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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
Tommy Davis is currently a Visiting Scholar and Teaching Fellow at the University of Victoria on the Kaneb Center Predoctoral Fellowship. He recently published an essay entitled "'What True Project Has Been Lost?': Modern Art and Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Everyday Life" for an edited volume on modernism, the new modernist studies, and theory forthcoming from Routledge. A regular participant at the Modernist Studies Association for the last few years, he has co-organized a panel with Nathan Hensley (Duke) for the 2006 conference called "Everyday Empires: State. Security. Form." His dissertation, "Distressed Histories: Art, War, and Everyday Life in Late Modernism," investigates the vexed relations between aesthetic form and forms of political order in the 1930s as the liberal state suffers two political crises--global economic decline and total war--that call state power and its hold on everyday life into question. He has received fellowships from the Nanovic Institute of European Studies, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Graduate School for archival work. He was awarded the KanebCenter's Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award for 2005/2006.
Kate Hennessey was awarded the Nanovic Institute's Tobin Fellowship, and is currently completing her dissertation entitled "Medea, Maeve, and Mad King Sweeney:Ancient Greek Tragedy and Irish Legend in Contemporary Irish Theatre." Her teaching experience includes a class on Celtic Mythology which won the English department's Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching. Hennessey has presented papers on Irish theatre at the November 2005 "Endangered Planet" conference of the World Association for the Study of Literatures in English in Istanbul, and for the 20th century British and Irish seminar at ND (March 2006). Her plans include a return to Dublin this spring for a final research trip before graduating.
Jennifer Molidor currently holds a Graduate Teaching Fellowship from the University Writing Program. Her dissertation "Mother Ireland's Daughters: Maternal Aesthetics in the Modern Irish Short Story, 1890-1980" argues that women writers used the modern form of the short story to draw upon maternal aesthetics of solidarity and representations of mother daughter relationships as a way to question masculinist politics of anticolonial resistance movements and the formation of the newly partitioned Irish state. She has presented work at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL) in Prague, the American Conference of Irish Studies (ACIS) at Notre Dame, the International Association of Philosophy and Literature (IAPL) in Rotterdam, and the Inter-Disciplinary Approaches to Short Fiction Conference in Salamanca.
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.
John Witek is working towards a Ph.D. in English; his dissertation is provisionally titled "Representations of Landscape and the Female Body from Edgeworth to Bowen." John also received a Summer Grant from the College of Arts and Letters to pursue his work.
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.