Ted Howell
Ted Howell (English MA '10, now a PhD candidate at Temple University) presented a well-attended paper on "Howards End and the Anthropocene" at the Modernist Studies Association annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Dr. Hugh Ormsby-Lennon
Dr. Hugh Ormsby-Lennon recently published "Pinching Snuff: Dean Swift as Paralytic Gnomon in James Joyce's 'The Sisters,'" in Swift Studies 29 (2014), 89-129.
Dr. Megan Quigley
On Saturday November 8th at 3:30 at the Modernist Studies Association annual Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, Dr. Megan Quigley participated in a round table on Weak Theory, joining scholars including Wai Chee Dimock, Eric Hayot, and Paul St. Amour, in presenting a vigorous investigation into this new approach to literary studies. She also chaired a panel earlier that day entitled "The Confluence of Breakdown."
Dr. Joseph Lennon
Joseph Lennon, PhD, published an essay, “‘Antiquity and Futurity' in the Writings of James Clarence Mangan” in The Man in the Cloak: Essays on James Clarence Mangan. (Palgrave MacMillan, Nov 2014. pp. 53-83). Dr. Lennon also published a suite of poems, “Flatland Haiku Summer” in The Midwest Quarterly 55.2, (Winter 2014, pp. 78-80). He presented a paper at the 2013 American Conference for Irish Studies, Dublin, Ireland, “Old Hungers, New Politics: Late 19th Century Fasts and Food Strikes” (June 14, 2014). He delivered a lecture at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin “Irish Orientalism: From Origin Legends to Celtic Revivals” (June 26, 2014).
Dr. Lauren Shohet
Lauren Shohet, Luckow Family Professor of English, published “Caroline Court Drama: Forming History,” in Yearbook of English Studies 44: Caroline Literature , ed. Rory Loughnane, Andrew Power, and Peter Sillitoe (2014), 69-86.
Dr. Travis Foster
Dr. Travis Foster published an article, “Campus Novels and the Nation of Peers,” in the Fall 2014 issue of American Literary History .
Katharine McIntyre
Katharine McIntyre presented her paper, "'Time Be Time': The Intertwined Nature of Time and Technology in William Gibson's Neuromancer " at the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association conference in Baltimore, MD on November 7, 2014.
Kristin Danella
Kristin Danella presented her paper, "Piers the Plowman: A Medieval Conservative in the Midst of 14th century English Rebellion" at the Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association last weekend (11/8).
