GRADUATE STUDENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS, 2007-08

Jonathan Buehl: Assistant Professor, the Ohio State University

Lara Crowley: Tenure track professorship Texas Tech University

Wendy Hayden: Hunter College-CUNY

Michelle Brown: "The Scream Somehow Echoing:' Trauma and Testimony in African Literature" (plans to defend this summer)

Jonathan Buehl: "Instrument to Evidence to Argument: Visual Mediation of Invisible Phenomena in Scientific Discourse"

David Coley: "The Wheel of Language: Representing Speech in Middle English Narrative, 1377-1422"

Lara Crowley: "Manuscript Context and Literary Interpretation: John Donne's Poetry in Seventeenth-Century England" (2007)

Dwan Simmons

Ariana Austin: "Fantastic Voyage: Andrea Lee's Interesting Women Tour the Imperial Gaze."

Ishai Barnoy: MFA thesis entitled "Directions to my House"

Michelle Boswell: "Mathematical Poetics, Poetical Mathematics"  

Robert Bowman: "Black Rooms, White Walls: Julia Peterkin's Fictions of Segregation"

Brooke Bull: "The Feminine Palimpsest in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt."

Lindsay Calhoun: "Penetrating Paradise: Incest and Trauma in ‘the one all-black town worth the pain'"

Brian Gilbert: "Fettering Ignatius to Verse: Donne's Reckoning with the Spiritual Exercises in the Holy Sonnets."

Tamar Jacobs: MFA thesis entitled, "Time Alone

Tasos Lazarides: "I have beene a Miserable Practitioner in this Schoole of Warre:' Captain John Smith and Early Modern Military Discourse"

Jasmine Lellock: "‘Alexander's Sweat': Commodification in the Seventeenth Century Anatomy Texts and Country House Poems"

Becca McCary: "You Can't Stop There:" The Posthumous Publications of Gwendolyn Brooks"

Chinenye Okparanta: "Negotiating the Boundaries of Nation, Language, and Race in Edwidge Danticat's the Farming of Bones and Helen Oyeyemi's The Icarus Girl"

Molly Scanlon: A Comprehensive History of the First-Year Writing Program at the University of Maryland. She will graduate with a concentration in Composition and Rhetoric.

Sarah Sillin: "Learning Refinement: The Educations of Pamela and Anti-Pamela"

Nathaniel Underland: "Realism and the Ethics of Authorship in J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello"

Meghan Vesper: Her MFA thesis, a collection of poems, is entitled "Respite".

Corinne Viglietta: 'But Who Was Gerty?': Femininity, Modernity, and Consumer Subjectivity in the 'Nausicaa' Episode of Joyce's Ulysses"

Paige Wooden: "Bodying Public Truth(s): The Early Modern Public Sphere and Milton's Areopagitica"

Anna Bedford: Passed her first comp/qualifying exam, in the field of Women's Studies and Feminist Theory, and in February she passed her second comp. in Narrative Theory.

Heather Brown: Advanced to candidacy after successfully completing her oral competency exam

Damion Clark: Advanced to candidacy after successfully completing his exams in 20th century British Literature and LGBT Literature in April 2007

Mary Frances Jimenez: Advanced to candidacy after successfully completing qualifying exams in November

Dave Rettenmaier: Advanced to candidacy after successfully completing his qualifying exams this spring

Jennie Wellman: Advanced to candidacy after successfully completing qualifying exams in November

Publications 

Fernando Benevidez:

• Short story titled "The Hanging at Palmito Hill, 1908" in the Autumn 2007issue of The Fourth River magazine out of Chatham

Damion Clark:

• "Coming of Age Fiction." LGBTQ America Today. Ed. John C. Hawley. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2008. [forthcoming]

• "David Drake."Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States.

  Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2009. [forthcoming]

• "William M. Hoffman." Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2009. [forthcoming]

• "Adrian Stanford." Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2009. [forthcoming]

• "Preying on the Pervert: The Uses of Homosexual Panic in Bram Stoker's Dracula."

• Horrifying Sex: Essays on Sexual Difference in Gothic Literature. Ed. Ruth Bienstoc Anolik. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2007. 167-76.

Amber Cohen:

• The editor of the Baltimore-based poetry journal Smartish Pace contacted Amber to let her know that he has nominated her for inclusion in 2008 Best New Poets.Her poem "Hysterectomy," wonsecond place inSmartish Pace's Erskine J. Poetry Prizein 2007 and was published in Issue 14.Her poem "Hardscrabble"was also a finalist in that competition and published in the same issue. It is for "Hysterectomy" that she's received the nomination for BNP. Best New Poets is an annual anthologyof emerging writers. It is put out by Meridian, a literary journal associated with the University of Virginia's Creative Writing Program. While she won't know until June whether her poem will be selected for inclusion, the nomination itself is an honor.

 Willie Davis:

• Shortstory accepted by The Kenyon Review

Sharon Higby:

• Book review for the Sixteenth Century Society Journal: Patricia Fumerton, Unsettled: The Culture of Mobility and the Working Poor in Early Modern England

  (University of Chicago Press).

D. Seth Horton:

• New Stories from the Southwest, published by the University of Ohio Press

• Signed three-book deal with the University of Texas Press to relaunch the short story anthology series, Best of the West: Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri. The first book will come out in fall 2009.

• Two stories published and/or forthcoming: "Even With Cloth Over Our Mouths, We Breathe Hot, Salty Metal and it Smells like America" was published in 5_Trope, Volume 24 (March, 2008). "The Mentor" will appear in REAL, Volume 33.1 (Summer/Fall 2008).

Mary Frances Jimenez:

• Two forthcoming publications: "'Living Witness': An Interview with Cyrus Cassells" in African American Review and "'Labyrinthine Memories': Charles Chesnutt and Zitkala-Ša's Navigation of the Old and New in The Conjure WomanAmerican Indian Stories" in Loopholes and Retreats: African American Writers and the Nineteenth Century,eds. John Gruesser and HannaWallinger,to be published by Lit Verlag.

Amy Karp:

• Book review of Joining the Sisterhood: Young Jewish Women Write Their Lives published in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal

Adam Lloyd:

• "Bob Marley: Postcolonial Activist and (R)evolutionary Intellectual," has been accepted for publication in a collection to be put out by Cambridge Scholars Press (probably this coming fall).

Kelly McGovern:

• With Jennifer Wellman, "Joyce's Already Thereness and Other Observations from the 2007 Washington Area James Joyce Symposium." James Joyce Literary Supplement (Forthcoming: Spring 2008).

• Several short articles: "Mary Doyle Curran" ; "Colum McCann" ; "Medbh McGuckian" ; "Brian Moore" ; "Pat O'Connor" ; "Nuala O'Faolain." Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Eds. Philip Coleman, James Byrne, and Jason King. Oxford: ABC-CLIO, 2008. (Each approx. 500 words)

T.J. Moretti:

• The journal Renascence has accepted her essay, entitled "Misthinking the King: The Theatrics of Christian Piety in Henry VI, Part 3." The essay will appear in the Summer 2008 issue.

Marc Ruppel:

• "From First Person to Second Person". Literary and Linguistic Computing, doi:10.1093/llc/fqn006

• "You Are Then, This is Now: Nostalgia, Technology and Consumer Identity at CES 2007". Accepted for publication. Journal of Social Identities, Forthcoming 2009.

Heidi Scott:

• "I cannot heave my heart into my mouth': Stephen Jay Gould and Ecocriticism." Culture, Environment, and Ecopolitics. David Wragg and Nick Heffernan, eds. Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming, 2008.

• "Such Prohibitions Bind Not': Molly Bloom looking back on the Garden." Hypermedia Joyce Studies (HJS). Vol 9, no. 1, 2008 (13 pp.).

• "Gwendolyn Brooks's Sonnets." The Explicator. Fall 2007, 66 (1), p. 37-42.

Kate Singer:

• Article forthcoming in Studies on Romanticism entitled " Stoned Shelley: Revolutionary Tactics and Women under the Influence"

Jennie Wellman:

• With Kelly McGovern, "Joyce's Already Thereness and Other Observations from the 2007 Washington Area James Joyce Symposium." James Joyce Literary Supplement (Forthcoming: Spring 2008).

Kate Barker: Cosmos Scholar and grant recipient by the Cosmos Club Foundation, ARHU Graduate Student Travel Award

Michelle Boswell: Received one of the department's CTE distinguished teaching assistant awards.

Jonathan Buehl: Dissertation Research Award for Spring 2008, ARHU Travel Award for "The Promise of Reason Conference: The New Rhetoric after 50 years"

David Coley: Departmental research grant for the spring 2008 semester

Tim Crowley: 2007 Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for a Distinguished Essay on Christopher Marlowe, The King's School, Canterbury (for "Arms and the Boy: Marlowe's Aeneas and the Parody of Imitation in _Dido, Queen of Carthage_" forthcoming in ELR 38.4 [fall 2008]).

Willie Davis: Won the Willesden Herald International Short Story Contest judged by Zadie Smith and had that story published in The Guardian

Maura Elford: CTE distinguished TA award

Sharon Higby: Goldhaber travel award, UMD Graduate and English departments

Tamar Jacobs: Katherine Anne Porter fiction prize 

Jasmine Lellock: Goldhaber travel award

Kelly McGovern: ARHU Travel Award

Jason Payton: Departmental QCB travel grant to conduct archival research at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester,  Massachusetts.

Kelly Wisecup: Cosmos Club Foundation Young Scholars Award; Graduate Teaching Assistant Development Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence

Kelly Wisecup: John Carter Brown Library Short-Term Research Fellowship. The John Carter Brown Library; University of Maryland Department of English Dissertation Fellowship

• Presented a paper in June 2007 at the Caribbean Studies Association conference in Brazil. The paper was called "Queerness and Disability in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night."

Kate Barker:

• Will present "Bale's King Johan and Antichrist," a paper drawn from her dissertation research, in the 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, which will take place in May 2008 in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Anna Bedford:

• Was a co-presenter with colleagues at the Center for Teaching Excellence for a three presentations at the annual Lilly-East Conference on College and University Teaching, at the University of Delaware. The presentations were "Wired and Wonderful Pedagogy," - her section of presentation particularly focused on wikis as a collaborative teaching and learning tool, and the pedagogical implications of multiple and anonymous authorship, heteroglossia, and the undermining of traditional forms of authority and knowledge - and the second presentation was "When the Machine Breaks: Pedagogy and Non-Functioning Technology," which looked at the pedagogically rich moment of technology failure as an opportunity to reflect upon teaching and learning goals and outcomes, as well as alternative tools and methods, and a poster presentation of the Center's Faculty Summer Institute on Teaching with New(er) Technology.

Michelle Boswell:

• "What Poetry Taught a Physicist Who Knew It Was 'Unwise to Read Mathematics in November After One's Fire is Out.'" GEO's "Text and Techne" conference.

Michelle Brown:

• Will present ""Testimonial Bodies in Nuruddin Farah's Maps," at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky in November 2008.

Jonathan Buehl:

• "Mediation vs. Fabrication: (Ir) Responsible Visualization in Scientific Arguments," Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference - Seattle, WA - May 2008

• "Visual and Verbal Dissociation in Atmospheric Science," The Promise of Reason Conference: The New Rhetoric after 50 Years - Eugene, OR - May 2008

• "Assigning the Review Article in Science-Writing Courses: Pitfalls and Possibilities," Conference of College Composition and Communication - New Orleans, LA -April 2008

• Poster: "New Species of Professional Writing Courses at a Large Public University: Sustaining Novel Adaptations in an Evolutionary Process"Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication - Greenville, NC - October 2007

Damion Clark:

• "The Last of England?: Miscegenation, Queer Flesh, and Competing Narratives of National History and the Future of Britain." The DC Queer Studies Symposium; College Park, MD (April 2008).

• "The Rough(ian): Joe Orton's Radical Queering of Gender and the Texture of ‘Trade.'"Northeast Modern Language Association; Baltimore, Maryland (March 2007).

Dr. David Coley:

• New Chaucer Society Conference in Swansea, Wales, and Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI.

Willie Davis:

• "Featured Reader" at The University of Kentucky's Reading Series this semester.

Helen DeVinney:

• Co-presenter, "Exploring Electronic Literature." Poster session at the Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL (December 2007)

Janet Hearn:

• On Oct 26 and 27, 2007, she attended the Milton conference in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and presented a paper entitled "'Where More Is Meant than Meets the Ear': Prosody, Music, and Meaning in Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso".

Sharon Higby:

• Co-chair of the Louisiana State University, seventeenth annual English Graduate Student Conference: "Members Only: Gatekeepers and the Future of Literary Studies," February 2007.

• Delivered a paper at the International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo 2008.

Nabila Hijazi:

"The Neglected Side of the Equation: The Role of the ESL, Nonnative     Tutor" at College English Association Middle Atlantic Group Conference, Rockville, MD, March 2008 and the Chesapeake American Studies Associate (CHASA) conference in College Park, April 2008.

Mary Frances Jimenez:

• "I surely am not a prisoner in my own house?': White Slavery and American Insides in Novelettes of the U.S.-Mexican War" at the 2008 Philological Association of the Carolinas conference in Asheville, NC.

Jasmine Lellock:

• "As one incapable of her own distress": Bloom and Ophelia in Ulysses," International James Joyce Symposium Panel: "Joyce and the Renaissance," June 2008, Tours, France (upcoming)

• "Food and Flesh: Anatomy and the Senses in Early Modern England," Renaissance Society of America Panel: "Connecting the Renaissance Senses," April 2008, Chicago

• Alexander's Sweat': Commodification in the English Country House Poems and Anatomy Texts," University of Delaware Medieval/Renaissance Colloquium, September 2007

• "The ‘blinde and dirtie way': ‘Autologie' in Phineas Fletcher's The Purple Island,"

  University of Maryland Graduate English Organization Conference, March 2008

• Invited Workshop Leader, "‘Do you bite your thumb at me?': Shakespearean Insults," Shakespeare Fest, University of Maryland

Adam Lloyd:

• "Suffragist Saints: The Rhetoric of Utah's 19th Century Polygamist Feminists in the Woman's Exponent," at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference in March and will be presenting the same paper at the Promise of Reason conference in Eugene, OR.

• "Professional Discourse: Improving Pedagogies for Writing in the Business World," at the SCMLA Conference in Memphis last November.

Rebecca Lush:

• UMD Medieval & Renaissance Conference: "Women, Race, and British Identity: Artificial Perspective, Artificial Pigmentation in Jonson's Masque of Blackness."

• EC/ASECS: "Pamela Illustrated: Revised Theatricality and Pamela's Placement in the Domestic Sphere."

Kelly McGovern:

• "What is Written for the Future is Written in the Body': Children's Bodies in Anne Enright's The Gathering." American Conference for Irish Studies National Convention. St. Ambrose University. Davenport, IA. Apr. 16-19, 2008.

Kim O'Connor:

• "An Invitation to Think: Prewriting That Works." National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) conference in NYC in November 07.

Chinenye Okparanta:

• Conference entitled "Postcolonial" Futures in a Not Yet Postcolonial World: Locating the Intersections of Ethnic, Indigenous and Postcolonial Studies (UCSD, March 5-7, 2008) at the Ethnic Studies Department at University of California, San Diego.

Marc Ruppel:

• Invited lecture, SUNY College at Buffalo (4/30/08): "Narrative 2.0: Convergent Content and New Literacies"

Sarah Sillin:

• Presented a paper at the EC/ASECS conference in November

Dwan Simmons:

• What to the Slave is the Fourth of July': Slavery, Race, and Independence in Nineteenth-Century America' at both the American Studies Association annual meeting (Philadelphia, October 2007) and at the Georgia Independent Schools Association conference (Atlanta, November 2007).

Maria Troppe:

• "Narratives of Benevolence and the Pedagogical Value of the 19th Century," Sponsored by the Division of Nineteenth Century American Literature, Modern Language Association conference, Dec. 27, 2007, Chicago, IL.

Nathaniel Underland:

• "Details Plucked Unhesitatingly from the Real': the Kantian Sublime in Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To..."at the 29th International Conference for the Fantastic in the Arts in March
  

John Whitcroft:

• Delivered presentation titled: "A Writing Center Belles Lettres? Asynchronous Online Tutoring as a New Model of Writing Center Dialogue" at Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association (MAWCA), April 12, 2008.

• Delivered presentation titled: "Beyond Time and Place: Multimedia Tools for the Online Writing Center" at Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC), April 2, 2008.

Elizabeth Whitney:

• "Maternal Anxieties: Women's Rights and the Trope of Slavery." Paper presented at the 2007 International Conference on Romanticism at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Kelly Wisecup:

• Panel Chair, "Native American Medical Knowledge in Colonial Encounters." Paper Presented: "Communicating Disease: Plague, Indian 'brabbles,' and History in the New England Colonies." ProphetstownRevisited: An Early Native American Studies Summit. WestLafayette, IN. 2008.

• "Communicating Disease: Epidemic and Encounter in Thomas Hariot's Briefe and True Reportof the New Found Land of Virginia." McNeil Center for Early American Studies Works-in Progress Series. Philadelphia, PA. 2008.

• "Response to Anna Brickhouse: Hemispheric Jamestown." Local Americanists Lecture Series.University of Maryland. College Park, MD. 2007.

• "The Communication commonly call'd, Inoculation of the Small-Pox': Print, Medicine, and thePolitics of Scientific Knowledge in the Boston Inoculation Controversy." MCEAS BiennialGraduate Student Conference: Conflict and Community in Early America. McNeil Center forEarly American Studies, Philadelphia, PA. 2007.

Ariana Austin: Accepted to the French Teaching Assistantship program sponsored by the French Ministry of Education for the 2008-2009 academic years. She was placed in Paris and will also serve as a research assistant at the University of Paris VII.

Anna Bedford: Has been elected to serve as Vice President for Legislative Affairs in the Graduate Student Government, for the coming 2008-2009 academic year. She also participated in a CONNECT workshop research and teaching on Canada and Canada-U.S. relations, hosted by the Canadian Embassy in DC. CONNECT is a joint initiative of the Center for the Study of Canada at State University of New York College at Plattsburgh and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada; it is a national program designed to promote the growth and development of Canadian Studies throughout the U.S. higher education community.  Faculty and graduate students from Washington, Maryland, and Virginia participated in the CONNECT workshop at the Canadian Embassy on April 1.

Heather Blain: Will attend University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign next year for their PhD in Writing Studies.

Dan Collinge, Rececca Lush, Maura Elford, and Jasmine Lellock: Members of GEO team that won 2^nd place in College Park Cares 10K.

Kelly McGovern: Elected to executive board of ACIS as Graduate Student Representative.

John Whitcroft: Graduate representative on the MAWCA board of directors.