University at Buffalo Department of English

Issue #7 April, 2003

Newsletter

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

English Department Poetry Reading and Reception

For Winners of the Scribblers, Axlerod, Cook, Hammond, Logan

and Undergraduate Library poetry prizes

Thursday, April 3^rd

12:00 p.m……Capen 420

College of Arts and Sciences Poetry Contest

Awards Ceremony and Poetry Reading

Saturday, April 5^th

12:30 p.m……..CFA Screening Room

AARON LEVY

“Slought from Net to Org (New Discursive Futures)”

Tuesday, April 15^th 2003

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m………………CFA Screening Room

Co-sponsored by The Butler Chair, Department of English

Media Study Graduate Group

DEPARTMENT HIRING MEETING

Wednesday, April 23^rd, 2003

11:00 a.m.

Clemens 306

Distinguished Speakers Series

BILL BRADLEY

Political Visionary and Former U.S. Senator

Wednesday, April 23^rd, 2003

8:00 p.m.

CFA Mainstage

Faculty Activity

Carine Mardorossian gave two papers at the Northeast Modern Language Convention in Boston on March 3, 2003: “Unsuspecting Storyteller and Suspect Listener in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre” and “Cathy’s Race in Maryse Conde’s

La Migration des Coeurs.” Her essay “Rewriting the Postcolonial Legacy” will be forth coming in an anthology entitled Maryse Conde: By Way of Introduction.

English Department faculty members Robert Daly, Arabella Lyon and Mark Shechner, along with Mijeong Park, Ph.D. Comparative Literature student, joined together for a panel discussion on the works of Amy Tan. The program was one of many events in celebration of the appearance of noted author Amy Tan as part of the 2002/2003 UB Distinguished Speakers Series.

ALUMNI/AE Activity

Elizabeth Burns received her PH.D. from UB in 1995, along with her husband, also from the Poetics Program, Jeff Hanson. who received his in 1994. Elizabeth recently published a novel, Tilt: Every Family Spins on Its Own Axis, Sourcebooks (Chicago: March 2003). The novel is semi-autobiographical: Elizabeth and Jeff’s daughter, born in Buffalo, is severely autistic.

HAPPENING IN MAY

Graduate School Commencement

Friday, May 9^th,

1:00 p.m.

Center for the Arts

General Commencement

Sunday, May 11^th, 10:00 a.m.

Alumni Arena

Departmental Commencement

Sunday, May 11^th, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Student Union Theater

Charles Bernstein

Poetry Reading

Sunday, May 4, 2:00p.m.

Burchfield-Penney Art Center

WEDNESDAYS AT 4 PLUS

JACKSON MAC LOW

ANNE TARDOS

Poetry Reading/Performance

Wednesday, April 2^nd

4:00 p.m……CFA Screening Room

A Conversation with Jackson Mac Low

Thursday, April 3^rd…12:30 p.m.

PETER GIZZI

ELIZABETH WILLIS

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, April 9^th

4:00 p.m. ….CFA Screening Room

Talk: Willis on “Christina Rossetti and Pre-Ralphaelite Noir”

Thursday, April 10^th

12:30 p.m. …..438 Clemens Hall

Talk: Gizzi on Spicer

Thursday, April 10^th

2:00 p.m…..438 Clemens

SIMON ORTIZ

Talk

Tuesday, April 15^th

12:30 p.m…….540 Clemens

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, April 16^th

4:00 p.m……438 Clemens

ED SANDERS

MICHAEL BOUGHN

Poetry Reading

Friday, April 18^th

8:00 p.m…….just buffalo’s Hibiscus Room…Tri-Main Ctr.

Sanders Workshop: “Investigative Poetry”

Saturday, April 19th at Hibiscus Room

Book Party and Signing for re-release of The Family (The Mansons)

Saturday, April 19^th

8:00 p.m. just buffalo’s Hibiscus Room

TED ENSLIN

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, April 23^rd

4:00 p.m…..Poetry/Rare Books Collection….420 Capen