Current News

Chadwick Allen, English: "Engaging the Politics and Pleasures of Indigenous Aesthetics, " Western American Literature 41.2 (Summer 2006): 146-75; and "Unspeaking the Settler: ‘The Indian Today' in International Perspective," American Studies 46.3-4 (Fall-Winter 2005) and Indigenous Studies Today 1 (Fall 2005/Spring 2006) [combined issue]: 39-57.

Graduate student Kelly Bradbury, English: "Idolizing Idiocy and Ignorance: Examining Images of Anti-intellectualism in American Popular Culture," American Popular Culture: Historical and Pedagogical Perspectives, ed. Seymour Leventman (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006).

Ray Cashman, English: "Dying the Good Death: Wake and Funeral Customs in County Tyrone," New Hibernia Review 10.2 (2006): 9-25.

Richard Dutton, English: review of Wotton and His Worlds: Spying, Science and Venetian Intrigues by Gerald Curzon, Renaissance Studies 20.4 (2006): 591-2.

Alan Farmer, English: "Play Reading, News Reading, and Ben Jonson's The Staple of News," The Book of the Play: Playwrights, Stationers, and Readers in Early Modern England, ed. Marta Straznicky (Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2006): 12758.

Carole Fink, History, co-edited 1956: European and Global Perspectives (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitaetsverlag, 2006) and also wrote the chapter "Cold War Culture and Politics in Europe in 1956," pp. 39-57.

Alan Gallay, History: "What Are We Running Away From?: Reflections on the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center," in Ohio Valley History, 6:2 (Summer 2006): 12-17.

James Genova, History: "Cinema and the Struggle to (De)Colonize the Mind in French/Francophone West Africa (1950s-1960s)" in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 39. 1 (Spring 2006): 50-62.

David Herman, English: "Genette Meets Vygotsky: Narrative Embedding and Distributed Intelligence," Language and Literature 15.4 (2006): 375-98; "Dialogue in a Discourse Context: Scenes of Talk in Fictional Narrative," Narrative Inquiry 16.1 (2006): 79-88; and review of Poesis and Possible Worlds: A Study of Modality and Literary Theory by Thomas L. Martin, Style 39.4 (2005): 491-93. [published in 2006].

Wendy Hesford, English: "Staging Terror," TDR: The Drama Review Journal of Performance Studies, Special Issue on Documentary Theatre, 50:3 (Fall 2006): 29-41; and "Documenting Violations: Rhetorical Witnessing and the Spectacle of Distant Suffering (as Pedagogy)," Teaching Rhetorica: Theory, Pedagogy, and Practice, eds. Kate Ronald and Joy Ritchie (New Hampshire: Boynton Cook, 2006): 93-113.

Andrew Hudgins, English: "Questions of Faith," review of "The Collar: A Year of Striving and Faith Inside a Catholic Seminary" by Jonathan Englert, "Peter, Paul, and Mary Magdalene" by Bat Ehrman, and "What Jesus Meant" by Garry Wills, The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer May 21: 4G; "The Joys of Christmas Day" and "The Starving Kids in Africa," Boulevard 22.1 (2006):155-56; "The Cow," "At Camp," and "Jim the Car," Poetry. 188.4. July/August 2006: 304-307; "In the Well," reprint in Poetry Unlocked: An Anthology Arranged in Themes, eds. Elaine Hamilton and Robin Farr (Queensland, Australia: Farr Books, 2006): 198; "That Certain Smile: A True Tale about False Teeth," The Washington Post Magazine, June 4: 19-18, 32-33; and "Seven Questions about Southern Poetry," ed. Michael McFee, Mississippi Quarterly: The Journal of Southern Cultures 58.2 (2005): 231-236.

Stephen Kuusisto, English: Eavesdropping: A Memoir of Blindness and Listening (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006).

Dorothy Noyes, English: review of Participating in the Knowledge Society: Researchers Beyond the University Walls, ed. Ruth Finnegan (Palgrave Macmillan 2005), Journal of Folklore Research Reviews August 29. http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=381

Doug Ramspeck [Sutton-Ramspeck], English-Lima:  "Afterglow" and "Beneath the Shagbark," poems, Roanoke Review 31 (Spring 2006): 13, 12; "At the Gate" and "The Open Bridge," poems, Willard & Maple 11 (2006): 26, 152; "The Covenant," poem, Bryant Literary Review 7 (2006): 116; "Distant Trees," poem, Pebble Lake Review 3.2 (Spring 2006): 152; "Drowned Boy," poem, Main Street Rag 11.2 (Summer 2006): 67; "Entropy," poem, Cider Press Review 7 (2006): 18; "Exposed Rock" and "The Myth of Ice," poems, Illuminations: An International Magazine of Contemporary Writing 22 (Aug. 2006): 55, 48; "Hillside Wraith," poem, Fugue 31 (Summer/Fall 2006): 83; "Liminal," poem, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry 4 (2006): 120-21; "Horse, Meadow, Horse," poem, Chautauqua Literary Journal 3 (2006): 63; "Little Fires" and "Quarry Lake," poems, Willow Review 33 (Spring 2006): 111, 112; "The Return, " poem, The Strange Fruit 2.1 (June 2006): 73; "The River," poem, Slipstream 26 (2006): 10; "The Water In Between," poem, Natural Bridge 15 (2006): 201; "The Offering," poem, Louisiana Literature 22.2 (Fall/Winter 2005): 33; and "Speaking of Rivers," poem, The Madison Review 27.1 (Fall 2005): 73.

Ahmad Sikainga, History, co-dited with Ousseina Alidou Postconflict Reconstruction in Africa (Africa World Press, 2006).

Nick Breyfogle, History, will be a Visiting Scholar at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University, 2006-2007.

Graduate student Matthew Chudnow, East Asian Languages and Literatures, won the prize for best student research paper in the Midwest. Given by the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, the Percy Buchanan Graduate Student Research Awards are given in four categories: China and Inner Asia; North Asia; South Asia; and Southeast Asia. Chudnow won the award for North Asia. He will be presenting the paper, "The Kiritsubo Chapter and The Song of Lasting Regret: Intertextual Dynamics in Murasaki Shikibu's Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji)," at the meeting of the Midwest Conference on Asia Affairs in Wisconsin in October. He wrote the paper originally for a course taught by Naomi Fukumori, his advisor, and hopes to expand it to a master's thesis.

Graduate student Glenn Kranking, History, received a second place award from the Society of Historians of Scandinavia for the paper "The Swedish Identity Crisis and Colonial Sweden: 19th Century Neocolonial Expansion and the Swedish Diaspora in the Russian Empire," presented at the 2006 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Conference.

Elizabeth Renker, English, was the recipient of a resident fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2006.

Robert Davis, History, was quoted in a story by Elisabetta Povoledo about tourism in Venice (New York Times, October 1).

Mark Grimsley, History, was quoted in an article about the importance for U.S. military officers of continuing to train soldiers about fair conduct in war, in an effort to prevent atrocities against civilians (San Francisco Chronicle, August 13).

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Theorizing Comparative Indigenous Literary Studies," Comparative Approaches to Indigenous Literary Studies Symposium, August 5, and "Indigenous Aesthetics," English Faculty Seminar Series, Auckland University, Auckland, New Zealand, August 9; and "Cross Cultural Native Research," Noho Marae Postgrad Hui [Gathering of Maori graduate students], Te Kawa a MauiSchool of Maori Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, August 12.

Morris Beja, English, presented "'All the Living and the Dead': Joyce and the Memory of the Dead," Moderator of session, International James Joyce Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, June 12.

Carole Fink, History, was Scholar-in-Residence at the Nobel Peace Institute in Oslo, September 11-15, and presented two seminars at the Forum for Contemporary History on "1956: New Interpretations," and "Ostpolitik: The Middle East Dimension," September 11-15.

David Herman, English, presented "Consciousness Representation in Narrative: Postclassical Approaches," European Society for the Study of English, London, England, August 29.

Andrew Hudgins, English, gave Poetry Readings at the Sewanee School of Letters, Sewanee, Tennessee, June 12, and at the Sewanee Young Writers' Conference, Sewanee, Tennessee, July 12. He was the Moderator for the Panel on Literary Journals, July 18, and gave a Poetry Reading on July 26 at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Sewanee, Tennessee.  He gave a Poetry Reading on July 14 and an invited lecture "Gladly, The Cross-Eyed Bear," July 15, at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky. On September 14, he gave an invited lecture, "Gladly, The Cross-Eyed Bear: Southern Humor and Religion," at The Wiregrass Museum and Wallace Community College's Faculty Seminar, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Dothan, Alabama.

Sebastian Knowles, English, presented "Heart of Blackwood's: The Millennial Number of ‘Maga,'" Fourth International Joseph Conrad Conference, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, June 2006; and "Siren Songs in Ulysses," 20th International James Joyce Symposium, Budapest, Hungary, June 2006.

Leslie Lockett, English, presented "Insular and Carolingian Interpretations of 'corpus' and 'res' in Donatus' Definition of the Noun," Fifth International Congress on Medieval Latin Studies, York University, Toronto, Ontario, August 2.

Lee Martin, English, was a Guest Faculty and gave a Fiction Reading at the San Juan Writers' Conference, Ouray, Colorado, July 24-27. He gave Fiction Readings at the OSU/Port Clinton Arts Festival, Port Clinton, Ohio, September 16; and at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, September 21.

Dorothy Noyes, English, served as Core Resource Faculty at a Regional Seminar for Excellence in Teaching (ReSET), and presented "Religious Pluralism and Fundamentalism: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Religious Studies," Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, August 16-23; "Voice in the Provinces: Submission, Recognition, and the Making of Heritage," Keynote address, "Prädikat 'Heritage'-Wertschöpfungen aus kultureller Ressourcen," Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie, Georg-August Universität, Göttingen, June 29-30. She was an invited speaker at a panel discussion, "Who's Creating Knowledge? The Challenge of Non-University Researchers," The British Academy, London, June 27.

Martin Ponce, English, presented "Framing the Filipino Diaspora," Invited talk, University of Washington-Seattle, July 17.

Elizabeth Renker, English, presented "Amateurs and Professionals: Joseph Crosby and Shakespeare Expertise in America, 1875," The Folger Institute, Washington, D.C., September 16.

David Stebenne, History, served as discussant on a panel entitled "United States Policy in the Vietnam Era" at the 28th annual Mid-America History Conference, held at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas, September 16.

Graduate student Michael VanDussen, English, presented "The Myth of Bohemia in English Religious Controversy before the Henrician Reformation," 7th Symposium on the Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice, under the auspices of the Philosophical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Hussite Theological Faculty of the Charles University, Vila Lanna, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2006.

Christina Grijalva (University of San Francisco) will present "Violence: Mediations and Mediations in Creative Spaces," 4:00 pm, October 9, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Co-sponsors include the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, CLAS, and CIRIT.  Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Nina Berman, Comparative Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures, will give the pre-performance talk to the exclusive U.S. performance of "Zero Degrees" featuring Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, 7:00 pm, October 10, Wexner Center. Contact:  Berman.58@osu.edu.

Thomas Shippey (St. Louis University) will present "Magic Comes Back: The Inklings and After," 3:30 pm, October 13, 100 Mendenhall Lab, in The Marvelous Lecture Series.  Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

The Global Impact of 1956 Conference takes place October 13-15. Co-sponsors include Departments of History and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Contact: Ann Powers, Mershon Center, 292-8535.

The Humanities Alumni Society is hosting a Game Watch Party (OSU vs. Michigan State) at 2:30 pm on October 14. The party takes place at the Ravari Room, 2657 North High Street. All are welcome.  RSVP: Todd Hills, tfh715@ameritech.net or (614) 261-7110.

Lewis Ulman, Humanities and English, Susan Metros, Industrial, Interior and Visual Communication Design; and Peter Shane, Law, will present a panel discussion on "Civic Literacy," 3:00 pm, October 17, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Literacy Studies Working Group. Anne Fields, Library, will moderate. Contact:  fields.179@osu.edu.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Frances Fitzgerald will present "The Christian Right and the Ohio Gubernatorial Election," 4:30 pm, October 18, 20 Page Hall. Sponsored by the College of Humanities' Program in the Study of Religions, http://humanities.osu.edu/news/general/nws10-02-2006.cfm.

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

Deborah Madsen (University of Geneva) will present "From Trauma to Narrative: Temporalizing Experience in Ethnic Literatures," 3:30 pm, October 23, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group.  Contact:  aldama.1@osu.edu

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, Chair, 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 gravely 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.

Theresa Delgadillo (University of Notre Dame) will present "'Seeing' Transfrontera Feminist Spiritual Identities in Chicana Prose, Photographic, and Cinematic Narratives," 3:30 pm, October 26, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group.  Contact:  aldama.1@osu.edu.

Singer, songwriter and activist Holly Near will present "Protest Music as Responsible Citizenship," noon, October 27, 120 Mershon Center, for the Cultures in Disputed Territories Working Group.  Contact:  horowitz.36@osu.edu