Dr. Judith Halden-Sullivan

Professor of English

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Contact Information

Judith.Halden-Sullivan@millersville.edu

Phone: 717-871-7394

Degrees:

  • B.A. English, Millersville University of Pennsylvania, Minor: Russian language, literature, and history.
  • M.A. English, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Ph.D. English, The Pennsylvania State University

Specializations:

  • Rhetoric and Writing Studies
  • Contemporary Poetics
  • Avant-garde Poetry and Poetics
  • Hermeneutic Phenomenology

Interests:

  • Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Poets mainstream presses hate
  • The intersections of poetics and rhetoric

University and Program Connections:

  • Coordinator, Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Contest (2016-present)
  • Chair/Co-Chair, Writing Studies Committee (2004-2017)
  • Proposer/Coordinator, Graduate Certificate in Writing (2011-2017)

Community and Club Connections:

  • Faculty Adviser, The George Street Carnival, now The George Street Press (2002-2007)
  • Judge. James Hale Steinman Scholarship Fund (Lancaster, PA).

Passions and Distractions:

  • Poetry writing
  • Gardening
  • Art history
  • Films of all varieties

Courses Taught:

  • ENGL 110: Composition
  • WRIT 311: Advanced Composition
  • The Writing Workshop
  • The Graduate Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition
  • Innovative Discourses: Experimental/Academic Writing
  • Creative Writing: Innovative Styling & Hybrid Genres
  • Graduate Seminar in Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics

Sample Publications:

  • “A Three-Part Exchange on Stephen Ratcliffe’s Poetry and Thinking.” Dichtung Yammer. An on-line journal of innovative poetics. Part I--December 16, 2020; Part II--February 4, 2021; Part III--June 7, 2021.

  • Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry. Book-length study. Editor and essay contributor with Thomas Fink. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2014.

  • "The Game of Self-Forgetting: Reading Innovative Poetry Reading Gadamer." Essay in Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry. Editor and essay contributor with Thomas Fink. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2014. 127-145.

  • "The Experiential Ethos of Advanced Composition." Essay in Principles and Practice: New Discourses for the Vertical Curriculum. Ed. Margaret M. Strain. NY: Hampton Press, 2012. 63-85.

  • "Architect / House of Being." "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics. Eds. Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007. 31-46.

  • "Petaluma." Poem. Muse Apprentice Guild. Spring 2003.

  • Reflection and an Appetite for Experience: Theory to Classroom Practice." Journal for the Assembly of Expanded Perspectives on Learning 4 (Winter 1998-9): 52-60.