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Tate TimesDepartment NewsPhD student Joanna Luloff's story collection I Love You, Come Home Soon will appear this fall from Algonquin Books, the publisher of Sara Gruen's Water for Elephants and Brock Clarke's An Arsonist's Guide to the Writers' Homes of New England. As those of you who attended Joanna's reading last fall may recall, the stories in this collection explore the effects of the Sri Lankan civil war on a variety of characters, specifically dealing with themes of memory, migration, and displacement. Anand Prahlad recently received a Faculty Award from the Mizzou Alumni Association. He will be honored at a ceremony in October. Speer Morgan won the 2008 $1,000 Goodheart Prize for Fiction for his story, "The Big Bang," published in Shenandoah 58/3. Katy Didden has been awarded one of the top prizes (includes a $7500 monetary award) in the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry contest for her poems Perito Merino Glacier; String Theory: Pyramus and Thisbe; "Embrace Them All". (http:// www.dorothyprizes.org/). Katy has two poems ("Embrace Them All" and "At Chartres" in the March 2009 issue of Poetry. Congratulations to Alex Socarides, who has won a Gold Chalk Award, given by the Graduate Professional Council. Trudy Lewis has just received the 2009 MU Graduate Faculty Mentor Award. She will be honored at a reception later this month. On March 3, Jeff Rice gave an invited talk - "8 Mile: Networked Decision Making" - at the University of Illinois for the Digital Literacies reading group. Emily Friedman has accepted a tenure-track position in eighteenth-century British literature at Auburn University in Auburn, AL. Emily has recently returned from a fellowship at the Chawton House Library in England. Two of Sarah Barber's poems, "To a Ring I Lost Planting Bulbs" and "The Lawn Mower", appeared in the February 2009 issue of Poetry. During a stormy Spring Break, Aaron Harms presented his paper, "Revising the Patriot: Tracing Captain America's Iconic Status, 1941-2008" at the Public and Private conference hosted by Indiana University and The Ohio State University in Bloomington, IN. Scott Cairnsread from recent works at LaSalle University in Philadelphia and at Grove City College in PA where he also presented a lecture on "the poetic." He has new work appearing in Poetry, Ascent, Image, and Books & Culture. His new nonfiction book, The End of Suffering, now has a publish date of November, 2009, appearing from Paraclete Press. Scott was the featured poet on Poetry Daily on February 12, 2009. You can check out his poem at http://poems.com . Click on "Previously on PD" then go to February 12. Jessica Garratt's poem "Cogito" was selected by Mark Doty for inclusion in the forthcoming Helen Burns Poetry Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets' University and College Prizes, 1999-2008. Her book Fire Pond was released this month from the University of Utah Press. Alex Socarides recently won the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award and a 2009 Gold Chalk Award. She has received a Summer Research Fellowship to do archival work in Boston this summer and will be on teaching leave in 2009-2010 through a Research Board Grant. Devoney Looser has received an NEH Summer Stipend for 2009 to support her book project, Sister Novelists: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. She has recently published two essays. "Why I'm Still Writing Women's Literary History" appears in the "Critical Credos" cluster of the most recent issue of minnesota review (Spring 2009). "Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing," was included in the Blackwell Companion to Jane Austen, edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite. Devoney's review of Brilliant Women: Eighteenth-Century Bluestockings (exhibit and catalogue) was published in the winter 2009 issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies. While in residence at the Huntington Library this winter, Devoney presented an invited lecture, "Mary Wollstonecraft's Restless Spirit:, or, the Eighteenth-Century Author-Ghost," to the Southern California Eighteenth-Century Seminar. Recently, she participated in a plenary panel on "Refreshing Conceptions of the Other" at the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association in Iowa City, IA. In June, Devoney will deliver an invited lecture, "Eighteenth-Century British Women Historians and the Historical Novel," at the Comment les femme écrivent l'histoire à l'époque moderne (XVI-XVIIIe siècles) colloquium at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Université de Paris III. Trudy Lewis won a Graduate Mentor Award for 2009. She was awarded a residency to write for two weeks this summer at Norton Island, an artist's retreat on a remote island off the coast of Maine. Trudy's story "Mother of Animals," originally written for an Anvil/Lyre performance, appears this month in Drunken Boat. Trudy also guest edited the symposium "Out of Character" for the 2009 issue of Center. Stephanie Carpenter's short story, "Living Statues," appears in the current issue of turnrow. An excerpt from her novel, Doctor and Patient, received the David Diamond Prize for Student Writing at the 2008 Writing the Midwest Conference. Zak Watson has accepted a tenure-track position in Restoration and eighteenth-century British literature at Texas A & M University-Kingsville in Kingsville, TX. Zak has been a visiting assistant professor in eighteenth-century British literature in our department this academic year, having defended his dissertation this past summer. Wm. Anthony Connolly has been featured in a Mizzou Wireless feature on the Web. The piece, at http://mizzouwire.missouri.edu/stories/ 2009/virtual-conference/index.php, highlights his conference presentation in Australia this past summer. Anthony attended the conference virtually. Constance Bailey will be presenting a paper titled "What You Looking at Me For? The Black Comedian as Fetish Object" at the "Eyes on the Mosaic" Graduate Student Conference at the University of Chicago in May and the International Humor Studies Conference in Long Beach, California in June. The book, Troubling Violence: A Performance Project, co-authored by M. Heather Carver (MU theatre) and Elaine Lawless, was released in hardback this week, from University Press of Mississippi. The book's cover photo was designed by MU Art graduate student, Leonor Jurado. Haskell Hinnant's "Ironic Inversion in Eliza Haywood's Fiction: Fantomina and the History of the Invisible Mistress" has been accepted for publication by Women's Writing. He delivered a paper entitled "Elizabeth Griffith's The Delicate Distress: Amatory or Sentimental Novel?" at the British Women Writers Conference in Iowa City on April 2d. Sam Cohen is putting the finishing touches on two books that will be published in October, After the End of History: American Fiction in the 1990s (U of Iowa P), a study of the impact of the end of the Cold War on American fiction, and Literature: The Human Experience (Bedford/St. Martin's), a textbook for introduction to literature courses. Svitlana Matviyenko presented a paper "Translation, Topology, Transgression..." at the American Comparative Literature Association (ALCA) Seminar "Thinking on the Task of the Translator: Traversing Literary Belonging between Nostangia and Melancholy for Langauage in the Global Context." (Harvard, March 29-31, 2009). In April, she delivered a paper "Cyber-Prosthesis: What Is My Avatar to Me? What Am I to My Avatar?" at the University of Missouri, The Body Project conference. Then, she was honored to be a part of this year HASTAC conference program taking place at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (April 19-22, 2009), where she presented on teaching intermediate composition in Second Life (www.secondlife.com) in a wider context of her research (http://www.hastac.org/node/2109). Winifred Bryan Horner has the foreword in the festschrift for Theresa Enos, the editor and founder of the journal, Rhetoric Review. Horner's article, "The Roots of Modern Writing Instruction" is reprinted in The Norton Book of Composition Studies. In addition, Stories of Mentoring edited by Michelle Eble and Lynee Gaillet was published by Parlor Press and is dedicated "For Win" and has a picture of Horner's student, Gaillet, who is now an associate professor at Georgia State and, in turn, Gaillet's student, Eble, who is now an associate professor at East Carolina University. Sarah Hestonwill be in the Fall 09 issue of Hotel Amerika and received the 2009 Prague Summer Program Eda Kriseova Fellowship in creative nonfiction. Nancy West recently had an article on film adaptations of Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla accepted; it will appear in a new edition of Carmilla (Stanford UP, 2010). This summer, she will be delivering a paper at the international conference, "The Cultural Afterlives of Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes" (University of Hull, England) and leading a group of English majors once again to The University of Manchester for a four-week program. Noah Herringman has two new articles in print this semester. "Natural History in the Romantic Period" appears in A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age, edited by Jon Klancher (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 141-67. Another piece on the poet Charlotte Smith appears as "'Very vain is Science' proudest boast': The Resistance to Geological Theory in Early Nineteenth-Century England," in The Revolution in Geology from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, ed. Gary D. Rosenberg (Boulder: Geological Society of America, 2009), 235-45. In June he will give a paper entitled "Knowledge Work and the Proliferation of Antiquities" at a conference on Romantic Disorder organized by the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Liz Langemak has poems forthcoming in The New Orleans Review, Diagram, The Cimarron Review and The Journal, as well as an article on Robert Lowell forthcoming in The American Encyclopedia of Environmental Literature. Recently, she also received a full fellowship to the Wildacres Summer Writing Workshops in North Carolina. Having successfully defended her dissertation, she has accepted a tenure track position in Poetry and American Literature at Bethany College in West Virginia. This semester cfrancis Blackchild participated in Difficult Dialogue Faculty Development program. In January she successfully debriefed her comprehensive exams and her poem "Beyond Color. . .?" recently won the Association of Black Graduate and Professional Students Scholarship competition. She will spend June and July in San Marcos, Texas as a fellow in Texas State 2009 Summer Predoctoral Fellowship Program. Chad Parmenter presented "The Transubstantiated Word," a paper on the Jean Parmentier's work as a translator, at the 2009 ACLA Conference at Harvard. Later in April, he will be reading at Washington College's graphic narrative festival, along with Neil Gaiman and others. Writing Poetry: Creative and Critical Approaches, a textbook edited by Chad Davidson and Gregory Fraser, is now out from Palgrave MacMillan, and features one of his poems. Gilbert Youmans published an article, "'For all this werlde ryche': Syntactic Inversions as Evidence for Metrical Principles in the Alliterative Morte Arthure," in Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse, edited by Judith Jefferson and Ad Putter. Leeds, England: Leeds Texts and Monographs 17, 2009. He also presented a paper, "Optimal English Verse," on April 29 in Banff, Alberta, at the sixth semi-annual conference of Studies in the History of the English Language (SHEL6). Seido Ray Ronci will be reading from The Skeleton of The Crow at the Writers Place in Kansas City on May 7th at 7:30; he will also be reading/performing at The Artisan on May 14th--Ruminations of an Old Shaved Pate--a performance piece for voice and jazz trio. Chase Twichell's interview with Ronci, "Just Like This -- The Poetry of Zen", will appear in the summer issue of the Buddhist journal Tricycle. EGSA NewsEGSA would like to thank everyone who participated in the annual spring book sale, which raised a toal of $1,036 this year. The money helps fund graduate student professionalization and the annual Spring Picnic. Please congratulate the following 2009-2010 EGSA executive board and committee members:
Student Folklore Society NewsThe MU Student Folklore Society hosted Professor Amy Shuman of Ohio State University as the SFS invited spring speaker. Dr. Shuman visited MU on March 12 and delivered a talk titled "A Well-founded Fear: Political Asylum Applicants Retell Their Trauma Narratives" to a packed audience of 150 undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff. Shuman's talk explored the controversies and contradictions in the use and abuse of trauma narratives in the political asylum process of the US and the UK. Shuman's specialties include folklore, ethnic identity, social linguistics and critical theory. The Student Folklore Society's members annually invite a prominent speaker in the discipline of folklore to give a free lecture to the University of Missouri public. Graduate Program NewsThis year's graduate student awards were recently announced. Gregory Dunne is the recipient of The Richard and Ellen Ryan Dubinski Scholarship. The Elizabeth T. Barnes Memorial Graduate Fellowship for a publication or essay will be shared by Rob Foreman for his essay "Speak, Walking Stick" and Joanna Luloff for her piece "Documenting Memory: Hybrid Storytelling and the Question of Genre in Sebald's Austerlitz". The Harry J. and Richard A. Hocks Dissertation Fellowship has been awarded to Debbie Lelekis. Stefanie Wortman and Karen Laird received Dissertation Fellowships. There will be a ceremony to honor recipients of these and other awards on Friday, May 8 at 1:30 PM in the graduate student lounge. We hope everyone will attend to celebrate the accomplishments of the department's graduate students and toast the end of another academic year. The department is happy to announce that 24 graduate students have been accepted into the program. Areas of interest include literature, creative writing, rhetoric and composition, language and linguistics, folklore & oral tradition, native American studies, and Lancan/sexuality studies. Watch upcoming editions for more information on our new graduate students. |
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