News about publications, presentations, and awards from PhD candidates and alumnae/i.
Dissertations Successfully Defended 2012-13
Tai Coleman, "Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire: Narrative Past-Time as a Temporal Site of Racialized Identity Deconstruction" (Adviser: Don Ross).
Renee DeLong, "Missed Bridges: The Invisible (and Hypervisible) Lesbian of Color in Theory, Publishing, and Media" (Adviser: Maria Damon). DeLong accepted a tenure track position at Minneapolis Community & Technical College.
Will Kanyusik, "The Wound at the Heart of Vision: Fraught Masculinities, Marked Bodies, and the 'Subject' of Disability" (Adviser: Siobhan Craig). Kanyusik has accepted a position as a Visiting Assistant Professor in American Literature at Simpson College (Indianola, Iowa).
Eun Joo Kim, "Unreading Multilingualisms of the Korean Diaspora" (Adviser: Josephine Lee). Kim accepted a position as Instructor at NYU Shanghai.
Chris Larkin, "Iatrochemical Healing in Shakespeare and Donne: The Diseased and Cured Body in the English Literary Imagination, 1590-1638" (Adviser: David Haley). Larkin is an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.
Heather McNeff, "Finding Happiness: Interfaith Marriage in British Literature, 1745-1836" (Adviser: Brian Goldberg). McNeff accepted a position as Principal Accounts Specialist with the Department of English at the University of Minnesota.
John Pistelli, "Modernism's Critique du Coeur: The Novelist as Critic, 1885-1925" (Adviser: Lois Cucullu).
Adam Schrag, "Surface to Surface: War, Image & the Senses in the Screenic Era" (Adviser: Paula Rabinowitz).
Maurits van Bever Donker, "Texturing Difference: Indigeneity, Tactility, and the Text of 'black consciousness philosophy'" (Adviser: Qadri Ismail). Van Bever Donker accepted a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
Jewon Woo, "Performing Bodies and Performative Texts: The Bodily Culture of the Antebellum United States and Fleshy Writing" (Advisers: Lee and Michelle Wright). Woo accepted a tenure-track assistant professorship at Lorain County Community College, Elyria, Ohio.
PhD Candidate News
Sunyong Ahn received a George Harper Travel Fund Award from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. She presented "The Literary Mapping of the Anthropocene: T.C. Boyle's When the Killing's Done" at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Boston, March 2013, and "Derrida's Cat, Haraway's Dog, and the Poetics of Posthumanism" at the Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, UCLA, February 2013.
Jessica Apolloni received a Center for Early Modern History Union Pacific Grant for summer research at the Yale Law Library. She published "Shylock Meets Palestine: Rethinking Shakespeare in Abdelkader Benali's Yasser" in the summer volume of Shakespeare Bulletin.
Patricia Baehler received Graduate Research Partnership Program support for summer 2013 for her project "Epistolary Infrastructure and the Gendered Letter in Eighteenth-Century Novels." She presented "Networks, Risk, and the Politics of Security: Austen Outside of the Drawing Room" at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference, Madison, Wisconsin, September 2012.
Jennifer Baltzer-Lovato presented "Music and the Unspoken Connections Between Men" at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference, Madison, Wisconsin, September 2012.
Valerie Bherer received a Mary Lily grant by the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture to visit the Rubenstein Library at Duke University. She presented "Mèremaids and Waves: Feminism and Political Kinship" at the American Comparative Literature Association conference, Toronto, April 2013. She led a seminar titled "Parental Guidance Advised: the Mother as GPS," with Rachel McWhorter, American Comparative Literature Association conference, Toronto, April 2013.
Wesley Burdine received Graduate Research Partnership Program support for summer 2013 for his project "'What Was It?': Phenomenal Bodies and Temporality."
Hayley Coble presented "Diplomatic Rhetoric and the King of Reason: Marlowe's Navarre and Neo-Stoicism" at the International Marlowe Conference, Staunton, Virginia, June 2013.
Stacey Decker won an English Short-Term Research Grant for spring 2013, to conduct research on HD, at Yale's Beinecke Library and Wood Institute of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia. She presented "'Lady Doctors': Narrative Suture, Debt, and the Female Physician in Dr. Zay and The Bostonians" and "'Some Coin of Price!': Suggestions of Danaë Via Coin Image in Aurora Leigh, 'Jenny,' and Goblin Market" at the Midwest MLA conference, Cincinnati, November 2012.
Jennifer Kang received Graduate Research Partnership Program support for summer 2013 for her project "A Displaced Utopia: The Politics of Modernism in 1930s Colonial Korea." She presented "From Impressionism to Montage: Affective Social Critique in Ilya Ehrenberg's Novel of Montage" at the Modernist Moves conference, London, December 2012.
Na-Rae Kim presented "The Experience of Meaning in Yongsoo Park's Boy Genius" at the Association for Asian American Studies conference, Seattle, April 2013.
Seonna Kim presented "Remapping U.S. Empire and the Postcolonial South Korean Nation: The Figures of GI Brides/lovers and Babies in Literary and Cultural Productions" at the Association for Asian American Studies conference, Seattle, April 2013.
Katelin Krieg presented "An Imagined Past: Romance, Realism, and Temporality in Bellamy's Looking Backward and Morris's News From Nowhere" at the University of Michigan's Eighteenth Century Studies Group and Nineteenth Century Forum joint Graduate Student Conference: "Transporting Bodies and Minds: 18th- and 19th-Century Travel," September 2012.
Annemarie Lawless received the Ruth Drake Dissertation Fellowship for fall 2013 for her dissertation project "Typeace: Reading, Representation, and Literature After Theory."
Adam Lindberg presented "Playing with Fingers Crossed: Cheating, Griefing, and the Fiction of the Stable Text" at the Midwest Modern Language Association conference, Cincinnati, November 2012.
Andrew Marzoni published "Becoming-Pizza," and "Étonne-moi!" in Whole Beast Rag 2 ("Edge"), September 2012. He also published "Vengeance and Imitation in Shakespeare, Marlowe, and the Jewish Revenge Film" in Locating Shakespeare in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Kelli Marshall and Gabrielle Malcolm (Cambridge Scholars, 2012). He presented "L'homme que j'étais, je ne le suis plus: The Counterfeit Self of the Roman à clef" at the American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, April 2013, which was nominated for the 2014 Horst Frenz Prize.
Stephen McCulloch received Graduate Research Partnership Program support for summer 2013 for his project "Sublime Sacrifice: Excessive Force and Form in Fin de Siècle Literature."
Caitlin McHugh received a Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2013-14 for her dissertation "The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Tragedies, 1600-1700." She also won an Association for Documentary Editing Travel Grant. She presented "The Linguistic Adaptation of Nahum Tate's King Lear" at the Association for Documentary Editing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 2013, and "'This Language, Sir, adds yet to our Affliction': Nahum Tate's Theory and King Lear" at the South-Central Renaissance Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, March 2013. See our interview here.
Rachel McWhorter received an America Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Travel and Research Grant. She presented "'Getting Mother's Body': Temporality and Pregnancy" during a panel led with Valerie Bherer, "Mother as GPS: Parental Guidance Advised," at the American Comparative Literature Association, Toronto, April 2013, and "'Space' for Disability and Pregnancy in a Biopolitical Age: Anne Finger's Past Due" at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, North Carolina, November 2012.
David Moberly published "From Bandello's Novelle to Carlell's Osmond, the Great Turk: Female Captivity and the Irene Narrative in Early Modern European Literature" in The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe, Part III: "Orientalism and the Idea of Europe." He presented "'Shall I Compare Thee to a Spring Day?': Translations of Shakespeare's Sonnets into Arabic" at the South Central Renaissance Conference, Omaha, Nebraska. March 2013; "Mary Rowlandson, William Okeley, and the 'Goodness of God': The Transatlantic Migration of the Captivity Narrative" at Captivity Writing Unbound, University of South Alabama. October 2012; and "William Bedwell's Mohammedis Imposturae" at Reading the Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Archive (Newberry Workshop), Newberry Library, Chicago, September 2012.
Eunha Na presented "Restaging Interracial Romances" at the Association for Asian American Studies conference, Seattle, April 2013.
Leslie Nightingale received an English Short-Term Research Grant for spring 2013, to conduct research on the nineteenth-century response to eighteenth-century novels in the British Library and the John Rylands University Library (Manchester, UK). She presented "Defying Conventions in Jane Eyre's Gardens" at the British Women Writers Conference, Albuquerque, NM, April 2013.
Trenton Olsen received an English Short-Term Research Grant for spring 2013, to conduct research on Robert Louis Stevenson's literary relationship with Wordsworth, at Yale's Beinecke Library. He presented "George Eliot's Evolutionary Inheritance of Wordsworth" at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference, Boulder, CO, October 2012, and "Entangled Influence: The Wordsworthian Darwinism of George Eliot's Daniel Deronda" at the National Association of Victorian Studies Conference, Madison, WI, September 2012.
Katie Robison received an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship for her project "Dangerous Dreams: Medieval Dream Visions as Literary Hallucinations" with host the Center for Early Modern History, to begin fall 2013. She presented "Intimations of Madness in Christine de Pizan's Chemin de long estude" at the Department of French and Italian Graduate Student Symposium, University of Minnesota, October 2012, and "'Thanne loked up a lunatik, a leene thyng withalle': Mad and Starving Dreamers in William Langland's Piers Plowman" at the Medieval and Early Modern Research Group Annual Skeiron Synod, University of Minnesota, April 2013.
Dana Schumacher-Schmidt presented "Seeing through 'Sacred Spectacles': Meditation and Memory in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder" at the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Symposium, "Early Modern Women: New Perspectives," Miami, February 2013.
Davu Seru received a DOVE Dissertation Fellowship for summer 2013.
Katie Sisneros presented "The Propaganda of English Broadside Ballads: Turks, Tories, and the 1683 Battle of Vienna" at the South Central Renaissance Conference, Omaha, March 2013. She published "Tractor Beam" in Paper Darts magazine.
Amanda Taylor was accepted into the fall 2013 ten-week graduate seminar, "History of Emotions, Medieval and Early Modern," at the Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies, in Chicago. She presented "Knights, Kings, Beasts, and Trans-humans: Rustichello's Influence on Marco Polo's The Travels" at the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance 19th Annual Conference. She received a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship for European Studies, summer 2013 (Italian), and the Marcella DeBourg Fellowship in English. She published "'Use alone': Usefulness and Revision in George Herbert's The Temple" in George Herbert Journal 34, no. 1 and 2 (Fall 2009/Spring 2010), published March 2013, and "Communication Essentials for Female Executives to Develop Leadership Presence: Getting Beyond the Barriers of Understating Accomplishment" with Anett Grant in Business Horizons (forthcoming).
Benjamin Utter published "Gawain and Goliath: Davidic Parallels and the Problem of Penance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" in Comitatus Vol. 44, autumn 2013.
PhD Alumni News
Ariane M. Balizet (PhD 2007) will publish Blood and Home in Early Modern Drama: Domestic Identity on the Renaissance Stage with Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture in March 2014. She is Assistant Professor of English and Women's Studies at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.
Lelaine Bonine (PhD 2012) accepted a position as tenure track Assistant Professor at Truman College, Illinois.
Laura Brady (PhD 1988) is Professor of English & Eberly Family Professor of Outstanding Teaching and Director of the Center for Writing Excellence, at West Virginia University.
Erik Carlson (PhD 2012) received Best Dissertation Competition Honorable Mention from the Graduate School's Best Dissertation Committee. He also won the Samuel Holt Monk Prize for the Best Article by an English Graduate Student, awarded for "The Gothic Vocabulary of Fear," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 111, No. 3 (July 2012).
Sara Cohen (PhD 2011) is now Assistant Editor and Rights and Contract Manager at Temple University Press.
Ryan Cox (PhD 2011) is an instructor at Keyano College, Alberta, Canada.
Julie A. Eckerle (PhD 2002), Associate Professor at University of Minnesota, Morris, published Romancing the Self in Early Modern Englishwomen's Life Writing (Ashgate, 2013). She received a 2013 Imagine Fund Award for her project "Women's Letters in Trinity College's Archbishop King Collection." She hopes both to publish an article based on this research and incorporate it in her next book project, tentatively titled Early Modern Women's Life Writing in the Irish Context.
Molly Gage (PhD 2012) and Jessica Knight (PhD 2011) started the business Modern Writing Services.
Elissa Hansen (PhD 2012) is an instructor at Holy Names University, Oakland, California.
Jewon Woo (PhD 2013) presented "'Look Out for an Imposter!': Imposter Fugitives in Abolition's Public Sphere" at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Toronto, April 2013.
Jayashree Kamble (PhD 2008) published "The Globalized Avatar of the Hindi Cinema Hero" in Film International (Fall 2012). She also published "Tempted by the Big Apple: The Fantasy of Western Spaces in Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna," Studies in South Asian Film and Media, March 2012, Vol. 3 Issue 1, and "Patriotism, Passion, and PTSD: The Critique of War in Popular Romance Novels" in New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction, edited by Sarah Frantz and Eric Selinger (2012). She is Assistant Professor of English, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY.
William Kanyusik (PhD 2013) received a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Conference Travel Grant from the Graduate School.
Alex Mueller (PhD 2007), Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Boston, published Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance with Ohio State Press. See our interview here.
