Student News
Nick Adler's聽article "The Beast Imperative" appears 颈苍听The Henry James Review聽43 (2022): 97-108, where it won the Leon Edel Prize, awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar.
Rowena Clarke published a chapter on Nabokov's Pnin in the edited collection European Writers in Exile (2018) and an article "Consuming Television's Golden Age with Hannibal Lecter" in Alluvium聽(2016)."
Megan Crotty published a review of Kathleen Costello-Sullivan's Trauma and Recovery in the Twenty-First-Century Irish Novel in Irish University Review (2019).
Catherine Enwright published a review of Francesca Brook鈥檚 Poet of the Medieval Modern: Reading the Early Medieval Library with David Jones, Oxford: 2021. In the Journal of Modern Literature. (accepted, forthcoming)
Catherine Enwright聽published a review of Michael Davidson's聽Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic聽颈苍听Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies聽(2021).
Matthew Gannon聽published an article on Wilhelm Worringer and Freud 颈苍听differences聽(2020), a chapter on Kafka in the edited collection聽A State of Arrested Development: Critical Essays on the Innovative Television Comedy聽(2015),听and four book reviews 颈苍听Mediations,听Modern Language Review,听and聽Twentieth-Century Literature.
Kelly Gray published an essay, "," in The Philosophical Salon (2022).
Kelly Gray published an article "The Octopus and the Other: Capitalocene Contradictions in the Symbolic Order" in the聽Journal of Ecohumanism聽(2022).
Emma Hammack published an article on Mary Wordsworth's travel journel in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (2018).
Megan Lease聽published three book reviews in the field of religion and literature in nineteenth-century Britain 颈苍听Religion and the Arts聽(2018, 2020) and聽Religion & Literature聽(2018).
Alicia Oh published three book reviews in Modernist Cultures,听The Review of English Studies, and Modern Language Studies. Her essay on Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry is forthcoming in the edited collection聽Marginalized Women and Work 颈苍听20th-听补苍诲 21st-Century British and American Literature and Media (2021).
Laura Sterrett published a review of The Psalms and Medieval English Literature: From the Conversion to the Reformation, ed. Tamara Atkin and Francis Leneghan, in The Journal of Medieval Latin (2018).
Nell Wasserstrom published articles on Freud in differences (2020) and on Hope Mirrlees in Modern Philology (2020) as well as seven book reviews in Modern Language Notes,听Modern Language Review,听Modern Language Studies, The Modernist Review, and Twentieth-Century Literature.
Sharon Wofford聽published a review of Catherine Sanok's聽New Legends of England: Forms of Continuity in Late Medieval Saints' Lives聽颈苍听础苍驳濒颈补听(2020).
Rowena Clarke聽presented at the American Literature Association conference, "Multiplying Mildreds: Repetition, and the Democratization of the Post-war American Landscape 颈苍听Mildred Pierce" May 2015.
Catherine Enwright presented a paper, 鈥淩econsidering the Manifesto鈥. At the Hopeful Modernisms Conference, British Association for Modernist Studies June 2022.
Catherine Enwright presented a paper,鈥淰irginia Woolf鈥檚 Mystic Materialism in The Waves鈥. At the Virginia Woolf and Ethics Conference, 31st Annual Virginia Woolf International Conference June 2022
Catherine Enwright presented a paper,听"'God-Haunted': Landscape in David Jones'聽In Parenthesis." At the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference March 2022
Kelly Gray聽presented a paper, "Mother Earth and the Maternal Body," on a psychoanalytic panel at the Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities VIU conference in Venice, Italy.
Emma Hammack聽presented work on Liminality and Poetics in Wordsworth's Miscellaneous Sonnets, at the Wordsworth Summer Conference in Grasmere; Emma has also presented on the unpublished travel journals of Mary Wordsworth (2015).
No毛l Ingram聽presented 鈥淧rotocols for Horizontal Collaboration & Creating a Culture of Peer Feedback in the Writing Classroom鈥 at the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication.
No毛l Ingram聽presented 鈥溾楻attle Your Rage鈥: SisterSerpents鈥檚聽MadWoman #5,听Feminist Anger, and the Aesthetic of Protest鈥 at the New England American Studies 2021 Annual Conference.
No毛l Ingram聽presented 鈥'We All Live in an Unwalled City鈥: Emma Donoghue鈥檚聽The Pull of the Stars聽and Radical Love鈥 at the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality鈥檚 2021 Conference: 鈥淩adical Love Across Difference.鈥
Alex Moskowitz聽presented a paper titled 鈥淔ractured Identity and the Limits of Knowledge: Melville, Marx, and the Whiteness of the Whale鈥 at NeMLA convention in Hartford, CT (2016).
Alicia Oh聽presented a paper, 鈥淭he Art of Detachment in Kate O'Brien's聽The Land of Spices鈥聽at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City on March 31, 2017
Eric Pencek聽gave a presentation at the New Eyes on the Eighteenth Century V: Dinner Symposium at Harvard on February 10, 2014. The title was "Science, Entertainment, and the Strange Career of Gustavus Katterfelto."
Scott Reznick, presented a paper entitled "'Living in Other Lives': The Problem of Surveillance Amidst the Knot of Dreamers" as part of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society panel at the American Literature Association conference in Washington, D.C., May 2014.
Laura Sterrett聽presented a paper, "The Song of the Turtledove: the Female Experience of Exile in the Countess of Pembroke's Psalm 74," at the Northeast Conference on Christianity and Literature at Grove City College on March 31, 2017.
Nell Wasserstrom聽presented a paper, "Stasis vs. Finitude: Saint Teresa and the Experience of Ecstasy," in a three-day seminar titled "Ecstasy" at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in Seattle, March 26-29, 2015.
Sharon Wofford聽presented a paper titled "The Old English 'The Phoenix' as a Model of Saintly Embodiment" at the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies on May 12, 2022. 聽
Lauren Crockett-Girard听补苍诲听Kelly Gray聽were awarded the 2023 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Awards.
No毛l Ingram聽was awarded the 2022 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.
No毛l Ingram聽was awarded the 2021 New England American Studies Association鈥檚 Mary Kelley Prize.
Nell Wasserstrom聽was awarded the 2022 Donald and H茅l猫ne White Dissertation Award in the Humanities.
Colleen Taylor聽was awarded the 2017 Donald White Teaching Award.
Megan Crotty聽was awarded the 2017 Andrew Von Hendy Prize for Graduate Writing for the essay "The Future is Female: Double Agents and 'Subversive Subservience' in John McGahern's聽Amongst Women."
Scott Reznick聽was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Rowena Clarke聽was appointed a Graduate Fellow in the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy for the 2016/2017 year.
Alyssa Bellows听补苍诲听Amelie Daigle聽were awarded the 2016 Donald White Teaching Award.
Scott Reznick聽was awarded the 2016 Andrew Von Hendy Prize for Graduate Writing for the essay "On Liberty and Union: Moral Imagination and its Limits in Daniel Webster's Seventh of March Speech."
Scott Reznick聽was awarded the 2016 Andrew Von Hendy Prize for Graduate Writing for the essay "On Liberty and Union: Moral Imagination and its Limits in Daniel Webster's Seventh of March Speech."
Amelie Daigle聽won the 2015 Mitchell Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper awarded by the Northeastern Pop Culture Association.
The Graduate Colloquium
This joint M.A.-Ph.D. program sponsors lectures and gatherings throughout the academic year. In recent years, the Colloquium has taken the form of thematic evenings, each with a keynote lectures by one 艾可直播member and then papers delivered and responded to by our graduate students.听Contact colloquium organizers.
Ph.D. students in their third and fourth years also participate in a pedagogy seminar. All students are welcome. Pedagogy seminars occur periodically.听The current directors of the pedagogy seminar are No毛l Ingram听补苍诲 Kelly Gray.