Current Students

Oct. 2019: ​Graduate students in Professor Lowell Duckert's  "Environmental Humanities- Weather Matters" course recently had a hands-on opportunity to think about ceramics, weather, and literature with ecoartist and filmmaker Courtney Leonard. Professor Duckert's seminar class includes several guest visits that are open to all our graduate students this semester including: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Dean of Humanities, Arizona State University and Julian Yates, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English, UD,  John Caldwell, Associate Librarian, UD, and A.R. Siders, Associate Professor, Biden School of Public Policy and  Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St. John’s University. Check out our graduate events calendar for more details!

Sam Nystrom recently won 2020 Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Grant from the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Combined with her Fall 2019 CMCS Research Travel Award, this will fund her travel to Scotland to conduct archival and field research for her dissertation.  She also received  the Friends of Rockwood Award from the Center for Material Culture Studies, which she used the former to research at Kew Gardens and the British Library in June 2019.

Janel Atlas gave a keynote address titled "The Power of Story: Writing and Reading about Babyloss Online" at the Sands National Conference (New Zealand) in September 2019. The talk was attended by bereaved parents, health professionals, and support professionals and is drawn directly from her dissertation project about women's rhetorical practices in narrating stories of babyloss.

Mali Collins-White was a 2019 Travel Award Winner to the Atlanta Un​iversity Center Archives and the UNIDEL Louise Roselle Collections-Based Research Travel Award this summer. She also have a forthcoming book chapter with Dr. Jennifer Nash in Black Feminist Sociology: Perspectives and Praxis, Eds. Drs. Zakiyah Luna and Whitney Pirtle coming in 2020.

Jessica Thelen received the Edward Porter Alexander Internship at Delaware Historical Society (summer 2019), in which she was on the exhibit team for the first section of Collecting Wilmington: Place, Space & Memory. This exhibit is at the Delaware History Museum. 

• Newman, Kaari. "Temple Bar’s New Portrait of Femininity: Active Domesticity in Mary Braddon’s Aurora Floyd,” The Wilkie Collins Journal (Special Issue). Vol 16. (2019).
  
• King, Carolyne. “The Reader in The Textbook: Embodied Materiality and Reading in the Writing Classroom,” Composition Studies, 47.1, (2019). 
  
• Rinkevich, Matt."Reading Ritual: Biblical Hermeneutics and the Liturgical 'Text' in Pre-Reformation England" Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance e Réforme 41.2 (2018)
• Nash, Joseph. "How to Be: Buddhism, Boredom, and the Practice of Awareness in The Pale King,” The Journal of David Foster Wallace Studies 1, no. 1 (2018). 
• Rezaie, Naghmeh. "Here without Me: The Cross-Cultural Adaptation of The Glass Menagerie in Iranian Cinema." The Tennessee Williams Annual Review, no. 17, 2018, pp. 37–65.
• King, Carolyne. “Tutors as Readers: Reprising the Role of Reading in the Writing Center,” which is forthcoming in Praxis 16.1 (2018)
• Colmon, Clayton D. "Queer Afrofuturism: Utopia, Sexuality, and Desire in Samuel Delany's ``aye, and Gomorrah''." Utopian Studies. 28.2 (2017): 327-347.