Graduate student news

Under the guidance of Elizabeth Fowler, the Department’s Graduate Placement Director, our students have enjoyed considerable success on the grueling academic job market. Here is a list of positions our students have accepted in the last year.

Assistant Professorships Accepted:

Elizabeth Fowler, Postcolonial and Colonial Anglophone Literature, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Winnie Chan, Postcolonial Literature, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Robin Field, Twentieth-Century Literature, Kings College, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Paul Gaffney, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Hiram College, Hiram, OH

Justin Gifford, American Literature, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
Tiffany Gilbert, American Literature and Film, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC

Faith Elizabeth Gray, Victorian Poetry, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Jill Ingram, Renaissance Literature, Ohio University, Athens, OH
Marianne Montgomery, Renaissance Drama, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Heather Morton, Victorian Literature, Centre College, Danville KY
Brenna Munro, Gay and Lesbian Studies, African and Postcolonial Literature, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Jill Rappoport, Victorian Literature and Culture, Villanova University, Villanova, PA

Jolie Sheffer, Twentieth-Century and Multi-Ethnic American Literature, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

Lauryl Tucker, Twentieth-Century Literature, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY
Mont Welch, American Literature and Africana Studies, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Faculty Positions at Secondary Schools Accepted:

Samara Landers, Medieval Literature, Morristown-Beard School, Morristown, New Jersey

Visiting and Postdoctoral Positions Accepted:

Katherine Bootle Attie, Renaissance Literature, Adjunct Instructor, Georgetown University, Washington DC

Sigrid Anderson Cordell, Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literature, Preceptor, Expository Writing Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Carter Hailey, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Visiting Assistant Professor, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA

Wesley Raabe, Council on Library and Information Resources Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

Kim Shirkhani, Modern British Literature, Lecturer, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Chloe Wigston Smith, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Two-Year Visiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

Tim Stinson, Council on Library and Information Resources Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

Maura Tarnoff, Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Visiting Instructor, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

News from our current graduate students:

Peter Capuano’s essay, “An Objective Aural Relative in Middlemarch” will be coming out in the Autumn 2007 issue of Studies in English Literature.

Jennifer Chang recently received a $3,500 award from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and earlier this year she won a residency fellowship to the Yaddo artist’s community in New York.

Shaun Cullen delivered a paper, “Envisioning Childhood Sexual Abuse in Gregg Araki’s ‘Mysterious Skin,’” at the Midwest Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference in Indianapolis in October 2006, and a section of his MA thesis, “What Was He Thinking? Populism, Paranoia, and Politics in Michael Moore’s ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’” at the 2006 Film & History Conference: The Documentary Tradition, held in Dallas in November 2006.

Tim Duffy had a paper accepted by the John Donne Society Panel at the ICMS Conference in Kalamazoo in May 2007. The title is “‘Rob mee, but binde me not’: John Donne and the Submissive Stance.”

Steven Knepper’s essay “Frank Stanford” is forthcoming in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 9: Literature, to be published in 2007 by the University of North Carolina Press. His essay “Shoot Quick, and Slow: Southern Sporting Values, Mastery, and Language in Faulkner’s Go Down, Moses,” published in Studies in American Culture in 2006, was nominated for Jerome Stern Best Essay Award.

Morgan Myers presented a paper entitled “The Modernist Prometheus: Citation and Re-Citation in the Cantos” at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Tulsa this October.

Amanda Sigler will be presenting two papers at the Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia in December 2006: “The Art of Performance: Trauma and Ritual in Marvell’s An Horatian Ode,” and “Corrupted Words and Worlds: The Circulation of Errors in Ulysses.” She also delivered “Joyce’s Lust for the Accidental: Unexpected Joycean Unions in the Gabler-Kidd Debates,” at the 20th International James Joyce Symposium, held in Budapest, Hungary, in June 2006.

Melissa White’s essay “Letter to the Light: Discoveries in Dickinson’s Correspondence” has been accepted for publication by the Emily Dickinson Journal, and will appear next year.