Recent Alumni Accomplishments

Michelle Abate's book, Tomboys: A Literary and Cultural History, will be published in June 2008 by Temple University Press.

Ben Alexander's essay "The Lowell Affair" will be published in The New England Quarterly.

Sara Atwood's essay “’Riveder le stelle’: Fors Clavigera and Ruskin’s Educational Experiment” was published in the Spring 2008 issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose, a special issue on John Ruskin.

Svetlana Bochman is Assistant Director of the Stern Writing Center at Yeshiva University and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hunter College, CUNY.

Marc Bousquet's How the University Works has recently been published by NYU Press. You can visit Marc's Weblog at howtheuniversityworks.com.

Evan Brier published “Constructing the Postwar Art Novel: Paul Bowles, James Laughlin, and the Making of The Sheltering Sky” in PMLA (January 2006). He also published “The Accidental Blockbuster: Peyton Place in Literary and Institutional Context” in Women’s Studies Quarterly (Fall/Winter 2005).

Edward Burns is co-editor with H. Wayne Storey of Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts, Interpretation (this new journal, now beginning its third year, suceeds Text: An Interdisciplinary Annual of Textual Studies, which was founded at the Graduate Center by David Greetham and W. Speed Hill). The journal is the publication of the Society for Textual Scholarship. Professor Burns' A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen will be published by University College Dublin Press, spring 2008.  The volume is the second volume in a planned series of Adaline Glasheen's correspondence with Joyce scholars.  The first volume, A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The 'Finnegans Wake' Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen was published by UCD Press in 2001.

Jonathan Burton published Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579-1624 with the University of Delaware Press in 2005. In the same year, he was tenured at West Virginia University and promoted to Associate Professor. His second book, Race in Early Modern England: A Documentary Companion, coedited with Ania Loomba, is due out later in 2007 from Palgrave.

Samuel Cohen, Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri, has won the 2008 Provost's Outstanding Junior Faculty Teaching Award. His recent publications include “The Novel in a Time of Terror: Middlesex, History, and Contemporary American Fiction” in “After Postmodernism,” Special Issue, Twentieth-Century Literature, and “Triumph and Trauma: In the Lake of the Woods and History,” in Clio: Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History.

Jeffrey Couchman's book, The Night of the Hunter: A Biography of a Film, will be published by Northwestern University Press in March 2009.

Deborah Donato's book, Reading Barbara Pym, has just appeared from Fairleigh Dickinson Press (2005).

Robert M. Dowling has recently published "Ethnic Realism," in The Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, 1865-1914 (2005) and "A Marginal Man in Black Bohemia: James Weldon Johnson in the New York Tenderloin," in Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: The Achievement of African-American Writers, Artists, and Thinkers, 1880-1914 (2006). His book, Slumming in New York: From the Waterfront to Mythic Harlem, is forthcoming from The University of Illinois Press (2007); he has just received an AAUP University Research Grant to support his next book project, Critical Companion to Eugene O'Neill: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work.

Gregory Erickson published his book The Death of God in Modernist Literature with Palgrave Macmillan (Spring 2007). Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred, co-authored with fellow GC alumnus Richard Santana, is forthcoming from McFarland.

Jean Gallagher's This Minute won the Poets Out Loud Prize and was published by Fordham University Press in 2005. Her more recent collection Stubborn won the FIELD Poetry Prize and is now available from Oberlin College Press.

Alumnus Frank Gaughan and current student Peter Khost have coedited a collection called Collaborating(,) Literature (,) and Composition: Essays for Teachers and Writers of English (Hampton Press, 2007). They also co-wrote an essay entitled "Reading, Writing and Representing," published in the February 6, 2006, issue of Inside Higher Ed.

Matthew Boyd Goldie's Middle English Literature: A Historical Sourcebook appeared with Blackwell in 2003.

Josh Gosciak has just published, with Rutgers University Press, Shadowed Country: Claude McKay and the Romance of the Victorians.

George Guida has just published his second book of poetry, New York and Other Lovers: Poems (Smalls Books, 2008). This is George's second volume of poetry. Its subjects are love, loss, and the great city that engenders and amplifies both of the former. His first volume, Low Italian (Bordighera Press) appeared in 2006.

Katherine D. Harris published "Feminizing the Textual Body: Female Readers Consuming the Literary Annual" in PBSA 99:4 (Dec. 2005): 573-622. Her hypertextual archive of literary annuals has become part of The Poetess Tradition http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/womenpoets/poetess/ which is a Romantic Circles (www.rc.umd.edu) and NINES-sponsored (www.nines.org) digital project. 

David Humphries will publish his first book, Different Dispatches: Journalism in American Modernist Prose with Routledge in April 2006.

Christine E. Hutchins has accepted a position at Marymount Manhattan College for Fall 2008.  Her article "Chaucer and the Problem of 'Recreative' Poetry in Renaissance England" has been accepted for publication in The Ben Jonson Journal.  The article is part of a book project on Chaucer and Elizabethan poetics.  She is also working on a book of creative nonfiction / prose poetry / memoir, Yellow Flower Dream: A Memoir of Teachers and Teaching. 

Chris Iannini, Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University, has just been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies for the academic year 2008-9, to complete his book manuscript, Fatal Revolutions: Caribbean Nature and the Routes of American Literature.

Geoffrey Jacques has just published a book of poems, Just for a Thrill, with Wayne State University Press (2005).

Amy Levin's third book, Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities, was published by Altamira (Spring 2007). This edited collection of articles includes several chapters on museums in New York. Amy is Professor of English, Director of Women's Studies, and Chair of the Museum Studies Steering Committee at Northern Illinois University.

Deborah Lutz's book, Dangerous Lover: Gothic Villains, Byronism, and the Nineteenth-Century Seduction Narrative, is due out from Ohio State University Press in Fall, 2006, when she will also begin a tenure-track position at Long Island University, C. W. Post.

Ian S. Maloney's  first monograph, Melville's Monumental Imagination was published by Routledge in December 2005. Ian has also recently published "I too Lived--Brooklyn of ample hills was mine: Teaching Whitman on the Rooftops of Brooklyn," in the Mickle Street Review 17/18, and he contributed the Introduction to the new Barnes and Noble edition of Melville's Israel Potter.

Michael Mandelkern is Dean of the Literature and Languages Division at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California.

Jean Murley is Vice President of the New York Metro American Studies Association. Her book The Rise of True Crime: 20th Century Murder and American Popular Culture is forthcoming
from Praeger Publications (2008).

Maggie Nelson published Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions with the University of Iowa Press (2007). She teaches on the faculty of the School of Critical Studies at CalArts in Valencia, California. Maggie has published several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes, and two nonfiction books.

Mickey Pearlman is editor of and contributor to A Few Thousand Words about Love (St. Martin's, 1998), and author of What to Read (Harper, 1994; revised, 1999). Her next book, Where Is Everybody? will be published by Norton in June, 2007.

Jay Prosser, now of the University of Leeds, UK, has recently been awarded several prestigious grants for collaborative international projects.  Among them was research, led with Graduate Center Distinguished Professor Nancy K. Miller, resulting in the production of a Webcast of a conference on photography and atrocity. www.photographyandatrocity.org

Sarah Relyea's book, Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin appears from Routledge in 2006.

For the past seven years, Elizabeth Rosen has been an associate professor at New York Law School and has directed the Horace W. Goldsmith Program at Macaulay Honors College (formerly CUNY Honors College).

Richard Santana and Gregory Erickson have coauthored Religion and Popular Culture: Rescripting the Sacred, forthcoming from McFarland.

Benjamin Sloan, Professor of English and Coordinator for Learning Communities at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia, has published the article “Learning to Listen to Students” in Inquiry: The Journal of the Virginia Community Colleges (11:1).

Peter Taback is Director of Communications for amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.

Chris Vaccaro teaches the Introduction to Old English, Beowulf, History of the English Language, and Tolkien at the University of Vermont.

Aimeric Vacher teaches history at the International School of Geneva. He has written a dictionary on monsters, due to be published by Dilecta, Paris, October 2007.

Patti White is Chair of the Department of English at the University of Alabama. She is author of Tackle Box (Anhinga Press, 2002) and Yellow Jackets (Anhinga Press, forthcoming 2007). Her poems have been published widely in such journals as The Common Review, Iowa Review, North American Review, Mississippi Review, Dogwood, Nimord, Atlanta Review, and GSU Review.

Lisa Williams published Letters to Virginia Woolf, from which she read at our Friday Forum series, in 2005 (Hamilton Books).

Adrian Wisnicki's book, Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism from Victorian Fiction to the Modern Novel, will be published by Routledge, Spring 2007.

David Yaffe has recently published Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz in American Writing, with Princeton University Press (2006). 

Richard Zeikowitz published "Writing a Feminine Paris in Jean Rhys's Quartet" in the Journal of Modern Literature 28 (2005): 1-17. His book Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century was published by Palgrave in 2003. He is the coeditor of a new journal, The Christopher Isherwood Review, the first volume of which appeared in 2005.

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