University at Buffalo                                        Department of English

Issue #5                                                                                                 February, 2003

 

Newsletter

 

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

 

 

 

 

Department Meeting

Wednesday, February 26th

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

306 Clemens Hall

Meeting for faculty to meet Dean Uday Sukhatme

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

16th Distinguished Speakers Series

Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration Event

Mae Jemison

Astronaut, Physician, Engineer and Entrepreneur

Wednesday, February 27th

8:00 p.m. CFA Mainstage

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faculty Activity

 

While Joan Copjec was helping to escort architecture students around Havana, and chuckling at the “Corner of Cretins” in the Museum of the Revolution, three of her works appeared in print: her new book, Imagine There’s No Women: Ethics and Sublimation, was published by MIT Press; Lies mein Begehren: Lacan gegen die Historizitsten, the German translation of her last sole-authored book was finally published by Kirchheim Verlag; and her essay, “Sour Justice, or Liberalist Envy,” appeared in The Next Jerusalem: Sharing the Divided City, ed. Michael Sorkin (Monacelli Press).

Andrew Stott was accepted into and has attended the Folger Institute spring weekend workshop on “Shakespeare and Performance” led by Professor Robert Weimann of the University of California, Irvine, and Professor W.B. Worthen of the University of California, Berkeley.

 

See Adjunct Professor Errol Sull’s editorial in January 31st issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.

  GRADUATE ACTIVITY

 

 

 

 

Loren Goodman is this year’s winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.  Loren is currently pursing Ph.D. degrees at SUNY Buffalo (English Literature) and Kobe University (sociology).  He now resides in Japan.

 

Evan Gottlieb has accepted a tenure-track position at Oregon State University.

 

Ann Keefer delivered a paper on “Roll Models: Disability and Masculinity in the Writing of John Heukenbenny” at the annual MLA Convention in New York City.

 

Josh Lukin published a review of Justine Larbalestier’s Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction in MLN 117.5, December 2002.  He also delivered a paper entitled “Feminist

 

Science Fiction and the New Realism of the Body” on a “New Voices in Disability

Studies” panel at the MLA’s annual convention.

 

Meghan Sweeney has been offered and has accepted a tenure-track job at University of North Carolina at Wilmington.

 

Dr. Joewon Yoon, UB English Ph.D. 2000, has landed a tenure-track job in English at Sangji University, in Wonju City, Republic of Korea.

 

Ph.D. candidate Elyssa Yueh-Ting Cheng was accepted into and has been attending the Folger Institute spring seminar on “Mutualities and Obligations: Social Relationships in Early Modern England” taught by Professor Keith Wrightson of Yale University.

 

 

ALUMNI/AE  Activity

 

 

Casey Charles’s new book, The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial has just been published by University Press of Kansas.  Casey is currently Associate Professor of English at the University of Montana and is one of the founders of the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center.

 

Graham Foust, who graduated June 1, 2002, has just accepted a tenure-track position at Drake University.

 

Mark Peters, one of our recent Ph.D.s, published an article “Juggling Is a Great Model for Learning and Teaching” in the Buffalo Evening News.  He teaches essay writing and literature to adults at Empire State College and creative writing to children in the Buffalo Public Schools.

 

 

 

WEDNESDAYS AT 4 PLUS

 

 

ROBERT GRENIER

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, February 5th…..4:00 p.m…..CFA Screening Room

Talk on Larry Elgner

Thursday, February 6th….12:30 p.m….438 Clemens Hall

 

 

NATHANIEL MACKEY

Wednesday, February 12th….12:30 p.m….436 Clemens Hall

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, February 12th…….4:00 p.m…….CFA Screening Room

 

 

ANDREI CODRESCU

A Stake in the Heart: A Macabre Valentine’s Party (for just buffalo)

Friday, February 14th…8:00 p.m…..Hallwalls

 

 

SOMETHING WONDERFUL MAY HAPPEN

Film Screening (Buffalo Premiere)

Wednesday, February 19th….4:00 p.m……CFA Screening Room

 

 

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

Poetry Reading

Sunday, February 23rd….2:00 p.m.

Burchfield-Penney Art Center

 

 

K. SILEM MOHAMMAD

LOUIS CABRI

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, February 26th…..4:00 p.m……CFA Screening Room

Talks

February 25th and February 27th……7:30 p.m….Rust Belt Books

 

 

 

 

Congratulations to the SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professors and Chancellor’s Award Winners for Excellence in Teaching (both past and present) who were honored at a reception given for them on Thursday, February 6th, 2003 at the Anderson Gallery.

 

Honored were:

 

Barbara Bono, Carrie Bramen, Diane Christian, Robert Creeley, Robert Daly, Victor Doyno, Irving Feldman, the late Leslie Fiedler, Richard Fly, Stacy Hubbard, Bruce Jackson, George Levine and Neil Schmitz.