Graduate Student Representatives

Emily Fine

Erin Erhart


Graduate Student Accomplishments

 

Angelo Calderone

"O, For a Mote of Fire, or My, that is Rough Magic: Elemental magical theory in Shakespeare's The Tempest"
The 2011 Blackfriars Shakespeare Conference (October 25-30, 2011) at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA.

 

Kyley Calwell

"Rebecca, Schooner, and the Chocolate Starfish: Discourse and Gender Performance in Sex and the City."
Northeast Pop Culture Association
November 2011

 

Kurtis Cavender

“Fractured Realities and the Violence of Language”
UMass English graduate student conference, April 2011

 

Lydia Fash

"Formal Relations: Irving's Geo-Political Sketch Book"
Society of Early Americanists’ Seventh Biennial Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; March 2011

 

Emily Fine

"'My praises uttmost skill': The Psalms of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke." July 7-9 2011. The Bible in the Seventeenth Century: The Authorised Version Quartercentenary (1611-2011). York, UK.

 

Megan Hamilton

Panel chair for "House and Home in 20th Century American Film and Literature" at the upcoming NEMLA Convention (April 7-10, 2011) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

 

Njelle Hamilton

“‘Music and a Story’: Sound Writing in Ramabai Espinet’s The Swinging Bridge.” Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature. Eds. Joy Mahabir, Mariam Pirbhai. New York: Routledge. (Forthcoming 2012).

“‘Under a Foreign Sky’: Place and Displacement in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.” Paroles Gelées: La Ville Marquée/ The Branded City. 26:1 (2010) 24-46.

2011 April. “Records and Recuerdos: Music as Memorial in Oscar Hijuelos’ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,” NeMLA Conference, New Brunswick, NJ

 

Laura Hill

"Embodying Resistance: Disability in Antebellum African-American Literature."
American Literature Association conference in Boston, June 2011

 

Doug Kirshen

"The New Man in the Age of the New Woman:  May 1894 – February 1895"
Spring 2011 issue of the Victorians. A Journal of Culture and Literature (formerly Victorian Newsletter).

 

Scott Moore

“Martial Law Amongst the Merchantmen: War’s Invasive Child in Melville’s Billy Budd.” The Eighth International Melville Conference. Rome, Italy. June 2011

 

Cory Nelson

“‘History is About to Crack Wide Open’: Revisionist Biography in Angels in America.”  Northeast Modern Language Convention.  New Brunswick, NJ.  April, 2011.

"'Nobody Else Can Do George': Anna Deavere Smith and George C. Wolfe on the Potential of Collaboration," Philadelphia Theatre Research Symposium, Villanova University March 2011.

 

Brendan O'Donnell

"Ethically Queer: Resolving Vengeance in Queer Identity Construction."
NeMLA, Rochester, NY, 2012

 

Tina Van Kley

"Making Free with the Sacerdotal Habit": Gender Play in Sarah Scott's A Journey Through Every Stage of Life NeMLA April 7-10, 2011, New Brunswick, New Jersey.

 

Joseph Wensink

"Bio-Media Economies in Thomas Pynchon's Vineland." Pynchon Notes, forthcoming.

 

Kyle Wiggins

"Calling in the Debt of History: Economic Disaster in Slattery’s Liberation"
 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, March 15th-18th, 2011, Rochester, NY

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

 

Conley Wouters

"'Forced Rock and Tortured Steel:'" Formal Violence in Nathanael West's Miss Lonelyhearts."
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, Scottsdale, AZ, October 6–8, 2011.

"What Am I, a Machine?": Information and Entertainment in Infinite Jest and The Pale King Work in Process: Reading David Foster Wallace's The Pale King
University of Antwerp 
September 2011