Paula Hayes

Paula Hayes, Ph.D.
Experienced writing instructor and scholar-teacher with over fifteen years of teaching across R1, community college, online, and adult-learning environments, specializing in First-Year Writing, composition pedagogy, the writing process, and student-centered approaches to academic literacy development. Extensive experience supporting first-generation college learners, academically developing students, adult learners, and students in transition as they acclimate to university-level reading, writing, research, and digital learning environments. Committed to growth-minded pedagogy through scaffolded instruction, revision-based writing practices, critical thinking, and multimodal educational technologies that help students develop confidence, agency, and academic success.

Research specializations include Southern Gothic literature, particularly the fiction of Flannery O’Connor through the lenses of religious trauma, racial trauma, violence, grace, and moral ambiguity, alongside modern and contemporary poetics, confessional poetry, feminist poetics, and African American poetics. Interdisciplinary interests include religion and literature, trauma studies, identity, ethics, and literary representations of transformation, belief, and cultural memory. Author of Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice (Peter Lang, 2013), with scholarly publications spanning poetics, race, religion, modernism, and literary criticism alongside an active record of creative publication. Recognized among the Top 50 Instructors at the University of Memphis (student nominated, 2019) and selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, “Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City’s Spaces, Places, and Sounds” (2025).

• American Literature Association, ALA
• Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, PAMLA
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association, SAMLA

• Contributor to Online Virtual Writing Center (VWC), 2013-December 2015
• University’s writing center that houses writing materials for both undergraduate and graduate level students. Created proposals for materials to include in the VWC
• Contributed writing materials to the VWC by authoring over 150 writing center materials, including print handouts, audio versions of handouts, PowerPoints, audio versions of PowerPoints
• Among the 150 materials authored, 45 Professor Vidcasts (short video segments ranging from 60-second snapshots of writing concepts to longer five-minute discussions on writing concepts); much of the material contained within the Vidcasts focuses on the Writing Process.
• Tutored both undergraduate and graduate students during the initial conception of the VWC, 2013-2014.
• Contributor to the Online Writing Center for Strayer, The (Re)Vision Center, October 2011
• The (Re)Vision Center houses an online collection of multimedia tools for the university’s students to learn how to prewrite, draft, edit, and revise their writing. The podcasts ranged in content from topics that include discussing how to write a thesis sentence, the research process, critical thinking, and why Wikipedia is not a scholarly source.
• Contributed writing materials for student writing success by authoring and narrated a series of six podcasts for Strayer University’s online (Re)Vision Center.
• On-Site Writing Center Program Supervisor/Director, Thousand Oaks Campus, Memphis, TN, October 2009 - 2013
• Supervised adjunct professors at the Thousand Oaks campus in their capacity as writing mentors (writing tutors) for undergraduate and graduate students.
• Oversaw campus tutoring in writing, particularly in the areas of composition, business, and professional writing.
• Planned, organized, and facilitated quarterly writing workshops.

• Academic Conferences
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA 97), Atlanta, Georgia, November 7, 2025.
• “Grace or Violence? Re-Reading Flannery O’Connor Through the Lens of Religious Trauma.” Panel, Flannery O’Connor and the Canon(s) of US Literature.
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, Georgia, November 9-11, 2023.
• “The Company One Chooses to Keep: Forging an American Lineage of Poetry through Hysteria and Self-Portraiture between Terrance Hayes and Emily Dickinson.” Panel, Emily Dickinson’s (In)Security. Emily Dickinson International Society.
• Rhetoric and Religious Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Conference (a Symposium of the CCCC, Conference on College Composition and Communication). Theme of the conference: Rhetoric and Religion as Resources for Resistance. October 19-21, 2023. Memphis, University of Memphis.
• “The Wheel Inside the Wheel: Ezekiel’s Wheel as a Prototype of Liberationist Theology in Early African American Rhetorical Traditions and Africanist Spirituality.” Panel, African American Rhetoric.
• Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Los Angeles, California, University of California (UCLA Luskin Conference Center), Berkeley (UCLA), November 11-13, 2023.
• “Lacanian Othering and Male Hysteria in Terrance Hayes’ American Sonnets.” Panel, Poetry and Politics Session I
• “Making of a Superstar: Gender-Bending Poetics of Candy Darling, Femme Fatales, Andy Warhol and Experimental Art Rock” (Read my series Beat poems, “Andy Warhol: A Life in Postcards” “Candy Darling Riding a New York Subway: The Subway Poems.” Panel, Dissolving Realities: Creative Writing.
• American Literature Association Symposium (ALA). Conference theme: The Historical Imagination in American Literature. Santa Fe, New Mexico, October 27-29, 2023.
• “Moments of Ekphrastic Longing and Desire in Natalie Diaz’s Postcolonial Love Poem.” Panel, Intersections.
• American Literature Association (ALA), Chicago, Illinois, May 25-28, 2022.
• “The Tragic-Comedy of Friendship between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.” Panel entitled, “Lowell and Others.” Sponsored by the Robert Lowell Society.
• Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Las Vegas, Nevada, November 14, 2021.
• “Tracing Theodicy with the Religious Impulses and Spiritual Skepticism of Robert Lowell.” Panel, Mid-Twentieth Century Poetry II (Sponsored by the Robert Lowell Society).
• Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA), Las Vegas, Nevada, November 11, 2021.
• “Two Birds is Our Whole Love,” “Wild,” and “A Poem for the Times,” (creative writing/original poetry). Panel, on “First Person: Writing the I.”
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Online/Virtual, November 4-6, 2021.
• “I Will Keep Talking,” creative nonfiction memoir/autobiographical vignette. Panel, Isolation and Connection: Creative Work for the Post-Millennial, Post-Pandemic, Post-IRI, World
• 28th National Conference on Students in Transition. Online. October 11, 2021.
• Together in the Same Zoom Room: First-Year Writing Success Collaboration (co-panelist on this panel; each of the co-panelists, including myself, were members of a team from and representing the University of Memphis).
• First Year Writing Success Roundtable. University of Memphis, July 13; July 20, 2021. Online. Co-Facilitator on Multiple Panels.
• TYCA (Two Year College English Association). Memphis, Tennessee, February 15, 2019.
• “Teaching Students How to Write about Community.”
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Atlanta, Georgia, November 15, 2019.
• “Reading Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad through the lens of Scientific Racism in the Antebellum Period.” Panel on African American Literature as Protest Art.
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Birmingham, Alabama, November 2-4, 2018.
• “Critiquing the American Dream in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman.” Panel on Modern African American Drama.
• American Literature Association Conference (ALA), San Francisco, California. May 24-27, 2018.
• “Open Letter to America: The Lyrical Speaking Voice as Prophetic Protest in Hughes’ “Open Letter to the South” and “Let America Be America Be Again.” Langston Hughes Society Panel, 25 May, 2018. American Literature Association Conference.
• Southern Regional Composition Conference (SRCC), Memphis, Tennessee. The theme of “Rights and Responsibilities: Honoring MLK 50,” March 30, 2018.
• “Teaching Aristotle’s Ethos and Pathos as a Faculty of the Moral Imagination in the Composition Classroom.” Cultural Identity: Studying Place, Politics, and Dialogue, Panel, March 30, 2018, Southern Regional Composition Conference. University of Memphis Campus.
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), November 3-5, 2017, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Hayes, Paula, Panel Chair, Moderator, and delivered paper, “Where is the Postmodern in Poetics Today?” Postmodern Poetics and the Pastiche, 3-5 November 2017. South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
• Presenter, “From Voodoo, Miles Davis, and Jimi Hendrix: How Spiritualist African Traditions Infuse the ELLUS Panel, 3-5 November 2017. South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
• The Summer Teaching Institute for Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, Tennessee, May 20-23, 2019.
• Group presentation panel presenting results from Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) grant on infusing Growth Mindset and Collaborative Learning into the Gateway Course of English 1010.
• The Summer Teaching Institute for Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, Tennessee, June 13-15, 2018
• “Using the QJQC Reading Strategy to Increase Student Engagement and Participation,” 15 June, 2018, Southwest Tennessee Community College Summer Teaching Institute, Macon Campus.
• The Summer Teaching Institute for Southwest Tennessee Community College, Memphis, Tennessee, June 14-16, 2017
• “Why Growth Mindset Matters in the Composition Classroom or Any Classroom,” 15 June, 2017. Southwest Tennessee Community College Summer Teaching Institute, Macon Campus.
• “Using Adobe Spark in the Composition Classroom to Encourage the Creation of Visual Essays,” 15 June, 2017. Southwest Tennessee Community College Summer Teaching Institute, Macon Campus.
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), November 4-6, 2016, Jacksonville, Florida.
• “T.S. Eliot’s ‘Objective Correlative’ and Langston Hughes’ Dystopic Lyrical Voice.” Langston Hughes Panel, 4-6 November 2016. South Atlantic Modern Language Association.
• Arkansas Philological Association, October 13-15, Heber Springs, Arkansas, held at ASU-Bebee campus.
• “Teaching Freshman Composition After Writing, After Derrida: What the Graphology of Student Errors Teach Us About the Drafting Phase of the Writing Process.” Arkansas Philological Association Academic Conference, 13-15 October 2016. ASU-Bebee campus.
• New Voices Conference, Georgia State University, February 4-6, 2016, Atlanta, Georgia at the GSU campus.
• “Ekphrasis as Self-Definition, Containment, and a Measure of the Sublime in Anne Sexton’s ‘Starry Night.’” New Voices Conference, Connections Across Places, Mediums, Identities Panel Event, 4 February 2016. Georgia State University campus.
• “The Blurred Lines of Plagiarism: Using Pop Culture to Teach Plagiarism.” New Voices Conference, Panel and Poster Event, 5 February 2016. Writing Center at Georgia State University Campus.
• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA), Durham, North Carolina, November 13-15, 2015.
• “The Haunting and the Hallelujah: Locating the Regional, Lyrical Voice in Michael Chitwood’s Appalachian Poetry.” Appalachian Literature and the Arts Panel, 13-15 November, 2015. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Conducted unpublished phone interview with the poet, Michael Chitwood, on 12 November 2015, regarding his poetry, in conjunction with the panel paper, “The Haunting and the Hallelujah.”
• Association Writers and Writing Programs (APA), Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 8-11, 2015.
• Book Signing. “Letting Science Tell the Story.” A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race. Ed. L. McCullough, University of Georgia Press 2015, pp. 107-114.
• Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc. (SCAASSI), February 18, 2005.
• “Western Definitions of Race, Aesthetics, and Textuality in the works of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Kant, Hume and Hegel.” Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc., 18 February 2005.
• The Society for Utopian Studies, Memphis October 2005.
• “Personal Transgression in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon: Magical Realism as a Utopian Vision.” The Society for Utopian Studies Conference, October 2005.

• Associate Campus Dean (ACD), Thousand Oaks Campus, Memphis, TN, July 2010 – June 2011, April-September 2015.
• Worked closely with the Campus Dean.
• Advised, created academic recovery plans for academically at risk students.
• Assisted students with registration and curriculum advising (advised between 100 and 200 students each academic quarter to improve their academic success and achievement)
• Visited classrooms to access adjunct and other full-time faculty for teaching methods according to university teaching rubrics.

• NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute, “Cincinnati Sounds: Exploring a Musical City’s Spaces, Places, and Sounds.” July 6-11, 2205. Accepted and attended.
• NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute, “Ritual Arts of Hinduism and Buddhism.” Summer, 2022. Offered but Declined.
• NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute, “Making Modernism: Literature, Dance, and Visual Culture in Chicago, 1893-1955. Summer, 2022. Offered but Declined.
• Invited Reviewer for the 29th National Conference on Students in Transition sponsored by the National Resource Center the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. Spring 2022. Reviewed a small group of proposals/abstracts to offer critiques and feedback.
• First Year Student Writing Success Committee, University of Memphis. Interdepartmental between Library Services and the English Department. Fall 2021-Spring 2022.
• This committee worked to find interdepartmental solutions for First Year Writers and Students in Transition to facilitate their success with writing across the curriculum and entrance into undergraduate research. This committee looked at factors that could place students within vulnerable populations such as First Generation College Learners and First Year Writers in need of additional support and resources.
• Wordsmith Writing Olympics (Annual High School Writing Competition). Served as a Judge. University of Memphis, Spring 2022, 2019.
• Each year the English Department sponsors the Wordsmith Competition (Led by Cathy Dice) for Memphis area High School students to take part in an essay writing contest.
• Teaching Recommendations and Resources for the English Department for Teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, University of Memphis, Spring 2021.
• Met with a small panel of colleagues to create resources for Instructors and Graduate Teaching Assistants for incorporating Coates’ memoir into the 2201 Literary Heritage and/or 2202 African American Literature Heritage courses.
• Invited Reviewer for QuaesitUM (Peer-Reviewed Academic Journal), University of Memphis, Reviewed the article submission, “Being Human and Living”: How HIV/AIDS Established a Vocal and Visible Queer Identity Within Queer Poetry Leading into the 21st Century.” Spring, 2021.
• English 2201 Curriculum Revision Committee, University of Memphis, Spring 2021.
• Committee met to discuss revisions to the 2201 curriculum to update the current curriculum, evaluate learning objectives, and create an extended course description.
• CAP Program (Collaborative Academic Professionalization Program, University of Memphis, Fall 2018-Spring 2019
• This program is designed to mentor graduate students (graduate teaching assistants) in the English department to prepare them to enter collegiate level teaching. Assisted at the level of an English Instructor as a mentor of assigned cohorts of graduate teaching assistants; met weekly with the cohort and participated in CAP meetings with other mentors, faculty, and graduate teaching assistants.
• Submitted short writing piece, “Grading Practices,” for the CAP Newsletter, University of Memphis, Fall 2018.
• Faculty Development Specialist (FDS), Strayer University, Thousand Oaks Campus, Memphis, TN, 2013- 2015
• Assisted the online Associate Dean of Faculty for General Studies with instructing new faculty to prepare faculty for online teaching.
• Mentored new online faculty across the nation for Strayer.

• Committee members included: Dr. Reginald Martin, Professor of African American Literature (Chair of the dissertation Committee) and Dr. William O’Donnell, Professor Emeritus of Poetry and primary advisor for the content of dissertation.
• Dissertation Title: “Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice.”
• Defended: March 2008.
• Dissertation Abstract: The subject of the dissertation explores Robert Lowell’s confessional poetry as it emerged out of his early formalist poetry. Themes examined include Lowell’s relationship to Puritan New England history, the psychoanalytic function of religious tropes in confessional poetry, and his relationship to high modernism, particularly drawing upon connections to T.S. Eliot and the nineteenth century aesthetic theorists, Walter Pater.

• “Integrating Research into Your Writing (Effectively). Tigers Write Workshop Series. University of Memphis, Spring 2022. Session was live and recorded/archived. A link to the recorded sessions may be found here, https://vimeo.com/showcase/8932258/video/691393552
• “Thinking About Thesis Statements.” Tigers Write Workshop Series. University of Memphis, (March 2), Spring 2022. https://vimeo.com/showcase/8932258/video/684359151
• “Teaching Writing Online: Flexibility, Empath, and Translation,” July 28, 2020. Recorded Podcast with host Gail Summerskill. Writing with Sophie: 3 Takeaways.
• “Draft, Worry Free”, October 28, 2014, Strayer University Presented as a live session for students and archived in the Virtual Writing Center
• “The Four Bases of Revision,” October 22, 2014, Strayer University Presented as a live session for students and archived in the Virtual Writing Center
• “Why Writing Once is Never Enough: Encouraging Students to Revise,” September 19, 2014 Presented as a live session for faculty and archived in Strayer University’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL)

• Book Publications
• Robert Lowell and the Confessional Voice. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2013 (Available on Amazon).
• Peer Reviewed Articles in Anthologies
• “Spun City.” Writing Memphis. Edited by Katherine Fredlund, 3rd. ed. Macmillan 2020, pp. 207-2010. (Available on Amazon).
• Originally published, “Spun City,” Memphis Flyer, Viewpoint, February 8, 2018.
• Several Entries in Encyclopedia of the Black Arts Movement. Eds. Verner Mitchell and Cynthia Davis. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2019. (Available on Amazon).
• —“Amiri Baraka’s Black Dada Nihilismus,” pp. 34-37.
• —“Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman,” pp. 112-120.
• —“Ballad of Birmingham,” pp. 12-13.
• —“Broadside Press,” pp. 57.
• “The Iron Rod of Desire: Imagism and Modernism in Anna Margolin’s Drunk from the Bitter Truth.” Women Writers of Yiddish Literature Critical Essays. Ed. R. Horowitz. Jefferson: McFarland 2015, pp. 157-179. (Available on Amazon).
• “Letting Science Tell the Story.” A Sense of Regard: Essays on Poetry and Race. Ed. L. McCullough. Athens: University of Georgia Press 2015, pp. 107-114. (Available on Amazon).
• Creative Publications (Poetry & Hybrid Creative Work)
• “Fishnet Stockings.” Whiskey Rye Review, 18 Apr. 2022.
• “Poem for Candy Darling.” Whiskey Rye Review, 11 May 2022.
• “A Poem for Vegas.” Whiskey Rye Review, 29 May 2022.
• “That One Time at the Taylor Swift Fever Concert.” Whiskey Rye Review, 1 Mar. 2023.
• “White Trash, Leda.” Whiskey Rye Review, 8 Aug. 2024.
• “Cher at the Casino.” Whiskey Rye Review, 6 Apr. 2026.
• “Andy Warhol: A Life in Postcards.” New Generation Beat Poets Anthology: National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. 2023. Edited by Debbie Tosun Kilday. (Available on Amazon). This poem was originally performed at the PAMLA conference in UCLA in November, 2022.
• “I Sing Your Name Until.” New Generation Beat Poets Anthology: National Beat Poetry Foundation, Inc. 2022. Edited by Debbie Tosun Kilday (Available on Amazon).
• “Brooklyn.” International Goddess 2022 Anthology. Edited by Debbie Tosun Kilday. (Available on Amazon).
• “Going Out West.” Remembering Jack Kerouac On His 100th Birthday 3-12-2022: National Beat Poetry Foundation and Friends. Edited by Debbie Tosun Kilday. (Available on Amazon).
• “That One Time at the Taylor Swift Fever Concert.” Fevers of the Mind (poetry ezine/website). March 27, 2023. (It was also reblogged on The Wombell Rainbow).
• “I Was a Thin Sea of Blue.” Fevers of the Mind, Poetry, Art, and Music. Issue 7: Bare Bones Writing II. September 15, 2023. Edited by David O’Dan. Anthology of Ekphrastic Poetry. Available on Amazon. The original was published on the Fevers of the Mind poetry ezine/website (also edited by David O’Dan). The original publication included a sound recording of me reading the poem.
• “Trailer Park Blues” (poem and photography). Rust Belt Review. Vol. 8. September, 2022.
• “Letters” (poem and photography). Rust Belt Review. Vol. 8. September, 2022.
• “Tattoo Parlor” (poem and photography). Rust Belt Review. Vol. 8. September, 2022.
• “Parachute.” The Dumping Grounds Poetry. Website. Spring, 2022. https://www.the-dumping-grounds-poetry.com/the-dumping-grounds-poetry
• “Identity Crisis.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 10, 2018, p. 9.
• “Calamity Passes.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 10, 2018, p. 7.
• “Flying Toward the Light.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 10, 2018, p. 10.
• “Jesus, from Grand Rapids.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 10, 2018, p. 6.
• “On Becoming a Poet.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 9, 2017, p.1.
• “The Dream.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 9, 2017, p.2.
• “Tree Mysticism.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 9, 2017, p.3.
• “Supplication.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 9, 2017, p.4.
• “Everybody Knows.” Hispanic Culture Review, no. 18, George Mason University 2012, p.14.
• “The Language of Silence.” Hispanic Culture Review, no. 18, George Mason University 2012, p.14.
• “Damballah.” Black Magnolias, vol. 5, no. 3, 2011, p.49.
• “The Passage of Lucille.” Black Magnolias, vol. 5, no. 3, 2011, p.50-2.
• “Lucille Sketch 2.” Black Magnolias, vol. 5, no. 3, 2011, p.53-4.
• “Dear Emily.” Black Magnolias, vol. 5, no. 3, 2011, p.55-6.
• “Postcard: Sincerely From Viet Nam.” The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, April 2011. Online.
• “Too Late to Contemplate Rebirth.” Hispanic Culture Review, no. 17, George Mason University 2010-2011, p.18. http://hispanicculturereview.onmason.com/2011/06/29/too-late-to-contemplate-rebirth/.
• “Self-Portrait I.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 5, 2011, p.19.
• “Agitation.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 4, 2010, p.3.
• “Woman in Blue.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 4, 2010, p.13.
• “Tonga.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image, no. 4, 2010, p.58.
• “Small Comforts”, “Bad Signs” Strong Verse: An Online Poetry Magazine, August 2012, http://www.strongverse.org/cgi-bin/poiesis.pl?search1=Hayes_Paula&header=poet&category=poem&method=perfect&order_by=number&order=cba&template=poem.
• Live or Recorded Poetry Readings
• “Going out West.” Recorded reading for Zoom event. Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100th Birthday. March 12, 2022. National Beat Poetry Foundation.
• Participated in Open Mic Poetry Session Live. The Dumping Grounds Open Mic. Zoom. February 19, 2022.
• Participated in Open Mic Poetry Session Live. The Dumping Grounds Open Mic. Zoom. October 9, 2021.
• Participated in Open Mic Poetry Session Live. The Dumping Grounds Open Mic. Zoom. August 7, 2021.
• Peer-Reviewed Academic Literary Articles
• Interview “Gary Soto: Conversation with the Fresno Poet.” Phati’tude Literary Magazine Special Edition, “What’s in a Nombre?”, vol. 3, no. 4, 2012, pp. 119-125.
• “A Feminine Force of Nature: Diane DiPrima, Beat Poetry, and Ecocriticism.” Platte Valley Review, vol. 33, no.1, 2012, pp. 221-229.
• Book Review of Kazim Ali’s Fasting for Ramadan: Notes on a Spiritual Practice, Rougarou: An Online Literary Journal, vol.5, no.1, 2011, http://english-archive.louisiana.edu/rougarou/archive/2011/Fall/Content/br-Hayes.html.
• Book Review of “Michael Chitwood’s Poor-Mouth Jubilee.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol.3, no.2, 2011, pp. 378-82.
• “The Aesthetics of Race and Relativity in A. Van Jordan’s Quantum Lyrics.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol.3, no.1, 2011, pp. 161-172.
• “Remembering Lucille Clifton: Poet and Storyteller.” Hieroglyph: Art in Word and Image. no.5, Southwest Tennessee Community College, 2011, pp. 45-50.
• “The Anti-Intellectualism of Wisława Szymborska’s Material World in People on a Bridge.” MS Academic, vol.1, no.4, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal, 2011, pp. 4-13.
• “Understanding Existentialism in the Life of Janusz Korczak and his Warsaw Production of Tagore’s Dak Ghar (The Post Office).” Hyphen: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Studies in Literature, Art, Culture, vol.2, no.1, 2011, pp. 136-154.
• “Remembering the Poet Lucille Clifton: The Woman and the Art.” The Griot: The Journal of African American Studies, vol.29, no.2, 2010, pp. 1-11.
• “Love of Creation and Mysticism in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali and Stray Birds.” Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, vol.2, no.4, 2010, pp. 481-490, http://rupkatha.com/V2/n4/09MysticisminTagore.pdf.
• “At Home in a Universe of Self-Expansion in Rabindranath Tagore’s Final Poems.” MS Academic, vol.1, no.1, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal 2010, pp. 49-62.
• Professional Business Writing Publications
• HR Professionals Magazine
• “Book Look: Who is Gen Z? GenZ@Work.” HR Professionals Magazine. Writer of Book Reviews 2016.
• “Book Look: Out with Old Alpha and in with the New Alpha.” HR Professionals Magazine. Writer of Book Reviews 2017.
• “Book Look: Save for More for Tomorrow—Practical Behavioral Finance Solutions to Improve 401(K) Plans.” HR Professionals Magazine. Writer of Book Reviews 2017.
• “Book Look: The Innovation Formula: The 14 Science-Based Keys for Creating a Culture Where Innovation Thrives.” HR Professionals Magazine. Writer of Book Reviews, November 2016.
• “Book Look: An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization.” HR Professionals Magazine. Writer of Book Reviews, September 2016.
• “Book Look: The HR Lawyer Within You.” HR Professionals Magazine, July 2016