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English graduate student Sheila Bock received a Course Enhancement Grant from OSU Libraries for teaching English 270 in autumn 2008

David A. Brewer, English, was awarded a Course Enhancement Grant from OSU Libraries for his summer 2008 English 737 (Introduction to Graduate Study in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel).

Robert Denning, History, received the Historical Society of Southern California's Haynes Research Stipend to conduct research at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library this summer.

Graduate student Peter De Simone, History, received an International Travel Grant from the Colleges of Arts and Sciences for his research project this summer in the Russian Federation.

Steve Fink, English, is this year's recipient of the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring. Professor Fink was also named the English Department’s Undergraduate Professor of the Year as selected by the Undergraduate Organization, EUGO.

Hannibal Hamlin, English, served as an examiner in Shakespeare for the Swarthmore College Honors Program, May 22-24.

English Emeritus Professor Ernest Lockridge received THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD for his painting "Park of Roses," at the spring 2008 Anthem Art Show, sponsored by the Worthington Area Art League.

Marlene Longenecker, English, was selected by the English Department Graduate Organization, EGO, as the Graduate Professor of the Year.

Elizabeth Renker, English, was awarded a Course Enhancement Grant by OSU Libraries for her autumn 2008 graduate seminar in archival research methods.

Graduate student Spencer Robinson, Slavic Languages and Literatures, was chosen for the OSTEP Graduate Teaching Fellow Program for 2008–9. The OSTEP program offers support and opportunities for senior graduate students who are nominated by their college, school, or department to develop new, discipline-specific teaching support activities for other GTAs in their units.

Catherine C. Braun, English, and Kenneth L. Gilbert, "This Is Scholarship," Kairos 12.3 (May 2008), http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/binder.html?topoi/braun_gilbert/index.html.

Jennifer Huff, History, "'The Only Feasible Desegregation Plan': Milliken v. Bradley and the District Court's Order for Cross-District Busing" The Court Legacy (May).

English graduate students Lis Lindeman and Gregory O. Smith, "Literature and Digital Illumination," Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy 12.3 (Summer 2008),  http://kairos.technorhetoric.net/12.3/binder.html?topoi/lindeman-smith/index.html

Geoffrey Parker, History, published The Times Compact History of the World, 5th edition, a new Italian edition of La Rivoluzione Militare (Torino: Il Giornale, 2008; Biblioteca Storica 20), and “Queen Elizabeth’s Instructions to Admiral Howard, 20 December 1587,” The Mariner’s Mirror, 94 (2008): 202-8.

James Phelan, English,“But What's the Right Answer? Bottom Lines in Teaching the Humanities," Talking about Teaching 3 (2008): 33-40.

Christopher Phelps, History, published "Solidarnosc in Lodz: An Interview with Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski," in International Labor and Working-Class History 73 (Spring 2008): 106-136.

Doug Ramspeck [Sutton-Ramspeck], English,"The Adulterer’s Wife,” Poem, The Sierra Nevada Review 19 (Spring 2008): 48; "Late Husband," Poem, Rpt. in Verse Daily 27.2 (May 17, 2008), http://www.versedaily.org/; "Letter to a Young Poet," Poem, Karamu 21.1 (Spring 2008): 64; "Salt," Poem, Hayden’s Ferry Review 42 (Spring/Summer 2008): 222.

Amy Shuman, English, Review of The Story is True by Bruce Jackson, Journal of Folklore Research, Posted May 22, 2008, http://www.indiana.edu/~jofr/review.php?id=529 

Maria Teresa Agozzino, English, "Welsh-for-a-day: Celtic Romanticism and Perceptions of Nationhood," Annual Meeting of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada / l´association canadienne d´ethnologie et de folklore, Cape Breton University, May 24.

Catherine C. Braun, English, "New Media Scholarship Stakeholders: Departmental Issues," Computers and Writing Conference, Athens, Georgia, May 23.

John Brooke, History, presented comments at a panel titled "Discourses of Violence in the Early Republic," at "Religion and Violence in Early America: A Conference Sponsored by the Yale University Graduate School and the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture," April 11-12, New Haven, Conn; and at a panel titled "A Concatenation of Corporations: Public and Private Power in the Early National Public Sphere," at the 14th Omohundro Institute Conference, June 6-8, Boston, Mass.

Susan Burch, English, gave an invited talk, "Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson (examining race, disability and gender in history)," at the University of California-Davis, May 14.

Susan H. Delagrange, English, presented the following: "Building a Digital Wunderkammer," an invited presentation for the Digital Union Showcase, The Ohio State University, May 21; "A Digital Wunderkammer," TELR Five Minutes of Fame, The Ohio State University, April 25; and "When Revision Is Re-Design," an invited talk for the Professional Development Committee's Spring Research presentation, The Ohio State University, Mansfield, Ohio, April 28.

Theodora Dragostinova, History, presented "Bulgarian Crossroads: History, Nationalism, and Identity," at a seminar for the new United States Ambassador to Bulgaria organized by the Intelligence and Research Bureau of the Department of State in Washington, DC, May 23.

Steven Fink, English, "Contemporary Jewish American Fiction and Jewish American Identity," Temple Israel, Marion, Ohio, May 17

Timothy Gregory, History, presented “Late Antiquity in the Eastern Korinthia (Greece): A mirror looking from city to country in a central part of the Eastern Mediterannean,” at the International Symposium, “Holistic Archaeology,” Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium, June 2.

Hannibal Hamlin, English, "Strangers in Strange Lands: Biblical Models of Exile in Early Modern England," Exile and Religious Identity in Early Modern Britain and Ireland Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, May 17.

David Herman, English, presented "Approaches to Stories and Storytelling," a panel on "A Cross-Campus View of Story in Teaching, Research, and Outreach" organized as part of the International Day for Sharing Life Stories events sponsored by The Ohio State University, May 16.

Timothy T. Jensen, English, “Rhetorical Criticism and Our Future in Electronic Publishing,” presented in the session entitled “Implications of the New Media,” The Responsibilities of Rhetoric (Rhetoric Society of America), Seattle, Wash., May 25.

Glenn Kranking, History, presented "'Our Prayer is for Mother Svea To Protect Us': The 1940 Evacuation of the Pakri Islands and the Forced Evacuation of the Estonian-Swedes," at the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies conference, Indiana University, May 29-31;  he also served as chair for the session "Political Thought and Image Creation at the Turn of the Century."

John F. Moe, English, "The Myth of Americanization or the Divided Heart," chair, European Association for American Studies, Oslo, Norway, May 10; public presentation at the Norwegian Emigration Museum and Research Foundation on "Memory, Culture, and Myth: The Language of the Landscape," May 2008.

Jim Phelan, English, "Contemporary Narrative Theory as Focalized through the Editor of Narrative," Stanford University, April 10; "Voice, Form, and Politics in Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Initiation, the Launch, and Their Consequences," Conference on Race and Narrative Theory, Stanford University, April 11; "Narratives in Contest: Examples from Politics, Performance, and Literature," Keynote Address, College English Association of Ohio, Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, April 25; "Narrative Beginnings: A Rhetorical Approach," International Conference on Narrative, Austin, Texas, May 2; "A Response to Alan Palmer's 'Attributions of Madness in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love," Workshop on Madness in Literature, Ghent, Belgium, May 15; "Madness, Unreliability, and Ethics: Martin Amis's Time's Arrow," Plenary Address, Workshop on Madness in Literature, Ghent, Belgium, May 16.

Martin Joseph Ponce, English, invited panelist, International Day for Telling Life Stories: Panel Discussion, The Ohio State University, Columbus, May 16; "The Queer Villa," American Literature Association, San Francisco, Calif., May 25.

Carolyn Skinner, English, "Mutual Responsibility: The Woman's Medical Journal," Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference. Seattle, Washington, May 23, 2008.

David Stebenne, History, "Eisenhower-era Republicanism," Policy History Conference in St. Louis, Mo., May 30.

Sean O’Sullivan, English, "Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?" The Sopranos: A Wake, New York, N.Y., May 24.

Elizabeth Weiser, English, "Making it Matter: The Importance of Timebound Analysis," Presentation to the Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, Wash., May 24.

Karen Winstead, English, “Bokenham's Life of Saint Barbara and Fifteenth-Century ‘Reformation Hagiography,’” 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Mich., May 10.