The following PhD candidates in English were the recipients of University and department awards: Erik Carlson, Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for his dissertation project "The Old English Language of Fear" (adviser Andrew Scheil); Elissa Hansen, Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship for her dissertation project "Signs of the Time: Temporality in Fourteenth Century English Contemplative Writing" (adviser Rebecca Krug); Josh Mabie, Consortium Fellowship, University Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences (adviser Dan Philippon); Eric Brownell, Samuel Hold Monk Memorial Prize for Published Scholarship, for his article "Our Lady of the Telegraph: Mina as Medieval Cyborg in Bram Stoker's Dracula," Journal of Dracula Studies, 12 (December 2010), 29-51 (adviser Lois Cucullu); Emily Anderson, Garner/McNaron/Sprengnether Summer Fellowship in Feminist Literary Studies, for her project "Marrying Monsters, Becoming Bridezillas: The Reimagining of the Gothic in 21st Century Narratives of Marriage" (Cucullu); and Eun Joo Kim, Audrey Christensen Library Acquisition Prize (adviser Josephine Lee). Congratulations to all!
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
New Books From Faculty
With spring arrives another crop of books from the Department of English's award-winning faculty. Professor Nabil Matar, recently named a CLA Scholar of the College, co-authored with Gerald MacLean Britain and the Islamic World: 1558-1713 (University of Oxford Press, 2011). . . . Professor Maria Damon published Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries with the University of Iowa Press in April. . . . And Associate Professor Katherine Scheil co-edited with Randall Martin Shakespeare, Adaptation, Modern Drama: Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson (University of Toronto Press, 2011).
Hancher Co-Chairs Digital Humanities Collaborative
Professor Michael Hancher is the co-chair with Laura Gurak (Writing Studies) of the 2011-12 Institute for Advanced Study collaborative, "Digital Humanities 2.0." The collaborative seeks to advance artistic creation and scholarly research in the humanities by exploring digitization and Web 2.0 technologies. IAS provides workspace in Nolte Hall and financial support each year to groups of colleagues engaging in interdisciplinary projects.
Monday, May 9, 2011
Cohen Dissertation Defense
PhD candidate Sara Cohen will be defending her dissertation, "Medical Screening" at 2 pm on Friday, May 13 in the Wright Room. All are welcome to the public portion of the defense.
Hengen Dissertation Defense
PhD candidate Nicholas Hengen will be defending his dissertation "Texts as Tactics: How People Practice Politics with Books" at 8 am on Tuesday, May 24 in Lind 207A. All are welcome to the public portion of the defense.
Cox Dissertation Defense
PhD candidate Ryan J. Cox will be defending his dissertation, "Premonition of a Future Line We Will Be Writing: Politics, Language and Identity in English Canadian Experimental Poetry" at 1 pm on Thursday, May 12, in Lind 204. All are welcome to the public portion of the defense.
Monday, May 2, 2011
MFA Alumnus Wins Thom Gunn Award
MFA alumnus (and Department of English course coordinator) Michael Walsh (2006) won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry for his debut collection The Dirt Riddles (University of Arkansas Press, 2010). Congratulations!
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