Graduate Student Representatives
Michaela Henry (PhD)
Matthew Schratz (PhD)
Lily Beaumont (MA)
Alumni
Graduate Student Accomplishments
Jodie Austin
Co-Director of the Writing Center, Brandeis University
Marg Carkeet
"Sybylla's Bush Bildung: My Brilliant Career and the Coming-of-age Novel"
Scenes of Reading: Is Australian Literature a World Literature? Symposium
The University of Sydney, May 25-26, 2012
Kurt Cavender
"A Dialectic of Play: The Hegelian Logic of Cather's The Professor's House"
American Literature Association conference in May 2013
Erin Erhart
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University workshop “Breakthroughs: Creativity Across the Disciplines.” May 21, 2013.
“Organic Technologies in The Coming Race.” Harvard Humanities Center’s seminar on Victorian Literature and Culture Graduate Panel, November 29, 2012.
Lydia Fash
"Irving’s Double-Genre Sketch Book: The First Transatlantic Bestseller."
NeMLA, Boston, March 2013
"The Chronicle and the Reckoning: A Temporal Paradox in Hawthorne's Twice-Told Tales." Narrative 21.2 (Spring 2013). 221-242.
Emily Fine
"Polemical Conversation and Biblical Hermeneutics in the the Gender Pamphlet War"
NEMLA, March 21-24, 2013, Boston, MA.
Michaela Henry
"Dangarembga: Turning Novel Forms on the Turn of the Century"
2013 NeMLA Conference, March 21-24, 2013, Boston, MA
Jeanna Kadlec Zaubi
"Superficial, Sacrificial, or Revolutionary: Feminine Resistance and Motherhood in Harry Potter"
Midwest PCA/ACA
October 2012, Columbus, OH
Cory Nelson
“The Problem of ‘Blackpain’: Historical Trauma in the Plays of George C. Wolfe.” NeMLA 2012 (Rochester)
Tina Van Kley
Co-Director of the Writing Center, Brandeis University
"Austen's Clergymen."
Locations of Austen Conference, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK.
July 11-13, 2013
Conley Wouters
“‘What Am I, a Machine?: Humans, Information, and Matters of Record in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King.” Studies in the Novel. Winter 2012.