Faculty Publications (selected list)
These UNH faculty publications were completed with the support of the Center for the Humanities.
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 | Anne Sexton: Teacher of Weird Abundance
by Paula M. Salvio
State University of New York Press, 2007
excerpt from book cover: A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who confessed the unrelenting anguish of addiction and depression, Anne Sexton (1928-1974) was also a dedicated teacher. In this book, Paula M. Salvio opens up Sexton’s classroom, uncovering a teacher who willfully demonstrated that the personal could also be plural. Looking at how Sexton framed and used the personal in teaching and learning, Salvio considers the extent to which our histories--both personal and social--exert their influence on teaching. In doing so, she situates the teaching life of Anne Sexton at the center of some of the key problems and questions in feminist teaching: navigating the appropriate distance between teacher and student, the relationship between writer and poetic subject, and the relationship between emotional life and knowledge. Examining Sexton’s pedagogy, with its “weird abundance” of tactics and strategies, Salvio argues that Sexton’s use of the autobiographical “I” is as much a literary identity as a literal identity, one that can speak with great force to educators who recognize its vital role in the humanities classroom.
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 | Apollodorus’ Library and Hyginus’ Fabulae
Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology
translated, with introductions, by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
Hackett Publishing Company, 2007
excerpt from book cover: By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus’ ILibraryI and Hyginus’ Fabulae --the tow most important surviving “ handbooks” of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two’s versions of the most important Greek myths. The General Introductin sets the Library and Fabulae into the wider context of ancient mythography; Introductions to each text discuss in greater detail issues of authorship, aim, and influence. A general index, an index of peoples and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers are also included.
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 | Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century England
edited by Elizabeth H. Hageman and Katherine Conway
Fairleigh Dickingson University Press, 2007
excerpt from publisher's website: Essays in Resurrecting Elizabeth I in Seventeenth-Century England combine literary and cultural analysis to show how and why images of Elizabeth Tudor appeared so widely in the century after her death and how those images were modified as the century progressed. The volume includes works by Steven W. May (on quotations and misquotations of Elizabeth's own words), Alan R. Young (on the Phoenix Queen and her successor, James I), Georgianna Ziegler (on Elizabeth's goddaughter, Elizabeth of Bohemia), Jonathan Baldo (on forgetting Elizabeth in Henry VIII), Lisa Gim (on Anna Maria van Schurman and Anne Bradstreet's visions of Elizabeth as an exemplary woman), and Kim H. Noling (on John Banks' creation of a maternal genealogy for English Protestantism).
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 | Quiet Wisdom: Teachers in the United States and England Talk about Standards, Practice and Professionalism
by John Sylvester Lofty
Peter Lang Publishing, 2006
excerpt from book cover: The sturm-und-drang quality of educational reforms in the United States and England has prompted educators to ask how curriculum changes will affect teaching and learning. Central government in England and state agencies in the United States increasingly control curriculum development by writing the standards, monitoring teaching, and assessing standards' impact on students' achievements. But how does increasing government regulation of education impact teachers' professionalism and morale? In arguing that teachers need to retain significant control over what and how they teach, Quiet Wisdom addresses this question for elementary- and secondary-level English teaching.
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 | Encyclopedia of New England
foreward by Donald Hall
edited by Burt Feintuch and David Watters
Yale University Press, 2005
excerpt from book cover: Everything you've ever wanted to know about the longest-established cultural region in the country is now available in this fascinating encyclopedia, the first reference work to take a comprehensive look at the history and culture of the six states that make up New England. In entries written by nearly 1,000 leading authorities in the field, the Encyclopedia of New England presents a comprehensive view of this important region, past and present.
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