Professor Emerita Elizabeth Flynn (HU), is co-editor, with Tiffany Bourelle, of “Women’s Professional Lives In Rhetoric and Composition: Choice, Chance and Serendipity” published recently by The Ohio State University Press.Flynn co-authored the introduction with Bourelle and contributed an essay, “Becoming a Feminist Teacher, Researcher and Administrator.” The foreword to the book is by M. Ann Brady, (HU).
Dana Van Kooy recently attended two conferences: the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) in York, England (July 27-30), where she presented her essay, “Configurations of Jamaica: The Modern Narrative of Diminishing Returns.”
She then attended the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), which met in Ottawa, Ontario (Aug. 10-13). There, she presented a paper entitled, “Reanimating the Decorporializing Logics of Modernity and Capitalism.” Both essays contribute to her current book project about how modernity emerged from the nexus of human and environmental catastrophe: plantation slavery.
