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Celebrating the Class of 2025
鈥� The graduate ceremony will be on Friday, May 23.
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Marist Commencement
Celebrating the Class of 2025
鈥� The graduate ceremony will be on Friday, May 23.
鈥� The undergraduate ceremony will be on Saturday, May 24.Admission & Financial Aid
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Marist Commencement
Celebrating the Class of 2025
鈥� The graduate ceremony will be on Friday, May 23.
鈥� The undergraduate ceremony will be on Saturday, May 24.Student Life
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Dr. Moira Fitzgibbons
Professor of English
Bio
Working at the University enables me to collaborate with great students and colleagues and to wander happily around words (who or what is the luke in lukewarm? Where did ampersands come from?). My first-year and advanced-level courses engage with medieval texts and culture, comics, disability studies, and the history of the English language. My interest in learning, texts, and creativity have also led me to serve as a faculty co-advisor to Mosaic, the University's student literary and visual arts journal; as the current President of the Poughkeepsie Public Library District Board of Trustees; and as a member of several scholarly advisory boards.
I love exchanging ideas with students about the rich and varied forms of literacy we all use every day. Stop by my office and let me know what you鈥檝e been reading, thinking about, and creating lately!
Education
PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
BA, English (Biology Minor), Georgetown University
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Strange texts and smart students.
Selected Publications
Recent scholarly projects and publications include:
Drawn by the River: The Hudson River Valley as a Comics Ecosystem, forthcoming from the State University of New York Press in Fall 2025.
Co-editor (with Gina Brandolino) of Crumpling the Timeline, a special issue of Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, vol. 25, no.1, January 2025.
With Angela Laflen, 鈥淭hinking Inside the Panel: Re-Framing Undergraduate Research and Information Literacy with a Graphic Narrative Database Assignment,鈥� Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Language, Literature, and Composition, 2022.
in Middle Ages for Educators, 2020.
鈥淭he Merchant鈥檚 Tale鈥� (edition and commentary) in The Medieval Disability Sourcebook, edited by Cameron McNabb, Punctum Press, 2020.
(compiler/editor) in The Open Access Companion to the 鈥淐anterbury Tales,鈥� eds. the OACCT Editorial Collective, https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/, 2017.
鈥淲omen, Tales, and 鈥楾alking Back鈥� in Pore Caitif and Dives and Pauper鈥� in Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations, ed. Nicole Rice (Brepols Publishers, 2013), 181-214.
鈥淐ritical Pleasure, Visceral Literacy, and the Prik of Conscience,鈥� Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Language, Literature, Composition, and Culture 13.2 (2013), 245-266.
Selected Presentations
Recent presentations include:
"Going Local," The Sewanee Medieval Colloquium, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, February 2025.
"Using HEL to Reboot a General-Education Literature Survey," Society for the Study of the History of the English Language Conference, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, October 2024.
With Gina Brandolino, 鈥淢edieval Comics: The Alchemy of Word and Image,鈥� Digital Medieval Studies Institute, Washington, DC, February 2023.
鈥淔rom Banderoles to Speech Bubbles: Exploring Comics Alongside Medieval Manuscripts in a First-Year Writing Course,鈥� Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, February 2023.
鈥淣on-Normative Bodies in the Canterbury Tales, the Track series, and Wonder,鈥� virtual presentation, New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, July 2022.
鈥淧erusall in the HEL Classroom: Practical and Ethical Considerations,鈥� Society for the Study of the History of the English Language Conference, University of Washington, May 2022.
With Angela Laflen, "Communities of CURE: Undergraduate Research in the COVID-Era Classroom," Global Society of Online Literacy Educators, January 2021.
鈥淭eaching the Canterbury Tales Alongside Graphic Narratives,鈥� 21st Biennial International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Toronto, CA, July 2018.
鈥淥h, the (Medieval) Places We鈥檒l Go: Children鈥檚 Literature as a Gateway Course鈥� (poster presentation), International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2017.
鈥淟iterary Reflections on Advising: From Old English to New Jersey,鈥� Keynote talk, NACADA Drive-In Conference, 蜜月直播, April 2016.
鈥淢anaging Diagnosis in the Medieval/Disability Studies Classroom,鈥� Medieval Academy Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 2016.
鈥�Comune Conversation in Piers Plowman and the Sermons of MS Longleat 4,鈥� Sixth International Piers Plowman Society Conference, Seattle, WA, July 2015.
Awards and Honors
The Awareness Award, Office of Accommodations and Accessibility, Marist University, April 2024.
Student Government Association School of Liberal Arts Faculty Member of the Year, April 2022, April 2010, April 2009, and April 2007.
Student Government Association Recognition of Distinguished Service Award, April 2014.
蜜月直播 Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, September 2012.
Student Government Association Overall Full-time Faculty Member of the Year, March 2012.
