Faculty Credentials

Kimberly K Bell (F) - Vita

• CHSS Teaching Achievement in English Award, 2010-2011, 2006-2007, 2005-2006
• SHSU Teaching Excellence Award, 2010 (finalist 2009, 2008)
• Co-editor, two peer-reviewed collections of original essays: The Texts and Contexts of Oxford University, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108: The Shaping of English Vernacular Narrative (Brill Academic Publishers, 2011 - Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
• 20 presentations at national and international conferences in medieval studies.
• Dean of the Honors College (2015-present). Associate Director of the Honors College (2008-2015)
• Three peer-reviewed articles on Homeric and Virgilian epic
• Six peer-reviewed book chapters and articles on medieval literary texts (Havelok the Dane, King Horn, Saints' Lives, Somer Soneday, Chaucer's 'Tale of Sir Thopas', and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain) and manuscripts (Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 108).
• Languages: Latin, Demotic Greek, French, Old and Middle English
• Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in English and History. Ph.D. exams in Medieval Literature and Greek and Roman history. Passed areas with high distinction.

Tracy E. Bilsing (F) - Vita

• Selected publications:''Rosalba and All the Kirchner Tribe': Mary Butts' 'Speed the Plough' and the Regenerative Image of the Feminine' in Essays in the Arts and Sciences 34.1 (Summer 2005): 61-73.''To every man the war is himself': D. H. Lawrence, the Battle of the Sexes, and the Great War' in The CEA Critic (Summer 2005): 76-91.'The Process of Manufacture: Rudyard Kipling's Private Propaganda.' in Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, Volume 167, Sept. 2005. Reprinted from War, Literature, and the Arts. Ed. Donald Anderson. 12.1 (Spring/Summer 2000): 76-98. Selected conference presentations: 'Looping Mrs. Bathurst: Kipling's Quest for the Feminine through the Modern' College English Association Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 27-29, 2008.'The Inverse of Passion: Elizabeth Bowen's War Stories.' Thirteenth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature,Cortland, NY, October 2003.
• Assistant Dean Elliott T. Bowers Honors College
• "Mais vous savez, c'est un peu degoutant, ca: Katherine Mansfield, Food, and the Indiscretions of the Great War" in Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies (Winter 2015): 50-59.

Paul William Eaton (F) - Vita

• Eaton, P. W. (2017). Social media as everyday practice: Reflections on multiplicitous~becoming~activist. Journal of Critical Thought & Praxis, 6(3), 55-70. Eaton, P. W. (2016). Tag-untag: Two critical readings of race, ethnicity, and class in digital social media. Journal of Critical Scholarship in Higher Education & Student Affairs, 3(1), 61-78. Eaton, P. W. (2016). Multiple materiality across distributed social media. In N. Snaza, D. Sonu, S. Truman, & Z. Zaliwska (Eds.), Pedagogical matters: New materialisms and curriculum Studies (pp. 165-178). New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing. Eaton, P. W. & Gismondi, A. (2016). (Re)Considering Yik Yak: Poised responses to shifting social media landscapes. In Common purpose: Shaping a vision for higher education (pp. 74-76). Washington, D.C.: NASPA.
• Online Teaching and Learning Certification (Sam Houston State University) (2016).

James Michael Harper (F) - Vita

Barbara Alicja Kaminska (F) - Vita

Patrick J Lewis (F) - Vita

• 16 peer-reviewed publications related to evolution
• Participated in or directed 12 paleontological excavations in Africa

Jeffrey L Littlejohn (F) - Vita

• Attended N.E.H. Summer Institute on "American Constitutionalism in Comparative Perspective," 2003
• Received a $25,000 N.E.H. grant for a digital project on "The Brown Decision in Norfolk, Virginia," 2004.
• Regularly scores in top 30% nationally among history teachers using the IDEA teacher evaluation system.
• Charles H. Ford and Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, "The Crisis Responds to Public School Desegregation," in Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis and American History, edited by Amy Kirschke and Phillip Luke Sinitiere. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2014, 226-240.
• Charles H. Ford and Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, "Reconstructing the Old Dominion: Lewis F. Powell, Stuart T. Saunders, and the Virginia Industrialization Group, 1958-1965," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography vol. 121, no. 2 (2013): 146-172.
• Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford, "Truman and Civil Rights," in A Companion to Harry S. Truman, edited by Daniel S. Margolies. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2012.
• Co-Recipient with Charles H. Ford of the William M.E. Rachal Award from the Virginia Historical Society for the Best Overall Article in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography in 2013.
• Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford, eds., The Enemy Within Never Did Without: German and Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945. Huntsville, Texas: Texas Review Press, 2015.
• NEH Summer Seminar Participant: "The African American Freedom Struggle. Directed by Patricia Sullivan and Waldo Martin. W.E.B. Du Bois Center, Harvard University, 2013.
• Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford, "Booker T. Washington High School: History, Identity, and Educational Equity in Norfolk, Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography vol. 124, no. 2 (2016): 134-162.
• Carolyn Carroll and Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, "The Dismissal of Rupert C. Koeninger: Cold War Hysteria, Academic Freedom, and the Creation of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board," East Texas Historical Journal vol. 53, no. 2 (2015): 115-140.
• Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford, "Moving 'Mere Pawns on the Chessboard': Walter E. Hoffman Jr., School Desegregation, and Busing in Norfolk, Virginia," Southern Studies vol. 22, no. 11 (2015): 47-72.
• Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford, "Arthur D. Morse, School Desegregation, and the Making of CBS News, 1955-1964," American Journalism vol. 31, no. 2 (2014): 1-20.
• Principal Investigator, "East Texas Historical: A Free Mobile App and Webpage," College of Humanities and Social Sciences Online Instructional Innovation Grant, 2014. $9000. http://www.easttexashistory.org.
• Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford. Elusive Equality: Desegregation and Resegregation in Norfolk Public Schools. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press, 2012.

Aaron Matthew Lynne (F) - Vita

Ervin Malakaj (F) - Vita

• Graduate Certificate in Film and Media Studies (Washington University in St Louis)
• Teaching Citation Program -- The Teaching Center (Washington University in St. Louis)