{"id":1876,"date":"2018-09-24T22:05:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/?page_id=1876"},"modified":"2021-01-24T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T20:14:36","slug":"ryanne-mcevoy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/ryanne-mcevoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryanne McEvoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/englishprofiles\/files\/2021\/01\/Unknown-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/englishprofiles\/files\/2021\/01\/Unknown-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"284\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2201 \" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" class=\"\"><span class=\"\">In his <\/span><span class=\"\">Body Work<\/span><span class=\"\">, Peter Brooks describes \u201cthe body as an object and motive of narrative writing\u2014as a primary, driving concern of the life of the imagination\u201d (xii). <\/span><span class=\"\">Given my background in classical ballet, an industry comprised of exalted and ailing bodies intimately engaged in narrative innovation, I share Brooks\u2019 belief that artistic representations of the body can involve particular imaginative force and often inspire linguistic experimentation. Across modernist texts, this imaginative force translates into a particular kind of embodiment that I call <\/span><span class=\"\">dividuality<\/span><span class=\"\"> in my work. In contrast to the Westernized individual, who is \u201cone in substance or essence,\u201d and \u201cform[s] an indivisible entity\u201d (OED), the dividual<\/span><span class=\"\"> <\/span><span class=\"\">achieves coherence and agency through its permeable, divisible structure, its characteristically modernist fractured body. To capture an accurate rendering of the dividual in modernist literature, I study both portrayals of dividual bodies in texts and consider texts themselves as dividuals, especially within hybrid genres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong>:<br \/>\nPh.D., English, Boston University, expected 2022<br \/>\nM.A., English, Boston University, 2018<br \/>\nB.A., English, summa cum laude, Skidmore College, 2014<br \/>\nB.A., Psychology, summa cum laude, Skidmore College, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent Presentations<\/strong>:<br \/>\n\u201cGhost Flesh and Phantom Friendship: Interbodily Families in Faulkner\u2019s \u2018The Leg,\u2019\u201d The Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference 2020, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MI (postponed until July 2022).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Production of Longing: Derenesque \u2018Tactile Visuality\u2019 and \u2018Double Exposures\u2019 in <em>Fun Home<\/em>&#8221; 2021 NeMLA Annual Convention, Virtual; March 13, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBending Time and Boundaries in <em>Beloved<\/em>\u201d 2020 NeMLA Annual Convention, Boston, MA; March 7, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFaulkner in the Fifth Dimension,\u201d William Faulkner Society; 2020 MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, WA; January 10, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeepy and the Birds: Bleak House Children as Deleuzian Anti-Progress Narrative,\u201d Bleak House Everywhere: A Graduate Student Conference on Charles Dickens\u2019 Bleak House; Boston University, Boston, MA; April 5, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his Body Work, Peter Brooks describes \u201cthe body as an object and motive of narrative writing\u2014as a primary, driving concern of the life of the imagination\u201d (xii). Given my background in classical ballet, an industry comprised of exalted and ailing bodies intimately engaged in narrative innovation, I share Brooks\u2019 belief that artistic representations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15148,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1876\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}