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Announcements and Ongoing Events
The Graduate Colloquium
This joint M.A.-Ph.D. program sponsors lectures and gatherings throughout the academic year. In recent years, the Colloquium has taken the form of thematic evenings, each with a keynote lectures by one faculty member and then papers delivered and responded to by our graduate students. Contact colloquium organizers.
Ph.D. students in their third and fourth years also participate in a pedagogy seminar. All students are welcome. Pedagogy seminars occur periodically.
Recent Student Activities and Accomplishments
We like to keep a running list of recent accomplishments by students in our program. If you have something to contribute please email Tracy Downing.
Requests for applications to the doctoral program should be sent to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Doctoral Student News
Articles, Books, Book Chapters, Creative Works
Atwood, Emma. Emma's article "Fashionably Late: Queer Temporality and the Restoration Fop" appears in the spring 2013 issue of Comparative Drama 47.1.
Atwood, Emma. Her 10-minute play, a comical look at the backstage shenanigans at a college production of Hamlet called "Something is Rotten," was performed by the After Hours theater company at BC as part of Spring 2013 ArtsFest.
Atwood, Emma. “‘All Places Are Alike’: Marlowe’s Edward II and English Spatial Imagination” appears in the Winter 2013 issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43.1
Atwood, Emma. Her original 10-minute play titled "Putting on a Wedding Dress" was fully produced by the After Hours student theater company at Boston College in November 2012.
Atwood, Emma. 'Will Fisher, Materializing Gender in Early Modern English Literature and Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006)'. Early Theatre 14.1 (2011): 152-5 (paper). Article 10.
Kuhn, Andrew. “Ciaran Carson’s Books: A Bibliographic Mapping of Belfast.” Eire-Ireland 45.1-2 (2010).
Puente, Lorenzo Alexander. "Dictee as Testimony." In Prowess and Grace: A Festschrift for Edna Zapanta Manlapaz. Ed. Maria Luz Vilches, Rica Bolipata-Santos and Ana Marie Fernandez. Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2010. 50-61.
Shakespeare, Alex. essay "Reading Hemingway's Baudelaire" was published in the Fall 2012 issue of Literary Imagination.
Tressler, Beth, gave a paper entitled "Intrepid Wandering: Ecstatic States and the Network of Interiority in Charlotte Brontë" at the 2012 North American Victorian Studies Association in Madison, Wisconsin.
Tressler, Beth. "Waking Dreams: George Eliot and the Poetics of Double Consciousness." Victorian Literature and Culture. 39.2 (September 2011): 483-498.
Recent Conference Presentations and Talks
Emma Atwood “‘The Fashion of Woman’s Belly’: Staging Early Modern Pregnancy, 1590-1630,” delivered at the Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies, October 2012.
Rowena Clarke, "The City of Whose Dreams? Modernization and Redevelopment as a Nightmare of Control in Alex Proyas' 'Dark City'" at the NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) conference in Rochester, March 2012.
Matthew Heitzman presented a paper entitled ""A Long and Constant Fusion of the Two Great Nations': Dickens, the Crossing, and A Tale of Two Cities" at the international conference "Dickens and the Idea of 'The Dickensian" in Condette, France on February 5, 2012.
Katherine Kim presented at NeMLA for the "Remembering and Recreating the Self in 19th- and 20th-Century Fiction" panel.
Andrew Kuhn and Dathalinn O'Dea, Worcester's 17th Annual "Bloomsday Celebration." June 4, 2012.
Linda Martin, "“The Dark Places of Psychology: Consciousness Theory in The Waves" at the Cognitive Approaches to Literature panel at the NeMLA annual convention in Rochester, NY, held March 15-18, 2012.
Alice Waters, “Englishing” Utopia in London: Translation and print in the sixteenth century." MLA Annual Convention, Boston, January 2013. Translation Discussion group panel, "Materialities of Translation."
Other News
Emma Atwood was awarded the Betty Jo Hudson Graduate Fellowship from Alpha Lambda Delta for the 2012-13 academic year.
Emma Atwood was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for 2011-2012.
Emma Atwood was awarded a graduate student travel grant for the 2011 NeMLA conference in New Brunswick, N.J.
Alyssa Bellows was awarded the 2013 Andrew Von Hendy Prize for Graduate Writing at Boston College for her essay "Story-Making Minds: Mary Garth as Fictional Representation of Realism in Middlemarch."
Alison Cotti-Lowell was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for 2012-2013.
Alison Cotti-Lowell was awarded the 2012 Andrew Von Hendy Prize for Graduate Writing at Boston College for her essay "Narrating Through Comics in Patrick McCabe's The Butcher Boy."
Kaitie Daily-Bruckner was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for 2011-2012.
Irene Ruiz Dacal was awarded the Ph.D. Program Director's Service award for 2012-2013.
Matthew Heitzman was awarded the Ph.D. Program Director's Service Award for 2011-2012.
Kiara Kharpertian was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for 2012-2013.
Alex Puente received a Graduate Scholar Award and presented a paper, "The Disneyfication of the Philippines in Hagedorn's 'Dogeaters' and 'Dream Jungle,'" at the Spaces & Flows: Third International Conference on Urban and Extraurban Studies held at Wayne State University, Detroit, 11-12, October 2012.
Alex Puente was awarded the 2012 Andrew Von Hendy Prize for Graduate Writing for his essay "Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley and the Philippine-American War at the Turn of the Twentieth Century."
Scott Reznick was awarded the 2013 Andrew Von Hendy Prize for Graduate Writing at Boston College for his essay "The Poetics of 'Unaccountable' Minds: Theory of Mind in "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street.'"