More Publications
2022
Yetter Publishes in Mantis
Lynette Yetter's (MALS '21) poem "Poet" will be published in the forthcoming issue of Stanford's Mantis journal of poetry translations. "Poet" is Lynette's translation of a poem by Bolivia's most celebrated poet, Adela Zamudio (1824-1928). Congratulations, Lynette!
Callahan Publishes in Confluence
MALS student Susie Callahan's commentary piece, "Blue Notes in Bronzeville," appears in the Spring 2022 issue of Confluence journal. Susie compares Gwendolyn Brooks's children's poem "Paulette," which voices the complex daily struggles of a young Black girl in mid-century Chicago, to a blues score. Congratulations, Susie! Read her piece here ([text] [pdf]) in Confluence journal.
Isaak, Holland, Grgas, Karydes, and Madsen Publish Collaborative Essay in Confluence
Confluence's Spring 2022 issue also features an essay written by a group of MALS students: David Isaak, Emma Holland, Josh Grgas, Emi Karydes, and Thor Madsen, "Let's Be Disinterested Together: Social Media, Personhood, and Control." Read their work here ([text] [pdf]).
2021
Geigner Publishes Two Books
MALS alumna Megan Geigner is the co-editor of two new books, Theatre after Empire and Makeshift Chicago Stages. Megan has had her work published in New Theatre Quarterly, Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Theatre History Studies, and Cosmopolitan Review. Her research focuses on the way performance creates ethnic, civic, and racial identity in and at such events as parades, world’s fairs, commemorative monuments, and traditional theatre. She is also an officer with the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and an artistic associate with Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre. From 2009-2016, she was served on the board of director of the Neo-Futurists (Chicago); from 2016-19, she was the director of the United States Naval Academy theatre program; and for the last twelve years, she has worked as a dramaturg at several theatres in Chicago. She is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Cook Family Writing Program at Northwestern University where she teaches courses on writing about identity, technical writing, and writing in business settings.
2020
Callahan Publishes in Confluence
Susie Callahan's essay “Parading as a Means of Joyfully Choreographing a Future: Úumbal and Second-Lining” was published in the Spring 2020 issue of Confluence: The Journal of the AGLSP, and her essay “Why Read…Gertrude Stein?” will be published in Confluence’s Fall 2020 issue. Callahan will present her work at the AGLSP 2020 virtual conference.
2018
Cook, O'Neil, and Schock Publish Articles in Western Tributaries
Congratulations to Meg Cook, Libby O’Neil, and Mike Schock who will see their work published in the 2018 issue of Western Tributaries, the annual journal published by the Graduate Liberal Studies (GLS) West Coast Joint Symposium. Western Tributaries showcases graduate student research, writing, and creative work presented at the annual GLS symposium, which all three students attended at Stanford in June 2018. Meg's paper on "America's Poshlust Vacuum: Understanding Commodity Fetishism, the Young-Girl, and the Role of the Artist in Nabokov's Lolita" also won the AGLSP national writing award. (Read her paper here.) Libby’s paper “Wedding (and Divorcing) the Brides of Christ” examined the martial discourse surrounding women religious during the Reformation. She argues that their status was linked to earthly marriage and thus can explain both the highly contested elimination of the convent in Protestant areas, as well as the drastically heighted focus on public vows, convent enclosure, and class-exclusivity in Catholic areas. Mike wrote his paper on “Basic Structures of Ideological Communication in Traditional Hollywood Feature Film Narratives.” He argues that these films play a significant role in the framing and reframing of socio-cultural systems of belief, and provide qualitative statements on the values, ideas, and beliefs that inform human thought and behavior in relation to predominant ideologies of Western culture.