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  • Christine Taff

Christine Taff, M.A.

Senior Lecturer in Spanish, Associate Director of the Latinos Unidos, Hispanic Center

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cmtaff@iuk.edu
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Main Building, KO 178D

Professional Works

Publications

  • “Who’s Irish?: Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities” Literary Visions of Multicultural Ireland: The Immigrant in Contemporary Irish Literature. Ed. Pilar Villar-Argáiz. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014. 95-107. Print.
  • “Identity as Conformity: Identity Migration in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.'' A critical edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest. Ed. Suman Chakraborty. Kolkata: Roman Books, 2012. Print.
  • “In Search of Identity: Inner Diaspora and Psychic Healing in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children" South Asian Review 31. 2 (2010): 9-26. Print.
  • “From Emigration to Immigration: Irishness in The Irish Short Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and Roddy Doyle’s The Deportees” The Wake of the Tiger. Eds. David Clark and Rubén Jarazo Álvarez. La Coruña, Spain: Netbiblo Publishers, 2010. 103-110. Print. Irish Studies Series.
  • “The Four Mothers of the Dispossessed: Motherhood in Irish Melodies and Cantares Galegos,” (M)Othering the Nation: Constructing and Resisting Regional and National Allegories Through the Maternal Body. Ed. Lisa Bernstein. New Castle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008: 23-35. Print.

After Ireland: A review of ACIS-CAIS 2014 Breac June 30, 2014

Forthcoming: “Roddy Doyle’s Short Fiction: An Interview” Roddy Doyle” Short Fiction: Theory and Practice (February 2015)

Under Consideration: “ An Interview with Roddy Doyle” Breac

In Progress: New book on Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities.

  • “The Hill.” The Common, November 2014. Web.
  • “Eating Apples.” The Common, November 2014. Web.
  • “The Accident.” Buhito Press, October 2014. Web.
  • “Home.” The Common, October 2014. Web.
  • “The Wedding Picture.” Marco Polo, April 2013. Web.
  • "The Merry Go Round." Natural Bridge 27 (Spring 2012): 102-109. Print.
  • “A Galician Summer.” Transnational Literature 3. 2 (May 2011). Web.
  • “Mia.” Read Short Stories Online: Page 47 Online Anthology April, 2010. Web.
  • “Back to Galicia.” disClosure, Issue 17 (April 2008): 6-12. Print.

  • “Forest Park” Miracle
  • “My Walk” Charlottesville Winter
  • “The Rescue” The Common

  • Voyeurism in CSI: Las Vegas” Popmatters.com (February 2011)
  • Roddy Doyle’s Characters in The Deportees” Dictionary of World Literary  Characters Facts on File, Inc. (Summer 2009)
  • “Double Voyeurism in CSI Las Vegas: The Scientist under the Microscope.” In Media Res (August 2007). Web.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (co-authored)

  • Heath, Sarah and Eva Roa White. "Walking the Line: Lessons in Online Interdisciplinary Instruction" Currents in Teaching and Learning 6.1 (Fall 2013).
  • White, Eva Roa et al. "Turning a Plague into a Posy: Team Teaching Graduate Courses at a Small Campus”Currents in Teaching and Learning 3.1 (Fall 2010).
  • McLean, Donna and Eva White. "Two Approaches to Podcasting Use in the Classroom” MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching 5.2 (June 2009)
  • Reviewer for CPLT -- Creative Practices in Language Learning and Teaching since 2013

William Penn University

  • A Case Study of Ireland and Galicia’s Parallel Paths to Nationhood Irish Studies Series. Wales, U.K.: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004
  • "Emigration as Emancipation: Portrayals of the Immigrant Irish Girl in NineteenthCentury Fiction." New Hibernia Review 9.1 (Spring 2005): 95-108
  • "Ramón del Valle-Inclán” in the Compendium of 20th century World Novelists ( December 2007)

Conference Papers Presented

  • “Brown Bag: Research on Roddy Doyle” - IUK (December 2014)
  • “From The Deportees to Two pints: Roddy Doyle’s Glocal Irish Identity” ACIS/CAIS international meeting, Dublin, Ireland (June 2014)
  • “From the Global in The Deportees to the Personal in Bullfighting: Roddy Doyle’s Continued Search for Irish Identity” ACIS Midwest, Iowa City (October 13)
  • “Who is Irish? Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities.” EFACIS, Galway, Ireland (June 2013)
  • “Who is Irish? Roddy Doyle’s Hyphenated Identities.”ACIS New Orleans international meeting, (March 2012)
  • “From the Political to the Personal: Roddy Doyle’s Bullfighting.” ACIS West, San Jose, CA. (October 2011)
  • “Is Podcasting the New Star in the Galaxy of Learning?” (Poster session with Donna Mclean and Cherie Dodd) 3rd IU Kokomo Faculty Conference, Kokomo Indiana, (November 2010)
  • “Hybrid Ireland: Roddy Doyle’s Nigerian Irish Identity” ACIS - West, Boise State University, Idaho (October 2010)
  • “Hybridity through Immigration” Arts and Sciences Speakers Series, IU Kokomo (February 2010)
  • “Nigeria in Ireland: Roddy Doyle's Nigerian Irish Identity” ACIS international/ Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies, Galway, Ireland (June 2009)
  • “From Emigration to Immigration: The Irish Short Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and Roddy Doyle’s The Deportees” AEDEI International conference, A Coruña, Spain (May 2008)
  • “From Emigration to Immigration: The Irish Short Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and 7 Roddy Doyle’s The Deportees” at the national ACIS Irish Studies conference, Davenport, Iowa, (April 2008).
  • “The Four Mothers of the Dispossessed: Motherhood in Thomas Moore and Rosalia de Castro” ACIS (American Conference for Irish Studies) Midwest conference Kansas City (October 2007).
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