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English Department Faculty Research May 8, 2008 Ruth Jennison presented a paper, "Combining Uneven Developments: Louis Zukofsky and the Political Economy of Revolutionary Modernism," as an invited speaker at "Combined and Uneven Modernisms," an international conference sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literatures, University of Warwick , UK . William Kimbrel, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Chapter in Bloom's How to Write About Ernest Hemingway by Kim Becnel. (Part of the Harold Bloom "How to Write About Literature" Series.) New York , NY : Chelsea House Publications. Forthcoming in 2008. _____, "The Function of Tropic Structures in the Fourth Gospel." Chapter in Sacred Tropes: Tanakh, New Testament, and Qur'an as Literary Works. Ed. Roberta Sabbath. Boston/Leiden: E. J. Brill. Forthcoming in 2009. May 1, 2008 Asha Nadkarni presented a paper titled "Reproducing Feminism in the 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Jasmine " at the Association of Asian American Studies Conference in Chicago on April 19, 2008. April 24, 2008 Kirby Farrell gave a talk on reading metaphors for economic and social change in recent American culture at the PASE conference in Wroclaw (Breslau) Poland on April 8. As an editor of Kritikon, the European review journal, Kirby also reports that the journal has been acquired by the Berlin scholarly/scientific publisher DeGruyter and is expanding its subscriber base, soon to include an online edition. He welcomes suggestions for reviews of new studies in literature and also related fields. (kfarrell@english.umass.edu) Arthur F. Kinney, "Shakespeare's Bells" in Shakespearean Performance : New Studies, ed. Frank Occhiogrosso ( Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2008), pp.147-72. James Tate's new book The Ghost Soliders is just out from Ecco/Harper Collins. You can see two poems featured on 4/24 on Poetry Daily. _____, a new poem is in a recent The Nation.
April 17, 2008 Chris Bachelder's essay on Charles D'Ambrosio is in the May issue of The Writer's Chronicle and he has a story in a new anthology of love letters called Four Letter Word . Arthur F. Kinney, "Shakespeare's Bells" in Shakespearean Performance: New Studies , ed. Frank Occhiogrosso ( Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press 2008), pp.147-72. Mason Lowance, “Millennialism in American Literature from Jonathan Edwards to the Twentieth Century,” Forum on Public Policy ( Oxford , England ) Winter, 2008. pp. 239-247. Ron Welburn was one of 427 registrants attending the Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference at the University of Georgia , 10-12 April. His panel presented on "Native American Studies in the Greater Northeast: Methodologies, Practice, and Administration at Public Institutions." Conference Participants established an Association for NAIS, and Ron's proposed amendment to the Bylaws section on Meetings, suggesting a periodic meeting outside the United States , will be the first agenda item at the 2009 Conference in Minnesota . April 10, 2008 UMass English at MELUS: Among the hundred and twenty five scholars giving papers at the 22 nd Annual MELUS Conference in Columbus , Ohio on March 27-29, 2008 were a number of UMass English folk. From the faculty, Joseph Skerrett gave a paper on James Weldon Johnson. From the grad alumni, Lingyan Yang (now tenured at Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania) spoke on comparative race and ethnicity theory, Cathy Schlund-Vials (now teaching at UConn), gave a paper on Luong Ung's Lucky Child, and Chris Vials (now teaching at Buffalo State College in NY) gave a paper on Irwin Shaw's The Young Lions . Jenny Adams delivered a talk titled "Every Body Lies: Gregory House, M.D. and the Case of Chaucer's Pardoner" for the Second Annual Lecture in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Keene State University on April 7, 2008. Valerie Gramling, a graduate student in the English department, has received a $5,000 Pre-dissertation Fellowship from the Institute of Historical Research . This fellowship will allow her to travel to London to work on her dissertation prospectus during the upcoming summer 2008. John Hennessy : "Vivek Narayanan's Universal Beach ." _Harvard Review_, #33. (Book review)
April 3, 2008 Joseph Black. The Martin Marprelate Tracts ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008). 432 pp. Nick Bromell was an invited speaker at the Aurora Forum at Stanford University , 21 February 2008. He and two other panelists discussed the White Album in a program titled "The Beatles on the Brain." _____, invited speaker at a workshop titled "New Directions in American Studies" at the Women's College of Ains Shams University , Cairo , Egypt , 17 March 2008. _____, delivered a talk on Frederick Douglass and liberalism at Cairo American College , Egypt , 18 March 2008. _____, "The Liberal Imagination of Frederick Douglass," The American Scholar (Vol. 77, No. 2), Spring 2008, pp. 34-45. Stephen Clingman, 'Broken Rights, Broken Routes: The Fiction of Caryl Phillips.' Presented at the EACLALS Triennial Conference, 'Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights In/Through Postcolonial Cultures,' Venice , 25-29 March 2008. _____, Chair, concluding plenary session: Introduction to Caryl Phillips, and conversation with Caryl Phillips following his reading, 'Rude am I in my Speech.' EACLALS Triennial Conference, 'Try Freedom: Rewriting Rights In/Through Postcolonial Cultures.' Venice , 29 March 2008.
March 27, 2008 At the annual meeting of the Shakespeare Association of America March 13-15, Jane Degenhardt led a seminar on "Ephemeral Materials: Embodying Faith on the Early Modern Stage"; Adam Zucker participated in a seminar on " London and Beyond: Foreign Traffic of the English Stage"; and Arthur Kinney chaired the plenary session on "Urban Economies and the New Theater History." Another seminar, "Shakespeare's Mental Life" was based in part on Arthur's book on Shakespeare and Cognition. Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge presented "Intimations of Transnational Revolution: Francisco Miranda, Toussaint Louverture, and Atlantic Liberation" at the joint international conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the Centro Interdiscipinare di Studi Romantici, University of Bologna. Nick Bromell, "The Liberal Imagination of Frederick Douglass," The American Scholar 77:2 (Spring 2008), pp. 34-45. Peter Elbow "Voice in Writing Again: Embracing Contraries." College English 70.2 (Nov 2007): 168-88. _____,"Coming to See Myself as a Vernacular Intellectual: College Composition and Communication 59.3 (Feb 2008): 519-24 _____, "Writing in AAVE." Talk at a conference on Teaching and Learning Race/Ethnicity in Higher Education. St Francis College , Brooklyn , 3/07 _____, "Literacy and the Struggle for the People's Eloquence." Talk at CCCC, 3/07--where he received the Exemplar award. _____, "Writing in AAVE." Talk at Florida Memorial U, Miami , 4/07. _____, Plenary talk at AEPL conference on The Emotional Life of Teachers, Estes Park, CO, 6/07 _____, "Writing in L1 for Final Drafts in L2." Talk at the Fifth International Conference on Teaching and Reseraching English Writing in China , Guizhou University , China . 9/07 _____, "Enlisting Speech for Writing." Clemson U, 10/07 _____, "Vernacular Literacies." UNH Conference on Literacies: Personal, Professional, Academic, 10/07 _____, Plenary reflections at the end of the Writing Research across Borders conference, UC Santa Barbara, 2/22/08 _____, Talks and workshops on writing and WAC and outcomes assessment at Cal State U, Monterey Bay Anne Herrington delivered an invited talk, Genres of Writing in College, for the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT, on March 12th. Ron Welburn has three poems, "String Theory," "Of Deep Violet" and "Every Morning Is A season" in YELLOW MEDICINE REVIEW: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought, Spring 2008 issue, pp. 260-63. _____, presented an invited paper, "The Platos: A Long Island Algonquian Extended Family and Its 19th-Century New England Circles," at the 2008 Algonquian Peoples Seminar hosted by the Native American Institute of the Hudson River Valley at the New York State Museum in Albany, 22 March.
March 13, 2008 Dara Wier did a reading and led a workshop at Marymount College in New York the last week of February. March 6, 2008 Nick Bromell was the co-organizer and co-convener of a conference held Jan. 10 at the Woodrow Wilson Center : "The Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition: Pluses, Problems, and Prospects." His essay "David Brooks: The New York Times' Favorite Conservative Con Man" appeared (on-line) Feb. 1 on Alternet and can still be read there. Laura Doyle, Freedom's Empire, Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640-1940 , Duke University Press, 2008. February 28, 2008 Anne Herrington delivered a paper, “The Politics of Assessment: Comparability and Difference,” at the Writing Research across Borders conference on February 22, 2008. This international conference was hosted by the University of California Santa Barbara . February 21, 2008 Nick Bromell was the co-organizer and co-convener of a conference held Jan. 10 at the Woodrow Wilson Center : "The Liberal Foreign Policy Tradition: Pluses, Problems, and Prospects." His essay "David Brooks: The New York Times' Favorite Conservative Con Man" appeared (on-line) Feb. 1 on Alternet and can still be read there. Ron Welburn, was the February author in the Smithsonian/National Museum of the American Indian's 2007-2008 Vine Deloria, Jr. Native Writers Series. The two- part program consisted of a noon reading and Meet-the-Author and an evening reading and interview. February 6, 2008 Sharon Burns (MFA), Factory Hollow Press has reprinted her chapbook Preserving the Old Way of Life. Peter Gizzi has been named the new Poetry Editor for The Nation. Stephen Harris, trans. "Medieval Cuisine: Hog's Swill or Culinary Art," Jean-François Kosta-Théfaine. In Misconceptions, pp. 153–160. _____ and Bryon Grigsby, eds. Misconceptions about the Middle Ages. New York: Routledge, 2008. _____, "The Liturgical Context of Ælfric's Homilies for Rogationtide," in The Old English Homily: Precedent, Practice, and Appropriation, ed. Aaron J. Kleist. Turhnout: Brepols, 2008. Noy Holland, panel member at the Associated Writing Program annual convention, February 1. “Fraud! Debunking Experimental Fiction.” Sabina Murray has won the 2008-09 Fred R. Brown Literary Award from the University of Pittsburgh. Lisa Olstein gave a reading for Copper Canyon Press at the Associated Writing Program Annual Conference in New York City. Selections of her new poems recently have been published in Narrative Magazine, The Fairy Tale Review, and jubilat. January 31, 2008 Kirby Farrell, lectured in January at the Univ. of Washington on Mafia as a metaphor for social, economic, and psychic changes in recent American life. While in Seattle , he also offered a workshop on humor and existential psychology at Seattle University , and for the Ernest Becker Foundation co-hosted a discussion of Prof Donald Dutton's lecture "Ernest Becker and the Mindset of Evil." December 6, 2007 Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge presented "From Trans- via Circum- to Pan-;
November 29, 2007 Bob Bagg, "Internal Bleeding of the Body Politic," (pp. 9-30). Introduction to 10 YEARS , a book of poems by Grandin Conover (Azul Editions, 2007) 89 pp. A reissue of TEN YEARS , first published by The University of Massachusetts Press in 1972 (with an Afterward by James Scully). Ron Welburn was a panelist with Neal Salisbury (History, Smith) and Amy Den Ouden (Anthropology, UMass Boston) for From Nation to Reservation, a program in Mount Holyoke College 's Native American Heritage Month Series. Ron's topic was “Delmarva Peninsula Reservations 17th Century to the Present.” 15 November 2007. November 15, 2007 Kirby Farrell gave a public lecture titled "Mafia as a New World Trope: Social and Economic Changes in post-Vietnam War America ," on November 7 th at the Ludwig Maximilians-University in Munich . November 8, 2007 Ron Welburn ventured to SUNY Potsdam to give his presentation on Native Americans and Jazz and also spoke to a Modern Poetry class about the influence of the Beats on young writers, on 12 October. _____, published a review of D'Arcy McNickle's The Hungry Generations: The Evolution of a Novel , edited by Birgit Hans, in CHOICE, October 2007. 45-0728.
November 1, 2007 Randall Knoper, "Trauma and Sexual Inversion, circa 1885: Oliver Wendell Holmes's A Mortal Antipathy and Maladies of Representation," Neurology and Literature, 1860-1920, ed. Anne Stiles ( New York : Palgrave, 2007), 119-140. October 25, 2007 Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge presented "'Perfectly Compatible Objects': Mr. Pitt Contemplates Britain and South America" at the 2007 International Conference on Romanticism, Co-hosted by Towson University and Loyola College in Maryland . Asha Nadkarni gave a paper titled "Pathological Maternity and Reproductive Nationalism in Katherine Mayo's Mother India " at the American Studies Association conference in Philadelphia , PA , October 13, 2007. Jenny Spencer presented a paper entitled "Africa Twice Removed: Dreaming Identity and Mourning Absence in Adrienne Kennedy's and Suzan-Lori Parks ' early work"at the IFTR (International Federation for Theatre Research) annual conference in Stellenbosch , South Africa on July, 9 2006. She also presented "Reading Parks after Katrina," at the ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education) annual conference on July 27, 2007. October 18, 2007 Suzanne Daly gave a paper titled “Spinning Cotton: Domestic and Industrial Novels” at the annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association in Victoria, British Columbia, October 12, 2007. October 11, 2007 Arthur Kinney, "A Poetics for Romance," the keynote address for an international conference on "Romance" in honor of Victor Stretkowicz, University of Dundee, Scotland, October 5-6. Joseph Skerrett, On October 6, Joseph Skerrett and two graduate students, Kajsa Henry (American Studies) and Colin Enriquez (American Lit), presented a panel of papers on “African American Artists Respond to American Culture” at the African and African American Popular culture Conference in Plymouth , NH . October 4, 2007 Mason Lowance, Oxford University Roundtable, July 21-27, 2007, "Millennial Symbolism in American Literature from 1750-1900" paper presented at conference, to be published in revised form for Forum On Public Policy, OUP, 2008. _____, Lecture, “Millennialism in American Writing from Jonathan Edwards to Walt Whitman,” for Oxford Roundtable, oxford University, July 22, Rhodes House. _____, “Millennialism in American Culture from Jonathan Edwards and Philip Freneau to Walt Whitman: ‘The Rising Glory of America '” for Forum on Public Policy , Oxford Roundtable, 2008. September 27, 2007 Arthur Kinney, “Unscrambling Surprises,” Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate 15:1-3 (2006): 17-29. Ron Welburn participated in programs on the Virginia Eastern Shore as part of Virginia 's 400 th anniversary activities. He gave a lecture, “Native American Indian Communities and African Americans: Tentative Models for a Living History about the Eastern Shore ,” at. Eastern Shore Community College, in Melfa on 15 June 2007, and read poetry at the Weyanoake Native American & African American Festival in Wardtown on 16 June 2007. Ron is a descendant of the Gingaskin Reservation formerly in nearby Eastville. ——, reads his poem, “Yellow Wolf Spirit,” on the CD, The College of the Humanities & Fine Arts Sampler 2007. Selections by Alumni, Faculty and Students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst , released during the summer. ——, has been invited to read in the Native Writers Series at the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. in February 2008. ——, was a reader/evaluator for a manuscript on the topic of Native American elements in African American autobiography. UP of Mississippi . June and July, 2007.
September 20, 2007 Kirby Farrell, in an interview on Dr Joe Parisi's show on WROW in Albany on September 16. Kirby spoke about reading the psychological and political uses of trauma in relation to the 9/11 anniversary and American militarism in an era of resource scarcity and cultural stress. Arthur Kinney hosted a week-long international conference on “Thomas More: Man of Letters” at the Renaissance Center in August where he gave a paper on “Memorializing History in Sir Thomas More.” In July he taught and lectured at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford , Ontario , and taught and lectured at Tübengen University ; at a Connotations conference in Germany he gave a paper on “Resurrecting Phyllyp Sparowe.” _____, review of Lena Cowen Orlin, Ed., Center or Margin: Revisions of the English Renaissance at Honor of Leeds Barroll, Shakespeare Quarterly, 58:2 (Summer 2007): 252-55. _____, review of The Three-Text Hamlet of Arden 3 in The Shakespeare Newsletter , (56:3): 81, 84, 88, 105. Sam Michel, Big Dogs and Flyboys , Southern Methodist University Press, 2007. James E. Young, Publications: “Mandating the National Memory of Catastrophe,” in Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, and Martha Merrill Umphrey, Eds. Law and Catastrophe (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007): 131-58. _____, “Interview with James E. Young,” by Jennifer L. Geddes, in “The Uses of the Past,” a special edition of The Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture (Summer 2007) 9:2, pp. 68-72. _____, “From The Texture of Memory ,” in Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead, Eds. Theories of Memory: A Reader ( Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007): 177-84. Lectures: “The Stages of Memory and the Monument: From Berlin to New York ,” Keynote Address for Conference on “Witnessing Genocide: Representation and Responsibility,” Oregon Humanities Center , University of Oregon , Eugene , 29 April 2007. _____, “ Berlin 's Holocaust Memorial Problem—and Mine,” Jewish Studies Program, University of California , Santa Cruz , 27 April 2007. _____, “Memory of Catastrophe: Photography, Literature, Architecture,” Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, 30 March 2007. _____, “The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero,” Keynote Address for World Trade Center Documentation Symposium, New York State Archives, New York City, 29 March 2007. _____, “Memory at Ground Zero: A Juror's Report on the World Trade Center Site Memorial,” Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University , 1 February 2007. _____, “The Stages of Memory and the Monument after 9/11: From Berlin to New York ,” Center for International Studies, Duke University , 29 January 2007. _____. Respondent to Panel on “Visuality and the Holocaust,” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, San Diego , CA , 18 December 2006.
September 13, 2007 Kirby Farrell spoke at the Capitol Region Energy Forum on “Showdown at the Global Watering Hole: Resource Struggle in the New Century.” September 10, 2007. September 6, 2007 John J. Clayton has just this month published two books of fiction: Kuperman's Fire , a novel, and Wrestling with Angels: New and Collected Stories. David Toomey, The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics . New York : W. W. Norton, 2007.
May 17, 2007 Asha Nadkarni chaired a panel and presented a paper (titled "Severed Limbs, Severed Legacies: Nayantara Sahgal's Rich Like Us and the Problem of Subalternity") at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference in Puebla , Mexico (April 19-21). _____, attended "Critical Dialogues in Asian American Studies: A Symposium" at Dartmouth College this past weekend.
May 10, 2007 Ruth Jennison has been awarded the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship for archival research at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin . Stanley Koehler, Emeritus Professor, Coordinated Sonnetfest VI: The Sonnets of William Shakespeare (III) at the Renaissance Center on Friday, May 4. Participating faculty, emeritii, alumni/ae, graduate student, staff and friends were Normand and Barbara Berlin, Tony Burton, Bob Creed, Harrison Gregg, Noy Holland, Don Junkins and Kai Mei Zheng (Junkins), Arthur Kinney, John Nelson, Peggy O'Brien, Lisa Olstein, Philip Palmer, Bruce Penniman, Arthur Quinton, David Swain, Margie Tighe, Dave Toomey, Ron Welburn, and Stan and Gene Koehler. Ron Welburn read original poems at the Augusta Savage Gallery on April 3rd.
May 3, 2007 Jenny Spencer won the First annual "Women Who Make a Difference" Award, Women of Color Leadership Network, UMASS, May 2007.
April 26, 2007 Robert Bagg Two poems, "Yeah" and "Bumper Sticker Blues" in WE BEGIN HERE Poems for Palestine and Lebanon ed. by Kamal Boullata and Kathy Engel INTERLINK BOOKS ( Northampton , MA ) pp 54, 173. Nick Bromell, "Scooter and Me: Professing Liberal Doubt in an Age of Fundamentalist Fervor," The American Scholar, Winter 2007, pp. 56-68. Excerpts published in the Los Angeles Times and the St. Petersburg Times "Scooter's Tragic Innocence," Salon.com , 24 January 2007. "Postwar Liberalism as a Usable Past? The Risks and Rewards of Historical Revisionism," American Quarterly , March 2007, pp. 179 - 190. "'How Does It Feel?' Bob Dylan's Place in the New Left," paper delivered at the Organization of American Historians, Minneapolis , Minn. , 30 March 2007. Interviewed by Charles Goyette, KFNX ( Phoenix , Arizona ), 17 January 2007. Anne Herrington and Peter Elbow delivered keynote addresses at the Annual Conference of the SUNY Council on Writing. Peter's talk was "Assessment: Do It Less, Do It Better," Anne's was "Brave New World: Writing, Assessment, and New Technologies."
April 19, 2007 Normand Berlin, “Traffic of our Stage: DruidSynge,” The Massachusetts Review (Spring, 2007), 90-102. Joseph Black et al. (general editors), The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Concise Edition, 2 vols. (Broadview Press, 2007). A free beer with every course order: ww.broadviewpress.com/BABL . _____, Judge, Sixth Annual Central Massachusetts Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference, Nichols College , MA (April 2007) _____, “Renaissance Authorship and Collaboration.” Renaissance Society of America , Miami , FL (March 2007) _____,“Underground Presses in the English Renaissance.” Massachusetts Center for Reformation Studies (March 2007) Deborah Carlin , “Narrative Effects and Traumatic Aftereffects in Jim Grimsley's My Drowning .” International Conference on Narrative. Washington D.C. March 17, 2007. _____, “Queer Haunts of Memory in Jim Grimsley's Fiction.” American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Conference. Boston , MA . April 6, 2007. Ron Welburn, review of Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast , by Edward Abbey, ed. by David Petersen. in CHOICE, April 2007. 44-4315. _____, gave a presentation on Native Americans and Jazz at Lincoln University , Pa. , co-sponsored by the Pennsylvania Council on the Humanities, 14 April 2007. Adam Zucker organized and delivered a paper in the plenary session of this year's Shakespeare Association of America conference. The panel was entitled "Historical Formalism in Shakespeare Studies," and the talk was called "Shakespeare's Green Materials: Local Fantasy in The Merry Wives of Windsor."
April 12, 2007 Michael Carolan, a student in the MFA Program won second place in the Essay category in the Atlantic Monthly magazine's writing contest for Essay, 2007, with a $500 prize. Elizabeth Lloyd-Kimbrel (MA '80), "Come Again? The Arthurian Contexts of Bryher's Visa for Avalon " -- paper presented at the recent PCA/ACA conference session on "Arthurian Legend: Traces, Places, and Spaces," Boston , April 2007. _____, "Puttering about in the Mindfields" -- personal essay in the current issue of TIS/The Independent Scholar 21.1 (Spring 2007): 11-15.
April 5, 2007 At the international meeting of the Renaissance Society of America last week in Miami , Adam Zucker gave a paper and Jane Degenhardt, Joe Black, and Arthur Kinney chaired panels. Julia Hans, American Studies program, gave a talk titled "Whose Line is it Anyway? Reclamation of Language in Dorothy Parker's Polyphonic Monologues," at the American Humor Studies Association and Mark Twain Circle of America Quadrennial Conference, December 7-10 2006, in New Orleans , LA Andrew Michael Roberts, National AWP Nonfiction Award Honorable Mention.
March 29, 2007 Donald Cheney, Review of Giovanni Pontano, Baiae , trans. Rodney G. Dennis (I Tatti Renaissance Library 22), Renaissance Quarterly, 60 (2007), 134-35. Peter Elbow, Emeritus Professor of English, received the Exemplar Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication at their annual national convention, March 21-24 in New York City . The award recognizes Elbow "for serving as an exemplar for our organization and representing the highest ideals of scholarship, teaching, and service to the profession." Peter Gizzi, The Outernationale, Wesleyan University Press, 2007. Anne Herrington has sent a list of talks and papers by colleagues and graduate students at the 4C's in New York : The following faculty and graduate students presented papers at the annual Conference on College Composition and Communication last week in New York City : Lisa Dush, "Genre-Driven Change: Using New Writing Initiatives as an Occasion for Reflection and Change"; David Fleming, "The Powers and Perils of Liminality: Freshman Comp at UW-Madison, 1967-1970"; Anne Herrington, "Standardized Assessment and General Education: The Ideology of Accountability"; Haivan Hoang, "Recovering Alternative Student Presses, Reading Asian American Identity"; Donna LeCourt, "From Identity to Inscription: Revitalizing the Civic Potential of the Web"; and Anna Rita Napoleone, "Theorizing the Construction, Resistance, and Interplay of Minority Identities in a Majority Academy and World."
March 8, 2007 Nick Bromell has been named an Affiliate Scholar of the Center for American Progress, a progressive think-tank in Washington , D.C. Suzanne Daly, “Hypocrisy.” MLA session on Victorian Keywords Reconsidered, Philadelphia , December 2006. Ruth Jennison, “ The Political Economy of Parataxis: Mediation and Uneven Development in Zukofsky's “ A ”” Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia , December 2006.
March 1, 2007 David Swain presented "Aesthetic Economies: John Wolfe, Adam Islip, and the Marketting of A Triall of Wits (1592?)" on Feb. 24 at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies conference in Chicago .
February 15, 2007 Normand Berlin, “Traffic of Our Stage: A Touch of the Poet ,” The Massachusetts Review (Winter, 2006), 714-23. Arthur F. Kinney, “Faulkner's Families” in A Companion to William Faulkner , ed. Richard C. Moreland ( Oxford : Blackwell Publishing, 2007), pp. 180-201.
February 8, 2007 Arthur F. Kinney, “Afterword” to Early Modern Prose Fiction: The Cultural Politics of Reading , ed. Naomi Conn Liebler (Routledge, 2007).
February 1, 2007 Joseph Bartolomeo, "Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Satiric Fiction," in Ruben Quintero, ed., A Companion to Satire, Ancient and Modern ( Oxford : Blackwell, 2006), 257-75. ______________, "A Fragile Utopia of Sensibilty: David Simple ," in Nicole Pohl and Brenda Tooley, eds., Gender and Utopian Thought in the Eighteenth Century: Essays in English and French Utopian Writing ( Aldershot , Hampshire: Ashgate, 2007), 39-52. Donald Cheney, “Valeriano's Hieroglyphica and the Encyclopaedic Project,” in Rhoda Schnur, ed., Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Bonnensis, Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Neo-Latin Studies , Bonn 3-9 August 2003 (MRTS volume 315, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Tempe 2006), pp 241 John J. Clayton's novel Kuperman's Fire will be published this spring by Permanent Press. His Wrestling with Angels: New and Collected Stories will be published by Toby Press in the fall. One story from the collection, “Voices,” originally published in Missouri Review , was chosen for the 2007 Pushcart Prize anthology. “Light at the End of the Tunnel” was on the list of best on-line stories of 2006. Arthur Kinney gave the opening address at an MLA panel on journal editing sponsored by the MLA Council of Editors of Learned Journals. (Arthur founded the Council in 1971.) Ron Welburn led a discussion of Audrey Niffenegger's best-selling novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, for the Literature for a Lifetime series of the Connecticut Humanities Council at Village at Hunt Glen in Granby , CT , on January 25, 2007.
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Stephen Clingman, "' England Has Changed': Questions of National Form in A Distant Shore ", Moving Worlds (special issue on Caryl Phillips), 7.1(2007), 46-58. Stephen was also invited to chair a session on A Distant Shore at the international conference, Caryl Phillips: Twenty-Five Years of Writing, Liege , Belgium , 1-2 December 2006. Laurie Doyle, “Bodies Inside/Out: Violation and Resistance from the Prison Cell to The Bluest Eye ,” in Feminist Interpretations of Merleau-Ponty . Eds. Gail Weiss and Dorothea Olkowski. University Park , PA : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 183-208. William Kimbrel (Ph.D. ‘92). Having survived both the bombing of Beirut and the US evacuation of American citizens from said city in July, and following a subsequent extended and uneventful (thankfully) August sojourn in the deserted Turkish Republic of North of Cyprus, William Kimbrel, PhD '92, is for the moment at Gulf University of Science and Technology in Kuwait, where he is teaching American literature and classical mythology. He is also writing the "How to Write about Hemingway" volume of the series "Bloom's How to Write about Literature" (Harold Bloom being general editor), to be published by Chelsea House/Facts-on-File. Ron Welburn, Presentations: “Reading Race and the Politics of Circumstantial Evidence: Ann Plato and Her Four Women in Essays ” (1841). American Society for Ethnohistory 2006 Annual Meeting panel on Black Indians. The College of William & Mary. Williamsburgh , VA. 3 November 2006 (Invited). ——. “Native Americans and Jazz.” Shifting Borders Conference: The First and the Forced. Kansas University . 10 November 2006 (Invited). ——. Panelist: “‘As Serious As Your Life: Creative Music in the Sixties,'” with Archie Shepp (AfroAmerican Studies Professor Emeritus, and Joe McPhee, featured musician. Politics and Protest: The 1960s and Now. The Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series and Related Events. History Department. University of Massachusetts Amherst . 30 November 2006 (Invited). ——. Review: Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America . ed. by Brian Swann. U of Nebraska P, 2006. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 30.3 (2006): 129–31. ------. Review : The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States since 1945 . Columbia UP, 2005. Choice December 2006. 44-1979.
November 30, 2006 Arthur F. Kinney, “The Art of Conversazioni : Practices in Renaissance Rhetoric,” in Textural Conversations in the Renaissance: Ethics, Authors, Technologies: Essays in Honor of Anne Lake Prescott , ed. Zachary Lesser and Benedict S. Robinson ( Burlington : Ashgate, 2006), pp. 13-26. _____, New Critical Essays on “Hamlet” has been issued in paperback by Routledge. James E. Young, Lectures: “The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero,” Spertus Museum , Chicago Humanities Festival, 12 November 2006. _____, “Between Two Worlds: Stories of Estrangement and Homecoming—Andre Aciman's Out of Egypt ,” National Yiddish Book Center , 2 November, 2006. _____, “Memory and the Monument after 9/11,” Temple University , 25 October 2006. _____, “Conversation with Peter Eisenman,” Hampshire College , 5 October 2006. _____, Visiting Professor at the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University, Lectures on “Representing the Holocaust,” 20-22 June 2006. _____, “Artistic and Popular Forms of Memory and Memorialization,” at Conference on “The Demands of Memory,” The Robert L. Bernstein International Human Rights Fellowship Symposium, at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights, Yale Law School, 21 April 2006. _____, “ Germany 's Holocaust Memorial Problem—and Mine,” Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture, Greenfield Community College , 19 April 2006. _____, “New Views on Memorialization,” Spring Seminar on Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Jewish Museum, New York , 29 March 2006. Articles: _____, “The Stages of Memory at Ground Zero,” in Oren Baruch Stier and J. Shawn Landres, Eds. Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2006): 214-34. _____, “Die Gedenkstatte des World Trade Center : Bericht Eines Jurymitglieds uber die Stadien der Erinnerung,” in Gunter Schlusche, Ed. Architektur der Erinnerung: NS-Verbrechen in der europaischen Gedenkkultur ( Berlin : Nicolai/Akademie der Kunste, 2006): 10-23. _____, “Creating a New Library,” Sh'ma (November 2006): 1-2. _____, “A Last Chance for Ground Zero,” an Op-Ed piece for The New York Times (18 May 2006): A-27. _____, “Memory in Many Forms,” Hadassah Magazine , April 2006, pp. 36-41. Adam Zucker and Alan B. Farmer, eds. Localizing Caroline Drama: Politics and Economics of the Early Modern English Stage, 1625-1642 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).
November 16, 2006 Stephen Clingman and Caryl Phillips, “Other Voices: An Interview with Caryl Phillips” [orig. pub. Salmagundi, 143 (Summer 2004), 113-40]. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 224, ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter ( Detroit : Thomson Gale, 2006), 275-86. Stephen Clingman, “Forms of History and Identity in The Nature of Blood” [orig. pub. Salmagundi, 143 (Summer 2004), 141-66]. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 224, ed. Jeffrey W. Hunter ( Detroit : Thomson Gale, 2006), 307-18. Peter Elbow, "The Music of Form: Rethinking Organization in Writing." College Composition and Communication 57.4 (June 2006): 620-666. _____, "The Believing Game and How to Make Conflicting Opinions More Fruitful." Nurturing the Peacemakers in Our Students: A Guide to Teaching Peace, Empathy, and Understanding. Chris Weber, editor. Heinemann, 2006. 16-26. _____, (Written with Mary Deane Sorcinelli). "The Faculty Writing Place : A Room of Our Own." Change Magazine (November/December 2006): 17-22. _____, Talk and workshop at UC Santa Barbara, July 2006. Stan Koehler, “Going Back: Reunion Verse from 1936 to 2006,” The Alumni Council of Princeton University , June, 2
November 9, 2006 John Hennessy "Love, Solitude, Solipsism," a personal essay, in Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, #5, pp. 215-223.
Lisa Olstein, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, Copper Canyon Press, 2006.
Andrew Michael Roberts, Give Up, poetry chapbook, Tarpaulin Sky Press, December 2006.
October 19, 2006 Martín Espada, “Return.” The New Yorker , September 25, 2006: 94.
Martín Espada. The Republic of Poetry . New York : W.W. Norton, 2006.
Haivan Hoang gave a presentation entitled "Gidra (1969-1974): 'Self-Determination' via Asian American Student Newspapers" at the Thomas R. Watson Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville , on October 5, 2006.
October 12, 2006 Jane Degenhardt gave an invited talk on October 10 at Hamilton College ; the talk was entitled, "A Jew, A Muslim, and a Christian Walk into a Bar: When Enemies Become Friends in Shakespeare and Marlowe." Adam Zucker presented (by invitation) "The Pales of Hyde Park: Cultural Competencies and the Rise of the Urban Pastoral in Early Modern Comedy" to the Wesleyan University Renaissance Faculty Colloquium on October 5. October 5, 2006 Jenny Adams, Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages . U of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Bob Bagg published four poems in the Summer 2006 North Dakota Quarterly : "The Closest Thing: Ginsberg in Paris , Corso in Rome ," "Spirit Spouse, "Recurrent Dream Wife," and "The Poet Who Couldn't Write a Poem to His Wife." Bob also gave readings in September from his book Niké and other poems at the Willamantic CT Cultural Center, The Book Cellar in Brattleboro VT , and Toadstool Bookstore in Peterborough , NH . On Nov 16 Bob will read with James Scully, Frank Reeve and Sandy Taylor at Food for Thought bookstore in Amherst . Kirby Farrell gave a lecture and workshop on September 29 on humor and anxiety for the Ernest Becker Foundation at NYU. Participants were psychologists, teachers, and a law professor.
September 28, 2006 Steve Harris, along with seven other scholars, has been awarded a $276,217 NEH grant to produce an electronic edition of the sermons of Aelfric of Eynesham. The project will be led by Aaron Kleist of Biola University in Los Angeles . Steve Harris has also been invited to be a guest researcher at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto for Spring, 2007. While there, he will be working on a book provisionally entitled, The Psalms in Old English Literature . Peggy O'Brien, Writing Lough Derg: From William Carleton to Seamus Heaney . Syracuse University Press, 2006. September 21. 2006 LeCourt, Donna. "Performing Working-Class Identity in Composition: Toward a Pedagogy of Textual Practice." College English , 69.1 (September 2006): 30-51. Ron Welburn initiated this year's Kinsmen of the Shelf series at the Emily Dickinson Museum : The Homestead and The Evergreens on September 10 with a discussion of Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
September 14, 2006 Arthur Kinney, review of Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy, ed. Dieter Mehl, Angela Stock, and Anne-Juoia Zweierlein. Archiv l58::l (2006), 191-93. September 7, 2006 Four PhD students—YoungJin Chung, Philip Palmer, Kevin Petersen, and Timothy Watt—Presented preliminary findings on a study of Shakespearean authorship and performance funded collaboratively by the Australian government and the NEH at Eighth World Shakespeare Congress in Brisbane, Australia, on July 21. They were the first graduate students ever to address a world congress. Their research involves helping to prepare an “intellectual archive” of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries in an old-spelling database that can be used to identify individual styles of authors to determine questions of authorship and authorial practice. Other students working on the project are Graham Christian, K.C. Elliott, and Anne-Marie Strohman. They were introduced by the co-principal investigators, Hugh Craig, Director of the Centre for the study of Linguistic Stylistics at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and Arthur Kinney, Director of the UMass Renaissance Center . Arthur Kinney, “Literary Humanism in the Renaissance,” in Interpretations of Renaissance Humanism, ed. Anjgelo Mazocco ( Leiden : Brill, 2006), 199-212. Arthur Kinney. Shakespeare and Cognition: Aristotle's Legacy and Shakespearean Drama . Routledge, 2006. Peggy O'Brien, “What A Circus” and “American Shad,” Watershed NewEngland , August-September 2006. Dara Wier. Remnants of Hannah . New York : Wave Books, 2006. May 18, 2006 Joseph Black, editor with Anne Lake Prescott. The Broadview Anthology of British Literature , vol. 2: The Renaissance and the Early Seventeenth Century . Peterborough , ON : Broadview, Press, 2006. Joe is also a General Editor of the complete six-volume series. Nick Bromell, Laura Doyle, and Joe Skerrett are all delivering papers at the Conference on Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA)in Pamplona , Spain this week. Judith Williams will be presenting as well. Mike Edwards, now completing his Ph.D. in English, has published "Ethics, Motives, and Character in Wayne Booth's The Rhetoric of Rhetoric ." Pedagogy 6.2 (Spring 2006). Edwards is also an Assistant Editor of the online journal Kairos and will join the faculty at West Point in September. Carolyn Fulford, a Ph.D. student in the Department, has published "Hearing an Audience: Wayne Booth and the Propagation of Deep Listening." Pedagogy 6.2 (Spring, 2006). Anne Herrington and Charlie Moran are delivering the keynote address at the 8 th International Conference on Writing across the Curriculum, alas not in Europe, but in Clemson , SC. Jocelyn Scheintaub, a senior Chemistry and English major, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to travel to Mainz , Germany , to study at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.
May 11, 2006 Arthur Kinney gave an invited talk on “Shakespeare Re-cognized” as part of a special three-day conference honoring the retirement of Annabel Patterson at Yale University , May 4-6. April 27, 2006 Arthur Kinney, review of Voices of the English Reformation , ed. John N. King in The Spenser Review 37:1 (Winter 2006): 6-9. April 20, 2006 Normand Berlin, “Traffic of our Stage: Boxing as Theater,” The Massachusetts Review (Spring, 2006), 22-32. Anne Herrington and Charles Moran. "WritePlacer Plus in Place: An Exploratory Case Study." In Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences . Ed. Patricia Ericsson and Richard Haswell. Utah State UP, 2006: 114-129. Anne Herrington. "Renewing Diversity Initiatives within an English Department." In Teaching Inclusively: Resources for Course, Department and Institutional Change in Higher Education . Ed. Mathew Ouellett. Stillwater , OK : New Forums, 2005: 140-51. Arthur Kinney, Shakespeare's Webs: Networks of Meaning in Shakespearean Drama has just been published in an electronic edition. It has also been made a set text for England 's Open University.
April 13, 2006 Mazen Naous won the Consortium for a Strong Minority Presence (ICSMP) dissertation fellowship at Coe College in Cedar Rapids , Iowa , for the 2006-07 academic year. The CSMP comprises 36 liberal arts colleges across the US and grows out of the conviction that a strong representation of minority scholars on the faculties of liberal arts colleges is essential. Congratulations, Mazen! Ron Welburn, r eviews in:CHOICE, Understanding Sherman Alexie , by Daniel Grassian ( South Carolina , 2005). October 2005. _____, American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature , by, Paulette F. Molin. (Scarecrow, 2005). November 2005. _____, was a Consultant for a juvenile reader, Nations of the Northeast Coast . Crabtree Publishing, St. Catherines , Ontario & NYC, 2006. _____, was a consultant and reader during summer 2005 for a biography of African American journalist and jazz critic Frank Marshall Davis. Southern Illinois University Press. _____, Made presentations on the topic, “Native Americans in Jazz, Blues, and Popular Music”: Jazz Roundtable Series. Institute of Jazz Studies. Rutgers University-Newark. 15 December 2006. _____, Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival. University of Idaho . 24 February 2006. _____, Served as moderator for the panel, “African and Indigenous in North America: Lives Intertwined,” a session for the Pathways 2006 graduate students conference hosted by the Yale Group for the Study of Native America, Yale University, 8 April 2006.
April 6, 2006 Jordana Rosenberg, Invited Lecture: "'All Nations Must Have Poets': Mediation for a Transatlantic Methodology" Hosted by Professor Adam Potkay of the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg , VA, 04/07/06. March 16, 2006 Arthur Kinney, “Performance as Variant” in Varianten—Variants—Variantes , ed. Christa Jansohn and Bodo Plachta ( Tubingen ; Max Niemeyer, 2005), pp. 119-35. (Proceedings of an international conference on the variant held in December 2003 in Bamberg , Germany .) John Nelson lectured and participated in a panel discussion on "Liking to Write and Making it a Career" at Smith Academy in Hatfield, MA ( March 9, 2006). That evening he conducted a lecture/workshop on new directions in technical writing for graduate students in the Plastics Engineering Department at the University of Lowell . March 9, 2006 Jules Chametzky gave a talk, “Jews and Blacks: The Last 20 Years,” at Kent State University , on February 27.
March 2, 2006 Arthur F. Kinney, “The Making of a Humanist Poetic,” Literary Imagination 8:1 (Winter 2006): 29-43; response by Stephen Merriam Foley, “The English Renaissance, or My Last Duchess,” pp. 48-62. Laura Wright, who received her Ph.D. in our Department in 2004, has just published her first book, Writing 'Out of All the Camps': J. M. Coetzee's Narratives of Displacement (Routledge: New York and London , 2006). Congratulations, Laura! (Thank you, Stephen Clingman, for sending this on.)
February 23, 2006 Kirby Farrell, The Ernest Becker Foundation invited Kirby Farrell to give a talk and workshop at the University of Washington in Seattle on comedy as radical existential behavior. The 40+ participants - psychologists, teachers, pastors, doctors and other health professionals - brought cultural materials to explore in the all-day workshop. February 16, 2005 John Hennessy, "Signing the Kills" (poem), in The New Republic , February 6, 2006, p. 25. _____, "Why Not Dig Up the Dog?" reprinted in Best New Poets 2005 , edited by George Garrett (Meridian/University of Virginia , 2005), p. 15. Arthur Kinney, “Editing Instability,” a review-essay in Huntington Library Quarterly , 68:3 (2005): 561-66. James Young, “Memory and the Monument Before and After 9/11,” Distinguished Visiting Lecturers in the Humanities Series, Humanities Institute, University of Texas Austin , 1 February 2006. _____, “The Lessons of Genocide Today,” Keynote Address, First International Day of Remembrance for the Holocaust Commemorations, House of Representatives, State House, Boston, 27 January 2006. _____, “Jewish Culture in a Global Age,” Herzliya Conference, Institute for Policy and Strategy, IDC Herzliya , Israel , 24 January 2006. _____, “Memory, Absence, and the End of the Monument in Berlin and New York ,” Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin , Madison , 17 November 2005. _____, “Memory and Absence: Countermonuments in Berlin and New York after 9/11,” Plenary Lecture for “The Future of Memory: An International Holocaust and Trauma Studies Conference,” University of Manchester , UK , 12 November 2005. _____, “Regarding the Pain of Women: Gender and the Arts of Holocaust Memory,” Yom Iyyun in Honor of Froma Zeitlin, Princeton University , 6 November 2005. _____, “Regarding the Pain of Women: How Gender Matters,” for Conference on “In the War Zone: How Does Gender Matter?” Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University , 4 November 2005. _____, “Memory, Countermemory, and the End of the Monument after 9/11,” The Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues, Dickinson College , 26 October 2005. February 9, 2006 Arthur F. Kinney, “Foreword” to Monica Matei-Chesnou, Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory ( Madison , NJ : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006). Randall Knoper, "Mark Twain and Nation," A Companion to Mark Twain, ed. Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd ( Malden , Mass. : Blackwell, 2005), 3-20. ----- Review of Stephanie P. Browner, Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America , New England Quarterly, 78, no. 4 (December 2005): 658-660.
February 1, 2006 Zan Meyer Goncalves (an alumna of our PhD program), Sexuality and the Politics of Ethos in the Writing Classroom . Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Stephen Harris, "Aelfric," Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford University Press, 2006. _____, "Bede," Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford University Press, 2006. _____, "Cynewulf," Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford University Press, 2006. _____, "The Enemy Within: some reflections on suffering and morality in literature," invited lecture, Facultad de filología inglésa, Universidad de Seville, España, 16 January 2006. Arthur Kinney, review of Marcy L. North, The Anonymous Renaissance: Culture of Discretion in Tudor-Stuart England ( Chicago ), Kritikon Litterarum 30 (2003): 154-156. _____, Review of Barbara M. Benedict, Curiosity: A Cultural History of Early Modern Inquiry ( Chicago ), Kritikon Litterarum 30 (2003): 158-161. Arthur Kinney and Ton Hoenselaars, eds. Challenging Humanism: Essays in Honor of Dominic Baker-Smith . Newark : University of Delaware Press , 2005., including “Introduction,” pp. 18-22, and “ Utopia 's First Readers,” pp. 23-53.
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