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Chadwick Allen, English: "Sight in the Sound: Seeing and Being Seen in The Lone Ranger Radio Show," Western American Literature 42.2 (Summer 2007): 117-40.

Franco Barchiesi, African American and African Studies: "Privatization and the Historical Trajectory of 'Social Movement Unionism': A Case Study of Municipal Workers in Johannesburg, South Africa," International Labor and Working Class History 71 (Cambridge University Press, 2007): 50-69.

Erin McGraw, English: "Pasadena, 1901" (novel excerpt), The Hopkins Review 1.1 (New Series) (2008): 120-142.

Graduate student Aaron McKain, English: "A Hypothetical Problem," PopMatters. 17 September 2007: visit the Pop Matters Web site.

Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, History: reprint, "Was Mom Chung a 'Sister Lesbian’?: Asian American Gender Experimentation and Interracial Homoeroticism," in American Dreaming, Global Realities: Rethinking U.S. Immigration History, eds. Donna Gabaccia and Vicki L. Ruiz (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006): 379-398. It originally appeared in the Journal of Women’s History 13:1 (Spring 2001), pp. 58-82, and had received honorable mention for the 2000-2001 Audre Lorde Prize, given for an outstanding article on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, transsexual, and/or queer history published in English.

Graduate student Yigit Akin, History, was awarded a Junior Residential Fellowship at Koc University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations for research for his dissertation, "All Quiet on the Home Front? Politics and Everyday Life in Istanbul during World War I."

Harvey Graff, English and History, has been invited to join the International Editorial Board of the new Computers & Composition Digital Press (CCDP).

Graduate student Brian Hauser, English, won the Roy & Pat Brown Award for the best popular culture paper ("The Haunting of The Haunting of Hill House") by a student at this year's PCAS/ACAS conference in Jacksonville, Florida.

Jan Macián and Rob Robison, Spanish and Portuguese, have received a Seed Grant for GTA Program Enhancement.

Morris Beja, English, presented "Joyce in Hollywood" at the Austin Briggs 50th Anniversary Symposium, Hamilton College, New York, September 29.

Nina Berman, Comparative Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures, presented "Europeanizing German Literature: The Circulation of Texts between Germany, France, and the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries," keynote address in the European Studies Lecture Series at Purdue University, September 26.

Graduate student Allison Fisher, English, presented "The Popular Delusion: Reader Reception and the Classification of Modernist Texts" at the Reception Studies Society Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, September 28.

Ryan Friedman, English, presented "'Enough Force...To Shatter the Tale to Fragments': Ethics and Textual Analysis in James Baldwin's Film Theory," an invited talk for One Book, One Northwestern 2007: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October 9.

Alan Gallay, History, delivered two papers at Yale University’s conference, Frontier Cities, sponsored by the Howard R. Lamar Center, September 28-29. These included the keynote, "Defining the Frontier City in the Early Modern World," a comparison of Goa, Macao and Manila with Atlantic World cities, and "Charles Town, South Carolina: Rogue City on the Southern Frontier."

Donna Guy, History, led a discussion on the film "Trapped in the Closet" to residents of Archer Hall, October 9.

Derek Heng, History-Marion, presented "From Political Rhetoric to National Narrative: Bi-Culturalism & Hybridisation in the Writing of Singapore’s National History" and chaired a panel, "Hybridisation and Biculturalism in Singapore History" at the International Conference of Asian Scholars 5 at Kuala Lumpur.

Andrew Hudgins, English, gave poetry readings at Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, Missouri, September 27, and at Missouri State Poetry Society’s annual convention, Festus, Missouri, September 28.

Pranav Jani, English, presented "Linking Asian American Studies and Asian American Students" for a panel on "Why Study Asians in America? A Roundtable Discussion" at the Asian American Studies 10th Anniversary Celebration, OSU, September 26; and "Restrictions on Academic Freedom after 9/11" for a panel on "Why Democracy Needs a Free Press," Democracy Matters at OSU and OSU School of Communication, October 4.

Hasan Kwame Jeffries, History, presented "Making Sense of the Madness: Decoding the Many Responses to Black Power," an invited lecture at SUNY at Geneseo, September 26. He also met with a group of history majors to discuss Ohio State’s graduate program in history.

John King, English, presented "Print, Patronage, and the Reception of Continental Reform: 1521-1603" at a conference on The Reception of Continental Reformation in Britain and Ireland, British Academy, London, September 7. He served as Principal Investigator and Co-director with James K. Bracken, Assistant Director of University Libraries and Adjunct Professor of English, of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University teachers. Entitled "The Reformation of the Book: 1450-1700," this five-week program convened at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp (the world's only surviving early modern printing and publishing house) and The University of Oxford, with a side trip to the British Library and Senate House Library at the University of London.

Sebastian Knowles, English, presented "Joyce and Philately" at the Austin Briggs 50th Anniversary Symposium, Hamilton College, New York, September 29.

Lee Martin, English, gave a fiction reading at the University of Vermont on October 4. He also led a writing workshop, "If It Doesn't Matter to the Writer: The Art of Urgency in Creative Writing" at Columbus State Community College, October 6.

Erin McGraw, English, gave Fiction Readings at Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina, July 17, and at West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, September 27.

Koritha Mitchell, English, presented "Enduring 'Strange Fruit': Lynching Drama and African American Citizenship," a plenary presentation at the annual conference of Ford Foundation Fellows: Irvine, California, October 5; and "'Recreating Each Other': James Baldwin's Conception of Theater," an invited talk for One Book, One Northwestern 2007: Go Tell It on the Mountain. Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, October 9.

Scopas S. Poggo, African American and African Studies-Mansfield, presented "The Sudan Civil Wars: The Link Between the North-South Strife and the Darfur Conflict," at the Presbyterian Church, Columbus, September 12.

Graduate student Shannon Thomas, English, presented "'Puzzl[ing] us more and more': The Reception of Post-bellum Women Poets in American Periodicals" at the Reception Studies Society Conference, Kansas City, Missouri, September 28.

David Staley, History, curated and designed the online exhibition "Hendrik Willem van Loon: Illustrations from The Story of Mankind" for the Ohio State University Libraries: visit the OSU LIbraries Web site.

David Stebenne, History, presented "The Columbia, Maryland Town Center in Historical Perspective" at the Howard County Central Library in Columbia, Maryland, September 25.

Elizaabeth Weiser, English, presented "Dorothy Day: Personalizing (to) the Masses" at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 4.

Graduate student Kate White, English, presented "Recovering the Role of Reading: How Nineteenth-Century Women Read Their Way into History," Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 2007.

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.

Kevin Gaines (University of Michigan) will present "African Americans in Ghana: Black Expatriates in the Civil Rights Era," 1:00 pm, October 19, 347 University Hall, co-sponsored by the Department of History. Contact: Department of African American and African Studies, 292-3700.

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.

Daniel Soljar (ANU/Harvard University) will present "What is a Physical Property," 3:30 pm, October 19, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

Eugene Holland, Comparative Studies and French and Italian, will present "Narrative and Ideology after Althusser," 4:00 pm, October 19, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Rick Livingston, Comparative Studies and the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, will respond. 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," 4:00 pm, October 23, Faculty Club, for the Music as a Biological Imperative Working Group. Contact: fisher.14@osu.edu.

Dan Collins, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures, will present "Things That Go Bump in the Slavic Night: East European Tales of Encounters with Supernatural Evils" for Halloween in the Humanities: The Folklore of Dracula and the Ghosts of OSU, 7:00 pm, October 24, Royer Student Activities Center. The talk will be followed by a ghost tour of OSU. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP: 292-1882 or fickle.7@osu.edu.

A symposium on "Multicultural Narratives and Narrative Theory" occurs October 25-27, Blackwell Conference Center. Sponsored by Project Narrative, the symposium will bring together scholars working in narrative theory with those working in U.S. ethnic and postcolonial literary studies. For further information, visit the: Projective Narrative Web site.

Wendy Hesford, English; Yana Hashamova, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures; and Ruby Tapia, Comparative Studies, will participate in the Women in War Conference, October 26-27, Mershon Center, 1501 Neil Avenue. Information about the conference is available at the: Slavic Center Web site.

Barbara Sicherman (Trinity College) will present "Varieties of Reading Experience: Women and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century America," 4:00 pm, November 1, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: graff.40@osu.edu.

Toby Gelfand (University of Ottawa) will present "La famille nérvopathique or How Heredity Became a Dogma for Nervous Disease," 4:30 pm, November 1, Medical Heritage Center Prior Health Sciences Library, 5^th Floor 376 West 10^th Avenue, for the 5^th John C. Burnham Lecture in Medical History. Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Medical Heritage Center. RSVP by October 25. Contact: Gail Summerhill, 292-3001; summerhill.1@osu.edu.

Andrew Hudgins, Chris Higgs, and Debie Thomas will give a Student/Faculty reading, 7:00 pm, November 1, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Fiona Somerset (Duke University) will present "Translation and Censorship," 2:30 pm, November 2, 090 Science and Engineering Library, for the Translations Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.