University at Buffalo Department of English

Issue #4 February, 2004

Newsletter

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

8^th Annual International Women’s Film Festival

Thursdays, February 5 – March 11, 2004

Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre

639 Main St, Buffalo…….7:00 p.m. all events

February 5^th

The Fourth Dimension with director TRINH T. MINH-HA

February 12^th February 19th

Chaos Marion Bridge

February 26^th

September 11/11’09’01 with 11 international directors

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Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Lecturer

Ann Ellis Hanson

Professor of Classics, Yale University

“Alternative Medicine in Greco-Roman Antiquity: The Role of Amulets”

Monday, February 23^rd

3:00 p.m………Clemens 120

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Distinguished Speakers Series

Joyce Carol Oates

Tuesday, March 2^nd

8:00 p.m…Center for the Arts Main Stage

Faculty Activity

David Schmid’s book, “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know”: Serial Murder and Celebrity in American Culture, has been accepted for publication by the University of Chicago Press and will appear in the Spring of 2004. And on January 23^rd David appeared as a guest on ‘Odyssey’, a nationally-syndicated talk show produced by Chicago Public Radio, discussing the representation of serial killers in film.

Alumni/ae activity

Elyssa Cheng’s Henriad chapter has been accepted for publication by an academic journal entitled Studies in Language and Literature, published by National Taiwan University, which has one of the top English Departments in Taiwan. Both anonymous reviewers think that although this article treats a subject matter which major Renaissance critics have worked before, yet it integrates most of the relevant criticism to demonstrate the author's interpretation and insight. It is going to be out next June.

BOOK FAIR

Wednesday,

April 7^th

9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

3^rd Floor Clemens Hall

WEDNESDAYS @ 4 PLUS

Charles Alexander

Poetry Reading & Exhibition

Monday, February 9^th

12:30 p.m…….Poetry/Rare Books Collection

Keith Sanborn

Writers Making Film

Wednesday, February 11^th

4:00 p.m……CFA Screening Room

Melissa Ragona, Kyle Schlesinger & Thom Donovan

Multi-media Poetry event

Friday, February 13^th

8:00 p.m….Just Buffalo’s Hibiscus Room

David Gray Chair of Poetry & Letters Candidates

Every Wednesday February 18^th – March 24j^th

4:00 p.m….CFA Screening Room

Pierre Joris

February 18^th

Steve McCaffery

February 25^th

Barrett Watten

March 10^th

Johanna Drucker

March 24^th

The Department of African American Studies

Presents

History or Memory:

The Construction of the “Narrative”

In The Polished Hoe

AUSTIN CLARKE

Barbadian-Canadian Novelist and Author of The Polished Hoe,

Winner of the Canada Giller Prize 2002

And the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2003

Wednesday, March 3^rd…….4:00 p.m…….Clemens 322