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Marianne Cotugno

Biography

Dr. Cotugno is working on a creative nonfiction project concerning her mother's experiences as a severe asthmatic who spent several formative childhood years in the National Home for Jewish Children in Denver, Colorado, where she was the first non-Jewish patient admitted.

Education

• M.A., Biology, May 2024 - present, Project Dragonfly, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø (OH)
• M.Ed., Transformative Education, December 2021, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø (OH)
• Ph.D., English, May 2002, The Pennsylvania State University (PA)
• M.A., English, May 1997
• B.A., English Literature, May 1995, Douglass College Honors Program, Rutgers University (NJ)

Research Interests

• Professional and technical writing
• 20th century American literatures
• creative nonfiction

Selected Publications

• "Awakening Ecological Consciousness in Conrad Richter's Ohio Trilogy.” CEA Critic. July 2023.
• “No More Turtles,” Griffel, Year IV, Issue 12, Fall 2022.
• "'Revising the Ohio Trilogy: Conrad Richter's The Awakening Land." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Spring 2020.
• "'We're just putting it in our files:' Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita at the Cincinnati Public Library." Nabokov Online Journal. Spring 2020. 
• "Transformative Change at ºÚÁÏÉçÇø's Regional Campuses." co-authored with Moira Casey, Cathy Bishop-Clark. Effecting Change in Academia: Strategies for Faculty Leadership, co-edited by Holly Hassel and Kristi Cole (Routledge Press). December 2019.
• "Being Liminal: Life as an HOH Teacher." Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 46:3 (March 2019): 231-242.
•  The Police Chief. November 2018.
• "Memory, Space, and Exile in Vladimir Nabokov's 'A Guide to Berlin.'" Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies 1.3 (2018).
•  Journal of Criminal Justice Education (2018).
• "Using Google Drive to Prepare Students for Workplace Writing and to Encourage Student Responsibility, Collaboration, and Revision." Teaching English in the Two-Year College. 42:1 (September 2014): 65-76.

Grants and Awards

• Grants for Write Now!, Middletown Rotary and Rotary International, Middletown Community Foundation

Work in Progress

Dr. Cotugno is working on the representation of hunting in Conrad Richter's Ohio trilogy, which she hopes will be part of a larger work that addresses Richter's ecological consciousness. She is working on an article that argues for incorporating synchronous discussions into the teaching of online literature courses.