University at Buffalo Department of English

Issue #8 May, 2003

Newsletter

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

CHARLES BERNSTEIN

Poetry Reading

Sunday, May 4^th

2:00 p.m……Burchfield-Penney Art Center

GRADUATE SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT

Friday, May 9^th

1:00 p.m…….Center for the Arts

PHI BETA KAPPA INDUCTION CEREMONY

Friday, May 9^th

3:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m……Slee Concert Hall

GENERAL COMMENCEMENT

Sunday, May 11^th

10:00 a.m……………Alumni Arena

DEPARTMENTAL COMMENCEMENT

Sunday, May 11^th

2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Student Union Theater

Faculty Activity

Robert Daly’s entry on The Scarlet Letter has just been published in Scribner’s Dictionary of American History. On 13 April he spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Church on “Emerson’s Society.”

Stacy Hubbard, Chiaki Sekiguchi and Logan Esdale presented papers at “‘Right Good Salvo of Bark’: The Marianne Moore Conference” at Penn State on March 28 and 29. This was the first international gathering of Moore scholars in fifteen years.

Irving Massey’s review of Alan Richardson’s British Romanticism and the Science of Mind appeared in the winter, 2002 issue of Criticism: his review of Angelika Rauch’s The Hieroglyph of Tradition: Freud, Benjamin, Gadamer, Novalis, Kant appeared in the summer, 2002 issue of the same journal. His translation, from the Russian, of three poems by N. Akulenko, and, from the Yiddish, of one poem by Thomas Soxberger, appeared in the summer, 2002 and winter, 2003 issues of House Organ, respectively. In March, 2003 he lectured on Neuroscience and the Humanities at the University of Havana.

GRADUATE ACTIVITY

Logan Esdale has been appointed Assistant Professor in a tenure-track position at Chapman University in Orange, California.

Kristin Prevallet and Alan Gilbert, former graduate students in our program, have a new daughter - Sophie Aster Prevallet - who was born on April 11^th.

Robert Zamsky and his wife welcomed their baby girl, Annette Coussin Zamsky, into the world on April 17^th.

Congratulations to the winners of English Departmental Prizes

Sara Paulson: winner of the Houpt Prize for excellence and proficiency in the work of the English Department.

Sara Center: Outstanding Senior Award, CAS.

Emily McClellan: winner of the Scribblers Prize for the best piece of creative writing by an undergraduate woman.

Leah McCormack: honorable mention for the Scribblers Prize.

Aaron Lowinger: winner of the Axlerod Memorial Award.

Cook, Hammond, Logan Prizes:

Todd Balazic, Peter Ramos, Samantha Maziarz

Honorable Mention: Jennifer Collins, Rajani Thapa

Andrea Sicari was chosen to receive the English Essay Prize awarded by the department for her essay, “Lanyer and Donne: A Study of Preferment and Homoeroticism in Patronage Literature.”

New Inductees to Phi Beta Kappa:

Buday, Amber Key, Katherine

Bzdak, Melissa Lam, Sherrell

Campagna, Alexander Lowinger, Aaron

Crowell, Leslie Miranda, Melissa

Davis, Danielle Nixon, Elizabeth

Dracup, Sheila Park, Gene

Dudeck, Lindsay Paulson, Sara

Goetsch, Chandra Petersen, Gabrielle

Halliday, Laura Shores, Bevin

Harrington, Sara Skerrett, Kelly

Hill, Julie Ward, Catherine

Jeong, Jeong-Kyun Williams, Rachael