Department News and Publications
Andrew Sofer’s poem sequence “Wanting a Child” received an International Merit Award in Atlanta Review’s 2009 International Poetry Competition. His book manuscript, Wave, was a finalist for the 2009 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize (judged by Alicia Ostreiker).
Andrew Sofer published an article, “How to Do Things with Demons: Conjuring Performatives in Doctor Faustus,” in Theatre Journal, and a chapter on Properties in The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre. He published poems in Southern Poetry Review (“Renting a Tux”) and Dogwood (“Mea Shearim”), and his poem “Riddle” co-won the 2009 Boyle/Farber Prize from the New England Poetry Club.
At the 15th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Ideas of Ultimate Reality and Meaning (August 5-9, University of Toronto), John Mahoney delivered a paper on Wordsworth and Ultimate Meaning: Poetry and Religious Practice. "John also led a Symposium on "Ultimate Meaning in the Poetry of Ireland."
Frances Restuccia gave a talk, "Psycho: The Ultimate Seduction," at the IAPL (International Association for Philosophy and Literature) Conference at Brunel University in West London, in June 2009.
Frances Restuccia's essay "Kristeva's Intimate Revolt and the Thought Specular: Encountering the (Mulholland) Drive" was published as a chapter in a new collection on Kristeva: Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Julia Kristeva, edited by Kelly Oliver and S.K. Keltner, published by SUNY Press.
Frances Restuccia’s talk - "Disclosing Anxiety" - at the "Anxiety, the Affect of the Real" Conference, directed by Colette Soler, in 2007, in Paris, also just came out in a volume of essays published by Les Formations Cliniques du Champ Lacanien.
Mary Crane published two articles: “Roman World, Egyptian Earth: Cognitive Difference and Empire in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra,” Comparative Drama 43 (2009): 1-18. “Illicit Privacy and Outdoor Spaces in Early Modern England,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 9.1 (2009): 4-22.
Suzanne Matson gave a talk, "The Liberty Committee: Finns, Sedition, and Montana Vigilantes during World War I," at the University of Turku's Institute of Migration in June 2009.
Robert Kern's article, "Birds of a Feather: Emily Dickinson, Alberto Manguel, and the Nature Poet's Dilemma," was published in the Spring 2009 issue of ISLE (Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment) 16.2, 327-342.
Robert Kern delivered a paper, "The Semiotic and Epistemological Quandary of Nature Writing," at the Eighth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, held at the University of Victoria in June. Former and current BC graduate students who attended the conference and gave papers include Luke Dietrich, Stephen Siperstein, Christina Healey, Helena Feder, Jeffrey Myers, and Allison Van Vort.
Caroline Bicks's article, “Staging the Jesuitess in A Game at Chess,” appeared in Studies in English Literature 49.2(2009): 463-484. She also performed an original monologue in the show "Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine" at the A.R.T.'s Zero Arrow Theater in June. The piece has been published in the collection of that same name (St. Martin's Press, 2009), and on babble.com.
James Smith - Co-Editor. Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies. Special Double Issue, "Children, Childhood and Irish Society." 44:
1 & 2 (2009): 296 pgs.
James Smith - "Editors' Introduction," with Maria Luddy. Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies. Special Double Issue, "Children, Childhood and Irish Society." 44: 1 & 2 (2009): 5-8.
James Smith - “Voices of our Magdalene women washed out of history for too long.” Opinion-Editorial. The Sunday Tribune (Dublin) 12 July, 2009: 14.
Laura Tanner's essay, “Intimate Geography: The Body, Race and Space in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand,” appeared in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 51.2 (Summer 2009). She also gave a paper at the annual American Literature Association Conference in May entitled “'Ridiculous Furniture': Inhabiting the Uncomfortable Space of Memory in Robinson’s Home."
Robin Lydenberg “Marcel Duchamp’s Legacy: Aesthetics, Gender, and National Identity in the Toilet,” in Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender, ed. Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner (Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2009): 151-66.
John Mahoney addressed Teaching Fellows and Assistants on "The Art and Craft of Teaching" at the Annual Workshop for graduate students held at Connors Family Learning Center, O'Neill Library, August 28, 2009.
Caroline Bicks's essay about standing up to Dr. Ferber, "Sweet Dreams," appeared in "Afterbirth: Stories You Won't Read in a Parenting Magazine", ed. Dani Klein Modisett (St. Martins, 2009). She'll be performing her piece at the A.R.T.'s Zero Arrow Pub Theater in Cambridge the evening of Monday June 22nd when the "Afterbirth" show has its Boston premiere. Contact her for details if you'd like to attend.
Dennis Taylor, "Last Lecture," BC Graduation A&S Awards Ceremony, 17 May 2009.
Dennis Taylor, “Jude the Obscure and English National Identity: The Religious Striations of Wessex”, in A Companion to Thomas Hardy, ed. Keith Wilson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) 345-63.
Mary Crane gave a talk on “Commensurability and Abstraction in Shakespeare’s Sonnets” at the Shakespeare Association of America in Washington, D.C., on April 10, 2009.
Andrew Sofer gave a keynote address, "Take Up the Bodies: Shakespeare's Corpses," at the Southeastern Theatre Conference's Theatre Symposium (on Props) on April 5, 2009. He also delivered the conference closing response.
Paul Mariani's review of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, ed. Thomas Travisano with Saskia Hamilton, appeared in the March 9th issue of America Magazine, pp. 25—26.
Beth Kowaleski Wallace has received a Research Incentive Grant for the summer of 2009.
Alan Richardson's book "The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts" has been accepted for publication by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Judith Wilt published an essay, "Three Women Writers and the Jesuit Sublime, or, Jesuits in Love," in the journal RELIGION AND THE ARTS 13:1 (2009), 1-13.
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