Current News

Chadwick Allen, English: "Earthworks: Native Intellectuals on the Ground," American Quarterly 59.1 (March 2007): 199-209.

Catherine Braun, Ben McCorkle, and Amie C. Wolf, English: "Remixing Basic Writing: Digital Media Production & the Basic Writing Curriculum," Computers and Composition Online (Spring 2007): http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/braun/index.htm.

Cynthia Brokaw, History: Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods (Harvard University Asia Center, 2007).

John Burnham, History: "Commentary on Sponsored Session: Popularizing the Human Sciences in Twentieth-Century America," Forum for the History of Human Science Newsletter (Spring 2007): 4.

Doug Dangler, Ben McCorkle, and Time Barrow, English: "Expanding Composition Audiences with Podcasting," Computers and Composition Online (Spring 2007): http://www.bgsu.edu/cconline/podcasting/.

Richard Dutton, English: "Shake-speares Sonnets, Shakespeare's Sonnets, and Shakespearean Biography," A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, ed. Michael Schoenfeldt (Malden, MA and Oxford: Blackwell, 2007): 121-136.

Andrew Hudgins, English: "My Daughter," "Swordfish," and "After Teaching," Poetry 189.6. (March 2007): 447-449.

Judson L. Jeffries, African American and African Studies, with Charles E. Jones: "Blacks Who Run for Governor and the U.S. Senate: An Examination of their Candidacies, 1966-2006," The Negro Educational Review 57 (Fall/Winter 2006): 243-262.

Sebastian Knowles, English: review of Barry Faulk, Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture in Victorians Institute Journal 34 (2006): 272-73.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, with Sidonie Smith: "Say It Isn't So: Autobiographical Hoaxes and the Ethics of Life Narrative," Life Writing. Contemporary Autobiography, Biography, and Travel Writing, ed. Koray Melikoglu (Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem, 2007): 15-34.

Derek Alwes, English, participated in "English Grammar School: Rhetoric, Discipline, Masculinity," a Folger Institute weekend faculty seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., March 2-3.

Graduate student John Maass, History, was awarded a Russell F. Weigley Graduate Student Travel Grant to attend the Society for Military History's annual meeting in April in Frederick, Maryland, where he will present "Nathanael Greene, Moderation and the Revolutionary Settlement in the South, 1781-1783."

Graduate student Matthew Yates, History, was awarded both summer and academic-year FLAS fellowships for Mandarin Chinese. He'll use the summer FLAS to fund language study at Fudan University in Shanghai and continue his studies here at OSU for the academic year 2007-08.

Steve Fink, English, with Donna Distel, OSU Libraries, was selected by the American Library Association to receive a Nextbook grant of $2,500 for the "Let's Talk About It--Jewish Literature" project. A theme-based reading and discussion series on "Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel," this program is open to the public and will be offered in October and November 2007.

Hannibal Hamlin, English-Mansfield, has been awarded a National Humanities Center Fellowship for $30,000 (one year) and a Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library for $7,500 (three months).

Graduate student Robyn Malo, English, has been awarded a $3,000 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship for the Summer Institute, "Cathedral and Culture: Medieval York" at York Minster. She has also been awarded a Richardson fellowship from Austin College to help offset the costs of the Institute.

Lecturer Ruth Marie Mitsch, African American and African Studies, is the recipient of a 2007 Staff Career Development Grant.

William E. Nelson, Jr., African American and African Studies, will be a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, during Spring Quarter. He will be studying the political mobilization of Caribbean immigrants and race and ethnic politics in Toronto. This excursion is part of a larger project looking at the political socialization of Caribbean immigrants in Toronto and New York. He is the recipient of a research grant from the Kirwan Institute for Race and Ethnicity and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, received the Sigmund Strochlitz Travel Grant from the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut.

Erin McGraw, English, wrote "Same as it ever was," a review of Lionel Shriver's The Post-Birthday World which appeared in Raleigh News & Observer (March 11, 4-G).

"The New SDS," written by Christopher Phelps, History, is the cover story in this week's issue of The Nation magazine (April 16). He was interviewed live about the story for Laura Flanders's nationally syndicated "Air America" network program "RadioNation" (March 31) as well as on the show "Beneath the Surface" on the Los Angeles Pacifica station KPFK (April 2) He also presented "Ernest Rice McKinney: Black Labor Radical" at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting in Minneapolis on March 29, 2007.

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Once More with Feeling: Recentering the Literary in American Indian Literary Studies," Native American Literature Symposium, Saginaw Chippewa Reservation, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, March 10.

David Brewer, English, presented "Attribution and Its Publics in the Late Stuart Atlantic," "Making Publics: Media, Market, and Association in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800," The Early Modern Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 9; and "The Work of Attribution in the Anglophone Atlantic," Eighteenth-Century Studies Working Group, University of California, Berkeley, March 20.

Alan Farmer, English, presented "Drama Publishing in the Renaissance" in a panel on "The Book as an Object of Historical Inquiry," sponsored by the Literacy Studies Working Group, Ohio State University, March 1.

Carole Fink, History, presented "The Refugee Crisis on the Eve of World War II," the annual Dolowitz Lecture on Human Rights at the Salt Lake Art Center sponsored by the International Studies program at the University of Utah, March 29.

Hannibal Hamlin, English-Mansfield, chaired a session, "Playbooks and Poems: Into Print, From Print, and Upon Print," March 22, and presented "God and the King Lears: Once More unto the Breach with King Lear and the Bible," March 24 at the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Miami, FLorida.

David Herman, English, presented "Introductory Remarks" (and served as chair) at a session on "Project Narrative: Work in Progress at Ohio State University," March 15, and with Andrew Salway, "New Foundations for Narrative Theory: A Corpus-based Approach," a session on "Linguistic Approaches to Narrative" [also session organizer and chair], March 17, Society for the Study of Narrative Literature; Washington, D.C.

Andrew Hudgins, English, presented "History into Poetry, Poetry into History," March 1, and "Sex, Race, & Religion," March 2, both panel presentations at the Associated Writing Programs Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia.

Kyounghe Kwon, English, presented "White Masks/Black Masks: Wole Soyinka's Death and the King's Horseman and Derek Walcott's Ti-Jean and His Brothers," 38th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, Baltimore, March 3.

Graduate student James Lenaghan, History, presented "Religion and Security Politics in the Seventeenth Century: Europe's Earlier Engagement with the Religious ‘Other,'" at "Religion and Security Politics: New Themes and Challenges," a conference sponsored by the Roskilde University's Institute for Society and Globalization, and the Danish Foreign Ministry's Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 30.

Ben McCorkle, Catherine Braun, and Susan Delagrange, English, presented "Multimodal Composing and the Challenge of Assessment" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, New York, March 22.

Christopher Phelps, History, presented "Ernest Rice McKinney: Black Labor Radical" at the Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, March 29.

Martha Sims, English, presented "From At-Risk to Aware," Conference on College Composition and Communication, New York, New York, March 24.

David Stebenne, History, presented "The American 'Middle Way': Moderate Conservatism in the Postwar Period," to the History faculty and graduate students at Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, March 20.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History, presented "Journeys for Peace and Liberation: Third World Internationalism and Radical Orientalism during the Viet Nam Era," an invited talk at Middlebury College on February 20 and at Arizona State University on March 5, She also participated in a reading group with the American Studies faculty at Middlebury on February 19 on her book, Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (California 2005). She presented "China Dolls versus Iron Girls: Conflicting Notions of Beauty, Gender, and Nationhood," an invited presentation for a panel on "Asian American Beauty Pageants: Race, Gender and Representation in Asian American Communities" at the University of California, Berkeley, March 22.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented "The Dialogic of Modernity and Tradition in Sembene's Moolaadé " at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Chicago, March 8-11.

The following African American and African Studies graduate students made presentations at the 31st Annual National Council for Black Studies Conference, San Diego, California, March 14-17: Antwanisha Alameen, "The Racial Implications in the Debate of Ebonics and its Influences from Historical Eurocentric Theories"; Kara Barnes, "The Queer Sambos: Creation and Intensification of Homophobia in Film and Television in the Black American Community"; Salandra Bowman, "'Father Where Art Thou?': The Effects of Fatherlessness in Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland and Toni Morrison's Sula"; Chauncey Beaty, "Sankofa Ofamfa (A Return to the Past Must be Guided by Critical Examination): An Analysis of African Centered Values to the Global African Identity"; Sabriya Jubilee, "In Hampton's Shadow: The Vocational Paradigm in Contemporary Black Education"; Jo Von McCalester, "Power to [All] People: Black Power, White Privilege, and the Meaning of Freedom"; Laquitta Smith, "Can a Brother Get a Job?: The Existence of Employment Barriers against the Ex-Offender and the Implications for the Black Family"; Bonnie Williams, "Factors Leading to the Misinterpretation of Black English"; and Vincent Willis, "'Teach Me to Read and Write': Enslaved Black Children as Historical Agents and Rebels."

Comic book author Frank Espinosa will present "Storytelling and Aesthetics in Rocketo," noon, April 11, 021L Wexner Center and "Comics, Animation, and Visual Explorations," 3:30 pm, April 11, 021L Wexner Center, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265, or aldama.1@osu.edu.

Robert Mezen will give a free public Reading, 3:30 pm, April 11, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Howard Sacks (Kenyon College) will present "Food for Thought: Preserving Family Farming in Changing Times," during dinner at 6:30 pm, April 11, Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue, as part of the dinner lecture series sponsored by the Center for Folklore Studies. Contact: Sheila Bock, smbock99@yahoo.com.

Cynthia Selfe, English, will present "The Movement of Air, the Breath of Meaning: Aurality and Multimodal Composing," 11:30 am, April 12, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Ronald Rosbottom (Amherst College) will present "Hitler's Tour: Imagining Occupied Paris, 1940-44," 2:30 pm, April 13, Faculty Club Grand Lounge. Sponsored by the Departments of French and Italian, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and History. Contact: Department of French and Italian, 292-4938.

Ronald Hutton (Bristol University) will present "A General Framework for the Study of European Magic," 2:30 pm, April 13, 90 Science and Engineering Library, in The Marvelous Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

Wilfried Menninghaus (Free University of Berlin) will present "Functional Narratives of Art: Negotiating Transcendental and Evolutionary Aesthestics," 3:30 pm, April 16, Faculty Club, for the 2007 Lübeck Lecture (in English). Contact: Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, 292-6985.

Christopher Dunn (Tulane University) will present "Mr. Citizen and Defective Android: Tom Zé, Music, and Citizenship in Brazil," 3:30 pm, April 13, 046 Hagerty Hall, for the Lusophone Globalicities Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Rita Charon (Columbia University) will present "Who Listens for the Self-Telling Body?," 4:00 pm, April 16, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Donald Miller (University of Southern California) will present "Global Pentecostalism: The New Face of Christian Social Engagement," 4:30 pm, April 17, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Department of Comparative Studies, mcdorman.1@osu.edu.

Cynthia Brokaw, History, will present "The Book Trade in Late Imperial China: Notes from the Field" in the College's seventh Inaugural Lecture of the year at 4:30 pm, April 19, OSU Faculty Club.

Gender and Ethnicity Across Divides, the CIRIT 5^th Annual Symposium: Gender & Women's Social Rights, will begin at 10:00 am, April 20, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Nie Zhenzhao (University of Chicago) will present "Hamlet and Literary Ethics," 4:00 pm, April 23, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Susan Schreiner (University of Chicago) will present "A Distant Mirror: The Tyranny of the Present," 4:30 pm, April 26, 090 Science & Engineering Library, in the Religion and the Academy: Enduring Issues, New Approaches Series. Contact: Program in the Study of Religions, 688-8010.

Graduate students Vera Dukaj, Shawn Casey, and Cormac Slevin, English, will present "Linking Literacies in Composition, Technology, and Copyright" 11:30 am, April 27, Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Seminar on Literacy Studies. Contact: Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, 688-0265.

Faculty and staff are invited to the College's 13th annual Baccalaureate at 3:30 pm, Saturday, June 9, in 131 Hitchcock Hall. Alumnus Craig Zimpher (B.A./M.A. History) will give the Baccalaureate address. Mr. Zimpher is vice president of government relations for Nationwide. RSVP College of Humanities, 292-1882. Please encourage graduating students to participate. Visit our student info pages for more information.

Faculty and staff are invited to participate in the Humanities Alumni Society's 2^nd Annual Golf Outing on May 19 at Westchester Golf Course in Canal Winchester. Proceeds from the event benefit the Humanities Alumni Scholarship Fund which supports Humanities undergraduate students. For details, visit the golf outing information on our Alumni Web pages. Contact: Shari Lorbach, 688-4532 or lorbach.1@osu.edu.

The Department of African American and African Studies Community Extension Center is currently accepting applications for its Summer Residential Program for High School Juniors and Seniors, June 17-23. The theme of this year's program is "Bookmarks: African Americans in a Cultural Revolution." During this week-long program students will engage in a focused study of the remarkable achievements of African American artists from Blacks in Vaudeville to the crossover into mainstream culture. Application deadline is, April 18. For more information, visit aaascec.osu.edu to download an application or contact Chauncey Beaty, 614-292-3922.

The 2007 Dean's Outstanding Staff Award Call for Nominations. Nominate a staff member who holds a regular appointment with 3+ years of continuous service within the College and who has demonstrated excellence in overall job performance, initiative, and creativity in the performance of duties, and sustained exemplary service to the unit and to the College. Details and nomination forms are available in the College Office and on the Staff Advisory Web page. Please submit the completed nomination form, the letter of nomination, and supporting letters as one packet to: Debbie Knicely, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, 398 Hagerty Hall, 1775 College Road by April 16.