Graduate Publications & Presentations
Much Ado
The department is proud to announce the publication of our Graduate Alumni newsletter, "Much Ado". First published in Spring 2008, the newsletter was developed as a way for our graduates to stay up-to-date with what is happening in the department, as well as with each other. The department hopes to publish a new issue each semester.
We want to hear from you! If you have had any works published, presented papers, received an award or new position, or participated in anything else that you think may be of interest to our Alumni, please let us know.
Also, let us know if you would like to be included on the newsletter mailing list.
Contact: Nora McBurney, at (412)396-6420 or mcburne655@duq.edu
English Graduate Student Publications, 2007-2009
Buhot, Beth. "Is Baba Brennan 'A Much Tougher Feminist Alternative'?: Gender and Irish Identity in Edna O'Brien's The Country Girls Trilogy and Epilogue." Which Direction Ireland?: Proceedings of the 2006 ACIS Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference. Ed. Donald McNamara. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 113-122.
Cook, Suzanne. Index for Fashioning Celebrity: Eighteenth-Century British Actresses and Strategies for Image Making, Laura Engel, (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2011).
---. Index for The Public’s Open to Us All: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England, Laura Engel, ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009).
Gaffey, Michelle B. Review of When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, by Cynthia Hogue and Rebecca Ross. The Collagist: Online Literature from Dzanc Books 20 (2011): n. pag. Web.
---. “‘a storm is blowing from Paradise’: Historical Change and Salvation in Lola Ridge’s ‘The Ghetto.’” Florida English 7 (2009): 51-67. Print.
Holohan, Marianne. "British Illustrated Editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Race, Working-Class Literacy, and Transatlantic Reprinting in the 1850s." Resources for American Literary Study 35 (2012). Forthcoming.
Kunsa, Ashley. "Mystery and Possibility in Cormac McCarthy." Rev. of Understanding Cormac McCarthy and Reading the World: Cormac McCarthy's Tennessee Period. Journal of Modern Literature 34.3 (2011). Forthcoming.
---. " 'Maps of the World in Its Becoming': Post-Apocalyptic Naming in Cormac McCarthy's The Road." Journal of Modern Literature 33.1 (2009): 57-74. Print.
Nowacki, Jessica C. “Current Bibliography.” Nathaniel Hawthorne Review 33:2 (Fall 2007): 49–77.
Phillips, Amy C. “Five Hundred Pages and a Topic of Her Own: Successfully Designing an Advanced Writing Course on 19th Century British Women Novelists.” The CEA Forum 38.2 (Jan. 2010).
Wehler, Melissa. "The Haunted Transatlantic Libertine: Edmund Kean’s American Tour." The Transatlantic Gothic: New Directions in Dark Romanticism. Bridget Marshall and Monica Elbert, eds. (forthcoming 2011).
---. "Revising Ophelia: Representing Madwomen in Baillie's Orra and Witchcraft." Demons of the Body and Mind: Essays on Disability in Gothic Literature. Ed. Ruth Bienstock Anolik. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010
English Graduate Student Presentations, 2010-2011
Buhot, Beth. “Good Fences, Charming Gates: Ethnicity, Family, and the Suburbs in a Novel by Alicia Erian”, Northeast MLA conference, Montreal April 8-11, 2010
Collins, Jennifer. "The Damnation Game's Gothic Body: Clive Barker's Writing of the Physical Body as an Exploration of Addiction. Presented at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2010.
---. "The Strategy of the British Country House in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine", Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 20, 2010
---. "First Fear...Later, Love: A Path Toward Freedom in Baldwin's The Fire Next Time and Morrison's Sula" National Association of African American Studies Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, February 10, 2010
Cook, Suzanne. "Recovering the Rake in Arthur Murphy's The Way to Keep Him." East Central Eighteenth-Century Society: Pittsburgh, PA, November 4-6, 2010.
---. “Mr. Lovel and the Monkey: A Critique of Fashion and Foppery in Frances Burney’s Evelina.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Albuquerque, NM: March 18-21, 2010.
Gaffey, Michelle. “Looking at Student Sketches and Campus Rooms to Encourage Critical Thinking.” Northeast Modern Language Association’s 42nd Annual International Convention: Image as Argument Roundtable. New Brunswick, NJ: 7-10 April 2011.
---. “Recent Engagements with the Documentary Book Tradition.” Part Two of a Panel Presentation Entitled, “Contemporary Documentary Poetics,” with Larissa B. Cunningham and Erin M. Rentschler. Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, KY: 24-26 February 2011.
---. "Faculty of the Future: Voices of the Next Generation," with K. Patricia Cross Award Recipients. Association of American Colleges & Universities 97th Annual International Conference: Global Positioning: Essential Learning, Student Success, and the Currency of US Degrees. San Francisco, CA: 26-29 January 2011.
---. “Writing ‘bodies back to life’: The Documentary Practices of Llewellyn, Howe, Rankine, and Kay.” Contemporary Women’s Writing Network International Conference: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies. Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, CA: 7-9 July 2010.
---. “A Pedagogical Response to, ‘I’m never shopping at Wal-Mart again!’” Working Class Studies Association Semi-Annual How Class Works National Conference. SUNY, Stony Brook, NY: 3-5 June 2010.
---. “An American Vernacular Tradition: Communal Poetics, Sorrow Songs, and Lola Ridge’s ‘The Ghetto’ and Other Poems.”* Northeast Modern Language Association’s 41st Annual International Convention: Communal Modernisms Panel. Hilton Boneventure, Montreal, Quebec: 7-11 April 2010. * This paper was also accepted to the 2010 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.
Gallagher, Maureen. "The Temptation to Look Away: The Textual Erasure of the Traumatized Fallen Woman in Austen's Sense and Sensibility." East Central Eighteenth-Century Society, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2010.
Glowzenski, Lee Ann. " 'They captured Osama Bin Laden' ": The Exceptionalist Utopia in A Disorder Peculiar to the Country,” NeMLA, New Brunswick, NJ, April 2011.
---. “Creating a Common Language: Revising Consultant/Writer Dialog,” IWCA/NCPTW, Baltimore, MD, November 2010.
---. “‘Backward through the turnstile’: Story and Scientific Method in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” ACA/PCA Conference, St. Louis, MO, April 2010
---. “‘Every day's essential either-orness’: Memory and Provisionality in The Colossus of New York,” International Conference on Narrative, Cleveland, OH, April 2010
Higa, Jade. " 'Wallace Wight': Unearthing Scottish Nationalism through the Gothic Ballad in Baillie's Metrical Legends." East Central Eighteenth-Century Society, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2010.
Holohan, Marianne. "Black Antebellum Readers, Self-Representation, and Transatlantic Reprinting." Northeast MLA Annual Convention, New Brunswick, NJ, April 7-10, 2011.
---. "Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the Nineteenth-Century British Reprint Market: Clarke & Co. and the Working-Class Appeal of 'Gentlemanly' Piracy." SHARP (Studies in the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) Conference, Helsinki, Finland, August 21-23, 2010.
---. "British Illustrated Editions of Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Race, Popular Culture, and Working-Class Literacy in the 1850s." American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 27-30, 2010.
Luckenbill, Rachel. "Hymn Singing in the Wilderness: An Analysis of David Gamut in Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans." Mideast Regional Christianity and Literature Conference, Grove City, PA, March 11-13, 2010.
---. "Sorrow, Song, and Earth: Redemption in Joy Harjo's Poetry." As part of the National Association of Native American Studes at the National Association of African American Studies, Baton Rouge, LA, February 9, 2010.
Phillips, Amy C.. " '[She] had no place as yet; but she intended to make one’: Geraldine Jewsbury’s Feminist Revision of Thomas Carlyle’s Gospel of Work in The Half Sisters.” Curiosities: The 19th Annual British Women Writers Conference. Columbus, OH. Spring 2011.
---. " 'Heaven only knows what might have been made of her': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Revision of the Female Consumer in The Doctor's Wife." The National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Annual Conference (PCA/ACA), St. Louis, MO, Spring 2010.
Rentschler, Erin. "Teaching Narratives of War, Re-Examining the Document." 39th Annual Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, Kentucky, February 2011
---. "(How) Do You Remember? Narratives of the Vietnam War and September 11." West Virginia Association of College English Teachers Fall Conference, West Liberty University, West Virginia, October 2010.
---. “Disturbing the Static with another American Song: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely and Images of Contemporary America” at Contemporary Women’s Writing: New Texts, Approaches, and Technologies, San Diego State University, July7-9, 2010.
---. “The Visual and Representations of Individual and Collective Trauma in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” at Trauma: Intersections among Narrative, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis, George Washington University. Washington, D.C., March 4-6, 2010
---. “'A Story is Forever Unfolding': Personal and Cultural Memory in Linda Hogan's People of the Whale” at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. February 18-20, 2010.
Rutter, Emily. “Belch the pity! / Straddle the city!”: Helene Johnson’s Modernist Poetics." as part of African American Literature and Culture Society panel, American Literature Association Conference, May 2010.
Stoyanoff, Jeff. "Woman Is Not a Housewife Is Not a Plate for: The Economics of Gender in Stein's 'A Plate'." Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, KY, February 2011.
---. "The Revealed Fancies." East Central Eighteenth-Century Society, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2010.
---. "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Problems within Mythological and Folkloric Criticism." 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 2010.
Vanfosson, Jason. “Homosexual Terrorism: Reading Homonationalism in Chuck Palahniuk's Pygmy.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900. Louisville, Kentucky, February 2011.
---. " 'I know resentment may to love be turn’d': Uncovering Terrorism and Recovering Queerness in Joanna Baillie’s De Monfort.” East-Central American Society of Eighteenth Century Scholars. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 2010.
Wehler, Melissa. "Performing Nationalism: Edmund Kean and Charles Robert Maturin’s Bertram." American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Vancouver, BC, March 17-20, 2011.
---. "The Haunted Libertine: Edmund Kean’s American Tour." East Central/American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Pittsburgh, PA, November 4-6, 2010.
