Current News

Peter Hahn, History: "The Suez Crisis: A Crisis that Changed the Balance of Power in the Middle East," eJournal USA: Foreign Policy Agenda 11:1 (April 2006): 26-29. (This journal is published by the U.S. Department of State in print and on-line editions and is distributed worldwide in English, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, Persian, and Chinese.)

Lee Martin, English: "Fire Season" (reprint), Five Years of Fourth Genre (Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2006): 259-271.

Jeredith Merrin, English: "Papliones," ABZ: A Poetry Magazine (Number 1, 2006) and "In The Night Kitchen," ABZ: A Poetry Magazine (Number 1, 2006), ABZ Press, Marshall University.

James Phelan, English: "On First Lines, Pride and Prejudice, and If on a winter's night a traveler," American Book Review 27.2 (2006): 8; review of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, eds. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szeman, University of Toronto Quarterly 75.1 (2006): 192-193.

The English Department reports that its M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and The Ohio State University Press have selected Morgan McDermott, a teacher from Lincolnshire, Illinois, to receive The Ohio State University Prize in Short Fiction for his collection of short stories Owner’s Manual. The OSU Press will publish Owner’s Manual in the Spring of 2007.

Brenda Brueggemann, English, has been appointed the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Gallaudet University.

Lisa Kiser, English, is the 2006 Humanities recipient of The Harlan Hatcher Memorial Fund for Academic Excellence.

Graduate student James Lenaghan, History, was awarded the Bishop Fenwick Burse to study at Oxford University in England during the Hilary and Trinity terms of 2007.

Graduate student Thomas H. Pruiksma, English, received a Graduate School Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Fellowship as well as an Office of International Affairs Graduate Student International Dissertation/MA Thesis Travel Grant to do research in India this summer. He will be working on his M.F.A. thesis, a book-length memoir about living in Madurai and gathering materials on the 20^th-century Tamil poet Subramanian Bharati, whose work he is currently translating.

Elizabeth Renker, English, is this year's recipient of the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring. She will be honored at the College of Humanities Baccalaureate on June 10.

The English Department’s Undergraduate Organization, EUGO, has selected Alan Farmer as the Undergraduate Professor of the Year and Erin McGraw as the Graduate Professor of the Year

Graduate student Kelly Bradbury, English, presented "Drilling Through the Rhetoric: The New York Times, Indian Country Today, and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge," Rhetoric Society of America Conference. Memphis, May 29.

Catherine Braun, English-Marion, presented "Navigating the Terrain of Professional Identity in the Age of Digital Media: The Case of Tenure & Promotion Policy," Computers and Writing, Lubbock, Texas, May 28.

Graduate student Steven Galbraith, English, presented "Sidney, Daniel, Spenser, and the Development of English Literary Folios," Book Consumption in the Tudor Era, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California, April 22; and "Spenser’s First Folio: The Build-it-Yourself Edition," Spenser’s Civilizations, The University of Toronto, Canada, May 18-21.

Ben McCorkle, English-Marion, presented "Rhetorical Delivery and the Remediation of Hypertext," Conference of the Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis, May 27.

Graduate student Aaron McKain, English, presented "'But . . . This is a Good Graph!': The Rhetoric of Political Science and What the Rhetoric of Political Science Can Tell Us About the Rhetoric of Rhetoric," Rhetoric Society of America, Memphis, May 27; "Narrativizing Pseudo-events in the News," American Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, April 14; and "The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen (But It Had To): Temporality and Narrativity in News Discourse," Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, International Conference on Narrative, Ottawa, Canada, April 9; and "Finding Authorization to ‘lance the boil’: Context, Content, and Free Speech Zones," Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Syracuse, March 18.

James Phelan, English, presented "Judgment, Progression, and Ethics in Portrait Narratives: The Case of Alice Munro's 'Prue," University of Bergen, Norway, May 3; and "Judgment and Progression in Kafka's 'Das Urteil." Colloquium on Franz Kafka, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, May 5.

Faculty and staff are invited to participate in the Humanities Alumni Society’s inaugural Golf Outing on July 17 at the OSU Gray Course. Proceeds from the event benefit the Humanities Alumni Scholarship Fund which supports Humanities undergraduate students. For details, visit the: College of Humanities Alumni Web pages. Contact: Shari Lorbach, 688-4532 or lorbach.1@osu.edu.