Dawn Angelicca Barcelona (MFA+MA)
Dawn’s chapbook, Roundtrip, is set to be published by Finishing Line Press in March 2025, and was named second honorable mention in the 2023 New Women’s Voices Chapbook Contest. She won second place in Singapore Unbound’s 10th Annual Poetry Contest for her poem, “Human Resources,” which was also named a finalist for the 14Hills Stacy Doris Memorial Poetry Award. Her poetry was recently published in Atlanta Review, Stoneboat Literary Journal, Tyger Quarterly, and SUSPECT, and further poetry, fiction, and nonfiction of hers is forthcoming in Brink, Reed Magazine, and . Over this past summer, Dawn attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, and Juniper Summer Writers’ Institute, and also interned with StoryStudio Chicago through Northwestern’s Chicago Humanities Initiative, building out their Chicago Stories Project program.
Jennifer Comerford (PhD)
In December 2023, Jennifer was invited to give an online talk at Chawton House (Hampshire, UK) titled “Jane Austen’s Pancakes, and Other Recipes.” Her article, “Hand in Hand: The Erotics of Touch in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility,” was published in Women’s Writing in July. She was also appointed a 2024-2025 Dibner Research Fellow in the History of Science and Technology at the Huntington Library for a period of two months.
Michaela Corning-Myers (PhD)
This past summer, Michaela published an entry on the life and works of Margaret Fuller in The Literary Encyclopedia.
Allison Gibeily (PhD)
Allison was awarded the 2024-25 Lawrence Lipking Fellowship through the Newberry Library, which she used over the summer to conduct research on European encounters with and understandings of Arab oral storytelling culture in eighteenth-century Aleppo. She also received the Herzog Ernst Fellowship and has been studying post-classical Christian Arabic manuscripts at the Gotha Research Library in Germany. Her article “Bartering Knowledge, Imposing Silence: Indigenous Guanche Presence in Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society of London” is forthcoming in volume 54 of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Mitchell Johnson (MFA+MA)
Mitchell’s essay “On Delivery” was published in the Spring 2024 issue of n+1. He also received the Emerging Writers Award from StoryStudio Chicago and attended the Disquiet International Literary Program, where he was longlisted for the prize in fiction.
Paulina Jones-Torregrosa (PhD)
Paulina’s interview with Dr. Patricia Romney of the Third World Women’s Alliance was accepted for publication. Their co-authored article, ‘Working Together Accomplishes Much More: A Conversation with Dr. Patricia Romney,’ will be published in the journal Feminist Theory in December 2024.
Alaia Snell (PhD)
Alaia’s most recent project on Octavia E. Butler, space colonization, and Indigenous astronomies was published in the Fall 2024 volume of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.