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Graduate Student Accomplishments

Andrew Albin

Richard Rolle's Contemplative Canor: Instruction in the Hearing and Sounding of Medieval Bodies
15th Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Interdisciplinary Conference
Tempe, AZ
Feb. 12-14, 2009

Jodie Austin

"To Turn It In— or Not to Turn It In: The crisis of containment, access, and student rights in a digital age"
Brandeis University, October 2009

American Comparative Literature Association Conference 2009
Harvard University
March 29th
"The Garden IRL: Intersecting Heterotopias Between the Real and the Virtual"

"Negotiating Land: New Readings"
University at Albany, SUNY, 4/17/2009
"The Garden IRL: Intersecting Heterotopias Between the Real and the Virtual"

Margaret Carkeet

On Becoming “One of Us”: Lord Jim and the Colonial Bildungsroman
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
Cambridge, MA
March 26-29, 2009

Crises of Authenticity in Heart of Darkness
"States of Crisis"
Brandeis English Graduate Conference,
October 2009

Authentic Lies in Heart of Darkness
Seminar on "Modernist Sincerity"
MSA XI, Montreal,
November 2009

Brian Chalk

“Webster’s ‘Worthyest Monument’: The Problem of Posterity in The Duchess of Malfi.” Studies in Philology (forthcoming).

“‘Murdering Sleep’: Macbeth, Dreams, and the Boundaries of Theatrical Reality.” Blackfriars Conference, Staunton, VA, October, 2009.

“’Let all things end’: Marlowe’s Mortality.” 37th Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., April 2009

Bridget Chalk

I Am Not England: Narrative and National Identity in Aaron's Rod and Sea and Sardinia
Journal of Modern Literature, forthcoming

Ben DeWitte

Narrative, Sexuality, and Frustrated Endings: Short-Circuiting the Plot in Nella Larsen's "Passing"
"The Desire for Representation/The Desire of Representation."
Stony Brook Manhattan Graduate Conference, February 2009

Sari Edelstein

"Pretty as Pictures": Southern Postmemory in Katherine Anne Porter's "Old Mortality"
Southern Literary Journal
forthcoming

"Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Yellow Newspaper"
Legacy, Volume 24, Number 1.
"'Nobody Tells Fibs in Boston': The Newspaper and the Novel in The Bostonians"
Henry James' Boston (forthcoming volume of essays)

Lydia Fash

"Detective Time and the American Tale: Poe's Serialization of Mary Roger's Death"
NeMLA
Montreal, Canada
April 2010

Seminar chair: "Four Dimensions: Spatio-Temporal Shifts Reflected in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
NeMLA
Montreal, Canada
April 2010

Once by Narrativity and Once by Event: A Narratalogical and Calvinist Paradox in Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales
International Society for the Study of Narrative Annual Conference, Birmingham, England, June 2009 

The Technologies of William Vaughn Moody's "An Ode in the Time of Hesitation"
NeMLA
Boston, MA
February 2009

Entries for characters in Melville’s "Benito Cereno," "Bartleby, The Scrivner"; Chopin’s "Desiree's Baby"; Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," "The Minister's Black Veil"; and Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper."
Dictionary of Literary Characters, Facts on File, Inc.  Forthcoming Summer 2009. 

Diana George

Antoine Volodine: Toward Minor Literatures
ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association)
Harvard University
March 2009

Megan Hamilton

Molly's Pilgrims: Twenty-five Years of Emigration in American Children's Literature
The Formative Years: Children's Literature and the University
March 26th, 2009 NYU

Njelle Hamilton

"Caribbean Ariel: A Creole Re-Reading of The Tempest."
Caribbean Studies Association (CSA), Kingston, JM, June 2009

‘Anancy Mek It’: The Trickster Spider from Oral to Written Media
NeMLA
Boston, MA
March 2009

Joanna Jeskova

“Incestuous Violence and Brotherly Love in James Baldwin’s Just Above My Head”
Baldwin Conference at Suffolk University
March 2009

Corey Nelson

"The Braver Way: The Search for a Stable Reading of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II."
March 28, 2009
Boston College Biennial English Graduate Conference, "Page, Stage, and Beyond"

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)

Dave Razor

"Nehemiah's Sunrise, Derwent's Relic Knight and Agath's Tatoo: Melville's Quarrel with the Power of Symbolic Language In Clarel"
Herman Melville, Travel, and the Mediterranean, École Biblique, Jerusalem, June 2009

Lisa Rourke

"Marriage and Public Policy:  The Marriage Act of 1753."
Graduate Student Conference, UMass Amherst, April 2009

Adam Rutledge

Epiphany and Temptation: Interpretive Authority in a Close Reading of Brandeis University MS 30
26th Annual New England Medieval Studies Consortium Graduate Student Conference
Yale University
April 4, 2009

Stephanie Shirilan

Mouth to Mouth: Rumor and Evidence in Robert Burton’s The Anatomy of Melancholy
Renaissance Society of America
Los Angeles
March, 2009

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, 2009).

Shayna Skarf

Recovering Renaissance Imagery: Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider and Albrecht Dürer's Apocalyptic Engravings
American Comparative Literature Association Conference
Harvard University, Boston, MA
March 2009

Panel Chair, Modernism, Artifacts, and the Exhibition of Identity
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
Boston, MA
Feb. 26 to March 1, 2009

Jonathan Sudholt

Gazing on Rednecks: The No Country for Old Men Corrective to Sectional Polarization
American Comparative Literature Association, 2009

John Turner

Solar Patriot: Oliver St. John Gogarty in *Ulysses*
Journal: *James Joyce Quarterly*, vol. 44 #1

Tina Van Kley

"Poetic Justice and the Impossibility of Representation in Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph" presented at the 21st Annual Stony Brook Graduate Student Conference, Feb. 21, 2009.  

Joe Wensink

Futures of Negation: Jameson's Archaeologies of the Future and Utopian Impulses in Science Fiction
Postmodern Culture, forthcoming

Terminal Violence in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis
Literature and Culture since 1900, 2009