Current News

David Cressy, History: Coming Over: Migration and Communication between England and New England in the Seventeenth Century, re-issued in paperback (Cambridge University Press, October 2007)

Kathy Fagan, English: "Visitation," reprint in Writing Poems, eds. Boisseau, Wallace, & Mann, 7th Edition (New York: Pearson Longman, 2007): 228; "Road Memorial," Kenyon Review 29.4 (Fall 2007): 122-23; and "Leap of Faith," Laurel Review 41.2 (Fall 2007, guest-edited by Linda Bierds): 48-49.

Andrew Hudgins, English: "End-Days in the Garden," The Hudson Review 60.3 (2007): 369-388; "Mother," Surreal South: An Anthology of Short Fiction and Poetry (Press 51: Winston-Salem, North Carolina): 221; "Fat Johnny," "The Ice-Cream Truck," "Grandmother's Bed," "My Hero," "The County Fair," TriQuarterly 128 (Fall 2007): 130-135; and "Came Back," "Death and Doom," "The Nurse," "The Return of the Magi," "In a Distant Room," The Southern Review 43.4 (2007): 806-810.

Stephen Kern, History: fourth edition of the Italian translation of The Culture of Time and Space with the new preface (Bologna, il Mulino, 2007).

Lisa Kiser, English: "Animal Acts: Animals in Medieval Sports, Entertainments, and Menageries," A Cultural History of Animals, eds. Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl, vol. 2 (Oxford: Berg; Oxford International, 2007): 103-26.

Sebastian Knowles, Humanities and English: foreword, Joyce's Misbelief by Roy Gottfried (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008): ix-x.

Robert Kraut, Philosophy: Artworld Metaphysics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Brian McHale, English: "En abyme: internal models and cognitive mapping," A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative, and Knowledge, eds. John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer, and Luca Poci (New York: Routledge, 2007): 189-205.

Stewart Shapiro, Philosophy: "All Things Indefinitely Extensible" (with Crispin Wright), in Absolute Generality, ed. Agustín Rayo (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006): 255-304; "Structure and Identity," Modality and Identity, ed. Fraser MacBride (Oxford University Press, 2006): 109-145; "The Governance of Identity", in Modality and Identity, ed. Fraser MacBride (Oxford University Press, 2006): 164-173; "Computability, Proof, and Open-texture," Church's thesis after 70 years, eds. Adam Olszewski, Jan Woleñski, and Robert Janusz, (Frankfurt, Ontos Verlag, 2006): 420-455; "Effectiveness," The Age of Alternative Logics: Assessing Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Today, eds. Johan van Benthem, Gerhard Heinzmann, Manuel Rebuschi, and Henk Visser, Dordrecht (The Netherlands, Springer, 2006): 37-49.

Neil Tennant, Philosophy: "What Might Logic and Methodology Have Offered the Dover School Board, Had They Been Willing to Listen?," Public Affairs Quarterly 21.2 (April 2007): 149-167; "Logic, Mathematics and the Natural Sciences," ed. Dale Jacquette, Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Volume 5: Philosophy of Logic, Elsevier BV (2006): 1149-1166; "On the Degeneracy of the Full AGM-Theory of Theory-Revision," Journal of Symbolic Logic, 71. 2 (2006): 661-676; and "New Foundations for a Relational Theory of Theory-Revision," Journal of Philosophical Logic 35 (2006): 489-528.

Sabra Webber, Comparative Studies, with Frank Spaulding: "'The Horror! The Horror!' A Response to Stanley Kurtz' 'Marriage and the Terror War,'" Part I, Anthropology News 48.5 (2007): 17-18 and Part II. Anthropology News 48.6 (2007): 6-7; "Between Global Comparativism and Ethnographic Precision: Toward a Mediterranean Anthropology? Entre vision globale comparatiste et précision ethnographique: vers une anthropologie méditerranéenne?," Terrains et savoirs actuels de l'anthropologie: Série AnthropologieEthnologie 1 (Tunis: Cahiers du C.E.R.E.S.): 207-222.

Lee Abbott, English, and David Cressy, History, have been awarded the title of College of Humanities Distinguished Professor.

"Engaging the Politics and Pleasures of Indigenous Aeshetics," an essay written by Chadwick Allen, English, was a finalist for the Don D. Walker Award for the best essay published in 2006 in the field of western American studies, given by the Western Literature Association.

Sai Bhatawadekar, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, received the College's Diversity Enhancement Award for her innovative work to promote diversity.

Julia Nelson-Hawkins, Greek and Latin, was the recipient of the College's Virginia Hull Research Award for her project, "Medicine in Augustan Rome: Therapoetics after Actium."

Amy Shuman, English, is the 2007 recipient of the Humanities Exemplary Faculty Award.

Christopher Phelps, History, was interviewed live about his articles on Bettina and Herbert Aptheker on radio station KPFK, Los Angeles, October 29.

Chadwick Allen, English, presented "Earthworks as Technologies of Indigeneity in Blood Run," Western Literature Association conference, Tacoma, Washington, October 18.

Sheila Bock, English, presented "Family Stories and Lay Perceptions of Risk for Diabetes," American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Undergraduate student Clayton Caroon, English-Newark, presented "Vietnamese Foodways: Creating a Sense of Place in Urban Central Ohio," American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Justin D'Arms, Philosophy, presented "Regret and Irrational Action," University of British Columbia, Philosophy Department Spring Colloquium, March 2007; "Guilt and Wrongness Reconsidered," American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Group Meeting of the Society for Empirical Ethics, April 2007; and "Sentimentalism and the Wrong Kind of Reasons" with Daniel Jacobson, SPAWN (Syracuse Philosophy Department) Conference on Practical Reason, Summer 2007.

Graduate student Ann Ferrell, English, presented "'Everybody's Got Their Green Pepper Story': Discourses of Tradition and Innovation in the Decline of Tobacco Farming." American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage") Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Donna Guy, History, presented "Politics and Perils in the Archives," Society of American Archivists at the University of Texas, Austin, October 18. She also taught a graduate workshop and presented "Women and the Welfare State in Argentina," History Department, October 19.

Stephen Hall, History, presented "Assessing African American Historiography: Past, Present and Future," an invited talk as part of a Schomburg-Mellon Humanities Institute at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, New York, July 9.

Lecturer Lyn Hegarty, History, presented "Guess the Straight Person Panel" for the residents in the Norton, Scott, Archer residential complex, October 18.

Dan Hobbins, History, gave guest lectures on Joan of Arc at Bowling Green State University, October 17, and at Ohio Northern University, October 23.

Merrill Kaplan, English, presented "Before Cultural Heritage: Claiming the Intangible in 14^th-Century Iceland." American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Brian McHale, English, presented "Literal Narratology, or, Learning from Science Fiction," an invited lecture, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, October 15; and Plenary lecture, First International Narratology Conference, Nanchang, China, October 17.

Koritha Mitchell, English, was invited to offer a plenary presentation at the annual conference of Ford Foundation Fellows: "Enduring 'Strange Fruit': Lynching Drama and African American Citizenship," Irvine, California, October 5. She also presented "'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.

Linda Mizejewski, English and Women's Studies, presented "Queen Latifah, Unruly Women, and the Bodies of Romantic Comedy," an invited lecture at the University of Oregon, October 25.

Debra Moddelmog, English, presented "What's So Gay About Romantic Comedy?: Contemporary Hollywood Romance and the Anxiety over Same-Sex Marriage," Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference, UCLA, October 20; and was the commentator for "Sexing Empire and Queering Citizenship: A 'History Across Borders' Roundtable Discussion," OSU Department of History, Faculty of Color Caucus, October 3.

Lecturer John Moe, English, presented "The Interpreter's Gaze on the American Social Landscape: African American Literary and Folk Art Narratives about Trauma, Identity, and Salvation." American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Patrick Mullen, English, presented "Theories for the Examination of Race in American Folklore Studies." American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Dorothy Noyes, English, presented "Brazil in Berlin: Cultural Warming and the Future of the Global South" and "Introducing New Resources for Folklore and Ethnography: The H-Folk Listserv for Folklore Scholarship," and was a discussant for "Performing Identity in the British Isles and Ireland," American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Amy Shuman, English, presented "Phenomenology and Fieldwork: Reconstituting the Taken-for-Granted" and was a discussant for "Health and the Stigmatized Vernacular II," American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Lecturer Martha Sims, English, presented "Stitching Stories: Mary Borkowski's Spectrum of Expression." American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

Carolyn Skinner, English-Mansfield, presented "Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Public Policy," Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference, Little Rock, Arkansas, October 6.

David Stebenne, History, presented "Completing Columbia" at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland, October 25.

Sigrun Svavarsdottir, Philosophy, presented "The Virtue of Practical Rationality," Rutgers University, April 19; Dartmouth College, May 16; to the Metaethics Group, Brown University, May 21; and at Work in Progress Seminar, MIT, May 24.

Neil Tennant, Philosophy, presented "Inductive Definitions, Proofs by Mathematical Induction, and the Foundations of Mathematics,'" Logic Program, Indiana University, December 2006; "The History of the Explanatory Gap," Department of Philosophy, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburgh, South Africa, August; "Rational Belief Revision," Department of Philosophy, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa, September; and "Natural Foundations for Synthetic Projective Geometry," Midwest Workshop in Philosophy of Mathematics VIII, Notre Dame, October.

Karen Winstead, English, presented "From Lydgate to Caxton to Foxe: Saints Pre-formed and Reformed," Columbia University, October 11.

Graduate student Nancy Yan, English, presented "Model Minorities: Narratives of Chinese Restaurants, Citizenship, and Diversity." American Folklore Society/Folklore Studies Association of Canada Joint Annual Meeting ("The Politics and Practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage"), Québec City, Canada, October 17-21.

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.

David Hilbert (University of Illinois at Chicago) will present "Color Blindness and Basic Sensible Qualities," 3:30 pm, November 2, 347 University Hall. Contact: Department of Philosophy, 292-7914.

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.

Daoud Hari, who survived torture in Darfur, Sudan, will be the keynote speaker at "DARFUR: A Call to your Conscience II," 3:00-6:00 pm, November 11, Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center, 153 W.12th Avenue. Hari is a representative of SAVE DARFUR's "Voices from Darfur" national speaking tour, and part of a 2-day program sponsored by the newly-formed Central Ohio Darfur Solidarity Network. This free event continues on November 12 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm. at the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, 905 Mt. Vernon Avenue. Speakers include Daoud Hari, Scopas Poggo, African American and African Studies-Mansfield,and graduate student Mohamed Salim. Contact: William Barndt at wbarndt@insight.rr.com

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.

The inaugural meeting of the Local Worlds Working Group of the Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities will be at 4:00 pm, November 7, George Wells Knight House, 104 East 15^th Avenue. Contact: Morgan Liu, liu.737@osu.edu