Student News
2025
Andrew Petracca published a short story, "On the Blade," in Maudlin House.
Cassidy Allen published a book review of "The Routledge Companion to Sally Rooney" by Angelo Bollas In New Hibernia Review.Ģż
NoĆ«l Ingram published "Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with 'AI Tracks' and Rethinking Student AI Agency" in Unmaking the Grade.Ģż
Benjamin Paul published a review of Margaret Rossās Saturday in The Brooklyn Rail.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Mary Helen Callierās When the Horses in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Leah Flax Barberās The Mirror of Simple Souls in the Harvard Review.
Kelly Gray published the short story "Chatroulette" in Cleveland Review of Books.
Aidan Vick published a review of Adam Parkes' Modernism and the Aristocracy: Monsters of English Privilege in Modernism/modernity.
Ophelia Wang published a review of Performing Chinatown: Hollywood, Tourism, and the Making of a Chinese American Community by William Gow in the Journal of Tourism History.Ģż
Ophelia Wang presented "From Orientalism to Self-Definition: Blackpink Lisaās āRockstarā and the Cultural Politics of Chinatown" at Association for Asian American Studies 2025 Annual Conference in Boston, MA.ĢżĀ
2024
Robert Baskin published a review of Novels by Aliens: Weird Tales and the Twenty-First Century by Kate Marshall in Contemporary LIterature.
Robert Baskin published a review of Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983 and Notes on the Cinematograph by Robert Bresson, The Cleveland Review of Books.
Noƫl Ingram published "Using Zines to Teach Literary Analysis in a Post ChatGPT World" in Teaching American Literature: A Journal of Theory and Practice.
Kelley Glasgow published a book review of āShakespeareās Golden Agesā in Sixteenth Century Journal.Ģż
Justin Brown-Ramsey published "Propagandistic Peers: The Shared Projects of James Fenimore Cooperās The Spy, and Early American Periodicals" in the James Fenimore Cooper Society Journal.
Justin Brown-Ramsey published a review of The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830ā1860, by Katie McGettigan, in Textual Cultures.
Johnny Murray published the final installment of his seven-volume illustrated novel Ripponlea (Unlock the Clockcase, 2021-24)
2023
Andrew Petracca published a review of The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism, by S. Pearl Brilmyer, in the Victorian Institutes Journal, vol. 50.
Johanna Alden published āDramatic Spectacle in LaĘ·amon: The Brut 's Direct Speeches, Aestheticized Violence, and Gendered Historical Reenactmentsā in Arthuriana (Dallas, Tex.) 33, no. 4
Johanna Alden published a review of The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800āc.1500 ed. by Philippa Turner and Jane Hawkes in the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures.
Kelly Gray published the article "Communal Ruination and Collaborative Survival: The Third Nature of Urban Heat Islands in Do The Right Thing and In The Heights" in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and the Environment.
Jo Mikula published a review of Queer Kinship After Wilde by Kristin Mahoney in Victorians Institute Journal.
2022
Cassidy Allen published a book review of PostāCeltic Tiger Ireland and Contemporary Women's Writing: Feminist Interventions and Imaginings ed. by Claire Bracken and Tara Harney-Mahajan in New Hibernia Review.
Julia Woodward published āA Material Stratum: Black Bodies and Environmental Exploitation in Edward P. Jonesā The Known World.ā in The Quiet Corner Interdisciplinary Journal.
2025
Robert Baskin presented "The 'Unreal City' as Weird Palimpsest: Spaces on the Edge of the Colonial Imaginary in Eliot, Conrad, and Machen" at the Modernist Studies Association in Boston.
Robert Baskin presented "Weird Noir in Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest: or The Weird Beyond Horror" at Northeast Modern Language Association in Philadelphia.
Cassidy Allen presented, āTechnology and Intimacy in Contemporary Irish Literatureā at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature 2025 in Galway (IASIL).
NoĆ«l Ingram presentedĀ at Feminisms and Rhetorics in Durham, NH, āDisruption as Care: Feminist, Decolonial, and Queer Interventions in Archival Praxis.āĀ
Noƫl Ingram presented "GenAI Literacy" at the AI & Writing Symposium at Babson College.
Kelley Glasgow presented "āErotic Histories in Antony and Cleopatraā at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Boston, MA.Ģż
Julia Woodward moderated a panel discussion titled āIdentity Making and Displacing the Dominant Didacticā at the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality Conference: āLiberatory Practices for Worlds in Crisisā at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Benjamin Paul organized the roundtable āThe Pedagogical Stakes of an Expanded Modernismā at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Boston.
Johanna Alden presented āMy Own People Would Not Recognize Me: The Abbot of Druimenaig, Social Relations, and Discursively Constructed Gendersā at the Early Modern Trans Studies' Premodern Trans Conference
Teddy Lehre presented "Cathleen Ni Houlihan and the Death Drive" at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Savannah, Georgia.
Teddy Lehre gave a talk entitled "Oscar Wilde at 171" for the Introcaso Center for Lifelong Learning at La Roche University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Aidan Vick presented āScouring the Endless Archive: Alternative Reality Games, Textual Openness and Hermeneutic Playā at NeMLA in Philadelphia.
Aidan Vick presented āāThe Conspiracy of Silenceā: Discursive Repression and Self-Discovery in The Well of Loneliness" at the Boston College Graduate Colloquium.
Justin Brown-Ramsey presented "Fusing Literacies: William Grimes, Narrative, and the Alphabetic and Non-Alphabetic Text" at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference in New Orleans.
Jess Oyler presented āOāBrienās Other Country Girl: Reimagining the āX Caseā in Down by the Riverā Comhfhios: Hibernia Beyond Humans. Boston, MA: March 2025.
Jess Oyler presented "Cold Confinement: Mapping Housing Insecurity onto Judith Hearne's Belfast" American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Conference: Transnational Ireland. North Adams, MA
Jo Mikula presented "Rural Rides: Decoupling Population and Productivity in the Work of William Cobbett" at Northeast Modern Language Association in Philadelphia
2024
Robert Baskin presented "Non Serviam: Ghosts, Parents, and Traces in Joyce and Shakespeare" at the Boston College Graduate Student Colloquium.
Andrew Petracca presented āCharles Dickensās American Connections: A Rare Book Displayā at the North American Victorian Studies Association EVENT 2024.
Andrew Petracca presented āCaricature, Character, and the Challenge of Narrating Multiculturalism in Pnin and Season of Migration to the Northā at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Boston, MA.
Andrew Petracca chaired the Lingering Modernisms (Part 2) panel at the Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Boston.
Cassidy Allen presentedĀ āSally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches.ā at the New England American Conference for Irish Studies (NeACIS) in New York.
Cassidy Allen presented āāRewritingā the Contemporary Irish Womenās Novel.ā at the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Limerick.Ģż
NoĆ«l Ingram presented "Cultivating a Purposeful Approach to AI?" at the North East Regional Computing Program's "Unlocking the Power of Generative AI in Higher Ed" at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.Ģż
NoĆ«l Ingram presented āBoosting Student Agency: Digital Bading as a Form of Alternative Assessment" at The Grading Conference.
Julia Woodward presented āMultiple Multiplicities: CrĆ©olitĆ© and Cultural Crossroads in Caribbean Fictionā at New England American Studies Association Conference: āRevisiting Region: Locating the āWhereā in American Studiesā at Harvard University.
Benjamin Paul organized the seminar āThinking Modern Epicā and presented a paper, āInfinite Rehearsal: Cyclical Time in the Critical Epics of Wilson Harris & Suzan-Lori Parks,ā at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montreal.
Benjamin Paul presented āH. D.ās Late Poems: Towards an Inward Epicā at The Modernist Long Poem and its Discontents conference in Paris.
Johanna Alden presented "āAglƦcan and Entan: Monstrous Taxonomies in Beowulfā at the International Congress of Medieval Studies
Teddy Lehre presented "Motherhood and the Constitutional Pedestal" at the national meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Limerick, Ireland.
Johnny Murray presented āStrange Turns: Transformations of the Weirdā at The 17th International Gothic Association Conference in Halifax, Canada
Johnny Murray participated in a roundtable discussion titled āHolding Up the Mirror: The Political Monster" at The 2024 Boston College English Graduate Colloquium.
Jess Oyler presented āMalignant Marginality: Medical Spaces & Genre in The God Squad and Unsettled.ā American Conference for Irish Studies Regional Conference: Ireland at Risk. New York, NY: October 2024.
Jo Mikula presented "Cosmopolitan Domesticity: Recovering the Travels of Lady Isabel Burton" at the British Women's Writers Conference in Boulder, ColoradoĀ
Ophelia Wang presented " Embracing Transnationality in K-pop: Chinatownās Dynamic Symbolism in Blackpink Lisaās āRockstarā at BTAA/Midwest Korean Studies Conference in Bloomington, Indiana.Ģż
Ophelia Wang presented "Un-touring SF Chinatown: A VR Demo course at the Virtual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.Ģż
Abigail Tetzlaff curated an archival exhibit, "London at the Burns: Navigating the Streets" that was shown at the NAVSA Conference
2023
Cassidy Allen presented āFeminist Interventions: Legitimizing Irish Women Writers.ā at NeACIS in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Andrew Petracca presented āāHis mouth was such a post-officeā: Appreciating Figurative Drift in Great Expectationsā at the Northeast Modern Language Association in Niagara Falls, NY
NoĆ«l Ingram presented āThe Radical Feminist Imaginary of MadWoman #5: Feminist Zines, Materiality, and Politicized Community Building" at the Conference on Community Writing 2023: Activating Radical Imagination in Denver, CO.Ģż
NoĆ«l Ingram presented āHybrid Identities and Classrooms: Using Google Sites to Position Students as Co-Constructors of Knowledge in the First-Year Composition Classroom" at Computers and Writing 2023: To What End? Hybrid Practices for Engagement and Equity in Davis, CA.Ģż
NoĆ«l Ingram presentedĀ āCo-Construction of Knowledge: Relational Composition in Public(s) with AI, Students, and Educators in the Composition Classroom" at the Computers & Writing Graduate Research Network (GRN) in Davis, CA.Ģż
NoĆ«l Ingram presented āBots in the Classroom: AI Pedagogies, Building Community, and Compositional Ethicsā at Engaging Practices 2023: Writing in Public(s): Composition, Connection, and Global Citizenship in Boston, MA.Ģż
NoĆ«l Ingram presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL,Ā āHandcrafted Rhetorics: DIY and the Public Power of Made Things.ā
NoĆ«l Ingram presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL, āMaking Hope: Handcrafted Rhetorics as a Way to Encourage Invention, Reuse, and Resistance in Composing Communities.āĀ
Kelley Glasgow presented āāCause and Most Accursed Affectā: Gendered Mourning in Richard IIIā at Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Boston, MA
Julia Woodward presented āInterdisciplinarity and the Graduate Student Experienceā, The Quiet Corner Graduate Conference at the University of Connecticut.
Benjamin Paul presented āMarvelous Incommensurability: The Haitian Revolution and Aesthetic Modernity in Alejo Carpentier and John Keeneā at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Chicago.
Teddy Lehre presented "Mother(land)hood," a paper and digital humanities project at the New England/Mid-Atlantic regional meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Boston
Justin Brown-Ramsey presented "Propagandistic Peers: The Shared Projects of James Fenimore Cooperās The Spy, and Early American Periodicals" at the American Literary Association conference in Boston.
2022
Cassidy Allen presented "The Sally Rooney Problem: Irish Women Writers in the Media.ā Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference (NeMLA). Baltimore, 10th-13th March, 2022.
Cassidy Allen presented Minimalist Millennials: Sanctimony Literature and Sally Rooney.ā WGGS Featured Roundtable. American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). Virtual, 2022.
Kelley Glasgow presented "āA Shadow without Substanceā: The Politics of Affect in Elizabeth Caryās Edward IIā at Feeling Form/Forming Feeling?: Dialectics of Affect and Form in Anglophone Womenās Writing, 1550-1800 in Ghent, BelgiumĀ
Johanna Alden presented āOn the Inner Worlds, Agencies, and Ecologies of Bulls and Fairiesā at the New England Medieval Consortium's Ecologies Conference
2025
Robert Baskin was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence award.
Cassidy Allen was selected as the Queens University Belfast Irish Studies exchange fellow.Ģż
Teddy Lehre was awarded a full scholarship by the University of Notre Dame to attend Imagallamh: the Kylemore Summer School in Irish Studies in Connemara, Ireland and Paris, France.
Kelly Gray's short story "The Knight's Understudy" was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Burial Magazine.
Aidan Vick received the Boston College Von Hendy Prize for the best graduate essay in English.
Justin Brown-Ramsey was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award from Boston College.
Abigail Tetzlaff was awarded to Donald J. White Teaching Excellence award.
Justin Brown-Ramsey was selected as a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society's Early Career Scholar Committee Mentorship Program (ECSCMP).
2024
Cassidy Allen was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award.
NoĆ«l Ingram was awarded the 2024 Kiara Kharpertain Award.Ģż
Kelley Glasgow received the Maddock Research Fellowship from Marshās Library in Dublin, Ireland
Julia Woodward received the Clough Research Fellowship through the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College
Justin Brown-Ramsey was selected to attend the āA History of the Indigenous Book in the Americas" seminar, at the Newberry Library, in Chicago, by the Rare Book School.
Johanna Alden was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Award
Justin Brown-Ramsey was awarded an Institute of Liberal Arts Minor Grant ($2,500), for my āPrint as Pedagogy: Hands-on Learning for College Classrooms" project from Boston College.
2023
Kelly Gray was awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award for Graduate Teaching.
2022
Julia Woodward received the Von Hendy Award for Graduate Writing for her essay āWho Watches the Watchers?: Unearthing the Tulsa Race Massacre in HBOās Watchmen.ā
Julia Woodward received the Donald White Graduate Teaching Award.
The Graduate Colloquium
This joint M.A.-Ph.D. program sponsors lectures and gatherings throughout the academic year. In recent years, the Colloquium has taken the form of thematic evenings, each with a keynote lectures by one faculty member and then papers delivered and responded to by our graduate students.ĢżContact colloquium organizers.
Ph.D. students in their third and fourth years also participate in a pedagogy seminar. All students are welcome. Pedagogy seminars occur periodically.ĢżThe current directors of the pedagogy seminar are NoĆ«l IngramĢż²¹²Ō»å Kelly Gray.