Graduate Student News

Gail Aw was admitted, with grants-in-aid, to the Folger Institute’s year-long seminar on “Researching the Archives.”

Ileana Baird will present the paper “Reading the Visual: the Dunciad Illustrations and the ‘Thistles’ of Satire” at the 40th Annual Conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to be held in Richmond, VA in March 2009.

Peter Capuano has an article entitled “(In)Visible Manipulation in Vanity Fair” coming out in the Winter 2008 volume of Victorians Institute Journal.

Jennifer Chang was the Walton Visiting Poet at the University of Arkansas’s MFA Program for Fall 2008. She was recently awarded a fellowship to The MacDowell Colony for the spring.

PC Fleming will present a paper, “William Fulford’s Magazine,” at the Modern Language Association annual convention in December, as part of a panel sponsored by the William Morris Society.

Paul Fyfe’s essay, “The Random Selection of Victorian New Media” is this year’s winner of the Rosemary Van Arsdel Prize from the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals (RSVP). His essay “The Random Selection of Victorian New Media,” will be published in the spring 2009 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review.

Barbara Heritage’s article “The Shapes Jane Eyre Takes: Ephemeral Responses to the Book and Its Themes,” appeared in RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage in spring 2008. In March 2008, Heritage presented a paper entitled, “Coy 'Cranford’?: The Academic Reception of Macmillan's 1891 Edition” at the annual meeting of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. In October, she delivered a paper entitled “Collecting Litho Jam Jar Labels and Teaching Wood-Engraved Elephants: Rare Book School's Printing Surfaces Collection” at the American Printing History Association’s annual conference at Columbia University. Also in October, she contributed and printed in letterpress a poem for the Virginia Arts of the Book Center's new book on Frankenstein, forthcoming in November 2008.

Z'étoile Imma’s essay “Under Western Eyes: The Gaze and African Woman Body in Ousmane Sembène's Moolaadé” has been accepted for publication in the inaugural issue of Visions: A Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies. This paper was previously presented at the African Studies Association Meeting last year.

Sarah Ingle delivered a paper entitled “‘Back from Recollection’s Vaults’: Disney’s Huck Finn and the Ritual of Forgetting” at the American Literature Association Conference in May.

Jennifer Middlesworth presented her paper “Cinematic Eugenic Desire: Disability and Masculine Sexuality in Contemporary American Film” at the 2008 Biennial Film and History Conference in Chicago.

Rosemary Millar presented a paper entitled “An Oven and a Cellar Floor: Keeping it Practically Sacred in Toni Morrison’s Paradise” at the GSAS Conference on March 14th 2008. She is also the recipient of a two-year Pre-Doctoral Fellowship from the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia.

Eric Nunn’s article, “Don’t Play No Blues: Race, Music, and Mourning in Faulkner’s Sanctuary” is forthcoming in the next issue of The Faulkner Journal. Last summer, he was a Formby Fellow at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University.

Jon Readey’s article “Evaluating ‘Value’: Art and the Exploration of Aesthetic, Economic, and Cultural Value in The Outcry” will be published in the forthcoming issue of The Henry James Review (Fall 2008).

Amanda Sigler presented a paper entitled “Letters to the Editor: First Readers’ Responses to *Ulysses*” at the 21st International James Joyce Symposium, in Tours, France in June 2008. She also spoke on “Archival Errors” at the International Zürich James Joyce Foundation Workshop in Switzerland in August 2008. Her article, “Crossing Folkloric Bridges: The Cat, the Devil, and Joyce,” is forthcoming in the James Joyce Quarterly.

Mark Wagenaar’s poem ‘Revenant’ was the 2009 winner of the University of Mississippi's Yellowwood Poetry Prize, and will be published in the Yalobusha Review. A second poem, ‘Lines for a Thirtieth Birthday,’ was also a finalist and will be published as well. His poem ‘Virga’ was recently selected for publication in the North American Review, and his poem ‘Lamentation’ was a finalist in Nimrod International's Poetry
Prize.

Kenny Williams has poems forthcoming in Lake Effect, EPOCH and Stand. Other recent work can be found in Barrow St., Verse, Fence, Mudfish, The Wallace Stevens Journal and Sonora Review.