Alumni News
Recent publications, awards, and doings of alumni:
Undergraduates:
Carl Adair, ’07, has put his reading in his English courses to good use by using quotations from the Aeneid, Iliad, and Beowulf to cheer on the UR football team. Read about it in The Chronicle of Higher Education from November 24, 2006. The team has had its first seven game winning season since 1992, so it appears to have worked.
Jennifer Ailles, Ph.D. '07, will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in the fall of 2007.
Jeffrey J. Cohen, ’87, is the chair of the English Department at George Washington University.
Kristin Dickinson, ’02, will be taking her new M.A. degree from New York University and move into the Ph.D. program in Comparative Literature at Berkeley.
Daniel Donaghy, Ph.D. ’06, is an Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Connecticut State University. His book of Poems, Streetfighting, was a finalist for the 2006 Paterson Poetry Prize.
Jennifer Douglas, PhD '07 is an Assistant Professor of English at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Illinois.
Melissa Smith, ’09, will have an essay, “At Home and Abroad: Éowyn’s Two-fold Figuring as War Bride in The Lord of the Rings,” published in the fall 2007 or spring 2008 number of the journal Mythlore. Melissa wrote the original version of this for last year’s course on Tolkien and revised it with the help of her instructor, Michael Livingston, who is now teaching at The Citadel in South Carolina.
Lina Perkins Wilder, ’99, is now an Assistant Professor of English at Connecticut College, where she teaches Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and 20th-century drama.
Graduate Students:
Jennifer Ailles, Ph.D. '07, will be a Visiting Assistant Professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in the fall of 2007.
Sid Ray, Ph.D. ’95, has a new book out from Susquehanna University Press, Holy Estates: Marriage and Monarchy in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries.
Esther Lopez, Ph.D. ’05, will begin a new position at Georgia State University in the fall.
Ed Folsom, Ph.D. ’76, has just been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2007-08.
Michael Livingston, Ph.D. ’06, is not only an assistant professor at The Citadel, he is also a Captain in the Unorganized Militia of South Carolina.
Joanna Grant, Ph.D. ’07, has just defended her dissertation and is happily teaching at Auburn University.
April Miller Ph.D ‘07, will be an assistant professor at the University of Northern Colorado beginning in the fall of 2007.
Emily Huber, Ph.D. ‘07, will become an assistant professor at Adrian College in Michigan, within commuting distance of her partner.
Su-Ching Huang, Ph.D. ’02, is on the move again, this time to a position at East Carolina University.
Sara Varhus, Ph.D. ’80, has returned to Rochester as the new Vice-President for Academic Affairs at Nazareth College.
Nandini Bhattacharya, Ph.D. ’92, has recently published her latest book, Slavery, Colonialism and Conoisseurship: Gender and Eighteenth-Century Literary Transnationalism (Ashgate, 2006). |
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