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The Dean’s Student Advisory Group invites everyone to Halloween with Humanities: The Folklore of Dracula and the Ghosts of OSU, 7:00 pm, October 24, R191 Mendenhall Lab. Daniel Collins, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, will present "Things That Go Bump in the Slavic Night: East European Tales of Encounters with Supernatural Evil," which will be followed by a ghost tour of OSU. An RSVP to 292-1882 would be appreciated. Contact: Shari Lorbach, lorbach.1@osu.edu.

Philip Brown, History: "Arable Land as Commons: Land Reallocation in Early Modern Japan," Social Science History 30.3 (Fall 2006): 431-461. David Brewer, English: review of Harlequin Britain: Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690-1760, by John O'Brien, Modern Philology 103 (2006): 559-64.

Philip Brown, History: "Arable Land as Commons: Land Reallocation in Early Modern Japan," Social Science History 30.3 (Fall 2006): 431-461.

Jon Erickson, English: "The Ghost of the Literary in Recent Theories of Text and Performance," Theatre Survey 47:2, 11 (2006): 245-252.

Wendy Hesford, English: "Global Turns and Cautions in Rhetoric and Composition Studies," PMLA 121.3 (2006):  787-80; and review of Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition, by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith, Life Writing 3.1 (2006): 157-165.

Pranav Jani, English: review of Postcolonial Narrative and the Work of Mourning: J. M. Coetzee, Wilson Harris, and Toni Morrison, by Sam Durrant, Callaloo 29.2 (2006): 682-688.

Erin McGraw, English: "California," (novel excerpt) The Kenyon Review 28.4 (2006): 49-62; "1899" (novel excerpt) The Southern Review 42.3 (2006): 520-529.

Koritha Mitchell, English: "Anti-Lynching Plays: Angelina Weld Grimké, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and the Evolution of African American Drama," Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919 eds. Barbara McCaskill and Caroline Gebhard (New York: New York University Press, 2006): 210-30

Christopher Phelps, History: an obituary of Morris Slavin (1913-2006), historian of the French Revolution, in Against the Current (September/October 2006): 43-44.

James Phelan, English, and Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg, eds.: The Nature of Narrative, Fortieth Anniversary Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).

David Staley, director, Harvey Goldberg Program for Excellence in Teaching, History: "Images of The Rise of the West: Cognitive Art and Historical Representation" in the Journal of the Historical Society 6.3 (September 2006): 383-406.

David Steigerwald, History-Marion: "All Hail the Republic of Choice: Consumer History as Contemporary Thought," Journal of American History 93:2 (September 2006): 385-403.

Dale Van Kley, History: "The Rejuvenation and Rejection of Jansenism History and Historiography: Recent Literature on Eighteenth-Century Jansenism in French," in French Historical Studies 29.4 (Sept. 2006): 649-84; "Piety and Politics in the Century of Lights," in Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, eds. Mark Goldie and Robert Wokler (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006): 110-43; and "Jansenism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits," in Enlightenment, Reawakening, and Revolution, 1660-1815, eds. Stewart J. Brown and Timothy Tackett, vol. VII of the Cambridge History of Christianity (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006): 302-28.

Susan Williams, English: review of Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People's History of the Mass Market Book , eds. Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray, Journal of American History 93 June (2006): 215

Margaret Newell, History, received a 2006-2007 Mershon Center Faculty Research Fellowship for her project on Indian slavery in colonial New England.

Dieter Wanner, Spanish and Portuguese, has been named the interim associate provost for international affairs. The appointment will be effective on January 1, 2007. Wanner joined Ohio State’s faculty in 1988 as a professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and served as the department’s chair from 1996-2004. He also served as the director of Graduate Studies from 1992-1994 and on several departmental, college and university committees.

During the month of June, the Community Extension Center welcomed six high school students to its Summer Residential Program on "Black Images: Sports and Race in American Culture."

Kevin Boyle, History, gave a guest lecture at the University of Michigan Law School as part of a course on public interest advocacy.

David A. Brewer, English, was part of a Summer Seminar on "Books and Their Readers to 1800 and Beyond" with Jay Fliegelman and Leah Price at the American Antiquarian Society, June 2006; and was part of a Summer Institute in Literary Studies on "George Eliot's Middlemarch" with Catherine Gallagher at the National Humanities Center, July 2006.

Brian Hauser, English, presented "Crime Scenes, Haunted Houses, and the Chronotope of the Traumatized Space," Space, Haunting, Discourse, Karlstad, Sweden, June 2006.

Esther Jones, English, presented "In the Spirit of Breaking the Rules: Spirituality, Technology and Genre Subversion in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring" at the Caribbean Woman Writer as Scholar Conference: Imagining/Theorizing/Creating, Hollywood, Florida, May 30-June 3.

Erin McGraw, English, gave Fiction Readings at the Sewanee School of Letters, Sewanee, Tennessee, June 13; Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, Sewanee, Tennessee, July 13; Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, July 15; and Sewanee Writers' Conference, Sewanee, Tennessee, July 20. She gave an invited lecture, "Tell Me A Story," at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky, July 16.

Debra Moddelmog, Humanities and English, presented "Telling Stories from Hemingway’s FBI Files: Conspiracy, Paranoia, and Masculinity" and moderated a session on Brett Ashley of The Sun Also Rises, 12th Biennial International Hemingway Society Conference, Ronda, Spain, June 26-30.

During the summer Lupenga Mphande, African American and African Studies, and Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies and History, traveled with a contingent of 14 students to Ghana as part of the Department of African American and African Studies study-abroad program. This contingent is the largest group of students from the department to travel to Southern Africa.

Margaret Newell, History, presented "The Origins of Indian Slavery in New England" at the CIC AIS Faculty Emerging Research in American Indian Studies Conference sponsored by the Darcy McNickle Center of the Newberry Library in Chicago, September 15-17

Christopher Phelps, History, presented "Race and the Constitution" for Constitution Day at Ohio Dominican University, Columbus, Ohio, September 19.

Richard Shiels, History-Newark, presented with Kristin Hayes "Discovering the Stories of Native Ohio" at the summer 2006 showcase at the Digital Union. http://digitalunion.osu.edu/r2/summer06/hayes/.

Mark Rankin, English, presented "God Sometimes Hardneth the Hearts of Good Princes: The ‘Undecent and Uncomely Behaviour’ of King Henry VIII in Foxe’s Acts and Monuments" at the Fifth International Conference of the Tudor Symposium, "Humanity and Barbarism in Tudor Literature," Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Hungary, August 5

"Visual Literacy" is the topic of the Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies, 11:30 am, September 29, George Wells Knight, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact:  white.1142@osu.edu.

Suriamurthee Maistry (University of Kwazulu-Natal) will present an update on education in South Africa at 3:00 pm on Friday, September 29. Location to be announced. Contact: Center for African Studies, 292-8169.

Teemu Iknonen (University of Helsinki) will present "Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Narrative Theory: Toward a Rapprochement," at 3:30 pm, September 29, George Wells Knight, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: mchale.11@osu.edu.

The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies is hosting its annual "Texts and Contexts" Conference, September 29-30, at the John Glenn Institute. Contact: 292-3280 or epig@osu.edu.

Michelle Herman, Sean Flanigan, and Kim Brauer, English, will participate in the Student/Faculty Reading Series, 7:00 pm, October 5, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Thomas Shippey (St. Louis University) will present "Magic Comes Back: The Inklings and After," 3:30 pm, October 13 in The Marvelous Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

The Humanities Alumni Society is hosting a Game Watch Party (OSU vs. Michigan State) on October 14. The party begins one hour before kick-off at the Ravari Room, 2657 North High Street. All are welcome. RSVP: Todd Hills, tfh715@ameritech.net or (614) 261-7110.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frances Fitzgerald will present "The Christian Right and the Ohio Gubernatorial Election," 4:30 pm, October 28, 20 Page Hall. Contact: Department of Studies and the Program in the Study of Religions, 292-2559.

Karen Bennett (Princeton University) will present "Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology," 3:30 pm, October 20, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

The Dean’s Student Advisory Group invites everyone to Halloween with Humanities: The Folklore of Dracula and the Ghosts of OSU, 7:00 pm, October 24, 180 Hagerty Hall. Daniel Collins, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, will present "Things That Go Bump in the Slavic Night: East European Tales of Encounters with Supernatural Evil," which will be followed by a ghost tour of OSU. An RSVP to 292-1882 would be appreciated. Contact:  Shari Lorbach, lorbach.1@osu.edu.

The College of Humanities is hosting the Faculty Recognition Reception at 5:00 pm, October 25, The Blackwell Inn.  Contact: Kelli Fickle, 292-1772; fickle.7@osu.edu.