SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Director, Freshman and Sophomore English
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
• Drama (especially, but not limited to, Absurdist Drama, and Interdisciplinary and
Collaborative
Theatre)
• Politics and Literature (especially the effects of HUAC on the arts)
• World Literature
• Interdisciplinary Humanities
• Poetry
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS
• Member, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• Member, Conference on College Compostition and Communication (CCCC)
• Member, Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Member, Associated Writing Programs (AWP)
• Member, American Culture Association / Popular Culture Association (ACA/PCA)
• Member, National Association for Humanities Education (NAHE)
• Member, National Women's Studies Association (NWSA)
• Regular Participant, Deep South Writers Conference
SELECTED WORKS
Creative Writing
Her poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and appeared in journals
such
as: Glimmer Train, ACM, Feminist Studies, Hawai'i Review, Illuminations, Louisiana Literature, The Baltimore Review, and Green Mountains Review; her
poetry has been included in anthologies such as: Red, White & Blues: Poetic
Vistas
on the Promise of America, Mischief, Caprice & Other Poetic Strategies, and Only
Connect.
Scholarly Publications
Scholarly
work by Dr. Costello has appeared in publications such as the textbook Western Literary
Studies: Traditions,
Trends, and Topics and in the journal Interdisciplinary Humanities.
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