Current News

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 the COH Student Web page for more information.

Michelle Herman, English: "Seeing Things," The Southern Review 43.2 (Spring 2007): 253-292.

Andrew Hudgins, English: "Swordfish," Poetry Daily March 19; and "Pompous Effort Betrayed by Poor Scholarship," review of The Gospel According to Benjamin Iscariot, by Jeffrey Archer and Francis J. Moloney (The Columbus Dispatch, April 15).

Erin McGraw, English: "Dobermans, A Love Story," Ladies' Home Journal 124.6 (2007): 84-86.

Graduate student Kyle Minor, English: "A Day Meant to Do Less," Gettysburg Review 20.2 (2007): 275-320; and "First, the Teeth," Redivider 4.1 (2006): 20-23.

Joe Oestreich, English: "Andyman’s Treehouse," Esquire 147.6 (2007): 108; "The Low Season," Cimarron Review 159 (2007): 35-53; and "Tricoter," Ninth Letter 4.1 (2007): 25-30.

Chris Aldridge, History, and Melinda Robinson, Spanish and Portuguese, are recipients of the 2007 College of Humanities Dean’s Outstanding Staff Award.

Graduate student Michael Alarid, History, was awarded an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship for dissertation research.

Kathy Fagan, English, has been named this year’s winner of the Ohioana Library Association's Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award. The Ohioana Poetry Award was established in 1984 to recognize an "Ohio poet for a body of published work that has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to poetry, and through whose work as a writer, teacher, administrator, or community service volunteer, interest in poetry has been developed." Fagan is one of only four women to have received this honor.

Graduate student Mindy Farmer, History, was awarded an Alumni Grant for Graduate Research and Scholarship for her dissertation research.

Andrew Hudgins, English, was inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Chattanooga Tennessee, March 30.

Graduate student Cameron Jones, History, was awarded a Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant to conduct research in Peru this summer.

Graduate student Erin McCarthy, English, has been awarded a CMRS Research Grant to support work at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.

Graduate student Yan Xu, History, won the 2007 Louise Zung-nyi Loh Memorial Scholarships (East Asian Studies Center), Tien-Yi Li Award (Department of History), and Edmund M. Kagay Scholarship (College of Humanities). She will use these awards to support her studies in this summer's Inter-University Program in Intensive Japanese Language in Yokohama, Japan.

Graduate student Rachael Ball, History, presented "Antecedentes anti-teatrales y la internención del gobierno en los teatros de Londres y Madrid (1640-1660)" at the Primero Simposio de Becarios Fulbright en España.

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Comparative Indigenous Studies: A Discussion." What's Next for Native American and Indigenous Studies? Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, May 5; and was a respondent for the panel "Does Region Matter?" at the What's Next for Native American and Indigenous Studies? Conference, Norman, Oklahoma, May 3.

Morris Beja, English, presented "Iconic and Filmic Joyce," Northwestern University, as part of the Carole and Gordon Segal Visiting Professorship of Irish Literature, May 7.

Timothy Gregory, History, presented "The Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey: A Low-Impact, Long-Term Experience in Archaeological Investigation," Canadian Institute in Greece, Athens on April 30 and on May 14 presented "Excavations at Isthmia: the Byzantine Period" (in Greek), Byzantine Research Institute, National Research Center, Athens.

Andrew Hudgins, English, gave a poetry reading (and taught a class) at Waynesburg College, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, March 27; and gave a poetry reading at the Conference on Southern Literature, The Arts and Education Council of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, March 30.

Graduate student Michael Johnston, English, presented "The Gentry Context of Middle English Romance: The Case of Robert Thornton," Fifth Fifteenth-Century Conference, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 6-8.

Sebastian Knowles, English, gave a reading from "Birkenau: The Place Where Irony Goes to Die" at the Professor/Protege meeting of Mosaic, the undergraduate creative writing magazine, May 10. He was joined by two of his students, Jordan Robison and Zach Germaniuk.

Graduate student Glen Kranking, History, presented "The Russian and East European History Student: Educating American Graduate Students (as Related by a Product of American Education)" at the Center for Baltic and East European Studies, Södertörn University College (in Stockholm), May 14.

Graduate student Rob Padilla, History, presented "How Modernity Combined with Cultural Tradition to Perpetuate Beriberi: Japanese Medical Officers in the Late 19th Century," at the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Montreal, May 3-6.

David Stebenne, History, presented "Columbia, Maryland, Past and Present," at the Columbia, Maryland Archives on May 11, at a reception held to celebrate the publication of his new book New City Upon A Hill: A History of Columbia, Maryland (The History Press, 2007).

Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago) will present "Putting Women, Low Castes, & History Back into the History of Hinduism," 4:30 pm, May 31, 010 Page Hall, in the Religion and the Academy: Enduring Issues, New Approaches Series. Contact: Center for the Study of Religions, 688-8010.