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JF Buckley, English-Mansfield: "Literature, college," Youth, Education, and Sexualities: An International Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, ed. James T. Sears (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005): 527-531.

Kathy Fagan, English: "Strange Quiet: Jean Valentine's 'Autumn Day,'" invited essay for the Jean Valentine Symposium, FIELD 73 (Fall 2005): 19-21.

Helen Fehervary, Germanic Languages and Literatures: Anna Seghers, Erzählungen 1967-1980, ed. Eva Kaufmann, vol. II/6 of Anna Seghers, Werkausgabe, ed. Helen Fehervary and Bernhard Spies (Berlin: Aufbau Verlag, 2005); "Anna Seghers" and "The Seventh Cross," Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker (Westport, CT.: Greenwood Press, 2005), 645-46; 650-51.

John Guilmartin, History: "The ICBM and the Cold War: Technology in the Driver’s Sear," ed Robert Cowley, The Cold War: A Military History (New York: Random House, 2005).

Andrew Hudgins, English: "Johnny Winter," The Oxford American (Summer 2005): 64-66; "Fire and St. Francis," Reprint in Francis and Clare in Poetry, ed. Janet McCann and David Craig (St. Anthony Messenger Press: Cincinnati OH: 2005): 65-67; "In," "Out," "Blur," "The Long Ship," reprint in The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Pittsburgh, PA: Autumn House Press, 2005): 148-151; and "Playing Dead," "The Glass Hammer," and "Prayer Before Bed," Poetry 186.4 (2005): 287-89;

Robert Hughes, English-Newark: "Sleepy Hollow: Fearful Pleasures and the Nightmare of History," Arizona Quarterly, 61.3 (2005): 1-26; review of "At the End of the World: Text, Motif, Culture," ed. Rein Undusk, Trans. Tiina Randviir, Unistades Tegelikkusest, originally titled "Dreaming of Reality," Keel ja Kirjandus 48.08 (2005).

Thomas Ingersoll, History: To Intermix with Our White Brothers: Indian Mixed Bloods in the United States from the Earliest Times to the Indian Removals (Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 2005).

Alexander Stephan, Germanic Languages and Literatures and Mershon Center for the Study of International Security: Refuge and Reality: Feuchtwanger and the European Émigrés in California (with Pól O’Dochartaigh) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005); "Transatlantic Rift: The Emerging Clash of Cultures Between the U.S. and Europe," Occasional Papers. Department of European & Classical Languages & Cultures (Texas A & M University), (2005): 25-39; and "The Historical Context of the German Reaction to 9/11," America: Sovereign Defender or Cowboy Nation? eds, Vladimir Shlapentokh, Joshua Woods, and Eric Shiraev (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005): 13-27; and "Neues vom FBI zu Lion Feuchtwanger," Refuge and Reality: Feuchtwanger and the European Émigrés in California, eds. Pól O’Dochartaigh and Alexander Stephan (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005): 85-99.

Scott Schwenter, Spanish and Portuguese, has accepted a year-long residential fellowship at Stanford's Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). A CASBS Fellow, he only recently became eligible for the residential program; only 1% of the thousands of fellows become eligible at any particular time. The fellowship is in the top category of awards for selectivity and prestige in behavioral areas including linguistics. He is also the recipient, with Craige Roberts of Linguistics and Donna Byron, of one of the Arts and Sciences Grants for Innovation in the Arts & Humanities.

Alan Beyerchen, History, chaired sessions on Verwissenschaftlichungsprozesse in der deutschen Gesellschaft nach 1945 and on Integration: Legende und Wirklichkeit in der Fruehphase der Bundesrepublik Deutschland at the German Studies Association annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 29-October 2.

David Cressy, History, presented the plenary address on "The Gunpowder Plot of 1605: Contested Memory and Changing Performance" at a conference on "Early Modern Terrorism" at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, November 5.

Kathy Fagan, English, did a Sturm Residency in Poetry (graduate workshops and public reading), West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, October 10-14.

Alan Gallay, History, served on the program committee for a conference, "Ottoman and Atlantic Empires in the Early Modern World," Istanbul, Turkey, October 19-21; he also chaired a workshop session, "Discovery and Observation."

Harvey J. Graff, English and History, organized, chaired a roundtable, and commented on the new book by Margaret O’Mara, Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004) at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Portland, Oregon, November 3-6.

Andrew Hudgins, English, gave poetry readings and taught classes at Hollins Writers' Conference, Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, June 12-18; San Juan Writing Workshop, Ouray, Colorado, July 18-21; The Glen Workshop, St. Johns' College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 31-August 6; and gave a poetry reading at the National Book Festival, sponsored by the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC. He served on the Panel of Readers for the National Endowment for the Arts' Operation Homecoming and evaluated manuscripts for the Operation Homecoming anthology, Summer 2005.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, History, presented "Heart of Dixie: The Black Freedom Struggle in Lowndes County, Alabama," at the American Studies Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 3-6.

Karen Leick, English, presented "Pierre Balmain, Gertrude Stein, and Alice B. Toklas: from 'Fashionable' to 'Classic,'" Modernist Studies Association Seventh Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 3-6.

Galey Modan, English, presented "Claiming Space: Discourse, Gender, and the Politics of Urban Identity," Critical Geography Mini-Conference, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, October 2005; "Gentrification, Politics, and Semantic Shift: Variation and Change in the Meanings of ‘Diversity,’" New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV), New York University, New York, October 2005; and "Depoliticizing Diversity in US Public Discourse," 9th Annual International Pragmatics Association Conference, Riva del Garda, Italy, July 2005.

Alexander Stephan, Germanic Languages and Literatures and Mershon Center for the Study of International Security, presented "Left Behind: Popular Culture, religiöser Fundamentalismus und Politik in den USA des George W. Bush" [Left Behind: Popular Culture Religious Fundamentalism, and Politics in the U.S. of George W. Bush] at SWF Südwest Fernsehen, Germany, September18, re-broadcasted 3Sat, Germany, September 25; "Anti-Americanism in Comparative Historical Perspective," at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2005; and "Religiöser Fundamentalismus und Politik in den USA heute," [Religious Fundamentalism and Politics in the U.S. today] at the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut/Carl-Schurz-Haus, Freiburg, Germany, June 2005; and Culture Clash? Die USA, Deutschland und Europa nach dem Ende des Kalten Krieges," [Culture Clash? The U.S., Germany, and Europe after the End of the Cold War] at the Kulturzentrum der Aktion Lebensqualität, Munich, Germany, June 2005; and "Left Behind: Popular Culture, religiöser Fundamentalismus und Politik in den USA des George W. Bush" [Left Behind: Popular Culture, Religious Fundamentalism, and Politics in the U.S. of George W. Bush] at the Literaturforum, Berlin, Germany, May 2005.

Panelists Steve Acker (TELR; Communications/Journalism), Henry Fields (Dentistry/Orthodontics), Carol Gill (Art/Design), Blaine Lilly (Engineering), and Paul Nini (Art/Design) will present "Design(ing) Literacy and Learning: Spatial and Kinetic Domains," 4:00 pm, November 10, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the OSU Literacy Studies Working Group of The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. Contact: lantz.38@osu.edu or 688-0265.

Matt Goldish, History, will present "Sephardic Life After 1492," in the College of Humanities’ first Inaugural Lecture of the academic year, 4:30 pm, November 15, OSU Faculty Club. After the Iberian Jews (Sepharadim) were expelled from Spain and Portugal at the end of the fifteenth century, they were scattered across the Ottoman Empire and parts of Western Europe. Narratives of their lives over the following centuries can be found in an unexpected source: the responsa, or legal questions asked of rabbis with their responses. Hundreds of responsa collections from the Sephardic world have been preserved; selections from some of these will be discussed. RSVP: 292-1882.

Nina Berman, Comparative Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures, will present "Whose Islam is it? Thoughts on Lalla Essaydi's Images of Women and Children," 7:00 pm, November 17, in conjunction with the "Lalla Essaydi: Converging Territories" exhibition, Columbus Museum of Art. The Big Picture is a series of talks and panel discussions by Ohio State and other faculty about Museum exhibitions. Major funding for this year's series is provided by the Fifth Third Foundation. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Gregg Orr will give a Poetry/Nonfiction Reading, 7:00 pm, November 17, 311 Denney Hall. Sponsored by the ADA Office. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Robert C. Darnton (Princeton University) will present "Mlle Bonafon and the Private Life of Louis XV: Communication Circuits in 18^th Century Paris," 4:00 pm, November 18, 180 Hagerty Hall, for the George R. Havens Lecture. Contact: Department of French and Italian, 292-4938.

Erin McGraw, English, will present "Invented Language: Creating Historical Dialogue," in the College of Humanities’ second Inaugural Lecture of the academic year, 4:30 pm, November 29, OSU Faculty Club. Novelists writing about the past face a number of issues. One of the most complex is the creation of dialogue between characters that does the narrative and psychological work that will satisfy contemporary readers, while maintaining the illusion of historicity. Looking at examples and analyzing the choices represented in language and subject, this discussion will focus on some of the ways writers shape dialogue that represents the past without attempting directly to recreate it. RSVP: 292-1882.