University at Buffalo                                        Department of English

                                                                                                                                      May, 2005

Newsletter

 

 

 

 

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

 

Graduate School Commencement

Friday, May 13th ……….1:00 p.m.

Center for the Arts

 

Phi Beta Kappa Induction

Friday, May 13th …….. 3:30 p.m.

Slee Concert Hall

 

Undergraduate Honors Convocation

Friday, May 13th …….5:30 p.m.

Center for the Arts

 

University Commencement

Sunday, May 15th ….10:00 a.m.

Alumni Arena

 

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT COMMENCEMENT

Sunday, May 15th

2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Student Union Theatre

 

 

 

DEPARTMENT MEETING

THURSDAY, MAY 19TH  11:00 a.m. 

11am – 12:15pm full department meets

12:15pm – 12:45pm lunch break

12:45pm – 1:30pm faculty will meet

 

Detailed agenda will be available in mailboxes and by e-mail Monday, May 16th

Discussion will include planning, mandated reviews, UB2020, hiring, search for a chair from outside, programming and speakers, curriculum and program reviews

 

 

 

 

 

 

faculty activity

 

Howard Wolf presented a paper at the Eight International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference (April 14-16, Hofstra University), “Fitzgerald’s Palpable Dream: The Limits of Urban Romanticism.” 

 

 

 

emeritus activity

 

David T. Bazelon, a renowned author and social critic, died May 2nd.  David taught in the Department from 1969 until his retirement in 1985.

 

Art Efron’s book, Experiencing Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Deweyan Account has just been published

 

 

 

Graduate activity

 

Congratulations to Barbara Cole, Jonathan Stalling and Roland Vesgo for being awarded CAS Dean’s Dissertation Fellowships.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

alumni/ae activity

 

Ray Federman has several books in France – but the new book that may particularly interest Federman’s former colleagues and students is My Body in Nine Parts. (http://www.starcherone.com/federman.htm).

 

 

 

undergraduate activity

 

Meghan Fadel, who last year was elected to the Omicron of New York chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, has been named this year to receive the PBK 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.”  It has a prize of $50.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DEPARTMENTAL PRIZES

 

 

 

 

 

 

                Meghan Fadel:  winner of the Houpt Prize for excellence and proficiency

                                            in the work of the English Department

 

                Meghan Fadel: Outstanding Senior Award, CAS

               

    Samantha Kowal: Winner of the Scribblers Prize for the best piece of creative writing by an

                                    undergraduate woman

                        Honorable Mention:  Anna Scime

               

                Devan DeCicco and Samantha Kowal: Winners of the Axlerod Memorial Award for poetry

                        Honorable Mention: Robein Jackelow, Anna Scime

 

                Cook, Hammond, Logan Prizes:

                        Samantha Kowal, Sal Viglietta, Christopher Drellow

 

                Sal Viglietta: Winner of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Fiction

 

 

 

 

CONGRATULATIONS

 

 

Bruce Jackson, Carine Mardorossian, Daniel Hack, David Schmid, Stefan Fleischer, James Holstun, Joseph Conte, Joyce Troy, Linda Bodgan, Neil Schmitz, Robert Daly and Stacy Hubbard

 

The above faculty and staff  were named for the positive influence they had on students at the University at Buffalo, as described in the Year After Graduation Survey of 2003 graduates.