Michelle Rada Brown University [email protected]
Education Brown University, Providence, RI Doctoral Program, English Department 2013 – 2018 (expected)
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Bachelor of Arts in English and Comparative Literature 2009 – 2013 Cumulative GPA: 3.94, Major GPA: 4.0
Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 2011 – 2012 Full year exchange, English and Philosophy Departments
Fellowships & Graduate Fellow, Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women Distinctions Seminar by Professor Marc Redfield: “Aesthetics and the Question of Beauty” 2014-2015
Editorial Assistant Proctorship, NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction Edited by Professors Tim Bewes, Ellen Rooney, and Nancy Armstrong (Duke) 2014-2015
Summa Cum Laude Honors, Cornell University English Department, 2013
M. H. Abrams Thesis Award, Cornell University, 2013 Thesis Title: “No Longer Oneself: Encountering Alterity in Beckett’s Short Prose”
Research Critical theory and literature, Comparative Modernism, 20th-century Irish: Joyce and Interests Beckett, Psychoanalysis, Film and Media Studies, Latin American literature and film, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, Biopolitics, Queer Theory.
Published The Journal of Modern Literature (JML), Indiana University Press Articles “The Illusionless: Adorno and the Afterlife of Laughter in How It Is” (forthcoming 2015)
The Comparatist, University of North Carolina Press “Dread name of love: The Perverse Aesthetics of Enjoyment as Disgust in Barnes and Beckett” (forthcoming May 2015)
Conferences The Inaugural Conference of the Samuel Beckett Society accepted for February 2015 “Deleuze’s Images and the Crystalline Voice of The Lost Ones”
SAMLA (South Atlantic Modern Language Association) accepted for November 2014
“Beckett and Lacan’s Anxiety,” panel for The Samuel Beckett Society
International James Joyce Symposium XXIII June 2012 Trinity College Dublin and University College Dublin, Ireland “The Lovely Reflection: Representing the Other and Scopic Mediation in Nausicaa”
Work & NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction Editing Editorial Assistant, Providence, RI Fall 2014-Present Experience Brown University Writing Center 2014-Present Graduate Associate, Providence, RI
The School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) Summers 2011 & 2012 Administrative Assistant, Ithaca, NY
Cornell University Press Summer 2011 Intern and Editorial Assistant, Ithaca, NY
The Cornell Book Review 2009 – 2013 Associate Editor and Writer, Ithaca, NY
The Miami Herald Summer 2010 Writer and Editorial Intern, Miami, FL
Michelle Rada [email protected]