Current Graduate Students
Graduate students in the English Department at UB are experienced teachers and active researchers. Here is a selection of their recent accomplishments.
* Ben Bedard recently gave a paper, "To Hell with Harper's and the Magazine Touch: The Material Conflict of 1912," at the “Question the Answers” Conference at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton. In addition, Ben’s first book of poetry, Implicit Lyrics: Book One, was published by Punch Press in 2008. Ben has also recently published reviews of work by Jay Millar, Stephen Ratcliffe, and Ed Dorn.
* Tim Bryant has published articles on teaching Alan Moore's graphic novel /Watchmen, /professional authority in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and virtual communities in Melissa Scott's science fiction novel /Burning Bright/. His paper, "Twin Messiahs: Capitalist and Socialist Jesus in the American Popular Press, 1916-1925," won the Daniel Walden Award at the 2008 conference of the Mid-Atlantic Popular/ American Culture Association.
* Prentiss Clark delivered a conference paper titled, "After Acknowledgment: Theodore Parker as Representative Man," at "Stanley Cavell and Literary Criticism," in Edinburgh, Scotland, in May 2008. Her article "After Acknowledgment: Theodore Parker as Representative Man" is forthcoming in the Arizona Quarterly.
* Jon Cotner recently co-edited a special issue of the journal "Intervalles" (4/5, Fall 2008-Winter 2009), which explores practices of "transcription" in poetry, fiction, anthropology, and the visual arts. The 1000+ page issue can be found at the following link:
http://www.cipa.ulg.ac.be/ intervalles4/contentsinter4.php
Contributors include David Antin, Lauren Berlant, Charles Bernstein, Mary Ann Caws, Clayton Eshleman, Myung Mi Kim, Wayne Koestenbaum, Eileen Myles, Susan Stewart, Dennis Tedlock, and Marta Werner.
* Ronan Crowley recently published two reviews. The first, a discussion of Dirk Van Hulle's 'Manuscript Genetics: Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow (Gainesville, Fla:
University Press of Florida, 2008), appeared in the James Joyce Broadsheet 81 (October 2008): 2. Ronan's review of Roger Norburn's 'A James Joyce Chronology'
(Houndmills and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) can be found in the James Joyce Literary Supplement 22.2 (Fall 2008): 12-13
* Michael Fix had several poems published in the Fall 2008 issue of BlazeVOX 2k8.
* Kenneth James has been named as the editor of Samuel R. Delany’s collected Journals, which will be published by Wesleyan University Press, and will likely run to five volumes.
* In October, 2008 Alphonse Kolodziejczak presented a paper at the NYCEA (New York College English Association) at St. Bonaventure University entitled, “The Search for Meaning in Paleolithic Art.”
* Alessandro Porco had an essay titled, "'The Records Spun My Lonesomeness': A Short Essay on David McGimpsey's 'Ancient Rock Mythology," published in a special issue of Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory (13.5, Fall 2008) dedicated to "New Canadian Poetries." In addition, Canadian publisher ECW Press recently published his second collection of poetry, Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems. Finally, since Spring 2008, Alessandro has been a columnist for Maisonneuve Magazine, Montreal’s city magazine, where he writes a monthly column, titled "In Extremis," on the subject of hip-hop.
* Divya Victor has a poetic essay "Dear Reader" coming out in Broke, the poems "Character" and "Poses for Furniture/This Product Requires Assembly" coming out in President's Choice, and "Gage" forthcoming in Drunken Boat. She recently presented a paper titled, ""Prenatal Plagiarism and Kits of Bloodbone": A "disguss[ion]" of Misrecognized Voices, Grotesque Bodies and the Abject Pun in the Work of Caroline Bergvall and Mina Loy," at the “Lifting Belly High: Women's Poetry since 1900” Conference at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh. She is the Co-President of the Graduate Poetics Group, and continues to curate the constraint and collaboration based performance series (co)ludere.
