University at Buffalo
Department of English
December, 2006
Newsletter
As of January 2007, we are starting a section in our English Department Newsletter for information on current activities of alumni. If you received a BA, MA, or PhD from UB in English, please send us any information you’d like to share with your former fellow students and faculty. We’d like to hear from you!
Calendar of Events
Buffalo Film Seminars
Peter Greenway
Prospero’s Books
December 5, 7:00 p.m.
Market Arcade Theater
Holiday Party for Undergraduates
December 6
4:00-5:30 p.m., room 306
Department Holiday Party
Date, TBA
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Juxtapositions Lecture
Ian Baucom (Duke Univ.): “The Disasters of War: On Inimical Life”
December 7, 4:00 p.m.
830 Clemens Hall
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David Marriott: “’upon a ground of black’: Burke, Kant, Adrian Piper”
December 12, 4:00 p.m.
Poetry Room
MLA Convention
December 27-30, Philadelphia
Speakers
December 27
Carine Mardorossian: “The Missing Muslim in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis”
5:15-6:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom C2, Loews
Susan Howe: “Speaking for the Wilderness: Notes on Jonathan Edward’s ‘Personal Narrative’ and ‘The River of Rivers in Connecticut’ by Wallace Stevens”
7:00-8:15 p.m., 305, Philadelphia Marriott
December 28
Stacy Hubbard: “Possessive-Obsessive Reading: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Marianne Moore”
8:30-9:45 a.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon B, Philadelphia Marriott
Arabella Lyon: “Sinocentric Culture, Speech-Act Theory, and Plagiarism”
8:30-9:45 a.m., Washington B, Loews
Susan Howe: “The Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound”
10:00-11:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom A & B, Loews
Stephen McCaffery: “Sound Poetry”
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Regency Ballroom C, Loews
Ming-Qian Ma: “Sounding the Visual”
1:45-3:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom C, Loews
Cristanne Miller: session organizer for “Orality and Sound in Poetry”
7:15-8:30 p.m., 411-412, Philadelphia Marriott
December 29
Randy Schiff: “Presenting a Prepostcolonial Arthur; or, Engaging the Non-Arthurians, Too”
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., 306 Philadelphia Marriott
December 30
Randy Schiff: “Ambivalent Aggression: Divine Violence and the Engagement with the Jew in the Alliterative Siege of Jerusalem”
8:30-9:45 a.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott
Ming-Qian Ma: “Imagining Worlds ‘Never before Existing’: Formal Innovation, Unreadability, and the Poetics of ‘Crossing’”
10:15-11:30 a.m., Congress C, Loews
Ruth Mack: “Decorative Historiography at Strawberry Hill”
10:15-11:30 a.m., 302, Philadelphia Marriott
Susan Muchshima Moynihan: “Shame and the Refugee Subject in the Work of lê thi diem thúy and Aimee Phan”
10:15-11:30 a.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott
Cristanne Miller: “Describing Dickinson: The Reader’s Relation to Sound”
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Independence Ballroom Salon III, Philadelphia Marriott
Neil Schmitz: “Mark Twain, Cormac McCarthy: Reading the Southern River”
1:45-3:00 p.m., Independence Ballroom Salon III, Philadelphia Marriott
Graduate Activity
Graduate British Studies Group, November 30
The following works in progress were presented
Jacob Bodway: “Storming the Borders: Discourse on Aesthetics and the Caricature of Revolt”
Mike Clody: “Possibility in Negation: Shakespeare’s Procreation Sonnets”
Morgan Denton: “Historiography of Irish Prostitution in the 20th Century”
Sarah Hogan: “Planted Laws and Perfect Plots: Capitalist Imperialism in Spenser”
Jake Jewusiak: “The Last Tape: At the End of Exhausting Autobiography”
Trevor Speller: “Great Britain: The State of ‘The State of Nature’”
Alumni News
Victor Verney: delivered a paper at a joint conference of the Hawthorne, Emerson and Poe societies last July 13-16 in Oxford, "Transatlanticism in American Literature: Emerson, Hawthorne, and Poe." His paper was titled "Hawthorne's 'Marble Faun': Art, Eros, and Italy."
More currently, his article, "Byron & the Greek War of Independence," has been published in the current (Dec. '06) issue of 'Military History' magazine. In addition, a second article will be published in that same magazine's Jan./Feb. '07 issue on Tolstoy's experiences as a young Russian Army artillery officer fighting in Chechnya and the Crimean War. Also, a third article, on Orwell's combat experience in the Spanish Civil War, is slated by 'Military History' for publication later in '07.