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About
Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
Academics
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Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
Admission & Financial Aid
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Student Life
Marist College to Become Marist University
University designation reflects breadth of global opportunities and bold vision for Marist's next century.
Student Life
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Dr. Moira Fitzgibbons
Professor of English
Bio
Working at the College 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 College’s student literary and visual arts journal; as Vice 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’ve 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:
With Angela Laflen, “Thinking Inside the Panel: Re-Framing Undergraduate Research and Information Literacy with a Graphic Narrative Database Assignment,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Language, Literature, and Composition, 2022.
Co-director, with Gina Brandolino, of the Medieval Meets Modern series, The Middle Ages for Educators, eds. Laura Morreale, Sara McDougall, and Merle Eisenberg. 2nd edition, 2020.
“Teaching ‘The Seafarer,’” in Middle Ages for Educators, 2020.
“The Merchant’s Tale” (edition and commentary) in The Medieval Disability Sourcebook, edited by Cameron McNabb, Punctum Press, 2020.
“What Does It Mean to Read a Medieval Text?” (compiler/editor) in The Open Access Companion to the “Canterbury Tales,” eds. the OACCT Editorial Collective, https://opencanterburytales.dsl.lsu.edu/, 2017.
“Women, Tales, and ‘Talking Back’ in Pore Caitif and Dives and Pauper” in Middle English Religious Writing in Practice: Texts, Readers, and Transformations, ed. Nicole Rice (Brepols Publishers, 2013), 181-214.
“Critical Pleasure, Visceral Literacy, and the Prik of Conscience,” Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Language, Literature, Composition, and Culture 13.2 (2013), 245-266.
Selected Presentations
Recent presentations include:
With Gina Brandolino, “Medieval Comics: The Alchemy of Word and Image,” Digital Medieval Studies Institute, Washington, DC, February 2023.
“From Banderoles to Speech Bubbles: Exploring Comics Alongside Medieval Manuscripts in a First-Year Writing Course,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL, February 2023.
“Non-Normative Bodies in the Canterbury Tales, the Track series, and Wonder,” virtual presentation, New Chaucer Society Biennial Congress, July 2022.
“Perusall in the HEL Classroom: Practical and Ethical Considerations,” 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.
“Teaching the Canterbury Tales Alongside Graphic Narratives,” 21st Biennial International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, Toronto, CA, July 2018.
“Oh, the (Medieval) Places We’ll Go: Children’s Literature as a Gateway Course” (poster presentation), International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2017.
“Literary Reflections on Advising: From Old English to New Jersey,” Keynote talk, NACADA Drive-In Conference, Marist College, April 2016.
“Managing Diagnosis in the Medieval/Disability Studies Classroom,” Medieval Academy Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, February 2016.
“Comune Conversation in Piers Plowman and the Sermons of MS Longleat 4,” Sixth International Piers Plowman Society Conference, Seattle, WA, July 2015.
Awards and Honors
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.
Marist College Board of Trustees Distinguished Teaching Award, September 2012.
Student Government Association Overall Full-time Faculty Member of the Year, March 2012.
