2014 Graduate Program News
Esther Arnold Accepts Archivist Position at Rare Books
Esther Arnold (PhD '13) has accepted a full-time position in the Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation Department of Rush Rhees Library, where she will be serving in the capacity of Archives Assistant. Esther brings with her a wealth of experience garnered both from her work as a Project Assistant at the William Blake Archive (2008-13) as well as from her Curatorial Fellowship at George Eastman House (2010-12). Congratulations!
Martha Johnson-Olin Hired at Potomac State College
Congratulations to Martha Johnson-Olin (PhD '14), who has recently accepted a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at Potomac State College (a division of West Virginia University). Johnson-Olin's dissertation, in which she places Middle English Romance in dialogue with early folklore and fairy-tale traditions, was completed under the direction of Professor Russell Peck.
Graduate Registration Reminder
Fall 2014 registration will begin on April 7, 2014. Registration is a process you need to do each semester, even if you have completed your credit requirement (30 for master’s; 90 for Ph.D.). It is important for you to be in touch with Carrie Morriss regarding your registration if you are unsure how to register. carrie.morriss@rochester.edu
Arnold, Zogas Win 2014 Gilman Prize
Congratulations to Esther Arnold and Peter Zogas, recipients of the 2014 William H. Gilman Memorial Prize. The Gilman is awarded annually by the English Department to a graduating PhD candidate whose work in English or American literature has been deemed truly outstanding.
Kate Norako Accepts Stanford Post-Doc
Congratulations to Kate Norako (PhD '12), who will embark this fall on a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University, teaching sections of the college's required freshman-seminar program, "Thinking Matters"
Esther Arnold's Dissertation Recognized for Excellence
The English Department congratulates Esther Arnold, one of two graduating PhD students in the Humanities this year whose dissertations received official Commendations for excellence from the University's College of Arts and Sciences. Arnold's dissertation, "Entertaining Reformers: Social Reform and Recreation in American Literature and Silent Film, 1840-1915," was written under the direction of Professor John Michael.
Curtis Teaching Prize awarded to Nikolaus Wasmoen
Sixth-year PhD student Nikolaus Wasmoen has been awarded the University's 2014 Edward Peck Curtis Prize for Excellence in Teaching by a Graduate Student. Currently serving as a Dean's Teaching Fellow in two of Professor Morris Eaves' courses on the concept of "The Digital Page," while also assisting in a course taught by Professor Bette London on the Twentieth-Century British Novel, Wasmoen has continually found dynamic and eye-opening ways of sharing with students a set of unique skills garnered while writing his ambitious, highly interdisciplinary dissertation on the role of the author-editor in the construction of literary modernism.
Registration Reminders
When you register for graduate courses, note that all 500-level courses in the English Department carry 5 credits. In order to receive 5 credits for a 400-level course in the English Department, you will need to register for the 4-credit 400-level course AND for the proper 1-credit 400M course. You will be able to locate the proper 1-credit 400M easily: the 400M number will be identical to the 400 number for your 4-credit course (i.e., ENG 410 and ENG 410M). The instructor will explain the requirements for obtaining this extra one credit.