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University at Buffalo Department of English Issue #1 September, 2005
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University at Buffalo Department of English Issue #1 September, 2005
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RACHEL ABLOW
Job Talk
“The Failure of Wuthering Heights”
Friday, September 2nd. …… 3:00 p.m. …….Clemens 306
GENERAL DEPARTMENT MEETING
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7th
11:00 a.m…….Clemens 306
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Faculty activity |
Arabella Lyon recently returned from a year in Singapore where she helped set up a new UB undergraduate program, one which, so far, has attracted students from 8 countries and promises to offer new international experiences to students on UB’s main campuses. While in the region, she traveled to Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, and China.
This summer she gave an invited talk on rhetorical authority at the Kenneth Burke Society. As well, two articles have come out since her return. Lyon’s piece, “Misrepresenting Missing Women in the U.S. Press: The Rhetorical Uses of Disgust, Pity, and Compassion,” appeared in Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Representation, edited by Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol. This collection is in Rutger’s important series on human rights and has received good preliminary reviews. Her biographical essay on Susanne Langer was published in Harvard’s Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary.
On May 18, 2005, David Schmid delivered a paper entitled “Mean Streets: Urban Space in Crime Fiction” at the Regional Sociolegal Studies Conference, held at UB’s Law School.
In addition, on August 22nd, David was a guest on the Glenn Mitchell Show
(http://www.kera.org/radio/GMS/), discussing his recently published
book, Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American Culture
(Chicago, 2005).
Howard Wolf lectured in five cities in the Slovak Republic in June under the
auspices of the US Embassy/Bratislava. His major talk, “Writing in the Shadow of the Holocaust,” was presented to Slovak Pen Club members. Other topics included “What Can an English Major Do In and For America?” and “On Creative Writing.” Professor Wolf gave a reading as well from his forthcoming novella, The Education of Ludwig Fried, as part of a conference in Presov. Jaroslav Kusnir, Fulbright at UB in Spring 2005, translated some of the work for the reading.
On August 6, 2005 The Mark Twain Circle of America Award for Service was presented to Vic Doyno in recognition of outstanding service to the study of Mark Twain and his works.
George Hochfield and his collaborator, Leonard Nathan, poet and emeritus Professor of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley, have been granted a Translation Award of $10,000 by the National Endowment for the Arts for their work on the (Italian) poems of Umberto Saba.
Scott Dalrymple, a former Ph.D. student, who conferred in 1997 had his book, entitled Time Mastery, published by the American Management Association. Scott now teaches at a business college.
The English Department extends a warm welcome to our new faculty members:
Damien Keane, Michael Sayeau and Randy Schiff
We are delighted to have you among us and we hope this relationship to our program is fruitful for you as both scholars and teachers.
and
Congratulations to Carine Mardorossian
who was promoted to Associate Professor.
We also welcome our first semester graduate students:
Ph.D.
Jacob Bodway Jacob Jewusiak
Sonya Brockman Margaret Konkol
Victoria Brockmeier Sung Ho Lee
Hee Jion Choi Zhen Li
Jeremiah Crotser Christopher Martin
Richard Garner Minna Niemi
Ryan Hatch Patrick Walter
An-Chien Huang Corey Werner
C. Michael Hurst Rebecca Wright
Master of Arts
Ann Breidenstein Aaron Lelito
Robert Brenner Jason Marley
Christopher Eaton Katherine Murray
Lisa Game Richard Owens
Hugo Garcia Manriquez Gabrielle Peterson
Erin Hoepfinger Rebecca Redman
Geoffrey Iovannone Holly Russell
Kimberly Jones Christopher Walters
Matthew Kendrick Stephen Warde
Erika Ledermann Marc Zagelbaum
Wednesday, September 7th ……….4:00 p.m.
Screening Godard’s Notre Musique
Center for the Arts
Friday, September 9th………..7:00 p.m.
What is Poetics?
Poetics Program Orientation
Rust Belt Books
Wednesday, September 14th ……….4:00 p.m.
James Longenbach
Reading
Poetry Collection
Thursday, September 15th ……….3:10 p.m.
James Longenbach
In Conversation
Susan Howe’s seminar – Clemens 412
Friday, September 16th ……….7:00 p.m.
Reading: Robert Halpern and Michael Cross
Rust Belt Books
Thursday, September 22nd ………3:10 p.m.
Elizabeth Willis
“A Public History of the Dividing Line: H.D., Freud,
The Bomb and the roots of the Postmodern”
Clemens 412
Friday, September 23rd ……4:00 p.m.
Reading: Elizabeth Willis
(Gender Week)
Clemens 120
Wednesday, September 28th …….4:00 p.m.
Reading: Michael Palmer
Poetry Collection
Thursday, September 29th ……3:10 p.m.
Michael Palmer discusses his work
Clemens 412