Awards and Publications

Every year, our graduate students are recognized for their exceptional scholarship and teaching. Our students regularly have work accepted to journals, essay collections, and other major publications, and they are frequent recipients of major on-campus, national, and international awards. This is just a short list of their most recent accomplishments.

• Cherise Fung. “In the Name of Sovereignty: Rethinking the ‘Tiger Bitch’ and the Terrorist Bomber in Nayomi Munaweera’s Island of a Thousand Mirrors (2012).” Meridians 22 no. 2 (forthcoming Fall 2023).
• Liam Kruger. “World, Class, Tragicomedy: Marlene Van Niekerk’s Triomf.” College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies 50 no. 2 (forthcoming Summer 2023).
• Kaitlin Moore. “‘I’m traversing my own death throes:’ Haunting the queer spacetime(s) of Dear Esther.” Extrapolation: Special Issue on New Materialisms and Posthumanisms 64 no. 1 (forthcoming Spring 2023).
• Sujash Purna. Simple Fantasies. Finishing Line Press, (forthcoming 2023).
• Sarah Friedman. “‘Sovereyn pestilence’: Contagion, Sexual Violence, and Healing in Chaucer’s The Physician’s Tale.” Essays in Medieval Studies 36 (forthcoming 2023)
• Sarah Friedman. “‘To harbour thoughts effeminate and faint!’: Feminine Influence and the Medieval Conversion Fantasy in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine Parts I and II.” Otherness: Essay and Studies 8, no. 4 (forthcoming 2023).
• Arielle Raymos. “Revolutionary Homosexuality in Les Blancs.” Etudes, 8, no. 1, December 2022.
• Diego Alegría (Spanish translator). Chacal Dorado / Golden Jackal. English Poems by Jessica Sequeira. Buenos Aires Poetry, 2022.
• Kaitlin Moore. ““You / Say Ancestors and I Breathe, / Bones:” Mushrooms, Mollusks, and “Making Kin” in Ngā Mātai Tuarangi o Te Māori.” Transpositiones 1, no. 2, November 2022.Jacqueline Krass. “‘Why Do You Pretend to Be So Detached from Your Jewish Feelings?’: Toward an Affective Reading of Jewish Diaspora.” Philip Roth Studies 18 no. 2, Fall 2022.
• Addie Hopes. “‘The Real Feel of Hard Time’: Finding Zones of Freedom in the Creaturely Poethics of C.D. Wright’s One Big Self.” ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2022
• Marek Makowski. “Reading The Books of Jacob with—and Against—the Riverhead Reading Guide.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 March 2022.
• Sujash Purna. Epidemic of Nostalgia. Finishing Line Press, 2021.
• Diego Alegría. “Modernismo or Transatlantic Romanticism: José Martí and William Wordsworth.” (Winner of the Lore Metzger Prize). Essays in Romanticism 28 no.1, 2021.
• Liam Kruger. “Literary setting and the postcolonial city in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease.” Research in African Literatures 52 no. 3, Fall 2021.
• Sujash Purna. “Story City.” The South Carolina Review 53, no. 2, 2021.
• Marek Makowski. “Olga Tokarczuk’s Radical Tenderness.” The Yale Review, 22 February 2021.
• Alex Ukropen. “Aldhelm’s Enigmata and the Commentaries from the Canterbury School: A Monastic Curriculum in Play.” In Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Toys, Games, and Entertainment, edited by Albrecht Classen. De Gruyter, 2019.
• Richard Ness. “Song of Experience: John Clare’s Empirical Taste.” The John Clare Society Journal 38, Summer 2019.
• Neil Simpkins. “Towards an Understanding of Accommodation Transfer: Disabled Students’ Strategies for Navigating Classroom Accommodations.” Composition Forum 39, Summer 2018.
• Mike Haen. “The Affective Dimension of Writing Center Talk: Insights from Conversation Analysis.” WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship, 42, no. 9 – 10, May/June 2018.
• Will Broadway. “Holes, Orifices, and Porous Subjectivity in Beckett’s Molloy.” The Journal of Beckett Studies 27, no. 1, April 2018.
• Virginia M. Schwarz. “De-Norming the Syllabus: An Analysis Situated in Critical and Caring Pedagogies.” In Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education. Rutledge, 2018.
• Oluwayinka Arawomo. “Telling our Stories: The Representation of Gender-Based Violence in Stella Dimoko Korkus’ Blog.” In Essays in Honour of Rotimi Taiwo, edited by Unuabonah Folake, Ayoola Kehinde and Adegoju Adeyemi. Galda Verlag, 2018.

National and International Award, Fellowship, and Prize Recipients

• International Writing Center Association’s Dissertation Grant for “Community Values Mapping as a Tool to Engage Departments in Social Justice-Centered WAC and Writing Center Partnerships:” Emily Bouza (2022)
• Schallek Research Award from the Medieval Academy of America: Sarah Friedman (2022)
• Mellon-ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship: Mattie Burkert (2015-16)
• Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Library Company of Philadelphia: Julia Dauer (2015)
• Cornell School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship: Anna Muenchrath (2015)
• Dartmouth Futures of American Studies Fellowship Winners:  Julia Dauer and Jarrett Chapin (2015)
• Chawton House Library Visiting Fellowship: Devin Garofalo (2014)
• Cornell School of Criticism and Theory Fellowship: Ruth Kellar (2014)
• Fulbright Scholarship: Brandy Trygstad (2013)
• Chawton House Library Visiting Fellowship and University of Southampton Fellow: Catherine DeRose (2013)
• James and Sylvia Thayer Short Term Research Fellowship, UCLA Library Special Collections: Rebecca Steffy Couch (2013)
• Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in Original Sources, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Washington, DC: Lisa Hollenback (2013-14)
• “Margaret Fuller” Research Fellowship, Franklin Institute, Madrid: Manuel Herrero-Puertas (2013)
• The Dickens Society, Partlow Prize for the most promising proposal to the Dickens Lowell Symposium: Rachel Herzl-Betz (2012)

University Fellowship Recipients

• Public Humanities Fellowship: Lisa Hollenbach, UW-Madison Center for the Humanities (2015-16)
• Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship, Graduate School: Lisa Hollenbach (2014)
• Chancellor’s Public Humanities Fellowship: Andrew Mahlstedt (2012)

Departmental Prize and Fellowship Winners