After all those job applications, MLA interviews, and on campus visits, now is the time that some of our graduate students are receiving and accepting positions. The information here is about positions that begin in Fall 2006. (from Reading Matters 11:16 May 10, 2006)
M.F.A.
Eula Biss
John Bresland
Michael Clark
Andy Douglas
Jynelle Gracia
Marilyn Knight
Mary Margaret ("Mia") Nussbaum
Rebecca SheirM.A.
Robert Hunsicker
Lorry Perry
Tevis Thompson
Dory Weiss
Sean de VegaPh.D.
Mark Bruce
Anthony Enns
Michael Germana
Carol Lauhon
Kimberli Stafford Lawson
Margaret Loose
Mary Moran
Lori Muntz
Scott Nowka
Amy Spellacy
Congratulations to the following students who have recently received fellowships and dissertation awards:
ADA LOUISE BALLARD AND SEASHORE FELLOWSHIPS
Stacy Erickson, "Collaboration in the Marketplace: Writers, Publishers, and Printers in Early Modern London" (Doug Trevor, director)
Matthew Miller, "Collage of Myself: Whitman's Manuscript Drafts and the Making of Leaves of Grass" (Ed Folsom, director)
SEELY DISTINGUISHED DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
Ania Spyra, "Multilingual Cosmopoetics: Literary Experiments in the Contact Zones" (Mary Lou Emery and Claire Fox, directors)
DEPARTMENTAL DISSERTATION SCHOLARSHIPS
Prairie Lights/Sherman Paul Dissertation Scholarship for work on the contemporary period, established through the generosity of the Prairie Lights Bookstore
Keith Wilhite, for archival research at Boston University and Brandeis University in connection with his dissertation, "Suburban Empires: Literature and Geography of the Post-War Suburban Region" (Barbara Eckstein and Tom Lutz, directors)
Frederick P. W. McDowell Dissertation Scholarship for work on the period 1850-1950, established through the generosity of the students and colleagues of Professor Emeritus McDowell
Heidi Bean, for archival research at the Beinecke Rare Book Library, Yale University, and at the Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center and the Schomburg archive in New York in connection with her dissertation, "The New Poet's Theater: Generative Mimesis, Performativity, and Cultural Justice" (Dee Morris, director)
Valerie Lagorio Traveling Fellowship for work on the medieval period, established through the generosity of the students of Professor Emerita Lagorio
Chris Burgess, to support archival research in Glasgow, Scotland
Edwin Ford Piper Memorial scholarship for work in women's studies, established by Janet Pressley Piper in memory of her husband, who was a faculty member in the Iowa English Department
Jessica-Jan Harriman, to support work on her M.F.A. thesis about women's mystical experience in Appalachia
BEST ESSAY PRIZE
Matthew Miller, "Makings of Americans: Whitman and Stein's Poetics of Inclusion"
Arizona Quarterly, forthcoming (2006)
GRADUATE COLLEGE SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS
Jessica DeSpain
Young-Hee Kwon
Sean Scanlan
Justin St.Clair
Jeff Swenson
OTHER AWARDS
Jessica DeSpain received a tuition scholarship to attend Rare Book School this summer.
Stacy Erickson received a grant from the Folger Institute to participate in the "Further Transactions of the Book" conference held in March at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC and to do research in their collections over Spring Break. She also received a W. M. Keck Foundation Fellowship from the Huntington Library to do dissertation research this coming summer.
Joyce Kelley received First Place in the Humanities presentations at the Jakobsen Conference.
Mary Moran received the Graduate Student Mentor Award in the Humanities Division from the Graduate College.
Wanda Raiford received a FLAS Fellowship in order to study Arabic in Washington, DC this summer.
Justin St.Clair received Third Place in the Humanities presentations at the Jakobsen Conference.
Erica Still received the Chavez/Eastman/Marshall Dissertation Fellowship at Dartmouth College for academic year 2006-07.
Awards news from Reading Matters 11:16 May 10, 2006