Current News

Chadwick Allen, English: review of "Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern," by Joel Pfister, Studies in American Indian Literatures 17.3 (Fall 2005): 118-20.

David Cressy, History: England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640-1642 (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

Richard Dutton, English: "'Methinks the Truth Should Live from Age to Age': The Dating and Contexts of Henry V," The Uses of History in Early Modern England, edited by Paulina Kewes, special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly 68.1-2 (2005): 173-204.

Carole Fink, History: "Revisionism," A Companion to Europe, 1900-1945, ed. Gordon Martel (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), pp. 326-40.

Kenneth W. Goings, African American and African Studies, and Eugene M. O'Connor: "’Tell Them We Are Rising’: African Americans and the Classics," Amphora, Volume 4.2 (Fall 2005): 6-7, 12-13.

David Herman, English: "Wittgenstein's Legacy: Meaning, Metagrammar, and Ordinary Language," Postmodern Culture 16.1 (September 2005 [published January 2006]): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v016/16.1herman.html.

Christopher Highley, English: "’A Pestilent and Seditious Book’: Nicholas Sander’s Schismatis Anglicani and Catholic Histories of the Reformation," The Uses of History in Early Modern England, edited by Paulina Kewes, special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly 68.1-2 (2005): 151-172.

John N. King, English: "Guides to Reading Foxe's Book of Martyrs," The Uses of History in Early Modern England, edited by Paulina Kewes, special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly 68.1-2 (2005): 133-50.

Graduate student Kyle Minor, English: "Opening Ceremonies," an essay, River Teeth 7.1 (Fall 2005): 125-127; "Amateur Night at Parris Island," two excerpts from a nonfiction novella, The Black Table, October 25 and 27; review of Best American Non-Required Reading 2005, ed. Dave Eggers, The Columbus Dispatch, January 8: 7G; review of Consider the Lobster, David Foster Wallace,The Columbus Dispatch, December 19: 5B; review of The Areas of My Expertise, John Hodgman, The Columbus Dispatch, December 18: 7G; review of Lunar Park, Bret Easton Ellis,The Columbus Dispatch, December 9: 7G; review of The Disappointment Artist, Jonathan Lethem, The Columbus Dispatch, June 19: 7D; review of Vermeer in Bosnia, Lawrence Weschler, The Antioch Review, Summer 2005; and mini-essay concerning Wallace Stegner's "A Field Guide to the Western Bird," Beatrice.com, January 10.

Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies: The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005); and "Culture and Religion in the Slave Community," Retrieving the American Past (Boston: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2006).

The Department of English announces departmental and university fellowships won by graduate students during fall 2005. Andy Vogel, Erica Dawson, Holly Goddard Jones, Jolie Lewis, Marian Lupo, Dawn Simmons Walts, Jeff Slagle, Bernadette Vankeerbergen, and Sara Webb-Sunderhaus won the Corbett Fellowship. Michael Johnston won the Estrich Fellowship, and Esther Jones and Courtney Weikle won the Presidential Fellowship.

Graduate student Kyle Minor, English, received two honorable mentions in the 2005 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest, for fiction and poetry. He also received honorable mention in the 2005 Writer's Digest competition in the personal essay category.

Chadwick Allen, English, served on the national screening committee for the IIE Fulbright Student Fellowship program to New Zealand, December 1.

Alan Beyerchen, History, presented "Clausewitz: The Nonlinear Thinker between the Enlightenment and Romanticism" to the Chief of Naval Operations' (CNO) Strategic Studies Group at the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, December 9.

Robin Judd, History, presented "Antisemites Disguised in Humanitarian Garb: Jewish Rituals, Antisemitism, and the Creation of a German Citizenry" as part of a panel she organized that was entitled, "Painting Antisemitism Grey: Anti-Jewish Animus and the Formation of National Identities," American Historical Association Annual Meetings, Philadelphia, January 5-8.

Wendy Chrisman, English, presented "Resisting the Doctor/Patient Relationship, Or, Take Two and Call Myself in the Morning," Modern Languages Association Convention. Washington, D.C., December 29.

Norman Jones, English, presented "Absalom, Absalom! as Queer Christian Conversion Narrative," William Faulkner Society, Modern Languages Association Convention, Washington, D.C., December 29.

John N. King, English, was the organizer and chair of the program on "Pseudonymity and Anonymity" sponsored by the Division on Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare, Modern Language Association, Washington, DC., December 29.

Amy Shuman, English, presented "Parables and Allegories: The Limits of Empathy in Personal Narratives," Department of Folklore, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, January 4.

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.

Katharina Barbe (Northern Illinois University) will present "Whorf and Klemperer: Linguistic Relativity and Propaganda," in a job talk, 3:30 pm, January 20, 180 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 292-6985.

Hilal Sursal (University of Toronto) will present "A Defiant Turkish Woman Intellectual: The Poetry of Gulten Akyn," in a job talk, 3:30 pm, January 24, 306 Hagerty Hall. Contact: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, 292-9255.

Dov-Ber Kerler (Indiana University) will present "Beyond When All Is Said and Done: The Last Living Remnants of Jewish Culture in Contemporary Ukraine," 3:30 pm, January 25, 210 Main Library, in the Tenth Thomas and Diann Mann Distinguished Symposium Series. Contact: Melton Center for Jewish Studies, 292-0967.

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, 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.