Articles & Essays Published by Current and Recent Doctoral Students
Forthcoming
Rea-Hedrick, Eden. “ ‘See things my way’: Conveying and Critiquing Consciousness in Contemporary Screen Adaptations of Jane Austen.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (forthcoming).
2025
Kong, Alex. “Perfume Genius: On Hiroshi Shimizu.” in n+1, June 16, 2025.
Rea-Hedrick, Eden. “Charles Thrale: Disability and Gender Anxiety in WWII.” The Polyphony, July 31, 2025.
2024
Kong, Alex. “Spellbound.” in New Left Review Sidecar, 25 October 2024.
Kong, Alex. ”The Irrepressible Elaine May.” The Nation, October 21, 2024.
Sudershan, Suvij. ““What did I Eat?”: Misrecognition and the Neocolonial Picaresque in Ousmane Sembène’s Mandabi and Mrinal Sen’s Interview.” Cultural Critique, vol. 123, 2024, p. 129-162. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cul.2024.a919744.
Valentine, Colton. “Illness as Character as Metaphor.” ELH, vol. 91 no. 2, 2024, p. 441-465. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2024.a929155.
2023
Houghton, Eve. “Fops vs Tops: Character and Attention in The Country Wife.” ELH 90.3 (Fall 2023): 667-691. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/elh.2023.a907205.
Mundell-Perkins, Lizzie. “Re-reading for the Plot: The Erotics of Uncertainty and Readers’ “Re-vision” in The Golden Bowl.” The Henry James Review, vol. 44 no. 1, 2023, p. 41-62. Project MUSE.
Rea-Hedrick, Eden. “Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan.” The Communication Review 26.2 (2023): 204-6. DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2023.2189398.
Valentine, Colton. “On Vernon Lee’s Walter Pater and Translating the Victorians.” Victorian Literature and Culture 51.2 (2023): 293-305.
Valentine, Colton. “Aubrey Beardsley’s Perverse Recipe for Success.” The New Yorker, February 2023.
2022
Abraham, Michael. “Elizabeth Bishop and the Schizoaffectivity of Whiteness.” Modernism/modernity (February 2022).
Abraham, Michael. “Out of the Closet and Into the Home: Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and the Affordances of the Domestic Interior.” Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Winter 2022).
Crow, Claire. “Lesbian Space and Postpartum Homoerotic Desire in The Book of Margery Kempe.” The Margery Kempe Society (April 2022, online only).
Dwyer, Seamus. “Reading the Tied Letters of Cotton Nero A.x,” published with the Review of English Studies, vol 74 Issue 313.
Houghton, Eve. “Private Owners, Public Books: Henrietta Bartlett’s Feminist Bibliography.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 116.4 (December 2022).
Lanham, Andrew. “Book Review.” Michigan Journal of Law and Society (2022) (review of Linda Colley, The Gun, The Ship and The Pen (2021)).
Sudershan, Suvij. “India.” Tolstoy in Context, edited by Anna A. Berman, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 255-262.
Valentine, Colton. “Against Queer Presentism: How the Book World Neglects the Archive.” The Drift, October 2022.
Valentine, Colton. “The Madeleine’s Metapragmatics: On Michael Lucey’s What Proust Heard: Novels and the Ethnography of Talk.” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2022.
2021
Grogan, Tess. “‘Gather Up the Reliques of Thy Race’: Paynim Remains in Faery-land.” Spenser Studies 35 (2021): 153-79.
Huber, Sam. “Muriel Rukeyser ‘among Wars’: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave.” American Literature 93.4 (December 2021): 655-83.
Huber, Sam. “How to Continue: The poetry of HIV/AIDS four decades on.”The Yale Review 109.3 (Fall 2021): 212-31.
Hyun, Trina. “Donne’s Media Theology.” ELH 88, no. 4 (2021): 821-43.
Lanham, Andrew. “The Geopolitics of American Policing.” Michigan Law Review 1411 (2021) (review of Stuart Schrader, Badges Without Borders (2019)).
Lanham, Andrew. “The Making of the Surveillance State.” The New Republic (June 2021).
Valentine, Colton. “Vernon Lee, Queer Relations, and a New Guard of Victorianist Multilingualism.” Victorian Studies 64.1 (2021): 62-87.
Valentine, Colton. “Domesticating Decadence: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Pierre Louÿs, and Their Invisible English Translators.” MLQ 82.4 (2021): 441-72.
Valentine, Colton. “‘I Sappho’: A Case for Character in the Early Writings of Algernon Swinburne.” Victorian Poetry 59.1 (2021): 23-47.
Valentine, Colton. “Vernon Lee, Queer Relations, and a New Guard of Victorianist Multilingualism.” Victorian Studies 64.1 (2021): 62-87.
2020
Grogan, Tess. “Speculative Bill“ Spenser Studies 34 (2020): 215-25.
Houghton, Eve. “Pastime with Good Company: Writing and Leisure in Early Modern England.” Exhibit essay for Subscribed: The Manuscript in Britain, 1500-1800, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (2020).
Hyun, Trina. “Book and Media Theory.“ The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 28:1 (2020).
Lanham, Andrew. “American Racism in Plague Times.” Boston Review (March 2020).
Lanham, Andrew. “Editor’s Introduction.” Michigan Law Review I (2020).
Lanham, Andrew. “Policing the World.” Boston Review (June 2020).
McGowan, Christopher. “Workers Entering the Prison: Steve McQueen’s Hunger (2008) as Imperial Labor Film.” Qui Parle 29.2 (2020): 343-72.
Valentine, Colton. “H.G. Wells and the Fin-De-Siècle Gustatory Paradox.” Review of English Studies 71.302 (2020): 937-51.
Valentine, Colton. “A Temple to Transnational Queerness: The Politics of Commemorating Oscar Wilde.” European Journal of English Studies, Issue on “Decentering Commemorations” 24 (2020): 146-61.
Valentine, Colton. “Geographical Amusement: The Rise of the Cartographic Board Game.” Cabinet Magazine, Kiosk (August 2020).
Valentine, Colton. “Not Noticing, Infallibly: The Critical Liaisons of Henry James, French Decadence, and Honoré de Balzac.” Henry James Review 41.2 (2020): 97-115, recipient of Leon Edel Prize.
2019
Houghton, Eve. “Review of Angus Vine, Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge.”Times Literary Supplement (September 2019).
Hyun, Trina. “Book / Media Theory.” The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 27:1 (2019).
Im, Seo Hee. “Philip K. Dick, Late Modernism, and the Chinese Logic of American Totality.” Modernism/modernity Print Plus (2019), Volume 4, Cycle 3.
Im, Seo Hee. “The Ghost in the Account Book: Conrad, Faulkner, and Gothic Incalculability.” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 52.2 (2019): 219-39.
Jones, Lacey. “A Forming Poem”: Towards a Process Poetics.” Literature & Theology 33:3 (2019): 262–77.
Lanham, Andrew. “A Puerto Rican Activist’s Fight For Citizenship.” The New Republic (February 2019).
Lanham, Andrew. “Jack Ryan, American Imperalist.” The New Republic (June 2019).
Lanham, Andrew. “Philip Pullman’s Free Thought.” The New Republic (November 2019).
Rampell, Palmer. “The Shining and the Media Conglomerate; or, How All Work and No Play Made Jack a Creative Artist in the 1970s.” American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 151-82.
Swain, Daniel. “Critical Differences: Henry James and the Affective Predicaments of the Literary Market.” Henry James Review 40:3 (2019).
Valentine, Colton. “A Bid for History: On Leah Price’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Books.” Los Angeles Review of Books (December 2019).