Department of English
Graduate Student Awards & Accomplishments
Awards
Every April, students in the Graduate English programs are eligible to compete for the Newton Award, given for the best essay on pre-1900 literature or culture, and for the Beebe Award, given for the best graduate student essay on twentieth-century literature or culture. Essays should be ones written for a graduate seminar in the last twelve months. Winners receive a small financial prize and a faculty commitment to assist in revising the essay for publication. Copies of the most recent winning essays are available in the Graduate Office for reading.
Students are notified of the outcome of the competition during the early part of the summer. The awards are presented in the fall at the opening year departmental gathering for entering and continuing graduate students. For more information on the requirements for the competition, contact Sharon Logan at logans@temple.edu.
2011-2012 Winner
Beebe Award
Edward Howell, "Evaluating Ecocriticism: Literary Value and Environmental Crisis"
Newton Award
Edward Howell, "A Better Illusion: George Eliot's Impressions of Theophrastus Such and the Idea of a Nation"
2010-2011 Winner
Beebe Award
Sara Wilson, "Chronic Emeritus: Murphy's Defense"
Newton Award
Donovan Tann, “Subjectivity, the Body, and Community Membership in Taylor’s Preparatory Meditations”
2008-2009 Winner
Beebe Award
Daniel Morse, "Only Connecting": E. M. Forster and Empire Broadcasting"
2007-2008 Winner
Beebe Award
Nicole Cesare, “Hearing the Softly-Spoken Whisper: Thematic and Formal Challenges to the Oral/Written Binary in Nuruddin Farah’s Maps”
Newton Award
Nicole Cesare, “‘Dotted boundaries and penciled shores’ : The Politics of Geography in ‘Eighteen Hundred and Eleven’ and The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”
2006-2007 Winner
Newton Award
Anna Peak, “Sappho, Song, and Self”
2005-2006 Winners
Beebe Award
Janet Neigh, “The Sea Writing Environments of Marianne Moore”
Newton Award
Andrew Dixon, “Staging the King's Two Bodies: Marlowe's Use of Political Theory in Edward II”
2004-2005 Winners
Beebe Award
Adrian Khactu, "Political Models of Interracial Romance in Onoto Watanna's Miss Numè of Japan and David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly"
Newton Award
Michael Martin, “Inverted Worlds: Spectral Phenomena and the Discourse of the Interior in the Salem Witch-hunt"
2003-2004 Winners
Beebe Award
Emily Abendroth , "On the Uncontainable: Lyn Hejinian's My Life and Summi Kaipa's The Epics"
Newton Award
Margaret O'Brien, "The Influence of ‘Punch' on Theme, Narrative Voice, and Illustration in ‘Vanity Fair'"
2002-2003 Winner
Beebe Award
Patty Crouch, “Seamus Heaney's Postcolonial Beowulf"
Newton Award
Patty Crouch, “Troubled Typologies: John Milton, Lucy Hutchinson and the Problems of Civil War Historiography”
2001-2002 Winner
Newton Award
Jeffrey Renye, “Beneath the Dome: Ancient Spirituality and the Abyssinian Maid in ‘Kubla Khan'”
Graduate Student Accomplishments
PUBLICATIONS
Meredith Collins
- “Fairy and Faerie: Uses of the Victorian in Neil Gaiman’s and Charles Vess’s Stardust.” ImageTexT 2008.
Gabriel Cutrufello
- Review of Things Don’t Like Me: Paranoia, McCarthyism and Colonialism in the Novels of Philip K. Dick. Extrapolation 50.1 (Spring 2009).
- Review of Gateways to Forever: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazine from 1970 to 1980. Extrapolation 49.2 (Summer 2008).
- Review of The Years of Smashing Bricks. American Book Review 29.5 (July/August 2008).
Adam Fieled
- "Twenty-First Century Poetry and Poetics." Poetry Salzburg Review 2010.
- “Apparition Poems.” & Now Awards Anthology. Lake Forest College Press, 2009
- Chimes. Blazevox, 2009.
- The White Album. Ungovernable Press, 2009.
- When You Bit... Otoliths, 2008.
Jon Gagas
- Review of Kristin Bluemel, ed., Intermodernism: Writing and Culture in Interwar and Wartime Britain (2010). Pennsylvania Literary Journal (Summer 2010).
- Review of Scott Slovic, Going Away to Think: Engagement, Retreat, and Ecocritical Responsibility (2008). The Schuylkill (Spring 2010).
Kate Huber
- Edited Lore: An E-Journal for Teachers of Writing "Special Issue on the Intersection of Literature and Composition" (Spring 2009).
Janet Neigh
- “The Lickle Space of the Tramcar in Louise Bennett’s Feminist Postcolonial Poetics.” Critical Perspectives on Louise Bennett. Special issue of The Journal of West Indian Literature 17.2 (2009): 5-19.
Megan Walsh
- “A Nation in Sight: Charles Willson Peale and the Politics of Vision.” Early American Literature. Forthcoming, Fall 2010.
- “Benjamin Franklin’s ‘Double Spectacles.’” A Companion to Benjamin Franklin. Ed. David Waldstreicher. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Forthcoming, Spring 2011.
- “Charles Willson Peale.” Encyclopedia of American Studies. Ed. Miles Orvell. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008.
Amy Woodworth
- “Stylish Emotions: Postfeminism, the New Man, and the Male Weepie of the 1990s.” Foregrounding Postfeminism and the Future of Feminist Film and Media Studies. Ed. Marcelline Block. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Forthcoming.
CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED
Elizabeth Berlinger
- “Teaching Writers, Writers Teaching: The Daily Pages,” Modern Language Association (MLA) 2009 Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 27-30, 2009.
Sarah Bollinger
- "To Email or to Live Chat": When Writing Tutoring Goes Online." Mid-Atlantic Writing Center Association Conference, University of Delaware, April 2010.
Meredith Collins
- "Pleasure and Identity: Homosexuality as Identity in Victorian Pornography," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Saratoga Springs, April 24-26, 2009.
"A Hylo-Idealistic Romance of Duty: Courtship in Oscar Wilde's Short Fiction," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Bellingham, November 2-3, 2007.
"Masculinity, Neurasthenia and Decadence: Anxieties in Frank Norris's Vandover and the Brute and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray," Men and Madness, Manchester, UK, June 28-30, 2007.
Gabriel Cutrufello
- “Remixing the Report: The Writing Center Database and the Rise of the Digital Student,” Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, Kentucky, March 2010.
- “Abstract Science and Communication: The Creation of Modern Physical Chemistry and Learning to Talk About It,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 2009.
- “Writing Center Tutor Use of Database Materials in Tutoring,” Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference, York, PA, March 2009.
- “Fans in the Back Pages of Amazing Stories,” PCA/ACA National Conference, San Francisco, CA, March 2008.
Jon Gagas
- "The Structure of Prophetic Vision in Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Reading Blake with Badiou," Northeast Modern Language Association, Montreal, April 10, 2010.
- "Historical Violence and Aesthetic Perception in Beloved," Temple Graduate Fellows Research Symposium, Philadelphia, September 12, 2009
- "Vision and Historical Consciousness in John Banville's The Book of Evidence," New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, March 21, 2009.
- “From Novelist to Prophet: The Development of D.H. Lawrence’s Fiction, 1920-1930,” New Jersey College English Association, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, March 29, 2008.
Jessica Lewis-Turner
- "The Queer Mouth of Ralph Werther," Writings of Intimacy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Conference, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK, September 2010.
- "Less Gay, More Queer: Willa Cather's My Antonia," Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 6-7, 2009.
- Daniel Morse
- “Akashvani Hai: Midnight’s Children and Broadcasting Ethics.” 11th Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference, Montreal, November 2009.
- “Only Connecting" E. M. Forster and Empire Broadcasting.” Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, University of Pennsylvania, November 2009.
Janet Neigh
- “Feminist Pedagogical Implications of Multilingual Poetics,” Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism: A Gathering, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, September 25-26 2009.
- “Gender and Anti-colonialism in Louise Bennett’s 1940s Performance Poetics,” Lifting Belly High: Women’s Poetry since 1900, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh PA. September 13, 2008.
- “Teaching Creole Poetics in Women’s Studies: Transnational Literacy and Feminist Pedagogy,” Canadian Women Studies Association Annual Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC, June 3, 2008.
- “The Lickle Space of the Tramcar in the Feminist Poetics of Louise Bennett.” Noh Lickle Twang: Louise Bennett the Legend and the Legacy, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica, January 11, 2008.
Anna Peak
- “The Troubled Song of Sappho: Writing Sappho as Musician, Not Poet,” Creativity and the Arts in Victorian Culture, The Victorians Institute, Converse College, October 2009.
Elizabeth Seltzer
- "The Evolution of an Industry: Historical Trends in Austen Adaptation," Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Montreal, April 7-11, 2010.
Shiladitya Sen
- “Teaching the Bible: The Book of Genesis as Translated Text.” Modern Language Association (MLA) 2009 Annual Conference, Philadelphia, December 27-30, 2009.
Amy Woodworth
- "The Great Man Weepie: Masochism, Male Melodrama, and Feminism." Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, March 17-21, 2010.
FELLOWSHIPS
Gabriel Cutrufello
- Center for the Humanities at Temple University, Associate Fellowship, 2010-2011
Daniel Morse
- Center for the Humanities at Temple University, Teaching Fellowship, 2010-2011
Nick Moudry
- Center for the Humanities at Temple University, Dissertation Fellowship, Fall 2009
Janet Neigh
- Center for the Humanities at Temple University, Dissertation Fellowship, Spring 2010
Megan Walsh
- Robert M. & Annetta J. Coffelt Fellowship at the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2009-2010
- Research Associateship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 2009-2010
- CHAViC Summer Seminar Grant, Center for the History of American Visual Culture at the American Antiquarian Society, 2009 (declined)
- Society of Early Americanists Travel Grant, 2009
- Winterthur Research Fellowship, Winterthur Museum, Library, and Country Estate, 2008-2009
- MCEAS Consortium Dissertation Fellowship, McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, 2008-2009
Amy Woodworth
- Center for the Humanities at Temple University, Associate Fellowship, 2009-2010
AWARDS
Kathryn Ionata
- Outstanding Instructor Award, Temple University’s First-Year Writing Program, May 2010
TRAVEL AND RESEARCH AWARDS
Gabriel Cutrufello
- Temple University English Department Graduate Research Fund Grant 2010
- Temple University College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research and Travel Grant 2010
- Temple University College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research and Travel Grant 2009
Daniel Morse
- Temple University College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research and Travel Grant 2009
Elizabeth Seltzer
- Temple University College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research and Travel Grant 2010
Amy Woodworth
- Temple University College of Liberal Arts Graduate Research and Travel Grant 2010
MEDIA APPEARANCE
Elizabeth Berlinger
- “From Sappho to Sylvia Plath " and Beyond,” Interview for Borough of Manhattan Community College Web Site, October 2, 2009.