University of Minnesota English PhD Program

09/15/2022

CLA is excited to offer graduate students the opportunity to gain experience in a profession beyond academia and the tenure track, explore how their academic training might translate into various career options, and build additional skills that will translate across sectors and jobs. Enrolling up to 10 students, the program has been expanded to run for 12 workshop sessions (7 mandatory) from Oct. 27, 2022 through April, 2023, and students will receive up to $6,000 in fellowship funding.

Graduate Intership Program

08/10/2022

The 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies (held in a new hybrid format May 11–13, 2023), hosted by Western Michigan University's Medieval Institute, is calling for papers! Many of our doctoral students have presented in Kalamazoo.

This call for papers includes all sponsored and special sessions approved by the Program Committee for the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies (held in a new hybrid format Thursday through Saturday, May 11–13, 2023), hosted by Western Michigan University's Medieval Institute.

08/03/2022

Teaching with Access & Inclusion Program Aug. 24, 25, 29, and 30: How might an instructor address questions of exclusion and belonging in their courses? Through four highly interactive synchronous Zoom sessions, the TAI Program offers an exploration of critical frameworks and practical strategies towards creating more equitable educational experiences for all. Register by Aug. 17.

Overview Are you committed to supporting diverse students but still feel unsure of how to address questions of exclusion and belonging in your courses? Have local and global events in the last few years left you even more concerned about supporting marginalized students? The Teaching with Access and...

06/29/2022

Doctoral candidate Jonas Gardsby successfully defended the dissertation "Unsettled: Trials, Attempts, and Unknowing in the Early Modern Essay" on June 28. Gardsby's advisor is John Watkins. Gardsby has accepted a tenure-track job at UW-Green Bay. Congratulations!

06/28/2022

Doctoral student Morgan Graham published the article "'Amantes del Barrio Franklin': Reading Chilean Shakespeare Through Cultural Anthropophagy" in Shakespeare Bulletin. Congrats!

Cultural Anthropophagy, an artistic approach that originated in Brazil, takes cannibalism as a metaphor for consuming what is useful from the colonizer’s culture and using it to make new, self-affirming art. Because of its emphasis on the artist’s autonomy, Cultural Anthropophagy provides a usef...

06/22/2022

PhD alum Zoë Rodine accepted the position of Director of University Programs and Partnerships at the Playwrights' Center. Congratulations! Rodine also published the paper "Janelle Monáe, Dirty Computers, and Embodied Posthumanism" with MELUS (47:1) and gave the talk "Vampires, Circulation, and Rewriting the Body in Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories" at the MELUS Conference, New Orleans, March 2022. The paper is at:
https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlac018

06/01/2022

PhD candidate David Rodriguez Martinez successfully defended the dissertation "The Sensibilities of Film Noir" on May 25. Rodriguez Martinez's advisor is Siobhan Craig. Congratulations!

05/20/2022

Doctoral candidate Laura Scroggs successfully defended the dissertation "A-Lines: Dresses, Texts, and 1960s Icons" on May 16. Scroggs' advisor is Paula Rabinowitz. Congratulations!

05/18/2022

PhD candidate Laura Price successfully defended the dissertation "Things Fall Apart: Decapitation and the Quest for Certainty in Early Modern English Literature" on May 5. Price's advisor is John Watkins. Big cheers!

05/12/2022

Doctoral candidate Sungjin Shin successfully defended the dissertation "Personal and Vernacular Voices: Reimagined Relationship with the Past in Early British Romantic Literature" on May 5. Shin's advisor is Brian Goldberg. Congrats!!

05/09/2022

PhD candidate Elizabeth Howard successfully defended the dissertation "The Parted Voice: Polyvocal Utterances in Victorian Elegies" on May 4. Howard's advisor is Andrew Elfenbein. Cheers!

05/06/2022

Doctoral candidate Jennifer Easler successfully defended the dissertation "The Futility of Prophecy: Prophecy and Poetry in English Narratives of Troy" in March. Easler's advisor was Andrew Scheil. Congratulations!