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Ph.D. candidates Aaron Babcock and Kristin Distel have recently published and presented in a variety of venues about Ohio author Sherwood Anderson and other Midwestern writers. Babcock specializes in American immigrant fiction published between Reconstruction and the Second World War, while Distel’s focus is female characters’ experience of shame in […]

English fiction Ph.D. candidate Michelle Pretorius presented her paper, “Postcolonial Crime Fiction: Dealing with Trauma in the Postcolonial State,” at a conference in the United Kingdom. Pretorius’s talk situated “Postcolonial crime fiction … as the new political novel.” The conference, titled “Captivating Criminality,” was sponsored by the International Crime Fiction […]

Three English doctoral students and one faculty member presented their work on June 3 at the 46th Annual Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature conference at Michigan State University. Third-year students Aaron Babcock and Kristin Distel co-chaired a panel titled “Gender, Androgyny, and the Inscrutable Body in Sherwood Anderson’s […]