Graduate Studies in English

Ph.D. Student Profiles

Steven Hymowech

B.A. and M.A. Communication, University of South Florida

Research Interests:
19th- and 20th-Century American Literature, Contemporary Literary Theory and Philosophy, Technology and Literature

Dissertation Title:
A Transcendental Trace: The Impersonal Poet in American Novels

Select Publications:
“Recognizing Patterns of Dromocracy,” in Dromocracy and Acceleration in the
Electronic Age
, Ed. Silvia Nagy-Zekmi, Harvard Scholars Press, 2007

Select Conference Presentations:
  • Pale Fire of Absence,” Modern Language Association Annual Conference,
    Philadelphia, PA, December 2006
  • “Surfing the Novel: Recognizing Patterns of Dromocracy,” Modern Language
    Association Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005
  • “Towards a Theory Primer,” North East Modern Language Association Conference,
    Pittsburgh, PA, March 2004

Select Fellowships and Awards:

  • Richard Thorns Dissertation Fellowship, University at Albany, 2005-6
  • MLA Assistance for Advanced Graduate Students Traveling to the 2005 Convention
  • English Graduate Student Organization Travel Grant, University at Albany, 2004, 2005

Select Teaching Experience:
ENG 343: Vladimir Nabokov
ENG 295: Classics of Western Literature
ENG 226L: The American Novel Since 1945
ENG 223L: The Short Story

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