Student/Faculty Accolades: Papers and Podcasts and Presentations, Oh My!

by Chloë Moore ’24

Our students and faculty are always accomplishing amazing achievements (alliteration!), and we want to make sure that everyone gets their flowers! So here’s a quick rundown of some of the impressive stuff our department community members have been up to lately. If you have something you’d like to share with us, please use this link to give us the details!

Miles Latham ’24 will have an essay published in the peer-reviewed Sigma Tau Delta journal in November. The paper, Noble Bush: Sex-Positive Feminist Linguistics in Gwerful Mechain, explores medieval poetry about genitalia. The article is also nominated for a Sigma Tau Delta research prize. Congrats, Miles!

Professor Amy Elkins interviewed the writer Ocean Vuong for the podcast Novel Dialogue this past April. The podcast “invites a novelist and a literary critic to talk about novels from every angle: how we read them, write them, publish them, and remember them.” The cover image for the podcast episode was painted by Professor Elkins– listen to the whole episode to get the reference!

Professor James Dawes was the keynote speaker for a human rights conference in Norway this past June at the University of South-Eastern Norway. As a continuation of the conference, he also ran a seminar for masters students. His talk, “The Aesthetics of Rights and Wrongs,” opened explorations about aesthetic engagements with and representations of human rights violations. Congratulations to Professor Dawes, and thanks for repping us way across the pond!