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George Grattan, Paula Mathieu, Staci Shultz and Tim Lindgren, eds. Writing Places: A Longman Topical Reader. New York: Pearson Longman Press, 2006.
Nikhil Gupta. Review: Postcolonial Dublin by Andrew Kincaid. New Hibernia Review. Vol.11, No. 1, Spring 2007.
Alisa Marko Iannucci. “"Summer of '69: Adirondack Murray and the American Wilderness Vacation." ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment 14 (2008). (forthcoming).
Alisa Marko Iannucci. "'Things less evident': Cosmopolitan Cooper." American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2007. Published Miscellaneous Papers James Fenimore Cooper Society, Summer 2007.
Alisa Marko Iannucci. "Cosmopolitan Culture: George Catlin's American-ness." Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone 18 (forthcoming).
Alisa Marko Iannucci. "'Things less evident': Cosmopolitan Cooper." American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2007. Published Miscellaneous Papers of the James Fenimore Cooper Society, Summer 2007.
Alisa Marko Iannucci. "Cosmopolitan Culture: George Catlin's American-ness." Cercles: Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Anglophone 18 (forthcoming).
Katherine Kellett. “Performance, Performativity, and Identity in Margaret Cavendish’s The Convent of Pleasure.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 48 (2008). (forthcoming).
Katherine Kellett. “The Ebb and Flow of Regret: Stevens’s Quest for Greatness in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day.” Time and Memory in Narrative. Ed. Karl Simms and Shilpa Venkatachalam (2007). (forthcoming).
Katherine Kellett. "The Lady’s Voice: Poetic Collaboration in Milton’s /Mask/." /Milton// Studies/ 50 (2010). (forthcoming).
Timothy Lindgren and Derek Owens. “From Site to Screen, From Screen to Site: Merging Place-Based Pedagogy with Web-Based Technology.” Locations of Composition. Ed. and Christopher J. Keller and Christian R. Weisser. Albany: State University of New York Press. forthcoming June 2007.
Timothy Lindgren. "Composition and Eco-Effective Design." Coming Into Contact: New Essays on Ecocritical Theory and Practice. Ed. Annie Merrill Ingram, Ian Marshall, Daniel J. Philippon, and Adam W. Sweeting. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Forthcoming February 2007.
Timothy Lindgren, Paula Mathieu, Staci Shultz and George Grattan, eds. Writing Places: A Longman Topical Reader. New York: Pearson Longman Press, 2006.
Catherine Michna. "A New New Urbanism for a New New Orleans." American Quarterly 58 (2006). (forthcoming).
Nicholas Parker. "Speech Patterns: Pincher Martin and Open Water Consume Us." Diegesis 9 (2006).
Thomas Simons. “Coleridge Beyond Kant and Hegel: Transcendent Aesthetics and the Dialectic Pentad.” Studies in Romanticism 45 (2006). (forthcoming).
Thomas Simons. “Prometheus and the Process of Individuation: A Jungian Reading of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound.” JUNG: The e-Journal of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies 2 (2006): 20pp.
http://www.thejungiansociety.org/Jung%20Society/e-journal/Volume-2/ Simons-2006.pdf
Nirmal Trivedi. "Life of the Image/Text: Reading the Sketches of the Civil War 'Specials'". Symposium on the 19th Century Press, the Civil War, and Free Expression—An annual conference on the 19th century media and free expression, Chattanooga, TN, November 2007. Awarded one of the best presentations of the conference.
Review of Gin Before Breakfast: The Dilemma of the Poet in the Newsroom. Published by Jhistory@h-net.msu.edu (forthcoming in January 2008).
Co-authored with Nick Parker.: "Myth-Making and Meaninglessness in Lady in the Water." Untitled book on the works of film-maker M. Night Shyamalan, to be published in 2007.
"Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms" (review). Journal for Asian American Studies. 10:1, 2007, pp. 110-113.
"Witnessing Empire: The U.S. and Anti-Colonial Imperialism." [Dis]United Empires: Interdisciplinary Conference on British and United States Imperialism, Kingston, Canada, May 2006.
Alice Waters. "Hoping for the Best, Imagining the Worst: Systopian Anxieties in Women's Pulp SF Stories, 1930-1948." Extrapolation (2009) (forthcoming).
Amy Witherbee. "Habeas Corpus: British Imaginations of Power in Walter Scott’s Old Mortality" in New Literary History 39.2 Spring 2008.
Recent Conference Presentations and Talks
Matthew Freedman. "Vision and Revision in King Lear.” Graduate Renaissance Conference, University of Massachusetts – Amherst, November 2006.
Gene Gorman, 3rd-yr. PhD student, presented "Bearing the Marks of Haste and Violence": Memory as history's fulcrum in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man at The First Conference of the Columbia Graduate Colloquium in 20th-Century Literature, "Twentieth-Century Literature and the Weight of History," on April 4, 2008. Gene's paper looks at the relationship between Ellison's novel and southern chain gangs in the early 20th century as well as the reemergence of this practice in corrections departments across the nation.
Gene Gorman. "Chaos in the Cacophany: Navigating the Urban Soundscape in Ann Petry's The Street." ‘Transitional Spaces and Places: Exploring Boundaries, Borders, and Intersections’ conference, Fordham University, October 2006.
George Grattan. "The (Nonprofit) Challenges to Sustainable Entrepreneurship," at Forum for Social Entrepreneurs 2007 Conference, Boston University School of Management, Boston, MA, November 2007.
George Grattan. "Urban Environmentalism, Environmental Justice, and the Future of American Environmental Action," invited presentation and guest teaching sessions at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 2007.
George Grattan. "The Urban Ecology Movement in the Context of Academic Ecocriticism," invited presentation to faculty and students at Monroe County Community College, Rochester, NY, February 2007.
George Grattan. "Using Place-Based Writing in the College Composition Classroom," invited workshop with faculty at Monroe County Community College, Rochester, NY, February 2007.
Nikhil Gupta. "Aesthetic Hospitality and the Colonial Other in Joyce and Synge." Presented at the New England American Conference for Irish Studies, Boston, MA, November 2007.
Nikhil Gupta. "Manifest Problems with Destiny: Gothic Interruptions to National Narratives in Bret Harte’s Gabriel Conroy and James Joyce’s ‘The Dead.’" Presented at the North American James Joyce Conference, Austin, TX, June 2007.
Nikhil Gupta. "Sinking Nations: Joyce’s Trans-Atlantic Recuperation of Ireland." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, New York, NY, April 2007.
Nikhil Gupta. "‘No man can face the past’: Reincarnation as Feminist Historical Understanding in Eva Gore-Booth’s The Buried Life of Deirdre." Presented at the American Conference for Irish Studies, St. Louis, MO, April 2006.
Alisa Marko Iannucci. "Wislawa Szymborska: The Blessings of Not Knowing." Gloucester Country College Poetry Center, Sewell, NJ, October 2006.
Alisa Marko Iannucci. "Transatlantic Race Negotiation: Phillis Wheatley and Samson Occom." New England American Studies Association Conference, Portland, ME, September 2006.
Alisa Marko Iannucci. "Foreigners, Chaos and Culture in Charles Brockden Brown." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Montreal, March 2006.
Katherine Kellett. “Blazing Bodies: Corporeality in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World." Graduate Renaissance Conference, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, November 2006.
Katherine Kellett. “The Lady’s Voice: Invocation and Poetic Collaboration in Milton’s Mask.” Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Francisco, March 2006.
Catherine Michna. "Hurricane Ignatius: The Carnival Economy and the Flatulent Body in A Confederacy of Dunces." ." ‘Transitional Spaces and Places: Exploring Boundaries, Borders, and Intersections’ conference, Fordham University, October 2006.
Catherine Michna. “From Gilded Cage to Pigeonierre: Race, Sexuality, and Architecture in The Awakening.” New England American Studies Association Conference, Portland, ME, September 2006.
Catherine Michna. "From Gilded Cage to Pigeonniere: Race, Sexuality, and Architecture in Kate Chopin's The Awakening." American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2006.
Patrick Moran. "Redefining Conrad's 'Utopian Vocation of Style'." Modernist Studies Association Conference, Tulsa, October 2006.
Patrick Moran. “The Book of Kells and Modalities of the Visible in Joyce.” Invited talk at Wentworth Institute of Technology, October 2006.
Dathalinn O'Dea. "The Politics of Political Criticism, or Why Seamus Deane Doesn’t Like Yeats," Brown University Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference ("Intellectuals and the Academy in Public Life"), Providence, 2007.
Dathalinn O'Dea. "Staging the Nation: W.B. Yeats and Theatre as the Third Space," Trinity College ("Irish Modernism"), Dublin, 2007.
Dathalinn O'Dea. "Sensational Subversion in 'The Colleen Bawn': Boucicault and the Politics of Melodrama," NEACIS Meeting 2007 ("The Parish and the Universe"), University of Massachusetts Boston, 10 November 2007.
Nicholas Parker. Chaired a panel on “British Border Crossings: Boundaries of Nation and Empire” and read “Hunting for Boundaries in London Labour and the London Poor.”Midwest Modern Language Association, Chicago, November 2006.
Jamin Rowan. "Hating 'Bunk' and Being 'Human': Placing Rachel Carson's Ecology in _The New Yorker_" as part of the Division on Literature and Science's "Feeling Science." MLA Conference, Chicago, 2007.
Jamin Rowan. "Stephen Crane and Methodism's Connectionalism." American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 2006.
Jamin Rowan. "Hating ‘Bunk’ and Being ‘Human’: Placing Rachel Carson’s Ecology in The New Yorker." Modern Language Association Annual Conference, Chicago, December, 2007.
Jamin Rowan. "The Nature of Diversity: Jane Jacobs’s Urban Ecology." American Studies Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, October 12, 2007.
David Tennant. “The ‘Why and How’ of Poetic Invention: A Cognitive Approach to Sidney’s Defence of Poesie.” Literature and Cognitive Science Conference, University of Connecticut, April 2006.
Beth Tressler. "Black Hole Sun: Negativity and Melancholia in Jane Campion's The Piano and In the Cut." Literature and Psychoanalysis Conference, Berkeley, March 2006.
Rebecca Troeger. “The Performance of Culture: J. M. Synge and Zora Neale Hurston as Ethnographers.” First Galway Conference in Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway, June 2006.
Rebecca Troeger. “’Identity In Difference’: MacNeice’s W. B. Yeats.” National American Conference on Irish Studies, University of Missouri – St. Louis, April 2006.
Rebecca Troeger. “’Heightened by Song’: The Musical Sublime In The Wild Irish Girl.” Southern Regional American Conference on Irish Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia, February 2006.
Alison Van Vort. "An Outsider's Perspective in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Furs.” ‘Transitional Spaces and Places: Exploring Boundaries, Borders, and Intersections’ conference, Fordham University, October 2006.
Alison Van Vort . "Regional Ecology, Empathy, and Economy in Jewett’s The Country of the Pointed Firs." Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Conference, Spartanburg, South Carolina, June 2007.
Alice Waters. "Hoping for the Best, Imagining the Worst: Dystopian Anxieties in Women's Pulp SF Stories, 1930-1948." Science Fiction Research Association Conference, Kansas City, Missouri. July 2007.
Amy Witherbee. Chaired a panel on "Playing with Boundaries: 18th-Century English Theater” and read "Cato's Haste: Time and History in Addison's Drama.” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, Salem, MA, November 2006.
Other
Matthew Heitzman. Donald J. White Award for Teaching Excellence (2007).
Amy Witherbee. Donald J. White Award for Teaching Excellence (2007).
Alisa Marko Iannucci is on the New England American Studies Association council as a graduate student representative and conference committee member.
Jamin Rowan was awarded the Summer Teaching Fellowship by Brigham Young University for 2006.
Amy Witherbee was awarded the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Teaching Award and Scholarship for innovative course design, for ‘Rakes, Harlots, and Gin Alley: The Visual Eighteenth Century’, which she is teaching in fall 2006. She was given the award at the 2006 ASECS conference in Montreal. |
