News about publications, presentations, and awards from PhD candidates and alumnae/i.
PhD Candidate News
English early modern grad students Jessica Apolloni and Caitlin McHugh won two of the ten fellowships in the inaugural Academy for Advanced Study in the Renaissance program. The fellowships entail five weeks working with a distinguished group of senior scholars representing a broad range of thought about the Renaissance. The students will meet for a week in Oxford, UK, attend plays by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon, and then move to the American Academy in Rome for a week. They will then reconvene in Evanston/Chicago for a week of dissertation workshops, followed by an international conference in Evanston that will bring in scholars from Europe and North America. Each fellow receives a stipend of $10,000 in addition to room, board, and airfare.
David Andrews received CLA Graduate Fellowship.
Jessica Apolloni received a fellowship with the Academy for Advanced Study in the Renaissance (see above).
Valerie Bherer presented a paper at the National Women's Studies Association conference November 8-10 in Cincinnati. The paper is titled "Renouncing Zanity: Girlhood and Legible Rage in Second-Wave Life Writing."
Wesley Burdine was awarded a $5000 Thesis Research Travel Grant from the Graduate School.
Jennifer Kang presented "Comparative Study and Imperial World Map: Joseph Conrad's Ontology of Space" at the XX Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Paris, July 2013, and "Unevenness and Progress: Conrad's Representation of the Periphery and Modernist Geotemporalities" at MDRN conference, Belgium, September 2013.
Andrew Marzoni published two book reviews in the New York Observer: "Sex and Politics in Sunnyside Gardens," a review of Dissident Gardens, by Jonathan Lethem, September 9, 2013; and "Cousins Far Removed," a review of Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America, by Terry Eagleton, July 1-8, 2013. He also published two book reviews in Rain Taxi Review of Books: on A Crack-Up at the Race Riots, by Harmony Korine, Online Edition: Summer 2013; and on Black and Blue: The Bruising Passion of Camera Lucida, La Jetée, Sans Soleil, and Hiroshima Mon Amour, by Carol Mavor, summer 2013.
Caitlin McHugh received a fellowship with the Academy for Advanced Study in the Renaissance (see above). She was also accepted to participate in the seminar "Accidental Shakespeare" at the annual meeting for the Shakespeare Association of America in April.
Katie Robison follows up her 2012 young adult novel Downburst with a sequel, Coiled Snake (Quil), the middle book of the Windstorm trilogy.
Anne Marie Spidahl published her first novel, Nothing (Two Dollar Radio Press), under the last name Wirth Cauchon.
Amanda Taylor passed her preliminary exams with distinction. She has been accepted to present "'Feeling words' and the 'mayd martial': Passions and Porous Bodies in Spenser's Faerie Queene" in the Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies and Australian Research Council's Centre for the History of Emotions session "Motion and Emotion: Moveable Texts," International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 2014). At the same congress, she is the co-organizer and presider of "Compromised Bodies in Late Medieval Italy," a competitively selected session.
Ben Utter co-presented "The Medieval Book in the Schools Outreach Project" at the Center for Medieval Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, "Teaching and Learning in the Middle Ages," November 8-9, 2013, at the University of Minnesota.
PhD Alumnae/i News
Alex Mueller (PhD 2007) presented "John Trevisa's Public Pedagogy" at the Center for Medieval Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, "Teaching and Learning in the Middle Ages," November 8-9, 2013, at the University of Minnesota.
Mark Z. Muggli (PhD 1978) published his edition of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale (New Kittredge Shakespeare, Focus Publishing, 2013). Muggli is Professor and Department Head of English at Luther College, where he developed the "Our Shakespeare" project.
Gregg Murray (PhD 2010) will publish a chapbook, ceviche, with Spittoon Press in early 2014. He is Assistant Professor of English at Georgia Perimeter College.
Marilyn Nelson (PhD 1979) published a new collection of poems, Faster Than Light: New and Selected Poems, 1996-2011 (Louisiana State University Press, 2012).
Rebecca Scherr (PhD 2005) was promoted to Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Oslo.
Anca Parvulescu (PhD 2006) was promoted to Associate Professor of English / The Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis.
Karen Steigman (PhD 2007) was promoted to Associate Professor of English at Otterbein College.
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