Graduate Student Profile

Amanda Weldy Boyd

Status: Pre_Qual

Contact Information

E-mail: weldy@usc.edu


Biographical Sketch


Amanda Weldy Boyd graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UCLA with a double major in English and Italian & Special Fields--Classics. She is interested in classical transmission in the 18th century, Renaissance reworkings of classical sources as appropriated by writers in the 18th century, satire, and moral epistolary writing. Amanda is a USC Provost's Fellow. In college, she received a UCLA Alumni Association Scholarship as an entering freshman and the Distinguished Senior Award. For her work in the eighteenth century, Amanda received an Ahmanson Research Scholarship and the Rose Gilbert Undergraduate Research Scholarship. Amanda was awarded highest honors for her senior thesis. 

Education

  • BA English, UC - Los Angeles


Employment History

  • Assistant Lecturer, USC Writing Program, USC, 2010 - Present

Research


Research Keywords


  • classical transmission; Shakespearean adaptation; Ancients versus Moderns; satire; opera; verse epistle; literary legacies and lineage

Research Specialties


  • Conceptions of "Roman-ness"; classical transmission; Augustan satire

Conference Presentations

  • USC Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS) Conference— Los Angeles, California: “Justifiable Self-Torture?: Nathaniel Hawthorne, ‘Young Goodman Brown,’ and the Pragmatics of the Puritan Mental Landscape.” , 4/2013
  • SEASECS: “Goosed into Reconsideration: Golden Eggs, Dueling Chaucer Pilgrim Illustrations, and Blake’s Debt to Hogarth.” , 3/2013
  • MaRSA: “No Room for an Early Modern Elysium: The Metamorphoses of Christian Pagan Tradition into Christian Hell.”, 2/2013
  • PaMLA: Moderator, "Ancient-Modern Relations", 10/2012
  • NeMLA: “Whose Island Is It Anyway? The Amplification of Gender and Property Rights in Semi-Operatic and Operatic Tempests of the Restoration.” , 3/2012
  • MaRSA: "The Physicality of Cultural Collisions in Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies: English, Roman, and “Other” as Intersecting Planes of Representation", 2/2012
  • PaMLA: "Being the Bee: Proper Methods of Collecting Knowledge in Aulus Gellius as Pollinated by Jonathan Swift", 11/2011
  • MaRSA: “The Physicality of Cultural Collisions in Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies: English, Roman, and ‘Other’ as Intersecting Planes of Representation.”, 4/2011
  • ASECS: "A 'Swift' Glance in the Mirror of Satire: The Fractured Face of Bentley, Champion of the Moderns" , 3/2011
  • 8th Annual Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Graduate Conference: “It’s Insane to Remain on Just One Plane: Evaluating the Self/Other and Intermediary Identities in Coriolanus” , 10/2010
  • NeMLA: "On Moral Grounds: The Roman Villa and the 18th-century Verse Epistle", 4/2010
  • Peaks Interdisciplinary Conference: "The Perils of Misplaced Parallels: Racism and Resistance in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko", 2/2010

Other Presentations


  • ""Living by the Knife: Gladiators and Castrati as Major, Marginalized Embodiments of Manliness" ", Spring Colloquium:, GAEMS, USC, Spring 2010   

Honors and Awards

  • Highest Honors, Departmental Thesis, 2009-  
  • Ahmanson Undergraduate Research Scholarship, 2008-  
  • Rose Gilbert Undergraduate Research Scholarship, 2008-  
  • UCLA Alumni Association Distinguished Senior Award, 2008-  
  • USC Provost's Fellowship, 2009-  
  • Departmental Travel Grant, Spring 2011   
  • Provost's Fellow Travel Grant, Spring 2011   
  • Alpha Lambda Delta Kathryn Phillips Fellowship, 2009-2010   
  • NeMLA Travel Grant, Spring 2010   

Service to the Profession


Professional Memberships


  • Member, PaMLA, 2011-  
  • Member, ASECS, 2010-  
  • Member, NeMLA, 2009-2010   

 

 

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