Caroline Bicks

“Gender and Sexuality in Middleton’s Plays,” in Thomas Middleton in Context, ed. Suzanne Gossett. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2011. 263-270.

“Instructional Performances: Ophelia and the Staging of History,” in Performance and Pedagogy on the Early Modern Stage: Gender, Instruction, and Performance, ed. Kathryn McPherson and Katherine Moncrief. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 205-216.

Bicks and Jennifer Summit's book, The History of British Women’s Writing, 1500-1610, has received the 2011 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Collaborative Project Award.

Bicks performed a self-authored piece for the comedy show "Not What I Signed Up For" at the Triad Theater in NYC last week. Fellow performers included Michael Ian Black and Andrea Martin.

Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Bodenheimer presented a paper, "The Temporalities of Biography," at the Rushton Seminars of the University of Virginia English Department, March 25.

Amy Boesky

Amy published an essay, "The Ghost Writes Back," on Kenyon Review Online.

Boesky published "Tae Kwon Do" (creative nonfiction)  in Gulf Coast, Vol. 25, Issue 1, 117-122.

Boesky recently published two pieces of creative nonfiction: "Herculaneum," in the spring 2012 issue of The Michigan Quarterly Review, and "What We Talk About When We Talk About Risk," in the Summer 2012 issue of Memoir (and)."

Her personal essay, “Herculaneum,” has been accepted for publication by Michigan Quarterly Review. She was also a finalist in New Letters 2011 Poetry Prize.

Awarded a Howard Foundation Fellowship for next year to work on her new creative nonfiction project.

Bob Chibka

Chibka organized a panel, "The Art of Henry Fielding: Violence, Romance, Fraud," for the annual meeting of the North East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and, on October 12, as part of that panel, delivered a paper entitled "'A violent Surprize': Crabsticks and Crania, Hearts and Minds in Joseph Andrews."

Chibka delivered a talk entitled "Of writing Minds in general, and particularly of Joseph Andrews: Finer Thoughts and Coarser Dears” at a joint meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Aphra Behn Society, in Hamilton, Ontario, October 27.

Mary Crane

At the 2013 MLA Conference, Mary participated in a roundtable discussion on "The Past, Present, and Future of Cognitive Literary Studies."   Mary also gave a talk, "Science as Magic, Magic as Science" in a session on "Supernatural Shakespeare."

Crane gave a talk, "Spenser's Problem with Endings," at the Durham University Balzan Workshop on "Literary and Cognitive Ends."

Mary Crane co-directed a seminar on "The Past, Present, and Future of Shakespeare Studies" with Emily Bartels of Rutgers at the recent Shakespeare Association of America conference in Boston.

Paul Doherty

Professor Emeritus of English Paul Doherty is this year's winner of the University's Community Service Award, given each year to an employee whose actions exemplify the Jesuit spirit of service to others. BC Chronicle

Elizabeth Graver

Reviewed Dennis Mahoney's debut novel, Fellow Mortals, in the New York Times Book Review (4/7/2013).  

Set in a fictional summer community on Massachusetts’ Buzzards Bay, The End of the Point, the latest novel by English Professor Elizabeth Graver, is 'a beautifully orchestrated family symphony,' according to the Boston Globe. | BC Chronicle | She discussed the book on the 'Leonard Lopate Show' on NPR-WNYC and with the Mass. Cultural Council.

New novel, The End of the Point, will be out from Harper on March 5. Elizabeth will give a reading and talk about the book at a Dean’s Colloquium on March 14 at 4:30 in the reading room of O’Neill Library. She will read with Brian Sousa—whose debut collection, Almost Gone, is just out—at Newtonville Books on March 19, 2013.

Lori Harrison-Kahan

Review essay on Caroline Rody's The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction and Cathy Schlund-Vials's Modeling Citizenship: Jewish and Asian American Writing appeared in a special issue of MELUS (Spring 2013) on cross-racial and cross-ethnic collaboration and scholarship.

Lori also presented a paper, "Emma Wolf and the Deghettoization of American Jewish Fiction," at the 2013 NeMLA convention in March 2013.

Harrison-Kahan’s The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary was recognized with an Honorable Mention for the 2012 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Book Award.

Harrison-Kahan co-guest-edited “The Future of Jewish American Literary Studies,” a special issue of MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 37.2 (Summer 2012). The issue also features her introductory essay, “Finding Home” (co-written with Josh Lambert).

Harrison-Kahan gave an invited talk about her book The White Negress as part of the Bernice Zigman Meet the Author Series at Temple Reyim in Newton on January 29.

Harrison-Kahan and Diane Hotten-Somers organized a session entitled “Re-envisioning, Re-staging, and Retailing: National Identity and Ethnic Counter-Narratives” at the New England American Studies Association annual conference, which took place on November 4-5 at Plimoth Plantation. At the session, Diane presented a paper, “Jewish America Awakes and Sings the Irish Blues: Sean O’Casey, Clifford Odets, and Working-Class Identities.”

“Interview with a Vampire Expert”—about recent scholarship that explores the connection between Dracula and anti-Semitism—appeared in The Jewish Advocate on October 28.

Published an essay, “‘More Than a Garment’: Edna Ferber and the Fashioning of Transnational Identity,” in Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion, ed. Ilya Parkins and Elizabeth Sheehan (University Press of New England, 2011).

Harrison-Kahan gave a talk, "Just Like Us? Comparative Ethnic Studies and the Black-Jewish Imaginary," at the University of Connecticut on March 21, 2011.

Dayton Haskin

Haskin gave a paper called "Paradise Lost at an Inhospitable Moment" at the Hospitable Text Conference held at Notre Dame's London Centre in July.

Haskin contributed an essay called "The Love Lyric" to the newly published Oxford Handbook of John Donne, ed. Jeanne Shami et al. (Oxford University Press, 2011): 180-205.

Tina Klein

Gave a lecture titled "Black Markets and Golden Age Cinema: The 8th U.S. Army as a Cultural Institution in Korea" at Indiana University's Americanist Research Colloquium on April 8, 2013.

Presented a paper, “Poaching as a Postwar Korean Cultural Style,” as part of a panel she organized on "The U.S. Military as a Cultural Institution in Asia" at the Association of Asian Studies annual meeting in San Diego.

Delivered a public lecture, "Modern Korea Through Film," at the Museum of Fine Arts on February 26 and 28.  She gave a guest lecture at Harvard in David Chung's course "Korea Reborn: Postwar Korea as Seen Through Film" on February 19.

Klein published an article, “The AFKN Nexus: U.S. Military Broadcasting and New Korean Cinema,” in the journal Transnational Cinemas, 3.1 (2012): 19-39. She delivered a paper title “Multiple Vernacular Modernisms: The U.S. 8th Army and Postwar Korean Cinema” at the conference "Beyond the Korean War," in Seoul, Korea on June 22.

Klein presented a paper “Kennan, Containment, and Cold War Cultural Studies” at the conference “George F. Kennan: An American Life,” Williams College, April 7.

Klein presented a paper, "Multiple Vernacular Modernisms in Han Hyung-mo's Madame Freedom (1956)," at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, where she also commentated on a panel titled "Cold War Politics and East Asian Cinema Reconsidered" (March 22 and 24). At the Association for Asian Studies annual conference in Toronto she commented on a panel titled "Solidarity and Trespasses: Cultural Formations of Cold War Cosmopolitanism in East Asia" (March 18).

Klein gave a paper titled "Cinematic Memories: Traces of the Korean War in Contemporary Cinema" at a conference hosted by NYU, "The (Unending) Korean War", April 22-23, 2011.

Robert Lehman

Lehman presented a paper, "The Poetry and the Prose of the Future," in a three-day seminar titled "Twists of the New Aesthetic Turn: Contemporary Continental Thought and the Sense of Place," at the ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Conference in Toronto, on April 6, 2013.

Paul Lewis

Lewis spoke on “Literary Boston in the 1790s” at the AWP Conference at the Hynes Convention Center, March 9, 2013.

At the 2013 MLA Conference held in Boston, January 3-6, Paul Lewis chaired a session on Poe and Mystery and co-chaired a session on Poe, Hawthorne, and the Conventions of Antebellum Fiction.

Paul Lewis, (with Dan Currie) “The Raven in the Frog Pond: Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston,” in Seth C. Bruggeman, Ed., Born in the U.S.A.: Birth and Commemoration in American Public Memory, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012, 217-240. [book chapter].

John Morreall, Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor, in HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research 25:3 (2012), 236-269. [review].

“Pedagogies of Place: Situating Poe and Hawthorne in the Cultural and Geographical Landscapes of Antebellum Boston,” Conversazioni in Italia, a joint conference of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society, and the Poe Studies Association, June 8-11, Florence, Italy [conference paper].

Lewis was Curator, Forgotten Chapters of Boston’s Literary History, an exhibition at the Boston Public Library and Massachusetts Historical Society, March 28-July 30, 2012.

“The Good, the Great, and the Deliciously Awful: Why Boston Needs a Literary Trail," Boston Globe, April 1, 2012, Ideas Section, 12.

"Longfellow’s Serenity and Poe’s Prediction: An Antebellum Turning Point,” New England Quarterly, Volume 85 (March 2012), 144-158.

John Mahoney

The Romantic Voice - John Mahoney reads poems by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats.

A Resident Johnsonian, participated in the Annual Meeting and Dinner of the Johnsonians on Friday, September 21, 2012 at the McGill University Faculty Club in Montreal, Quebec, the 303^rd Anniversary of Samuel Johnson’s birthday.  He also joined the group on Saturday the 22^nd to view the Special Collections at the McGill Library.

"Wordsworth and Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Poetry and Religious Practice" in URAM (U. of Toronto Press) 30.4, pp. 263-277.

Mahoney led a Symposium on "The Romantic Voice and Ultimate Meaning" (Blake, Wordsworth, Keats) at the 16th Biennial Conference of the International Society for the Study of Ideas of Ultimate Reality and Meaning at Regis College, University of Toronto, August 10-13, 2011.

Paul Mariani

“Charism and the Literary Imagination,” Boston College Roundtable: Advancing the Mission of Catholic Higher Education, April 12-14, 2013, Boston College Retreat Center, Dover, Massachusetts.

The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane, a biography of the American poet written by poet and University Professor of English Paul Mariani, has drawn the attention of actor James Franco, who has initiated a conversation with Mariani about making it his next film. Springfield Republican

Art Essay: “In the Footsteps of Ignatius: Following a Saint Through Spain.” America Magazine, Vol. 206, No. 7 (March 5, 2012).

Poem. “Operating Room, Upper East Side, March 1945” America Magazine, Vol. 206 No. 9 (March 12, 2012).

Two Poems. "A Modest Ode to Joy for My Sophia" and "The Blank Canvas James Franco Says He Saw," Vineyards: A Journal of Christian Poetry, Vol. 2 (Spring 2012), pp. 14-15.

Paula Mathieu

Mathieu presented a talk, “Intergenerational Interviewing as Public Research for Networked Undergraduates,” at the College Composition and Communication Conference in Las Vegas, March 2013.

Essay, “After Tactics, What Comes Next?” was published in the collection Unsustainable: Re-imagining Community Literacy, Public Writing and Service Learning, and the University,” edited by Jessica Restaino and Laurie Cella, published by Lexington Press.

Announced the release of Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks and Tiffany Rousculp. NY: Lexington Books, 2012.

Suzanne Matson

Matson gave a fiction reading as the invited speaker at the Women and Gender Studies special event at NeMLA, and also conducted a creative writing workshop at the conference.

Matson spoke on a panel celebrating the 40-year history of Alice James Books at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Boston on March 9, 2013.

Matson read from her fiction at the University of Georgia, Wilson Center for Humanities and Arts, on October 11, 2012.

Matson’s short story, “Ultraviolet,” appeared last summer in the inaugural issue of Mussoorie Writers.

Received a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in fiction.

Maia McAleavey

Delivered a paper at the Northeast Victorian Studies Association, April 5-7 in Boston, entitled "Aurora Floyd (1874)."

Delivered a paper at the 2013 MLA Convention in Boston, "Destiny and Bigamy: The Problem of Choice in Victorian Marriage."

Gave a talk at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard on Thursday, October 11, titled "The Improper End: Aurora Floyd and Jude the Obscure."

Gave a paper at this year's North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Madison, Wisconsin: "Network Plot in Aurora Floyd."

Delivered a paper, "The Burden of the Plot: Ballad and Novel in Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers," at the North American Victorian Studies Association's annual conference (October 2011).

Her article, "The Discipline of Tears in The Old Curiosity Shop" appeared in Dickens Studies Annual 54.

Delivered a paper, "Bigamy's Visible History," at the Victorian Popular Fiction Association's annual conference, in London July 18-19, 2011.

James Najarian

"England: Literature and Culture" in the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol 6.: The Nineteenth Century 1830-1914. ed. M.A.R. Habib (Cambridge University Press, 2013) 172-187.

Published an essay, "Sexual Politics and the Performance of Gender in Romantic Poetry," in A Companion to Romantic Literature. ed. by Charles Mahoney (Blackwell, 2011). James also gave a talk at UMass-Boston" How Buddhist is Western Buddhist Literature?" and one at the Victorians Institute Conference this November: "Harold Skimpole Once More: Gender and Romanticism in Bleak House." He published a poem, "Longed-For Rain," in "The Mennonite" 14.5 (May) 2011, p. 9; and another, "Church on the Block" in Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2011).

Joe Nugent

Won the Teaching with New Media award this year. This is his second year winning!

iPhone app JoyceWays won the Gold Medal for design and production at the recently-announced "Appy" Awards. It's available from iTunes.

His article Clerical Errors: Reading Desire in a Nineteenth-century Painting was published in the recent edition of Éire-Ireland.

The Third Annual D'Arcy Magee Lecture at St Mary's College, Halifax, NS, was given by Joe Nugent on March 1. His presentation was called "Dirty Irish: Olfaction and the National Stereotype."

Kevin Ohi

Recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship award for 2013-2014.

He gave a paper at the SCMS conference in Boston on March 22. Speaking in a workshop—"Belly of the Beast: Queer Cinema and Media Studies on Conservative and Religious Campuses"—his paper was entitled "Rubbing the Belly of the Beast: Obedience Training and Positive Reinforcement," and it presented a reading of Plato's Symposium.

“The Consummation of the Swallow’s Wings: A Zoo Story,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 110: 3 (Summer 2011), 715-43; “Second Thoughts: Queer Maud-Evelyn,” in Kimberly Reed and Anna Despotopoulou, eds., Henry James and the Supernatural (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 137-48; “Queer Intervals.” Review of Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child (Durham: Duke UP, 2009) in GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 17:2-3 (2011), 438-441.

Kevin gave two talks in July: “Tradition in Fragments: Swinburne’s ‘Anactoria,’” at the Decadent Poetics Conference, University of Exeter, UK, and “Lessons of the Master: James’s Queer Pedagogy,” at the International Henry James Association Conference, Rome, Italy.

“The Consummation of the Swallow’s Wings: A Zoo Story,” The South Atlantic Quarterly 110: 3 (Summer 2011), 715-43; “Second Thoughts: Queer Maud-Evelyn,” in Kimberly Reed and Anna Despotopoulou, eds., Henry James and the Supernatural (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 137-48; “Queer Intervals.” Review of Kathryn Bond Stockton, The Queer Child (Durham: Duke UP, 2009) in GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies 17:2-3 (2011), 438-441.

Kevin also gave two talks in July: “Tradition in Fragments: Swinburne’s ‘Anactoria,’” at the Decadent Poetics Conference, University of Exeter, UK, and “Lessons of the Master: James’s Queer Pedagogy,” at the International Henry James Association Conference, Rome, Italy.

Julie Orlemanski

Received a Huntington Library Fellowship for next year.

Presented a paper entitled "Keeping Time: Diagrammatic Bodies in Medieval English Medicine" at the 39th Annual Saint Louis Conference on Manuscript Studies.

Presented a paper entitled "Things without Faces" at the American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, in Providence, RI on March 30.

Presented a paper entitled "Medial Body / Figural Body" on February 9 at the symposium, "Surface, Symptom, and the State of Critique," sponsored by Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory and medieval Studies and the University of Texas.

Frances Restuccia

Presented a paper, "Nudity:  Agamben vs. Lacan," in a three-day seminar titled "Twists of the New Aesthetic Turn:  Contemporary Continental Thought and the Sense of Place," at the ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Conference in Toronto, on April 7, 2013.

"Profaning the Messiah or Why Can't Dulcinea Love Us?" was published in Philosophy Today, vol. 56, number 2, summer 2012.

Presented a paper, "Divine Violence," at the IAPL (International Association of Philosophy and Literature) in Tallinn, Estonia in May and gave a lecture, "Sebastian's Skull:  Establishing the Society of the Icon," at the University of Sofia in Bulgaria, in June. 

Gave a talk titled "Divine Violence" at the first Zizek Studies Conference in Rochester, New York, April 28th.

Gave a talk, "Murder or Byzantium?" at MLA Convention, Seattle, WA, January 5, 2012, on a panel titled "Fiction and Theory in Julia Kristeva."

Gave a talk titled "Intimate Volver" (on Kristeva and Almodovar's film) at the B.C. Conference, "After the Unthinkable: trauma, nachtraglichkeit, and coming to terms" (March 22-24). She also presented a paper at the ACLA (American Comparative Literature Association) Conference at Brown University titled "Messianic Aesthetics: Lily Briscoe's Vision" and participated in the 3-day seminar "Twists of the New Aesthetic Turn."

Alan Richardson

National Jesuit Book Award: Alan has received a National Jesuit Book Award for The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts.

At the 2013 MLA Conference, Alan spoke in a roundtable discussion on "The Past, Present, and Future of Cognitive Literary Studies."

Carlo Rotella

Rotella's profile of Kacey Musgraves, “With a Rebel Twang,” appeared in the New York Times Magazine on March 17.  His memorial essay about Hector "Macho" Camacho appeared in the New York Times Magazine on December 30.  An excerpt from his most recent book, Playing in Time, is in the winter issue of Boston College Magazine.  “Sense and Sensitivity,” a review of Emily Bazelon's Sticks and Stones, is in the March/April issue of the Yale Alumni Magazine.

Rotella's new book is Playing in Time: Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories (University of Chicago Press). Also recently published is “The Case Against Kojak Liberalism,” in "The Wire": Race, Class, and Genre, ed. Liam Kennedy and Stephen Shapiro (University of Michigan Press). His review of Charles Portis's Escape Velocity appeared in yesterday's New York Times Book Review.

Gave the inaugural Mary and John Blixen Lecture in American Studies, "Hollywood on the Charles: A Provincial Backwater Goes Global," at St. Louis University on April 13. On April 11 and 12 he served on the President's Advisory Board evaluating the English department at Carnegie-Mellon University.

Participated in a symposium, "Sports Writing and the Writing of Sport," at Rice University on March 31.

Gave a paper, "Shipping Up to Boston: A Pecking Order," at the Pop Conference at NYU on March 23. On March 24 he chaired and commented on a session, "The Global Southie: Boston and the Cinema of Class," at the Society for Cinema Studies conference in Boston.

"Within Limits: On the Greatness of Magic Slim," Pop When the World Falls Apart, ed. Eric Weisbard (Duke University Press, 2012): 230-239.

Essay on Ron Lyle and Joe Frazier, "So Many Fearsome Contemporaries," appeared in the New York Times Magazine's annual Lives They Lived issue, December 25, 2011. "Hollywood on the Charles," on the movie industry's infatuation with Boston, is in the January issue of Boston.

Profile of Shaun Tan, "A Wild Mind Loose in Suburbia," appeared in yesterday's New York Times Magazine (April 24, 2011): pp. 24-29.

Kalpana Seshadri

Has been appointed to the Editorial Board of the PMLA for a two year term beginning July 2013 to July 2015. 

Kalpana was invited to participate April 5th and 6th in a two day symposium  on "Life: In-Between Discipline and Control" organized by The Humanities Center at Syracuse University where she presented her new research on Bio-Politics in a Global Frame. The symposium was the inaugural meeting of The Society for the Study of Bio-Political Futures.

Kalpana's article "Animal Pedagogy and Learning by Heart" in the latest issue of Environmental Philosophy Volume IX, Issue II, Fall 2012.

Presented a paper on November 3rd entitled "Animal Pedagogy and Learning by Heart" at the annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) at Rochester, New York.

Kalpana's essay "Colonial Trauma and Literary Silence" has just been published in a special issue of Parallax, 18:4 (67-77) on Imperial Affect.

Maxim D. Shrayer

Selected for 2012 Guggenheim Fellowship; to support a research project designed to bring a new perspecitve to Holocaust studies through exploration of the experience of Jewish-Russian poets during World War II.

Delivered "Ilya Selvinsky and the Price of Bearing Witness to the Shoah" at Jewish Life and Death in the Soviet Union during World War II, an international conference at the University of Toronto. Shrayer's article "After Rapture and Recapture: Transformations in the Drafts of Nabokov's Stories" was reprinted in "Short Story Criticism, SSC-163" (Detroit: Gale Cengage Learning, 2011).

Delivered "Nabokov and Soviet Literature" and "Ilya Ehrenburg and the Price of Writing Poetry about the Shoah" at the annual conference of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies in Washington, DC.

Published "Rescuing a Jewish-Russian Boy: Nabokov’s Stories in Anticipation of Catastrophe" in "Nabokovski sbornik" ("Nabokov Collection," St. Petersburg).

Gave a master class and a reading at Reed College where his book "Yom Kippur in Amsterdam" is on the syllabus of a Russian Short Story course. Shrayer also delivered "Jewish-Russian Poets Bearing Witness to the Shoah" at Portland State University.

James Smith

Reflected on Taoiseach Enda Kenny's  apology to victims of the Magdalene laundries in an op-ed in the Irish Times, and in interviews with New York Times, AP (via Boston Globe) and the Los Angeles Times.

A new report that sheds light on the extent of state involvement with Ireland's Magdalene laundries ultimately will be remembered for whether the government responds with measures that bring justice, writes English Associate Professor James Smith, long-time advocate for the victims, in the Irish Times | He was interviewed by numerous news outlets about the report, including the New York Times 1 & 2 | BBC Radio 4 | BBC Radio 5 | Los Angeles Times | Irish Central | Scotsman | AP and Irish Times.

The advocacy group seeking justice for survivors of Ireland's Magdalen laundries, represented by English Associate Professor James Smith, has filed a report alleging widespread state involvement with the notorious workhouses. Irish Examiner | Irish Times | Belfast Telegraph | Time Magazine

Andrew Sofer

Published an article, “Spectral Readings,” in the current special issue of THEATRE JOURNAL on Theatre and Material Culture. Some of the material is drawn from his forthcoming book, Dark Matter: Invisibility in Drama, Theater, and Performance  (University of Michigan Press, 2013). On February 9, Andrew read from his poetry book WAVE for the Chapter and Verse Reading Series in Jamaica Plain.

Andrew will read from his poetry book WAVE on Friday, November 9 at 7:30 p.m. at the Loring-Greenough House (12 South Street, Jamaica Plain Center) as part of the Chapter and Verse Literary Reading Series. The other featured readers are Wendy Drexler and Aimee Sands.

Taught a two-week publication workshop for junior faculty at Harvard’s Mellon School for Theater and Performance Research (June 4-13). The summer session’s theme was “Theater and Philosophy.”

Composer Kevin Beavers’ setting of Andrew Sofer’s poem “Wandlebury Ring” was performed at the University of Indianapolis as part of its Faculty Artist Series (Guest Composer Concert) on April 16.

Featured reader at the Temple Sinai Poetry Festival in Brookline on February 12.

Served as a judge at Burlington High School’s “Poets Out Loud” poetry recitation finals on February 10, organized by BC alum Benjamin Lally (now head of English at BHS). Andrew also gave a guest poetry reading from his book WAVE.

Min Hyoung Song

Presented a talk entitled “Vermiculate Mystery: Genre and the Anagogic in Contemporary American Fiction” at the fourth annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Arts in the Present (ASAP) in London on October 4, 2012.

Gave a talk entitled "The Absolute Rule of That Which Is: Reflections on the Los Angeles Riots Twenty Years Later" at Pomona College in Claremont, California on Tuesday, April 24. He also presented a talk entitled "Rodney King, Redux" at that Harvard Symposium "LA Riots: Twenty Years Later" on Saturday, April 28.

Chair and respondent of a working papers sessions entitled "Situation Asian American Critique: The Poetics of Resistance in Place" at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies, April 11-13, in Washington, D.C. He also acted as a respondent on a panel entitled "Eating, Elections, and Exclusion: A Century of Asian American Transnational Politics in History and Literature, 1911-2011."

Published an interview with Maxine Hong Kingston in the Asian American Literary Review 3:1 (Spring 2012).

Gave a talk entitled "'Soylent Green Is Made of People: The Importance of Laughing at Disgusting Food" at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference on Friday, March 23.

Presented a chapter from his book manuscript "The Children of 1965: On Writing and Not Writing as an Asian American" at the University of Connecticut, Storrs on Saturday, March 24. This was part of a workshop entitled "The State of Asian America."

Her article "Becoming Planetary" appeared in American Literary History 23.3.

Spoke on a panel entitled "Why Los Angeles Exploded: Perspectives on the Urban Upheavals from 20 Years Out" at Emerson College on Weds, February 29, 2012.

Was selected to be the next editor of the Journal of Asian American Studies for a two-year term, beginning at the start of 2012.

Robert Stanton

Presented a paper, "Mimicry, Subjectivity, and the Embodied Voice in Old English Animal Riddles" at a conference entitled "Voice and Voicelessness in Medieval Europe and Beyond" at Boston University.

Presented a paper entitled "Authority and Anxiety in Old English Biblical Translation" at a symposium on "Translating the Bible in the Middle Ages" at the Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University, on April 20.

Presented "Teaching Medieval Mystics to Catholic Undergraduates and Semi-Catholic Graduate Students" in a roundtable on "Medieval Studies in Catholic Universities" at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America in St Louis, MO on March 23.

Presented "“So hy contemplacyon and so meche dalyawns of owr Lord”: Direct Confession in Late-Medieval Sermons and The Book of Margery Kempe" at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, on July 13, 2011.

Laura Tanner

"Uncomfortable Furniture: Inhabiting Domestic and Narrative Space in Marilynne Robinson’s Home." Contemporary Women's Writing 7.1 (2013): 35-53.

Recently recorded an interview on 9/11 that is serving as the inaugural podcast for a new program at Brandeis called Literature Lab, which is designed to introduce the broader public to the work of literary scholars.

Her essay, "Holding On to September 11: The Shifting grounds of Materiality," appears in the January 2012 issue of PMLA.

Dennis Taylor

“Dante and Christian Mortalism: Where is the Resurrection in The Divine Comedy?”, Dante and the Poetry of Revelation Conference, Assumption College, Worcester, March 30, 2012.

“Protestant and Catholic Mortalism in Milton and Crashaw,” MLA Convention, Seattle, WA, January 7, 2012.

“From Stratford to Casterbridge: The Influence of Shakespeare,” in Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, ed. Rosemarie Morgan (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010), 123-56.

Lad Tobin

"Let the Bad Times Roll" has been reprinted in the current issue of Utne Reader; that essay, which was originally published in The Sun in August 2012, has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Presented a paper, "Narrative Transitions: Taking and Teaching the Reflective Turn," at AWP (The Conference of the Associated Writing Programs) in Chicago.

Elizabeth Kowalski Wallace

On November 3, Beth was an invited speaker at a symposium entitled "Bodies, Inc." at Texas A and M University. Her Talk was entitled "At Last Something Beautiful You Can Truly Possess: Thing Theory and the Female Body."

Chris Wilson

Fall WIP talk has now been published: "'He Fell Just Short of Being News': Gatsby's Tabloid Shadows," American Literature 84 (March 2012): 119-149.

"The Underwater Narrative: Joan Didion's Miami," Literary Journalism Studies 3 (Fall 2011): 9-29.

Wrote a review of Robert Redford's "The Conspirator" in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.

Judith Wilt

The BC Association of Retired Faculty has awarded Judith Wilt a $500 grant for developing and teaching the one-credit discussion based 8-week course "Fictions About Catholics."  

Her review of Audrey Jaffe's The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph and Tamara Wagner's Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction will be published in the May 2013 issue of Modern Philology.

Essay "Ernest in Town and Jacques in the Country: Wildean Perspectives on A Tale of Two Cities" will be published in the June 2013 issue of Dickens Quarterly.

Judith gave a paper July 14 at the Dickens Society symposium in Lowell Ma.: the title was "Ernest in Town and Jacques in the Country: Some Wildean Perspectives on A Tale of Two Cities."

Judith gave a paper July 14, 2012 at the Dickens Society symposium in Lowell Ma.: the title was "Ernest in Town and Jacques in the Country: Some Wildean Perspectives on A Tale of Two Cities."

Her essay “Unending: Acts of Retrieval in Pearl, Gilead, and The Year of Magical Thinking” was published this summer in Literature and Belief 31:1 (June 2011), 1-21.

Judith also gave a plenary paper, "Piratical Paradigms in Scott and Successors," at the Ninth Annual Walter Scott Conference at the University of Wyoming on July 9, 2011.