Student News
2025
Andrew Petracca published a short story, "On the Blade," in Maudlin House.
Cassidy Allen published a book review of "The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney" by Angelo Bollas In New Hibernia Review.
Noël Ingram published "Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with 'AI Tracks' and Rethinking Student AI Agency" in Unmaking the Grade.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Margaret Ross’s Saturday in The Brooklyn Rail.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Mary Helen Callier’s When the Horses in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Leah Flax Barber’s The Mirror of Simple Souls in the Harvard Review.
Kelly Gray published the short story "Chatroulette" in Cleveland Review of Books.
Aidan Vick published a review of Adam Parkes' Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege in Modernism/modernity.
Ophelia Wang published a review of Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community by William Gow in the Journal of Tourism History.
Ophelia Wang presented "From Orientalism to Self-Definition: Blackpink Lisa’s “Rockstar” and the Cultural Politics of Chinatown" at Association for Asian American Studies 2025 Annual Conference in Boston, MA.
2024
Robert Baskin published a review of Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century by Kate Marshall in Contemporary LIterature.
Robert Baskin published a review of Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983 and Notes on the Cinematograph by Robert Bresson, The Cleveland Review of Books.
Noël Ingram published "Using Zines to Teach Literary Analysis in a Post ChatGPT World" in Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice.
Kelley Glasgow published a book review of “Shakespeare’s Golden Ages” in Sixteenth Century Journal.
Justin Brown-Ramsey published "Propagandistic Peers: The Shared Projects of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy, and Early American Periodicals" in the James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal.
Justin Brown-Ramsey published a review of The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830–1860, by Katie McGettigan, in Textual Cultures.
Johnny Murray published the final installment of his seven-volume illustrated novel Ripponlea (Unlock the Clockcase, 2021-24)
2023
Andrew Petracca published a review of The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism, by S. Pearl Brilmyer, in the Victorian Institutes Journal, vol. 50.
Johanna Alden published “Dramatic Spectacle in LaƷamon: The Brut 's Direct Speeches, Aestheticized Violence, and Gendered Historical Reenactments” in Arthuriana (Dallas, Tex.) 33, no. 4
Johanna Alden published a review of The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800–c.1500 ed. by Philippa Turner and Jane Hawkes in the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures.
Kelly Gray published the article "Communal Ruination and Collaborative Survival: The Third Nature of Urban Heat Islands in Do The Right Thing and In The Heights" in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.
Jo Mikula published a review of Queer Kinship After Wilde by Kristin Mahoney in Victorians Institute Journal.
2022
Cassidy Allen published a book review of Post–Celtic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings ed. by Claire Bracken and Tara Harney-Mahajan in New Hibernia Review.
Julia Woodward published “A Material Stratum: Black Bodies and Environmental Exploitation in Edward P. Jones’ The Known World.” in The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal.
2025
Robert Baskin presented "The 'Unreal City' as Weird Palimpsest: Spaces on the Edge of the Colonial Imaginary in Eliot, Conrad, and Machen" at the Modernist Studies Association in Boston.
Robert Baskin presented "Weird Noir in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest: or The Weird Beyond Horror" at Northeast Modern Language Association in Philadelphia.
Cassidy Allen presented, “Technology and Intimacy in Contemporary Irish Literature” at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature 2025 in Galway (IASIL).
Noël Ingram presented at Feminisms and Rhetorics in Durham, NH, “Disruption as Care: Feminist, Decolonial, and Queer Interventions in Archival Praxis.”
Noël Ingram presented "GenAI Literacy" at the AI & Writing Symposium at Babson College.
Kelley Glasgow presented "“Erotic Histories in Antony and Cleopatra” at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Boston, MA.
Julia Woodward moderated a panel discussion titled “Identity Making and Displacing the Dominant Didactic” at the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality Conference: ‘Liberatory Practices for Worlds in Crisis’ at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Benjamin Paul organized the roundtable “The Pedagogical Stakes of an Expanded Modernism” at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Boston.
Johanna Alden presented “My Own People Would Not Recognize Me: The Abbot of Druimenaig, Social Relations, and Discursively Constructed Genders” at the Early Modern Trans Studies' Premodern Trans Conference
Teddy Lehre presented "Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Death Drive" at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Savannah, Georgia.
Teddy Lehre gave a talk entitled "Oscar Wilde at 171" for the Introcaso Center for Lifelong Learning at La Roche University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Aidan Vick presented “Scouring the Endless Archive: Alternative Reality Games, Textual Openness and Hermeneutic Play” at NeMLA in Philadelphia.
Aidan Vick presented “‘The Conspiracy of Silence’: Discursive Repression and Self-Discovery in The Well of Loneliness" at the Boston College Graduate Colloquium.
Justin Brown-Ramsey presented "Fusing Literacies: William Grimes, Narrative, and the Alphabetic and Non-Alphabetic Text" at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference in New Orleans.
Jess Oyler presented “O’Brien’s Other Country Girl: Reimagining the ‘X Case’ in Down by the River” Comhfhios: Hibernia Beyond Humans. Boston, MA: March 2025.
Jess Oyler presented "Cold Confinement: Mapping Housing Insecurity onto Judith Hearne's Belfast" American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Conference: Transnational Ireland. North Adams, MA
Jo Mikula presented "Rural Rides: Decoupling Population and Productivity in the Work of William Cobbett" at Northeast Modern Language Association in Philadelphia
2024
Robert Baskin presented "Non Serviam: Ghosts, Parents, and Traces in Joyce and Shakespeare" at the Boston College Graduate Student Colloquium.
Andrew Petracca presented “Charles Dickens’s American Connections: A Rare Book Display” at the North American Victorian Studies Association EVENT 2024.
Andrew Petracca presented “Caricature, Character, and the Challenge of Narrating Multiculturalism in Pnin and Season of Migration to the North” at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Boston, MA.
Andrew Petracca chaired the Lingering Modernisms (Part 2) panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Boston.
Cassidy Allen presented “Sally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches.” at the New England American Conference for Irish Studies (NeACIS) in New York.
Cassidy Allen presented “‘Rewriting’ the Contemporary Irish Women’s Novel.” at the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Limerick.
Noël Ingram presented "Cultivating a Purposeful Approach to AI?" at the North East Regional Computing Program's "Unlocking the Power of Generative AI in Higher Ed" at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.
Noël Ingram presented “Boosting Student Agency: Digital Bading as a Form of Alternative Assessment" at The Grading Conference.
Julia Woodward presented “Multiple Multiplicities: Créolité and Cultural Crossroads in Caribbean Fiction” at New England American Studies Association Conference: ‘Revisiting Region: Locating the ‘Where’ in American Studies’ at Harvard University.
Benjamin Paul organized the seminar “Thinking Modern Epic” and presented a paper, “Infinite Rehearsal: Cyclical Time in the Critical Epics of Wilson Harris & Suzan-Lori Parks,” at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montreal.
Benjamin Paul presented “H. D.’s Late Poems: Towards an Inward Epic” at The Modernist Long Poem and its Discontents conference in Paris.
Johanna Alden presented "“Aglæcan and Entan: Monstrous Taxonomies in Beowulf” at the International Congress of Medieval Studies
Teddy Lehre presented "Motherhood and the Constitutional Pedestal" at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Limerick, Ireland.
Johnny Murray presented “Strange Turns: Transformations of the Weird” at The 17th International Gothic Association Conference in Halifax, Canada
Johnny Murray participated in a roundtable discussion titled “Holding Up the Mirror: The Political Monster" at The 2024 Boston College English Graduate Colloquium.
Jess Oyler presented “Malignant Marginality: Medical Spaces & Genre in The God Squad and Unsettled.” American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Conference: Ireland at Risk. New York, NY: October 2024.
Jo Mikula presented "Cosmopolitan Domesticity: Recovering the Travels of Lady Isabel Burton" at the British Women's Writers Conference in Boulder, Colorado
Ophelia Wang presented " Embracing Transnationality in K-pop: Chinatown’s Dynamic Symbolism in Blackpink Lisa’s “Rockstar” at BTAA/Midwest Korean Studies Conference in Bloomington, Indiana.
Ophelia Wang presented "Un-touring SF Chinatown: A VR Demo course at the Virtual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.
Abigail Tetzlaff curated an archival exhibit, "London at the Burns: Navigating the Streets" that was shown at the NAVSA Conference
2023
Cassidy Allen presented “Feminist Interventions: Legitimizing Irish Women Writers.” at NeACIS in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Andrew Petracca presented “‘His mouth was such a post-office’: Appreciating Figurative Drift in Great Expectations” at the Northeast Modern Language Association in Niagara Falls, NY
Noël Ingram presented “The Radical Feminist Imaginary of MadWoman #5: Feminist Zines, Materiality, and Politicized Community Building" at the Conference on Community Writing 2023: Activating Radical Imagination in Denver, CO.
Noël Ingram presented “Hybrid Identities and Classrooms: Using Google Sites to Position Students as Co-Constructors of Knowledge in the First-Year Composition Classroom" at Computers and Writing 2023: To What End? Hybrid Practices for Engagement and Equity in Davis, CA.
Noël Ingram presented “Co-Construction of Knowledge: Relational Composition in Public(s) with AI, Students, and Educators in the Composition Classroom" at the Computers & Writing Graduate Research Network (GRN) in Davis, CA.
Noël Ingram presented “Bots in the Classroom: AI Pedagogies, Building Community, and Compositional Ethics” at Engaging Practices 2023: Writing in Public(s): Composition, Connection, and Global Citizenship in Boston, MA.
Noël Ingram presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL, “Handcrafted Rhetorics: DIY and the Public Power of Made Things.”
Noël Ingram presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL, “Making Hope: Handcrafted Rhetorics as a Way to Encourage Invention, Reuse, and Resistance in Composing Communities.”
Kelley Glasgow presented “‘Cause and Most Accursed Affect’: Gendered Mourning in Richard III” at Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Boston, MA
Julia Woodward presented “Interdisciplinarity and the Graduate Student Experience”, The Quiet Corner Graduate Conference at the University of Connecticut.
Benjamin Paul presented “Marvelous Incommensurability: The Haitian Revolution and Aesthetic Modernity in Alejo Carpentier and John Keene” at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Chicago.
Teddy Lehre presented "Mother(land)hood," a paper and digital humanities project at the New England/Mid-Atlantic regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Boston
Justin Brown-Ramsey presented "Propagandistic Peers: The Shared Projects of James Fenimore Cooper’s The Spy, and Early American Periodicals" at the American Literary Association conference in Boston.
2022
Cassidy Allen presented "The Sally Rooney Problem: Irish Women Writers in the Media.” Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference (NeMLA). Baltimore, 10th-13th March, 2022.
Cassidy Allen presented Minimalist Millennials: Sanctimony Literature and Sally Rooney.” WGGS Featured Roundtable. American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). Virtual, 2022.
Kelley Glasgow presented "‘A Shadow without Substance”: The Politics of Affect in Elizabeth Cary’s Edward II” at Feeling Form/Forming Feeling?: Dialectics of Affect and Form in Anglophone Women’s Writing, 1550-1800 in Ghent, Belgium
Johanna Alden presented “On the Inner Worlds, Agencies, and Ecologies of Bulls and Fairies” at the New England Medieval Consortium's Ecologies Conference
2025
Robert Baskin was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence award.
Cassidy Allen was selected as the Queens University Belfast Irish Studies exchange fellow.
Teddy Lehre was awarded a full scholarship by the University of Notre Dame to attend Imagallamh: the Kylemore Summer School in Irish Studies in Connemara, Ireland and Paris, France.
Kelly Gray's short story "The Knight's Understudy" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Burial Magazine.
Aidan Vick received the Boston College Von Hendy Prize for the best graduate essay in English.
Justin Brown-Ramsey was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award from Boston College.
Abigail Tetzlaff was awarded to Donald J. White Teaching Excellence award.
Justin Brown-Ramsey was selected as a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society's Early Career Scholar Committee Mentorship Program (ECSCMP).
2024
Cassidy Allen was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.
Noël Ingram was awarded the 2024 Kiara Kharpertain Award.
Kelley Glasgow received the Maddock Research Fellowship from Marsh’s Library in Dublin, Ireland
Julia Woodward received the Clough Research Fellowship through the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College
Justin Brown-Ramsey was selected to attend the “A History of the Indigenous Book in the Americas" seminar, at the Newberry Library, in Chicago, by the Rare Book School.
Johanna Alden was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Award
Justin Brown-Ramsey was awarded an Institute of Liberal Arts Minor Grant ($2,500), for my “Print as Pedagogy: Hands-on Learning for College Classrooms" project from Boston College.
2023
Kelly Gray was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching.
2022
Julia Woodward received the Von Hendy Award for Graduate Writing for her essay “Who Watches the Watchers?: Unearthing the Tulsa Race Massacre in HBO’s Watchmen.”
Julia Woodward received the Donald White Graduate Teaching Award.
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. The current directors of the pedagogy seminar are Noël Ingram and Kelly Gray.