Recent Graduate Accomplishments in Twentieth-Century British and Irish Studies
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Tommy Davis
"'What True Project Has Been Lost?': Modern Art and Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life," forthcoming in an edited volume on modernism, the new modernist studies, and theory to be published by Routledge.
Stephanie Pocock
"'God's in this apple'": Eating and Spirituality in Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," forthcoming Modern Drama 50.1 (2007).
Siân White
"Warming the Other Side: Trevor, Cixous and Facing a New Direction," New Voices in Irish Criticism 5 (2005): 224-231.
Tommy Davis
Kaneb Center Predoctoral Fellowship, 2006-2007
Kate Hennessey
Nanovic Institute Tobin Fellowship, 2006-2007
Sean Mannion is entering his second year of Ph.D. study at Notre Dame.His focus is British and Irish modernism, particularly Wilde, Joyce, and Beckett; he is also interested in philosophies of otherness, post-Marxism, and the issue of confession in Irish literature.
Stephanie Pocock is a first-year Ph.D. candidate at Notre Dame who holds an M.A. in English from Baylor University. Her current research interests are in the areas of modern and contemporary British and Irish drama, and in postcolonial, primarily African, literatures. Her article "'God's in this apple'": Eating and Spirituality in Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire," will appear in Modern Drama 50.1 (2007). She also has articles on W.B. Yeats and Paul Muldoon forthcoming in New Hibernia Review and Notes on Contemporary Literature, and her essay on Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West will be published in Martin McDonagh: A Casebook in the summer of 2007.
Lauren Rich
Todd Thorpe is presently the Graduate Student Assistant Director of the University Writing Program. Thorpe's research interests are in linguistically innovative poetry, ecocriticism, jazz studies, and urbanism and literature. He is currently working on a dissertation, Urbanizing Pastoral: The Adventure of a Cultural Form, that argues that pastoral genres in literature and art are integral to the ongoing process of urbanization. Pastoral forms of expression help theorize the expanding urban environment, and in the process become themselves deeply urbanized. A second book project is also underway, Haptic Allegories and Communities of Desire, in which experimental poetries and art forms, especially landscape art, are seen as instigations to historical counter-narrative. Thorpe attended the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell during the summer of 2005, where he studied with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht. He will be presenting at the 2006 MLA on Christopher Marlowe's Massacre at Paris on a panel entitled "French Connections in the English Renaissance."
Jacqueline Weeks
Siân White is currently at work on a dissertation entitled, "Intimate Modernities: Intimacy in British and Irish literature, 1915-1955." Siân has presented papers at several conferences, including the North Eastern Regional American Conference for Irish Studies, the National American Conference for Irish Studies, the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature in Prague, and at the New Voices in Irish Criticism conference in Cork, which was subsequently published in New Voices 5 under the title “Warming the Other Side: Trevor, Cixous and Facing A New Direction.” Her teaching interests center primarily around British and Irish Modernism, with gender or postcolonial approaches.
Tom Butler is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.
Christine Doran is Assistant Professor of English at SUNY Potsdam, where she explores representations of work in relation to femininity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century literature.
James Wilson is currently a Teaching Scholar at the University of Notre Dame.
James Wurtz is Assistant Professor of English at Indiana State University, where he teaches courses in postcolonial studies and modernism.