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received his BA in English with a
minor in Africana Studies from Central Missouri State University,
May 2005, where he participated in the McNair Scholarship program.
His undergraduate thesis, "Bronzeville: The Chicago Renaissance,"
was presented at two research conferences. In addition, he was invited
to participate in the SREB: Compact for Minority Scholars and Future
Faculty Members in Miami, Florida. In 2003, Jesse had an original
poem published in Spokenvizions magazine, which is distributed
in St. Louis and surrounding areas. In 1999, he was invited to perform
original spoken word poetry at the Missouri Black Expo. Currently,
Jesse is interested in African American literature (the Black Arts
Movement in particular) and its influence on Hip Hop and spoken-word
poetry. He received his MA from MU in 2007.
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studies literature and its relationship to women and gender studies. She received her BA Magna Cum Laude in English from Central Missouri State University in 2004 where she was a McNair Scholar and a member of the Honors College. She received her MA from MU in December 2006 after completing her Masters thesis directed by Dr. Devoney Looser on female accomplice rape in eighteenth-century English culture and literature entitled ‘A Subject So Shocking: The Female Sex Offender in Richardson’s Clarissa. She plans to continue her research on female paraphiliacs in eighteenth-century literature as she pursues her PhD. Her research and teaching interests include 18thand 19th century novelists, Women and Gender Studies, the evolution of the female consciousness, and censorship and literacy studies.
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MA/PhD Candidate
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PhD Candidate
seb595@mizzou.edu |
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MA Candidate
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J. Bowers
PhD Candidate
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holds a B.A. in English and Creative Writing from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD in 2002, and an M.A. in the same from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA in 2003. She also spent a year studying abroad at the University of Exeter in the U.K. Currently, she holds a teaching assistantship at Mizzou. A fiction writer, she's particularly interested in narratives that make seemingly impossible events and character shifts seem probable and realistic. To that end, she's currently working on a story cycle about suburban hippie twentysomethings who unwittingly find themselves pitted against nature in bizarre and transformative ways. Prior to Missouri, she worked as an art/music critic for Baltimore City Paper, and as a lecturer in English at Goucher. Her work--both critical and creative--has appeared in Zaum, Zone 3, Artemis, Cargoes, The Allegheny Review, and Chunklet Presents: The Overrated Book, among other publications. Her research and teaching interests currently include 19th century American literature, detective fiction, film as narrative art, and, of course, creative writing. For fun, she rides horses, fences, and photographs abandoned shopping carts.
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Julie Buchsbaum
PhD Candidate
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has a BA from Beloit College, an
MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MFA from the Iowa
Writers' Workshop, where she was a recipient of the Paul Engle Fellowship.
Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals,
including Conduit,Verse,The Journal, Southwest Review, Delmar
and Harvard Review and are soon to be anthologized in Legitimate
Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Her work won the
1999 Randall Jarrell Poetry Prize and has been nominated twice for
a Pushcart Prize. Ms. Buchsbaum is the author of Slowly,
Slowly, Horses (2001, Ausable Press), and her most recent
book,
A Little Night Comes, won the 2005 Del Sol Press Poetry
Award and was published by Del Sol Press in December 2005. Ms.
Buchsbaum's areas of interest include modern and contemporary British
and American literature and creative writing.
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PhD Candidate
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Stephanie Carpenter
PhD Candidate
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received a BA in English from Williams College in 1998 and an MFA
in Creative Writing from Syracuse University in 2003. She
is originally from Traverse City, MI, former home of the Northern
Michigan Hospital for the Insane. This hospital is the setting for
her novel-in-progress. Her research interests include 19th century
American psychiatry, early photography, and late Victorian/early
Modern literature. Her short story, "Inheritance," will be
published in an upcoming issue of The Saint Ann's Review.
sackb3@mizzou.edu
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PhD Candidate (ABD)
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Sarah Cattan
MA Candidate
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is completing
her Master's Degree, with an emphasis in Critical Theory. Her current
academic interests include but are not limited to: Contemporary
American Fiction, Pop Culture and Pedagogy, The Lacanian Clinic,
Fat Studies, English Departments, Film Theory, Affect Theory, Irony
and Rhetoric to name a few. Sarah hopes to conquer her inner dilettante
when she pursues a PhD.
spc6v8@mizzou.edu |
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MA/PhD Candidate
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is a native of Canada and has lived in the United States since 1997. He received his AD in Journalism from Red River College, his BA in Sociology from the University of Winnipeg and earned a terminal MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. He served full-time on the English faculty of Texas A&M University at Galveston 2003-2005, and the University of Missouri-Columbia 2006-2007. He is currently earning his PhD at Mizzou in Creative Writing, creative nonfiction emphasis. Three of his novels, The Jenny Muck, Get Back and The Obituaries have been published. The Obituaries (Behler Publications) sat on a Canadian best-selling trade paperbacks list for two weeks in the summer of 2005 at number six. His creative nonfiction has been nominated for the Best of Creative Nonfiction 2006 (Lee Gutkind, editor) and has been or will be published in Catapult, Rock and Sling, Relief, and Copper Nickel: A Journal of Art and Literature. His other work has appeared on stage, on the radio and television; his poetry and prose has appeared in literary journals in Canada, the United States, and India. His research and writing interests include lyric essay and the impact of faith and narratology on the writing of nonfiction. He is married to career coach Dyan Connolly and is the proud papa to two Chihuahuas – Sugar and Poe – and one gentle giant of a cat named Beauregard The Barbarian.
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is a graduate student in nineteenth-century British literature. He graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts with a Bachelor’s degree in English and a concentration in Latin. After this he went on to earn a Master’s degree in English from Fitchburg State College in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. His criticism appears in The International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC) and (soon) in The Dostoevsky Journal. Although his Master’s Thesis was a Freudian reading of Middlemarch, he is presently most interested in the life, poetry and prose of Gerard Manley Hopkins, as well as in the integration of the ongoing study of Latin, Old English and perhaps other languages into nineteenth-century studies. He likes angst, as in Dostoevsky’s stories and Kafka’s personal journals, and the idea of affective criticism. He is closest in soul to the New Criticism, but he also likes Marxism, Feminism, Deconstruction and all the rest. He plays guitar and keeps journals. |
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grew up in Washington DC. She holds a BA in English from Washington
University in St. Louis, and earned her MFA at the University of
Maryland on a graduate school fellowship. After graduating from
UMD, she taught poetry and composition at Loyola University, Chicago.
She moved to Columbia to pursue a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative
Writing at Mizzou, where she is a recipient of the Maxwell Fellowship.
Her poetry has appeared in The DC Poets Against the War Anthology,
Nimrod International, Crab Orchard Review, and Crazyhorse.
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entered the PhD program at Missouri in 2003. Before
moving to Columbia, she spent 11 years in Athens, Georgia, where
she received her BBA in Marketing ('96) and MA in English ('02)
from the University of Georgia. She also worked in media relations
for the University's Athletic Association in the four years between
her academic pursuits, a position which took her to the 2000 Olympics
in Sydney as a research assistant for NBC. Her dissertation investigates
the intersections of literature and the visual arts, focusing on
the correspondence between authors, artists, and booksellers in
the illustrated prose of eighteenth-century England. While at Missouri,
Leigh has taught composition, professional writing, introduction
to British literature, and introduction to film studies. She received
the Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award presented by Educational
Technologies at Missouri (ET@MO) and was the inaugural recipient
of the English Department's Collaborative Research Fellowship. She
spent the 2006-07 academic year as an associate student at
Queen Mary, University of London under the supervision of Isabel
Rivers, where she is researching for and writing her dissertation.
Her international research is supported in part by the English Department
Dissertation Fellowship and the John Bies International Travel Scholarship.
lgdillard@mizzou.edu |
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is the author of Fistful of Lotus, a book of poems, handmade
by the Canadian print artist Elizabeth Forrest. His poetry, essays,
interviews, and translations have appeared in many magazines in both
the United States and Japan, including The American Poetry Review,
Poetry East, Manoa, Prairie Schooner, Third Coast, Another Chicago
Magazine, Kyoto Journal, Mainichi Shinbun, Sakura, and Willow
Springs. His poetry and prose have both been anthologized in Poetry
East’s 20th anniversary retrospective editions: The Last Believer
in Words and Who Are The Rich And Where Do They Live, respectively.
He holds a BS in Biology from the University of Idaho, A BA in English
Literature, with a concentration in Creative Writing, from the University
of Washington, and an MFA in Creative Writing – Poetry from Eastern
Washington University where he graduated Phi Kappa Phi. He has lived
for the past fifteen years in Japan. In addition to his own creative
work, he pursues scholarly work on the American expatriate poet, translator,
and editor, Cid Corman who lived in Kyoto, Japan for more than 40
years.
Essay on line: Getting
the Secret out of Cid Corman
dunne@i.hosei.ac.jp |
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is an ABD PhD candidate in British
Renaissance and Medieval literature, and she also received her Masters
degree in British Renaissance lit from Mizzou. She has published
two articles and three book reviews in such journals as The
Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal, Journal of the Fantastic in
the Arts, and A Review of Communication, and has presented
papers at conferences in New York, Florida, Texas, and Missouri.
She has received four grants, two fellowships, and is included in
the 2005 Chancellor's List. Her dissertation (in progress)
concerns the social and cultural portrayals of landscape in Shakespeare's
plays, and she also has two published novels written under a different
name.
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PhD Candidate
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is a doctoral student concentrating in literatures of the African diaspora. She has a vested interest in how black women novelists of the black Atlantic who are writing since the twentieth century use three different themes in their novels: (1) migration, (2) memory, and (3) trans-Atlantic history. It is her goal to first answer the question, "How are modern black novelists discussing the African diaspora across the Atlantic?" It is her goal to gain an understanding of the last century which most Americans remember toward twenty-first century studies of novels written by black women writers. Ericka was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri, is the middle child of three sisters, and will be studying at the University of the Western Cape in Bellville, South Africa this fall.
epe6c6@mizzou.edu |
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PhD Candidate (ABD)
cbetx6@mizzou.edu |
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MA Candidate
elizabethleefletcher@gmail.com |
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Robert Foreman
PhD Candidate
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was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. He earned his BA in English from West Virginia University and his MA in English from Ohio University. His creative nonfiction has appeared in SLAB and the Massachusetts Review, while his scholarly thesis on trickster narratives and the novel Wieland, by Charles Brockden Brown, appeared in the Frontenac Revue. In Missouri he will continue writing personal essays and then see what happens. |
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Emily Friedman
PhD Candidate (ABD)
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recieved her BA in English cum laude from Bryn
Mawr in 2003, and her master's work was done at the Centre for Eighteenth
Century Studies at the University of York. She began her doctoral studies at Missouri
in the fall of 2005, where she is the second Mary-Jo Purcell
Fellow, a Department Teaching Fellow, Hocks Dissertation Fellow, and a Fellow in the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program. Beyond MU, she is the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society and serves as the 2008-09 Graduate Student Caucus Vice-Chair of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) (and the Chair in 2009-2010), and will spend early Spring of 2009 as a Visiting Research Fellow at Chawton House Library. Emily writes and speaks on editorial practice, women's writing, and texts in conversation. Her current research
explores endings in the eighteenth century.
ecfriedman@mizzou.edu
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Nina Furstenau
MA Candidate
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is a MA candidate in Creative Writing/Fiction. She received a BJ
degree in magazine journalism in 1984 from the University of Missouri
and pursued a career in publishing. She now splits her time consulting
in the publishing industry, operating a retail boutique in Columbia,
Missouri, and writing. She is currently working on a novel as well
as a critical thesis exploring the ties between Eastern religious
texts and the writing of Henry David Thoreau.
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Jessica Garratt
PhD Candidate
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is a student in the PhD in Creative Writing program, specializing in poetry. She is also Poetry Editor of The Missouri Review. Previously, she attended Grinnell College and The University of Texas at Austin for her Bachelor’s in English, and earned her MFA in poetry at UT-Austin as well, where she was a Michener Fellow for three years. Her poems have appeared, or will appear, in The Missouri Review (years before she got here, for the record), Shenandoah, the North American Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review.
jbgf25@mizzou.edu
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grew up in Iowa but came to Missouri
to receive his bachelor's and master's degrees in English at Truman
State University. Returning to graduate school after being a college
faculty member, an associate academic dean, and a college registrar,
Joe is now working on his doctorate in English (ABD), specializing
in Victorian literature and culture. His dissertation focuses on
the various spaces in which Victorian natural history and literature
meet. In his spare time, or when just avoiding his dissertation
writing, he enjoys reading science fiction and working part-time
at Barnes & Noble to finance his science fiction habit.
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PhD Candidate
mendotameg@adelphia.net |
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Marcia Hansen
MA Candidate
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was born
in Illinois, but comes to Mizzou by way of Texas where she worked
for SMU and Verizon doing web development, marketing/communications,
and Intranet/Internet project management. Also while in Texas,
she received her BA in English at The University of Texas at Arlington.
During Summer 2005, Marcia participated in an invited program,
the Missouri Writing Project, where she discussed best practices
for teaching writing with 20 other Missouri writing teachers.
Marcia has continued her involvement with the Missouri Writing
Project Network by joining their leadership team. Marcia also
presented a paper June 2005 at the national Computers and Writing
conference held this year at Stanford University.
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Aaron Harms
PhD Candidate
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earned his BS in Psychology from Central Missouri State University in 2002 and his MA in English from the University of Missouri in 2007. Next on the docket of fine degrees, the PhD in Rhetoric and Composition. Presently he's enjoying raising two boys, teaching undergraduate composition courses, attempting to complete a rock opera, and, chances are, a soda with lots of ice.
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studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, graduated with a BA Summa Cum Laude from Princeton University, and received her MFA from Columbia University in New York. At MU, she is pursuing her PhD (ABD) as a G. Ellsworth Huggins Fellow. Her longer projects have been finalist for the Poets & Writers Exchange in Poetry, the AWP Award Series in the Novel, and the John Guyon Literary Nonfiction Prize. Her publications include The Iowa Review, Notre Dame Review, Double Room, Denver Quarterly, The Southern Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fourteen Hills, The Laurel Review, Crab Orchard Review, and elsewhere. Some fellowships include the P.E.O. Scholar Award, MU’s Collaborative Research Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts’ residency fellowship, University of Notre Dame’s Erasmus Summer Fellowship, Columbia University’s Hertog Research Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer grant (for her former high school teaching), and Princeton’s Asher Hinds Thesis Prize. Gretchen's research and writing projects focus on literary intersections with music and the visual arts, both aesthetically and practically, including health care. This Fall, she will be a resident fellow at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in MN and the Vermont Studio Center. She has taught literature and creative writing courses at Barnard College’s Center for Research on Women, the University of Missouri, and most recently at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.
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PhD Candidate
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is a native of Columbia. She completed her BA here at the University
of Missouri (Interdisciplinary Studies: English, History and Anthropology)
and is now pursuing her MA in Folklore/Oral Tradition. Tahna is
currently interested in the folklore of the Deaf community and writing
narrative ethnography. Last year she worked as a research assistant
for Sw. Anand Prahlad compiling photos for the Encyclopedia
of African American Folklore which is due to be published in
December '05.
tbh913@mizzou.edu |
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received her BA in English from Eastern Illinois University with a minor in 2-D studio art. After working several years in public health research in St. Louis, she moved to the D.C. area to earn an MFA in poetry from George Mason University, where her work received the 2004 Mary Roberts Rhinehart award for student poetry. She is currently enrolled at MU as a PhD student in Folklore, concentrating on ethics and ethnography, narrative studies, and creative writing. |
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(PhD ABD) received an associate's degree in English and a bachelor's
degree in history from Drury College in 1997 and a master's degree
in education from Drury in 1999. While at MU Phil has been the recepient
of the Gus Reid Award, the Hocks Dissertation Fellowship, the George
Blocker Pace Award, and the Richard S. Brownlee Fund Grant. Phil's
poetry has appeared in several small publications, such as Frogpond,
Potpourri, American Tanka, and The Christian Science Monitor.
In addition, Phil's biographical essay of Robert Montgomery Bird
was published in Writers of the American Renaissance in
2004 and his critical study of Tarzan of the Apes is scheduled
to appear in Scribners' American History through Literature
this fall. His essay, "The Shrouded Mountaintop: Inter-textuality,
Authorial Dexterity, and the Misreading of Thoreau's 'Ktaadn," will
be published in The Concord Saunterer in the summer of
2006 and his review of Immigrant Women in the Settlement of
Missouri will appear in The Missouri Folklore Journal
in coming months.
phildoughowerton@yahoo.com |
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saifg4@mizzou.edu |
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bajcvc@mizzou.edu |
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MA Candidate
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received a BS in Plant Science and
Environmental Conservation from the University of New Hampshire
and an MA in English-Creative Writing/Fiction from the University
of Missouri-Columbia. Her short fiction has won several awards,
and she is currently at work on a novel and a series of autobiographical
essays. Her first full-length play, The
Lad Sketches, was performed at The
Blue Note in Columbia in the spring of 2007. Lania teaches writing
courses and her interests include contemporary and historical novels,
plays, and essays that explore familial and gendered themes via
the lives of trans and queer protagonists.
ldk344@mizzou.edu |
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received his BA (2001) and his MA
(2003) from Emporia State University, and his area of specialization
for his doctorate is medieval literature. His Master's thesis explored
the role of light in The York Mystery Cycle, and medieval
drama continues to be one of his primary research interests. His
work has appeared in the Publication of the Missouri Philological
Association. As a former collegiate baseball player, Damon
makes a welcome addition to most departmental softball teams.
dkb43@mizzou.edu |
Originally
from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, earned her bachelor's
degree in English and Creative Writing from Loyola College in
Maryland. Karen's master's thesis on Wilkie Collins's The Woman
in White won both the 2003 University of Missouri Distinguished
Master's Thesis Award and the Midwest Association of Graduate
Schools ParamGun Sood Distinguished Master's Thesis Award. Karen's current research includes the history of
the novel, Victorian literature, and visual culture.
karenlaird@mizzou.edu
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specializes in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature and culture. At the University of Missouri, she has been the recepient of the Purcell Fellowship, the Collaborative Research Fellowship (with Noah Heringman), the Hocks Dissertation Fellowship, and the Elizabeth T. Barnes Fellowship. In 2007, Crystal was awarded the Graduate Student Research Prize from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Crystal is currently finishing her dissertation entitled "Ruin Nation: The Aesthetics of Decay and the Politics of Decline in Britain, 1720-1820," and her article, "Redecorating the Ruin: Women and Antiquarianism in Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall," is forthcoming from ELH. Starting in August, Crystal will be a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA.
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received
his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)
in 2005. While there, he won the Josephine M. Breese Memorial Award
in Short Fiction and served as Assistant Technical Editor for the
literary journal Ninth Letter as it produced its debut
issue. In addition to writing fiction, he is interested in Medieval
Literature, particularly Old Norse and Icelandic texts. He is originally
from Memphis, TN.
PatrickLane@mizzou.edu
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a native of Waldo, Wisconsin, has a BA from St. Norbert College, an
MA from Boston University's creative writing program in poetry, and
an MA in literature from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Currently
a PhD student, her main interests are in 20th Century American poetry
with specific regards to Confessionalism.
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received her MA in English in 2004
from the University of South Florida and she began her PhD work at Missouri in the fall of 2005. She is currently interested in American fiction (1850-1925), with a focus on urban literature and film. Her writing and research examines themes such as violence, poverty, class struggle, and identity in texts that help construct a picture of how the city was portrayed during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 2006-07 she served as
president of the Graduate
Student Association and as Assistant to the Director of Graduate Studies in the English Department.
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has received International Fellowships from AAUW and P.E.O International. In addition, she has been awarded the John D. Bies International Travel Scholarship (MU Graduate School) and the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award for her work-in-progress novel titled Finding Anam Ka'alakol: A Jade Sea of Many Fish, an excerpt of which is forthcoming in Stand Magazine. Other awards include the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature and Kenya’s National Book Week Literary Award. Lily’s short stories have appeared in literary journals like PRISM international (Univ. of British Columbia), Wasafiri (Routledge), Callaloo (The Johns Hopkins UP), and the 2007 Fish Anthology (Fish Publishing, Ireland). Some of her short stories have also been hosted on the International Museum for Women website and G21- The World’s Magazine. Other publications include a novel, The Pretoria Conspiracy (2000, Focus Publications -Nairobi), and three children's books: Saleh Kanta and the Cavaliers (2005, Phoenix Publications – Nairobi), Seth the Silly Gorilla (2002, Phoenix), and Ali the Little Sultan (1999, Focus). Her research interests are in Africana Literature and Africana Feminisms, interests she will be pursuing as the 2008-09 Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellow at the Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies, Univ. of Rochester, RC, New York. Her essay “Breaking Gods: An African Postcolonial Gothic Reading of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun” is featured in Research in African Literatures, 39.1 (Spring 2008), Indiana UP in collaboration with OSU.
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PhD Candidate (ABD)
cam2fa@mizzou.edu |
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is a PhD candidate studying visual and media theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis (with Prof. Ellie Ragland). Her research focuses on photography, early cinema, experimental film, and cyberculture. Born in Kamianets-Podilsky, Ukraine, she earned her BA (2000) in Comparative Literature and MA (2001) in theory of literature from Kyiv Mohyla Academy (Kiev, Ukraine). Apart from more than 20 scholarly publications in Ukrainian and Polish, she is an author of numerous materials in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia, the main Ukrainian weekly, Krytyka, a political and cultural monthly, KINOKOLO, and others. A widely published literary and film critic, she was also an editor-in-chief of Literatura Plus, a newspaper of the Ukrainian Writers Association (2001--2003) and a founder /editor-in-chief of Komentar, a political and cultural monthly (2003 - 2004). She received the Renaissance Foundation Scholarship for the Harvard University Summer School - HURI (1998), an award from the Austrian Embassy in Ukraine for the best essay about Rainer Maria Rilke (1999), High Education Support Program (HUSP) Research Scholarship (Budapest, 2003), Fulbright Scholarship (2004-2006), and Pace Award from the University of Missouri, Columbia (2006). In the summer of 2005, Svitlana participated in the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University (Prof. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s seminar). Her prose was included into She is Unknown. The Anthology of Ukrainian Women’s Prose and Essays of the Second Half of the 20th Century (ed. Vasyl Gabor, Piramida, Lviv, 2005.) Svitlana is a co-founder (with Virlana Tkacz) of ‘ROUND US poetry & performance series that has been on since 2002 in Kiev and now in New York. Her own experimental video and photography addresses the medium as an essential part of an art work. Svitlana curates a new series of experimental performance, launched at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York. matviyenkos@yahoo.com |
PhD
Candidate
is a current faculty member of the University of Baghdad (College
of Languages), a professional translator, and a writer. His translations
-- including literary articles, critiques, book reviews, narrative,
poetry, and two books -- have been published in Iraq and other Arab
countries. His interest in literary theory has driven him to explore
the possibility of realizing pragmatic aspects of theory, to see the
extent to which theory can be at the service of creativity (so far,
only one successful attempt). Zaid is currently using his bilingual
expertise to review and annotate (in English) Arabic books on folklore,
popular literature, and oral tradition as a research assistant at
the Center for Studies in Oral Tradition at MU. He is also currently
involved in translating into English his Arabic war-novel, The
Way to Baghdad: Day 18 of the War.
znmwbc@mizzou.edu |
graduated from Central
Missouri State University in December 2004 with a Bachelors of Secondary
Education, English. She has been a member of Sigma Tau Delta and spent
a year in the McNair Scholars Program. At MU Maggie works on an
MA/PhD in English emphasizing composition and rhetoric.
mam5g5@mizzou.edu |
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Marc McKee
PhD Candidate
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received his BS from Indiana University, his MFA from the University of Houston, and is currently pursuing his PhD in Creative Writing & Literature here at the University of Missouri at Columbia, where he lives with his wife, Camellia Cosgray, and their two cats, Zipper and Noodle. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from various journals, such as Boston Review, Cimarron Review, Conduit, Crazyhorse, diagram, Forklift, Ohio, lit, Pleiades, The Journal and Subtropics. His chapbook, What Apocalypse?, won the New Michigan Press/diagram 2008 Chapbook Contest, and will appear in the fall of 2008.
mmckee2642@aim.com |
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PhD Candidate
dustination.geo@yahoo.com |
is a second
year PhD student. His primary area is folklore and secondary area
is 20th century world literature. His chief research interests are
religious folklore, contemporary oral narrative, and folklore and
literature. While at Missouri, he has taught English 1000 and Introduction
to Folklore.
sam6wc@mizzou.edu |
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PhD Candidate (ABD)
plm3kf@mizzou.edu |
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MA Candidate
MontgomeryCou@missouri.edu |
To
everyone's confusion,
received her BA in Folklore from Brown
University followed by an MS in Textile History and Conservation from
the University of Rhode Island. After working as a textile conservator,
she is working now on her PhD in Folklore with an emphasis on material
culture and postcolonial theory. Current research interests include
the embodiment and representation of personal and cultural identities,
intercultural interaction, and research for a book on felt.
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is a third year Ph.D. candidate
focusing on creative nonfiction and multicultural literature. After
growing up in NY, Neesha picked up a dual-BA in Creative Writing
and History, as well as a minor in film from Loyola College in Baltimore,
MD, then continued on to collect her MFA in fiction and nonfiction
at Chatham College in Pittsburgh before settling with her two dogs
and fish in Columbia, Missouri. Although the move took some major
regional and open-minded adjustment, one year later she has finally
found a productive pattern to Mid-West life conducive to her writing.
She is currently working on an entire reconstruction of her memoir
and learning how to live in an environment not surrounded by rivers,
oceans or other such large bodies of water.
nen4h5@mizzou.edu |
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PhD Candidate (ABD)
Sophico@hotmail.com |
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is a native of Murray, Ky. He graduated from MU in May 2006, earning
two degrees - a Bachelor of Journalism and a Bachelors of Arts in
English. Working on a master's degree, Andrew is studying the development
of the novel through literary and social history, with a particular
interest in metafiction. As the definition of the novel expands, the
expression of the author/reader contract has changed. Andrew seeks
to understand how the changing ideas about the relationship between
readers and authors relate to a changing world.
adpty9@mizzou.edu |
holds an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, where he was a Jacob K. Javitz fellow. His work has appeared in The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, Smartish Pace, The Best American Poetry 2007, and elsewhere. His translations are forthcoming in Circumference: A Journal of Literary Translation. Interviews that he has conducted have appeared in Rain Taxi and American Poetry Review. His reviews have appeared in American Book Review, Pleiades, and The Missouri Review. He's currently working on a PhD in Creative Writing-Poetry, on a creative writing fellowship.
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received
her BA in English from Providence College in the spring of 2005.
After finishing her senior thesis on the reinvention of Scottish
cultural identity in Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, she
graduated and reestablished her Midwestern roots in Columbia, where
she recieved her MA in December 2006. She has particular research
interests in Restoration, eighteenth, and early nineteenth-century
British literature, religious life and Dissent, women's writings,
and visual culture.
jmpzp9@mizzou.edu |
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Recipient
of the Juris Doctorate from the University of Missouri at Columbia
School of Law,
is also a PhD Candidate and Instructor in the University of Missouri
English Department. Anthony's PhD dissertation is tentatively entitled
Contemporary Lakota Epistemological Models and Habermasian Discursive
Analysis: The Post-Primitivist Call for Contemporary Legal Tropological
Conversion. Anthony has published numerous articles and delivered
papers at academic conferences such as the American Folklore Society.
Originally from Laguna Beach, California, Anthony proudly resides
(is a permanent domiciliary and resident of) Columbia's 6th Ward,
in the 25th Congressional District of Missouri. Anthony harbors
secret dreams of becoming a Circuit Court Judge, and takes care
of a surly iron-and-fire colored cat named Pidgett.
anthony@mizzou.edu |
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MA Candidate
dwptfc@mizzou.edu |
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PhD Candidate
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received his BA in Latin from Duke
University and an MA in classics from Indiana University-Bloomington.
After spending nine years working in non profit management, he decided
to pursue graduate studies in English, earning an MA from Western
Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY, before entering the PhD
program at the University of Missouri - Columbia. His primary
area of study is nineteenth century British literature, specifically
Victorian studies. Current interests include Victorian constructions
of masculinity and their ties to nationalism and imperialism, and
nineteenth century visual culture, especially narrative painting
and book illustration. He and his wife Margie have three children
-- Doug, Nick, and Sally, two cats --
Edmund Spenser and Lady Oliva Baden-Powell, and a border collie
named Harriet Martineau. Tony currently has a tenure-track position at Lane College while he completes his PhD.
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is a PhD candidate in Folklore and
Oral Tradition, is interested in rap music and other forms of oral
poetry, and the insight they may yield us into written poems. He
grew up in northeast Minnesota, and received a BA in English from
Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. He recieved his MA from MU
in December 2006.
par4g5@mizzou.edu |
A
folklore PhD (ABD) candidate, is currently
working at the Institute
for Cultural Partnerships (ICP) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where
she administers their Apprenticeships and Fellowships in Traditional
Arts Programs, integrates arts programming into select social service
centers, and documents traditional arts in Pennsylvania through extensive
fieldwork. Her emphasis area is Latino folklore, and summer 2005 she
conducted fieldwork for the Smithsonian doing cultural survey work
on Latino Chicago. Winter 2006 she traveled to Havana, Cuba with
Juanamaria Cordones-Cook to conduct research. This research, along
with her work at ICP will form the foundation of her dissertation
research. While a graduate student at Missouri, she completed archival
work and site visits for the Missouri Folk Arts Program, worked as
an editor for the Journal of American Folklore, lobbied on Capitol
Hill in Washington D.C. for higher education legislation, was an active
member of the Student Folklore Society, and in fall of 2005 worked
as the Assistant to the Director at the Center for Arts and Humanities.
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PhD Candidate (ABD)
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began her doctoral studies at MU in the fall of 2006, where she is recipient of the 2006-07 Mary-Jo Purcell fellowship. She holds BAs in both English and Art Education from Fairmont State University in her home state of WV, and an MA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She specializes in eighteenth-century literature, with a particular interest in colonial and postcolonial literature and theory. Recent research includes travel literature and the conservative didactic novel of the 1790s.
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is a PhD graduate
student in Medieval/Renaissance English Literature. Rebecca graduated
from Central Methodist College in Fayette, MO summa cum laude
in May of 1999. During her undergraduate studies, Rebecca served as
editor of the literary magazine Inscape, president of ODK leadership
fraternity, and president of Tri-Tau English fraternity. Since graduation,
she has been teaching junior/senior English, yearbook, and drama at
Russellville High School where she was voted teacher of the year by
the student body in 2001. Rebecca also served as president of CTA
(Community Teacher's Association) the following year. She recieved her MA from MU in the spring of 2008. |
(PhD candidate) is interested
in the role of authenticity in autobiographical writing, particularly
in the work of musicians like Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. In the
March/April 2006 issue of The Writer’s Chronicle, Todd
discussed sincerity and songwriting with Jeff Tweedy, lead singer
of the band Wilco. Although Todd is a native of Omaha, Nebraska—he
has a Bachelor’s in Religion and a Master’s in English,
both from the University of Nebraska at Omaha—he doesn’t
know Conor Oberst.
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is the author of Raw Goods Inventory, winner of the 2005 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2007 Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers from Shenandoah. Recipient of the Stegner, the Ruth Lilly, and the Javits fellowships, her work has been published in journals such as The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Denver Quarterly, and Pleiades. Emily holds degrees from Purdue and Cornell universities. Her current academic and creative work at the University of Missouri plays with the lyric, the weather, and Shakespeare. She lives with her husband, Anton, and her Australian shepherd/Border collie mix, Dasha.
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recieved her BA in Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003, where she studied botany, folklore, and Anglo Saxon literature. Schmidt worked as an environmental advocate and organizer in Wisconsin for five years before coming to the University of Missouri to study folklore and medieval literature, receiving her MA in 2008. Schmidt's research interests include humor, particularly practical jokes, occupational folklore, and dirty jokes, Anglo Saxon saints' legends, postcolonial studies, and ethical ethnography.
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was born in Columbia, and
now he's returned by way of Taiwan, Poland, and Seattle. Joe received
his M.Ed. from Framingham State University in 2001, and his MA in
English from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2005. Joe's
interests include ecocriticism and the twentieth-century novel,
but most of his time is occupied by his two cats.
jbsr29@mizzou.edu |
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received her BA with honors from
MU in 1992, graduating magna cum laude. After graduation,
Penny taught high school English in Texas for seven years. She is
now a returning MA student with interests in critical theory, philosophy
of language, and mythology. When not working, Penny can be found
enjoying the company of her husband and three children, painting,
or writing children's fiction.
pjs9q3@mizzou.edu |
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PhD Candidate (ABD)
lshb6d@mizzou.edu |
is a PhD student with primary interest in English language and linguistics and secondary interest in rhetoric and composition. He is currently deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
strellufc@missouri.edu I web site |
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PhD Candidate
davidsussman@mixmail.com |
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received his BA in English (2002) and MFA in Creative Writing (2005) from the California State University at Long Beach. Before arriving at MU, he spent two years teaching English and writing courses at San Diego Mesa College. He received his MA from MU in 2008. His writing has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including The Chiron Review, The Classical Outlook, descant, Iambs and Trochees, and The Raintown Review. His current interests include Old and Middle English literatures and the study of poetic translation. |
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received his BA in English from the University of Missouri (2007), after leaving the University of Virginia to serve in the U.S. Army as an armor crewman. He is currently at work writing a novel and short stories. |
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studied English literature at University College London before transferring to the University of the West of England where he completed his BA with First Class Honours. After gaining his MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, he worked as a reporter, copywriter and research assistant in Bristol and London. His poems and short stories have appeared in the literary journal Chroma and in anthologies by Alyson Publications and Sulis Press. Andrew is the 2007 recipient of the Mary-Joe Purcell Fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where his research interests include post-structuralist feminism and the deconstruction of gender in the 18th century Gothic romance. |
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is a creative writing fellow working
on her PhD in fiction. Before coming to MU she earned an MA in fiction
from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MPA and a BA
from Cornell University. Her fiction has appeared in The Minnesota
Review, Literal Latte, 3rd bed and other magazines, as well
as the anthology Falling Backwards: Stories of Fathers and Daughters.
She's been the recipient of a Judith A. and Richard B. Schwartz
travel grant, a Center for Arts and Humanities grant, and a Mississippi
Arts Commission artist in residency grant.
adw25c@mizzou.edu |
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Jennifer Wilmot
PhD Candidate
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Born
and raised in Philadelphia, PA,
received a BA in English Literature and Communications with minors
in Sociology and Religious Studies from Chestnut Hill College in 2006.
She received her MA in 2008 form MU. Her undergraduate honors thesis entitled, "Brrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinng!--
Waking Up to Bigger Thomas: A Reassessment of Heroic Black Masculinity
in Native Son," contextualized readings of Bigger Thomas as heroic,
in which she then challenged this view by questioning the validity
of his masculinity. Jennifer's literary interests include the portrayal
of Black masculine resentment in 20th century fiction, as well as
the perverse effects of the "American Dream" on African-American
characters. Though she has yet to attempt to publish, she hopes Mizzou
will thrust her into this realm of the literary world.
jmwwv5@missouri.edu |
Erin (E.G.) Wilson
PhD Candidate
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grew up in Oklahoma and Florida. In the PhD program at Mizzou, she is a G. Ellsworth Huggins scholar studying Romantic and Victorian literature and art, feminist theory, and body theory. She received both her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Tulsa. During graduate study at TU, she was awarded the Writing Program’s Outstanding Teacher award and awards in writing from the Women’s Studies department. In 2005, she won the Adult Creative Writing Contest in Children’s Fiction from the Friends of the Tulsa Library. The bulk of her spare time is dedicated to photography, honing her legendary cooking skills, and general craftiness. |
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Ramsay Wise
PhD Candidate (ABD)
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graduated with a BA in English from MU in 1996. He graduated again from MU in 2003 with an MA in English. He’s got money on the trifecta. He has taught Introduction to Film, Introduction to Film Analysis, courses on Hitchcock and Woody Allen, literature courses ranging in theme from humor to murder to the American dream, and a very canonical Simpsons/South Park--themed English 1000 course. He is the recipient of the Mary Lago Teaching Award and has published fiction in Spinning Jenny and Bathtub Gin. His dissertation entitled Film in Post World War II American Fiction looks at the influence of film on the post-WWII American novel and focuses on novels by Walker Percy, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, and Jessica Hagedorn. He enjoys backrubs, Tom Waits, the smell of fear, his dogs Steve and Woody, his wife, and the inherent ambivalence of art.
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PhD Candidate (ABD)
lsgad9@mizzou.edu |
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graduated from MU in 2004 with a
BA in English. She is currently pursuing her MA in English with
an emphasis in Language and Linguistics and has a particular interest
in revision.
kaw017@mizzou.edu |
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received her BA from the University
of Missouri before going to Boston University for a MA in creative
writing. Her interests include American variations on devotional
poetry and the relation of writing to the visual arts. She returned
to begin a PhD in creative writing in August 2005.
slwadc@mizzou.edu |
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