About

Lisa Tyler teaches literature, composition, and business communication at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. She serves on the boards of the Jane Austen Society of North America and the Hemingway Society. She is also on the editorial advisory board of the Hemingway Review. She is the author or editor of four books and has published nearly 50 essays in academic journals and edited collections. She received Sinclair’s Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award in 2017. Her research interests include intertextualities between Ernest Hemingway’s fiction and novels by women writers (including Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Virginia Woolf, and Edith Wharton), literary allusion and modernist writing more generally, Hemingway and the Anthropocene, and contemporary American dramatist Marsha Norman.

Education

Education

Ph.D. in English, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Dissertation:  “Our Mothers’ Gardens:  Mother-Daughter Relationships and Myth in Twentieth-Century British Women’s Literature”
Director:  Katherine Burkman

M.A. in English, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio

B.A. in English and German, University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio

 

Other Publications

Books
 
Understanding Marsha Norman.  U of South Carolina P, 2019. https://www.sc.edu/uscpress/books/2019/6002.html

Editor.  Wharton, Hemingway, and the Advent of Modernism.  Louisiana State U P, 2019. https://lsupress.org/books/detail/wharton-hemingway-and-the-advent-of-modernism/

Editor.  Teaching Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.  Kent State U P, 2008.
https://digitalcommons.kent.edu/hemingway/13/

Student Companion to Ernest Hemingway.  Greenwood, 2001.
https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=B6382C

Essays Published in Refereed Journals


“‘Every patriarch has his prostitute’: The Prostituted Woman in Virginia Woolf’s Writings.” Feminist Modernist Studies. DOI: 10.1080/24692921.2023.2169821

“Aestheticized Slavery: Blackamoor Jewelry in Ernest Hemingway’s Across the River and into the Trees.” Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory, vol. 78, no. 4, 2022, pp. 29-53.

“The Sins of the Fathers: Mental Illness, Heredity, and Short Fiction by Wharton and Hemingway.” Edith Wharton Review vol. 36, no. 1, 2020, pp. 48-71.

“ ‘Regency Novel or Pandemic Life’?: Understanding Jane Austen-Related Pandemic Memes.” Persuasions On-Line, vol. 41, no. 1, 2020, http://jasna.org/publications/persuasions-online/vol-41-no-1/tyler/

“Modernist Jane:  Austen’s Reception by Writers of the Twenties and Thirties.”  Persuasions, vol. 39, 2017, pp. 88-99.

“How the Weather Was”:  Anthropogenic Climate Change and Environmental Damage in Hemingway’s Green Hills of Africa.Hemingway Review, vol. 37, no. 1, 2017, pp. 36-54.

“Cultural Conversations:  Virginia Woolf’s 1927 Review of Hemingway.”  Journal of Modern Periodical Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015, pp. 44-59.

“ ‘How Beautiful the Virgin Forests Were before the Loggers Came’:  An Ecofeminist Reading of Hemingway’s ‘The End of Something.’ ” Hemingway Review, vol. 27, no. 2, 2008, pp. 60-73.

“ ‘He was pretty good in there today’”:  Reviving the Macho Christ in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Today is Friday’ and Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ.”  Journal of Men, Masculinities, and Spirituality, vol. 1, no. 2, 2007, pp. 155-69. 

Reprinted in The Best of  Journal of Men, Masculinities, and Spirituality.  Ed. Joseph Gelfer.  Gorgias P, 2010.
https://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=365758946821497;res=IELHSS

“Lily Bart as Failed Flâneuse in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth.”  Community College Humanities Review, vol. 27, 2006-2007, pp. 156-66.

“‘Dangerous Families’ and ‘Intimate Harm’ in Hemingway’s ‘Indian Camp.’” Texas Studies in Literature and Language, vol. 48, no. 1, 2006, pp. 37-53.

“The Loss of Roses:  Mother-Daughter Myth and Relationships between Women in Mrs. Dalloway.”  West Virginia University Philological Papers, vol. 52, 2005-06, pp. 60-69.

“Towards a Postmodern Understanding of Crisis Communication.”  Public Relations Review, vol. 31, no. 4, 2005, pp. 566-71.

“A Flare from the Margins:  How the Association for Business Communication Fails Two-Year College Faculty.”  Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 31, no. 4, May 2004, pp. 360-68.

“‘The Bullet that Did Not Kill Me’:  Jinny in The Waves.”  Virginia Woolf Miscellany vol. 65, Spring 2004, pp. 18-20.

“Brontë and Burnett:  A Response to Susan E. James.”  Connotations:  A Journal for Critical Debate, vol. 12, no. 3, 2002-2003.

“An Agatha Christie Play—Without the Mystery.”  Hemingway Review, vol. 21, no. 2, 2002, pp. 121-24.

“Narratives of Pain:  Trauma and the Healing Power of Writing.”  JAEPL:  The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, vol. 5, no. 1, 1999, pp. 14-24. https://trace.tennessee.edu/jaepl/vol5/iss1/4/

“‘I Just Don’t Understand It’:  Teaching Margaret Atwood’s ‘Rape Fantasies.’”  Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 25, no. 1, 1998, pp. 51-57.
NOTE:  This article was also selected for inclusion in a bibliographic database called Short Stories for Students, edited by Kathy Wilson and published by Gale Research, Inc.)

“Liability Means Never Being Able to Say You’re Sorry:  Corporate Guilt, Legal Constraints, and Defensiveness in Corporate Communication.”  Management Communication Quarterly, vol. 11, no.1, 1997, pp. 51-73.

“‘Women Have a Bad Time Really’:  Gender and Interpretation in To Have and Have Not.”  The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature, vol. 7, 1996, pp. 57-66.

“Charting Pinter’s Itinerary:  Literary Allusion in A Kind of Alaska.”  Pinter Review, 1995-96, pp. 90-100.

“Nameless Atrocities and the Name of the Father:  Literary Allusion and Incest in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out.”  Woolf Studies Annual, vol. 1, 1995, pp. 36-46.

“Passion and Grief in A Farewell to Arms:  Ernest Hemingway’s Retelling of Wuthering Heights.”  Hemingway Review, vol. 14, no. 2, 1995, pp. 79-96.

“Big Brother is Watching You:  Dorothy Wordsworth’s Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals.”  The University of Dayton Review, vol. 23, no. 2, 1995, pp. 87-98.

“Self-Hatred and the Demonic in Doris Lessing’s Fiction.”  Doris Lessing Newsletter, vol. 16, no. 2, 1994, pp. 4-5, 13-15.

“Our Mothers’ Gardens:  Doris Lessing’s ‘Among the Roses.’” Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 31, no. 2, 1994, pp. 163-73.

“Ernest Hemingway’s Date Rape Story:  Sexual Trauma in ‘Up in Michigan.’”  Hemingway Review, vol. 13, no. 2, 1994, pp. 1-11.

“Mother-Daughter Myth and the Marriage of Death in Steel Magnolias.”  Literature/Film Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 2, 1994, pp. 98-104.

“Food, Femininity, and Achievement:  Eating Disorders and the Mother-Daughter Relationship in National Velvet.”  Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 4, 1993, pp. 154-58.

“Classical, Biblical, and Modernist Myth:  Doris Lessing’s ‘Flavours of Exile.’”  Doris Lessing Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 2, 1993, pp. 3, 10-13.

“Ecological Disaster and Rhetorical Response:  Exxon’s Communications in the Wake of the Valdez Spill.”  Journal of Business and Technical Communication, vol. 6, no. 2, 1992, pp. 149-71.

Essays Published in Essay Collections and Other Books


“Teaching Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes in an Online World Literature Course.” Teaching Postwar Japanese Literature, edited by Alex Bates, MLA, 2023, pp. 273-80.

“Ernest Hemingway.”  Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, edited by Linda De Roche, ABC-Clio, 2021. https://products.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5316C.

The Sun Also Rises.”  Twentieth-Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, edited by Linda De Roche, ABC-Clio, 2021. https://products.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5316C 

“‘Embrace the Community’: Hallmark Channel Movies and Childhood Nostalgia.” The Hallmark Channel: Essays on Faith, Race, and Feminism. Ed. Emily Witsell and Emily Newman. McFarland, 2020, pp. 17-31.

“‘There’s No One Thing That’s True’: Hemingway Criticism and the Environmental Humanities.” The New Hemingway. Ed. Suzanne del Gizzo and Kirk Curnutt. Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 189-203.

“Ernest Hemingway:  Global American Modernist.”  Wiley-Blackwell Companion to World Literature, 5 vols., edited by general editor Ken Seigneurie, vol. 5, edited by volume editor B. Venkat Mani, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.

“Virtual Papa: Ernest Hemingway’s Digital Presence.” Hemingway in the Digital Age: Reflections on Teaching, Reading, and Understanding,” edited by Laura Godfrey. Kent State University Press, 2019, pp. 22-30.

“‘Everybody Has It’:  Syphilis and the Human Condition in the Writings of Ernest Hemingway.”  Theorizing Syphilis and Subjectivity:  From the Victorians to the Present, edited by Kari Nixon and Loreno Servitje, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, pp. 163-81.

“‘Our Fathers Lied’:  The Great War and Paternal Betrayal in Hemingway’s In Our TimeTeaching Hemingway and War, edited by Alex Vernon, Kent State UP, 2015, pp. 30-40.

“Critical Overview of the Biographies.”  Hemingway in Context, edited by Debra Ann Moddelmog and Suzanne del Gizzo, Cambridge, 2013, pp. 22-32.

“Opera, Maternal Influence, and Gender in Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Ash Heel’s Tendon.’”  Music and Literary Modernism:  Critical Essays and Comparative Studies, edited by Robert P. McParland, Cambridge Scholars, 2006, pp. 136-43.

“‘Devout Again by Cynicism’:  Lord Byron’s Don Juan and Ernest Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon.”  A Companion to Hemingway’s Death in the Afternoon, edited by Miriam Mandel, Camden House, 2004, pp. 43-58.

“‘I Really Don’t Want to Hear’:  Women and Men in Conversation in ‘Cat in the Rain’ and ‘The Sea-Change.’”  Hemingway and Women, edited by Lawrence Broer and Gloria Holland, U of Alabama P, 2002, pp. 70-80.

“Dead Rabbits, Bad Milk, and Lost Eggs:  Women, Nature, and Myth in For Whom the Bell Tolls.”  Hemingway and the Natural World, edited by Robert E. Fleming, U of Idaho P, 1999, pp. 125-37.

“‘I Am Not What You Supposed’:  Walt Whitman’s Influence on Virginia Woolf.” Virginia Woolf:  Texts and Contexts:  Selected Papers from the Fifth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, edited by Beth Rigel Daugherty and Eileen Barrett, Pace U P, 1996, pp. 110-16.

“‘This Haunted Girl’:  Marsha Norman’s Adaptation of The Secret Garden.”  Marsha Norman:  A Casebook, edited by Linda Ginter Brown, Garland, 1996, pp. 133-44.

“Woman of the West:  An Introduction to Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Fair Barbarian.”  A Fair Barbarian, U of Idaho P, 1995, not paginated.
https://books.google.com/books?id=o94KAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PP27&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false

“Revisionary Revelations:  Women and Self-Worth in Two West German Short Stories.”  The Germanic Mosaic:  Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Society, edited by Carol A. Blackshire-Belay, Greenwood, 1994, pp. 63-71.

“Mother-Daughter Passion and Rapture:  The Demeter Myth in the Fiction of Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing.”  Woolf and Lessing:  Breaking the Mold, edited by Ruth Saxton and Jean Tobin, St. Martin’s, 1994, pp. 73-91.

Book Reviews and Annotations
 
Review of The Green Depression: American Ecoliterature in the 1930s and 1940s by Matthew Lambert, Twentieth-Century Literature, vol. 68, no. 2, 2022, pp. 225-34..

Review of Selected Poems of Harry Crosby, edited by Ben Mazer, Modernism/Modernity, Modernism/Modernity’s Re/Discoveries, vol. 7, cycle 1, 2 Aug. 2022.

Review of Homesickness: Of Trauma and the Longing for Place in a Changing Environment, by Ryan Hediger, Hemingway Review, vol. 40, no. 2, 2021, pp. 147-51.

Review of An Enemy of the People produced at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. Arthur Miller Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, 2020, pp. 181-86.

Review of “Left Behind America” episode of Frontline, written by Alec MacGillis. Middle West Review, vol. 6, nos. 1-2, 2019-2020, pp. 228-31.

Review of Hemingway Lives! Why Reading Ernest Hemingway Matters Today by Clancy Sigal.  Hemingway Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 2015, pp. 132-35.

Review of Broadcasting Modernism edited by Debra Rae Cohen, Michael Coyle, and Jane Lewty.  Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 45, no. 1, 2012, pp. 99-102.

Review of Print the Legend by Craig McDonald.  Hemingway Review, vol. 31, no. 1, 2011, pp. 133-35.

Review of Reading Oprah:  How Oprah’s Book Club Changed the Way America Reads, by Cecilia Konchar Farr.  Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association vol. 38, no. 1, 2005, pp. 137-39.

Review of Henry James and Queer Modernity, by Eric Haralson.  Hemingway Review, vol. 24, no. 1, 2004, pp. 114-17.

Review of The Power of Corporate Communication:  Crafting the Voice and Image of Your Business, by Paul A. Argenti and Janis Forman.  Journal of Business Communication, vol. 41, no. 1, 2004, pp. 100-04.

Review of The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo, by Paula Huntley.  Hemingway Review, vol. 23, no. 1, 2003, pp. 120-23.

Review of Writing and Healing:  Toward an Informed Practice, ed. Charles M. Anderson and Marian M. MacCurdy.  JAEPL:  The Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, vol. 7, 2001-02, pp. 85-87.

Review of Authorial Divinity in the Twentieth Century:  Omniscient Narration in Woolf, Hemingway, and Others, by Barbara K. Olson.  Hemingway Review, vol. 17, no. 2, 1998, pp. 127-29.

Review of Ernest Hemingway:  The Oak Park Legacy, ed. James Nagel.  Hemingway Review, vol. 16, no. 2, 1997, pp. 86-90.

Review of Crisis in Organizations:  Managing and Communicating in the Heat of Chaos, by Laurence Barton.  The Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, vol. 56, no. 2, 1993, pp. 47-48.

Review of Business Communication Today, by Courtland Bovee and John V. Thill.  The Bulletin of the Association for Business Communication, vol. 56, no. 1, March 1993, pp. 51-53.

Annotations of articles in Argumentation and The Professional CommunicatorCCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1991, edited by Gail E. Hawisher and Cynthia L. Selfe, Conference on College Composition and Communication and Southern Illinois University Press, 1993.

Annotations of articles in Argumentation and The Professional CommunicatorCCCC Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1990.  Ed. Erika Lindemann.  Carbondale, Illinois:  Conference on College Composition and Communication and Southern Illinois University Press, 1992.

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