Student News
Nick Adler's article "The Beast Imperative" appears The Henry James Review 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 (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’s 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 published a review of Michael Davidson's Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies (2021).
Matthew Gannon published an article on Wilhelm Worringer and Freud differences (2020), a chapter on Kafka in the edited collection A State of Arrested Development: Critical Essays on the Innovative Television Comedy (2015),and four book reviews Mediations,Modern Language Review,and 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 Journal of Ecohumanism (2022).
Emma Hammack published an article on Mary Wordsworth's travel journel in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (2018).
Megan Lease published three book reviews in the field of religion and literature in nineteenth-century Britain Religion and the Arts (2018, 2020) and Religion & Literature (2018).
Alicia Oh published three book reviews in Modernist Cultures,The Review of English Studies, and Modern Language Studies. Her essay on Gwendolyn Brooks's poetry is forthcoming in the edited collection Marginalized Women and Work 20th-Ի 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,Modern Language Review,Modern Language Studies, The Modernist Review, and Twentieth-Century Literature.
Sharon Wofford published a review of Catherine Sanok's New Legends of England: Forms of Continuity in Late Medieval Saints' Lives Բ(2020).
Rowena Clarke presented at the American Literature Association conference, "Multiplying Mildreds: Repetition, and the Democratization of the Post-war American Landscape Mildred Pierce" May 2015.
Catherine Enwright presented a paper, “Reconsidering the Manifesto”. At the Hopeful Modernisms Conference, British Association for Modernist Studies June 2022.
Catherine Enwright presented a paper,“Virginia Woolf’s Mystic Materialism in The Waves”. At the Virginia Woolf and Ethics Conference, 31st Annual Virginia Woolf International Conference June 2022
Catherine Enwright presented a paper,"'God-Haunted': Landscape in David Jones' In Parenthesis." At the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference March 2022
Kelly Gray 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 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).
Noël Ingram presented “Protocols for Horizontal Collaboration & Creating a Culture of Peer Feedback in the Writing Classroom” at the 2021 Conference on College Composition and Communication.
Noël Ingram presented “‘Rattle Your Rage’: SisterSerpents’s MadWoman #5,Feminist Anger, and the Aesthetic of Protest” at the New England American Studies 2021 Annual Conference.
Noël Ingram presented “'We All Live in an Unwalled City’: Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars and Radical Love” at the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality’s 2021 Conference: “Radical Love Across Difference.”
Alex Moskowitz presented a paper titled “Fractured Identity and the Limits of Knowledge: Melville, Marx, and the Whiteness of the Whale” at NeMLA convention in Hartford, CT (2016).
Alicia Oh presented a paper, “The Art of Detachment in Kate O'Brien's The Land of Spices” at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City on March 31, 2017
Eric Pencek 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 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 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 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.
Lauren Crockett-GirardԻKelly Gray were awarded the 2023 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Awards.
Noël Ingram was awarded the 2022 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.
Noël Ingram was awarded the 2021 New England American Studies Association’s Mary Kelley Prize.
Nell Wasserstrom was awarded the 2022 Donald and Hélène White Dissertation Award in the Humanities.
Colleen Taylor was awarded the 2017 Donald White Teaching Award.
Megan Crotty 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 Amongst Women."
Scott Reznick was awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Rowena Clarke was appointed a Graduate Fellow in the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy for the 2016/2017 year.
Alyssa BellowsԻAmelie Daigle were awarded the 2016 Donald White Teaching Award.
Scott Reznick 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 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 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 faculty member and then papers delivered and responded to by our graduate students.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.The current directors of the pedagogy seminar are Noël IngramԻ Kelly Gray.