Current News

Graduate student Yigit Akin, History: "Not Just a Game: Kayseri vs. Sivas Football Disaster," Soccer and Disaster: International Perspectives, eds. Paul Darby, Martin Johnes, and Gavin Mellor (London: Routledge, 2005): 95-108.

Hannibal Hamlin, English: review of Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by Richard Monette, designed by Meredith Caron, at the Stratford Festival of Canada (July 7), Shakespeare 1:2 (December 2005), 207-12; and review of John Donne, Essayes in Divinity, ed. Anthony Raspa, Renaissance Quarterly 58:4 (Winter 2005): 1449-51.

Jane Hathaway, History: "The Forgotten Province: A Prelude to the Ottoman Era in Yemen," Mamluks and Ottomans: Studies in Honor of Michael Winter, eds. David J. Wasserstein and Ami Ayalon, (Routledge, 2005): pp. 195-205.

David Herman, English: "Narrative: Cognitive Approaches," Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Vol. 8, ed. Keith Brown et al.; volume editor Catherine Emmott (Oxford: Elsevier Publishers, 2006): 452-59.

Wendy Hesford, English: "Rhetorical Memory, Political Theater, and the Traumatic Present," media review of Catherine Filloux, "Eyes of the Heart: A Play in Two Acts" and "Photographs from S-21," Transformations, Vol. XVI, No. 2: 104-117.

Stephen Kern, History: "The Impact of Quantum Theory on Causal Understanding" in Historically Speaking: The Bulletin Of The Historical Society, November/December, 2005.

Graduate student Ben McCorkle, English: "Harbingers of the Printed Page: Nineteenth-Century Theories of Delivery as Remediation," Rhetoric Society Quarterly 35.4 (2005): 25-49; "So Be the News Already! A Review of We the Media: Grassroots Journalism By the People, For the People." Currents in Electronic Literacy Fall 2005 (9): www.cwrl.utexas.edu/currents/fall05/mccorkle.html.

Dorothy Noyes, English: "Buried Treasure or Fairytale Verismo? Framing Sicilian Women's Stories," Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies 19 (2005): 331-343: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/marvels_and_tales/v019/19.2noyes.html.

Graduate student Mark Rankin, English: Religious Orthodoxy and Dissent in Early Modern England (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Libraries, 2005.)

David Brewer, English, has been awarded a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2006-07 in support of his current book project, "The Work of Attribution in the Age of Anonymous Publication."

Mark Grimsley, History, received word at the American Historical Association meeting’s round table session, "Were All the World A Blog: History Bloggers and History Blogging," that Blog Them out of the Stone Age received a Cliopatria Award in the category of Best Individual Blog. The competition in each category was juried by three historians. According to the jury awarding the prize, "Blog Them out of the Stone Age" "is the finest example of the application of a historian's passion and tradecraft in the new medium of blogging. It combines research, analysis and pedagogy issues with a keen desire to engage with the broader public."

Wendy S. Hesford, Engish, has received the Modern Language Association’s 2005 Florence Howe Award for her essay "Kairos and the Geopolitics of Global Sex Work and Video Advocacy" published in Just Advocacy: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation, eds. Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005).

Allan Millett, History, was featured in Mike Harden’s column, "Professor out to Make History in New Orleans," The Columbus Dispatch, January 10.

Nina Berman, Comparative Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented "World Literature or Literatures of the World?," Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 27-30.

Cynthia Callahan, English, presented "Orphancy, Adoption, and the Burden of Racial Ambiguity in William Faulkner’s Light in Augus," Adoption and Culture Conference, Tampa, November 18; and "Queering the Adoption Memoir: Dan Savage's The Kid: What Happened When My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant," Modern Language Association, Washington, DC., December 28.

Alan Farmer, English, presented "'If you haue the truth': Ben Jonson and the Caroline News Trade," Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, San Antonio, Texas, December 3.

Carole Fink, History, presented "The World Jewish Congress and the League of Nations, 1933-1939," on the panel, "European Minorities and the International Community in the Twentieth Century," at the American Historical Association, Philadelphia, January 8.

Susan Hartmann, History, presented "Rethinking the Waves Metaphor in Writing the History of the Women's Movement in the United States," American Historical Association Meeting, Philadelphia, January 5-8.

David Herman, English, was the organizer and chair of the session on "Language Theory and the Cognitive Sciences" and "Basic Elements of Narrative: Foundations for Interdisciplinary Research on Stories," Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 29.

Koritha Mitchell, English, presented "When All Your Safe Spaces are Small, Theatrical Spaces: Gwendolyn Brooks' Maud Martha," Modern Language Association Convention, Washington, DC, December 28-30.

Dorothy Noyes, English, was a discussant on the panel, "Rabelaisian Cultural Practices: Bakhtin in Mesoamerica," American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, December 1.

Michael Frisch (University at Buffalo, State University of New York) will present "Oral History and the Digital Revolution," 11:30 am, January 13, George Wells Knight House, 105 East 15^th Avenue. A light lunch will be served; RSVP lantz.38@osu.edu. Sponsored by the OSU Literacy Studies Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Wayne Wu (UC-Berkeley) will present "Attention and Agency in the Causal Order," 3:30 pm, January 13, 347 University Hall.  Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

Zsuzsanna Abrams (University of Texas) will present "What Do They Really Need to Know? Revisiting Communicative Competence in Computer-Mediated Communication," a job talk, 3:30 pm, January 13, 180 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 292-6985.

Brian Donahue (Brandeis University) will present "Mapping The Great Meadow: GIS as a Tool for Local Environmental History," 4:00 pm, January 13, 168 Dulles Hall, for the History Cartographic Working Group of the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities. Contact: Philip Brown, OSUHistoryProf@columbus.rr.com.

Robert Boyers (Skidmore College) will give a Reading, 7:00 pm, January 17, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Ruth Tompsett (Middlesex University) and Clary Salandy (Artistic Director of Mahogany Arts Ltd.) will present "Perspectives on London's Notting Hill Carnival," 4:00 pm, January 18, Drake Union.  Contact: Center for Folklore Studies, 292-1639, or Department of Theatre, 292-5821.

Georgina Dodge, English, will discuss the Forged Souls, Weathered Soles Art Exhibit by Brian Joiner, 5:30 pm, January 18, Columbus Recreation and Parks Cultural Arts Center’s Opening and Gallery.  Contact: www.CulturalArtsCenterOnline.Org.

Frank Wilderson III (UC-Berkeley) will present "On Political Ontology: Cinema, Reparations, and The After-life of Slavery," 1:00 pm, January 20, Frank Hale Black Cultural Center. Contact: Department of African American and African Studies, 292-3700.

David Klausner (University of Toronto) will present "Playing the Unplayable: Staging the Crucifixion in Medieval and Early Modern Britain" in the Anniversaries Lecture Series of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1:30 pm, January 20, 122 Main Library. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities invites you to its Welcome and Kick-Off event of the Working Group in Cultural Difference and Democracy. Presenters include Peter Shane, Moritz School of Law, "Building Democracy Through Online Citizen Consultation" Wendy Smooth, Women's Studies, "Institutions Responding to Difference: American State Legislatures" Pranav Jani, English, "The Multiple Cosmopolitanisms of Postcolonial Fiction"; and Philip Armstrong, Comparative Studies, "Radicalizing Democracy?," 2:00 pm, January 20, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15th Avenue. Contact: Humanities Institute, 688-0265.

David Neal Miller, Germanic Languages and Literatures, will present "Memories of the Present: Arthur Leipzig's New York," 7:00 pm, January 26, Columbus Museum of Art, in conjunction with the "Arthur Leipzig: On Assignment" exhibition. This talk is part of the Big Picture Series, talks and panel discussions by Ohio State and other faculty about Museum exhibitions.  Contact: Institute for Collaboratiave Research and Public Humanities, 292-688-0265.

The Center for Folklore Studies will hold its 4^th Professionalization Workshop of the year, 10:00 am, January 27, 308 Dulles Hall. The topic is "Research Design for Theses and Dissertations." All students are welcome. The Center also invites all faculty, staff, and students to the monthly Final Fridays lunch, immediately following the workshop. Contact: Center for Folklore Studies, 292-1639.