University at Buffalo Department of English

Issue #3 January, 2004

Newsletter

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Meet the Candidates

Shilpa Davé

(Wesleyan University)

“Apu’s Brown Voice: Cultural Inflection and South Asian Accents”

Tuesday, January 20^th

3:00 p.m……..306 Clemens

Susan Moynihan

(Bowling Green University)

“Subjects of Compassion: The Politics of Refugee Subjectivity in Asian American Life Writing”

Friday, January 23^rd

3:00 p.m…….306 Clemens

Yu-Fang Cho

(University of California, San Diego)

“Narratives of Coupling in the Shadow of Manifest Domesticity: Transnational Politics of United States Cultures of Benevolence and the Emergence of Asian America, 1890s-1910s”

Tuesday, January 27^th

3:00 p.m……306 Clemens

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The Early-Modern Reading Group is pleased to announce a lecture by

KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN

Silver Professor History at New York University and

Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American Antiquarian Society

“Performing Negotiation with the Supernatural: Rainmaking Contests in Early America”

Thursday, January 29^th

2:00 p.m……436 Clemens Hall

Faculty Activity

On September 15 Joan Copjec visited the Philosophy Department at Villanova University where she is serving on the advisory committee for a Ph.D. dissertation on Derrida and Lacan. While there Joan delivered a paper on “Love and Sexual Difference.”

The Minnesota Review has just published Jim Holstun’s “Pham Thai, Michael Sprinker, and John Holstun: Chemical Herbicide and the Indirect Costs of Production.” In its next issue, ELH will publish his “The Spider, the Fly, and the Commonwealth: Merrie John Heywood and Agrarian Class Struggle.” And he will be respondent to the next issue of Early Modern Culture, which will focus on materialism and early modern literature.

Anne Payne’s biography has been included in the new 2004-2005 edition of Who’s Who in American Education.

Academic Foundation (New Delhi, India) will publish a collection of essays by Howard Wolf on education, literature, culture, travel, and writing: Looking for America: Toward a Global Education (essays: third series). Many of these essays were presented overseas. His essay, “The New South Africa: Journey towards Dignity” (Textures 15) will be included this spring in Out of Line (an annual journal on issues of peace and justice)

Alumni/ae activity

Patrick Callan (MA 1997) has just received tenure at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY. He also won the NISOD Excellence in Teaching and Leadership Award.

Kandace Lombart presented her paper “Le Speakwhite d’Une Révolution Tranquille” last November at the American Canadian Studies in the United States in Portland, Oregon. In December she received a grant from the SUNY at Buffalo’s Canadian-American Studies Committee for her scholarship on Franco-Manitoban poets. Her paper entitled “Speakwhite d’Une Revolution Tranquille, Part II” has been accepted for the Second International Women in French Conference this spring at Scripps College, Claremont, California.

Karen Swallow Prior’s (Ph.D. 1999) first book, Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife—A Review of Criticism and A New Analysis, was published by Edwin Mellen Press this fall. She also received the 2003 President’s Award for Teaching Excellence at Liberty University.

Adjunct Activity

Kandace Lombart presented a paper at the San Diego’s MLA in a session “Barriers to Organizing,” entitled “The Absurd Transformation of a Literary Scholar.” The paper, re-entitled “Transformation of an Adjunct: Birth of an Activist,” is currently under consideration for publication. In addition, she has also been accepted as a member of the MLA Committee on Part-Time Faculty.

Panels that included UB presenters at the Society for Literature and Science conference at the University of Texas, Austin October 2003

Space and Time II: Twentieth Century

Greg Kinzer “Intercapillary Space, Interdiscursive Space: Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s Endocrinology”

Space and Time Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries: Philosophy, Science, Art, and Literature

John Marvin “Cross the Spatial Borders: Close the Temporal Gaps”

Temporal Typographies in 20^th Century Poetry/ organizer/chair: Gordon Hadfield

Gordon Hadfield “Chronophotographic Typography: From Etienne-Jules Marey to Tristan Tzara and F.T. Marinetti”

Sasha Steensen “Things re-done, Things pre-done: Charles Olson, Alfred North Whitehead and the Eternal Event”

Kristen Gallagher “Actual Telepathy: Sound and Time in the Poetry of Susan Howe”

History and Time in the Novel: Race, Caves, and Eels

Benjamin Robertson “Haptic History in Octavia Butler’s Kindred”

Leslie Graff “The White Death for Brown Bodies: Time Measurement and Racial Transformation in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines”

Benjamin Joplin “Human History and Marine Biology: Graham Swift’s Waterland”

Also in attendance from UB were Jim Bono, Jim Swan and Bernadette Wegenstein

WEDNESDAYS @ 4 PLUS

JESSICA GRIM

Poetry Reading

Wednesday, January 21^st

4:00 p.m. CFA Screening Room

The Poetics Program Presents

A Reading of works in process

Wednesday, January 28^th

4:00 p.m. CFA Screening Room

Congratulations on Some New Arrivals

Idris Amal Young was born on the 1^st of January 2004 at 3:59 a.m. to Hershini and Jason Young. He weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz. and was 20.75 inches long. Hershini, Idris and Jason are doing fine.

Royce Kallerud and Devon Mills had a baby boy on October 5^th, 2003 at 7:50 p.m. Henry Mauritz Kallerud was a strapping 9 lbs, 11 oz. and 21 inches long.

Eliana Stalling arrived on November 29^th, 2003 at 6:50 p.m. Jonathan reports that she was 5 lbs. 12.5 oz. Amy and Eliana are fine.

The Staff would like to thank the faculty for their generosity this holiday season.