September 2024

PUBLICATIONS & ACCEPTANCES

Chris Campanioni, “Houses in Motion,” Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen, ed. Ruxandra Trandafoiu (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2024), 17–37; “We the People,” The Brooklyn Rail (July/August 2024); “The Price of Representation: Kendra Sullivan’s Reps, The Brooklyn Rail (June 2024); “Barbarian,” Michigan Quarterly Review 14 (2024); “trinitarian formula,” “unattainable in this ruby tuesday,” “mannequin,” and “in a slippery body,” Prelude 4 (2024)

Allison Deutermann‘s essay “The Persons of the Play: Falstaff and the Thickening of Dramatic Character,” has been accepted for publication in PMLA. Another essay, “Taking Time to Breathe: The Formal Atmospherics of Early Modern Drama,” has just been published in ELR

Steven Swarbrick’s second book, Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction, co-authored with Jean-Thomas Tremblay, is now available through Northwestern University Press. His third book, The Earth Is Evil, is under contract with the University of Nebraska Press series “Provocations.”

CONFERENCES, READINGS, WORKSHOPS & PRESENTATIONS

Chris Campanioni, “Epistolary Affect and the Proxy Post as a Means to Pass: On the Semiotics of Dissimulation and Migration,” presented at Derrida Today 8, University of Athens, June 14, 2024.

Patrick Reilly gave a talk in the 29th International James Joyce Symposium at Glasgow University in June. Entitled “Swan Song: Across the Waters, the Moyles and Moyles of It,” it explores the Myth of the Children of Lir in James Joyce’s Opus. He was also the beneficiary of a PSC Travel Grant.

ACTIVITIES, ACCOLADES & GRANTS

Steven Swarbrick has begun a three-year term as the Director of the Locke Interdisciplinary Seminar in Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change. Please get in touch with him if you are interested in teaching a seminar!

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