Category: Graduate News

Elijah Hook presented “Unreadability and Other Mercies: Practices of Narrative Withholding in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy” at MELUS 2024 in April and, the following week, presented “’First I got myself born’: Pro/Retrospection in Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead“ at the Narrative Conference in Newcastle, UK. MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the […]

Vincent Mennella presented “Volpone Vindicated by the Alchemist at Court: Ben Jonson’s Alchemies of Material Wealth” at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Toronto. The Sixteenth Century Society hosts an annual conference for multidisciplinary work dedicated to the study of the early modern era (ca. 1450-1750).

Kendall Dinniene’s article, “Wounding the Heteropatriarchy: Queered and Disabled Histories in Caballero and Forgetting the Alamo,” has been accepted for publication in Studies in American Fiction. Her article argues that two key works of Chicana fiction demonstrate the ways that disability and queerness are mutually constitutive as well as important features of early Mexican American […]

PhD Student Macklin Fanning recently had an article accepted for publication in The Journal of Literature and Science, titled “What is a Philosophical Quixote?” The Journal of Literature and Science publishes academic essays on the subject of literature and science, broadly defined, in all periods of literary and artistic history since the Scientific Revolution. Congratulations, […]

Lindsey McClure is a member of the 2024 MLA Public Humanities Incubator Program. This competitive program places twelve graduate students who are interested in public humanities scholarship with mentors who aid them with their projects. Lindsey will be presenting her work, titled “Victorian Ghosts and Me,” this January at MLA.

Ally Barber published a review of Jose O. Fernandez’s Against Marginalization with MELUS. Her article “‘I’m leaving evidence’: Traumatic Rememory, Identity, and the Body in Gayl Jones’s Corregidora” is forthcoming in MELUS. She also presented “‘Vendido sanavabiche!’: La Malinche in Jovita González and Eve Raleigh’s Caballero and Américo Paredes’s George Washington Gómez” at MELUS 2024 […]