Poster session, “Examples of Successful Assessment Models in the Major Program,” Course Embedded Assessment Institute: The King’s College Experience, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 22, 1999.

“‘A Citizen of Somewhere Else’: Hawthorne’s Travel Writing and His Relationship with America,” Mississippi Philological Association Conference, Delta State University, Cleveland, Ms., January 29, 1999.

Sterling, Laurie and Megan Lloyd, “Literature and the Looking Glass: Analyzing the Beauty Myth in an Introductory Literature Classroom,” Mississippi Philological Association Conference, Delta State University, Cleveland, Ms., January 29, 1999. 

“The Place of Women’s Spirituality on Campus,” National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education, Trinity University, Washington, D.C., June 19, 1998.

“Active Learning: Discovering and Implementing Student-centered Teaching Strategies,” Case Study 2: Integrating Curriculum, Teaching and Assessment, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., March 25, 1995.

“The Internal Politics of Establishing a Women’s Studies Minor,” Making Connections II, The National Association of Women in Catholic Higher Education, June 24, 1994.

“Connecting Through the Dissertation: A Model for Women’s Writing,” Midwest MLA, November 11, 1994.

“American Romanticism,” panel chair, Central New York Conference on Literature and Language, October 14, 1994.

“Into the Mainstream: Integrating Women’s Experiences into the Curriculum,” Project Learn, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., October 21, 1994.

“‘To Be . . . Worshipped as a Household Saint’: Hilda, Home and American Actualities in ‘The Marble Faun,’” Central New York Conference on Literature and Language, October 18, 1993.

“Social Awareness to Social Action: Raising Women’s Consciousness on a College Campus,” Women’s Leadership Conference, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa., November 13, 1993.

“Hawthorne and the Social Marketplace of Narrative,” Narrative: An International Conference, April 1, 1993.

“‘The Golden Touch:’ Hawthorne and the Myth of Value,” Central New York Conference on Literature and Language, October 19, 1992.

“The Values of Romance: Domestic Folklore and Domestic Economy in ‘The House of the Seven Gables,’” Central New York MLA, October 22, 1991.

Clement L. Valletta, Ph.D., professor of English

PUBLICATIONS

“Cacciato, Tim O’Brien’s American Savior,” Proceedings of the Northeast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Nyack College, Nyack, N.Y., November 2000.

“Violence and Ritual Dynamics of American Culture,” Essays for Colloquium on Violence, Center for Ethics and Public Life, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., January, 2000.

“A ‘Christian Dispersion’ in Don DeLillo’s ‘The Names,’” Christianity and Literature 47, 403-27, 1998.

“Caring and Christian Irony in Anne Tyler’s Novels.”  Proceedings of the Northeast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Regis College, Weston, Ma., 1996.

Valletta, Clement, Robert Paoletti, “‘In-determinancy’ in Science and Discourse:  A Rhetoric of Disciplinary Levels,” Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 25, 27-42, 1995.

“American Literature:  1780-1880,” Instructor’s Syllabus Guide, Ed. Randy Bass.  Lexington, Ma., D. C. Heath, 1993.

“Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor and DeLillo’s ‘Libra’: Tempting Progress,” Proceedings Northeast Conference on Christianity and Literature, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., 1991.

“‘To Battle for Our Ideas’:  Community Ethic and Anthracite Labor, 1920-1940,” Pennsylvania History, 58, 311-29, 1991. 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Cacciato, Tim O’Brien’s American Savior,” Northeast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Nyack College, Nyack, N.Y., November 1999.

“Savior Figures in Don DeLillo’s ‘Libra’ and ‘Mao II,’” Western Conference on Christianity and Literature, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Ca., May 1998.

“Relational Justice and Workers in the Anthracite Era,” Bloomsburg University Program: Community, Class, Ethnicity and Racialism in Northern Appalachia, Bloomsburg, Pa., October 1997.

“Multicultural Autobiography,” Bloomsburg University Conference on Diversity. Bloomsburg, Bloomsburg, Pa., September 1994.

“Magic Realism in the Fiction of Don DeLillo,” SUNY Cortland Conference on Language and Literature  Courtland, N.Y., October 1992.

Valletta, Clement, Rader, Louis, “Self and Cosmos in the Writing Process,” Northeastern Pennsylvania Writing Council Conference, Keystone Junior College, LaPlume, Pa., April 1992.

“Community and Anthracite Mine Unionism,” UMW Centennial, Eckley Conference. PHC, Eckley, Pa., May 1990.

James M. Wallace, Ph.D., associate professor of English

PUBLICATIONS

Wallace, James, Gregory Bassham, William Irwin, and Henry Nardone, “An Introduction to Critical Thinking, from Mayfield Press, Mountain View, Ca. (forthcoming).

“Critical Thinking,” Grolier’s Encyclopedia Americana (forthcoming).

“Parallel Lives: A Novel Way to Learn Thinking and Writing,” McGraw Hill Primis Custom Publishing, Second Edition, 2000.

“Stimulating Higher Thinking Skills in At-Risk Readers,” Pennsylvania Reads: The Journal of the Pennsylvania State Reading Association, April 2000.

“Teaching the Advanced Business Writing Course,”  Tested Ideas for Teaching Business Communications, McGraw Hill, 1994.

“William Faulkner’s ‘A Rose for Emily,’” The Explicator, 105-107, Winter 1992.

“Emotion and Class Consciousness: The Reception of a Contemporary Proletarian Novel,” Nature, Society and Thought: A Journal of Dialectical and Historical Materialism, 4.4, 451-461, Fall 1991.

“Critical Thinking: What Every Person Needs to Survive in a Rapidly-Changing World,”  Book Review,  Thinking Skills Newsletter, 12, January 1991. 

“Contemporary Culture Through Newsweek: Integrating Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing,” Thinking Skills Newsletter, 9, April 1990.

“The Shape of This Century,” book review, Thinking Skills Newsletter, 10, April 1990.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Critical Thinking Skills in the Workplace,” Tech-Prep Consortium, Luzerne County Community College, Nanticoke, Pa., March 21, 2000.

“Using ‘Parallel Lives’ to Teach Critical Thinking,” English Department at Bishop McDevitt High School, Wyncote, Pa., March 9, 2000.

“Assessment in the Major Programs,” “Assessing Critical Thinking,” “Using Portfolios,” “Embedding Assessment in the Curriculum,” and “Using Assessment Information to Set Faculty Development Goals,” The Assessment Institute, sponsored by NCTLA and ACT, New Orleans, La., February 2000.

Wallace, James, Edmund Napieralski, Robert Paoletti, and Jean O’Brien, “The King’s College Assessment Model,” Two-day workshop for the faculty at the University of South Carolina at Spartanburg, Spartanburg, S.C.

“Assessing Critical Thinking Skills,” Valencia Community College faculty, Orlando, Fl., September 1999.

“Critical Thinking and Assessment,” “The Use of Project Teams in Assessment,” “Technology and Assessement,” King’s College Institute on Assessment, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., April 1999.

Wallace, James, D. W. Farmer, Jean O’Brien, and Robert Paoletti, “An Integrative Approach to Teaching and Assessing Critical Thinking,”

Wallace, James, D. W. Farmer, Jean O’Brien, Bill Lutes, and Robert Paoletti, “Using Assessment to Involve Faculty in the Continuous Improvement of Curriculum, ” AAHE Assessment Conference, Cincinnati, Oh., June 1998.

“Service Learning,” King’s College faculty, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., February 1998.

“Critical Thinking,” presidents and provosts of Australian universities visiting American colleges and universities, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fall 1997.

“Critical Thinking in Grades K-12,” Wilkes-Barre Area School District faculty, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., November 4, 1997.

“Writing Across the Curriculum,” Luzerne County Community College faculty, Nanticoke, Pa., November 7, 1996.

“Coal Mining Music,” The Plymouth Historical Society, Inaugural Event, Plymouth, Pa., 1996

“Coal Mining Music,” Conference on the History of the Congregation of Holy Cross, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., June 1996.

“Teaching Critical Thinking Skills Across the Curriculum,” St. Francis College faculty workshop, Loretto, Pa., May 1994.

“The Writing Teacher as Writer,” Northeast Pennsylvania Writing Project. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., July 1992.

“The Critical Reception of a Contemporary Proletarian Novel,”  The International Marxist Scholars’ Conference, Philadelphia, Pa., March 16, 1991.

“Information Literacy and General Education,” Philadelphia, Pa., April 1991. 

“Creating Images,” Northeast Pennsylvania Writing Teachers’ Conference, May 1990.