RECENT GRADUATE STUDENT PUBLICATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS
Black, Christopher Allen
"Milton in the New World: The Colonial Presence of Satan in Paradise Lost." American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard U, March 2009.
"The Rejection of Authority: Mutiny and Piracy in Melville's 'Billy Budd' and Cotton Mather's 'Vial Poured out Upon the Sea'." Conference of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oklahoma City, October 2008.
Farca, Paula Anca
“Going Places, Going Native: Doris Pilkington’s Caprice.” Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature (forthcoming).
Entries on characters in Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine and Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin. The Dictionary of Literary Characters (forthcoming May 2009).
“Land as Mediator: Violence and Hope in Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise.” The Journal of Australian Writers and Writing (forthcoming April 2009).
"Writing from the Margin about the Body of Slavery: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Diary and Mattie Griffith’s The Autobiography of a Female Slave.” Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 2009.
“Writing from the Margin about the Body of Slavery: Mary Chesnut’s Civil War Diary and Mattie Griffith’s The Autobiography of a Female Slave.” Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, January 2009.
“Borderline Indians, Places, and Traditions: Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine.” Western Literature Association Conference, Boulder, Colorado, October 2008.
“’And, You, Miss, Are No Lady’: Feminist and Postfeminist Scarlett O’Hara Rethinks the Southern Lady.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South (2007): 73-90.
'“Foucault Informs Kate Chopin’s Short Fiction.” Academic Exchange Quarterly, ( 2007): 120-24.
“Biting Blacks, Women, and Homosexuals: Racial and Gender Stereotypes in Vivienne Cleven’s Bitin’ Back.” SCMLA Conference, Memphis, November 2007.
“White, Straight Lady Savannah of John Berendt’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.” Notes on Contemporary Literature, (March 2007).
“Oh, Jiminy, the Aqua Trim Is Lovely!: Cathy Whitaker’s Ornamental Individuality in Todd Haynes’ Far From Heaven.” PCA/ACA Conference, Boston, April 2007.
“Sex and the City: Leopold Bloom’s Pathological Performances in Public Spaces.” International James Joyce Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, June 2006.
“The Land Writes Back: Violence and Hope in Alexis Wright’s Plains of Promise.” SCMLA, Fort Worth, Texas, October 2006.
“Whistling the Blues and Washing the Language in Lewis Nordan’s Wolf Whistle.” Notes on Contemporary Literature 35. 6 (2006).
“Autobiographical Harriet Jacobs Fictionalized by the I/eye of Linda Brent.” PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 2004.
Hoffman, Emily
“Tradition and the Individual Bullfighter: The Legacy of the Matador in Hemingway's 'The Capital of the World'.” Hemingway Review 24 (2004): 90-105.
Maple, Jeni
"The Intersection of Feminism and Disability Theory in Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar." Conference on Thinking Gender. UCLA, February 2009.
Putnam, Luella
Entries on "American Pastoral," "Anne Bradstreet," "Anne Bradstreet’s 'Contemplations',” "Margaret Fuller,""Margaret Fuller’s Summer on the Lakes," "John Winthrop," "John Winthrop’s Journal." Encyclopedia of American Environmental Literature, Ed. Brian Jones. Facts on File, forthcoming 2010.
Entry on "Post-colonialism and Motherhood." Encyclopedia of Motherhood. Ed. Susan Moskowitz. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing, forthcoming 2010.
Entries on "Toni Morrison," "Margaret Atwood," "History of Reproduction in World Literature," "History of Reproduction in American and European Literature," "Menstruation and Menopause in Novels," "Menstruation and Menopause as Metaphor." Historical Encyclopedia of Women’s Reproductive Lives. Ed. Sharmain van Blommestein. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2009.
Entries on "The American Dream," "Thomas Paine," "Ethics in Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason," "The Individual and Society in Thomas Paine’s The Age of Reason." General Themes in Literature. Ed. Jessica A. McClinton-Temple. Facts on File, forthcoming 2009.
“Empowerment.” Beyond “Burning Bras”: Feminist Activism for Everyone. Ed. . Laura Finley. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2009.
“Sometimes Sympathetic Friends: The Political Implications of Cross-Cultural Relationships between Women in S. Alice Callahan’s Wynema and Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.” Accepted for presentation at the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2009.
“'I resisted all the way: a new thing for me': How Louisa May Alcott Challenges Charlotte Bronte's Feminist Assertions in Jane Eyre." Women's Studies Conference on Sexuality, Middle Tennessee State University, March 2009.
“The Death of Uncle Sam: Anti-Americanism in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming.” Louisiana Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture, Lafayette, LA, March 2009.
“It 'Jes Grew': Accounting for Women's Power in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo.” College Language Association Conference, Charleston, SC, April 2008.
Rogers, Cynthia
"Singing from the Book: Capitalum marks used as performance markers in the Lullaby Carol from Harley Manuscript 913." International Congress on Medieval Studies, 2007.
Session Chair: "Law, Literature, and Land." Mid-American Medieval Association Conference, 2006.
“Bold Bawdry: Malory’s Blend of Christianity and Pragmatism in His Treatment of Sexual Infidelity.” 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Michigan, May 2006.
“Arming Arthur: The Middle English Inheritance of Arming Scenes from Classical Epics.” Mid-American Medieval Association Conference, Kansas City, February 2005.
Starkey, Leslie
"Writing the Trail with Laughing Horse: The Little Magazines of the New Mexico Artist Colonies." English Graduate Student Conference, U of Tulsa, March 2009.
Uzakova, Oydin
"The Potential of Metaparody: The Ironic Reversal in the Reception History of Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quixote, 1605-2007." Renaissance Comparative Prose Conference. Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, October 2008.
"'Many things remarkable': Spatial Context and Geographical Perception in John Milton’s A Brief History of Moscovia." The Ninth International Milton Symposium. The Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, July 2008.
"Two Portraits of Kingship: Political Success and Failure in Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great, Part I, and Edward II." The Sixth Marlowe International Conference. University of Kent; Canterbury, England; 30 June-3 July 2008.
"The Reception History of John Milton in Russia and the Former Soviet Union." The 8th International Milton Symposium. The School of Politics (IEP Grenoble). Grenoble, France, June 2005.
Rev. of The Female Tragic Hero in English Renaissance Drama, ed. Naomi Conn Liebler. Marlowe Society of America Newsletter 25.1 (Spring 2005): 13-15.
"The Reception History of John Milton in Russia and the Former Soviet Union." International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities. University of the Aegean., Island of Rhodes, Greece, July 2003.
Zhu, Jing
"Written Pictures: Translations of Classical Chinese Poems in the Little Magazines." English Graduate Student Conference, U of Tulsa, March 2009.
Zubaidi, Jannah
"Elizabeth Bishop's Visions of Water." The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities.Honolulu, Hawaii, January 2008.
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