Recent Graduate-Student Awards:
Sarah Birge, summer dissertation research award, College of the Liberal Arts and Weiss Fellowship 2009-10
Kevin Browne, dissertation fellowship award from Center for Democratic Deliberation, Fall 2008
Amy Clukey, dissertation initiative award from Penn State Center for American Literary Studies
Ryan Croft, research seminar at Folger Shakespeare Library
Lynne Feeley, research award from Penn State Center for American Literary Studies
Jesse Hicks, research award from Penn State Center for American Literary Studies
Giuseppina Iacono, research seminar at Folger Shakespeare Library
Ashley Marshall (ACLS-Mellon dissertation fellowship): invited panelist for session on themes and methods of humanities research, American Council of Learned Societies annual meeting, Philadelphia, May 8, 2009
Ashley Marshall, Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award in the Fine Arts and Humanities
Brandy Scalise, dissertation fellowship award from Center for Democratic Deliberation, Fall 2008
Emily Sharpe, research award from Penn State Center for American Literary Studies
Michelle Smith, research award from Penn State Center for American Literary Studies
Angela Ward, Milton Dolinger Fellowship in the World War II Era, College of the Liberal Arts, Spring 2009
Matt Weiss, dissertation fellowship award from Center for Democratic Deliberation, Spring 2009
English Department conference funding (Fall 2008): Kim Andrews, Sarah Birge, Amy Clukey, Peter Collins, Anna Crawford, Michael DuBose, Michael Faris, Lynne Feeley, Verna Kale, Dustin Kennedy, Lea Kline, Elizabeth Kuhn, Ashley Marshall, Micky New, Niamh O’Leary, Karie Owens, Grégory Pierrot, Chad Schrock, Emily Sharpe, Phyllisa Smith, Angela Ward. (Spring conference funding will be awarded in February 2009.)
Recent and forthcoming graduate-student publications:
Breckenridge, Sarah. "Mapping Identity in the South English Legendary." Forthcoming in Rethinking the South English Legendaries, ed. Heather Blurton and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
Davis, Geffrey. "Clarifying Clarity." Oregon English Journal 29. 2 (2007): 3-8.
Kale, Verna. “Hemingway's Poetry and the Paris Apprenticeship.” The
Hemingway Review 26.2 (2007): 58-73.
Lundin, Rebecca Wilson. “Rhetorical Iconoclasm: The Heresy of Lollard Plain Style.” Rhetoric Review 27 (2008): 131-41.
Lundin, Rebecca Wilson. “Teaching with Wikis: Toward a Networked Pedagogy.” Forthcoming in Computers and Composition.
Marshall, Ashley. “The Myth of Scriblerus.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 31 (2008): 77-99.
Marshall, Ashley. “The Aims of Butler’s Satire in Hudibras.” Modern Philology 105 (2008): 637-65.
Marshall, Ashley. “Melmoth Affirmed: Maturin’s Defense of Sacred History.” Forthcoming in Studies in Romanticism.
Moiles, Sean. "Search for Utopia, Desire for the Sublime: Cristina Garcia's Monkey Hunting." Forthcoming in MELUS.
Owens, Katie. "Hemingway's Pragmatism: Truth, Utility, and Concrete Particulars in A Farewell to Arms." Forthcoming in The Hemingway Review 29.1 (2009).
Pierrot, Gregory. " 'Our hero': Toussaint Louverture in British Representations." Criticism 50 (2008): 581-607.
Pierrot, Grégory. Rev. of Racism on the Victorian Stage: Representation of Slavery and the Black Character by Hazel Waters. African American Review 42.2 (2008): 24-27.
Schrock,Chad, "Neoplatonic Theodicy in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women.'" Forthcoming in Studies in Philology.
Schrock, Chad. “A Myth of Hubris in Till We Have Faces.” Forthcoming in VII 25 (2008).
Spielman, David Wallace. "Sir Robert Howard, John Dryden, and the Attribution of The Indian-Queen." The Library, 7th series, 9.3 (2008): 334-48.
Spielman, David Wallace. "'Solid Knowledge' and Contradictions in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss." Forthcoming in Critique.
Smith, Phyllisa. Interview with Aimé Césaire. Forthcoming in Callaloo.
Graduate Alumni News:
Timothy Arner (Penn State PhD 2007), asstistant professor at Grinnell College, named visiting Fellow for Emerging Scholars Symposium at Center for Liberal Arts and Society at Franklin and Marshall College
Theodore F. Sheckels (Penn State PhD 1979) appointed A. G. Ingram Professorship in English at Randolph-Macon College.
Srividhya Swaminathan (Penn State PhD 2002) awarded Kluge Fellowship at Library of Congress (2009-10) and teacher of the Year at Long Island University. Her book Debating the Slave Trade: Rhetoric of British National Identity, 1759-1815, revised from her doctoral dissertation, is slated for publication in September 2009.
We encourage and support our graduate students in their efforts to secure competitive research funding from both campus and outside sources. An important part of their professional development will involve applying for grants and finding a place within institutions and learned societies in their fields. Here is a list of recent achievements.
Ashley Marshall, American Council of Learned Societies/Andrew R. Mellon Foundation Early Career Fellowship
Lindsey Jones, CIC postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan State University
Kelly Innes, CIC postdoctoral fellowship at University of Illinois
Verna Kale, Hinkle Travel Grant, Ernest Hemingway Society
Gregg Baptista, Hinkle Travel Grant, Ernest Hemingway Society
Verna Kale, Dissertation Fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin
Niamh O’Leary, Folger Research Seminar, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC
Krista Eastman, 2008 Toby Thompson Prize for Literary Nonfiction, PSU
Brandy Scalise, Kenneth Burke Rhetoric Prize, PSU
Niamh O’Leary, summer dissertation residency, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, PSU
Jesse Hicks, summer dissertation residency, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, PSU
Gregory Pierrot, research travel award, Center for American Literary Studies, PSU
Micky New, research travel award, Center for American Literary Studies, PSU
Amy Clukey, dissertation support award, Center for American Literary Studies, PSU
Amy Clukey, dissertation support award, Research and Graduate Studies Office, PSU
Pia Deas, Blockson assistantship, University Libraries Special Collections, PSU
