Spotlight and Achievements

Kay Sohini's Dissertation Featured on Humanities Commons Website 

English Ph.D. candidate Kay Sohini's graphic dissertation Drawing Unbecoming has been featured on the newly launched Humanities Commons Next-Generation Dissertations website. This new site was created to promote next-generation dissertation projects, which they describe as "any doctoral project whose form goes beyond the traditional written monograph. It can be a website or other digital product, it can be a graphic novel, a documentary, or a rap album."  The website explores the possibilities of a next-generation dissertation, showcases notable projects from recent years, and provides guidance and advice to Ph.D. candidates thinking about undertaking such a project. 

Kay's dissertation considers "how comics can be utilized by scholars and artists alike in ethnography, in narrative medicine, in public health discourse, in resisting disinformation, and in espousing an equitable future for all" and can be found on her website, https://www.kaysohini.com/, along with her portfolio, resume, and other scholarly work.

 

Jesse Curran's Artist Grant 

Congratulations to alumna Jesse Curran, who was awarded a COVID-19 Artist Relief Grant through the Oak Spring Garden Foundation! The Oak Spring Garden Foundation is connected to Bunny Mellon's legacy and offers residencies and grants for artists and scholars who are working at the intersection of the arts and plants/gardening. In addition to the award, Jesse was interviewed about her artistic practice and its connections to the natural world during Quarantine. Visit the foundation’s website to read the interview and hear her read three of her poems! 

Jesse earned her PhD from the English department in 2012 after defending her dissertation titled “From Mourning to Meditation: Theorizing Ecopoetics, Thinking Ecology.”  More information about her scholarly work, creative non-fiction, and poetry can be found on her website. 

 

Congratulations to Arsevi and Meghan!

 

Congratulation to Arsevy Seyran, whose poem "Heat" was published in the Summer/Fall issue of the Southampton Review. Her poem can be read here. Learn more about Arsevi's academic background here.

 

 

In April, Meghan Buckley was appointed as a 2019-2020 New York Public Humanities Fellow. Her project “Combat Silence” is dedicated to uncovering and spreading the stories of female veterans, in partnership with the Herstory Writers Workshop of Long Island. Simply put, female voices are often excluded from the “war canon” in various types of media and narrative—from movies and television, to war novels, poems, and memoirs. And yet, according to its most recent demographics survey, the Veterans Alliance reports that women comprise roughly 15-20% of US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines enlistees. The goal of "Combat Silence" is to encourage female veterans’ to narrate their service experiences, and therefore also seeks to expand what military “service” means for women, highlighting female veterans’ myriad military roles—as medics, air traffic controllers, equipment repairwomen, engineers, etc.-- in their own written and spoken words.

 

Congratulations to Fellowship & Award Winners!

This month, we celebrate the achievements of four of our graduate students!

 

This semester, fifth-year doctoral student Caity Swanson received both a Turner Dissertation Fellowship for the academic year 2019-2020 and a Turner Summer Research Grant. To learn more about Caity's research project, click here. You can also follow her on Humanities Commons.

 

In April, Andrew Rimby (fifth-year Ph.D.) and Meghan Buckley (fourth-year Ph.D.) were appointed as the 2019-2020 Public Humanities Fellows at Stony Brook. Meghan and Andrew will be part of a cohort from nine research universities across NY state. The year-long Fellowship, supported by the Mellon and Whiting  Foundations, provides a stipend along with training in the methods and approaches of the public humanities to support the Fellows' development of a public project related to their own scholarship in partnership with a community organization.

Meghan Buckley's project, "Combat Silence: Narrating the Experience of the Female Veteran," seeks to help find and give voice to the experiences and struggles of female veterans within the Long Island/greater New York City area. For his project, "Walt Whitman on Long Island," Andrew Rimby will work closely with the Walt Whitman Birthplace and the SBU Teacher Education Program to create an experiential module incorporating Whitman into a unit on American poetry for local 11th-grade high school English classes.

And just this past week, second-year Ph.D. Jessica Hautsch was awarded the Amos St. Germaine Paper Prize by the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA). Jessica's work specializes in fan and television studies, digital rhetoric and the Digital Humanities, and the title of her paper is "Tron Dancing: Cyberpunk, Glitch Aesthetics, and Embodied Posthuman Performance."

 

 

Francisco Delgado's First Book Publication and Reading        

Congratulations to alumnus Francisco Delgado, whose book of fiction Adolescence, Secondhand was published by Honeysuckle Press last November! Adolescence, Secondhand  follows Delgado's narrator Chris as he attempts to reconcile a cultural menagerie of TV shows and wrestling heroes with the blurred reality of friendship, family, and self. These stories are tightly crafted and quietly crushing: within them, we join Chris and bear witness to a multitude of griefs, and the joys hidden and discovered in their core.

Visit Honeysuckle Press to order a copy!

Francisco will be reading excerpts from his book at Poets House in TriBeCa on Friday, February 15. More details here!  

Francisco graduated from the English department in May of 2017, after defending his dissertation titled "Trespassing Race: Contemporary Dystopian Fiction by Multiethnic American Authors." He is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY). His research focuses on contemporary Native American/Indigenous literatures, as well as Asian American literature. His academic work has been published in The CEA Critic, American Indian Quarterly, Teaching American Literature: Theory and Practice, American Studies, and Transmotion.

 

Andrew Rimby Named Inaugural Recipient of the Guiliano Global Fellowship 

Andrew Rimby, a fifth-year PhD candidate in English , was recently named the inaugural recipient of the Guiliano Global Fellowship, a new program that will provide merit-based grants to creative and curious undergraduate and graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences.  Funded by a generous gift from PhD alumnus Edward Guiliano ’78 and his wife, Mireille Guiliano, the Guiliano Global Fellowship Program supports independent research, scholarly activities and artistic expression projects across the country and around the world.

Rimby, who also holds a graduate certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, will receive the $2,000 fellowship to conduct crucial archival research to complete his dissertation, The Pool of Narcissus: Transatlantic Homoerotic Attachments (1837-1901), an analysis of why American and British nineteenth-century authors used Hellenic allusions to explore male homoerotic desire before homosexuality existed as a category. Learn more about his research and interests here. 

 

Stephen Pallas and Sound Off!

 
This past July, Ph.D. candidate Stephen Pallas was awarded a Public Humanities Fellowship for his project Sound Off!, a series of workshops for local d/Deaf artists in the community designed to allow these artists and writers to work together and receive feedback from peers. This project, currently underway, will culminate in a special issue publication of poetry, fiction and nonfiction prose, as well as an exhibition of visual media produced by d/Deaf artists. Below is a description of the project in Stephen's own words.

"Deaf artists are often underappreciated as valuable members of the arts community, which relates to a larger cultural set of problems. Many deaf artists remain confined to the margins, they are ostracized or ignored because of their perceived disability. They are frequently unable to garner mainstream success and are often not valued for the complexity of their experiences, the diversity of their aspirations, or the depth of their capabilities. Dominant cultural narratives about d/Deafness regularly underscore the limitations of d/Deaf people and employ marginalizing and subjugating rhetoric about their conditions and livelihoods. The d/Deaf community faces a litany of forms of oppression and discrimination—ranging from the systemic to the understated. Its values, beliefs, and perspectives are often roundly ignored. 

Sound Off! has two controlling goals. First, through a series of workshops, the artists and writers will be able to get direct feedback on their work from their peers without fear of being ostracized as different or less valuable because they have a perceived disability. The camaraderie, positivity, and safety of the workshops will provide a setting in which these artists and writers can envision their product as intrinsically valuable and worthy of public attention. Workshops will be designed so that the group leaders and peers can evaluate the creative works and give positive feedback on them. In this way, artists will be able to produce high-quality works while gaining confidence in their creative works. The second goal of the project is to establish a community of d/Deaf artists and writers to foster the production and dissemination of affirmative and creative visual art and literature. This project can become the seed for these artists to remain connected as they move forward beyond the scope of the workshops, publication, and exhibition. The long-term goal would be to launch an inspired community of artists who publish and exhibit their work in larger and more lucrative venues.

Sound Off! plans to bring d/Deaf art and literature to the local, public community. The workshops we are designing will take place at Suffolk County Community College’s three campuses, thanks in part to our collaboration the Suffolk County Community College Eastern Campus’s Humanities Department. We have partnered with a local literary publication—The Long Island Literary Journal—which will handle the publishing end of the project. Each workshop will be specific to one creative genre—painting, poetry, or fiction, for example. Artists and writers will share their work with the group, and group leaders will offer wisdom and insight based on their professional experiences.

Sound Off! has established a web presence by publishing a Facebook page and email address. As part of the public outreach, we would like to use the fellowship to establish a website that provides information for the project’s mission and goals, its program, and its partners. By holding the workshops at the local community college, inviting renowned artists and writers to lead the workshops, and recording and broadcasting the workshops, we are bringing these local artists and writers to the public. The workshops and publication will culminate in an exhibition that will celebrate the project’s successes and potential for future growth, and in which Sound Off! will be able to thank the SCCC’s Humanities Department and its invaluable work."

The first workshop, "Painting the Deaf Experience," will take place at Stony Brook University, on October 16. Stay tuned for more information!

Stephen Pallas is a fourth year doctoral candidate studying British Romanticism, ecocriticism, 19th political philosophy and history, and rhetoric and composition. Learn more about his interests and research here.

 

Congratulations, Meghan!

Fourth-year doctoral student Meghan Buckley has been published in Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies. The title of her essay is "[Creative] Nonfiction Novella: Teaching Postcolonial Life Writing and the Hybrid Genre of Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place"  and can be read in full here.

Meghan studies 20th and 21st century American and Anglophone literature with a focus on postcolonial studies, critical race theory, and trauma theory/war literature. You can learn more in her profile.

"In the Spotlight"

Joelle Mann and Scott Zukowski

   

This month, Joelle and Scott were awarded two of the most prestigious accolades given out  by the Graduate School: Joelle received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student and Scott received the President's Award to Distinguished Doctoral Students.

Joelle is a fourth year doctoral student studying 20th and 21st century American literature, with a focus on American modernism and poetics. Her dissertation project is titled "Radical Dialectics in American Literary Landscapes." She also has extensive experience teaching high school and college level courses, and edits the English department's blog. Read more about Joelle here and follow her on  Humanities Commons.

Scott has just successfully defended his dissertation, which examines the relationships between liberty and identity in 18th and 19th century marginalized peoples, primarily through the lens of newspaper poetry. In addition to winning the President's award, Scott was also this year's Commencement Student Speaker. You can learn more about his work here and in his blog on his research and teaching experience.

Congratulations, Joelle and Scott!

2020

Awards

Earlier this year, several of our graduate students were awarded for their commitment to research and teaching by the Graduate School. Congratulations to:

• Caitlin Duffy (President's Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student)
• Meghan Buckley (Mildred and Herbert Weisinger Dissertation Fellowship)
• Stephen Pallas (Alumni Association Doctoral Summer Fellowship)

Brian Hartwig, Sara Santos, and Arsevi Seyran won the 2020 AHLSS Summer Research Fellowship.

Kay Sohini (third-year) was the recipient of the SBU GSO's Distinguished Travel Award for presenting her work at MLA 2020. She also received the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship to fund the fieldwork of her project "Resistance During the Fall of the World’s Largest Democracy."

Conferences

March 5-8: Another great year for SBU representation at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)! Bernard Krumm (4th year) presented his paper "Mammon's Commonwealth: Milton's Critique of Acquisitive Individualism, along with fellow cohort members Sarah Fisher Davis, Jon Heggestad and Caitlin Duffy. Sarah chaired a two-panel session - "Radioactive: Shaping & Sharing Nuclearity" - and presented her paper "'Many-layered [nuclear] legends': Palimpsestic Materiality in Kiana Davenport’s House of Many Gods." Jon Heggestad shared his work on dating simulations with his paper “Dating Apps, Dating Games: Playbors of Love” and participated in a roundtable with “The Gayby Boom: Exploring Gay Men’s Experiencs of Motherhood." Caitlin Duffy also chaired a panel on American Gothic Domesticity and presented her essay “‘For the air is poison’: Louisa May Alcott’s Haunted Domesticity.” Sixth-year candidate Andrew Rimby presented “Whitman’s Multitudes: From Interactive Module to Interactive Kiosk," while first-year Anthony Gomez shared his work "But Who’s the Zombie? The End of Memory in Roberto Bolaño's 'The Return.'" And Alijan Ozkiral, a graduating MA, presented “Notes Towards a Semiotic Analysis of Emoji.” Finally, Kay Sohini (third-year) presented  on Queer Comics and organized a creative panel on the use of comics as literatures of resistance.

February 15: Fourth-year candidate Bernard Krumm presented a version of his first dissertation chapter, "Mammon in the Market: or, How Ben Jonson learned to stop worrying and love Capitalism," at the London Shakespeare Center/Globe Graduate Conference. 

January 9-12: Kay Sohini presented in two panels (on Interactive Comics and on International Student Precarity) at Modern Language Association (MLA). She also organized a roundtable on Graphic Narratives and Multiple Marginalities.

Publications

Sara Santos's review of Rosi Braidotti's Posthuman Knowledge is forthcoming in issue 4/1 of the Journal of Posthuman Studies.

Kay Sohini's short comic "Comics in the Age of Digitization" was published in the academic journal Sequentials, in their issue on digital materialities.

Luca Zanchi has published the article "The Moving Image and the Time of Prophecy: Trauma and Precognition in L. Von Trier’s Melancholia (2011) and D. Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016)" with the Journal of Religion & Film (vol. 24, no.1). Luca is a Fulbright grantee and PhD candidate in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at Stony Brook University. He holds a Master’s in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from Reina Sofia Museum/UAM/UCM, and a Master’s in Fine Arts from Universidad de Salamanca. His research interests include: Art’s representation of modified states of consciousness, dissociation studies, oracular practices in Western and Eastern Traditions, and Mahayana Buddhism.

2019

Awards

Congratulations to Caity Swanson on being awarded the Dr. W. Burghardt Turner Dissertation Fellowship!

Andrew Rimby (fifth-year Ph.D.) and Meghan Buckley (fourth-year Ph.D.) were appointed as the 2019-2020 Public Humanities Fellows at Stony Brook.  Meghan and Andrew  will be part of a cohort from nine research universities across NY state. The year-long Fellowship, supported by the Mellon and Whiting  Foundations, provides a stipend along with training in the methods and approaches of the public humanities to support the Fellows' development of a public project related to their own scholarship in partnership with a community organization.

Andrew Rimby was also awarded the AHLSS Teaching Fellowship and the Guiliano Global Fellowship, and participated in the International Whitman Week, May 27-June 1-

Second year doctoral student Jessica Hautsch was awarded the Amos St. Germaine Paper Prize by the Northeast Popular Culture Association (NEPCA) for her paper  "Tron Dancing: Cyberpunk, Glitch Aesthetics, and Embodied Posthuman Performance."

Conferences

November 7: MA student Rebecca Vecchio presented at the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference (MAPACA). This was Rebecca's very first conference. Congratulations, Rebecca!

July 23-25: Sarah Fisher Davis and Sara Santos, fourth and fifth year respectively, presented at the MLA International Symposium in Lisbon, Portugal. The title of Sarah's paper was "'I came to Juárez to track down ghosts': Haunting, (Dis)Embodiment, and Re-membering in Lourdes Portillo’s Señorita extraviada." Sara's paper was titled “Junot Diaz’s ‘Monstro’ and the Zombie Apocalypse as Historical Re-membering."

June 26-30: Fourth year Sarah Fisher Davis presented at the Association for the Study of Literature & Environment (ASLE). The title of her paper was "Imperial Temporality, Ecological History, and Slow Violence in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place" as part of the panel "Rewriting Paradise: Caribbean Literary Ecologies."

June 21-22: Fifth year Sara Santos presented at the panel "OWI Design for Interactivity in MASLOW, a Graduate Writing Support Project for International Student" at Computers and Writing.

April 25-27: Sixth year Caity Swanson presented at the Latinx Literature Theory and Criticism Conference at John Jay College. The title of her paper was “Walls, Wounds, and the Weaponization of the Female Body at the US-Mexico Border.”

April 21-24: The English department had a strong presence at the 50th Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)! Sixth year doctoral students Andrew Rimby and Brian Hartwig co-chaired a panel titled "Queer Corruptions." Andrew also presented his paper “The Poisonous Yellow Book in The Picture of Dorian Gray." Fifth year Joelle Mann presented her paper “‘Giving Back the Lack’: Facing the Voices of the Imagetext in Claudia Rankine’s Citizen." Fifth year Sara Santos presented her paper  “Looking in the Gutter: Clone Im/Mobility and Abject Medicine in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go."  Fourth year Sarah Fisher Davis took part in a roundtable, discussing her paper “Reproductive Entrepreneurship and Transnational Surrogacy in Zippi Brand Frank’s Google Baby." Fourth year gothic expert Caitlin Duffy chaired two panels on American Ecogothic and presented her paper “‘Ugly roots’: The American Ecogothic in Lovecraft’s Cosmic Fiction." Third year Kay Kumar presented on “Kamala Khan as Miss Marvel: On Being a Brown, Muslim, Immigrant Superhero" "and Artistic Resistance and Drawing Girlhood." Second year MA student Nicholas Raffel presented the paper “‘The Giant of Nothingness’: Absence and Reverence in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens."

April 5-6: Second year Lisa leBlond presented her paper "An Island Paradise Unsettling--How Tibon Channels Hispaniola's Traumatic Past in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones" for  the Conference "Forbidden, Forgotten, Erased: Exposing Absences" at the University of Maryland, College Park.

March 8-9: Second year Lisa LeBlond presented at the "Making Connections: Within, Between, and Beyond English and the Humanities" Intermountain Graduate Conference. The title of her paper was "The Tree--A Vibrant Catalyst for Confronting Anthropocentrism in Indra Sinha's Animal's People."

March 1-2: Second year Lisa LeBlond presented her paper "Human and Plant Diaspora--the Dialogic Imagination of Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones" at the Southwest English Symposium.

January 7-9: Third year Kay Kumar presented at the South Asian Literary Association (SALA). The title of her paper was "Across Borders and In-Between Spaces.”

January 3-6: Third year Kay Kumar presented her paper “You Are Not Your Illness: Narrativizing Identity in Disability and Illness Memoirs” at the Modern Language Association convention (MLA) in Chicago.

Publications

Fifth year doctoral student Sara Santos has written a review of Adam Dickinson's Anatomic. It can be found in The Vassar Review. She also has a review of  Rosi Braidotti's Posthuman Knowledge forthcoming in the Journal of Posthuman Studies. 

Third year Kay Kumar's essay “The Graphic Memoir as a Transitional Object” has been published in Assay: A Journal of Non-fiction Studies.

2018

Awards

January: Fifth year doctoral student Scott Zukowski has received the prestigious MLA Connected Academics Fellowship.

August 2017-August 2018: Fourth year doctoral student Andrew Rimby has joined and is currently a part of the Walter Whitman Consortium. Last summer, he attended a week-long seminar series in Paris, and this summer he will be working with Dr. Susan Scheckel and other graduate students to put together a Walt Whitman Symposium at Stony Brook.

Conferences

September 20-21: Masters studen Megan Butler presented her paper "The Cultural Politics of Walt Whitman's Civil War Poetry" at the Air Force Academy's War, Literature & the Arts Conference, in Colorado Springs.

June 21-24: Jessica Hautsch presented at the 8th Biennial Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse, hosted by the University of North Alabama, Florence, AL. The title of her paper is "Hamilton Goes to Sunnydale: Intertextuality and Rhetoricity in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Hamilton Mash-Ups.”

June 1: Joelle Mann participated in a series of seminars at the Conference of the Society for Novel Studies, hosted by Cornell University, NY.

May 25: Sara Santos presented at American Literature Association (ALA), hosted in San Francisco, CA. The title of her paper is “History Without Memory: The Memorialization of the Parsley Massacre in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones."

April 19-22: Caity Swanson and David Rodriguez presented their work at the 2018 International Conference on Narrative. Caity's paper is titled "Slippery and Frayed: Observing Spaces of Contact in the Work of Mohsin Hamid" and David presented on "Slow Reading, Slow Violence: Description and Cognitive Ecology."

April 12-15: Third year doctoral students Meghan Buckley and Sara Santos chaired  a panel titled "Reimagining Ecologies of Time/Place in Postcolonial Fiction"  at Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), in Pittsbugh, PA. Meghan also presented a paper on the author Edwidge Danticat titled "'Mapping the ‘Dead Season’: Environmental Trauma/Metaphor in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones" and Sara presented "A Forest Grows In the ‘Death Factory’: The Neocolonial Landscape in Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People." Caitlin Duffy, a second year doctoral student, also attended NeMLA, where she gave a paper on American Psycho, Trump and neoliberalism titled "Trump as ‘Daddy’: American Psycho and Hero Worship in the Neoliberal Era."

March 29-April 1: Second year doctoral student Sarah Davis and fourth year Caity Swanson gave presentations at this year's American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), in Los Angeles, CA. Sarah presented on "New Directions in Feminist Media Studies" Seminar, "'Moving Toward an Unknown Other': A Close Viewing of Absence, the Black Female, and the Imperial Gaze in Claire Denis's Chocolat and White Material" and Caity gave a paper about Junot Díaz's "Monstro." Her paper was titled "'Knotted Together by Horrible Mold': Growing the Apocalypse in Junot Díaz's 'Monstro.'"

March 23: Andre Rimby, a fourth year doctoral student, presented at the New Jersey College English Association Conference. His paper was "Trump's Call for Religious Liberty: Why Revisiting Anti-Homophobic Criticism in Billy Bud Matters."

March 1-4: Nicole Savage, a fifth year doctoral student in Victorian literature, presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference (INCS), in San Francisco, CA. Her paper was titled "‘So unlike the normal lunatic’: Cycles of Insanity and the Dual Brain in Dracula.”

March 1: Second year horror, eco-gothic and Digital Humanities doctoral student Caitlin Duffy presented her paper "How Poe Transmits Horror: Data Visualizations" at the Ann Radcliffe Conference in StokerCon, in Providence, RI.

January 4-7: Third year doctoral student Meghan Buckley presented her paper "The [Creative] Nonfiction Novella: Teaching Hybrid Genre in Jamaica Kincaid's 'A Small Place'" at the Modern Language Association (MLA), in New York City, NY.

Publications

Third year doctoral student Meghan Buckley is currently co-authoring an article on Adaptive Transfer in Stony Brook's Program in Academic English (PAE) with Drs. Peter Khost and Robert Kaplan (PWR).

Third year doctoral student Stephen Pallas has an article coming out in the Journal for the Study of Radicalism. His paper focuses on Percy Shelley's rhetorical poesy and the Luddite movement.

First year doctoral student Jessica Hautsch has had a very productive year so far, with multiple articles and chapters accepted for publication. Her article “A GIF for Everything: The Rhetorical Affordance of GIFs by Tumblr’s Supernatural Fandom” is coming out in the Special Issue of Transformative Works and Cultures and her chapter “Blackwater in the Battle Against Evil: The Moral Implications of Slayers as Hired Guns in Buffy Season Nine and Angel and Faith Season Ten” is coming out this year in War in the Whedonverses. Her article “Buffy, Hamilton, and Jon Snow Go to Hogwarts: Literary Affordance and the Hogwarts Houses and Interpretative Framework and Rhetorical Tool”  is being published in Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter  in 2019.

2017

Awards

Spring Semester: Sixth year doctoral student Scott Zukowski has won the Alan Babich Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student in the English Department. Scott has also won the Meyer Endowed Graduate Student Service Award.

Fall Semester: Third year doctoral student Stephen Pallas received admission into the Penn Shelley Seminar Series, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania, PA. Learn about Stephen's experience in his contribution to the EGL blog.

Conferences

November 9-11: First year doctoral student Jessica Hautsch presented at Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (MAPACA), in Philadelphia, PA. The title of her paper was "Buffy Goes to Hogwarts: Literary Affordance and the Hogwarts Houses as Interpretative Framework and Rhetorical Tool.”

October 21: First year doctoral student Jessica Hautsch presented her paper "Memes and Multimodality in Writing About Literature” at the Teaching of Writing Festival, hosted by Suffolk County Community College, NY.

August 10-13: Third year doctoral student Stephen Pallas moderated the panel "Romantic Biopolitics" and presented his paper titled "'Beneath Those Skins’: Bioethics and a Submission to Nature in Mary Shelley’s Valperga” at the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) in Ottawa, ON.

June 30: Third year doctoral student Sara Santos presented at the Transformers: All that Is Solid Changes into Something Else conference, hosted by University of Aveiro in Portugal. Her paper was "All the World's a Remix: New Notions of Authorship and Authenticity in Remix Culture."

June 23-26: Third year doctoral student Meghan Buckley presented at American Literature Association (ALA), in Boston, MA. The title of her paper was "Neoliberal Debt and Emotional Capital in Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia."

June 11-16:  Fourth and sixth year doctoral students Andrew Rimby and Scott Zukowski, and Masters student Ryan Stears, took part in the Tenth Transatlantic Walt Whitman Association Seminar at the Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, in France.

March 23-26: Lots of SBU English representation at the Northeat Modern Language Association in Baltimore, MD. Fifth year Francisco Delgado presented his paper Model Minorities, Model Texts: Using Multiethnic American Literature in the FYW Classroom." Fifth years Scott Zukowski and Anne Summers also presented their current dissertation work, along with third year Ryo Hagino. Find more information on their papers here.

Publications

Fifth year doctoral student Timothy Wilcox has had his article "Embodying Failures of the Imagination: Defending the Posthuman in the Surrogates" published in the collection Cyberpunk and Visual Culture, by Routledge.

2016

Awards

June: Second year doctoral student Meghan Buckley received the Futures of American Studies Institute Fellowship offered by Dartmouth College. As a result, she had the opportunity to participate in a week-long workshop series, and to share her work with renowned faculty and fellow doctoral students.

Conferences

November 9-12: Second year doctoral student Sara Santos presented her essay "Neither Here Nor There: Delineating Border Spaces and Border Subjects in H.G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau" at Midwestern Modern Language Association (MMLA), in St. Louis, MO.

October 14-15: Second year doctoral student Sara Santos presented at the annual New York College English Association Conference. The title of her paper was "Take Me as I am (Or Remix Me): Authorship and Pedagogical Practices in Remix Culture."

May 26-29: Third year doctoral student Brian Hartwig presented his paper “Now, that’s an impressive stick”: Edward Albee’s Seascape (1975) and the Absurdity of Masculinity" at American Literature Association (ALA), in San Francisco, CA.

March 17-20: Doctoral student Timothy Wilcox presented his paper “The Poetics of Datascapes: Wordsworth’s Prelude and A Mind Forever Voyaging” at Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) in Hartford, CT. First year Stephen Pallas also presented his essay “Ethnomycology and Post-apocalyptic Recuperation in Margaret Atwood’s Year of the Flood” at NeMLA. Doctoral students Scott Zukowski, Daniel Irving, David Rodriguez and Anne Summers also showcased their work.