University at Buffalo                                        Department of English

Issue #1                                                                                                 September, 2003

Newsletter

 

 

 

 

 

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

 

Graduate Orientation Reception  

Thursday, August 21, 6 – 9 p.m.

Joseph Conte’s home    

532 Potomac Ave. (see back for details and directions)

Everyone Welcome

English Department and Early Modern Reading Group “Gender Week” Keynote Address

Elizabeth Harvey, The University of Toronto

“Sex and Lethargy: Early Modern Medical Readings of Spenser’s Faerie Queene”

Thursday, September 25, 12:30 – 1:50 p.m., 120 Clemens

PLEASE SEE ATTACHED FLYER FOR OTHER ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

EVENTS ON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 AND 25.
 

Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IREWG)

“Gender Week”  Major Events

(Please see attached flyer for a fuller listing of both general and Department events, or consult the Insitute web-site at www.womenandgender.buffalo.edu.  Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.)

 

Keynote Address

Sandra Morgen, The University of Oregon

“The Taxing State of Economic Insecurity: Gender, Race, Class and Inequality”

Monday, September 22, 3 – 5 p.m., 259 Baird Recital Hall

 

Connie Porter, Lackawanna-born novelist

Author of All Bright Court and Imani All Mine

Reading from her work

Tuesday, September 23, 7 – 8:30 p.m., Slee Concert Hall

 

A Matter of Respect: A Play About Sexual Harrassment

Performance and discussion.

Theatre for Change

Wednesday, September 24, 7 – 9:30 p.m., Mainstage Theatre, Center for the Arts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ritos: A Spanish language play on women in rural Andalusia, Thursday, September 25 and Friday, September 26, 7 pm., Black Box Theatre, Center for the Arts

 

Representative Louise Slaughter

 “Priorities: U.S. Health Care Policy”

Friday, September 26, 12 – 1 p.m.  Screening Room, Center for the Arts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                            


 

Faculty Activity

 

Barbara Bono has been named the new Director of UB’s Gender Institute (IREWG, The Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender) for a two-year term effective June 2003.

 

Carrie Tirado Bramen’s article, Speaking in Typeface: Characterizing Stereotypes in Gayl Jones’ Mosquito appears in a special issue of Modern Fiction Studies (Spring 2003) on “Fictions of the Trans-American Imaginary” edited by Ramon Saldivar and Paula Moya.

 

On 22 May Robert Daly read “Leslie Fiedler’s Coming to Iowa” at the American Literature Association convention in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  On 13 June he read “Networks of America: Assembling a Nation in The Linwoods” at the Sedgwick Symposium in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

 

Ordinary Language Criticism: Literary Thinking after Cavell after Wittgenstein, an anthology edited by Ken Dauber and Walter Jost (from Virginia) was published over the summer by Northwestern University Press.   A collection of pieces from many hands—Anthony Cascardi, Charlie Altieri, Marjorie Perloff, Billy Flesch, Martha Nussbaum, Stanley Cavell, the editors, and others—it proposes a non-Continental alternative to epistemically based models of literary criticism and so is largely a vicious attack on the variety of current post-modernisms.  Its neatly vituperative introduction is a rhetorical match both for the superciliousness of deconstruction and the arrogant moralism of cultural criticism. 

 

The Midnight, Susan Howe’s new paperback (with illustrations) has been published by New Directions Publishing Corporation.

 

Neil Schmitz’s “At the Stonewall Jackson Shrine” appears in the summer 2003 Arizona Quarterly.    

 

Mark Shechner’s newest book, Up Society’s Ass, Cooper: Rereading Philip Roth, has just been published by The University of Wisconsin Press.

 

 

Graduate activity

 

Amy Nestor received the “Extra Mile Award” from The Office of Athlete Academic and Student Services.  Amy had been working with student-athletes to help them become academically successful.

 

Christine Szymczak, MAH in English and Civil War Studies, will give a paper, “Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain and Irregular Warfare in Contemporary Civil War Literature,” at the West Virginia University conference: The Evolution of War and its Representation in Literature and Film, on September 18-20.

 

Alumni/ae activity

 

Yunte Huang (UB Ph.D.1999) received a full-time, tenure track appointment at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

 

Ike Kim, a recent Ph.D. graduate is included in the new anthology: Echoes Upon Echoes: New Korean American Writings, edited by Elaine H. Kim and Laura Hyu Yi Kang.

 

Going to Mills College in Oakland California to begin her full-time tenure track position is Juliana Spahr, a 1996 Ph.D. graduate.

 

Lia Vella has been appointed Director of the Division of Interpretation /Education at the John Day Fossil Beds in Dayville, Oregon.

 

 

 

 

 

WEDNESDAYS @ 4 PLUS

 

 

Barrett Watten

Talk: “Negativity”

Friday, August 29th……8:00 p.m……Rust Belt Books

 

 

Arthur Sze

Talk: “Truth’s Arrow: The Art of Translating Chinese Poetry”

Tuesday, September 9th

12:30 p.m…..538 Clemens Hall

 

 

Thomas Sayers Ellis & Douglas Manson

Poetry Reading

Friday, September 12th

8:00 p.m.  Just Buffalo’s Hibiscus Room

 

 

Kalevala

Talk: An Introduction to the Kalevala and the Process of Giving Voice to It

Tuesday, September 16th

12:30 p.m…..538 Clemens Hall

 

 

Andrew Levy

Poetry Reading

Date & Time: TBA

 

 

Leslie Scalapino

Talk: 12:30 p.m……438 Clemens

Poetry Reading: 4:00 p.m….CFA Screening Room

 

 

ELEVATOR: The Grid Project

Opening and Reading

Saturday, September 27th

8:00 p.m…..Just Buffalo’s Hisbiscus Room

 

Reserved: Placement record for 2002/2003: Tenure track positions: Elyssa Cheng, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan Logan Esdale, Chapman University, Orange, CA Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University Robert Lopez, Rutgers University, Camden Jim O’Loughlin, University of Northern Iowa Laurie Ousley, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY Kenneth Serwood, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Megan Sweeney, University of North Carolina, Wilmington Roberto Tejada, UC San Diego, CA Makiko Wakabayashi, Tokyo Gakugel University Joewon Yoon, Sangji University, Wonju City, ROK Non-tenure track: Stephanie Hawkins, one-year visiting assistant professor (renewable for up to three years), Wake Forest University, NC Ann Keefer, one-year visiting assistant professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing Josh Lukin, one-year visiting assistant professor, Temple University, Philadelphia, renewable for 3 to 6 years Tom Morgan, one-year visiting assistant professor, renewable, University of Tenessee, Knoxville Robert Zamsky, visiting assistant professor at DePaul University, Chicago, IL (renewable for up to three years) Fellowships: Sigi Jottkandt, Research Fellow (postdoc) at Flanders Research Council, Ghent University, Belgium, (2003-6) Susan Varney, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2003-2005) Other: Lia Vella, Director of the Division of Interpretation/Education, John Day Fossil Beds Mikko Tukhanen (Comparative Literature), assistant professor, tenure-track, eastern Carolina University  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The English Department extends a warm welcome to our new faculty member

 

Christina Milletti

 

We are delighted to have you among us and hope this relationship to our program is fruitful for you as both scholar and teacher.

 

 

 

 

 

We also welcome our first year graduate students:

 

 

Ph.D.

 

Campbell, Jennifer              Lee, Hyeonjeong                 Neubert, Holly

Cross, Michael                   Lee, Yun Jim                      Park, Jong Woo

Cross, Michelle                  Leise, Chris                               Park, Mikyung

Degabriele, Peter                Lin, Tzu-yu                                Speller, Trevor

Deng, Chiou-rung               Lucenko, Kristina                        Wake, Issei

Fujimura, Nozomi               Marguliet, Efraht                        Wick, Marla

Gorham, Crystal                 Maurer, Jamerson

Grabianowski, Paul             Miyazawa, Naomi

 

 

Master of Arts

 

Anyango, Mallory                        Goodman, Debra                 Morillo, Klara

Battista, Andrew                 Huang, An Chien                 Morse, Jason

Beard, Jessica                    Huber, Gary                               Ozog, Jesse

Bishop, George                   Idland, Michael                   Patrignani, Rachel

Bono, John                                 Lavalley, Susan                   Piper, Lissa

Caccavaio, Kathryn             Leonard, Heather                Shen, Ching-yen

Davis, Danielle                    Ma, Debbie                         Smith, Michelle

DelPiano, Steffan                        Malikow, Jason                   Sniffen, Alison

Emigh-Murphy, Pamela               Mautone, Michael                        Spiro, Lauren

Faubert, Candace                        Miranda, Matthew                       Testa, Geoffrey

Froebel, Jill                                Mire, Laura                                Zubrow, Alanya