Dissertations Successfully Defended, 2014-15
Sunyoung Ahn, "The Human Against Itself: Posthumanism in
Contemporary Novels" (Adviser: Timothy Brennan).
Eric Brownell, "Gothic Heroines and Cultural Trauma in
20th Century Literature and Film" (Adviser: Lois Cucullu).
Andrew Marzoni, "In the American Vein" (Advisers: Siobhan Craig and Maria Damon).
Trenton Olsen, "Entangled Influence: Wordsworth and
Darwinism in the Late Victorian Period" (Adviser: Andrew Elfenbein). Olsen accepted a position
as Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University-Idaho.
PhD Candidate News
Elisabeth (Granquist) Alderks presented "Computing and
Complicity: Remediating Military Technologies for the Digital Humanities" at the
Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference in Indianapolis on October 4,
2014, and "Digital Humanities as Surveillance: Tracing the Structural
Lineage of DH Technologies," at HASTAC 2015 in East Lansing, Michigan on
May 29. She received a COGS Conference Travel Grant to travel to the HASTAC
conference.
Jessica Apolloni received a Graduate School Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship for 2015-16 for her dissertation "Italian Law in Early
Modern England: Local Communities and Central Power in Transnational
Literature." She published "Thomas Nashe and 'Have with You to Saffron-Walden'"
in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 6, Brill
Publishing (forthcoming). "Transnational Law in Shakespeare's Measure for
Measure" will appear in a forthcoming volume of Studies in Philology. She
presented "Staging Italian Law in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure" at the
Shakespeare Association of America's "Performing Guilt and Reputation" Seminar,
April 2015, and "Virtue, Law, and Princely Power in John Webster's The White
Devil" at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference, October 2014.
Valerie Bherer received a Garner-McNaron-Sprengnether
Fellowship for summer 2015.
Amy Bolis passed her preliminary exams.
Laura Brennan received Joyce C. Le Vi Graduate Research
Partnership Program support for summer 2015 for her project "Looking Back,
Stepping Forward: British Ballet in the Mid-Twentieth Century" with faculty adviser
Lois Cucullu. She passed her preliminary exams.
Santi Clarke was the co-winner of the Goldenberg Prize
for Outstanding Essays in Jewish Studies (Jewish Studies Department) in April
2015.
Stacey Decker presented "Modernist Women Diagnosing
Medicine: Physician Affective Failure in Mrs. Dalloway" at the Modernist
Studies Association (MSA) conference in Pittsburgh November 6-9, 2014, and "Three Guineas, Medicine, and Marginalia" at the 24th International Conference
on Virginia Woolf in Chicago June 5-8, 2014.
Yuan Ding received Graduate Research Partnership Program
support for summer 2015 for her project "Performing Arts: Authenticity, Mimicry
and Imagined Homelands in Asian Diasporic 'Non-Places'" with faculty adviser
Josephine Lee. She presented "'I've sorta come to love the mistakes': Mistranslations
and Misidentification in David Henry Hwang's Chinglish (2011)" at the
Association for Asian American Studies 2015 Conference. She passed her
preliminary exams.
Abhay Doshi presented "Towards a New Subjectivity:
Arundhati Roy and the Critique of History" at the Midwest Popular Culture
Association Conference in Indianapolis on October 4, 2014.
Jonas Erickson received a Short Term Research Grant for
spring-summer 2015, for research on Montaigne and seventeenth-century essay
culture in London and Cambridge.
Hyeryung Hwang received a Graduate School Doctoral
Dissertation Fellowship for 2015-16 for her dissertation "Thinking beyond
Modernism: Peripheral Realism and the Ethics of Truth-telling." She also
won a Short Term Research Grant for spring-summer 2015 to do research in the
Archives of Latin American Writers and Intellectuals in Princeton, and attend
the MLG Conference in Washington, D.C. She presented "Deleuze, Affect Theory,
and the Future of Realism" in the session "Rethinking Humanism: Language, Technology,
and History" (session co-organizer) at the Midwest Popular Culture/American
Culture Association, Indianapolis, October 2014.
Jennifer Jodell received a departmental research grant
for spring-summer 2015. She presented "The Myth of Gender Concealment in
the Work of C. L. Moore" at the Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association, New
Orleans, April 4, 2015, and "Coming of Age in a More-Than-Human World:
Companion Species in Karen Joy Fowler's We Are All Completely Beside
Ourselves" at the Wiscon Feminist Science Fiction Conference, Madison, WI,
May 24, 2015. She will present "Surviving Bluebeard's Laboratory:
Confession-Taking Homes and the Mad Scientist's Gaze in Two Nineteenth-Century
Science Fiction Texts" at the Science Fiction Research Association (SFRA)
in Stony Brook, NY, June 26, 2015.
Marc Juberg passed his preliminary exams.
Katelin Krieg presented "Dynamic Sight, Comprehensive
Vision: Looking Like Ruskin and Darwin" at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth
Century Studies Conference hosted by Georgia Technological University in
Atlanta, April 2015.
Jen-chou Liu passed her preliminary exams.
Charlotte Madere presented "The Possibilities of
Intermarriage in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda" at the annual conference of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Gainesville,
Florida.
Samantha Mahjor passed her preliminary exams.
Andrew Marzoni was one of two winners of the Samuel Holt
Monk Prize for the Best Article by a Graduate Student for "Henry Miller and
Deleuze's 'Strange Anglo-American Literature'" in Understanding Deleuze,
Understanding Modernism, edited by Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, and Laci
Mattison (Bloomsbury). He published "Soho Meets Hollywood: The Films of
Schnabel, Salle, Sherman, and Longo," forthcoming in ARTnews. He received
a Professional Travel Grant for spring 2015 from the University’s GAPSA, a
Career Development Grant for spring 2015 from COGS, and a Travel Grant for
spring 2015 from the Modern Language Association. He presented "The
Realities of Post-Fiction" at the Popular Culture Association/American
Culture Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, April 3, 2015.
Stephen McCulloch received a Short Term Research Grant
for spring-summer 2015, for research on the expansion of the American railroad
system in the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Caitlin McHugh received a Shakespeare Association of
America Graduate Student Travel Award to attend the 43rd Annual Meeting,
Vancouver, BC, April 2015, and presented "Thomas Porter’s The
Villain: Responding to Othello on the Early Restoration Stage." She presented "Othello on the Restoration Stage" at Locality
and the English Theatre, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April
2015, and the paper will be published digitally as part of the peer-reviewed
conference proceedings.
David Moberly received Graduate Research Partnership
Program support for summer 2015 for his project "Taming of the Tigress: Women
and Shakespeare in 1930s Egypt" with faculty adviser Nabil Matar. He published "Beware of Eve (اه من حوا) [An Egyptian Taming of the Shrew]" with MIT
Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive. He presented "The Americas through Arab Eyes:
Saint Thomas, Al-Mawsuli, and the First Baghdadi Travel Narrative of the New
World" at the Newberry Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, January 23, 2015,
and "'Brave New World'?: Arabic Shakespeare on the Internet" at the Shakespeare
Association of America conference, Vancouver, BC, April 2015.
Eunha Na received a 2015 Summer Graduate Research
Internship Award. She presented "Looking through the Broken Window: Interethnic
Urban-scape in Diana Son’s Satellites" at the Association for Asian American
Studies (AAAS) Annual Meeting, April 22-25, in Evanston, Illinois.
Asa Olson received Graduate Research Partnership Program
support for summer 2015 for his project "Ovid's Amores and Roman Love Elegy in
Early Modern England, ca. 1600-1650: The English Love Elegies of Donne and Jonson" with faculty adviser John
Watkins. He passed his preliminary exams.
Michael Phillips received Graduate Research Partnership
Program support for summer 2015 for his project "'False Points': Form and
Absence in Mackenzie's Man of Feeling" with faculty adviser Tony C. Brown.
Katie Robison is one of two winners of the Samuel Holt
Monk Prize for the Best Article by a Graduate Student for "'Thou wolt make . . . thyn hed to ake': A Post-Chaucerian Treatment for Madness in Christine de
Pizan's Chemin de long estude," in The Chaucer Review, Volume 49, Number 2,
2014. She presented "'Blak, bloo, grenyssh, swartish red': The Color of Speech
in Chaucer’s House of Fame" at the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference,
Oxford University, April 17-18, 2015.
Michael Rowe was selected as a fellow at the
Trans-Atlantic Summer Institute in Germany for July 2015.
Davu Underwood Seru published "African American Prison
Writing: A Manifesto," in a forthcoming American Book Review. He published "Fables of Ferguson" with Le Allumés du Jazz [Paris, France], January 28, 2015,
both print (French edition) and online (English). He was the researcher for
Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota (Minnesota Historical
Society Press), edited by Alexs Pate, Pamela Fletcher, and J. Otis Powell! He
presented "Sex, Work and Queer Critiques of Color in Robert Beck and Hal
Bennett" at the Society for the Study of the Multi-ethnic Literatures of
the United States (MELUS) Annual Conference, University of Georgia, April 9-12,
2015.
Sungjin Shin presented "'Blank Confusion': The Blinding
Metropolis in Book Seventh of Wordsworth's The Prelude (1805)" at the
Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature, Mayville State
University, North Dakota, April 2015.
Katie Sisneros received a Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowship for 2015-16 for her dissertation "The Ottoman Empire in Seventeenth
Century English Popular Literature."
Anne-Marie Spidahl passed her preliminary exams.
Jeffrey Squires passed his preliminary exams.
Robb St. Lawrence received a Departmental Research Grant
for spring-summer 2015.
Amanda Taylor received a Hella Mears Summer Fellowship
for German and European Studies, a Literacy and Rhetorical Studies Summer
Fellowship, and a grant from the Center for Medieval Studies to cover tuition,
room, and board at the 2015 Minnesota Manuscript and Research Laboratory. She
was co-chair of the "Manuscript Studies Workshop" funded by a Center
for the Study of the Premodern World grant for the 2014-15 academic year. She
presented "Does the Armor Make the 'mayd Martiall'?: The Texture of Armor in
Spenser’s Faerie Queene" at the International Congress on Medieval Studies,
Western Michigan University, May 2015.
Benjamin Utter’s essay "'What does the line along the
rivers define?': The Rhetoric of Empire
in Charles Williams' Arthurian Poetry" was accepted for publication in The
Inklings and King Arthur, edited by Sørena Higgins (Apocryphile Press,
forthcoming). He presented "Malory's Secular Pelagianism: Worshyp, Will, and
Heroic Destiny in The Morte Darthur" at the International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2015.
PhD Alumnae/i News
Geri Brightwell (PhD 2004) is promoted to full professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks as of fall 2015.
Will Kanyusik (PhD 2013) has accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor of English at Loras College, Iowa.
Keith Mikos (PhD 2014) accepted a position
as visiting assistant professor at DePaul University, Illinois.
Karen Roggenkamp (PhD 2001) is promoted to full professor at Texas A&M University-Commerce as of fall 2015.
