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University at Buffalo Department of English September, 2006
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University at Buffalo Department of English September, 2006
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
DEPARTMENT MEETING
Wednesday, August 30…..11:00 a.m
306 Clemens
Dimitri Anastospolous
Tuesday, September 5…..2:00 p.m.
306 Clemens
Reading
Reception to follow
Buffalo Film Seminars
Tuesday, September 5…….7:00 p.m.
M.C. Cooper and E. B. Schoedsack KING KONG 1933
Marta Werner
Thursday, September 7………….3:30 p.m.
436 Clemens Hall
“Emily Dickinson’s Futures: ‘Unqualified to Scan.’”
Poetics Program Group Reading
Friday, September 8………… 8:00 a.m.
Rust Belt Books
202 Allen St.
Buffalo Film Seminars
Tuesday, September 12…….7:00 p.m.
Michael Curtiz MILDRED PIERCE 1945
English Faculty Seminar: Diane Christian
“Scholarly Voice: The History of Ideas Approach”
Friday, September 15, 2006………2:00 p.m.
436 Clemens
Susan Howe
Sunday, September 17………….2:00 p.m.
Reading
Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Buffalo State College
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa
poetry/memoir/travel writing (reading in conjunction with the visit of the Dalai Lama)
Tuesday, September 19, 2006…..10:30 a.m.
420 Capen
Robert von Hallberg
Thursday, September 21………3:30 p.m.
436 Clemens
“Emerson as Poet-Critic”
Elisa New
Monday, September 25…………….4:00 p.m.
Poetry Collection………….420 Capen
“Fearing New Englandly: Getting Lost in the Woods as Primal Scene”
Charles Bernstein
Tuesday, September 26…………..3:30 p.m.
436 Clemens
“Robert Creeley and the Persistence of American Poetry”
Buffalo Film Seminars
Tuesday, September 26…….7:00 p.m.
Howard Hawks THE BIG SLEEP 1946
Early Modern Reading Group Works in Progress session
David Castillo (RLL) and Randy Schiff (English)
Wednesday, September 27, 2006…….4:00 p.m.
Silverman Library……318 Clemens
Juxtapositions lecture: Sara Blair (Michigan)
“Ekphrasis in Black and White: Harlem Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century”
Friday, September 29, 2006……..4:00 p.m.
830 Clemens
Faculty activity
Nathan Grant’s chapter, “Mirror’s Fade to Black: Masculinity, Misogyny and Class Ideation in The Cosby Show and Martin,” appears in Progressive Black Masculinities, Athena Mutua, ed. (Routledge, 2006).
On May 27 Steve McCaffery gave the keynote address at "Lettres d'Amérique: Congres de 'Association Française d'Etudes Américaines" held this year in Le Mans, France at the Université du Maine.
He subsequently gave readings and talks in Paris, Birkbeck College, Unversity of London, the
University of Plymouth and Dartington College U.K. In early June, Crime Scenes, his 17th
book appeared through Veer Books, London England.
Ruth Mack held a visiting Research Fellowship at the Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington, Connecticut (June 2005), and was accepted to the
National Humanities Center’s Summer Institute in Literary Studies (July 2005).
David Schmid's article, "Idols of Destruction: Celebrity and Serial Murder," was recently
published in Framing Celebrity:New Directions in Celebrity Culture, ed. Su Holmes and Sean
Redmond (Routledge).
In recent months, David has also done consulting work for the filmaker John McNaughton (on
a sequel to Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) and the London-based documentary production
company, Yap Films Ltd. (for a documentary on 'murderabilia').He has also been interviewed
by C-Span's Book TV about his book Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers in American
Culture, a paperback edition of which will appear at the end of 2006.
Neil Schmitz gave a paper, “Reading Southern Rivers: Mark Twain’s Mississippi, Cormac McCarthy’s Tennessee,” at the annual conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and the Environment, Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria, April 28-May 1, 2006.
Neil also gave a paper on “Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, and the Sequels” at the NEH Summer Workshop held at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, July 11-13, 2006.
Neil’s essay, “Doing The Gettysburg Address: Jefferson/Calhoun/Lincoln/King,” is in the Summer 2006 issue of the Arizona Quarterly.
On Saturday, April 8, 2006, Chris Leise was awarded "The Outstanding Paper Presented by a
Graduate Student at the College English Association’s Annual Conference." The conference was held in San Antonio, TX, and the
paper was called "Captivity and Candybars: The Puritan Captivity Narrative and Slaughterhouse-Five."
The English Department was very well-represented at the third biennial graduate student conference of the UB Institute for Research and Education on Women and Gender, Gender Across Borders II: Research Subjects on April 22-23. English Department graduate student presenters included: in the session on “Material Words,” Lori Emerson speaking on “Materiality, Intentionality, and the Computer-Generated Poem: Erin Moure” and Michael Cross speaking on Leslie Scalpino’s ‘Event Horizon’; in the session on “Claiming Bodies, Reclaiming Spaces: Women’s Political and Creative Resistance,” Susannah Bartlow speaking on “’Obscenity Is Catching’: Audre Lorde, Erotic Knowing, and Political Power” and Heather Bidell speaking on “Speaking with Forked Tongues: Language, Relocation, and Resistance in Native American Women’s Literature”;
in the two sessions on “Women and Male Culture in Early Modern English Drama,” Seon Young Jang speaking on “Women in the Law in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure,” Chia-ying (Carrie) Wu speaking on “Reinstating Male Potency: Multi-Scripts and the Queer Bodies in Ben Jonson’s Epicene,” Jongwoo Park speaking on “Female Subject in Male Disguise: The Transvestitism in The Roaring Girl,” Sonya Brockman speaking on “Munera’s Punishment: Containment of Female Transgression in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene,” Hilda Ma speaking on “’A Map of Woe’: Reading Violence and the Culture of Dissection in Titus Andronicus,” and Anne Marie Schuler, a UB English Department BA and MA who is now a Ph.D. candidate at Ohio State University, on “Virtuous Love and Vicious Lust: Florimell and the Embodiment of Female Chastity, Friendship, and Justice in Spenser’s The Faerie Queene”;
in the session on “Asian-American Resistance to the Gendered Legacies of Colonialism” Yasuko Kase speaking on “Over the Father’s Corpse: Daughter’s Subversive Mimicry in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dream Jungle, Mikyung Park speaking on “’Comfort Women’ and the Praxis of Justice in Art,” and Zhen Li speaking on “Inversion: Race, Gender and Nationality in M. Butterfly.”
Also participating as organizers, moderators or respondents were English Department graduate students Maya Mathur, Kyle Schlesinger, and
Kelly Wagers and faculty members Barbara Bono, Stacy Hubbard, and Susan Moynihan.
Yu Liu, Professor of English, Niagara County Community College was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2006-07. His project is Chinese
gardening ideas in the English landscaping revolution.
Recent UB English Department undergraduate (editor of “name”) and Comparative Literature graduate student Jessica Smith publishes her first book, Organic Furniture Cellar: Works on Paper 2002 – 2004. Published by Outside Voices and distributed by Bootstrap Productions.
Bansari Mitra recived a job at North Georgia State University. She received her degree in 1995.
A poetry collection by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure (Ph.D. 1992) has just been released by Final Thursday Press. Jim O’Loughlin (Ph.D. 1998) is the publisher. On a more personal note, Jim and Julie Husband (Ph.D. 1999) just had their third child, Ian Thomas. His siblings Nicky and Devin have been thrilled with him.
Peter Rizzo, an English major and a member of the Advanced Honors Program, was selected as a recipient for a Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation was authorized by the US Congress to honor Congressman Udall and his legacy of public service. The foundation awards approximately 75 undergraduate scholarships of $5,000 to be used by the winners for the next academic year.
The Department would like to welcome
Cristanne Miller from Pomona College, where she was William Keck Distinguished Service Professor and now is the Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature and Chair of the English Department.
Jerold C. Frakes who was professor of German and Comparative Literature at USC.
Rachel Ablow who was Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Rochester.
Steven Miller who was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department and now is an Assistant Professor.
Congratulations go out to
Tim Dean who has been promoted to Full Professor.
Nathan Grant who has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Hershini Young who has been promoted to Associate Professor.
Welcome first-year graduate students:
Ph.D. Students: MA Students
Jose Alvergue Elise Allen
Kevin Arnold Jonathan Crowley
Timothy Bryant Thomas Giamo
Prentiss Clark Charles Hartney
Jon Cotner Chris Hughes
Megan Faragher Josephine Mariea
Stephanie Farrar Cristin Murray
Faith Giordano Bethany O’Hara
Debra Goodman Brigette Taylor
Jae Cheol Kim Michael Torsell
Joshua Lam James Van Wyck
Henriette Recny Shaina Williams
Andrew Rippeon
Maki Sadahiro
Siobhan Scarry
To have information about your activities included in the next departmental newsletter, please send it to Barbara Pajda by Friday, September 29, 2006.