Category: writing

Publications

“Faulkner’s Big Woods and the Historical Necessity of Revision.” Mississippi Quarterly 49 (1996): 475-95. JSTOR Access

Examines historical context of period following the Brown v. Board of Education decision and possible effects of desegregation on Faulkner’s revising of material in Go Down, Moses for Big Woods, an ostensible gift book of hunting stories. Article is noted as “valuable” addition to Faulkner studies in 1996 American Literary Scholarship Faulkner chapter.

“Cross-Cultural Reading and Generic Transformations: The Chronotope of the Road in Erdrich’s Love Medicine.” American Literature 67 (1995): 777-92. JSTOR Access

Uses Bakhtin’s chronotope to examine generic and cultural features of Erdrich’s novel as a picaresque, postmodern, and communal text.

“‘Dangerously Absent Dreamers’: Genealogy, History, and the Political Left in Vineland.” Pynchon Notes 30-31 (1992): 39-51. Abstract and link to PDF

Finds initial narrative of family masks the principal historical narrative of the political left in twentieth-century America.

Public Writing

Mostly Technology & Teaching. WordPress Blog. Web. 6 February 2014.  http://mostlytechnology.wordpress.com/

Barbara L. Pittman, PhD. Online Portfolio. WordPress Blog. Web. 6 February 2014. http://pittmanportfolio.wordpress.com/

Wandering with Grinn Pidgeon. Virtuals Worlds Blog. WordPress Blog. Web. 6 February 2014. http://grinnsworld.wordpress.com/

Presentations

Campus Presentation. “Is Second Life Still Good for Teaching Simulations?” Barbara L. Pittman and E. Scott Rhoten. Cuyahoga Community College Faculty Service Day. January 11, 2013.

Campus Presentation. “The Letters Project: Documenting and Preserving the Past with Mobile and Web-Based Technologies.” Barbara L. Pittman. Cuyahoga Community College Faculty Colloquium. January 8, 2013.

Campus Presentation. “Reaching Across the Divide: Hands-On Collaboration in an Online Writing Course.” Barbara L. Pittman. Cuyahoga Community College Faculty Colloquium. January 2011.

Campus Presentation. “The Adaptable Wiki: How Can I, You, We Use Wikis in Higher Education.” Barbara L. Pittman and Kevin Dranuski. Cuyahoga Community College Faculty Colloquium. January 2010.

Conference presentation: “A Team Approach to Multi-Campus Academic Excellence Centers.” Barbara L. Pittman, Lindsay English, Cynthia Potteiger, and William Fogarty. SEED 2009: Beyond Teaching and Technology: Growth and Change at Faculty Support Centers. University of Findlay. May7-8, 2009.

Poster presentation. “Building a Second Life on a Shoestring.” CIT 2008: Conference on Instructional Technologies. SUNY Genesee Community College, Batavia, NY. 27-30 May 2008.

Faculty/Student presentation: “Researching American Labor Crises: Determining the Social Ethics of Work in America.” Barbara L. Pittman, Rebecca Hammer, Jennifer Helbig, Lindsay Peters, and Amy Truxal. Right, Wrong, and Grey: Ethical Boundaries for the 21st Century. Mercyhurst College Academic Celebration. March 28-31, 2004. Presented Web site built by writing students. https://sites.google.com/site/americanlaborcrises/

Faculty presentation: “Cognitive Flexibility, Case Studies, and Hypertext: Creating a Teaching Web Site.” Technology Buffet Faculty Presentation. Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania. 5 September 2002. Presented course project design and implementation in faculty workshops. https://sites.google.com/site/approachestoreadingliterature/

Conference presentation: “Beyond the Writing Classroom: A Collaborative Annotated Bibliography in an Introductory Literature Course.” 4th Annual Teaching of Writing Colloquia. Kent State University Stark Campus, Canton, Ohio. 29 April 2000.

Public lecture: “The Hero in Literature: Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts.” Butterfield Trail Retirement Village Lecture Series, Fayetteville, Arkansas. April 1994.