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University at Buffalo Department of English April, 2006
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University at Buffalo Department of English April, 2006
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Department Meeting
Monday, April 24th …….3:30 p.m.
306 Clemens
Juxtapositions
A Lecture Series
Wednesday, April 26th
Jennifer Devere Brody, Northwestern University
“Sculpting Afro-Native Subjectivity: Two Nineteenth-Century Studies”
4:00 p.m…………………..830 Clemens Hall
General Commencement
Sunday, May 14th …………..10:00 a.m.
Alumni Arena
Departmental Commencement
Sunday, May 14th …………….2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Student Union Theatre
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Faculty activity |
Robert Daly has been appointed to the board of directors of the James Fenimore Cooper Society and to the editorial board of a new journal, Cooper and the Early Republic.
Stacy Hubbard’s essay entitled “Mannerist Moore: Poetry, Painting, Photography” appeared in the collection, Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore: ‘A Right Good Salvo of Barks,’” (eds., Linda Leavell, Cristanne Miller, Robin Schulze) which came out from Bucknell University Press in November. Her review of Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, Gilead, appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review in July.
Stacy organized a panel this past April at the Narrative Conference, entitled “Affective Currencies: Reading Feeling in Nineteenth Century Fiction,” and presented a paper, “Working and Working Through: Compensation and Mourning in Emerson’s Essays and Louisa May Alcott’s Work.” (Also on the panel was Rachel Ablow, who gave a paper on “George Eliot’s Sacrifice”). In August, Stacy participated in the week-long Oxford Round Table on Women’s Leadership at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she presented a paper entitled “’More Deadly than the Male’: Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Politics of Sympathy.” In October, she gave a paper at the New York College English Association Conference on “Crepuscular Consciousness: Literature and the Obscure” at Nazareth College in Rochester; her paper was entitled “Idiosyncracy and Obscurity: Marianne Moore in Poems and Essays.” In November, she organized a panel for the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Chicago, entitled “Modernism of the ‘Mixed Crowd’: Im(migration) and Innovation in American Cities, 1890-1924.” Her paper was entitled “Homesteading on the Urban Frontier: Remaking the American Home in an Era of Immigration” (also on the panel was former UB graduate student Phil Joseph, who gave a paper entitled “’In the Belly of the Frantic Whale’: Uncertainty in the Modernist City”).
This past Spring and Summer, Stacy received research grants from the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy and the UB Gender Institute for her project entitled “Sympathy and Self-Reliance in American Feminist Writings.” Later this Spring (date tba), she will be giving a lecture co-sponsored by the Gender Institute and the Baldy Center based on this research. Also, on April 1st, she delivered a lecture on “American Poetry and Modern Realties” as part of the Cutting Edge Lecture series for local high school students and teachers.
Arabella Lyon published a biographical essay on Susanne Langer in Macmillan’s Encyclopedia of Religion. She presented on rhetoric and Chinese rule of law at both National Communication Conference and the Conference on College Composition and Communication. In April she delivered an invited talk. “Plagiarism and Speech Act Theory,” at the SUNY Council on Writing.
Alan Spiegel’s Fiction and the Camera: Visual Consciousness in Film and the Modern Novel has just been published in a Korean translation (trans Jong-Soo Kim for Renaissance by arrangement with University of Virginia Press).
Max Wickert was the subject of a brief interview-article by Stefano Ragni which appeared in the Sunday, January 20 issue of Corriere dell’Umbria (Perugia, Italy).
Howard Wolf’s second collection of stories, his 12th book, will be published this spring by Atma Ram and Sons (Chandigarh, India): The Education of Ludwig Fried. The collection includes three stories in the form of a novella: “Library of the Lost”; “Banzai, Au Revoir”, and “Adult Single Journey.” The volume includes an essay about writing in America as well: “The Literary Shape of Selfhood.” The book has a preface by Dr. Manju Jaidka, Professor of English, Panjab University.
In addition, Howard gave a lecture at Hobart and William Smith Colleges on April 11th entitled “Out of the Diaspora/Lost in Jerusalem: An Alphabetical Guide for Memoirists”.
Howard will attend the 12th Biennial Hemingway Conference (Hemingway in Andalusia) in Malaga and Ronda (Spain) at the end of June. He will present a paper on “Imitating Hemingway at Mid-
Century.”
Leslie Crowell, our M.A., has been accepted into the Ph.D. program at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with full tuition waiver, $16,000 TA, and an additional $4,000 fellowship. She is also a finalist for the Baym Fellowship, which would support her for her first year with no teaching duties. She had other offers, including $20,000 from U Connecticut.
Alan Lopez’s essay “Emerson’s Democracy: Ethico-Political Possibilities of (a more) Radical Democracy,” is forthcoming in a collection entitled “The Other Emerson”. Eds. Branka Arsic and Cary Wolfe. (Fordham UP).
Hilda Ma recently received the 2006 “Charles Davis Award for Best Graduate Student Presentation at the RMMLA Convention.
James Maynard has been selected as an award winner in this year’s Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching Awards competition.
Simon Joyce (UB English PhD 1993) is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Cultural Studies at William & Mary. Last December, he and his partner Jenny Putzi had a son, Sam Patrick Addison Putzi.
Wesleyan University Press has just published Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight, by Alan Gilbert (UB English PhD 1997), in which he discusses the work of Ben Friedlander (UB English PhD 1999) and Roberto Tejada (UB English PhD 2003), among many others.
The University Press of New England has just published Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging, by Dan Moos (UB English Ph.D., 2002).
Vic Verney has been writing steadily under a number of venues. He has been doing on-line book reviewing for "The Compulsive Reader" for which of late he has done reviews of W.P. Kinsella's "Magic Time" and biographies of Andre Malraux and pianist Bill Evans. The latter, both the Evans biography and Vic's stirring review, are must reading for anyone who loves jazz. See the following URLs.
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1178
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1101
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1099
Joewon Yoon (UB English PhD 2001) has left Sangji University for a tenure-track position in American literature at Korea University in Seoul, where she is editing a journal with Myungho Lee (UB English PhD 2001, now teaching in a tenure-track line at Kyunghee University) and Sungho Kim (UB English PhD 2000, now teaching in a tenure-track line at Seoul Women’s University).
Irving Massey chaired a session and read a paper at the April conference in Storrs, Connecticut, on “Cognitive Science and Literature”. The topic of the paper was “At the Limits of Language: Aphasia, Dream, and Poetry”. Other participants with U.B. connections were William Benzon, Patrick Hogan, Norman Holland, and Lalita Pandit.
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Neil Schmitz traveled to Portsmouth, New Hampshire on April 7 to receive an award from the Northeast Association of Graduate Schools as the best graduate instructor in the Northeast. Among the evidence cited on Neil's behalf was a list of Neil's graduate students dating back to the 1970s who are now in the profession in tenure track jobs. The current list names 33 former students, 45% of them tenured and 4 known to be full professors, though there may be more. That was only a small part of the citation for Neil, but it was enough for the NAGS evaluation committee. So, congratulations to Neil for that. A well-earned and well-deserved award, for which his many graduate students, present and past, are to be thanked.
Congratulations to Danny Hack for acceptance at the Summer Institute in Literary Studies at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina to attend the 2006 Humanities Center’s Summer Institute on "Middlemarch." His proposal, which calls for research into the “materiality of the text,” was successful in a very competitive field.
Samantha Kowal - who was awarded the George Knight Houpt Prize
for excellence in English studies.
Kristin Demaree, Jared Schickling and David Tolkacz – who was
awarded one of the Cook, Hammond, Loga Literary Prizes given to the
three best submissions in poetry, fiction, or drama.
Mark Maglio – who was awarded the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for fiction.
Jill Twist – who was awarded the Scribblers Prize for the best piece of
creative writing by an undergraduate woman.
Shea Bigsby – who was awarded the English Essay Prize awarded by
the department for her essay, “’Something likee Prophetic strain’:
Orpheus, Night, and Knowledge in Milton.” Shea will also receive the
Hildegarde F. Shinners Memorial Prize for a student project that is “a
critical treatment of a significant problem, theory, book, poem, or other
appropriate topic.”
Susan Hutton – who was awarded the Arthur Axlerod Memorial Prize
for poetry.
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Academy of American Poets Prize was awarded to Hugo Garcia
Manriques
Friends of the University Libraries Undergraduate Prize was awarded to
Alexander Tomljanovich
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Tim Dean who was promoted to full professor
Nathan Grant who was promoted to associate professor
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"RandyP. Schiff and Maki Becker were married March 13, 2006 in Niagara
Falls, in a small ceremony presided over by the Honorable Vincenzo V.
Anello."
Max Wickert and Katka Hammond were married on Sunday, February 26.