Current News

Graduate student Alina Bennett, Women’s Studies: review, Robert McRuer's new book, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, in Disability Studies Quarterly 27.4 (Fall 2007).

Angela Brintlinger, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures: translation/edition of Vladislav Khodasevich's Derzhavin: A Biography (University of Wisconsin Press).

Susan Hartmann, History: "Gender and the Transformation of Politics," The Columbia History of Post-World War II America, Mark C. Carnes, ed., (Columbia University Press, 2007): 285-310.

Robin Judd, History: Contested Rituals: Circumcision, Kosher Butchering, and Jewish Political Life in Germany, 1843-1933 (Cornell University Press).

Jeredith Merrin, English: "Surfing the Pororoca," poem, The Yale Review 95.4 (October 2007): 20.

Wendy Smooth, Women’s Studies and Kirwan Institute, with Byron D’Andra Orey: "Race and Gender Matter: Refining Models of Legislative Policy Making in State Legislatures," the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy 24.3-4

Linda Bernhard, Women’s Studies and Nursing, received the Ruth C. Ellis Memorial Achievement Award from Lesbian Health News in September 2007.

Susan Delagrange, English-Mansfield, presented "Reflecting on Feminism(s) & Rhetoric(s): Looking Forward, Looking Back," October 4, and "Civic Tensions: National Policies, Local Practices, Global Consequences," October 5, at the Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas.

Robin Judd, History, presented "Rethinking Reconstruction: Jewish War Brides and Post War Narratives" at the American Jewish Archives this summer.

Koritha Mitchell, English, presented "Enduring 'Strange Fruit': Lynching Drama and African American Citizenship," a Plenary Presentation at the Ford Foundation Fellows Conference, Irvine, California, October 5.

Martin Joseph Ponce, English, presented "Why Study Asians in America? A Roundtable Discussion" (invited panelist). The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Sept. 28; and "Transhemispheric Cultural Movements (chair and discussant), American Studies Association," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 13.

Wendy Smooth, Women’s Studies and Kirwan Institute, presented "Gender, Race, and State Legislative Politics," Political Theory Workshop, OSU Department of Political Science, April; was Opening Plenary Moderator, African American Male Conference, OSU Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race/Ethnicity, May; presented "Gender and Race in American State Legislatures," Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D. C., May; presented "Cliff Notes to Understanding Women and Politics" (invited speaker), John Glenn Institute's NEW Leadership Summer Program, a program designed to encourage college women to consider a future in political leadership, June; and served as panel discussant for "Intersectionality and Representation: Women of Color and the Path to Public Office," American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August.

Mary Thomas, Women’s Studies and Geography, presented "Is the Unconscious Only Collective in Qualitative Research? The Limits of Psychoanalysis in Work on Identification and Identity” at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California; "’The boys, they just make everything a big deal’: Riots, Racial/ethnic Difference, and Gendered Response to Violence in a Los Angeles High School” at the Feminist Critical Analysis workshop on "Race, Discourse, Biopolitics," Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in May 2007; and "The Sexual Attraction of Racism: Teen Girls Explain a School Race Riot in L.A.” at the NWSA Conference, June 2007.

Julia Watson, Comparative Studies, presented "Old Wine in New Bottles?: Puerto Rican Memories and New York Lives" in the session on Immigrant and Ethnic Autobiography, which she also moderated, at the conference on "Writing the Self in the Americas: Diaries, Letters, Life Stories, 17-20th Century” at the Université de Versailles, St. Quentin en Yvelines, France in June, 2007.

Elizabeth Weiser, English, presented "Faculty Presentations on Undergraduate Research," Undergraduate Research Day, The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 7

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 Project 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 on the Slavic Centers' Web site.

The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies will host its annual conference on manuscript studies, "Texts and Contexts,” October 26-27, 090 Science and Engineering Library. Visit the Egigraphy 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.

Meradith McMunn (Rhode Island College) will present "The Artist as Translator of the Roman de la Rose,” 2:30 pm, November 2, 090 Science and Engineering Library, for the Translations Lecture Series. Contact: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 292-7495.

Joann Bromberg (independent scholar) will present "Building a Social World through Conversational Narrative,” 3:30 pm, November 2, 104 East 15^th Avenue, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Co-sponsored with Project Narrative. Contact: herman.145@osu.edu.

Porter Abbott (University of California, Santa Barbara) will present "Unreadable Minds,” and Alan Palmer (independent scholar, London) will present "Social Minds,” 4:00 pm, November 5, 104 East 15^th Avenue, in a workshop on Cognitive Narratology, for the Narrative and Cognition Working Group. Co-sponsored with Project Narrative. Contact: langendorfer.2@osu.edu.

Randal Johnson (UCLA) will present "Satin Slippers, Vain Glories, and Talking Pictures: Manoel de Oliveira Looks at the World,” 3:30 pm, November 9, 255 Hagerty Hall, for the Lusophone Globalicities Working Group. Contact: gordon.397@osu.edu.

Poet Allison Joseph will give a Reading, 7:00 pm, November 15, 311 Denney Hall. Contact: Creative Writing Program, 292-2242.

Amy Shuman, English, will present "Larger than Life Stories: Aminah Robinson’s Water Street Journeys,” 7:00 pm, November 15, at the Columbus Museum of Art, in conjunction with the "Along Water Street: New Work by Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson” exhibition, in the Big Picture Lecture Series. Contact: zacher.1@osu.edu.

Ruby Tapia, Comparative Studies, will present "Publishing in Academic Journals,” 11:30 am, November 16, 286A University Hall. She will discuss strategies for turning your work into journal publications. Contact: tapia.14@osu.edu.

Craige Roberts, Linguistics, will present the second Inaugural Lecture of the year at 4:30 pm, November 19, OSU Faculty Club. Contact: Kelli Fickle, 292-1882.