English News - Spring 2010

Patricia A. Dunn presented a paper, "Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Writing," at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference, November 21, 2009, in Philadelphia.

E. Ann Kaplan published two essays: “Women, Trauma and Late Modernity: Sontag, Duras and Silence in Cinema 1960-1980” in Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 50 Nos 1 & 2 (Spring and Fall 2009): 158-175; and “Sontag, Modernity and Cinema: Women and an Aesthetics of Silence, 1960-1980” in The Scandal of Susan Sontag, eds. Barbara Ching and Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, New York: Columbia University Press, 2010: 106-127. Her invited contribution was published in a forum, "Toward Interdisciplinary Film Studies," in Cinema Journal (Fall 2009): 187-191, and she presented a paper,
“Sontag, Cinema and Reborn (Sontag’s Journals 1947-1963),” at the Modern Language Association Annual Conference in Philadelphia, December 29 2009. In June 2009 Professor Kaplan was honored with the Distinguished Career Achievement Award by the The Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Peter Manningpresented a talk, “Poetry from the North: Tony Harrison and William Wordsworth,” at the Department of English, University of Denver, in October 2009, and served as a Speaker/Participant in a Seminar on Historicisms at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics in Denver in the same month. In November he gave a talk, “Wordsworth’s Illustrated Books and Newspapers and the New Media of the City,” at the annual conference of the  International Conference on Romanticism, City University of New York.
 
Celia Marshik     presented a paper, "Marketing the Mac,”  and organized and chaired a panel, "Fashion’s Vernaculars: A Roundtable," at the 11th Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference in November 2009 in Montreal.

Adrienne Munich  published the following articles: “The Elephant in the Room of The Ivory Tower,” The Henry James Review 30(Winter 2009): 55-61 (co-authored with EGL graduate student Anthony Teets);
and “Jews and Jewels: A Symbolic Economy on the South African Diamond Fields”  in The Jew in Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East Africa, edited by Eitan Bar-Joseph and Nadia Valman,  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 28-44. Her essay “Knowing Shopgirls: Monica Madden and Gissing’s Refusal” was accepted for publiction in George Gissing and Women, Ed. Christine Hueget and Simon James, Equilibris Press, forthcoming 2010 (or 2011). In October, she delivered a paper in Vancouver at a joint conference of the  Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and the Victorian Interdisciplianary Association of the Western United States Victorian on Markets and Marketing: “Shopgirls: What They Know and How They Know It.” On New Year’s Day she acquired a rescue puppy, a Westie named Molly, thus diminishing her scholarly activities for the foreseeable future.

Andrew Newman presented a paper, "Punic Bargains and Native Histories," at the Columbia University Seminar in Early America History and Cuture on September 8.

Jeffrey Santa Ana published an article on the Filipino American novelist and artist, Jessica Hagedorn, in The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, Volume 2.  Ed. Patrick O’Donnell, David W. Madden, and Justus Nieland.  Malden, MA; Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 

Stephen Spector gave a talk, "Uneasy Allies: Evangelicals and Israel," at Williams College on October 22, 2009.

Bente Videbaek has launched the first issue of an on-line journal with Mike Boecherer called THIS ROUGH MAGIC (thisroughmagic.org). We're a peer reviewed journal dedicated to Medieval and Early Modern times, all published submissions related to help teach works from these periods. Anybody interested in spreading the word about this publication will be thanked!

Lauren Kilian presented a paper, " 'The Logic of the And': Don DeLillo and Jean-Luc Godard's Rhizomtic Dialogue," at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature on June 3, 2009, in London.

Derek McGrath presented three papers:  "Shrinking from my father’:  Disguises and Dickens’s Darwinism in Our Mutual Friend," at the Modern Language Association convention in December 2009, in Philadelphia; "Definitions of Home in Terms of Immobility and Movement in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative," at the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in November 2009, in Ottawa; and " 'I Won’t Feel a Thing’:  Invulnerable Male Superheroes Made Emotional through Internet-Broadcasted Song in Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog," at the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association conference in October 2009.

Rachel Walsh presented, "On Not Uttering Justice:  Scenes of Violence and Mourning in William Faulkner," at the SAMLA:  Human Rights and the Humanities Conference in Atlanta, Nov. 7th, 2009.  Most recently, her manuscript, "What Stories We Tell When We Talk About Torture:  Torture and the Geopolitics of Compassion in Rendition and The Constant Gardener" was accepted by Society and Space:  Environment and Planning D, for its special issue on Terror.