News about publications, presentations, and awards from PhD candidates and alumnae/i.
PhD Candidate News
First-year doctoral candidate Amy Fairgrieve was accepted into the Newberry Library's Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students on French Pamphlets, which took place at the Newberry in Chicago January 31 and February 1.
Hyeryung Hwang has been awarded an ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) travel grant for the 2014 Annual Meeting at New York University. She will be presenting a paper entitled "Modernism and Beyond: Adorno, Jameson, and Williams" at the ACLA conference, held March 20-23, 2014.
Andrew Marzoni published the following: "Political Cinema After Politics," review of Politics as Form in Lars von Trier: A Post-Brechtian Reading, by Angelos Koutsourakis, Review 31, Jan. 18, 2014; review of The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico, by Jorge García-Robles, Rain Taxi Review of Books 18.4 (winter 2013); and "The Boy With the Thorn in His Side: Morrissey Still Miserable in New Autobiography," review of Autobiography, by Morrissey, The New York Observer, Dec. 2, 2013.
Caitlin McHugh will present the paper: "Interpreting Othello in the Late Seventeenth Century: Looking at the Smock Alley Promptbook," at Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association in Denver, Colorado, in June 2014. She presented a summary of her dissertation, "The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Tragedies, 1600-1700," at the Doctoral Dissertation Seminar in January.
Dana Schumacher-Schmidt presented "Domesticated Violence, or How to Preserve the Past in The Court & Kitchen of Elizabeth, Commonly Called Joan Cromwell" in the roundtable "Food and Early Modern Women" at the 2014 MLA Convention. She accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan, beginning in August 2014.
Laura Scroggs presented her paper "My Shoes Match My Dress . . . Kind of: The Politics of Nakedness and Dressing in Girls" at MLA 2014 this January.
PhD Alumnae/i News
William Rankin (PhD 2001) left academics this year to become Director of Learning at Apple in Cupertino, CA. He works around the world exploring how people learn and how Apple can facilitate learning.
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