• In Spring 2022, Meg Schoerke presented a paper, “‘The Going’: A Response to Saskia Hamilton’s The Dolphin Letters” for a session organized by the Robert Lowell Society at the American Literature Association’s annual conference (Chicago, May 26-29). She recently presented another paper, “Elizabeth Bishop’s Poetry as a Roadmap for Adrienne Rich’s Poetic Self-Relocation in the 1980s,” at the annual PAMLA conference (Los Angeles, November 11-13). “A Donne Deal,” her review-essay of Katherine Rundell’s Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne,” was a feature essay in the Autumn 2022 issue of The Hudson Review. For the Spring 2022 issue, her review-essay “Lyric Tales,” examines Louise Glück’s Winter Tales From the Collective, Sharon Hashimoto’s More American, Boris Drayluk’s My Hollywood, and Atsuro Riley’s Heard-Hoard: https://hudsonreview.com/2022/05/lyric-tales/

Sara Hackenberg published two pieces this year. The first one is “‘The Magician of Civilized Life’: The Literary Detective in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Early Penny Fiction" was published in the Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, Special Issue. Her work “Sisterhoods, Doppelgangers, Republicans: Reynolds’s Radical Mysteries” will be published in G.W.M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre in 2023. Additionally, she gave two conference presentations. In March 2022, she spoke at the North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference in Vancouver, Canada, presenting “Raising Cain in the Urban Mysteries”. In the same month, she attended the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Annual Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah and presented "M. E. Braddon’s Detective 'Magicians' and Social Stratification".

Will Clark has published two articles this year, with a third one on the way. “Adaptive Audacity: Uncovering Queer Attachments and Re-evaluating Marriage Narratives in John William De Forest’s Miss Ravenel’s Conversion from Secession to Loyalty” examines the depiction of marriage in this classic realist novel. "A Day at a Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic in a Berkeley Bathhouse" details the impact of Monkeypox on the queer community, the failure of our government to properly respond and how the community stand together during these times. Lastly, "Tommy Pico’s Fugitive Forms and the Poetics of Queer Indigenous Life" evaluates the Indigenous poet Tommy Pico’s poetic practices which both evoke and evade Western forms to address and realize resistance for queer Indigenous peoples (to be published soon).