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Mike Bowen Discusses the Lessons of 1948 in Historically Speaking
Graham Center
June 25, 2009
Mike Bowen's article The Lessons of 1948 appears in the June issue of Historically Speaking. The article draws comparisons between the plights of the Republican Party then and now.
News from the Department of English
English
June 11, 2009
- Richard Burt gave two invited talks at National Central University in Jung-Li, Taiwan: Self-Storage as Self-Sabotage: Auto-Deconstructing Cinematic Archive Fevers in Nicolas Philibert’s Return to Normandy (2007) and Shakespeare Belongs to Us: D(e)riving the Play in the European Art Film Genre. He gave a third invited talk at Taiwan National University in Taipei, Taiwan, Drifting Around Renaissance Tragedy: The Revenger’s Tragedy in Jacques Rivette’s Noirot and The Duchess of Malfi in Mike Figgis’s Hotel.
- Terry Harpold presented Professor Lidenbrock and the Mole Men: The Hollow Earth After Verne at the 2009 Eaton Science Fiction Conference, “Extraordinary Voyages: Jules Verne and Beyond” (University of California, Riverside, April 30–May 3, 2009), where he also participated in two plenary roundtables, “The Two Vernes” and “Extraordinary Revision, Repetition, and Pastiche.” Harpold was a member of the conference’s Organizing Committee.
News of Current Students
- Wylie Lenz presented Emancipatory Potential of a Hobo Education at the 2009 Joint Conference of the National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations in New Orleans.
- Jaimy Mann has received the 2009 Henry Darger Study Center Fellowship at the American Folk Art Museum in New York.
- Amy Robinson’s essay An ‘original and unlooked-for ending’?: Irony, the Marriage Plot, and the Antifeminism Debate in Oliphant’s Miss Marjoribanks, appears in Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, ed. Tamara S. Wagner, (Cambria 2009). 159–76.
- Matt Snyder presented Torn Limb from Limen: Grendel at the Space Between at the 44th International Conference on Medieval Studies held at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo.
- John Tinnell presented Greenlisting as a Genre of Global Capitalism at the 2009 Humanities and Sustainability Conference “Ecology in the Information Age” held at Florida Gulf Coast University.
News of Former Students
- Scott Balcerzak’s (PhD, 2008) coedited collection Cinephilia in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, Pleasure, and Digtial Culture will be published by Wallflower Press. Balcerzak coauthors the introduction with coeditor Jason Sperb and contributes a chapter on motion capture and onscreen performance.
- Eric Bliman’s (MFA, 2007) poem “Prometheus in Pittsburgh” was recently chosen as a winner in the 2009 AWP Intro Journals Project. The poem is forthcoming in Quarterly West.
- Kenneth Chan’s (PhD, 1999) essay Diasporic Desires: Narrating Sexuality in the Memoirs of Shirley Geok-lin Lim and Li-Young Lee appears in China Abroad: Travel, Subjects, Spaces (Hong Kong University Press, 2009).
- Heather Milton’s (PhD, 2003) essay The Female Confessor: Confession and Shifting Domains of Discourse in Margaret Oliphant’s Salem Chapel appears in Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, ed. Tamara S. Wagner, (Cambria 2009). 197–216.
News from the Department of Statistics
Statistics
June 29, 2009
Malay Ghosh
