CALENDAR OF EVENTS

faculty activity=

Carrie Tirado Bramen spoke on the future of Latino/a Studies at a Symposium arranged by the English Department and the Dean of Arts and Scien= ces at George= Washington Universi= ty in DC on Octobe= r 29^th, 2004.

Robert Daly spoke on “Metanoia: Nineteenth-Century Writers in the Network Culture of Twenty-First Century Readers.” The Resisting Reader, Then and Now= : A Symposium in Honor of Judith Fetterley. University at Albany, State University of New Y= ork, on November 6th, 2004.

Susan Eilenberg's 1997 essay on Coleridge for the London<= /st1:place> Review of

Books, "A Moral Idiocy, an Imbecility of the Will, a Haunting, an Emptiness, = a Posthumous State, a Writing Block," has been republished in London<= /st1:place> Review of Books: A 25th Anniversary Anthology.<= o:p>

Also, in the October 7^th issue of the London Review of Books Susan’s essay on the Carlyles appears.

Arabella Lyon's essay, “Confucian Silence and Remonstrat= ion: A Basis for Deliberation,” was published in Rhetoric Before the Greeks, edited by

Carol Lipson and Roberta A. Binkley, (SUNY Press= ).

Ming-Qian Ma co-organized a panel on “Rethinking Metonymy: A Poetics for the Twentieth-First Century” for the 120^th MLA Convention in Philadelphia, where he also presented a= paper titled “Sense of Nonsense: Unintelligibility and the Poetics of Post-Metonymy in Language Poetry.”

Carine Mardorossian's essay "Unsuspecting Storyteller and Suspec= t

Listener: A Postcolonial Reading of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre" has been

accepted for publication and will appear in ARIEL: A Review of International Engli= sh Literature. In addition, she gave a talk as part of a day-long colloqui= um on the Guadeloupean Maryse Conde's fiction at Princeton Universit= y on November 3rd, 2004. Her talk, e= ntitled "Racial Antics in Maryse Conde's ‘La Femme Cannibale’ and = Who Slashed Celanire's Throat," will appear in a collection of essays on t= he author.

Christina Milletti's= short story collection, The Religious and Other Fictions, = is forthcoming from Carnegie Mellon University Press in Fall 2005. Meanwhile, she also has several sh= ort stories due out this spring: "Where Nööne is Now" will appear in the Cincinnati Review= in April and "The Smallest Apartment" will be published by Parakeet in May. Also, her article= on Kathy Acker, "Violent Acts, Volatile Words: Kathy Acker's Terrorist Aesthetic," appeared in Studie= s in the Novel (a special issue on terrorism and the postmodern novel) in Fa= ll 2004.

On February 28, David Schmid appeared on CNN's "News Night with Aaron Brown," discussing the public fascination with serial killers in the

context of the recent arrest of Dennis Rader for= the "BTK" murders in Wic= hita, Kansas. His article, "Serial Killing = in America After 9/11," appears in the current issue of the Journal of American Culture (28.1,= March 2005). In addition, his article, "Murderabilia: Consuming Fame," appears in the latest issue of the online media/cultural studies journal, M/C http://jour= nal.media-culture.org.au/0411/10-schmid.php.

And, at the recent meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association in Buffalo, David participated in a workshop on "Writing the Urban," and delivered a paper entitled "Romanticizing the City in

Detective Fiction."

Howard Wolf lectured in Israel over the winter break = under the auspices of the Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Embassy (Tel Aviv). One of the talks, “Tea= ching in a Time of War,” was an inaugural event for a new US Israel forum.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> He spoke at Beit Berl = College and read from his The Education of = Ludwig Fried at The David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem. He traveled to Achva College where he spoke on “After the 1960’s: The Great Divide – Humanism = and Theory.”

emeritus activit= y

George Hochfield’s anthology, Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists, which appeared as a Signet Classic in 1966, has recently been published in a second (slightly) enlarged edition by Yale University Press. Also, his third translation from the Italian for Northwestern Univer= sity Press is about to come out. It’s a memoir by Carla Pekelis called My Version of the Facts.

On March 18^th, Irving Massey lectured at the Harvard Medical School on “Neuroscience and the Arts: Music, Painting, Poetry.”

Leslie Fiedler’s “The Middle Against Both Ends” was reprinted in Ar= guing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium, edited by Jeet Heer a= nd Kent Worcester, published by University Press of Mississippi, Jackson (2004)= .

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Graduate activit= y

Barbara Cole reported the following activity: a paper on "'We know not nor = are known': H.D.'s Poetics of Negation,"&= nbsp; at National Poetry Foundation Poetries of the Forties Conference, Orono, ME., June 21^st, 20= 04; a paper on "'Wedded Words:= On the dim tide' of Feminist Criticism on Louis Zukofsky," = at the Louis Zukofsky Centennial Celebration Conference, New York, NY, September 18^{th<=
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2004, and a reading at the IREWG Gender Week Poetry Reading, Buffalo, NY, September 24^th, 2004.}

Sasha Steensen was offered a tenure-track position in English at Colorado

State University where she will be teaching as of Fall 2005.

In the Fall 2004 edition of UB Today Robert Szusta= k, a MA student, had a feature piece published recapturing his experience as a vocalist in Carnegie Hall. His photography is also included in= the article. Robert sang wi= th the University Choir and Chorus as an undergraduate.

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alumni/ae activi= ty

Clark Davis’s (English PhD 1992) second book, Hawthorne's Shyness: Ethics, Politics, and the Question of Engagement, will be published in May

by Johns Hopkins UP. Clark is an Associate Pro= fessor of English at the Univers= ity of Denver.

Stephanie Hawkins received and accepted a tenure-track assistant<= o:p>

professorship in English (with specialty in Mode= rn American Literature) at

the University of North Texas begi= nning in the Fall Semester of 2005.

Bansari Mitra received a tenure-track job at Coppin State University, in downtown Baltimore.

Peter Ramos received a tenure track job at Buffalo State College beginning Fall

2005.

Jonathan Skinner has accepted an offer of a tenure-track job fro= m Bates College as Professor of Humanities in Environmental Studies. In add= ition, he has been given a leave, in the first year, to take advantage of a 1-year Fellowship from the Templ= e Society of Fellows = in the Humanities.

Temenuga Trifonova was offered a tenure-track position in English = from the

University of New Brunswick, Canada= .

Lisa Wilson accepted a tenure-track position in English (Romantics and

Victorian) at SUNY Potsdam beginning Fall 2005.<= o:p>

Iclal Cetin (from Comparative Literature) accepted a tenure-track position in English at SUNY Fredonia.

undergraduate activity

Congratulations to Meghan Fadel, an English major, who was awarded First Prize for her essay enti= tled “Reason Through the Unreasonable,” in the

international essay competition

sponsored by Early English Books Online (EEBO). Meghan, who is working on her honors thesis with Jim Holstun, will be receiving $750.