University at Buffalo                                        Department of English

Issue #5                                                                                                 January, 2003

 

Newsletter

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Schedule of Talks by Interviewees

Brock Clarke

Friday, January 17th…..3:00 p.m……..Clemens 538

 

Robert Cohen

Tuesday, January 21st …….3:00 p.m……….Clemens 306

 

Christina Milletti

Friday, January 24th…..3:00 p.m………Clemens 538

 

Carla Harryman

Tuesday, January 28th…..3:00 p.m………Clemens 306

 

Department Meeting (To Review Candidates)

Wednesday, January 29th…….11:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.

Clemens 306

Also of Interest:

Comparative Literature

 

Sr. Feminist Theory Search:

Claire Colebrook

Thursday, January 16th….1:00 p.m……Clemens 640

Ewa Ziarek

Thursday, January 23rd…….1:00 p.m. Clemens 640

 

European Literature Search:

Dr. Jennifer Bajorek

Wednesday, January 29th….3:30 p.m….Clemens 640

 

Dr. Kalliopi Nikolopoulou

Thursday, January 30th……1:30 p.m…… Clemens 640

 

Dr. Jan Mieszkowski

Wednesday, February 5th…….3:30 p.m…. Clemens 640

 

Dr. Krzysztof Ziarek

Thursday, February 6th….1:30 p.m….Clemens 640

 

 

 

 

 

Faculty Activity

 


Robert Daly’s essay, “Mischief, Insanity, Mimetics, and Agency in The Linwoods: or ‘Sixty Years Since’ in America,” has just been published in Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives (Boston: Northeastern UP, 2003).

 

 

 

Bruce Jackson has been appointed to the Binational Peace Bridge Task Force.  He is giving a public lecture at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, January 19th: “Trusting the Eye: Looking at documentary film and photographs.”

 

 

 

Neil Schmitz’s “Mark Twain’s Cvil War” in the Cambridge Companion to Mark Twain (1995) has been reprinted in Harold Bloom’s Mark Twain, January 2003.  Neil also gave a paper on Chapter 21 in Life on the Mississippi at the recent MLA Convention in New York City.

  GRADUATE ACTIVITY

 

 

 

 

Natalie Grinnell has just been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Wofford.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara, Donna, Joyce, Linda, Marilyn, Sophia and Trish would like to thank the faculty for their very generous Christmas gift.  You’re the best!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Donna Serwinowski recently left the English Department to work at The School of Management in the Marketing Department.  She was here for 15 years.  She will be missed.