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 T
he 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!