With mentorship from our faculty, English graduate students at LMU are encouraged to present their work at academic conferences worldwide and publish their work in peer-reviewed journals. Below are some recent student scholarly achievements.
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Jacob Longini
"Twitter as Limited Digital Rhetorical Forum – The Reproductive Rights Discourse Online," Comparative Woman: Vol. 2, Article 8. 2023
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Abigail Davis
“Assistant Scenes,” Open Ceilings, Winter 2022: Salt – Scholarship Award for Prose
“Come to Jesus,” Open Ceilings, Winter 2022: Salt
Katie Howard
"Female Saints and the Performance of Virginity in the Medieval Period" Seattle University Undergraduate Research Journal (SUURJ), Spring 2022
“Humor as non-Reactive: Analysis of Indigenous Myth and Louise Erdrich’s Love Medicine” Graduate Library Research Awards Recipient, 2022
Jacob Longini
"Performative Speech and Outcasts in Dickens' Oliver Twist," South Atlantic MLA 94 Conference, November 11th-13th, 2022
"Twitter as Limited Digital Rhetorical Forum" and "Clean Quiet," CSUSM LTWR MA Graduate Conference, April 9th, 2022
"Dark Generation," Eyes&Windows&Souls, GoldScriptCo, 2022
"Proustian Quantum Mechanics - Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being as a Variation Novel," Berkeley-Stanford Graduate Conference, April 30th, 2022
"Sisyphean Virtue: Existentialism as a Critical Lens for Reading A Farewell to Arms," Criterion Literary Journal, 2022
Nyla Manuel
"Black Girls and White Women," 36th Annual MELUS Conference in New Orleans on March 23-28th, 2022
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Abigail Davis
“Toxic Maternity in Gillian Flynn’s Sharp Objects,” Criterion Magazine, 2021
“An Open Letter to my Allies in Life,” Prometheus Dreaming, 2021
"English Majors Can Save the World (but We're in Desperate Need of a Rebrand)," Nineteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities at Complutense University of Madrid, June 2021
Neda Loop Awardee for best capstone
Rebecca Gross
"‘Watchmen’ and ‘Hunters’: Reclaiming Black and Jewish Bodies in Contemporary American Superhero Series," in The New Americanist, 2021.
"Book Review of Holocaust Memories, Histories, Novels, and Films," in Jewish Film and New Media, 2021.
"Book Review of Connected Jews: Expressions of Community in Analogue and Digital Culture," in Jewish Film and New Media, 2021.
Neda Loop Awardee for best capstone
Hudson Luthringshausen
Neda Loop Awardee for best capstone
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Jaedyn Baker, Dom Beaudine, Mary Deckas, Rebecca Gross, Nazareth Martinez, Mattie Norman, Schuyler Vanderveen, Steven Mailloux
"Rhetorics and Viruses," Philosophy & Rhetoric Special Issue, Fall 2020
Jaedyn Baker, Hudson Luthringhausen, Mattie Norman
"Complicit vs. Interrogative Spectatorship: Ideology and Closure in Snyder’s 300 and HBO’s Watchmen," Literature/Film Association, November 2020
Jaedyn Baker, Mattie Norman
"The American Grotesque: Sherwood Anderson and Modernity featuring Bruce Falconer and Chad Trevitte," The Lion Lounge, Season 1, Spring 2020
"The American Grotesque: Flannery O’Connor and Southern Gothic featuring M. O. Walsh and Robin Miskolcze," The Lion Lounge, Season 1, Spring 2020
Jaedyn Baker
"Composition of the Future: Rhetorical Genre Studies & Multimodal Projects," CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication) at USC, Summer 2020
Abigail Davis
"Toxic Maternity featuring Sady Doyle and Sarah LaChance Adams," The Lion Lounge, Season 1, Spring 2020
"Left Behind: An Exploration of the Survivors of Suicide," LMU’s Spring Research Award Ceremony, Fall 2020
“Why I Can’t Name my Unborn Baby Robert,” Prometheus Dreaming, 2020
Rena Gallagher
“America Loves Dead Girls,” Stardust Literary Review, 2020
Rebecca Gross
"Kisses I've Had In My Life," in Stone of Madness Press Issue 1, 2020.
"Tetragrammaton," in TERSE JOURNAL, August 14, 2020.
"Gonzo," in Cobra Milk Issue 1, Fall 2020
"Sucking on a disco biscuit, watching her bosom rise and fall distractedly in autumn, 1975" in Seiren Quarterly, Fall 2020
"Embodying Trauma: The Body as Archive in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory," Hannon Library's Graduate Library Research Awards, 2020
Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States (MELUS) Conference, Fall 2020
LMU’s Spring Research Award Ceremony, Fall 2020
"Looking to Literature and Our Bodies: The future of researching and teaching bodily trauma in literature featuring Holli Levitsky," The Lion Lounge, Season 1, Spring 2020
Amanda Koenigsberg
Neda Loop Awardee for best capstone
"Mental health, stigma, and ableism featuring Savannah Lee Simmons," The Lion Lounge, Season 1, Spring 2020
Nazareth Martinez
"Narcissister for the Sisters (and Women Bodied Individuals): Modes of Subversion through Performance and Performativity," Southwest Humanities Symposium, 2020
Mattie Norman
American Literature Association Conference
Hudson Luthringhausen, Kemi Ogun
"Introduction to Nightwood," The Lion Lounge, Season 1, Spring 2020
Alex Thurnher
Panel at ALA
"Reading Women Authors featuring Evelyn McDonnell, Molly Youngkin, Anna Dorn, and Nate Elias," The Lion Lounge, Season 1, Spring 2020
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Angelo Antonio
"From Nothing to Nothing: Survivalism, Class, and Literacy in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower," MELUS Conference, March 2019
"From Nothing to Nothing: Survivalism, Class, and Literacy in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower," College English Association (CEA) Conference, March 2019
"Thousand Oaks is Burning," FORTH Magazine, February 2019
Sydney Delaney
"On Weariness," LA Miscellany, 2019
"Now You See Her: gendered bodies of the visual, race and female identity in Nella Larsen’s Passing," Criterion, 2019
Comparative paper on Jesuit, Loyolan, Soka and Makiguchian pedagogies in the writing classroom, Sustainable Education Conference, February 2019
"Travel Epistemology and Narrative Embodiment in James Baldwin and Ta-nehisi Coates," NeMLA Conference, Panel on Escapism, Washington D.C., March 2019
Maria Gonzalez
“Studying Theatrical Environment at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,” LMU’s Spring Research Award Ceremony, Fall 2019
Rae Lontok
“Department Stores: A Victorian Woman's Eden,” LMU’s Spring Research Award Ceremony, Fall 2019
Yoán Moreno
"Machete," Prime Number Magazine, January 2019
Noah Salamon
A Series of Moments now available through Finishing Line Press
Tariku Sherif
"Ethiopia in Western Literary Imagination: a territory unexplored," Southwest English Symposium (SWES), March 2019
"Recurring Themes in Amharic Political Songs: A Comparative Study of Song Lyrics during Three Moments of Revolution in Ethiopia (1974, 1991, 2018)," American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, March 2019
Anna Stigen
"Reclaiming the Work of Dorothy B. Hughes," LMU’s Spring Research Award Ceremony, Fall 2019
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Angelo Antonio
"A Passing," LA Miscellany, April 2018
"The Transformative Classroom: A Case Study for Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literature in the Twenty-First Century," MELUS Conference, May 2018
Nina Batt
"'Estas Son Mis Armas': Bilingual Writing as Negotiator of Space and Place," "You Are Here," An Interdisciplinary Conference on Space, Place, and Embodiment, Omaha, March 2018
Sydney Delaney
"The Black Castrato: Travel Epistemology and Narrative Embodiment through Voice in James Baldwin and Ta-Nehisi Coates," LMU BCLA Graduate Student Summit, Los Angeles, April 2018
"The Transformative Classroom: A Case Study for Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literature in the Twenty-First Century," MELUS Conference, May 2018
André Enriquez
"Poetic Form in White Space Exploration," LMU BCLA Graduate Student Summit, Los Angeles, April 2018
"Re-Assimilation in Crisis: Greek Masculinity Depicted Through Film," Criterion, April 2018
"A(c)company," LA Miscellany, April 2018
"The Transformative Classroom: A Case Study for Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literature in the Twenty-First Century," MELUS Conference, May 2018
Prague Summer Program for Writers, July 2018
"The Guest," Meluzina Zine, July 2018
Danielle Gibson
"Rainbow Colored Wrists," LA Miscellany, April 2018
Mauricio Hernandez
"The Transformative Classroom: A Case Study for Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literature in the Twenty-First Century," MELUS Conference, May 2018
Chloe Jory
"Equations for a Falling Body," Marathon Literary Review, Forthcoming
"Hex Boyfriend," Marathon Literary Review, Forthcoming
Nina Keen
"Aspartame," LA Miscellany, April 2018
Courtney Marquez
"Living in Complicated Times," Forecast LA, April 2018
David Miller
"Love Song," Cold Coffee Stand, June 2018
"All Resistance Grows From The Same Complacency," Cold Coffee Stand, June 2018
"Afterwork," Cold Coffee Stand, June 2018
"Seamster's Union," Cold Coffee Stand, June 2018
Yoán Moreno
"La Fuente Epifánica, or The Literature of Self-Denial," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, March 2018
"Beat Deafness: The Polyrhythm of Paradiso's Chapter XII," Criterion, April 2018
"The Transformative Classroom: A Case Study for Teaching Multi-Ethnic Literature in the Twenty-First Century," MELUS Conference, May 2018
Bryan Rollofson
"In My Room," LA Miscellany, April 2018
Townsend Scholz
"Dissolving the Angelic Ideal: Reading the Angelic Body as Disciplinary Object and Example in Paradise Lost," LMU Graduate Student Symposium, March 2018
"Bad Hand Jack," LA Miscellany, April 2018
Pageantry," LA Miscellany, April 2018
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Emily Baade
"wom•an," LA Miscellany, April 2017
Nina Batt
"Re-teaching the ABC's: Propaganda Analysis as a Solution to Political Polarization in the College Classroom," Onondaga Community College SUNY Council on Writing, September 2017
"'Estas Son Mis Armas': Multilingualism as Rhetorical Device in Lorna Dee Cervantes' 'Coffee,'" AISNA Biennial Conference, Milan, September 2017
Oscar King IV
"Women Come Apart: Fractured Female Identity in the Shonen Harem," AX Anime and Manga Studies Symposium, July 2017
David Miller
"hang float burn bury," Rattle, March 2017
"The Bruised Universe," crackthespine.com, June 2017
Townsend Scholz
"Summat to Make Her Live," PAMLA Conference, Hawaii, November 2017
Gardner Stevenett
"Stepping at Woolf's 'Sweet Will': Masculinity, Mobility, and Aesthetic Subversion in Jacob's Room." Mardi Gras Conference at LSU. February 2017
"Our Summer Would Fly," LA Miscellany, April 2017
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Megan Barnes
"'To Choose or Not to Choose': The Success of Hysteria in Gissing's The Odd Women."Northeast MLA Annual Conference. March 2016.
"'Clearing Up Cathy' -Steinbeck's Exploitation of Cain and Abel in East of Eden."
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. March 2016
"'Sir Steinbeck and the Green Knight': A Re-Examination of To a God Unknown."
International Steinbeck Conference. May 2016
"'Little House, Big Ecology': The Ecocentric Presence in Little House in the Big Woods."
Western Literature Association Annual Conference. September 2016
"'He Too is Gone Down With the Water': The Violent Agency of an Ecocritical Perspective in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans."
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference. November 2016
"'Upon the Treadle of the Loom': Failed Communication and Contestable Yarn in Moby-Dick."
Literature at Sea Conference. December 2016
Rhetorical Arts Faculty Fellow at Loyola Marymount University
Gabe Bitto
"Rhetoric and Empathy in the High School English Classroom"Indiana College English Association Conference, October 2016
Alexandra Meany
"'Timelessly speaking of change': Reading Scales of Time and Space in the Prose and Poetry of Adrienne Rich"Western Literature Association Conference. September 2016
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference. November 2016
"'The problem of the universe revolving in me': the Chronotopological Vortex in Herman Melville's Moby Dick"
Literature at Sea Conference. December 2016
David Miller
"Elegy" Rattle.com, March 2016"Silence" South Florida Poetry Journal, October 2016
"Surprises!" RiseUpReview.com, December 2016
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Esther Dalton
Kipling's Kim: Elegy for an Indian Childhood
British Commonwealth Postcolonial Studies Conference. February, 2015Alexandra Meany
"Establishing Power and Identity in the Third Space: Examining the Literary Work and Life of Mourning Dove"
Western Literature Association Conference. November, 2015.David Miller
"Historical Present: The Lyric According to Walt Whitman"
ACLA National Conference. March, 2015Attendee of the 2015 Poetry Workshop at the Writers' Institute of Skidmore University
“Four Poems” Palaver, Fall 2015.
Stephanie Nicolard
"The Anatomy of a Villain: Explorations of the Body in Othello"
Re/Inventions 2015: Consumption CSULB. April, 2015
Interconnections: Patterns, Pathways and Possibilities, University of Rhode Island. April, 2015Michael Robinson
"Political Animals: The Awntyrs off Arthure"
"Putting the Weir Front-and-Center in McPherson's The Weir"
Natures 2015. Serra University. February 12-13, 2015"Between Being(s): Phenomenologies of the Creature in Early Cultures"
University of California, Irvine. April, 2015"Language as Military Assault on Identity and Memory in Friel's Translations"
American Conference for Irish Studies. October 2015Yad Vashem
Erika Rothberg
"Prisoner on the Hell Planet: Survivor's Guilt and Shared Trauma in Maus"
Wondercon, Comic Arts Conference. April, 2015"Truly Dead Ends: Failed Journeys and Social Immobility in Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man Is Hard To Find' and 'The Life You Save May Be Your Own.'"
International Gothic Association's Biennial Conference - "Gothic Migrations". July 28th - August 1 2015Xiaxoue Sun
"Teaching in a Salad Bowl: Multilingual and Multicultural Challenges in the English Classroom"
Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media. March, 2015"To Go Is To Come Back: A Comparative Analysis of Wooden Fish Songs and The House on Mango Street"
N-Determination Conference. March 13, 2015
50th Annual Comparative Literature Conference. April, 2015
72nd SCMLA. October 31-November 3, 2015
A version of this paper will be published in the International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies, June 2015."Poppy and Recollection: Paul Celan's Influence on Ingeborg Bachmann"
RMMLA. October, 2015"Poppy and Memory: Darkness Spoken between Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan"
Charles Davis Award for Outstanding Graduate Presentation. 2015 RMMLA Convention
Accepted into UCSB's PhD in Comparative Literature Program, German Emphasis.Kalene VanHuss
"Silence on the Seas: The Voiceless Perspective in Melville's Benito Cereno"
PCA/ACA National Conference, April, 2015 -
Justin Campbell
Finalist for the 2014 Lascaus Prize for Short Fiction“Bedtime Stories”
The Lascaux Review, Forthcoming
African American Review, Forthcoming: 2014"Multiplicity of Me: On Race, Fatherhood, and James Baldwin."
The Millions (essay here)Chris Chien
"Union of Pure with Pure Desiring": Recovering Gender Fluidity and the 'Hermaphrodite' in Milton's Paradise Lost
68th RMMLA. October, 2014
25th UCLA Southland Conference. May, 2014"Used to It" : Queer Identity, Inc. and the Politics of Resisting "Acceptance"
86th SAMLA. November, 2014Joanne Do
"Do You Believe in Magic: Examinations of Agency in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye"
Southwest Popular and American Culture Association. February, 2014“Why Are You Looking At Me Like That?: Objects and Their Use in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days and Krapp's Last Tape”
PCA/ACA National Conference. April, 2014Hannah Dow
"Mirror, Mirror: The Bluest Eye and the Construction of Pecola's Subjectivity"
Trespassing(s): The University of Maryland's GEO Conference. March, 2014Amanda Drum
"I Would Be I": Agency and Ideology in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
112th PAMLA. October 31 - November 2 2014Liz Goldhammer
"Sex, Lies, and Videotapes: Cultural Feminism's (Re)Production of Patriarchy"
Close Encounters: Remapping Discipline through Genre. March, 2014"The Queer and the Creepy: Homosexual Desire in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
albeit, Forthcoming…
Alex Halicki
Crossing Thresholds: An Entry into Gothic Fiction (curator)
William H. Hannon Library Department of Archives and Special Collections"'All men schall tak exampyll': The Audience and the Akedah in the Brome Abraham and Isaac"
35th Annual Medieval and Renaissance Forum. April, 2014"The Quotative 'Be Like' and Valley Girl Identity"
Cultural Rhetorics. October 30-November 1 2014Sean Hooks
“The Soul of London is the Heart of the American Midwest,” Review
The Journal, Spring 2014 issueKathryn King
"Gender Representation and Adaptation: Kasdan's and Tyler's The Accidental Tourist"
"Intersections" Conference. March, 2014
Craft Critique Culture; (Mis)Leading Conference. April, 2014XI International Conference on Women's Studies. April, 2014
Gender Studies: Transatlantic Visions 11 (2014)."'But I Do Clean Up Real Fuckin' Pretty': True Detective and Motorcycle Subculture Representation as Spectacle and Diversion."
Masculinities Journal. August 2014-February 2015 issue: 59-79.Jeffrey Nazzaro
“Climbing That Mountain Again”
Rind Literary Magazine, June 2014“Evidence”
BareBack Magazine, September 2014“Chores” and "At Japan's First Citrus-Themed Park"
Flash: The International Short-Story Magazine, October 2014“Brown Chicken, Brown Cow”
Every Day Fiction, November 2014Michael Robinson
Poetica Magazine: Special Issue, The Holocaust, 2014
A First Shabbat at the Kotel
Poetica Magazine: Fall 2014 Issue
Erika Rothberg
"What the Hell to Expect When You're Expecting: An Examination of Demonic Pregnancies in Horror Literature and Film"
Pennsylvania College English Association. October, 2014Noah B. Salamon
“The Transformative Effect of Color in the Poetry of Tomas Tranströmer.”
World Literature Today. June, 2014. Web.
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Elizabeth Barr
"'Who the devil wrote that?' Intertextuality and Authorial Reputation in Georgette Heyer's Venetia"
Journal of Popular Romance Studies, Spring 2013Justin Campbell
First Place Recipient of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers"Blessed Are The Peacemakers."
34th Parallel Literary Magazine Winter 24 (2013): 44-53“Excerpt from “Sitting On The Knees of Gods.”
The Two Cities, 8 Nov. 2013 Web
The Two Cities, 13 Sept. 2013 Web“Your Life Is Not Your Own”
The Cossack Review, Forthcoming: 2013“.12 Gauge”
The Faircloth Review, 2013“Super Tuscan”
The Conium Review, 2013“The Escort”
The Wide Net Literary Magazine, 2011“Sand”
Margins, Forthcoming…
UK’s International Creative Writing Conference. June, 2013“Original Trauma: The Assumption of Unique Identities in Brick Lane”
34th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference. February, 2013
2013 Acacia Conference. March, 2013Hannah Dow
“(Dis)empowered: Virgins as Surrogates”
6th Annual Religions in Conversation Conference. February, 2013Sean Hooks
“The Art of Digression: Experimentalism and Anti-Form in J.D. Salinger's ‘Seymour: An Introduction’”
34th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference. February, 2013
A version of this conference paper is published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, September 15, 2013"Crichton's Jurassic Park Twenty Years Hence, A Reconsideration"
Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Conference. October, 2013Alisa Manzelli
“Myrtle Wilson's Desperate Attempts for Social Acceptance in The Great Gatsby”
34th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference. February, 2013
Courtney Pina
“Modernist Oppositions: How War Unites the Literature of Dos Passos and Ginsberg”
34th Annual Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference. February, 2013
College English Association Conference. April, 2013Katelyn Quinley
“Distortions of Chastity in the House of Busyrane"
International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Thought. April, 2013Noah B. Salamon
“Sanctuary and other poems”
Poetry issue of Sixfold, Fall 2013 -
Joanne Do
“Poe and Plagiarism: The Evolution of a Changing Attitude”
Creativity and Authorship: Law and Changing Practice Symposium. December, 2012