Graduate Student Publications

Our data shows that publication in recognized refereed venues is an important factor in the quest for high-quality academic employment.  As such, Penn State English puts a great deal of emphasis on helping our students to publish well.  Below is a selection of the published work our current and recent graduate students have announced.

Forthcoming in 2013

Volpicelli, Robert. "Bare Ontology: Synge, Beckett, and the Phenomenology of Imperialism." Forthcoming in New Hibernia Review.

Forthcoming in 2012

Gael, Patricia. "Reprints of the Poems of Lyrical Ballads in British Periodicals, 1798-1800." Forthcoming in The Wordsworth Circle.

- - -. "The Origins of the Book Review in England, 1663 to 1749." Forthcoming in The Library.

Orr, Leah. "Thomas Francklin's Minos: An Unknown Imitation of Lucian from the 1770s." Forthcoming in Classical and Modern Literature.

Smith, Joshua S. “Reading Between the Acts: Satire and the Interludes in The Knight of the Burning Pestle," Studies in Philology 109.4 (Fall 2012).

Sturges, Mark.  "Text and Trail:  Ecocriticism, Textual Criticism, and William Bartram's Travels."  Forthcoming in Interdisciplinary Literary Studies.

Volpicelli, Robert. "Against Things: The At-Home Objects of Marianne Moore." Forthcoming in Twentieth-Century Literature.

Published in 2011

Faris, Michael J., and Stuart A. Selber. “E-Book Issues in Composition: A Partial Assessment and Perspective for Teachers.” Composition Forum 24 (2011). Online. http://compositionforum.com/issue/24/ebook-issues.php

Fung, Julian. "Frances Burney as Satirist." Modern Language Review 106 (2011): 937-53.

Hackenbracht, Ryan.  "The Plague of 1625-26, Apocalyptic Anticipation, and Milton's Elegy III." Studies in Philology 108.3 (2011): 403-38.

Kennedy, Dustin. "Going Viral: Stedman's Narrative, Textual Variation, and Life in Atlantic Studies." Romantic Circles Praxis Series (October 2011). Online.  http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/circulations/index.html

McGunigal, Lisa. "Twins of Genius: Mark Twain on the Stage, Huck Finn on the Page." The Mark Twain Annual 9.1 (2011): 84–97.

Moiles, Sean. "The Politics of Gentrification in Ernesto Quinonez's Novels." Critique 52.1 (2011): 114-133.

Owens-Murphy, Katie. "Modernism and the Persistence of Romance."  Journal of Modern Literature 34.4 (2011): 48-62.

Orr, Leah. "Christopher Smart as a Christian Translator: The Verse Horace of 1767," Studies in Philology 108.3 (2011): 439-467.

- - -. "Genre Labels on the Title Pages of English Fiction, 1660-1800." Philological Quarterly 90.1 (2011): 65-93.

- - -. "The Basis for Attribution in the Canon of Eliza Haywood," The Library, 7th series, 12.4 (2011): 335-375.

Owens-Murphy, Katie. "The Frontier Ethic Behind Cormac McCarthy's Southern Fiction." Arizona Quarterly 67.2 (Summer 2011): 155-178.

Schrock,Chad, "Neoplatonic Theodicy in Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women.'" Studies in Philology 108.1 (2011): 27-43.

Sturges, Mark.  "Enclosing the Commons:  Thomas Jefferson, Agrarian Independence, and Early American Land Policy, 1774-1789."  Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 119.1 (2011):  42-74.

Published in 2010

Davis, Geffrey. “The Threads That Connect Us: An Interview with Charles Johnson.” Callaloo 33.3 (2010): 807-819.

- - -. Reprinted. Ghosh, Nibir K. and E. Ethelbert Miller, eds. Charles Johnson: Embracing the World. Delhi, India: Authorspress, 2011. 17-32.

Summers, Sarah. “‘Twilight is so anti-feminist that I want to cry:’ Twilight fans finding and defining feminism on the World Wide Web.” Computers and Composition 27.4 (2010): 315-323.

Published in 2009

Brown, Megan. The Cultural Work of Corporations. Palgrave (2009).

Moiles, Sean. "Search for Utopia, Desire for the Sublime: Cristina Garcia's Monkey Hunting." MELUS 34.4 (2009): 167-186.

Owens-Murphy, Katie. "Hemingway's Pragmatism: Truth, Utility, and Concrete Particulars in A Farewell to Arms." The Hemingway Review 29.1 (2009).

Spielman, David Wallace. "'Solid Knowledge' and Contradictions in Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss." Critique 51.1 (2009): 74-89.

Published in 2008

Lundin, Rebecca Wilson. “Rhetorical Iconoclasm: The Heresy of Lollard Plain Style.” Rhetoric Review 27 (2008): 131-41.

- - -. “Teaching with Wikis: Toward a Networked Pedagogy.” Computers and Composition 25.4 (2008): 432-448.

Marshall, Ashley.  “Melmoth Affirmed: Maturin’s Defense of Sacred History.” Studies in Romanticism 47.2 (2008): 121-145.

- - -.  “The Aims of Butler’s Satire in Hudibras.” Modern Philology 105 (2008): 637-65.

- - -.  “The Myth of Scriblerus.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 31 (2008): 77-99.

Pierrot, Gregory. "'Our hero': Toussaint Louverture in British Representations." Criticism 50.4 (Fall 2008).

Schrock, Chad.  “A Myth of Hubris in Till We Have Faces.”  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.

Published in 2007

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.

Marshall, Ashley.  “Daniel Defoe as Satirist.” Huntington Library Quarterly 70 (2007): 553-76.

- - -.  “Erasmus Darwin contra David Hume.” British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 30 (2007): 89-111.

- - -.  “Gulliver, Gulliveriana, and the Problem of Swiftian Satire.” Philological Quarterly 84 (2005): 211-39. [appeared Fall 2007]

- - -.  “Reframing Charles Williams: Modernist Doubt and the Problem of World War in All Hallows’ Eve.” Journal of Modern Literature 30 (2007): 64-85.

Published in 2006

Marshall, Ashley.  “‘I saw him dead’: Marvell’s Elegy for Cromwell.” Studies in Philology 103 (2006): 497-519.

Schrock, Chad.  “From Child to Childlike: The Cycle of Education in Novalis and George MacDonald.”  North Wind: A Journal of George MacDonald Studies 25 (2006): 58-76.

- - -.  “The Pragmatics of Prophecy in John Knox’s The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women.”  Renaissance and Reformation 30.2 (Spring 2006): 83-98.

Whitney, Jason.  “Mom Dad Buddy and Sis Stories:  A Drama and Fiction Writing Workshop.” English Journal:  The Official Journal of the National Council of Teachers of English 95.6 (July 2006):  52-57.