University at Buffalo Department of English

Issue #6 March, 2003

Newsletter

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Distinguished Speakers Series

AMY TAN

Wednesday, March 26th

8:00 p.m.

Center for the Arts

GRADUATE STUDENT EXCELLENCE

IN TEACHING AWARDS CEREMONY

Friday, March 21^st

3:00 p.m.

Center for the Arts Screening Room

Five English Teaching Assistants will be receiving awards!

Join us in attending the ceremony

BOOK FAIR

Wednesday, March, 26^th

9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Clemens Third Floor Lobby

Faculty Activity

English Department faculty members Barbara Bono, Stacy Hubbard, and Hershini Young joined History Department faculty member Patricia Mazon in speaking at the Wednesday, February 26^th UB Gender Institute graduate student luncheon symposium on “Gender in the Classroom: Gender Dynamics, Curriculum and Gender.”

English Department faculty members Barbara Bono and Andrew Stott and English Department graduate student Scott Oldenburg joined Classics Department faculty member Don McGuire in a panel presentation preceding the Wednesday, March 5^th and Thursday March 6^th performances of Handel’s Serse by the UB student Opera Workshop. Bono spoke on “The Emperor Is All Clothes: Handel’s Serse and the Colors of Opera,” McGuire spoke on “Handel’s Serse and the Eastern Past,” Oldenberg spoke on “Castrati, Crossdressers, and Handel’s Serse,” and Stott spoke on “Opera in Handel’s London.”

Joseph Conte presented a paper entitled

“The Politics of the Unpresentable: The Fiction of Don DeLillo” at the 31^st annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference 2003 in Louisville, Kentucy.

Joan Copjec was a guest speaker at Duke University on March 1: she delivered a paper titled, “Gai Savoir Sera: The Science of Love and the Insolence of Change,” to the Program in Literature during their recruitment weekend.

In a fortuitous alignment of the planets, Arabella Lyon had two essays published in February. “Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Division through the Concept of Invention” appeared in Perspectives on Rhetorical Invention, edited by Janet M. Atwell and Janice M. Lauer, University of Tennessee Press. The journal JAC printed “Mother and Teacher: Subjectivity in ‘Unmotherhood.”’

Carine Mardorossian presented two papers from her book manuscript at the last MLA in New York City. In addition, the forthcoming Approaches to Teaching Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights (pub. Modern Language Association) will include her postcolonial reading of the Victorian classic: “Racial Vagaries in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights.”

ALUMNI/AE Activity

Barbara White Cantalupo, a former Ph.D. graduate here, is now serving as Editor for The Edgar Alan Poe Review.

Concluding his term as President of The Edgar Alan Poe Society is Richard Kopley, who got his Ph.D. here in the early 1980s.

Seunghyeok Kweon, a February 2002 Ph.D. graduate, has accepted a full-time, tenure-track position at Kang Won National University.

EMERITUS ACTIVITY

A sad bit of news to report. Homer Brown passed away on March 2^nd at his home in Irvine, California. Homer was on the faculty here in the 1970s.

WEDNESDAYS AT 4 PLUS

MARJORIE PERLOFF

Wednesday, March 19^th

4:00 p.m.

CFA Screening Room

A Conversation with Marjorie Perloff

Thursday, March 20^th

12:30 p.m…….438 Clemens Hall

DAVID ANTIN

Wednesday, March 26^th

4:00 p.m.

CFA Screening Room

A Conversation with David Antin

Thursday, March 27th

12:30 p.m…..438 Clemens Hall

JAYNE CORTEZ

Friday, March 28^th

8:00 p.m…..Hallwalls

Poetry Reading

8:00 p.m.

Saturday, March 29^th

Just buffalo Hisbiscus Room

Linda Bodgan, Mili Clark, and Joyce Troy

were honored at a reception on March 6^th in

the UB President’s Residence to honor UB

employees who have completed 30, 40 and

50 years of service to the university. All

three were honored for 30 years of service.

Zubeda Jalalzai and Dan Moos got a beautiful surprise on Valentine’s Day. Their son came 10 days early. He registered in at 5 lbs. 2oz and 19 inches long. No name yet, so he’s known as

“__________” Jalalzai.

The 31^st annual Twientieth-Century Literature Conference 2003 was held in Louisville, Kentucky on February 27^th, 28^th and March 1^st. Attending were past and present Ph.D. students:

Christopher Alexander, State University of New York, Buffalo

Carla Billitteri, University of Maine, Orono

Sarah Campbell, State University of New York, Buffalo

Barbara Cole, State University of New York, Buffalo

Thom Donovan, State University of New York, Buffalo

Lori Emerson, State University of New York, Buffalo

Benjamin Friedlander, University of Maine, Orono

Kristen Gallagher, State University of New York, Buffalo

Gordon Hadfield, State University of New York, Buffalo

William Howe, State University of New York, Buffalo

Greg Kinzer, State University of New York, Buffalo

Joel Kuszai, Cornell University

James Maynard, State University of New York, Buffalo

Lynn Pifer, Mansfield University

Peter Ramos, State University of New York, Buffalo

Benjamin Robertson, State University of New York, Buffalo

Linda Russo, State University of New York, Buffalo

Robert Zamsky, Depaul University

Jonathan Stalling, State University of New York, Buffalo

Jonathan Skinner, Buffalo, New York

Ron Sweeney, State University of New York, Buffalo

Jessica Smith, State University of New York, Buffalo

Kyle Schlesinger, State University of New York, Buffalo

Sasha Steensen, State University of New York, Buffalo