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The College of Humanities invites faculty members to attend the Faculty Recognition Reception, which will take place on Thursday, October 20 from 5:00 to 6:30 pm at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Frederick Luis Aldama, English: Brown on Brown: Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2005).

Chadwick Allen, English: "N. Scott Momaday: Becoming the Bear," Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature, ed. Joy Porter and Kenneth M. Roemer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 207-19; "Grateful for the Push: A Tribute to LaVonne Ruoff," Studies in American Indian Literatures 17.2 (Summer 2005): 71-74.

Nina Berman, Comparative Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures: "Ottoman Shock-and-Awe and the Rise of Protestantism: Luther's Reactions to the Ottoman Invasions of the Early Sixteenth Century," spec. issue on Edward Said, ed. by Friederike Eigler, Seminar 41:3 (Summer 2005): 226-45; and "Thoughts on Zionism in the Context of German-Middle Eastern Relations," spec. issue on German Orientalism, ed. by Jennifer Jenkins, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24.2 (2004): 133-46.

David A. Brewer, English: review of Nicholas Hudson, Samuel Johnson and the Making of Modern England, Prose Studies 26.3 (2003): 440-42.

John Burnham, History: "Where is Medical History Headed?" Versalius, 11 (2005), 2-3.

William Childs, History: The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Texas A & M University Press, 2005).<

David Citino, English: review of Roadside Religion: In Search of the Sacred, Timothy K. Beal (Columbus Dispatch, June 12: D7); review of How to Be a (Bad) Birdwatcher, Simon Barnes (Columbus Dispatch, June 19: D7); "Last Rites and Other Poems," essay (Columbus Dispatch, July 3: F7); review of Between Salt Water and Holy Water: A History of Southern Italy by Tommaso Astarita (Columbus Dispatch, July 31: D7); review of A Wild Perfection: The Selected Letters of James Wright edited by Anne Wright and Saundra Rose Maley. (Columbus Dispatch, July 29: D7); "Ladders," poem, Southern Humanities Review 39.2 Spring (2005): 125; "Ode to Bonobo," poem, Flat City Anthology (Columbus, OH: Flat City Press, 2005): 78; "Oldest Human Jaw Discovered," poem, Notre Dame Review 20 (2005): 61-2; "Watch," poem, Phi Kappa Phi Forum 85.2 (2005): 5; "Francis Meets a Leper," poem reprinted in Francis and Clare in Poetry: An Anthology, Janet McCann and David Craig, eds. (Cincinnati, OH: St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005): 19-20.

Alice Conklin, History: "The Ties that Bind. European Working Women and the Shifting Boundaries of Sex, Race and State," a comment in the forum "Empire, Migration and Fears of Interracial Sex, c.1830-1930" in Gender and History 17: 1 (April 2005), and "En famille" in the forum "Autour d'un livre. Frères et Sujets. La France et l'Afrique en Perspective, de Jean-Pierre Dozon," in Politique Africaine 98 (June 2005).

David Cressy, History: co-authored Gunpowder Plots: A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Nights (Penguin Books, London, 2005) and "Book Burning in Tudor and Stuart England" in Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 36, Summer 2005.

Richard Dutton, English: "Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama," Studies in English Literature 45.2 (Spring 2005): 481-532.

Graduate student Jason Gray, English: review of Mark Jarman's To The Green Man, The Journal 29.1 (Spring/Summer 2005): 124-25; interview with Richard Wilbur, The Missouri Review 27.3 (2004): 35-48.

David Herman, English: Prirozený jazyk k vyprávení [Narration in Natural Language]. Trans. Bohumil Fort. Edice Theoretica Book Series. Brno-Prague: Ústav pro eskou literaturu [Institute for Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences], 2005; "Histories of Narrative Theory (I): A Genealogy of Early Developments," The Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory, eds. James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz (Malden: Blackwell, 2005) 19-35.

Wendy Hesford, English: "Rhetorical Projections and Silences, review of Elaine Lawless, Women Escaping Violence: Empowerment through Narrative; Jenny Horsman, Too Scared to Learn: Women, Violence, and Education; and Chris Sattler, Teaching to Transcend. In JAC: Journal for Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric and Writing, 2005:785-798; "Human Rights, Visual Rhetoric, and the Trauma of Representation" (syllabus) Teaching About Human Rights, ed. Joyce A. Apsel. American Sociological Association, Washington, DC 2005.

Wendy Hesford, English: ed. (with Wendy Kozol): Just Advocacy? Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation (New Brunswick: Rutgers Univeristy Press, 2005); "Introduction" (with Wendy Kozol), 1-29; "Kairos and the Geopolitical Rhetorics of Global Sex Work and Video Advocacy," 146-172.

Graduate student Holly Goddard Jones, English: "Good Girl," The Southern Review , vol. 41, no.3 (2005): 582- 602.

Valerie Lee, English: ed. The Prentice Hall Anthology of African American Women's Literature (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2005).

Lee Martin, English: "Déjà New" (short story), Ms. 15:2 (Summer 2005): 78-82; "People Always Going To" (short story), Prairie Schooner 79.2 (2005): 75-79.

Erin McGraw, English: "Aiding and Abetting," review of Reynolds Price's The Good Priest's Son (Raleigh, News & Observer, June 5: 4-G).

Christopher Phelps, History: paperback edition of his 1997 book Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist (University of Michigan Press, 2005).

Karen Leick, English, has been awarded a Coca-Cola Critical Difference for Women Faculty Grant for Research on Women, Gender, or Gender Equity.

Lee Martin, English, has been awarded The Columbus Literary Award in Nonfiction from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. His novel, The Bright Forever (2005), is a finalist for the Great Lakes Book Award, Great Lakes Booksellers Association, Grand Haven, Michigan

Dorry Noyes and Amy Shuman, English, have been elected Fellows of the American Folklore Society.

Susan Williams, English, has been appointed to the editorial advisory board of The Bedford Anthology of American Literature.

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Comparative Indigenous Aesthetics," Maori Studies Seminar series, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, July 8; "Intellectual Sovereignty and Indigenous Aesthetics," Whariki Seminar, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand, July 27; "What Mana Wahine Maori Might Teach Us in North America," Indigenous Women and Feminism Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, August 27.

Nina Berman, Comparative Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented "’Anajekuja pasi na hodi, huondoka pasi kuaga’: On the Study of Germans in Africa," at Kenyatta University, Nairobi, July 19.

David Brewer, English, participated in a Summer Institute in Literary Studies on "Benjamin Franklin: Reader, Writer, Printer" at the National Humanities Center.

Alice Conklin, History, has joined the Executive Committee (three-year term) of the Society for French Historical Studies.

David Cressy, History, presented "When Did the English Civil War Begin?" at a conference on "Cultures of War/Cultures of Peace" at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California, September 10.

Richard Dutton, English, presented "Politics and the Context(s) of Henry V," Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association Meeting, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 4, and "Thinking Unthought Thoughts about Jacobean Theatrical Patronage," Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern Europe Conference, University of Keele, England, September 10.

Kenneth Goings, African American and African Studies, presented "’Humorous Images, Tragic Realities’: The Masking of Pickaninnies’ Nutritional Needs in the Old and New South," as part of a session on "Forming and Reforming Children’s Histories and Identities in the New and Old South," Third Biennial Meeting of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 6.

Harvey Graff, English and History, participated in the biennial meeting of the Society for the History of Children and Youth in Milwaukee in early August. He chaired and participated in a roundtable on the new book Huck's Raft: A History of Childhood in America. He also attended meetings of the association's executive board, on which he sits.

Stephen G. Hall, History, organized the conference panel, "African Americans and the Scientific Turn: Interrogating the Uses of Science among African American Intellectuals in the Nineteenth Century," and presented "Somewhere Between Science and Theology: Interrogating Martin Delany's Origins of the Races" at the 27th Annual Mid-America Conference on History in Lawrence, Kansas, September 23.

David Herman, English, presented "Gesture, Narrative, and the Construction of Place," the keynote address at the annual meeting of the South African Applied Linguistics Association; Pretoria, South Africa, July 2005; "Minds, Stories, and Their Interfaces: Narrative Theory after the Second Cognitive Revolution," an invited public presentation, University of Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany, July 2005; and "Description, Narrative, and Explanation: Cognitive Foundations of Discourse Genres," an invited presentation for a Workshop on "The Cognitive Modelling of Narrative Competence," University of Hamburg; Hamburg, Germany, June 2005.

Wendy Hesford, English, presented "Sex, War, and Global Relations: Burkeian Responses to Current Crises," 19th Penn State Conference on Rhetoric and Composition, Triennial Conference of the Kenneth Burke Society. July 11.

Sebastian Knowles, English, presented "Searching for the Extra," President's Convocation, St. John Arena, September 19.

Lee Martin, English, gave readings from his novel, The Bright Forever at Borders Bookstore, Columbus, May 7; Books and Company, Dayton, May 9; Lennox Barnes and Noble Bookstore, May 24; and Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Cincinnati, June 1. He presented "Thrilling Fiction," Ann Arbor Book Festival, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 21; "A Sense of Place: The Midwest in Stories," Printers Row Book Fair, Chicago, June 12; "Novel: Enhancing the Plot," and "Short Story: The Use and Misuse of Setting," The Columbus Writers' Conference, August 26-27, Columbus, 2005.

Susan Williams, English, presented "New Voices, New Venues: James Redpath and the Promotion of American Civic Discourse," Conference on "Histories of Print, Manuscript and Performance in America, " American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., June 10.

Ayun Holliday, will give a Reading, 7:00 pm, September 29, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Richard Dutton, English, will present "Not With a Bang, But a Whimper: The Gunpowder Plot & Responses to It," 4:30 pm, October 3, Faculty Club, in the Anniversaries Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495

Gudrun Loster-Schneider (University of Mannheim) will give a lecture in German on Medea at 5:00 pm, October 4, 388 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 292-6985.

Andrew Hudgins, Joe Oestreich, and Natalie Shapero will participate in the Student/Faculty Reading, at 7:00 pm, October 4, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Alan Michael Parker will give a Reading at 7:00 pm, October 11, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.