News about publications, presentations, and awards from PhD candidates and alumnae/i.
PhD Candidate News:
Wes Burdine will present "Reading Retrocognitively in the Phenomenal Fin de Siècle" October 15 in Walter Library for the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Seminar, part of the DDF research showcase. Burdine received a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for 2014-15 from the Graduate School.
Andrew Marzoni published the following: "The Wonder of Living: An Interview with Wim Wenders and Mary Zournazi," Review 31, June 18, 2014; "Prewar Blues, Postwar Neuroses," review of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78rpm Records, by Amanda Petrusich, The New York Observer, June 19, 2014; and a review of The Spectre of Alexander Wolfe by Gaito Gazdanov in the fall print edition of Rain Taxi Review.
David Moberly passed prelims and became ABD on September 11, 2013. He received a "revise and resubmit" on an article submitted to Shakespeare Quarterly. He wrote four entries for the forthcoming Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, 1500-1900 (Brill).
M. H. Rowe published reviews of Crystal Eaters by Shane Jones and Nijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano in the fall print edition of Rain Taxi Review. He has a story forthcoming in the fall/winter edition of Black Warrior Review.
Davu Seru was recently commissioned by the new music ensemble, Zeitgeist, to compose "Vernae." The piece premiered at the 2014 Twin Cities Jazz Festival. He was also awarded a Metropolitan Regional Arts Council 2014 "Next Step Award."
Amanda Taylor was elected to be the graduate student representative to the advisory council for the Centers for Medieval Studies and Early Modern History. She was also selected as one of the Newberry library's (in Chicago) annual Graduate Student Conference organizers.
PhD Alumnae/i News:
Jonathan Barz (PhD 1999) was promoted to Professor of English at the University of Dubuque, Iowa.
Chris Kamerbeek (PhD 2010) published the chapter "Panic at the Pan 1901: Anarchy, Electricity, Early Cinema" in the e-book Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader. The book is a free download.
Will Kanyusik (PhD 2013) has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Franklin College (Franklin, IN). He was advised by Professor Siobhan Craig.
Robert Kibler (PhD 1998) was promoted to Professor of English and Humanities at Minot State University, North Dakota.
Tomoko Kuribayashi (PhD 1994) was promoted to Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point.
Rachel Mordecai (PhD 2007) published Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture with the University of the West Indies Press. Mordecai is a full-time tenured professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Nick Robinette (PhD 2010) published Realism, Form and the Postcolonial Novel with Palgrave. He has a tenure-track position as assistant professor at Quinnipiac University.
Anne Roth-Reinhardt (PhD 2012) published the article "John Paul Jones, a new 'Pattern' for America" in Common-Place.
Justin Steinberg (PhD 1999) published his second book, Dante and the Limits of the Law (University of Chicago Press, 2013). He is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Chicago; he's also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dante Studies.
Dave Wehner (PhD 2005) received tenure and was promoted to Associate Professor of English at Mount St. Mary's University.
In Memoriam:
Roland Dille (BA summa cum laude; PhD 1962), the longest serving president (1968-1994) of Minnesota State University Moorhead, died on May 26, 2014. Dr. Dille taught English at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota for five years from 1956 and at California Lutheran College 1961-63. He was hired as an English professor at then Moorhead State College in 1963. In 1966, Dr. Dille became Dean of Academic Affairs at Moorhead and in 1968 became its president. President Carter appointed Dr. Dille to the National Council for the Humanities. Dille was elected President of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and served as Acting Chancellor of the Minnesota State University System. In 1989, he was named one of the nation's 100 most effective college presidents. Read his obituary here.
Doris Marquit (PhD 1978), who passed away on May 29, 2014, was a graduate of Carleton College and studied at the University of Chicago before earning her PhD in English at Minnesota. A graduate student during the years when feminism transformed the discipline, she taught for many years as an adjunct faculty member in the English and Women's Studies departments. She also had a long-term relationship with Humboldt University in Berlin, where she periodically lived and taught during the existence of the German Democratic Republic. Marquit remained a valued friend of English and a regular attendee at English events up until her death. Read her obituary here.
