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News from Comparative Literature Alumnus Stephen Rojcewicz

January 12, 2023 English | Center for Literary and Comparative Studies

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Alumnus Stephen Rojcewicz shares news of his recent publications, book launch, and service!

My most recent highlight was the publication of my book, Thornton Wilder, Classical Reception, and American Literature, by Routledge (2022). This work is an expansion of my 2017 Ph.D. dissertation in Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. Although I have co-written and co-edited books on psychiatry, and have published numerous book chapters and professional articles, this was my first single-author book, completed at age 78. The book saw its formal debut through a Feb. 16, 2022 Zoom book launch, sponsored by the Center for Literary & Comparative Studies. Featured discussants were Judy P. Hallett, Professor in Classics and distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita, University of Maryland, College Park, and Wilder scholar Lincoln Konkle, Professor of English at the College of New Jersey. A close-captioned video of the Zoom book launch, is available here.

I have been active as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology, the Thornton Wilder Journal, and the drama journal, Production Archives.

During the May-June 2022 production of Our Town by the Shakespeare Theatre Company of Washington, DC, I served as a discussant of Wilder’s play in the public talk-back session following a performance.

I have published the following papers and book reviews:       

  • Book review of Write a Poem, Save Your Life, by Meredith Heller. Journal of Poetry Therapy 34 (4): 268-269, 2021. Doi: 10.1080/08893675.2021.1951909.
  • A sequence of 52 haiku, “Sketches: The Year in Haiku,” in Capital Psychiatry, 2022. I also translated one of my haiku into Latin. 
  • With co-author Judith P. Hallett: “Thornton Wilder and Italy, Part II.” Giornale Italiano di Filologia 73: 323-349, 2021.
  • “A Note on Wilder’s Use of the Classical Tradition in The Cabala,” in Thornton Wilder: The Cabala and The Woman of Andros (New York: Harper Perennial, 2022), pp. 231-233.
  • “A Note on Wilder’s Use of the Classical Tradition in The Woman of Andros,” in Thornton Wilder: The Cabala and The Woman of Andros (New York: Harper Perennial, 2022), pp. 255-257.
  • Book review of Teatroterapia we wspomaganiu aktywności komunikacyjnej dorosłych osób z umiarkowaną niepełnosprawnością intelektualną [Therapeutic Theater in Aiding Communication of Adults with Moderate Intellectual Disability], by Anita Stefańka. Journal of Poetry Therapy 35 (4): 27-272, 2022. DOI 10.1080/08893675.2022.2113275. 
  • Book review of Poetry Therapy: Theory and Practice, Third Edition, by Nicholas Mazza. National Association of Poetry Therapy Museletter 43 (3): 8-9, 2022.