APPOINTMENTS

Center for Teaching Graduate Teaching Fellowhip 2007-2008
Rebecca Chapman


AWARDS

Center for Ethics Dissertaion Writer Fellows Fall 2008
Miranda Nesler
John Morrell
Sarah Passino Muller

Graduate School Fall 2007 Dissertaion Enhancement Grant
Rebecca Chapman

College of Arts & Science 2008 Summer Research Award
Donald Jellerson

Center for the Americas Dissertaion Year Fellowhsip 2008-2009
Daniel Spoth
Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Robert Penn Warren Graduate Student Dissertaion Fellowships 2008-2009
Donald Jellerson
Derrick Spires

DEPARTMENT AWARDS

2008 John M. Aden Award (acknowledges excellence in graduate student writing for a seminar)
Diana Bellonby

2008 Edgar Hill Duncan Award (honors distinguished overall graduate career)
Nicole Seymour

2008 Thomas D. Young Award (honors superior classroom teaching by a graduate student)
Lauren Wood Hoffer

2008 Robert Manson Myers Graduate Award in English
Derrick Spires

2008 Dissertaion Year Fellowships
Rebecca Chapman
Brian Rejack


OUTSIDE AWARDS

2008 Rose Alley Press Achievement Awrds
Amanda Hagood
Sarah Kersh
Elizabeth Covington

Values and Environmental Summer Research Fellowship  2008
John Morrell

Albert M. Greenfield Foundation Fellowship
Library Company of Philadelphia
Derrick Spires

Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellow 2008
American Antiquarian Society
Derrick Spires

Frederick Binkerd  Artz Research Grant 2008
Oberlin College Archives
Derrick Spires

Shakespeare Association Graduate Travel Award 2008
Miranda Nesler

Best Graduate Student Paper
SEASACS (Southeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) Conference 2008
"Music, awake her - Strike':  Revitifying Hermione in Garrick and Shakespeare"
Bethany Packard

SEMINARS

Dartmouth Futures of American Studies Institute
Dartmouth College,  June 16-22, 2008
Megan Minarich

Dickens Camp 2008
UC, Santa Cruz  July 2008
Sarah Kersh
Elizabeth Meqadows

Shakespeare on Screen in Theory and Practice
Shakespeare Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library
Washington, DC   Spring 2008
Rebecca Chapman

Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory
Ithaca, NY         June15-July 24, 2008
Yeo Ju Choi
Emily Hines

Universtiy of Warrick England, Mellon Funded Residential Seminar
July 2008
Donald Jellerson

APPOINTMENTS
Center for Teaching Affiliates
2006-2007 Academic Year
Natalie Champ
Josh Epstein

Center for the Americas
2007 Summer Research Fellowships
Sarah Childress
Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Modern Language Association
Delegate Assemby Representative
Southeast U.S. Graduate Students
Benjamin Graydon -- elected in December 2006

Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities
Editor
Miranda Garno Nesler

AWARDS
Center for Ethics Dissertation Fellowship
Benjamin Graydon (Fall 2007)
Shirleen Robinson (Spring 2007)

College of Arts and Science Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
Jennifer Clement

College of Arts and Science 2007 Summer Research Awards
Natalie Champ
Donald Jellerson
Jeff Menne
Derrick Spires

Department Awards
2007 John M. Aden Award
   (acknowledges excellence in graduate student writing for a seminar)
DERRICK SPIRES
Title of Essay:  "'In the midst of a burning fiery furnace': Republican Virtue, Christian Ethics, and Babylonian Business in Absalom Jones and Richard Allen's Narrative"  (Professor Dana Nelson's seminar)

2007 Edgar Hill Duncan Memorial Award
   (honors distinguished overall graduate career)
JENNIFER CLEMENT

2007 Thomas D. Young Award
   (recognizes suprior classroom teaching by a graduate student)
BENJAMIN GRAYDON

Dissertation-Year Fellowships
Fall 2007/Spring 2008
Katherine Fusco
Benjamin Graydon
Jeffrey Menne

Graduate School
Fall Dissertation Enhancement Grant
Jeff Menne

2007 Robert Manson Myers Graduate Award in English
  Josh Epstein

2006-07 Robert Penn Warren Graduate Student Dissertation Fellowships
  Josh Epstein
  Nicole Seymour

OUTSIDE AWARDS
2007 Conference of Southern Graduate Schools/ProQuest UMI Distinguished Humanities Thesis Award
Destiny Birdsong
Title of Thesis:  "White Slaves: A Look at the Poor White Southerner in Slave Narratives of the Past and Present'

2007 Rose Alley Press Achievement Awards
Donald Jellerson
Elizabeth Meadows
Daniel Spoth


PUBLICATIONS
Ben Graydon has an article forthcoming in ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews.
Title:  "Product Branding in Howells' A Modern Instance"

Jeff Menne recently had an essay accepted for publication by "Cinema Journal" (for Fall 2007).
Title:  "A Mexican Nouvelle Vague: The Logic of New Waves under Globalization"

Miranda Garno Nesler has an essay forthcoming in JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory (37:1) Spring 2007.
Title: "'What Once I was, and What Am Now': Narrative and Identity Constructions in Samson Agonistes"

Nicole Seymour will have an article published in Issue 17.3 of Feminist Teacher.
Title:  "The Interests of Full Disclosure: Agenda-Setting and the Practical Initiation of the Feminist Classroom"

Daniel Spoth  has had an essay accepted for publication in the December 2007 issue of  the European Journal of American Studies.  
Title:  "The House that Time Built: Structuring History in Faulkner and Yeats"


SEMINARS
Dartmouth Futures of American Studies Institute Seminar
Dartmouth College, June 18 - 24, 2007
Yeo Ju Choi

2007 Dickens Universe -- The Pickwick Papers
UC, Santa Cruz, July 29-August 4, 2007
Natalie Champ and Christina Neckles

Folger Shakespeare Institute Seminar, "A Sense of the Archives"
January 26 - April 13, 2007
Washington, DC
Bethany Packard

Mellon Graduate Seminar, "The Souls of Brute and Stupid Things"
May 8 - 31, 2007

English Department Participants:
Beau Baca
Distiny Birdsong
Elizabeth Covington,
Josh Epstein
Amanda Hagood
Justin Haynes
Emily Hines
John Morrell
Bethany Packard
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CONFERENCES
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Conference
Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC
June 12-16, 2007
Charlotte Amanda Hagood
John Morrell

Australian National University Art and Reenactment Conference
and Graduate Workshop, Canberra and Sydney, Australia
June 5-13, 2007
Beau Baca
Brian Deyo

2007 BARS/NASSR  Conference
Britol, UK, July 26-29, 2007
Brian Rejack

British Comparative Literature Association Conference
University of Essex, Colchester, UK, March 24-25, 2007
Christina Neckles

15th Annual British Women Writing Conference
Lexington, KY
April 13-15, 2007
Elizabeth Meadows

Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
Kansas city, MO, April 19-21, 2007
Natalie Champ

International Conference on Caribbean Studies
University of Texas Pan American, November 2-5, 2006
Justin Haynes

International Conference on Narrative
Washington, DC, March 15-18, 2007
Ben Graydon
Lauren Wood Hoffer

Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
Chicago, IL, November 11-12, 2006
Nicole Seymour

Midwest Modern Language Association Conference
Chicago, IL, November 11-12, 2006
Derrick Spires

MLA Conference
Philadelphia, PA, December 27-30, 2006
Jennifer Clemen
Christian Long

Modernist Studies Association Conference
Tulsa, OK, October 19-22, 2006
Joshua Epstein

Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference:
"Minds, Bodies, Machines in the Long Nineteenth Century"
Birbeck College, University of London,
July 6-7, 2007
Natalie Champ

NTU International Literary Studies Conference
Singapore, September 28-30, 2006
Natalie Champ

Shakespeare Association of America
San Diego, CA, April 4-8, 2007
Donald Jellerson
Miranda Garno Nesler

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, IL, February 8-10, 2007
Katherine Fusco

Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference
Chicago, IL, March 9-11, 2007
Sarah Childress
Jeff Menne

20th-Century Literature and Culture Conference
University of Louisville, February 23-25, 2006
Natalie Champ