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UConn English Department August 2014

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Bercaw Edwards, Mary K. “All Astir.” Leviathan 16.1 (Mar. 2014), 16.2 (July 2014), and 16.3 (Oct. 2014). Darda, Joseph. “Precarious World: Rethinking Global Fiction in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist.” Mosaic 47.3 (2014): 107-22. Hogan, Patrick Colm. “The Sacrificial Emplotment of National Identity: Pádraic Pearse and the 1916 Easter Uprising.” Compaso: Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology 5.1 (2014): 25-43. Vials, Christopher. “What's His Suit Got to Do with It? Alan Wald’s Method of Collective Biography and the Phenomenological Turn in Postwar Marxism.” Science and Society 78.3 (2014): 343-49. Winter, Sarah. “The Magistrate, the Camp, and the Novel: J. M. Coetzee and the Subject of Human Rights.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 47:2 (2014): 261-83. Special issue on Jacques Rancière and the Novel. Ed. Timothy Bewes.

Book Reviews and Other Contributed Work

Bercaw Edwards, Mary K. Review of The Sounding of the Whale, by D. Graham Burnett. Nautilus 5 (2014). Brown, Pamela Allen. “Dido, Boy Diva of Carthage: Marlowe’s Dido Tragedy and the Renaissance Actress.” Transnational Mobilities in Early Modern Drama. Ed. Eric Nicholson and Robert Henke. Ashgate, 2014. 113-30. Darda, Joseph. “The Global Remaking of the American Political Novel.” Review of Toward the Geopolitical Novel: U.S. Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, by Caren Irr. Contemporary Literature 55.2 (2014): 430-37. Dennigan, Darcie. “This Dogma Was Not My Idea But I Am Expected To Feed and Care for It”; “The Diminishing Lecture: The History of the World and My Place in It”; and “Resume Objective: Make a small repair in the metaphysical blight.” Poems published in the inaugural issue of Catacomb Journal . —. Sult (Hunger), multimedia opera, with composer Jason Thorpe Buchanan. First completed scene performed at the Darmstadt Contemporary Opera Workshop. Aug. 2014. Semenza, Greg. “Academic Research is a Total Pain in the . . . Neck.” The Chronicle of Higher Education: Vitae. 15 Aug. 2014. —. “The Value of 10 Minutes: Writing Advice for the Time-less Academic.” The Chronicle of Higher Education: Vitae. 18 July 2014.

Honors, Awards, and Grants

Bercaw Edwards, Mary K. Named as Extracts Editor for Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies . —. Sailed aboard the 1841 whaleship Charles W. Morgan during her historic 38th Voyage (her first voyage since she ended her whaling career in 1921). Also organized the whaleboat events including races, sailing regattas, and boat parades for the 38th Voyage in each of the ports visited by the Charles W. Morgan. Boat parade in New Bedford on 29 June included more than 225 vessels. Kneidel, Greg. Awarded three-year NEH grant of $270,000 to support The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne. Shoulson, Jeffrey. Named as the Ruth and Lillian Marino Chair at the Bread Loaf School of English. Presentations

Bercaw Edwards, Mary K. Co-chair, Sea Music Symposium. Sponsored by Mystic Seaport, the University of Connecticut, and the Coast Guard Academy. UConn-Avery Point Campus. 13 June 2014. —. Co-chair, Whaling History Symposium. Sponsored by the Melville Society, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, Mystic Seaport, and the Nantucket Historical Association. New Bedford. 30 June- 3 July 2014. —. Chaired session: “Whaling Ports, Whaling People.” Whaling History Symposium. New Bedford. 30 June 2014. —. “Herman Melville’s Whaling Years.” Whaling History Symposium. New Bedford. 1 July 2014. —. “Herman Melville, New Bedford, and the Charles W. Morgan.” NEH Summer Institute for College and University Teachers “The American Maritime People.” New Bedford. 30 June 2104. Burris-Janssen, Emma. “‘A Little More than Persuading’: Tess Durbeyfield’s Disenfranchised Trauma.” International Thomas Hardy Festival and Conference. Dorset, UK. 28 July 2014. Igarashi, Yohei. “‘The Obscurity of the Prometheus’: A Discussion of Prometheus Unbound’s Style.” Invited speaker, The Unbinding Prometheus public seminar series, University of Pennsylvania. 19 Aug. 2014. Pierrot, Grégory. “‘I now exert the rights of a husband’: droit du seigneur and slavery in Edward Rushton's Jamaica.” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) Conference. Washington, DC. 10-13 July 2014. —. “‘A most striking likeness of Christophe’: Reading the English Diplomacy of King Henry I of Haiti.”Co-presented with Tabitha McIntosh. Society of Early Americanists Conference. Kingston University, England. 17-20 July 2014. —. “Gothic Slave Ships in Olaudah Equiano and Edward Rushton’s Writings.” Early Caribbeanists Society Symposium. Kingston University, England. 21 July 2014. Tonry, Kathleen. “The Later Book History of Dives and Pauper.” New Chaucer Society Conference. Reykjavik, Iceland. 17 July 2014.