Email: joanna.aroutian at umontreal.ca
I am a PhD student in English. My research interests include the Victorian
period, specifically the novel and confession. I am currently working on a
dissertation entitled "The Confessional Dynamic of Identity Formation in Four
Victorian Novels, 1847-1861."
Program/Year: first year of MA
Area(s) of study:
Since I am not writing a thesis I am pursuing a broad range of interests, which include: Post-Colonial studies, Critical Theory/Cultural Studies (especially Marxist theory, and a growing interest in Eco-criticism), Western Modernism, American literature, Canadian/Quebec Literature, Irish Lit/Culture, music in literature, and finally my own creative writing practice (you can read samples of my work at: http//:spaces.msn.com/members/kdabramo1973/)
Department positions: graduate student
Funding / Awards related to field: CIBPA bursary
My favourite thing about Université de Montréal and/or the Dept. d'Eudes anglaises: the dynamic faculty and students and the collegial atmosphere
Research Interests: My literary interests are deeply enrooted in the range of poetry. My role as a becoming poet is simply to save poetry from its eventual death. I am highly obsessed with poetics, and devote myself to the cult of e.e. cummings, the Beats, Apollinaire, Emily Dickinson, Paul Eluard, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Patrice Desbiens, Walt Whitman, Byron, Claude Gauvreau, Michèle Lalonde, Gertrude Stein. I am interested in both the physical and musical aspects of poetry. It would be naïve to believe that poetry only resides inside poems. Quite the contrary. Also, I have a fascination for the relationship between French and English as literary roommates. I am radically engaged with arts and creative writing despite the fact that I am apparently the department’s youngest kid and that I use Gallicisms as a language (!) For any info on poetry, please contact me at annie0_0_7 at hotmail.com
Program/Year: PhD 3rd year
Project Title: Exiles, Expatriates, and Patriotes: The National Self in North American Autobiography
Supervisor(s): Dr. Andrew John Miller
Area(s) of study: Autobiography Studies, Early 20th century American Lit., Theories of Nationalism, Canon formation, Thomas Wolfe
Department positions: TA, RA, Instructor, ABD
Funding: SSHRC fellowship 2005-2007.
Awards related to field: 2005 Zelda and Paul Gitlin Literary Prize (awarded by the Thomas Wolfe Society for best annual Wolfe scholarship)
My favourite thing about Universite de Montreal and/or the Dept. d'Etudes anglaises: La brunante
I am a new student from Macau China and my name is Lao Sio Leng (Better call me Alice) I am now studying in the Master's degree English studies (etudes anglais) program. My interest is reading comic books, shopping and playing TV games. My future goal.... hope to finish my PhD! My supervisor I still don't know yet.
Program/Year: M.A
Project Title: Desire in Hamlet: Freud and Deleuze in Controversy.
Supervisor(s): Dr. Eric Savoy
Area(s) of study:Psychoanalysis and trauma theory.
Department positions:none
Funding / Awards related to field:A scholarship for the MA and the Phd programmes granted by the Tunisian government.
My favourite thing about UdeM and/or the Dept. d'Etudes anglaises: The friendly atmosphere that characterizes the relationship between the students and their teachers.
Program/Year: 3rd year, Etudes Anglaises
Project Title: The Revision of History, Language, and Appropriation by Translation in Robert Copland's _Helyas, Knight of the Swanne_
Supervisor(s): Dr. Joyce Boro
Area(s) of study: Medieval and Renaissance
Department positions: student, instructor, TA, RA
Funding / Awards related to field: Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship (2005)
Program/Year: English Literature/Ph.D.
Project Title: To be finalized, for now: representations of Self and Other
in minority literature
Supervisor(s): Robert Schwartzwald
Area(s) of study: B.A. French language and literature, M.A. English
Literature
Department positions: Lecturer at Laval University Fall 2004 (not sure if
this is what you want to know)
Funding / Awards related to field: n/a
My favourite thing about Universite de Montrel and/or the Dept. d'Eudes
anglaises: Professor Eberle-Sinatra's prompt follow-ups! (too new to the
dept and university to really list anything else.
B.A. obtained: University of Ottawa
M.A. obtained: Concordia University
Began Ph.D. Program in January 1997
Present Status: en rédaction
Name of Supervisor: Prof. Lianne Moyes
Research Interests: Canadian canon formation, journals, cultural materialism, Marxism and literature, Raymond Williams’ theories of television flow as applied to journal publishing; 19th-century British literature, particularly the Victorians, with some expertise in the study of the Brontë family; sequels and prequels to 19th-century texts
Conferences:
“Education in Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Villette.” Paper presented at the Brontë Society 2004 Weekend Conference, “The Brontës and Education.” Haworth, England, September 2004. (Publication in book of conference proceedings forthcoming in June 2005.)
“Wuthering Heights: Branwell Inside and Outside the Text.” Paper presented at the Fourth Annual New York Meeting of the American Brontë Society. Pace University, New York, New York, April 2004.
“The Canadian Canon: Did the 1978 Calgary Conference on the Novel Bust it or Build it?” Paper presented at the Thirteenth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland College, State University of New York, Cortland, New York, October 2003.
“How to Reach Your Internal Publics: Ensuring Timely and Satisfactory Communication.” Presentation at the Institut international de recherche’s Eighth Annual Conference on Internal Communication, Montréal, Québec, August 1999.
“Rewriting Blithedale: Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride.” Paper presented at the Lexis Graduate Student Conference, “Genders.” Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, October 1997.
Academic Publications:
“Understanding Media Analysis.” Communication World 22:3 (May-June 2005), 32-35.
“Interrogating Brontë Sequels: Anna L’Estrange’s The Return to Wuthering Heights.” Brontë Studies 30:1 (March 2005), 77-81.
“The Old Canadian Question: A New Crop of Academics Takes a Stab at Pinpointing the Canadian Literary Identity.” Literary Review of Canada 12:7 (September 2004), 26-27.
“Interrogating Brontë Sequels: Jeffrey Caine’s Heathcliff.” Brontë Studies 29:2 (July 2004), 169-172.
“Diary of a Dissertation Writer: Journals as a Map to a Discipline.” Journal of Scholarly Publishing 35:3 (April 2004), 172-176.
“Interrogating Brontë Sequels: Lin Haire-Sargeant’s The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights.” Brontë Studies 29:1 (March 2004), 77-81.
“What’s Wrong with Book Reviewing in Canada?” subTerrain 4:37, 35-38.
“Motherhood and Desire.” Review. Canadian Literature 173 (Summer 2002), 131-133.
“Branwell’s Role in the Creation of Heathcliff.” Brontë Society Transactions. 25:1 (April 2000), 42-52.
“Glass Town: The Secret World of the Brontë Children.” Review. Brontë Society Transactions 23:1 (April 1998), 80-81.
BA obtained: University of Winnipeg (B.A. Honours English and Art History)
Began MA: Fall 2005
Present status: completing course work
Area of interest: 19th and 20th-Century British Literature, Critical Theory, Aesthetics/Philosophy
Contact Information: l.watson at UMontreal.ca
Program/Year: MA, first year
Project Title: undetermined
Supervisor(s): undetermined
Area(s) of study: undetermined
Department positions: Student
Funding / Awards related to field: nil
My favourite thing about UdeM and/or the Dept. d'Etudes anglaises: all the free vodka
