Current News
October 4, 2007
Send Current News items to: lorbach.1@osu.eduAnnouncements
Lindsay Jones, Comparative Studies, will present " On Juxtaposition: New Uses of Old Buildings at the Archaeological-Tourist Site of Monte Albán, Oaxaca, Mexico" in the first Inaugural Lecture of the year at 4:30 pm, October 15, OSU Faculty Club. This presentation, by a historian of religions, moves from the general to the more specific. It opens with some very broad comments on the heuristic meritsindeed, the inevitabilityof juxtaposing persons, ideas, symbols, objects and/or practices that do not, on the face of it, seem to have any direct or significant connection to one another. Nextreflecting on juxtapositions of widely and weirdly diversified uses of very old buildingsis a brief inventory of ways in which long-abandoned pre-Columbian ruins of Mesoamerica have been variously utilized (or ‘revalorized’) as: (a) sites for the religious devotion of contemporary indigenous peoples and ‘New Age’ enthusiasts, (b) objects of archaeological, ‘scientific’ inquiry into the ancient past, (c) tourist destinations and economic commodities, (d) sources of literary and artistic inspiration, (e) outdoor museums for the construction of national identity, and (f) pawns in local territorial and political disputes. Then, more specific attention focuses on the spectacular mountaintop ruins of Monte Albán, one of Mexico’s premier archaeological-tourist sites. This will include some reflection on (a) the pre-Columbian history and original religio-political conception of this once-great Zapotec city and (b) the post-contact history of investigation of the long-vacant capital. The final portion of the presentation will address (c) ways in which these Oaxaca ruins are currently functioning as a religious, economic and cultural resource by addressing recent and on-going contestation over access, control and ownership of this so-designated World Heritage Site. There’ll be lots of pictures. Contact: Kelli Fickle, 292-1882.
Publications
Daniel Avorgbedor, African American and African Studies and
Music: "Language Plots in Musical Spaces: A Response to Adams
Bodomo and Manolete Mora," Empirical Musicology Review 2.3
(2007).
Franco Barchiesi, African American and African Studies:
"Wage Labor and Social Citizenship in Colonial and Postcolonial
Modernity: South African Perspectives in a Continental Context," in
Review (Fernand Braudel Center, SUNY Binghamton), 30.1 (2007);
"South African Debates on the Basic Income Grant: Wage Labour and the
Post-Apartheid Social Policy, Journal of Southern African Studies
33.3 (2007): 561-575.
Graduate student Kelly Bradbury, English: "Democracy in
the Balance: The Fate of Intellectualism in Higher Ed and the Public
Sphere" (a unit) in Reading Popular Culture: An Anthology for
Writers. 2nd ed., ed. Michael Keller (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt,
2007).
Richard Dutton, English: "The Masque," eds.
Andrew Hiscock and Lisa Hopkins, Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern
Dramatists (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007):
187-217; "Venice in London, London in Venice," ed. Andrew
Hiscock, Mighty Europe 1400-1700: Writing an Early Modern
Continent (Oxford, Bern and New York: Peter Lang, 2007): 133-51; and
review of "Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication:
Readings in the English Book Trade," by Zachary Lesser,
Shakespeare Yearbook 16: The Shakespeare Apocrypha (2007):
433-39.
Jon Erickson, English: "Is Nothing to Be Done?"
Modern Drama L.2 (Summer 2007): 258-275.
Jared Gardner, English: "Frederick Burr Opper,
1857-1937," The Comics Journal #284 July 2007:
133-60.
Harvey Graff, English and History: "Literacy Myths," with
John Duffy, Encyclopedia of Language and Education, Vol. 2
Literacy, ed. Brian Street; Nancy Hornberger, general editor
(Berlin and New York: Springer, 2007).
Graduate student Brian Hauser, English: "Vanishing
Americans: James Fenimore Cooper’s Detectives and the Trauma of Alien
Invasion in The X-Files," The X-Files and Literature:
Unweaving the Story, Unraveling the Lie to Find the Truth, ed. Sharon
Yang (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007):
66-90.
David Herman, English: ed., The Cambridge Companion to
Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007);
"Introduction," The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. ed. David
Herman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 3-21; "Cognition,
Emotion, and Consciousness," The Cambridge Companion to Narrative.
ed. David Herman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 245-59;
"The Impossible Ethic of Oglethorpe Bigby," Storyglossia 22 August
2007.
http://www.storyglossia.com/22/dh_bigby.html. "Storytelling and the Sciences of
Mind: Cognitive Narratology, Discursive Psychology, and Narratives in
Face-to-Face Interaction, Narrative 15.3 (2007): 306-334.
David Herman, English, and Susan Moss: "Plant Names and Folk
Taxonomies: Frameworks for Ethnosemiotic Inquiry," Semiotica
167-1/4 (2007): 1-11.
Andrew Hudgins, English: "All Ya’ll Read Up On This Book by
Mr. Blount," review of "Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South" by
Roy Blount, The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, May 20: 4G;
"Love and Justice Wrangle in Debut," review of "Restitution" by Lee
Vance, The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer, July 15: 4G; "At
Evening, Eden," The Southwest Review, 92.3. 2007: 450;
"Ashes," eds. Sue Brannon Walker and J. William Chambers, reprint in
Whatever Remembers US: An Anthology of Alabama Poetry, (Negative
Capability Press, Mobile AL. 2007); 29; and "Out," ed. William Baer,
Rhyming Poems: A Contemporary Anthology (Evansville,
Indiana: University of Evansville Press, 2007): 51.
Kimberly Kovarik, Assistant to the Chair, English: "A
Failed Flanking Maneuver," Naval History August 2007:
25-27.
Lee Martin, English: "Election Season," in Living Blue in
the Red States, ed. David Starkey (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of
Nebraska Press, 2007): 83-91; and O var f r de sfâr it (The
Bright Forever), translated by Michaela Negril -Ia i (Romania:
Polirom, 2007).
Chris Otter, History: "Making Liberal Objects: British
Techno-Social Relations 1800-1900," in Cultural Studies, 21:4
(2007).
George Pappas, Philosophy: "Berkeley's Assessment of
Locke's Epistemology," Re-examining Berkeley's Philosophy,
ed, S. Daniel (University of Toronto Press, 2007); and "Locke's
Account of Sensitive Knowledge," in M. O'Rourke, ed.,
Knowledge and Scepticism: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy
(MIT Press, 2007).
Doug Ramspeck [Sutton-Ramspeck], English-Lima: "Ancient
Origins," poem, South Dakota Review 45.1 (Spring 2007): 88;
"Black Water" and "Premonition," poems, River Oak
Review 2.4 (Summer 2007): 106-107, 176-177; "Catalogue" and
"Ordinary Enchantment," poems, Illuminations: An
International Magazine of Contemporary Writing 23 (August 2007):
29-30; "Colonization Diary," "Conversations Among the
Dead," "Extremity," and "Theory," poems, New
Delta Review 24.2 (Summer 2007): 26-29; "Fire in the Hillside:
Poliomyelitis, 1952," "A Night's Sleep Before the
Funeral," and "Smoke," poems, Meridian Anthology of
Contemporary Poetry 5 (2007): 16-18; "Fireweeds," poem,
The Baltimore Review 11.2 (Summer-Fall 2007): 1; "First
Fire," poem, Roanoke Review 32 (Spring 2007): 75-76;
"Frigatebird," poem, Apalachee Review 57 (2007): 26;
"Hadrian's Wall," poem, Red Wheelbarrow Literary
Magazine 8 (2007): 213; "No Other Sign," poem, Good Foot
7 (2007): 44; and "Water Lily," poem, Fourteen Hills:
The San Francisco State University Review 13.2 (2007): 61.
Tina Sessa, History, guest edited a recent volume of the
Journal of Early Christian Studies, 15:2 (2007) entitled
"Holy Households: Domestic Space, Property and Power." Her own
essay, "Christianity and the Cubiculum: The Spiritual Politics
of Domestic Space in Late Antique Rome," also appears as a
contribution in this volume.
Eddie Singleton, Academic Program Coordinator, English, translated
"Ariadne Auf Naxos," a melodrama by Jiri Benda (1722-1795),
from French, to be performed by the Tallis Chamber Orchestra, Wilmington,
NC, October 28.
Elizabeth Weiser, English-Newark: "Burke and War:
Rhetoricizing the Theory of Dramatism," Rhetoric Review 26.3
(2007): 286-302.
Awards, Grants and Honors
Philip Brown, History, received a three-year Scholar’s Award from The
National Science Foundation to support his research project, "Coping
with Natural Hazard Risk: Civil Engineering, Floods and Landslides in the
Modernization of Japan."
David Herman, English, received an award from the Arts and
Humanities Seed Grant competition for his proposal, "Re-Imagining
Narrative: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Stories and
Storytelling."
Judson L. Jeffries, African American and African Studies, attended
the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. where he earned
a certificate in Global Peace and Security, and he attended the
summer institute at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University
where he earned a certificate in the advanced study of nonviolent
conflict.
Doug Ramspeck (Sutton-Ramspeck), English-Lima, was awarded
the 2007 John Ciardi Prize for Poetry.
Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies, has received
an Arts and Humanities Seed Grant to work on a book-length project on
"The Akan Diaspora in the Americas." Akan speakers from West Africa’s
Gold Coast became a feared part of the slave resistance movement in the
Americas during the 18th century and contributed to the
development of African-American cultures through the Western
Hemisphere. The two-year grant will allow for archival research in
Ghana and North America.
Cindy Selfe, English, received additional funds from the Arts and
Humanities Innovation competition for the project: "National Digital
Archive of Literacy Narratives: Database Design and Development (Stage
#2)."
Lisa Shabel, Philosophy, was awarded an Arts and Humanities Seed
Grant for her project on "Representation and Reasoning: Symbols,
Diagrams and Mathematical Demonstration."
Rebecca Wanzo, Women’s Studies, is a Resident Fellow at the
Dartmouth Humanities Institute, which is investigating the topic of
Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity. She is
also studying the projection of masculinity in Black Comics.
Elizabeth Weiser, English-Newark, received the 2007 Service Award
for tenure-track faculty which includes professional development funds.
The First-Year Writing Program has been asked to be the subject of a national project that is looking at course re-design. The Merlot ELIXR project was funded by FIPSE, and Ohio State was chosen as one of the schools to participate. The invitation came about because of the program’s move to integrate English 110 and the DMP. Information about the Merlot ELIXR project can be found at: http://elixr.merlot.org/wiki/FIPSE_ELIXR
Presentations/Service
Graduate student John Acker, English, presented "The Library as
Armory" for the Christian Graduate Student Alliance, Summit United
Methodist Church, Columbus, July 27.
David Adams, English, presented "Madness and Irony" at
The British Comparative Literature Association XI International
Conference: Folly, Goldsmiths College, University of London, July
2.
Daniel Avorgbedor, African American and African Studies and Music,
presented "Belief, Memory, and Cultural Autonomy: Performance
Traditions in the Contemporary Ghanaian Church" during a national
symposium on music and missions in Africa at Wheaton College, Illinois,
September 21-23.
Jon Erickson, English, presented "The Limits of Immanence, with a
Defense of J. L. Austin" at the Association for Theatre in Higher
Education, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 27.
Alan Gallay, History, served as an evaluator for the NEH 2007-2008
Fellowships.
Jared Gardner, English, was the co-curator (with Jenny Robb) of
"To Be Continued: Comic Strip Storytelling," Cartoon Research
Library, June 18-August 27.
Harvey Graff, English and History, chaired the session on
"Reading & Writing in Early Modern Europe" and was chair,
organizer, and participant in the session on "How Can the History of
Children and Childhood Grow Up? Revision and Redefinition?,"
Biennial Meeting, University of Linkoping, Norrkoping, Sweden, June
27-30.
David Herman, English, presented "Formal Models in Narrative Analysis" for a conference on Mathematics and Narrative organized by Thales and Friends, Delphi, Greece, July 22.http://www.thalesandfriends.org/; "Directions in Interdisciplinary Narrative Theory," the Keynote Lecture for the Third Tampere Conference on Narrative: Knowing, Living, Telling, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland, June 30.
http://www.uta.fi/conference/3narrative/; "Foundations for Interdisciplinary Narrative Research," the Keynote Lecture at the Inaugural Symposium of the University of Wuppertal’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Narratological Research, Wuppertal, Germany, June 25; "Narrative Theory and the Intentional Stance" at the Center for Narratological Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark, June 23; and "Developments in Narrative Analysis; or, Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind," OSU Department of Linguistics, Columbus, September 21.
Michelle Herman, English, gave a Reading for the Gist Street
Reading Series, Celebration of University of Nebraska Press Authors,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 13; and presented "Why You're
Here," speaking on behalf of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences
at Freshman Orientation Opening Sessions, Drake Union, Columbus, various
dates in July and August 2007.
Andrew Hudgins, English, gave a Nonfiction Reading at the Sewanee
Writers’ Conference, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee,
July 21.
Robert Hughes, English, presented "Levinas on Time and Existence
in Macbeth" at the 31st Annual Conference of the International
Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Cyprus, Nicosia,
June 2007.
Karen Leick, English, presented "Virginia Woolf and Gertrude
Stein: Commerce, Bestsellers, and the Jew" at the Virginia Woolf
17th Annual Conference, Oxford, Ohio, June 2007.
Graduate student Elizabeth Marsch, English, presented "A Mind
of One's Own: Narration and Influence in Mrs. Dalloway" at the 2007
International Conference on Narrative, Washington, DC. March 15; and
"Influence and Independence: A Stylistic Analysis of Woolf's
Phenomenology and Politics in Mrs. Dalloway" at the Virginia Woolf:
The 17th Annual Conference on Art, Education, and Internationalism,
Oxford, Ohio, June 9.
Lee Martin, English, taught a fiction workshop at the Indiana
University Summer Writers’ Conference June 11-15, in Bloomington,
Indiana, where he also gave a public reading from his work. He
taught an advanced workshop in the novel at the Nebraska Summer Writers’
Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 18-22, where he gave a public reading
of his work and was on three panels: "The Publishing Process," "Writers
Switching Genres," and "A Life in Prose." He also served as the moderator
of the panel, "Too Close to Home," at the Ohioana Book Festival,
Columbus, September 15.
Scopas Poggo, African American and African Studies-Mansfield,
presented "The Kuku Blacksmiths: Their Impact on the Kuku Society of
the Sudan, 1797-1987" at the Annual Sudan Studies Association,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 24-27.
Walter Rucker, African American and African Studies, traveled with
a contingent of 12 students to Ghana this summer as part of the
Department of African American and African Studies study abroad
program.
Tina Sessa, History, presented "Bedroom Stories: Popes,
Paternal Authority and Domestic Space in the Roman Gesta Martyrum,"
and "Texts, Contexts, and the Making of 'papal Rome'" at the
Fifteenth Annual Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford, August 2007.
Eddie Singleton, Academic Program Coordinator, English, and
graduate student Aaron McKain, presented "What to Expect in a
College Writing Class," Brookhaven High School, Columbus, September
14.
David Staley, History, presented "Benchmarks of Success:
Computational Methods in the Ohio Polymer Industry," the results of
an expert focus group he led at the PolymerOhio Emerging Technologies
Forum at the University of Akron, September 10-11.
Events
Independent scholar Terry Jones will present "Translating Richard
II," 4:30 pm, October 8, 1000 McPherson Lab, for the Translations
Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, 292-7495.
Herbert Lindenberger (Stanford University) will present "Arts in the Brain," 4:30 pm, October 9, 104 East 15th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Contact: aldama.1@osu.edu.
Herbert Lindenberger (Stanford University) will present "Arts in the Brain," 4:30 pm, October 9, 104 East 15th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Contact: aldama.1@osu.edu.
Paul Sniderman (Stanford University) will present "Muslims in
Western Europe," 6:00 pm, October 10, 10 Page Hall. The
presentation offers a provocative look at the attitudes toward
multiculturalism, immigrants and immigration, conflicts of values, and
conflicts of identities. Contact alcalde.1@osu.edu.
Felicia Ross, OSU School of Communication, will present "The Cleveland
Call & Post and the Election of Carl B. Stokes" at 6:00 pm,
October 11, African American and African Studies Community Extension
Center, 905 Mount Vernon Avenue. Contact: 292-3922 or visit
http://aaascec.osu.edu.
Rebecca Barry, Okla Elliott, and Mike Bierschenk will
present an Evening of Poetry and Prose, 7:00 pm, October 11, 311 Denney
Hall, in the Creative Writing Program Student/Faculty Creative Reading
Series. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.
In honor of the man, the movement, and his message, the African American
and African Studies Community Extension Center will present a
Symposium on the Life, Death and Legacy of South African Civil Rights
Activist Stephen Biko, 9:00 am-3:30 pm, October 12, Community
Extension Center, 905 Mount Vernon Avenue. The symposium is free and open
to the public. Contact:
Jeffries.70@osu.edu,
http://aaascec.osu.edu, or 292-3922.
Robert Tauber, OSU Libraries’ Logan Elm Press, will present "The Art
of Books," 4:00 pm, October 16, 104 East
15th Avenue, for the Literacy Studies
Group. Contact: graff.40@osu.edu.
Graduate student Richelle Schrock, Women’s Studies, will present
"Risky Representations: Seeing Ourselves/Being Seen By Others,"
7:00 pm, October 18, Columbus Museum of Art, in conjunction with the
"Stories From the Somali Diaspora: Photographs of Art by Abdi
Roble" exhibition, for the Big Picture Lecture Series.
Contact: Christian Zacher, zacher.1@osu.edu.
Poet Linda Gregerson will give a Reading at 7:00 pm, October 18,
311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program,
292-2242.
Malcolm Barber (Reading University) will present "From Heroes to
Heretics: The Sudden Demise of the Templars," 2:30 pm,
October 19, for the Translations Lecture Series. Contact:
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.
Eugene Holland, Comparative Studies and French and Italian, will
present "Narrative and Ideology after Althusser," 4:00 pm,
October 19, 104 East
15th Avenue, for the Narrative and
Cognition Working Group. Co-sponsored with Project Narrative.
Contact: herman.145@osu.edu.
Poet John Menaghan will give a Reading at 3:30 pm, October 23, 311
Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program,
292-2242.
Ian Cross (Cambridge University) will present "Music as a Medium for
the Management of Social Uncertainty," October 23 (time and place
TBA), for the Music as a Biological Imperative Working Group.
Contact: fisher.14@osu.edu.
The College of Humanities will host the Faculty Recognition
Reception, 4:00-5:30 pm, October 24, The Blackwell.
Contact: Sebastian Knowles.
