Faculty Accomplishments

Blaetz, R. (2022). The Maternal and feminist film theory. Women: a cultural review, 33(1), 146-148, DOI: 10.1080/09574042.2022.2021027

Blaetz, R. (2021). Time Travel in Joseph Cornell's Bookstalls. Papers on Language and Literature, 57 (1), 13-26.

Received a faculty award for teaching February 27, 2008.

Spoke via zoom about her work with Joseph Cornell's late 1930s film Bookstalls at the Ciné Salon: Impressions on the Art of the Cinematograph with Bruce Posner, Howe Library, Hanover, NH, on April 5, 2021.

Delivered the Baccalaureate Address to the Class of 2006.

Awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship for her project, "A Time Capsule in Glass: Stella Variable and the Life of Henrietta Swan Leavitt".  Over the next 18 months she will conduct research at the Astronomical Photographic Plate Collection at the Harvard College Observatory (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.) (May, 2020)

Received an R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health for “Why does oral fluency predict silent reading comprehension? Neurocognitive markers of implicit meter as a potential mediator.” The project is for three years. (2022)

Tierney, A., Patel, A. D., Jasmin, K., & Breen, M. (2021). Individual differences in perception of the speech-to-song illusion are linked to musical aptitude but not musical training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 12, 1681.

Breen, M., Fitzroy, A.B., & Oraa Ali, M. (2019). ERP evidence of implicit metric structure during silent reading. Brain Sciences. 

Breen, M. (2018). Effects of metric hierarchy and rhyme predictability on word duration in The Cat in the Hat. Cognition, 174.