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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 7:00 pm [note time change] at the Columbus Museum of Art. RSVP 292-1882. The talk on "The Age of Armor" exhibit by History professors John Guilmartin and Geoffrey Parker following the reception has been postponed.

David Cressy, History: 2^nd edition of Religion and Society in Early Modern England: A Source Book (Routledge, 2005).

Alan Farmer, English, and Zachary Lesser: "The Popularity of Playbooks Revisited," Shakespeare Quarterly 56 (2005): 1-32.

John Hellmann, English: review of The Weekly War: Newsmagazines and Vietnam, by James Landers, American Periodicals 15 (2005): 226-27.

John King, English: "The Eighteenth-Century Folio Editions of Foxe's Book of Martyrs," Reformation 10 (2005): 99-105; "Literary Aspects of Foxe's Acts and Monuments," Foxe's Book of Martyrs Variorum Edition Online, v.1.0 (2005), "Confessionalisation, the Reformation, and the English Book Trade," E-colloquia 2 (2005), http://www.ecolloquia.com/ and "Reading Foxe's Book of Martyrs," University of Aberdeen, Scotland, June 3.

Charles Klopp, French and Italian: review of Nico Orengo's L'intagliatore di noccioli di pesca. in World Literature Today 79.2 (2005): 101; "La violenza collettiva e il senso del male nella narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi" in the special number on Guerre et violence dans la littérature contemporaine italienne of the Cahiers d'études italiannes (Université Stendhal, Grenoble) 3 (2005): 115-123; and "Fiction in Italy Since the Years of Lead: A Quarter Century of Top Novels" in World Literature Today 79, 3-4 (2005): 35-38.

Stuart Lishan, English-Marion: "Winter Count, 1964," Creative Nonfiction, Brevity 19 (Fall 2005),
http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/index.htm.

Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian: La France de Zebda 1981-2004. Faire de la musique un acte politique (Paris: Editions Autrement, 2005).

Allan Millett, History: The War for Korea, 1945-1950: A House Burning (University of Kansas Press, 2005).

Geoffrey Parker, History: 4^th edition of The Times Compact History of the World (Times Books, 2005).

Christopher Phelps, History: "Cannery Workers" and "Meatpacking Industry" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (2005), ed. Suzanne Oboler and Denna J. González.

Daniel Prior, History: "Tonyuquq's Humiliation and an Old Turkic Etymology," in S. Grivelet, R. I. Meserve, A. Birtalan, and G. Stary (ed.), The Black Master: Essays on Central Eurasia in Honor of György Kara on His 70th Birthday (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), pp. 85-94.

Karlis Racevskis, French and Italian: "Pierre Bayle," Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 313: Writers of The French Enlightenment I, edited by Samia I. Spencer (Thomson/Gale, 2005), pp. 25-32; "Voltaire," in Dictionary of Literary Biography vol. 314: Writers of The French Enlightenment II, edited by Samia I. Spencer (Thomson/Gale, 2005), pp. 194-212; and "Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Affinities and Dissonances," Research in African Literatures 36.3 (Fall 2005): 83-97.

Doug Ramspeck [Sutton-Ramspeck], English: "Bayside Correctional Facility, 1986," poem, Quercus Review: A Journal of Literature and Art 5 (2005): 69; "Confetti," poem, Cold Mountain Review 33.2 (Spring 2005): 16; "Gatorland," poem, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 3 (2005): 27; "Indifferent Light," poem, PERMAfrost 27 (2005): 60; "Rockmilk," poem, The Mid-America Poetry Review 6.2 (Summer-Autumn 2005): 62; "Theoretical Darkness," poem, The Sierra Nevada College Review 16 (2005): 56; "Where We Come From," poem, The Green Hills Literary Lantern 16 (2005): 220; and "Wild Dogs," The Gihon River Review 7 (2005): 20-21.

Martha Sims, English (with Martine Stephens): Living Folklore: An Introduction to the Study of People and Their Traditions (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005).

Phoebe Spinrad, English: "The Fall of the Sparrow and the Map of Hamlet's Mind" Modern Philology 102 (2005): 453-77.

Wynne Wong, French and Italian (co-authored book with Alessandro Benati and Bill VanPatten): L'Approccio processing instruction: tra teoria e sperimentazio, ne nell?acquisionze dell'italiano come lingua straniera (Rome: Armando Press, 2005).

Stuart Lishan, English-Marion, has been awarded The Orphic Prize for Poetry Book Prize, 2005, for Body Tapestries, due out in Spring 2006.

Lee Martin, English, and recent MFA graduates Juliet Williams and Matt Zambito have been named as winners of the 2005 Columbus Literary Awards. Each writer will receive a Greater Columbus Arts Council Grant to "encourage the creation of new work or the advancement of his or her writing career."

Dorothy Noyes, English, has been awarded the 2005 Fellows of the American Folklore Society Book Prize for Fire in the Plaça: Catalan Festival Politics After Franco (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003.

Thomas Ingersoll, History-Lima, was quoted in an article about the many important historical documents in New Orleans that were destroyed by the flood following Hurricane Katrina (Los Angeles Times, September 9; Chicago Tribune, September 9).

John King, English, discussed "The Making of the English Bible" on What's the Word?, a weekly radio program on National Public Radio, Summer 2005.

Laura Bartlett, English, presented "Feminist Pedagogical Strategies for Revising the Multi-mediated Student Body," Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, October 7.

Susan Delagrange, English, presented "Designing Digital Wunderkammer as Feminist Practice," Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, October 7.

Richard Dutton, English, presented "Not With a Bang, But a Whimper: The Gunpowder Plot & Responses to It," in the Anniversaries Lecture Series of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, OSU Faculty Lounge, October 3.

Jill Galvan, English, presented " Message: The Narrator as Medium in George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil,'" North American Victorian Studies Association, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, September 30.

Jared Gardner, English, presented "Gutters and Balloons: Notes Toward a Literary History of the Graphic Novel," an invited lecture, and participated in "Teaching the Graphic Novel" Faculty workshop, Laguardia Community College, October 3.

Harvey J. Graff, English and History, participated in the biennial meeting of the Society for the History of Children and Youth, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 4-7, and presented "The Process of Growing Up," Rethinking Child Development in Interdisciplinary Perspective: A Meeting Among Social Scientists, University of California at Berkeley, sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Child and Youth Policy," October 6-8. He is also on the Executive Committee of the organization.

Graduate student Henry Griffy, English, presented "The Work of Robin Hood Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction: A Case Study," Images of Robin Hood, Fifth Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, September 30.

Peter Hahn, History, presented "The United States and the Arab-Israel Conflict: The Future Reflected in the Past?," as part of the Sagan National Colloquium at Ohio Wesleyan University, October 4.

Graduate student Brian Hauser, English, presented "Forever Knight, Immortality, and the Body as Traumatized Space," Popular Culture Association in the South, Jacksonville, Florida, October 7.

David Herman, English, presented "At the Interface of Story, Sentence, and Speech Act: Role-Theoretic Frameworks for Narrative Analysis," Linguistic Association of the Southwest, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, October 9.

Michelle Herman, English, gave a reading in the Sunday Salon Series, Brooklyn, New York, September 18.

Wendy S. Hesford, English, has agreed to serve a one-year term on the 2006 CCCC Outstanding Book Award Selection Committee for the National Council of Teachers of English.

Sebastian Knowles, English, presented "Erlkönig" as a guest lecturer in Music 652 (Woliver), October 3.

Julian Markels, English, presented "The Search For an American South: From Stalin to Genovese to Faulkner," URPE Annual Workshop/Retreat, Bantam, Connecticut, August 21.

Lee Martin, English, gave a reading at the Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, October 8.

Allan Millett, History, was elected by delegates from thirty-six nations to a five-year term as vice president and trustee of the International Commission of Military History, Madrid, Spain, August 20-26. He is a former two-term president of the U.S. Commission of Military History.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented "The Singing Bone. Folk Voice in Bourgeois Narrative" and also organized the panel, "Voice, Narration, Narrative" at the 14th Congress of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, Tartu, Estonia. July 28. She taught a five-unit course, "Interpretive Regimes and Cultural Conflict," at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, September 1-9. The course formed part of "Religious Pluralism and Fundamentalism: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Religious Studies," a Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET), sponsored by the Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute. She will serve as core resource faculty for the three-year duration of the project. She presented "Maures, mutilés, et mâchoires à la fête de Caritachs de Béziers (1615-1656): la province figurée devant l'absolutisme," La cérémonie: entre le protocolaire et l'intime, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, October 7.

Christopher Phelps, History, has been appointed to a five-year term as Ohio chair of the Organization of American Historians Membership Committee. Additionally he published "Cannery Workers" and "Meatpacking Industry" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in the United States (2005), ed. Suzanne Oboler and Denna J. González.

Cynthia Selfe, English, presented "A Case Study of Women's Literacy in the 21st Century," Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, October 7.

Cynthia Selfe, Laura Bartlett and Susan Delagrange, English, presented "Wunderful Rhetorica: Feminist Strategies in Multi-Mediated Realms," Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s) Conference, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, October 7.

Phoebe Spinrad, English, has been re-elected as the Chair of the Committee on Academic Misconduct.

Heather J. Tanner, History, presented "Boulogne and the Mechanisms of Comital Power" and chaired the session "Origins and Identity in the Expanding Anglo-Norman World" at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds, England, July 12-14.

Graduate student Kimberly Thompson, English, presented "Robin Hood and Economic Tricksterism in Late Medieval England," Images of Robin Hood, Fifth Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Robin Hood Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, October 1, and "The Medieval Robin Hood: Good Yeomanry and Bad Performances," Ohio Medieval Colloquium, Shawnee State University, October 8.

Karen Winstead, English, presented "'I am so trobilled . . . with Crysten lawe': Conversion in Fifteenth-Century Saints' Lives." Invited talk. "Conversion: A Conference at Harvard University." Cambridge, MA. September 24.

John T. Irwin (Johns Hopkins University) will give a Reading at 7:00 pm, October 19, and present "Building the Virgin: Hart Crane's The Bridge" at 2:30 pm, October 20, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago) will present "The Savior, the Woman, and the Head of the Dragon in Late Medieval Music," in the Anniversaries Lecture Series, 1:30 pm, October 21, 122 Main Library. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

Russell Hamilton (Vanderbilt University) will present "Gabriela Meets ‘Olodum': Paradoxes of Hybridity, Racial Identity, and the Black Consciousness Movement in Brazil," in the Third Josaphat Kubayanda Memorial Lecture, 3:30 pm, October 21, 255 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 292-4958.

Philippe Borgeaud (Universite de Geneve) will speak on Mediterranean religions and cultures, 4:00 pm, October 24, George Wells Knight House. Contact: johnston.2@osu.edu

Morris Young (Miami University) will present "Literacy and Transformation: The Consequences of Conversion for Henry Obookiah and Contemporary Hawaii." 4:00 pm, October 25, George Wells Knight House. Contact: graff.40@osu.edu

John Koethe will give a free public Reading, 3:30 pm, October 25, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Katherine Burkman, English, and WOMEN AT PLAY will present their original, site-specific drama, "Woman in a Yellow Dress," at a home at 256 S. Columbia in Bexley on Thursday, October 20 at 7:30 pm, Thursday October 27 at 8:00 pm, October 21 and 28 at 8:00 pm, October 22 and 29 at 8:00 pm, and October 23 and 30 at 2:00 and 4:30 p.m. The play will also be performed at the Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad Street in the auditorium at 6:00 pm, November 3 in conjunction with the museum's exhibit, "Renoir's Women" (must have tickets in advance) and at the Riffe Gallery, 2:00 pm, 77 South High Sreet, November 6 in conjunction with the Riffe's exhibit, "Breaking with Tradition: Paintings by Ohio Women." Tickets for all performances $15 or $10 for seniors/students. Contact: (614) 457-6580.