Current News
March 10, 2006
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Jeredith Merrin, English: "Bat Ode" and
"Parasailing in Cancun, poems in "A Right Good Salvo of
Barks": Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore, eds. Linda Leavell,
Cristanne Miller, and Robin G. Schulze (Lewisburg: Bucknell University
Press, 2005): 184-187; and "Waking Up Wrong," Barrow
Street (Winter 2005): 66.
Graduate student Mark Rankin, English: "Literature and
History in Early Modern England," Reformation 10 (2005):
143-49.
Awards, Grants and Honors
Graduate student Audra Jennings, History, won the 2006 Truman
Library Institute Dissertation Year Fellowship.
Graduate student Kate Faber Oestreich, English, has been awarded a Ray Travel Award and a College of Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant.
Graduate student Kate Faber Oestreich, English, has been awarded a Ray Travel Award and a College of Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant.
Lee Martin, English, has won a 2006 Alumni Distinguished Teaching
Award. He has also won an Individual Excellence Award in nonfiction
from the Ohio Arts Council, and the paperback edition of his novel,
The Bright Forever (due out March 26), will be an April Book Sense
pick from the American Booksellers' Association.
Presentations/Service
David Brewer, English, presented "The Work of Attribution
in the Age of Anonymous Publication," "The Book" [the
Twentieth and Final DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-Century Studies],
University of South Florida, February 2006.
Cynthia Callahan English, presented "'Is That Your Family?':
Transracial Adoption in U.S. Culture," Black History Month
Program,The Ohio State University at Mansfield, February 15.
David Cressy, History, presented "Early Modern Space Travel:
England's Lunar Moment and the Man in the Moon," the annual Moritz
Lecture at Kalamazoo College, March 2.
Graduate student David Dzurec, History, presented
"‘Obligations Arising from the Rights of Humanity': American
Prisoners of War and Human Rights in the American Revolution" at the
Heroism, Nationalism, & Human Rights Conference at the University of
Connecticut, February 25.
Alan Farmer, English, presented "Structures of Popularity in
the Early Modern Book Trade," History of the Book Group, The Ohio
State University, February 24.
Graduate student Donald Hempson, History, presented "Lion's
Pride: Czechoslovakia at the Porto Rose Conference, 1921" on the
panel "Power and Discourse in Eastern European History" at the 2006
Midwest Slavic Conference, March 2-4.
Pranav Jani, English, presented "Not Your Granddaddy's
Realism: Postcolonial Narratives of Labor and Marxist Aesthetics,"
16th Annual British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference,
Georgia State University, Savannah, February 25; "Research in Asian
American Studies and Within Asian American Communities," 5th Annual
Coloring the Academy Roundtable, Asian Pacific American Caucus for
Graduate and Professional Students, Ohio State University, February
16.
Linda Mizejewski, Women's Studies, presented "Queen Latifah
and Josephine Baker: Race, Unruly Women, and Romantic Comedy," and
respondent paper, "Screen Couples," Society for Cinema and
Media Studies, Vancouver, March 2 and 4.
Graduate student Kate Faber Oestreich, English, presented "Alfred
Hitchcock's Rope: Murderous Homosexuality," Southwest/Texas
Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Conference,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 10; and "Dangerous Dressing in Matthew
Lewis's The Monk," Hawaii International Conference on Arts and
Humanities, Waikiki, Hawaii, January 11.
