Current News
May 31, 2007
Send Current News items to: lorbach.1@osu.eduAnnouncements
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.
Publications
Harvey J. Graff, English and History: "History’s War of the
Wor(l)ds. An Afterword," invited for Sigurdur Gylf Magnusson, The
History War: Essays and Narratives on Ideology (Reykjavik: The
Icelandic University Press, 2007) / Sögustríð: Greinar og frásagnir um
hugmyndafræði (Reykjavïk: Háskólaútgáfan, 2007, published by the
Icelandic University Press and The Center for Microhistorical Research at
the Reykjavik Academy, 2007): 475-481.
David Herman, English: reprint of "Finding out about Gender
in Hammett’s Detective Fiction: Generic Constraints or Transcendental
Norms?" [1991], Twentieth-Century Literature Criticism 187, eds.
Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau (Farmington Hills: Thomson
Gale, 2007): 131-43.
Norman Jones, English: Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction:
Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007); and review of A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style,
and Queer Modernism, by Jaime Hovey, MFS: Modern Fiction
Studies 53.1 (Spring 2007): 218-221.
Doug Ramspeck [Sutton-Ramspeck], English-Lima:
"Bottomlands Widow," Rattle 13.1 (Summer 2007): 63;
"Horizon," Hunger Mountain 10 (Spring 2007): 116; and
"Ice Junco" and "Ouroboros," Nimrod International
Journal 50.2 (Spring/Summer 2007): 149, 150.
Susan Williams, English: "Authors and Literary Authorship,"
The Industrial Book, 1840-1880. Vol. 3 of The History of the
Book in America, 1840-1880, eds. Scott Casper, Jeffrey Groves,
Stephen Nissenbaum and Michael Winship (Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 2007): 90-116.
Karen Winstead, English: "Saintly
Exemplarity," Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to
Literature: Middle English, ed. Paul Strohm (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007): 335-51.
Awards, Grants and Honors
David Herman, English, is the Graduate Professor of the Year, as
selected by the department’s Graduate Organization (EGO).
Sebastian Knowles, English, is the Undergraduate Professor of the
Year, as selected by the department’s Undergraduate Organization
(EUGO).
In The News
Danielle Marx-Scouras, French and Italian, was interviewed by the
French daily La Croix and cited in "Les anciens Zebda conjuguent
toujours musique et motivation" (April 19, p. 28).
Presentations/Service
Timothy Gregory, History, presented "The Diolkos across the Isthmus,
a Passage in Time and Place," (in Greek), as one of four invited speakers
at a conference sponsored by the province of the Korinthia on The Diolkos
at the Isthmos of Korinth, May 20.
Chris Highley, English, presented "First Wave: English
Catholics and Religious Exile 1558-1569," Redrawing the Map of Early
Modern English Catholicism, William Andrews Clark Library, Los Angeles,
May 2007.
Pranav Jani, English, presented "No Human Being Is Illegal:
The Immigration Debate," Speaker Series for "American Political
Thought and Radicalism course," Thomas Worthington High School,
Worthington, Ohio, May 2007.
Ben McCorkle and Doug Dangler, English, presented "A
Rationale for Using Burkean Theory to Analyze Digital Media,"
Computers & Writing, Detroit, May 9.
Koritha Mitchell, English, presented "On Bodies in
Dissent," Black Performance Theory Working Group, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illionois, May 18.
Graduate student Nicholas Steneck, History, participated as an
invited panelist at the Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar, held at
Denison University; the panel was entitled "Terrorism and the Future
of the U.S."
Heather Tanner, History-Mansfield, presented "The
Byland-Furness Controversy Reconsidered" at the annual meeting of
the International Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan,
May 2007.
Events
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.
