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Graduate Student Honors, Activities, and Achievements from 2007-08

PhD - Degrees Awarded

Nichole DeWall successfully defended her dissertation, “‘A Plague ‘o Both Your Houses’: Shakespeare and the Early Modern Plague Writing Tradition,” (Kathy Howlett, Director) on April 15, 2008.

MA - Degrees Awarded

• Jennifer Haney
• Allison Hudson
• Timothy Strange
• Zarni Htun
• Jessica Krenek
• George Scala
• Thomas Witty

PhD – Positions Obtained

Nichole DeWall has accepted a tenure-track, assistant professor position at McKendree University in Lebanon, IL.

Cory Grewell has accepted a tenure-track, assistant professor position at Thiel College in Greenville, PA.

Presentations and Publications

Michelle Braun presented a conference paper, “When is a Vampire Not a Vampire? Mysticism, Posthumanism and the Transmission of Blood in Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome,” at the National PCA/ACA Conference in San Francisco, CA, March, 2008.

Nichole DeWall presented two conference papers, “‘Sweet Recreation Barred’: Early Modern Theater as pharmakon,” at the 36th Annual Shakespeare Association of America Meeting, Dallas, TX, March, 2008, and “Shakespeare and the Plague: The Language of Contagion and the Player-Physician,” for the Literature and Science before 1800 Panel at the 49th Annual Midwest Modern Language Association Convention, Cleveland, OH, November, 2007. Nichole has an essay, “‘Sweet recreation barred’: Plaguetime Theater as pharmakon,” in Representing the Plague in Early Modern Literature, ed. Margaret Healy and Rebecca Totaro, under review at Ashgate.

Cory Grewell presented a conference paper, “‘They Have Their Vices There, Like to Their Virtues’: The Nostalgic Reconstruction of the Middle Ages in Ben Jonson’s The Devil Is An Ass,” at the 42nd Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, MI, May, 2007.

Anne Kingsley presented three conference papers, “‘Ain’t No Words For It’: John Edgar Wideman and the Weight of Silence,” on the John Wideman panel at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, May, 2007; “‘From the Insides of the Door’: The Image of the Black Domestic in Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, and Elizabeth Bishop,” at Woman, Home, and Nation: Private and Public Spaces, 17th Annual Conference, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, NY, March, 2008; and “‘Violent Deaths and Casual Buryings’: Grave Site Encounters in Willa Cather’s Nebraska Plains Fiction,” at the Death, Murder, and Mayhem Symposium, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, April, 2008.

Jennifer Martin presented a conference paper entitled “‘To Prepare, Not to Bring About Revolutions’: Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Artistic and Literal Rearing of the Romantic Citizen, between Hymns in Prose for Children and Sins of Government, Sins of a Nation; or a Discourse for the Fast, Appointed on April 19, 1793,” at the international British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) and North American Society for Studies in Romanticism (NASSR) conference at the University of Bristol, UK, July, 2007.

Kurt Moellering presented a conference paper, “Thoreau and the Creation of Walden Pond,” at the annual NEMLA conference, Buffalo, NY, April, 2008.

Aparna Mujumdar presented two conference papers, “Acknowledging the Native’s Humanity: Points of Contact Between Colonial Subjects in David Malouf’s The Great World and Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda,” at the NEMLA 2008, April, 2008, and “Dialogues on a Writer’s Vocation: Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello and the Writer’s Work/ Ethic,” at the Northeastern English Department Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, February, 2008.

Hanna Musiol presented two conference papers, “Toward a Hybrid Nature: John Joseph Matthews’s Talking to the Moon,” at the American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May, 2007, and “John Joseph Matthews and the Modernism in the Fourth World,” at the NEMLA 2008, April, 2008. Hanna’s paper, “Cinematic Primitivism: Landscapes in Robert and Frances Flaherty’s Documentaries” was published in 2007 by Film and History in the conference proceedings. Hanna worked with Professor Carla Kaplan on the Critical Edition of Nella Larsen’s Quicksand as a research and archival assistant and has been responsible for the compilation of the selected bibliography that will be included in the book.

Jennifer Sopchockchai presented a conference paper, “Just a Sword in a Field: Competing Realisms in Luc Besson’s The Messenger,” at the National PCA/ACA Conference in San Francisco, March, 2008.

Kathryn Templeton presented on the topic of her Master’s thesis: “Documentary Facts and Literary Echoes: The Federal Writers’ Project Life Histories,” for Boston University’s Master in Fine Arts Visiting Lecturer Series, April, 2008.

Honors Received

Nichole DeWall received a Spring 2008 Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the Office of the Provost.

Cory Grewell received a Summer 2008 Dissertation Writing Fellowship from the Office of the Provost.

Graduate Student Essay Awards

Art Zilleruelo won 1st Place in the 2008 graduate student essay contest for his essay, “Unberthening the Burthen?: Wordsworth, Babel, and the Divorce of the Signifier from Signification.”

Arjun Poudel won 2nd Place for his essay, “The Early Modern Discourse about Younger Brothers in The Tempest.”

Danielle Skeehan received an honorable mention for her essay, “‘What You Are Pleas’d To Make Me’: Constructing National Identity in Richard Brome’s The Antipodes.”

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