Graduate Student Accomplishments
See also: • Recent Alumni Accomplishments • Dissertation Defenses • Distinguished Alumni • Graduate Awards & Employment News
| Student | Paper/Essay | Conference/Publication |
| Andrew Albin | Performing Richard Rolle’s Mystical Interstitiality, or, How to Achieve canor in Three Easy Steps | RMMLA Calgary, AB, Canada October 2007 |
| Andrew Albin | Panel chair: Literature and Other Arts | RMMLA Calgary, AB, Canada October 2007 |
| Brian Chalk | Theatrical Authority in Jonson's Sejanus | Blackfriars Conference Staunton, VA October 2007 |
| Brian Chalk | "Here I am my own ghost": Webster's Symbols of Posterity | 54th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Chicago, IL April 2008 |
| Bridget Chalk | "Aaron's Rod and the Voyage Out of Domesticity" | Midwest Conference on British Studies Dayton, Ohio September 2007 |
| Bridget Chalk | Marginality and Alternate Economies of Identity in Banjo." | Annual Meeting of the Society for the Space Between Northwestern University June 13-14, 2008 |
| Bridget Chalk | "'I Am Not England': Narrative and National Identity in Aaron's Rod and Sea and Sardinia." | Journal of Modern Literature, forthcoming |
| Danielle Coriale | "Gaskell's Naturalist" | Nineteenth-Century Literature, forthcoming |
| Danielle Coriale | "Charlotte Brontë's Naturalist Imagination" | NAVSA/ACCUTE panel: Green Victoria University of British Columbia June 2008 |
| Danielle Coriale | "'The Just-Perceptible Difference': Francis Galton and the Measures of Imagination." | North American Conference on British Studies San Francisco November 2007 |
| Danielle Coriale | "'Thought Coloured by Feeling': Mill, Brontë, and the Pleasures of Natural History." | Modern Language Association Chicago, IL December 2007 |
| Melanie Doherty | "Televisual Tropes in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man" | Modernist Studies Association 9th Annual Conference Long Beach, CA Nov 2007 |
| Melanie Doherty | "Aleatory Narratives: Alternate Reality Games and Postcapitalist Subjects" | International Conference on Narrative Austin, TX May 2008 |
| Daniel Donatacci | “The Dream of the Twenty-Ninth Bather” and “Reaction” | Sensations Magazine, Issue 42, Spring 2008 |
| Sari Edelstein | "Seduction, Sedition, and Judith Sargent Murray's Federalist Fiction" | Nineteenth Century Studies Association Miami, FL April 2008 |
| Sari Edelstein | "Pretty as Pictures": Southern Postmemory in Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality" | Southern Literary Journal forthcoming |
| Sari Edelstein | "Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Newspaper" | Legacy, Volume 24, Number 1. |
| Sari Edelstein | "'Nobody Tells Fibs in Boston': The Newspaper and the Novel in The Bostonians" | Henry James' Boston (forthcoming volume of essays) |
| Lydia Fash | Spatial Stories: The Road-Carved distances of Faulkner's Light in August | The American Studies Association Annual Meeting Albuquerque, NM October 2008 |
| Lydia Fash | Trash: Mapping El Paso, TX and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua | Bricolage Revisited: A Roundtable on Materiality and the Science of the Concrete Brandeis University December 2007 |
| Lydia Fash | Dancing Modern: Circulation and Non-linear Time in Claude McKay's Home to Harlem | Tufts University English Graduate Student Conference Medford, MA (Tufts) October 26, 2007 |
| Njelle Hamilton | 'What Should We Call This Thing?': Transnational Jamaicanness and the Reggae Aesthetic in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain” | “Caribbean Without Borders” Conference University of Puerto Rico in Río Piedras March 31 - April 2, 2008 |
| Lauren Ellis Holm | 'Related by Herself': The Collaboration of Mary Prince and Susanna Strickland Moodie | Nineteenth Century Studies Association Miami, FL April 2008 |
| Lauren Ellis Holm | 'Recalled to Life': Dickens and the Problem of Intertextual Resurrection | MLA San Francisco, CA December 2008 |
| Holly Jackson | "'So We Die before Our Own Eyes': Willful Sterility in The Country of the Pointed Firs" | The New England Quarterly, forthcoming |
| Holly Jackson | "Resisting Reunion: The Failed National Marriage Plot in Anna Dickinson's What Answer?" | American Studies Association Annual Meeting Albuquerque, NM October 2008 |
| Holly Jackson | "Identifying Emma Dunham Kelley: Rethinking Race and Authorship" | PMLA May 2007, Vol. 122, No. 3. |
| Holly Jackson | "National Temporality and the Queer Mulatto/a" | African American Literature and Culture Society Symposium St. Louis, MO October 25-27, 2007 |
| Rachel Kapelle | Predicting Elizabeth: Prophecy on Progress | The South Central Renaissance Conference Kansas City, MO March 2008 |
| Rachel Kapelle | Angels and Ermines: Guy of Warwick's Dreams | Plymouth State University Medieval and Renaissance Forum Plymouth, NH April 2008 |
| Daniela Kukrechtova | Entry for Miroslav Holub and Jaroslav Seifert | Twentieth-Century World Poets and Poetry, NYC: Facts on File, 2007 |
| Scott Moore | "The Code Duello and the Reified Self in Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson" | ATQ: A Journal of American 19th Century Literature and Culture, forthcoming |
| Scott Moore | Hamlet's Dueling Dualisms | Renaissance Dualisms and Distinctions conference Queen's University, Belfast January 25-26, 2008 |
| Martin Moraw | "The Revenger's Tragedy, the Tragic Form, and English Renaissance Trauerspiel" | MLA 2007 Chicago Dec. 27 - 30, 2007 |
| Rebecca Olson | "A Closer Look at Spenser's 'Clothes of Arras and of Toure'" | Spenser Studies (forthcoming) |
| Rebecca Olson | "Ekphrasis" | Companion to Pre-1600 Poetry. Ed. Michelle M. Sauer. New York: Facts on File, 2008. |
| Mikel Parent | “Children of Men or a Brief Guide to ‘Embedded’ Cinema and the Remapping of Global Dispossession” | Rethinking Marxism: a Journal of Economics, Culture & Society (Forthcoming) |
| Mikel Parent | “ ‘Surplus Enjoyment’, the ‘Repressive State Apparatus’, and the Lumpenproletariat of the Carceral Inner-City in Assault on Precinct 13, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, and Escape from New York” | Surplus/Excess Conference Riverside, CA April 2008 |
| Stephanie Shirilan | “Cabinets in Reverse: Staging the European Body as ‘Curiosity’ in Representations of New World Encounter.” | In Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study. Ed. Nhora Lucia Serrano and Janelle Schwartz (forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008). |
| Shayna Skarf | "Recovering Renaissance Imagery: Katherine Anne Porter's 'Pale Horse, Pale Rider' and Albrecht Dürer's Apocalyptic Engravings" | American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction Savannah, GA October 2008 |
| Shayna Skarf | Panel Chair, Modernism, Artifacts, and the Exhibition of Identity | Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Boston, MA Feb. 26 to March 1, 2009. |
| Shayna Skarf | "Exports of Empire: Anglo-Indian Girls' Education in A Little Princess" | MLA Convention Chicago, IL December 27-30, 2007 |
| Shayna Skarf | Entries for Milan Kundera and Robert Musil | Compendium of International 20th Century Novelists and Novels Facts on File forthcoming |
| Jeanie Tietjen | Entries for David Wojnarowicz and Tony Kushner | Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States Greenwood Press, forthcoming |
| Jeanie Tietjen | Made to touch my past: Representations of mass violence in the fiction of Gayl Jones, Charlotte Delbo, and Tadeusz Borowski | Rocky Mountain MLA Convention Calgary, Canada 4-6 October 2007 |
| Jeanie Tietjen | Entries for Tadeusz Borowski, Maryse Conde, Harry Mulisch, Wladislaw Reymont, and Jacques Roumain | Compendium of International 20th Century Novelists and Novels Facts on File forthcoming |
| John Turner | "Solar Patriot: Oliver St. John Gogarty in *Ulysses*" | Journal: *James Joyce Quarterly*, vol. 44 #1 |
| Joseph Wensink | "Collective Identity" | MCRI Globalization and Autonomy Online Compendium |
| Joseph Wensink | "Cass Mastern, Josiah Royce, and the Envelope of Responsibility in All the King's Men" | rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies Volume 7, 2007 |
| Kyle Wiggins | "Gold is every man's opportunity": Castration anxiety and the economic venture in Deadwood" | Great Plains Quarterly Fall 2007 |
| Kyle Wiggins | "Futures of Negation: Jameson's Archaeologies of the Future and Utopian Impulses in Science Fiction" | Postmodern Culture forthcoming |
| Kyle Wiggins | Review of The Spaces of Violence | Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature Spring 2007 |
Awards & Employment News
| Student | |
| Emily Bernhard Jackson | Asst. Professor at the University of Arkansas, 2005 |
| Danielle Coriale | Visiting Asst. Professor at College of the Holy Cross, 2008 |
| Danielle Coriale | Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research, 2006 |
| Danielle Coriale | John Brockway Huntington Foundation Fellow/Huntington Library, 2007 |
| Melanie Doherty | Asst. Professor at Wesleyan College, 2008 |
| Sari Edelstein | Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society, 2008 |
| Sari Edelstein | American Fellowship, American Association of University Women, 2008 |
| Jacqueline Horne | Asst. Professor at Simmons College, 2006 |
| Holly Jackson | Visiting Asst. Professor at Skidmore College, 2008 |
| Holly Jackson | The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Article Prize, 2008 |
| Andrew Mattison | Asst. Professor at the University of Toledo, 2005 |
| Christopher Mayo | Asst. Professor at Adelphi University, 2005 |
| Vanita Neelakanta | Asst. Professor at Rider University, 2007 |
| Rebecca Olson | Asst. Professor at Oregon State University, 2008 |
| Rebecca Olson | Mellon Summer Institute in English Paleography, Folger Institute, July 2006 |
| Aaron Ritzenberg | Lecturer, English Department, Yale University, 2006 |
| Ben Schreier | Asst. Professor at Pennsylvania State University, 2008 |
| Stephanie Shirilan | Fellowship to NEH's Summer Institute, Carter Brown Library at Brown Univ |
| Jeanie Tietjen | American Library Association Grant for Jewish Literature Series Mount Wachusett Community College Library, Fall 2006 |
| Daniel Worden | Asst. Professor at U Colorado, Colorado Springs, 2008 |
| Daniel Worden | Scholar in Residence at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center in American Modernism 2005-06 |
| Laura Yim | Asst. Professor at San Francisco State University, 2006 |
Graduate Student Representatives:
Laura Ellis Holm
Tina Van Kley
First Year Symposium Organizers:
Njelle Hamilton
Cory Nelson
Conference Organizers:
Nick Van Kley
Andrew Albin
Bendta Schroeder
this page updated May 27, 2008