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Nigel Alderman

Publication

Alderman, N. Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry. Co-written with Michael Thurston. (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).

Alderman, N. "‘That Shed Out in the Garden’: The Poetics of Reference in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker." The Harold Pinter Review. 2. 1. (2018).

Alderman, N. "'Unity Sublime': The Excursion's Social Self." Yale Journal of Criticism. 18. 1 (2005): 21-43.

Alderman, N. “ `Singleness of Aim': Wordsworth, Keats, Carlyle and Professional Ambitions” Romantic Generations: Essays in Honor of Robert F. Gleckner. Eds. Ghislaine McDayter, Guinn Batten, and Barry Milligan. London: Associated University Presses, 2001.

Alderman, N. "'The Life With A Hole In It': Philip Larkin and the Condition of England." Textual Practice. 8.2 (1994): 279-301.

Alderman, N. “'Where are the Eagles and Trumpets?': The Strange Case of Eliot's Missing Quatrains." Twentieth Century Literature. 39.2 (1993): 129-151.

Award

Elected a Bye-Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge for the Easter Term, 2021

Honor

Has been elected a bye-fellow at Robinson College, the University of Cambridge, for the Easter Term, 2022.

Douglas J. Amy

Publication

Jason Andras

Grant

Kate Ballantine and Rachel Rubin (Environmental Studies) and Jason Andras (Biology) received a grant from the Restore America's Estuaries: Southeast New England Program (SNEP) Watershed Grants for their project " Bioreactors for Enhanced Nitrogen Removal in Coastal Cranberry Farms." The project is for two years and four months.

Publication

Rubin, R., K. Ballantine, A. Hegberg*, and J. Andras. 2022. Flooding and ecological restoration promote wetland microbial communities and soil functions on former cranberry farmland. PLoS ONE 16(12): e0260933. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0260933

Andras, J. P., Rodriguez-Reillo, W. G., Truchon, A., Blanchard, J. L., Pierce, E. A., & Ballantine, K. A. (2020). Rewilding the small stuff: The effect of ecological restoration on prokaryotic communities of peatland soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiaa144

Andras, J. P., Fields, P., Du Pasquier, L. D., Fredericksen, M., & Ebert, D. (2020). Genome-wide association analysis identifies a genetic basis of infectivity in a model bacterial pathogen. Molecular Biology and Evolution. doi:10.1093/molbev/msaa173