Scholarship and Writing

English Graduate Student Association

Recent articles published by EGSA Graduate students:

Fitzpatrick, Reilly L. “‘The Child’s Sob in the Silence Curses Deeper’: Language of Voice and Dialogue of Reform in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ‘The Cry of the Children.’” Victorian Poetry, vol. 61, no. 3, 2023, pp. 285–300, https://doi.org/10.1353/vp.2023.a915652.

Fitzpatrick, Reilly L. “Redundant Women as Reformers in Gaskell’s Cranford and My Lady Ludlow.” Victorians?: A Journal of Culture and Literature, vol. 145, no. 1, 2024, pp. 57–70, https://doi.org/10.1353/vct.2024.a931642.

Hawk, Matthew. “Elma Stuckey: The Historian’s Poet Laureate.” Mississippi Quarterly. vol. 50, issue 2, Spring 2021.

Hawk, Matthew. “Kenneth Lawrence Beaudoin: Poet-Laureate of the Mid-South.” Arkansas Review, vol. 51, issue 3. December 2020.

Hawk, Matthew. Poems from the Heart. Desert Willow Press, 2018.

Klein, Anthony. ““To Hell with Ballybeg”: Acedia in Brian Friel’s Philadelphia, Here I Come!.” New Hibernia Review, vol. 29 no. 3, 2025, p. 34-52. Project MUSEhttps://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nhr.2025.a974323.

Lewis, Ariadne. “‘An invisible world and a kingdom of spirits’: A Spatial Reading of Fairies, Spirits, and Eschatology in Jane Eyre.” Brontë Studies (2024).

McCright, Grace Perry. “‘It Was Said She Believed in Evolution’: Ecogothic Time and Space in Eudora Welty’s ‘Moon Lake.’” Eudora Welty Review, vol. 15, no. 1, 2023, pp. 75–90, https://doi.org/10.1353/ewr.2023.0007.

McCright, Grace Perry. “Parting the Curtain: Modernism, Empathy, and Epiphany in Eudora Welty’s The Golden Apples.Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 1, 2025, pp. 27-46.

McCright, Grace Perry. ““Rise up and tell it”: Go Tell It on the Mountain, #ChurchToo, and James Baldwin’s Christian Witnesses.” Christianity & Literature, vol. 73 no. 3, 2024, p. 417-432, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/chy.2024.a940458.

Ramsek, Stephen. “The Contributions of Empirical Analysis to Christian Poetics: A Proposal,” Among Winter Cranes vol. 7 issue 2, Spring 2024. https://www.thercta.org/awc/archive

Roufs, Annie. ‘Nuances of Truth’: The Crucifixion’s Communicative Power in My Name is Asher Lev. Renascence vol. 76, no. 3, 2024, pp. 3-21.

Roufs, Annie. ‘Not a Sparrow Falls’: Possibility and Postsecular Hope in Alice McDermott’s Someone. Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture vol. 28, no. 3, 2025, pp. 58-77.

Toth, Veronica. “A Study in Superfluity.” The Other Journal, issue 32. https://theotherjournal.com/2021/04/study-in-superfluity/