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.Ìę
NoĂ«l Ingram published "Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with 'AI Tracks' and Rethinking Student AI Agency" in Unmaking the Grade.Ìę
Benjamin Paul published a review of Margaret Rossâs Saturday in The Brooklyn Rail.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Mary Helen Callierâs When the Horses in the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Benjamin Paul published a review of Leah Flax Barberâs 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.Ìę
Ophelia Wang presented "From Orientalism to Self-Definition: Blackpink Lisaâs âRockstarâ and the Cultural Politics of Chinatown" at Association for Asian American Studies 2025 Annual Conference in Boston, MA.ÌęÂ
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.
Noël 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 âShakespeareâs Golden Agesâ in Sixteenth Century Journal.Ìę
Justin Brown-Ramsey published "Propagandistic Peers: The Shared Projects of James Fenimore Cooperâs 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, 1830â1860, 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 âDramatic Spectacle in LaÆ·amon: The Brut 's Direct Speeches, Aestheticized Violence, and Gendered Historical Reenactmentsâ in Arthuriana (Dallas, Tex.) 33, no. 4
Johanna Alden published a review of The Rood in Medieval Britain and Ireland, c.800âc.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 PostâCeltic 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 âA Material Stratum: Black Bodies and Environmental Exploitation in Edward P. Jonesâ The Known World.â 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, âTechnology and Intimacy in Contemporary Irish Literatureâ at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature 2025 in Galway (IASIL).
NoĂ«l Ingram presented at Feminisms and Rhetorics in Durham, NH, âDisruption as Care: Feminist, Decolonial, and Queer Interventions in Archival Praxis.âÂ
Noël Ingram presented "GenAI Literacy" at the AI & Writing Symposium at Babson College.
Kelley Glasgow presented "âErotic Histories in Antony and Cleopatraâ at the Shakespeare Association of America Conference in Boston, MA.Ìę
Julia Woodward moderated a panel discussion titled âIdentity Making and Displacing the Dominant Didacticâ at the Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, and Sexuality Conference: âLiberatory Practices for Worlds in Crisisâ at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Benjamin Paul organized the roundtable âThe Pedagogical Stakes of an Expanded Modernismâ at the Modernist Studies Association conference in Boston.
Johanna Alden presented âMy Own People Would Not Recognize Me: The Abbot of Druimenaig, Social Relations, and Discursively Constructed Gendersâ 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 âScouring the Endless Archive: Alternative Reality Games, Textual Openness and Hermeneutic Playâ at NeMLA in Philadelphia.
Aidan Vick presented ââThe Conspiracy of Silenceâ: 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 âOâBrienâs Other Country Girl: Reimagining the âX Caseâ in Down by the Riverâ 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 âCharles Dickensâs American Connections: A Rare Book Displayâ at the North American Victorian Studies Association EVENT 2024.
Andrew Petracca presented âCaricature, Character, and the Challenge of Narrating Multiculturalism in Pnin and Season of Migration to the Northâ 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 presented âSally Rooney: Perspectives and Approaches.â at the New England American Conference for Irish Studies (NeACIS) in New York.
Cassidy Allen presented ââRewritingâ the Contemporary Irish Womenâs Novel.â at the American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS) in Limerick.Ìę
NoĂ«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.Ìę
NoĂ«l Ingram presented âBoosting Student Agency: Digital Bading as a Form of Alternative Assessment" at The Grading Conference.
Julia Woodward presented âMultiple Multiplicities: CrĂ©olitĂ© and Cultural Crossroads in Caribbean Fictionâ at New England American Studies Association Conference: âRevisiting Region: Locating the âWhereâ in American Studiesâ at Harvard University.
Benjamin Paul organized the seminar âThinking Modern Epicâ and presented a paper, âInfinite Rehearsal: Cyclical Time in the Critical Epics of Wilson Harris & Suzan-Lori Parks,â at the American Comparative Literature Association conference in Montreal.
Benjamin Paul presented âH. D.âs Late Poems: Towards an Inward Epicâ at The Modernist Long Poem and its Discontents conference in Paris.
Johanna Alden presented "âAglĂŠcan and Entan: Monstrous Taxonomies in Beowulfâ 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 âStrange Turns: Transformations of the Weirdâ at The 17th International Gothic Association Conference in Halifax, Canada
Johnny Murray participated in a roundtable discussion titled âHolding Up the Mirror: The Political Monster" at The 2024 Boston College English Graduate Colloquium.
Jess Oyler presented âMalignant Marginality: Medical Spaces & Genre in The God Squad and Unsettled.â 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, ColoradoÂ
Ophelia Wang presented " Embracing Transnationality in K-pop: Chinatownâs Dynamic Symbolism in Blackpink Lisaâs âRockstarâ at BTAA/Midwest Korean Studies Conference in Bloomington, Indiana.Ìę
Ophelia Wang presented "Un-touring SF Chinatown: A VR Demo course at the Virtual Conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities.Ìę
Abigail Tetzlaff curated an archival exhibit, "London at the Burns: Navigating the Streets" that was shown at the NAVSA Conference
2023
Cassidy Allen presented âFeminist Interventions: Legitimizing Irish Women Writers.â at NeACIS in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Andrew Petracca presented ââHis mouth was such a post-officeâ: Appreciating Figurative Drift in Great Expectationsâ at the Northeast Modern Language Association in Niagara Falls, NY
NoĂ«l Ingram presented âThe 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.Ìę
NoĂ«l Ingram presented âHybrid 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.Ìę
NoĂ«l Ingram presented âCo-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.Ìę
NoĂ«l Ingram presented âBots in the Classroom: AI Pedagogies, Building Community, and Compositional Ethicsâ at Engaging Practices 2023: Writing in Public(s): Composition, Connection, and Global Citizenship in Boston, MA.Ìę
NoĂ«l Ingram presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL, âHandcrafted Rhetorics: DIY and the Public Power of Made Things.â
NoĂ«l Ingram presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Chicago, IL, âMaking Hope: Handcrafted Rhetorics as a Way to Encourage Invention, Reuse, and Resistance in Composing Communities.âÂ
Kelley Glasgow presented ââCause and Most Accursed Affectâ: Gendered Mourning in Richard IIIâ at Northeast Modern Language Association Conference in Boston, MA
Julia Woodward presented âInterdisciplinarity and the Graduate Student Experienceâ, The Quiet Corner Graduate Conference at the University of Connecticut.
Benjamin Paul presented âMarvelous Incommensurability: The Haitian Revolution and Aesthetic Modernity in Alejo Carpentier and John Keeneâ 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 Cooperâs 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.â Northeast Modern Language Association Annual Conference (NeMLA). Baltimore, 10th-13th March, 2022.
Cassidy Allen presented Minimalist Millennials: Sanctimony Literature and Sally Rooney.â WGGS Featured Roundtable. American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS). Virtual, 2022.
Kelley Glasgow presented "âA Shadow without Substanceâ: The Politics of Affect in Elizabeth Caryâs Edward IIâ at Feeling Form/Forming Feeling?: Dialectics of Affect and Form in Anglophone Womenâs Writing, 1550-1800 in Ghent, BelgiumÂ
Johanna Alden presented âOn the Inner Worlds, Agencies, and Ecologies of Bulls and Fairiesâ 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.Ìę
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.
NoĂ«l Ingram was awarded the 2024 Kiara Kharpertain Award.Ìę
Kelley Glasgow received the Maddock Research Fellowship from Marshâs 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 âA 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 âPrint 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 âWho Watches the Watchers?: Unearthing the Tulsa Race Massacre in HBOâs Watchmen.â
Julia Woodward received the Donald White Graduate Teaching Award.
Thesis Titles:
Dougherty, Daniel (2024) âGrowing Up Globally: Form and Genre in the Anglophone Bildungsromanâ
Gannon, Matthew (2024) âModernity Against Itself: The Politics and Aesthetics of Modernist Formâ
Crockett-Girard, Lauren (2025) âThinking with Zombies: How Zombie Rhetoric Infected American Discourseâ
Enright, Catherine (2025) âEmpty Shells: Gothic Fear in World War I Literatureâ
Wofford, Sharon (2025) âReading the Body: Constructing Saints in Early Medieval Englandâ
Shaw, Chandler (2025) âHidden in Plain Sight: Cultivating Mythic Place Narratives on the Texas High Plainsâ
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.ÌęContact 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.ÌęThe current directors of the pedagogy seminar are NoĂ«l IngramÌęČčČÔ»ć Kelly Gray.