Student News
2025
Andrew Petracca published a short story, "On the Blade," in Maudlin House.
Cassidy Allen published a book review of "The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney" by Angelo Bollas In New Hibernia Review.听
No毛l Ingram published "Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with 'AI Tracks' and Rethinking Student AI Agency" in Unmaking the Grade.听
Benjamin Paul published a review of Margaret Ross鈥檚 Saturday in The Brooklyn Rail.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Mary Helen Callier鈥檚 When the Horses in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Leah Flax Barber鈥檚 The Mirror of Simple Souls in the Harvard Review.
Kelly Gray published the short story "Chatroulette" in Cleveland Review of Books.
Aidan Vick published a review of Adam Parkes' Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege in Modernism/modernity.
Ophelia Wang published a review of Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community by William Gow in the Journal of Tourism History.听
Ophelia Wang presented "From Orientalism to Self-Definition: Blackpink Lisa鈥檚 鈥淩ockstar鈥� and the Cultural Politics of Chinatown" at Association for Asian American Studies 2025 Annual Conference in 艾可直播, MA.听聽
2024
Robert Baskin published a review of Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century by Kate Marshall in Contemporary LIterature.
Robert Baskin published a review of Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983 and Notes on the Cinematograph by Robert Bresson, The Cleveland Review of Books.
No毛l Ingram published "Using Zines to Teach Literary Analysis in a Post ChatGPT World" in Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice.
Kelley Glasgow published a book review of 鈥淪hakespeare鈥檚 Golden Ages鈥� in Sixteenth Century Journal.听
Justin Brown-Ramsey published "Propagandistic Peers: The Shared Projects of James Fenimore Cooper鈥檚 The Spy, and Early American Periodicals" in the James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal.
Justin Brown-Ramsey published a review of The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830鈥�1860, by Katie McGettigan, in Textual Cultures.
Johnny Murray published the final installment of his seven-volume illustrated novel Ripponlea (Unlock the Clockcase, 2021-24)
2023
Andrew Petracca published a review of The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism, by S. Pearl Brilmyer, in the Victorian Institutes Journal, vol. 50.
Johanna Alden published 鈥淒ramatic Spectacle in La品amon: The Brut 's Direct Speeches, Aestheticized Violence, and Gendered Historical Reenactments鈥� in Arthuriana (Dallas, Tex.) 33, no. 4
Johanna Alden published a review of The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800鈥揷.1500 ed. by Philippa Turner and Jane Hawkes in the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures.
Kelly Gray published the article "Communal Ruination and Collaborative Survival: The Third Nature of Urban Heat Islands in Do The Right Thing and In The Heights" in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.
Jo Mikula published a review of Queer Kinship After Wilde by Kristin Mahoney in Victorians Institute Journal.
2022
Cassidy Allen published a book review of Post鈥揅eltic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings ed. by Claire Bracken and Tara Harney-Mahajan in New Hibernia Review.
Julia Woodward published 鈥淎 Material Stratum: Black Bodies and Environmental Exploitation in Edward P. Jones鈥� The Known World.鈥� in The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal.
2025
Robert Baskin presented "The 'Unreal City' as Weird Palimpsest: Spaces on the Edge of the Colonial Imaginary in Eliot, Conrad, and Machen" at the Modernist Studies Association in 艾可直播.
Robert Baskin presented "Weird Noir in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest: or The Weird Beyond Horror" at Northeast Modern Language Association in Philadelphia.
Cassidy Allen presented, 鈥淭echnology and Intimacy in Contemporary Irish Literature鈥� at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature 2025 in Galway (IASIL).
No毛l Ingram presented聽 at Feminisms and Rhetorics in Durham, NH, 鈥淒isruption as Care: Feminist, Decolonial, and Queer Interventions in Archival Praxis.鈥澛�
No毛l Ingram presented "GenAI Literacy" at the AI & Writing Symposium at Babson College.
Kelley Glasgow presented "鈥淓rotic Histories in Antony and Cleopatra鈥� at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in 艾可直播, MA.听
Julia Woodward moderated a panel discussion titled 鈥淚dentity Making and Displacing the Dominant Didactic鈥� at the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality Conference: 鈥楲iberatory Practices for Worlds in Crisis鈥� at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Benjamin Paul organized the roundtable 鈥淭he Pedagogical Stakes of an Expanded Modernism鈥� at the Modernist Studies Association conference in 艾可直播.
Johanna Alden presented 鈥淢y Own People Would Not Recognize Me: The Abbot of Druimenaig, Social Relations, and Discursively Constructed Genders鈥� at the Early Modern Trans Studies' Premodern Trans Conference
Teddy Lehre presented "Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Death Drive" at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Savannah, Georgia.
Teddy Lehre gave a talk entitled "Oscar Wilde at 171" for the Introcaso Center for Lifelong Learning at La Roche University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Aidan Vick presented 鈥淪couring the Endless Archive: Alternative Reality Games, Textual Openness and Hermeneutic Play鈥� at NeMLA in Philadelphia.
Aidan Vick presented 鈥溾�楾he Conspiracy of Silence鈥�: Discursive Repression and Self-Discovery in The Well of Loneliness" at the 艾可直播 College Graduate Colloquium.
Justin Brown-Ramsey presented "Fusing Literacies: William Grimes, Narrative, and the Alphabetic and Non-Alphabetic Text" at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference in New Orleans.
Jess Oyler presented 鈥淥鈥橞rien鈥檚 Other Country Girl: Reimagining the 鈥榅 Case鈥� in Down by the River鈥� Comhfhios: Hibernia Beyond Humans. 艾可直播, MA: March 2025.
Jess Oyler presented "Cold Confinement: Mapping Housing Insecurity onto Judith Hearne's Belfast" American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Conference: Transnational Ireland. North Adams, MA
Jo Mikula presented "Rural Rides: Decoupling Population and Productivity in the Work of William Cobbett" at Northeast Modern Language Association in Philadelphia
2024
Robert Baskin presented "Non Serviam: Ghosts, Parents, and Traces in Joyce and Shakespeare" at the 艾可直播 College Graduate Student Colloquium.
Andrew Petracca presented 鈥淐harles Dickens鈥檚 American Connections: A Rare Book Display鈥� at the North American Victorian Studies Association EVENT 2024.
Andrew Petracca presented 鈥淐aricature, Character, and the Challenge of Narrating Multiculturalism in Pnin and Season of Migration to the North鈥� at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in 艾可直播, MA.
Andrew Petracca chaired the Lingering Modernisms (Part 2) panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in 艾可直播.
Cassidy Allen presented聽 鈥淪ally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches.鈥� at the New England American Conference for Irish Studies (NeACIS) in New York.
Cassidy Allen presented 鈥溾�楻ewriting鈥� the Contemporary Irish Women鈥檚 Novel.鈥� at the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Limerick.听
No毛l Ingram presented "Cultivating a Purposeful Approach to AI?" at the North East Regional Computing Program's "Unlocking the Power of Generative AI in Higher Ed" at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.听
No毛l Ingram presented 鈥淏oosting Student Agency: Digital Bading as a Form of Alternative Assessment" at The Grading Conference.
Julia Woodward presented 鈥淢ultiple Multiplicities: Cr茅olit茅 and Cultural Crossroads in Caribbean Fiction鈥� at New England American Studies Association Conference: 鈥楻evisiting Region: Locating the 鈥榃here鈥� in American Studies鈥� at Harvard University.
Benjamin Paul organized the seminar 鈥淭hinking Modern Epic鈥� and presented a paper, 鈥淚nfinite Rehearsal: Cyclical Time in the Critical Epics of Wilson Harris & Suzan-Lori Parks,鈥� at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montreal.
Benjamin Paul presented 鈥淗. D.鈥檚 Late Poems: Towards an Inward Epic鈥� at The Modernist Long Poem and its Discontents conference in Paris.
Johanna Alden presented "鈥淎gl忙can and Entan: Monstrous Taxonomies in Beowulf鈥� at the International Congress of Medieval Studies
Teddy Lehre presented "Motherhood and the Constitutional Pedestal" at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Limerick, Ireland.
Johnny Murray presented 鈥淪trange Turns: Transformations of the Weird鈥� at The 17th International Gothic Association Conference in Halifax, Canada
Johnny Murray participated in a roundtable discussion titled 鈥淗olding Up the Mirror: The Political Monster" at The 2024 艾可直播 College English Graduate Colloquium.
Jess Oyler presented 鈥淢alignant Marginality: Medical Spaces & Genre in The God Squad and Unsettled.鈥� American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Conference: Ireland at Risk. New York, NY: October 2024.
Jo Mikula presented "Cosmopolitan Domesticity: Recovering the Travels of Lady Isabel Burton" at the British Women's Writers Conference in Boulder, Colorado聽
Ophelia Wang presented " Embracing Transnationality in K-pop: Chinatown鈥檚 Dynamic Symbolism in Blackpink Lisa鈥檚 鈥淩ockstar鈥� at BTAA/Midwest Korean Studies Conference in Bloomington, Indiana.听
Ophelia Wang presented "Un-touring SF Chinatown: A VR Demo course at the Virtual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.听
Abigail Tetzlaff curated an archival exhibit, "London at the Burns: Navigating the Streets" that was shown at the NAVSA Conference
2023
Cassidy Allen presented 鈥淔eminist Interventions: Legitimizing Irish Women Writers.鈥� at NeACIS in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Andrew Petracca presented 鈥溾�楬is mouth was such a post-office鈥�: Appreciating Figurative Drift in Great Expectations鈥� at the Northeast Modern Language Association in Niagara Falls, NY
No毛l Ingram presented 鈥淭he Radical Feminist Imaginary of MadWoman #5: Feminist Zines, Materiality, and Politicized Community Building" at the Conference on Community Writing 2023: Activating Radical Imagination in Denver, CO.听
No毛l Ingram presented 鈥淗ybrid Identities and Classrooms: Using Google Sites to Position Students as Co-Constructors of Knowledge in the First-Year Composition Classroom" at Computers and Writing 2023: To What End? Hybrid Practices for Engagement and Equity in Davis, CA.听
No毛l Ingram presented聽 鈥淐o-Construction of Knowledge: Relational Composition in Public(s) with AI, Students, and Educators in the Composition Classroom" at the Computers & Writing Graduate Research Network (GRN) in Davis, CA.听
No毛l Ingram presented 鈥淏ots in the Classroom: AI Pedagogies, Building Community, and Compositional Ethics鈥� at Engaging Practices 2023: Writing in Public(s): Composition, Connection, and Global Citizenship in 艾可直播, MA.听
No毛l Ingram presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL,聽 鈥淗andcrafted Rhetorics: DIY and the Public Power of Made Things.鈥�
No毛l Ingram presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL, 鈥淢aking Hope: Handcrafted Rhetorics as a Way to Encourage Invention, Reuse, and Resistance in Composing Communities.鈥澛�
Kelley Glasgow presented 鈥溾�楥ause and Most Accursed Affect鈥�: Gendered Mourning in Richard III鈥� at Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in 艾可直播, MA
Julia Woodward presented 鈥淚nterdisciplinarity and the Graduate Student Experience鈥�, The Quiet Corner Graduate Conference at the University of Connecticut.
Benjamin Paul presented 鈥淢arvelous Incommensurability: The Haitian Revolution and Aesthetic Modernity in Alejo Carpentier and John Keene鈥� at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Chicago.
Teddy Lehre presented "Mother(land)hood," a paper and digital humanities project at the New England/Mid-Atlantic regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in 艾可直播
Justin Brown-Ramsey presented "Propagandistic Peers: The Shared Projects of James Fenimore Cooper鈥檚 The Spy, and Early American Periodicals" at the American Literary Association conference in 艾可直播.
2022
Cassidy Allen presented "The Sally Rooney Problem: Irish Women Writers in the Media.鈥� Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference (NeMLA). Baltimore, 10th-13th March, 2022.
Cassidy Allen presented Minimalist Millennials: Sanctimony Literature and Sally Rooney.鈥� WGGS Featured Roundtable. American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). Virtual, 2022.
Kelley Glasgow presented "鈥楢 Shadow without Substance鈥�: The Politics of Affect in Elizabeth Cary鈥檚 Edward II鈥� at Feeling Form/Forming Feeling?: Dialectics of Affect and Form in Anglophone Women鈥檚 Writing, 1550-1800 in Ghent, Belgium聽
Johanna Alden presented 鈥淥n the Inner Worlds, Agencies, and Ecologies of Bulls and Fairies鈥� at the New England Medieval Consortium's Ecologies Conference
2025
Robert Baskin was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence award.
Cassidy Allen was selected as the Queens University Belfast Irish Studies exchange fellow.听
Teddy Lehre was awarded a full scholarship by the University of Notre Dame to attend Imagallamh: the Kylemore Summer School in Irish Studies in Connemara, Ireland and Paris, France.
Kelly Gray's short story "The Knight's Understudy" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Burial Magazine.
Aidan Vick received the 艾可直播 College Von Hendy Prize for the best graduate essay in English.
Justin Brown-Ramsey was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award from 艾可直播 College.
Abigail Tetzlaff was awarded to Donald J. White Teaching Excellence award.
Justin Brown-Ramsey was selected as a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society's Early Career Scholar Committee Mentorship Program (ECSCMP).
2024
Cassidy Allen was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.
No毛l Ingram was awarded the 2024 Kiara Kharpertain Award.听
Kelley Glasgow received the Maddock Research Fellowship from Marsh鈥檚 Library in Dublin, Ireland
Julia Woodward received the Clough Research Fellowship through the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at 艾可直播 College
Justin Brown-Ramsey was selected to attend the 鈥淎 History of the Indigenous Book in the Americas" seminar, at the Newberry Library, in Chicago, by the Rare Book School.
Johanna Alden was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Award
Justin Brown-Ramsey was awarded an Institute of Liberal Arts Minor Grant ($2,500), for my 鈥淧rint as Pedagogy: Hands-on Learning for College Classrooms" project from 艾可直播 College.
2023
Kelly Gray was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching.
2022
Julia Woodward received the Von Hendy Award for Graduate Writing for her essay 鈥淲ho Watches the Watchers?: Unearthing the Tulsa Race Massacre in HBO鈥檚 Watchmen.鈥�
Julia Woodward received the Donald White Graduate Teaching Award.
The Graduate Colloquium
This joint M.A.-Ph.D. program sponsors lectures and gatherings throughout the academic year. In recent years, the Colloquium has taken the form of thematic evenings, each with a keynote lectures by one 艾可直播member and then papers delivered and responded to by our graduate students.听Contact colloquium organizers.
Ph.D. students in their third and fourth years also participate in a pedagogy seminar. All students are welcome. Pedagogy seminars occur periodically.听The current directors of the pedagogy seminar are No毛l Ingram听补苍诲 Kelly Gray.