Current News
November 30, 2006
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Sheila Bock, English: "State Jokes," The American
Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, eds. Richard Sisson,
Christian Zacher, and Andrew Cayton (Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 2006).
Graduate student Gunhan Borekci, History: "A
Contribution to the Military Revolution Debate: The Janissaries Use of
Volley Fire during the Long Ottoman-Habsburg War of 1593-1606 and the
Problem of Origins" in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum
Hungaricae 59/4 (Fall 2006): 407-438.
Carole Fink, History: "Turning Away from the Past; West
Germany and Israel, 1965-1967," in Coping With the Nazi
Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict,
1955-1975, eds. Philipp Gassert and Alan E. Steinweis (New York and
Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2006): 276-93.
Judson L. Jeffries, African American and African Community
Extension Center: "Blacks and High-profile Office: A Tough
Road to Hoe," Journal & Courier, November 14, online at
Journal and Courier.
Valerie Lee, English: "Lorraine Vivian Hansberry,"
512-513; "Paul Laurence Dunbar," 472-474; and "Richard
Wright," 493-494 in The American Midwest: An Interpretive
Encyclopedia, eds. Christian Zacher, Richard Sisson, and
Andrew R.L. Cayton (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007 [pub.
2006]).
"Cloak and Axe: Dostoevsky’s Raskolnikov as a Byronic Hero," written by
undergraduate student Caitlin Malone, appears in the Fall 2006
issue of The Birch, the first national undergraduate publication
devoted exclusively to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian cultures.
(see The Birch. Caitlin prepared her article through independent research under the guidance of Inna Caron.
Lee Martin, English: "Children in Fiction" (131-45) and
"Writing the Landscape" (171-79) in Wordsmithery: The Writer’s Craft
and Practice, ed. Jayne Steele (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave,
2006).
Gabriella Modan, English: Turf Wars: Discourse,
Diversity, and the Politics of Place (Malden, MA: Blackwell,
2006).
Daniel Prior, History: "Heroes, Chiefs, and the Roots of
Kirghiz Nationalism," in Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 6/2
(2006): 71-88.
Walter Rucker and James Upton, eds., African American and
African Studies: Encyclopedia of American Race Riots, 2
Volumes (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2006).
Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies:
"Crusader in Exile: Robert F. Williams and the International
Struggle for Black Freedom in America," The Black Scholar
36:2-3 (Summer/Fall 2006): 19-34.
Awards, Grants and Honors
Laura Bartlett, English, has received an Ohio Magazine 2006
Excellence in Ohio Education Award.
Morris Beja, English, will be the Carol and George Segal Visiting
Professor of Irish Studies at Northwestern University, Spring Quarter
2007.
David Cressy, History, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at
All Souls College, Oxford, for Trinity Term (Spring Quarter)
2008.
Angie Estes, English, has been awarded a National Endowment for
the Arts Fellowship in Poetry for 2007-2008.
Wendy S. Hesford, English, has been nominated to serve as the
Second Vice-President of the Women's Caucus of Modern Languages
Association (WCLMA) beginning January 2007. In 2008, she will
rotate up into First Vice President and then President in 2009.
Susan Williams, English, has received a $2000 Course Enhancement
Grant from the University Libraries to be used in conjunction with her
spring English 551 course.
In The News
Judson L. Jeffries, African American and African Community Extension
Center, was quoted in "Reaching Statewide Office Can Be Tough"
(The Philadelphia Tribune, November 14).
Presentations/Service
Laura Bartlett, English, presented "Connecting Classrooms,
Communities and Work: Teachers and Students Working Together to Define
Literacies," National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville,
Tennessee, November.
David Cressy, History, presented "Dangerous Speech in Early Modern
England" at the North American Conference on British Studies, Boston,
November 17.
Carole Fink, History, presented "Cold War Politics and the
Middle East" at the Center for International History, Columbia
University, November 10.
Lee Martin, English, presented "Fashioning a Text: Finding
Structure and Shape in Writing Memoir," Winter Wheat: The Mid-American
Review Festival of Writing, Bowling Green, Ohio, November 11; and
gave a Fiction Reading at Alma College. Alma, Michigan, November
16.
Koritha Mitchell, English, presented "Antilynching Drama's
Challenge to Theatre History," American Society for Theatre Research
(ASTR) Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, November 17.
Martin Ponce, English, presented "The Queer Villa: Exile,
Eroticism, Experimentalism," American Studies Association
Convention, Oakland, California, October, and was chair, "The Turn
to Empire in Filipino/Filipino American Studies," East of California
Conference, Columbus, Ohio, November.
Randy Roth, History, presented "Probability and Homicide Rates:
Why We Can Be Certain the Nineteenth-Century West Was Violent," at the
Social Science History Association Convention, Minneapolis, November
2-5. In addition, he co-hosted a workshop on the Historical
Violence Database and served as a discussant on a panel on Kali Gross's
new book, Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the
City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910.
Graduate student Farah Shadchehr, History, presented "Pahlavan
Mahmud: A Legend or a Poet? A Brief Study of His Life & Poetry" at
the Sixth Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies, London, England, August
2006.
Andreá Williams, English, presented "Nineteenth-Century
African American Women's Writing: The State of the Field" for the
Opening Plenary at the Third International Conference of the Society for
the Study of American Women Writers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November
11.
Events
Geraldine Heng (University of Texas) will present "The Invention of
Race in the European Middle Ages," 3:30 pm, December 1, 0100
Mendenhall Laboratory, in The Marvelous Lecture Series.
Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies,
292-7495.
Calvin Normore (UCLA) will present "Extended Bodies," 3:30 pm,
December 1, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of
Philosophy, 292-7914.
