2015 Graduate Program News
Recipients of Department’s Summer Funding Report Back
A number of students received summer funds this year from the Department, enabling them to visit archives, attend international conferences, and enroll at special institutes. Here are condensed versions of their dispatches back to us:
Geoff Bender Accepts Visiting Faculty Post
Please join the Department in congratulating Geoff Bender (PhD 2012) on his appointment to Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Cortland, where he teaches courses in (among other topics) film, literature for adolescents, and also writing pedagogy.
Registration Reminder: Spring 2016
Registration opened November 2, 2015. Registration is on-line and 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.).
Congratulations to Joseph Lamperez!
The English Department is delighted to announce that an essay by Joseph Lamperez, entitled "The Aztecs and Urban Form in Bataille, Rivera, and JG Posada," has been accepted for publication in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. Examining the representation of the Aztec in the work of Georges Bataille, Diego Rivera, and Jose Guadalupe Posada, the essay argues that this figure serves to critique various aspects of modernization.
John Chandler to Hold Visiting Assistant Professorship
Felicitations to John Chandler (PhD 2012), who will be teaching at Merrimack College next year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Medieval and Digital Studies. John has been serving as an adjunct at Merrimack for the past few semesters.
Joe Vogel Begins Tenure-Track Position at Merrimack
A hearty congratulations to Joe Vogel (PhD 2014), who has recently accepted a tenure-track job as Assistant Professor of Contemporary American Literature and Film at Merrimack College. In addition, Joe has three new articles appearing this year: in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Review, the Journal of Popular Culture, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies.
Kristi Castleberry Accepts Tenure-Track Job at Lyndon State
The Department congratulates Kristi Castleberry on her new role as Assistant Professor (tenure-track) of Early British Literature at Lyndon State College (VT). For the past year, Kristi has held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program.
Leah Haught Accepts Tenure-Track Position at UWG
The English Department extends its warm congratulations to Leah Haught (PhD '11), who has just accepted a tenure-track medievalist position at the University of West Georgia. Leah joins UWG's English Department from Georgia Tech, where she has been serving as a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow for the past three years; prior to that, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the U of R's Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program.
Congratulations to Nikolaus Wasmoen!
PhD candidate and Blake-Archive contributor Nikolaus Wasmoen has been appointed Project Manager for the recently-launched ModNets (short for "Modernist Networks"). The latest addition to the consortium of scholarly digital projects that includes the well-known NINES and 18thConnect, ModNets intends to offer peer review of digital modernist projects, to aggregate scholarly resources in the field, and to render easily searchable the full range of digital publications that traditional libraries tend to omit from their indices and collections.
Dan Hutchins Accepts Position at Texas Tech University
Dan Hutchins (PhD '13) will begin a new tenure-track position at Texas Tech University this fall. Dan joins Texas Tech from North Dakota State University, where he has been serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor, and where he has specialized in early American literature, Latin American studies, and critical theory.
Congratulations to Kara McShane!
Kara McShane (PhD '14) has recently accepted a tenure-track position in the English Department of Ursinus College, outside Philadelphia, where her teaching and scholarship will focus on Medieval Literature. Kara has held a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Writing, Speaking, and Argument Program here at the U of R for the past year. She will begin her new position as of August 1st.