Current News

JF Buckley, English, and Mollie V. Blackburn: "Teaching Queer-Inclusive English Language Arts, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy 49:3 (2005): 202-212.

Graduate student Anne Collinson, History: "The Fluid Border: Children Crossing Borders in the Americas" in Women and Environments International Magazine, Special Issue on Feminism, Transnationality, and the Nation, 68/69 (2005) Fall/Winter: 25-28.

Wendy Hesford, English (with Jenny Barker and Amy Locklin): "Women on the Rise: Literacy Partnerships," Service-Learning: Intercommunity and Interdisciplinary Explorations, eds. Mac Bellner and John Pomery (Indianapolis, IN: University of Indianapolis Press, 2005): 167-187.

Terence Odlin, English: "Cross-Linguistic Influence and Conceptual Transfer: What are the Concepts?" Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 25 (2005): 3-25.

Graduate student Alison Efford, History, received an SSHA-Rockefeller Graduate Student Award to present "German Immigrants and American Citizenship during Reconstruction" at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Portland, Oregon, November 3-6.

Carole Fink, History, was awarded the 2005 George Luis Beer Prize from the American Historical Association for her book, Defending the Rights of Others: The Great Powers, the Jews, and International Minority Protection, 1878-1938.

Jane Hathaway, History, has been elected to a three-year term (2006-09) on the American Historical Association’s Professional Division.

Graduate student Mariah Hudson, History, received an SSHA-Rockefeller Graduate Student Award to present "Fatal Reforms: The Effect of Public Health Reforms on Mortality in Cleveland, 1845-1861" at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association, Portland, Oregon, November 3-6.

Sebastian Knowles, English, was named the University of Antwerp's Best Professor of the Year for 2004-2005.

Graduate student John Maass, History, has been named assistant editor of The Journal of Backcountry Studies, an on-line journal through the University of North Carolina-Greensboro and other organizations.

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Aesthetics, Human Dignity, and the Ownership of Expressive Culture," Newark Earthworks Day, OSU at Newark, October 22; was a panel speaker for "Reparations and Repatriation: Ethical, Political and Legal Issues Facing Displaced Populations," OSU Hillel Graduate and Professionals World Issues Forum, November 8; and served on the national screening committee for IIE Senior Fulbright Fellowships to Australia and New Zealand, October 28.

Graduate student Valerie Emanoil, History, presented "Widow's Property Holdings in Late Medieval London Wills" at the Southern Conference on British Studies, at the Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-5.

Graduate student Cheryl Hindrichs, English, presented "Modernism Beyond the Blitz?: Writing in the Interval," Modernist Studies Association Seventh Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 3-6.

Terence Odlin, English, presented "Two Thousand Years of Language History in Scotland: Will Multilingualism Return?" English-Speaking Union, Columbus, Ohio, October 19; "Semantic Typology and English," University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, August 22; with Scott Jarvis, Gabriela Castañeda-Jiménez, Cristina Alonso-Vázquez, Laura Sanchez Perez, "On the Use of L1 Word Order in Early L2 Syntax," Second Language Research Forum, Columbia University, New York, October 9; and with Cristina Alonso-Vázquez, "The Spanish Piropo as a Problem for Contrastive Pragmatics," International Association of Applied Linguistics, Madison Wisconsin, July 28.

Pranav Jani, English, presented "Bodies at Work: Representations of Workers and Peasants in Postcolonial Fiction," North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, October 2005.

Christopher Reed, History, chaired the panel "Planting the Seeds of Revolution: Modern Educators and China's Revolutionary Transformation, 1910-49" and presented comments on the papers at the 47th annual Association for Chinese Studies conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, October 21-23.

Carole Rogel, History, chaired the panel "New Research by Young Scholars in Slovene Studies: the Kozolec, the EMU, and Clitics," and was a discussant on the panel "So Close Yet So Apart: Western Slavs Viewing Russia, 1809-1913," at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies convention, Salt Lake City, November 6.

Graduate student Jefferson Slagle, English, presented "The Body Authentic: William S. Hart and Western Stardom," American Studies Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, November 4-6; and "'Enter the Man': Authenticity and Display in The Virginian," Western Literature Association 2005 Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California, October 19-22.

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.

Composer Jonathan Leshnoff and violinist Charles Wetherbee will present "Composing in a Jewish Idiom: A Lecture/Demonstration," 7:00 pm, November 17, Hagerty Hall, in the Jewish Music, East & West series. Contact: Melton Center for Jewish Studies, 292-0967.

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.