Department of English
Information for Prospective English Graduate Students
Graduate Student Achievements
CONGRATULATIONS to MAs and PhDs!
TEMEKA L. CARTER, PHD 2009
"Democracy in the Composition Classroom" at CCCC in San Antonio, TX, Spring '04.
Course Design: fall '04 - My WGS 250-01 students and I launched the publication of a zine entitled "OutPour" for the Women's and Gender Studies Program. The zine has been adopted by the program and is now being continued in subsequent WGS 250-01 classes. Katie Guest, who is currently teaching the course, has made OutPour an online publication.
ALLISON COOPER DAVIS, PHD 2009
"Breaking the Seven Hundred Year Silence: Yosano Akiko Speaks." Philological Association of the Carolinas Conference, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, March 18-20, 2004.
MICHELLE JOHNSON, PHD 2009
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, 2004-05, College of Arts & Sciences.
"But what about the colored woman?" : Re-Appropriation of the Religious Narrative as a Means to Sexual Redemption in Sarah E. Wright's This Child's Gonna Live, American Women Writers of Color Conference, Baltimore, MD, November 2004.
"How Multicultural Composition Readers Teach White Students How to be White," College English Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2005.
RITA JONES-HYDE, PHD 2007
Re-elected as Vice President of Finance for the Graduate Student Association.
DOROTHY KUYKENDAL, PHD 2009
"'I follow the pen': the (Dis)Location of Two Elizabeth C's," to be presented at the J.M. Coetzee and Post-Apartheid South African Literature International Conference at Royal Holloway, University of London, on April 30, 2005.
"'Waspes Nest': The Prioress' Tale, Spatialization, and Bodies That Matter," Southeastern Medieval Association, Roanoke, VA, on November 12, 2004.
Review: Dorothy Kuykendal. Untitled. Review of Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, ed. Lavery and Wilcox Extrapolation 43 (Fall 2002).
LORENZO "LOGIE" MEACHUM, PHD CANDIDATE
Awarded the O'Henry Award, presented by the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce and the United Arts Council of Greensboro, recognizing an indivudual's contribution to the arts and cultural development. Logie won for his work as a short story writer and performer in and director of a variety of shows.
BRIAN RAY, PHD CANDIDATE
Brian Ray, who will begin his doctoral program and teaching assistantship with us in August 2008, has been awarded the South Carolina First Novel Prize. Girl with her Throat Cut will be published in 2009.
WARLOCK VANCE, PHD CANDIDATE
"Jacking In - Characters as Text in William Gibson's Neuromancer," SUNY-Cortland, October.
Two poems published in issue #4 of LUNATIC CHAMELEON (one co-authored with Tamara Wiandt); sold short story "The Letter" to Rainfall Press in the U.K. for an anthology.
Assisted science fiction author William F. Nolan (he wrote LOGAN'S RUN) with an article on collecting first editions of books by H.P. Lovecraft, which will appear later this year in FIRSTS magazine.
"Hanging Paintings on Literary Walls: Ekphrasis in J.K. Huysmans’s A Rebours."
Essays in Arts & Science (Oct 2002).
Managing Editor of the literary journal, Extrapolation (University of Texas at Brownsville).
Short story, "You Read Like a Book," published on Shoggoth.net.
JANET WHITE, PHD CANDIDATE
"'Surviving the Crossroads': A Mestiza Consciousness in the Works of Bharati Mukherjee" at the 2004 Twentieth Century Literature Conference.
Accepted to the 2005 MELUS conference in December of 2004, paper entitled "Displacement and Resistance: The Postmodern Metropolis in Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rainforest."
LAURA L. LINKER, PHD 2008
Conference: 'Th'unhappy Poet's Breast': Resisting Violation in Anne Finch's "To the Nighingale." To be presented at the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Aphra Behn Society for Woman and the Arts, 1600-1830, Daytona Beach, FL, October 28-30, 2005.
"Senecan Stoicism and Shakespeare's Richard III." Interactions: Aegean Journal of English and American Studies/Ege Ingiliz ve Amerikan Incelemeleri Dergisi 14 (2005).
"Suffering the Muse: Charlotte Smith's Interior Other." Autopoetica: Representations of the Creative Process in Nineteenth-Century British and American Fiction. Eds. Darby Lewes with Kevin Eck. Lanham, MD: Lexington, forthcoming.
The literary graduate journal Mode, put out by Cornell, published both a print and an online version of their inaugural issue, which includes, "Helene Cixous and the Rhetoric of Feminine Desire: Re-Writing the Medusa."
Hortulus, The Online Graduate Journal of Medieval Studies. "Thanne Have I Gete of Yow Maistrie": Power and the Subversive Body in Chaucer's Wife of Bath.
KEITH HELSABECK, MA 2008
Attending Elon University School of Law in Fall 2008.
JENNIFER ROHRER-WALSH, PHD 2008
"Charles Chesnutt's Prescriptions for Racial Dis-ease in The Marrow of Tradition: Read the Warning Label Carefully." Southern Writers Symposium, Methodist College, Fayetteville, NC. Feb. 25, 2005
NATANIA BARRON, MA 2007
"How Many Miles to Babylon?: The Muslim Knight in Arthurian Legend" at the North Carolina Medieval Conference, and will be (hopefully, transportation granting) presenting the same paper at the Princeton Medieval Conference in April.
LINDA GRETTON, PHD 2007 & LIZ WILKINSON, PHD 2008
are co-winners of the 2004-2005 English Department's Graduate Essay Award. Linda's essay, "The Secret Diary of Cathy Locke" was written for Dr. Eve Wiederhold and Liz's essay "Sarah Winnemucca: 'PostIndian Warrior' Writing for the Land" was written for Dr. Jeanne Follansbee Quinn. They will share the $200 prize.
LINDA GRETTON'S dissertation, The Rhetorical Helix of the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries: Strategies of Transformation through Definition was picked up by the Health Sciences Library System of the University of Pittsburgh and University of Pittsburgh Medical College, and by a Swiss scientific communications forum called ScientificCommons, and is also the winner of the Association of Business Communications Outstanding Dissertation Award.
BETHANY PERKINS, PHD 2007
Conferences:
"Reviving Arcady: Dunbar's Black Dialect Poetry and White Postbellum Nostalgia." Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the United States. Boca Raton, April 2003.
"The Commodification of Culture: Post-Colonial Theory and Modern Travel Rhetoric." Popular Culture Association. New Orleans, April 2003.
"Binx Bolling and the Compson Brothers: Navigating Kierkegaardian Spheres of Existence." Philological Association of the Carolinas. Myrtle Beach, March 2003.
"Uncle Tom's Little Eva: Nineteenth-Century Femininity and the Conduct Book." Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. New Orleans, March 2003.
Publications:
"Because It Would Have Been Irreverent?: Reconciling the White Writer and the Elusive Black Voice in Lewis Nordan's Wolf Whistle," forthcoming from Mississippi Quarterly, 2003.
SHELBY "CHIP" SMOAK, PHD 2007
Two pieces at the 20th Literature Conference in Lousiville, KY. "Reading Consumerism and Identity in Cormac McCarthy's 'Child of God'" and a short story titled, "The Relic Merchant."
Conferences:
"Edna Pontellier as Female Sexual Selector: Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' as Subversion of Charles Darwin's 'The Descent of Man,'" Repression and Subversion in the 19th Century, University of South Carolina, March 14-15, 2003.
"Tennessee Williams's Dead Gay Males: Charting the Dramatic Involvement of Homosexuality in A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Suddenly Last Summer," Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, North Myrtle Beach, March 27-29, 2003.
JOE FALOCCO, PHD 2006
Currently teaching as a full-time Lecturer at Penn State Erie. His book, Elizabethan Staging in the Twentieth Century: The Past as Prologue (based on his UNCG Dissertation, which won the 2007-2008 UNCG Graduate School's Outstanding Disseratation Award) will soon be published by Boydell and Brewer Ltd.
On stage, he played Oberon and Theseus in Tennessee's Stage production of A Midsummer Night's Dream in Knoxville.
Articles:
"George Bernard Shaw's John Bull's Other Island" was published in the 2004 New England Theatre Journal.
"Is Mark Twain Dead?: Samuel Clemens and the Question of Shakespearean Authorship." The Mark Twain Annual Number 2, 2004: 25-40.
"Gardens of Desire: Toward a Unified Vision of Garden District." Tennessee Williams Annual Review. Number 7, 2005: 63-69.
"Mother Ireland: An Oedipal Reading of John Bull's Other Island." New England Theatre Journal. Volume 15, 2004: 49-62.
"Shakespeare, Essex and Machiavelli." Journal of the Wooden O Symposium. Utah: Southern Utah University Press. Volume 2, 2002: 64-74.
Editing a Performance Text of Hamlet, December 2001.
Reviews:
The Merchant of Venice. North Carolina Shakespeare Festival. Shakespeare Bulletin. Summer, 2004: 102-104.
Rescripting Shakespeare: The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions. By Alan C. Dessen. Renaissance Quarterly. Fall 2003: 231-233.
Shakespeare Remains. by Courtney Lehmann. Renaissance Quarterly. Fall, 2003: 231-233.
Presentations:
"Unity and Sexuality in Tennessee Williams' Garden District." Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference. March, 2004. Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
"Double Casting and the Puzzle of Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream." Blackfriars Scholars Conference. October, 2003. Staunton, VA.
"Gardens of Desire: Toward a Unified Vision of Garden District." Tennessee Williams Scholars' Conference. March, 2003. New Orleans, LA.
"Stealing From the Best: Applying Edwin Booth's Commentary from the New Variorum Othello." Wooden O Symposium. August, 2002. Cedar City, UT.
"Shakespeare, Essex and Machiavelli." Wooden O Symposium. August 2001. Cedar City, UT.
CAMERON GOLDEN, PHD 2006
Won the 2004-2005 English Department's Outstanding Dissertation Award (Kates Fellowship). Cameron's dissertation title, Questioning Autobiographical Figures in 20th-Century Literature, focuses on the author figure in postmodern fiction. This awards carries a $1500 prize.
LAURA SAVU, PHD 2006
Essays:
"In Desire's Grip: Gender, Politics, and Intertextual Games in Updike’s Gertrude and Claudius." (February 2003)
"'This Book of Ours': The Crisis of Authorship in Joseph Heller's Portrait of the Artist, as an Old Man." (forthcoming)
"How Literature is Lived Through: 'Touching Reading' and Geoff Dyer's 'Sheer Rage'." (under review)
Book reviews:
Comaroff, Jean and John L. Comaroff, guest editors. Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism. Millenial Quartet. Vol. 3. A Public Culture Miniseries. 31/2000. 291-575 (forthcoming)
Derrida/Dufourmantelle. Of Hospitality. Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond. Translated by Rachel Bowlby. Eds. Mieke Bal and Hent de Vries. Stanford UP: Stanford, California, 2000. Symploke. Ed. Jeffrey R. Lilo. 4. 1-2 (2002): 198-99.
Amy J. Elias. Sublime Desire. History and Post-1960 Fiction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xvi+320 (forthcoming)
Translations and book reviews in various issues of Romanian Civilization.
Conferences:
"How Literature is Lived Through: 'Touching Reading' and Geoff Dyer's 'Sheer Rage.'" Twelfth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Oct. 27-29, 2002.
"'This Book of Ours': The Crisis of Authorship in Joseph Heller's Portrait of the Artist, as an Old Man." Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, Feb. 21-23, 2002.
"A Contrastive Analysis of William Shakespeare's King Lear and Edward Bond's Lear." The National Conference on William Shakespeare, Galati, Romania, April 1997.
Chair of Panel L: "E-Manuscripts, Hypertexts, and Alternatives." Technology in the College English Classroom: Literature, Culture, & Pedagogy. University of North Carolina, Greensboro, April 5-6, 2002.
LEE TEMPLETON, PHD 2006
Conferences:
"'This is ynogh': Petrarch, Chaucer, and Critical Rewriting," 28th Annual Southeastern Medieval Association Conference, Florida State University, September 26-28, 2002.
Panel Chair. "Reality Film?" 31st Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 27-28 & March 1, 2003.
TOY O'FERRALL, MFA 2005
Awarded partial scholarship to study at the Glen Workshop in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Poetry reading at the Southeastern Conference on Christianity and Literature.
Recipient of the Amon Liner Poetry Prize for work forthcoming in the Greensboro Review.
JENNIFER WHITAKER, MFA 2005
Poem published in Mid-American Review.
EMILY CLARK, PHD 2004
"How to Become A High Priced Whore: The Process of Prostitution in John Cleland's Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure," Twenty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Philological Association of the Carolinas, North Myrtle Beach, March 27-29, 2003.
MIKE FREIERMUTH, MA 2002
"Eating Clay," Icon—Fall 2004.
"Haiku," Haiku Headlines—April 2004.
Charles W. Ches[t]nutt In The New York Times—Slide show presented at Chesnutt Conference at UNC Greensboro, Greensboro NC, April 2004.
"The Mentor," Papyrus—Winter 2003, Vol. 9, No. 2.
Writers of The Desert Sage "The American Pastime" August 2002.
Poetry:
"Abelard and Heloise" Pacific Coast Journal. April 2003.
"Another Theory on Emily Dickinson," editors of Bathtub Gin. forthcoming.
Book I helped edit during my publishing internship:
A Forgotten Champion: The Story of major Taylor, Fastest Bicycle Racer in the World, by Mary Wilds. Greensboro: Avisson Press, Inc. 2002.
Magazines (Editor and Publisher)
Words of Wisdom: completed its 21st volume.
Timber Creek Review: completed its 5th volume.
KATHLEEN McEVOY, PHD 2002
Associate Professor of English and Gender & Women's Studies at Washington & Jefferson College.
STEPHANIE ANNE FISCHETTI, MA 1999
Freelance editing for HealthFocus, Inc. a food marketing company with an office in St. Petersburg, FL. She also started a greeting card publishing business using her own designs. Additionally, one of her poems was published online in Dante's Heart, an online journal of myth and fairytales.
CYNTHIA HUGGINS, MA-1992; PHD-1997
University of Maine System Chancellor Terrence J. MacTaggart is recommending that Cynthia E. Huggins be given an ongoing appointment as president of the University of Maine at Machias (UMM). An accomplished scholar and teacher, Huggins received her Master’s (1992) and Ph.D. (1997) in English literature at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
For more information, or to update any of the information on this page, contact:
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