Research / Events
Conversion through Triangulated Belief Systems in Michael Field's Wild Honey from Various Thyme
Paper to be presented at the 2025 MVSA Conference at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, IN. At first glance, Wild Honey from Various Thyme (1908) may seem to engage in faiths antithetical or independent of Catholicism, moving from pagan allusion to the aesthetic turning away from the sensuality of nature to mystical embodiment in Christ. This presentation illustrates how each belief system necessitates a combined key for the speaker’s final act of conversion.
Words for Birds
Brought to you by Audubon and Stone in Stream, this event will feature readings by a small group of local artists, who will be offering their poetic expressions about birds and the natural world.
This event will feature readings by a small group of local artists, who will be offering their poetic expressions about birds and the natural world. Hosting the event will be Michell Lake Audubon Center, which is a tranquil and perfect setting for this event. Come and visit the center, enjoy a nature walk to see local birds, and drop by the visitor center to listen to some
Celebrating Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas
Celebrated writers Naomi Shihab Nye and Marion Winik discuss their new book, "I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas." The discussion is moderated by Texas State Graduate student, Cathlin Noonan and includes a remembrance of Ann by her friend and neighbor Ellen Weingarten Wagnon.
Angel to Apparition: The Ghost of the House in the Poetry of Rosamund Marriot Watson
Participation in the Roundtable on “Reading Victorian Periodical Poetry” at the 2024 NAVSA conference in Waco, TX. Building on recent debates about the usefulness of Victorian poetry in periodical studies, I’ll illustrate how Victorian poetry, when read as serialized, reveals how the periodical offered space to slowly subvert subjugating beliefs about the role of wife.
Endless Dissolution of Spatial Geometry in Ciaran Carson’s Belfast Confetti
Paper to be presented at the 2024 ACIS Conference in Limerick, Ireland. This paper argues that the textual space of Carson’s collection Belfast Confetti exists as a crisis heterotopia, one dependent upon the poetics of space enacted internally through the language of the text and one that invites inclusion over the fear-driven exclusion that motivates deviation heterotopias.
Green Heron Bookshop Poetry Reading
Literary reading at The Green Heron Bookshop in San Marcos, TX.
Living Archive: Immanence through Compression in “Krapp’s Last Tape”
Paper presentation during the ACIS National Conference 2023 in San Jose, CA. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of the event and the plane of immanence, this paper explores how anxiety and the material world, illustrated through Krapp’s reworking of his past on tape, allows him to compress space, time and self into the event, in this case his impending death in relation to the totality of his life, states which cannot be divided.
Scrying a Sequence: Transnational Irish Poetry from the Southwest
Poetry presentation at the 44th annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) conference in Albuquerque, NM.
