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David Shields will be reading from his new book The Thing About Life is that One day You’ll Be Dead, at the Brown Club on Thursday, May 29, 7:00 p.m., Mary Gates Hall (UW campus). Room 074. This will be a cocktail reception, informal reading, and discussion about the book. Arranged with Carolyn Hutter, chutter@u.washington.edu.
Writing It Real in Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Thursday evening, June 26 through noon Monday June 30, 2008, at the Harborside Inn, Port Townsend, WA. Faculty: Shieila Bender (publisher of Writing It Real, an online magazine), Meg Files (author and poet), Jack Heffron (editorial director of Clerisy Press), and Susan Rich (author and international award winner). Tuition: $475. Info: email conference@writingitreal.com, visit www.writingitreal.com, or call Sheila Bender at 360.385.7839.
Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Visiting Member Awards for 2009-10, The theme: Education, Schools and the State. Up to 20 visiting scholars are invited as Members; a completed doctorate or equivalent is required by the application deadline (November 15, 2008). For information and to complete an application, go to www.sss.ias.edu/applications.
Jed Murr has been selected to participate in the 2008 Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students, this honor carries a fellowship award of $500. This institute is now in its sixth year and is sponsored by the Simpson Center, Graduate School, College of Arts & Sciences, and the Divisional Deans of the Arts & Sciences & Social Sciences.
Frederick Burkhardt Fellowships, in the 2009-10 academic year, the Institute for Advanced Study will again take part in this program sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies. These fellowships support more adventurous, more wide-ranging and longer-term patterns of research than are current in the humanities and related social sciences. Up to nine recently tenured faculty, most of whom will spend a year at one of several residential research centers.
Applicants must submit a research plan typically covering a three-five year period, during which time one year could be spent as a Member at the Institute, at either of the two Schools. For a more detailed description of the terms of the fellowship and information about how to apply, visit the ACLS website (www.scls.org) or through the ACLS Applications for this program must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system (OFA) by October 2, 2008. OFA is accessible at ofa.acls.org or through the ACLS website.
45th Annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading, presenting Brad Leithauser and Mary Jo Salter, May 20, 2008, at 8:00pm in the Roethke Auditorium (130 Kane Hall). A reception will follow. Free admission.
“Perversely Conversational: Interaction in Convergent Media Computer-Mediated Communication,” Susan Herring will be speaking on this subject on May 28, 2008, 3:30-5:30 CMU 126. Preceding her talk Herring will present a seminar to graduate students interested in new media discourse analysis, at the Simpson Center, CMU Room 202. For information and to participate in the seminar, please send an email (thurlow@u.washington.edu) as soon as possible to Professor Crispin Thurlow in the Department of Communication. Spaces are very limited. A required reading will be available beforehand.
Ralph Hanna will be presenting a lecture on “The Topography of the York Play,” at the Simpson Center Conference room on Wednesday, May 21, 2008, at 5:30. He is Professor of Paleography, Keble College, Oxford University. A reception will follow.
The day before, May 20, 2008, from 1:30-3:30, in PAR310, he will lead a seminar on the construction and later use of Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson C.285, an interesting and much (ab)used English collection of religious prose made originally about 1400. His seminar on May 22 (same time/place as May 20) will take up the recent claim by Linne Mooney that we can now identify Chaucer’s Adam Scrivener (and scribe of the Ellensmere and Hengwrt MSS) as Adam Pynkhurst. If you plan to attend either seminar, please let Miceal Vaughan know in advance: miceal@u.washington.edu.
The Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program invites faculty to apply by August 1, 2008. For information and details see www.cies.org.
David Shields will be reading from his book, The Thing About Life is that One day You’ll Be Dead, on May 22nd at Santoro’s Books, 7216 Greenwood Avenue North, at 7:30pm.
MLA Graduate Student Travel Grants. The $200 grant is given to advanced Graduate students as partial reimbursement of expenses for travel to the convention (San Francisco in 2008). Students must be 2008 members of the MLA (deadline to join/renew is June 30, 2008) and must have met all the requirements for the PhD except dissertation. For additional information or details on how to apply, please refer to the MLA’s web site: www.mla.org, under Resources, or contact Annie Reiser at 646.576.5141 or at awards@mla.org.
Jentery Sayers and Lisa Thornhill have been awarded a Huckabay Teaching Fellowship for the 1008-09 academic year. This gives them both a three-month salary, tuition, and graduate appointee health insurance.
Allison Gross and Shannon Mondor have been selected to participate in the 2008 Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students. this honor carries a fellowship award of $500. This institute is now in its sixth year and is sponsored by the Simpson Center, Graduate School, College of Arts & Sciences, and the Divisional Deans of the Arts & Sciences & Social Sciences.
Honni van Rijswijk has been honored with an award of a Simpson Center Society of Scholars fellowship for 2008-2009. Congratulation, Honni!
Enriching the Academy: Diversity Research at the UW, 2008 Annual Spring Conference, highlights the latest scholarship emerging from four UW research clusters focused on difference, social justice, and institutional transformation. “Exploring the Boundaries of Citizenship and inclusion in the USA;” “Pathways to Wellness: Indigenizing Health Research;” “Race and Empire in Comparative Historical and Transnational Perspective;” and “We’re Desperate, Get Used to It: Crises, Performance and Popular Culture.” May 16, 2008, 8:30-5:15; reception until 6:00pm, Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room. Info: www.washington.edu/diversity/dri/index.html.
“Elephants Among Us,” an evening of discussing the several controversies which has arisen concerning the keeping of elephants at zoos in North America, including our Woodland Park Zoo. Tuesday, May 13, 6-8pm, Johnson Hall, Room 102.
Joycelyn Moody, former colleague (now teaching at University of Texas, San Antonio, has been invited by The Diversity Research Institute and College of Arts & Sciences too read from her forthcoming book at a seminar on her latest research, Monday May 19th, from 12:00-1:30 at the UW Club. If you’d like a copy of her book chapter, contact Martha (mestl@u.washington.edu).
45th Annual Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Reading, featuring Brad Leithauser and Mary Jo Salter, Tuesday, May 20, 2008, Roethke Auditorium (130 Kane Hall). Reception following. Free admission.
The Language and Rhetoric Colloquium welcomes you to their Spring 2008 Speaker Panel. “Rhetorical Memory and Representation in the Case of the Israel-Palestine Conflict”, by Anis Bawarshi, and “Tense Times: Media Coverage of Iraqis in War,” by Sandy Silberstein. Will be held on Friday, May 16th, 1:30-3:00pm, in Balmer 314 for the presentations. Each talk will be followed by a question and answer period. All are welcome.
Herbert Blau is receiving an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree at the graduation ceremony of California Institute of the Arts. As the founding Provost of Cal Arts, in 1968, he was responsible for its conception, and has been asked to speak at the May 16th graduation, about “the original vision.”
Megan Miller has been awarded a scholarship from the MacFarlane Endowment in the College of Arts and Sciences for the 2008-09 academic year, in support of her dissertation “Modernism’s History of the Earth.” She is one of three recipients university-wide.
The Israeli Jewish Condition: Reflections on the Role of White Privilege. Poet, Author, Journalist Yitzhak Laor will be speaking May 8, 2008, in Kane Hall, Room 130, 6:30 pm. Updated info: www.grad.washington.edu/lectures; email: lectures@u.washington.edu phone: 206.543-5900. Free – no ticket required.
The Textual Studies Program will be hosting its second visitor for this Spring's Oral and Scribal Text seminar. He is George Shuffelton (English, Carleton College, Minnesota). A promising young textual scholar, Shuffelton is the editor of a forthcoming edition of an important fifteenth-century collection of English romances (MS Ashmole 61) often identified as a minstrel's collection. At 6 pm on Monday (5 May) in the UW (a.k.a. Faculty) Club's south dining room, he will be presenting a lecture entitled “ 'Is There a Minstrel in the House?' MS Ashmole 61 and Domestic Entertainment in Late Medieval England" There will be refreshments after the lecture.
On Tuesday, May 6, Shuffelton will direct a seminar on aspects of the Ashmole MS. The seminar meets from 1:30-3:20, in Parrington 310. (Space is limited in the seminar room, so I'd appreciate your letting me know if you are planning to attend.)
Joycelyn Moody, our former colleague, will be presenting a seminar on May 19, 12:00-1:30. Location and topic TBA in next newsletter.
History of Modern Civilization: Building a New World, Through Reconstruction and Reconciliation, Dr. Judy Mayotte will share her experiences as an advocate for refugees in camps of the Cambodians in Thailand and Cambodia, the Eritreans and internally displace southern Sudanese in Sudan, and the Afghans in Pakistan. May 15, 2008 @ 3:00-5:00pm, Sieg Hall, Room 134. Call 206.685.1090 to RSVP for this free event.
Herbert Blau will be receiving an Honorary Doctor of Arts degree at the graduation ceremony of California Institute of the Arts, on May 16,. As the founding Provost of Cal Arts in 1968, he was responsible for its conception, and has been asked to speak at the graduation about "the original vision."
Caroline Moir has won the 2008 Seattle Times Poetry contest, out of more than 1,000 submissions. Congratulations, Caroline!
NOTE: YOUR CAP AND GOWN ORDERS MUST BE IN BY THIS FRIDAY, MAY 2ND. GO TO https://www.applyweb.com/apply/uwfaclt/ TO APPLY FOR CAP/GOWN/REGALIA RENTALS. The department Commencement is June 11, 2008. Tell Jen Gonyer-Donohue (jengd@u) if you are participating in the department commencement.
Possession Sound Writers 2008 Reading Series, May 7, 2008, 7:00pm, at the Russell Day (Northlight) Gallery, Parks Union Building, Everett Community College. Maya Sonenberg and Daniel Orozco (former PhD, UW English) will be reading from their works. Readings are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Kevin Craft, 425.388.9395, or kcraft@everettcc.edu.
Jane Austen Lecture: Viewing Austen Through Vermeer’s Camera Obscura, June 8, 2008, 2:00pm, Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, 15th NE and NE 41st. A tea and cake reception will follow lecture in the Baci Café at the Gallery. Cost is $5.00, to defray costs of the reception. For more information, contact Jim Nagle at 206.623.3427 or nagle@oles.com.
Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Bi-literacy in Action, by Nancy Hornberger (Education, U of Pennsylvania), May 9, 2008, 3:30pm, MGH 241. Reception to follow. For more information see www.simpsoncenter.org/bilingualism.
Faulkner: The Returns Of The Text, University of Mississippi Faulkner and Yonapatawpha Conference, Oxford, MS, July 20-24, 2008. Info: 662-915-7283, FAX: 662-915-5138. E-mail: fyconf@olemiss.edu. Web: www.outreach.olemiss.edu/events/Faulker.
Glimmer Train Press, May Short Story Awards and June Fiction Open. For May, make short story (less than 12,000 words) submissions online at www.glimmertrain.org by May 31, 2008, $15 entry fee. First place winner will receive $1,200, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies. For June, make fiction submission (word count 1,200-20,000) online at www.glimmertrain.org by June 30, $20 entry fee. Winner will receive $2,000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 20 copies to winner. Winners will be contacted and results posted on their website on August 31, 2008.
Lifting belly high: a conference on women’s poetry since 1900, September 11-13, 2008, at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. Papers should be limited to abstracts of 300 words. Include your name and contact information. Send submission electronically to: womenspoetry@yahoo.com or by mail to: Women Poets, English Department, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282. Deadline is May 16, 2008.
The Open Face Sandwich: a Journal of Uncommon Prose, is seeking submissions, by October 1, 2008. Send to Box 5597, Atlanta, GA 31107, or submit@openfacesandwich.org. For further questions, contact www.openfacesandwich.org.
The Institute Ethnic Studies in the United States (IESUS), invites applications from the UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the USA. The extended deadline is June 1, 2008. For more information on application guidelines, please see the IESUS website at depts.washington.edu/iesus/ or direction questions to Kelly Koo via email (preferred method of contact) at issues@u.wshington.edu or call (206) 685-9333 (voice mail).
IMPORTANT: The deadline for ordering your Graduation Ceremony regalia is May 2, 2008. For more information, see email message of April 10th.
PLEASE NOTE: Consider donating extra desk copies or duplicate books to the English honor Society Book Drive. This student-led initiative is working to distribute free literature and theory texts to English Department undergraduate and graduate students. You can deliver your books to English Advising the third week of Spring Quarter.
Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Awareness Week (SARVA), April 14-18, 2008. Film, Cruel & Unusual, Transgender Women in the Prison System; Apr 15, 7:00pm HUB Auditorium; Sex Signals - improve show about sex and dating in the college scene, Apr 16, 7:00pm, HUB West Ballroom; Take Back the Night Rally, Apr 17th, 7:00pm, HUB North Husky Den, and more! For more info, contact ASUW Committee Organizing Rape Education (CORE), at 543-4238. Or SARVA at 685-4357.
Seattle Regional Peace Corps Office recruiter and returned Peace Corps volunteer will be visiting campus on April 14, 16 and 17, and would like 5 minutes of you class time to tell your students about international opportunities available to them in Peace Corps. Please contact Melissa Lawent at mlawent@peacecorps.gov 206.239-6611, with time and location of class.
Jane Austen Society of North American (JASNA), Puget Sound Chapter will present a lecture on June 8, 2008, at 2:00pm, at the Henry Arts Gallery. The talk, "Viewing Austen Through Vermeer's Camera Obscura," is free and all are invited. There will be a reception with tea and cake afterwards, with a modest charge of $5. For more information, please contact Jim Nagle, 206.623.3427 or nagle@oles.com.
The Modernist Journals Project. April 17, 2008, 9:30am, CMU 202. Sean Latham (English, U of Tulsa) is director of the Modernist Journals Project, an initiative to preserve English-language periodicals as a resource for the study of the rise of modernism. Latham will give a history of the Project and demonstrate its online digital archive of periodicals dating from 1904 to 1922. This will service as the starting point for a roundtable discussion centered on the value and logistics.
Selling Out: Modernism and the Business of Revenge, April 17, 2008, 3:30pm CMU 226. Writers throughout the early 20th century revived the long-despised roman a clef to launch a assault on Victorian realism and modernist impersonality. In the process, this resurgent genre took on a life of its own, reconfiguring the intricate relationship between literature, celebrity ad the law. In this talk, Sean Latham (English, U of Tulsa), will unstable this dense web by mixing archival research with close readings of works by Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, and jean Rhys. Graduate students are invited to join Latham for a seminar of Friday, April 18, at 9:30, CMU 202.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Native American Literature at USC, The Department of English at the University of Southern California invites applications for a fellowship for the 208-09 academic year. The field of specialization is Native American literature with possible emphasis in Early American literature. Applicants should send an application letter, CV, and a brief description of dissertation and current research. In addition, applicants should request that a dossier or three letters of recommendation be sent by the deadline of May 1, 2008. Send materials to Bruce R. Smith, Chair, Department of English, THH-404 MIC-0354, USC, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354.
SPECIAL NOTICES FOR FACULTY & STAFF:
English Honor Society Book Drive.Please consider donating extra desk copies or duplicate books to the English Honor Society book drive. This student-led initiative is working to distribute free literature and theory texts to English Department undergraduate and graduate students. You can deliver your books to English Advising, during the third week of Spring Quarter.
Renting Graduation Regalia.Beginning this year, all faculty will be ordering their own Graduation Ceremony Regalia. The Commencement Office has created a new online system for renting academic regalia; helping to standardize regalia ordering and make it easy for individual faculty members to order regalia online. Go to the website: www.applyweb.com/apply/uwfaclt/index.html to order your regalia. If you will be attending the university-wide ceremonies (whether or not you’ll attend the department’s ceremony, be sure to state the fact you’ll be attending the university-wide ceremony; if so, the Commencement Office will be billed. If you are attending the Department Ceremony, ONLY, our department will be billed. The deadline to order is May 2, 2008. (You will pick up your regalia June 4-7, from 11:00 to 6:00pm; there will be representatives from Oak Hall, to hand out regalia, and handle any problems).
Interdisciplinary Dissertation Prospectus Workshop: New Directions in American Studies. This workshop will bring together ten graduate students with two faculty members, Eva Cherniavsky (English) and Nikhil Singh (History), to consider the issues and methods of designing interdisciplinary dissertation research that extends the field of American studies, broadly conceived. In addition to specifically U.S.-centered work, the rubric invites multi-sited research projects where the U.S. represents one site in a comparative matrix (or a study of flows), as well as work on globalization that attends to practices of U.S. imperialism or processes of "Americanization." Topics may include (but are not limited to): reconfigurations of the modern nation-state; diaspora, migration, and immigration; citizenship, belonging, and dispossession; imperialism and racial formation; biopolitics and governmentality; (new) media, embodiment, and identity; space, place, and identity. Workshop dates; June 30-July 2 and September 22-24, 2008. Application deadline: Wednesday, April 16, 2008. Contact Simpson Center for application.
The Institute on the Public Humanities for Doctoral Students, co-directed by Miriam Bartha (Simpson Center) and Bruce Burgett (Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, UW Bothell), offers an interdisciplinary cohort of 20 graduate students an intensive week-long exploration of the diverse cultural practices of community engagement. Within the context of the Institute, "public humanities" indicates forms of inquiry that engage questions of arts and culture critically and creatively, theoretically and pragmatically, broadly and locally. Doctoral students from any University of Washington program are encouraged to apply. Institute dates: September 12 and 15-18, 2008. Application deadline Friday, April 18, 2008. Contact Simpson Center for application.
Seattle Regional Peace Corps. Office recruiter and returned Peace Corps volunteer will be visiting campus on April 14, 16, and 17 and would like 5 minutes of your class time to tell your students about international opportunities available to them in Peace Corps. Please contact Melissa Lawent at mlawent@peacecorps.gov 206-239-6611 with the time and location of your class.
Charlie Altieri, a former colleague of the Department of English, will be speaking at Seattle University on Monday, April 7th, 4 p.m., in Schaeffer Auditorium, Lemieux Library. His talk will be “In Defense of the Idea of Modernist Revolution in the Arts.” He is now Professor of English and Rachel Stageberg Anderson Chair at University of California, Berkeley. His talk is sponsored by the Departments of English, Philosophy, and Fine Arts, as well as the University Honors program and College Events at Seattle University.
Isabel Allende will be reading from her new book, The Sum of Our Days on Friday, April 4th, 7:00pm, at the University Temple, United Methodist Church (1415 NE 43rd Street, Seattle). Tickets are free with the purchase of The Sum of Our Days from UW Bookstore (sponsor of reading); otherwise, tickets are $5.00.
The Simpson Center funding opportunities. The Simpson Center invites project proposals in the humanities from UW faculty and graduate students. Spring round funding opportunities include: full professor cross-disciplinary conversation awards; cross-disciplinary graduate seminars; symposia, colloquia, and conferences; cross-disciplinary research clusters; large-scale collaborations; and projects in the public humanities. Funding deadline: Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Contact Simpson Center for application.
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Native American Literature, at USC. The Department of English at the University of Southern California invites applications for a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year. The field of specialization is Native American literature with a possible emphasis in Early American literature. Applicants should send an application letter, CV, and a brief description of dissertation and current research. In addition, applicants should request that a dossier or three letters of recommendation be sent by the deadline of May 1, 2008. Send all materials to Bruce R. Smith, Chair, Department of English, THH-404 MC-0354, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0354.
Charles LaPorte’s ELH article, “The Bard, the Bible, and the Victorian Shakespeare Questions,” has been awarded Honorable Mention for the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS) 2007 Essay Prize. Congratulations, Charles!
SPRING BREAK: MARCH 24-28
Lectures, Workshops and Conferences
Interdisciplinary Dissertation Prospectus Workshop: New Directions in American Studies, June 30-July 2,m 2008; and September 22-24, 2008. This workshop will bring together ten graduate students with two faculty members, Eva Cherniavsky (English) and Nikhil Singh (History), to consider the issues and methods of designing interdisciplinary dissertation research that extends the field of American studies, broadly conceived. In addition to specifically U.S.-centered work, the rubric invites multi-sited research projects where the U.S. represents one site in a comparative matrix (or a study of flows), as well as work on globalization that attends to practices of U.S. imperialism or processes of "Americanization." Topics may include (but are not limited to): reconfigurations of the modern nation-state; diaspora, migration, and immigration; citizenship, belonging, and dispossession; imperialism and racial formation; biopolitics and governmentality; (new) media, embodiment, and identity; space, place, and identity.
Call for Papers
American Drama Conference, November 7-9, 2008, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY. Your paper (not to exceed 10 pages for a 20-minute presentation) is due June 15, 2008, and can be on any aspect of American drama, playwrights, and theater. Of particular interest are discussions connecting playwrights to each other and to social, political, historical, and aesthetic issues; also papers on stagecraft, performance, and production history. Please send manuscripts or one-page abstracts to: Stephen Marino, The Arthur Miller Journal, St. Francis College, 180 Remsen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201.
Grants and Fellowships
Teaching Assistant Rachel Goldberg, has be given a university-wide teaching award, The Excellence in Teaching Award for demonstrating outstanding skills in the classroom.
Call for Papers
International Medieval Congress, Leeds, UK, July 13-16, 2009. Papers and sessions o an topic related to the European Middle Ages are welcome. In 2009, to commemorate the 800^th anniversary of the launch of the Albigensian Crusade, the IMC has the special thematic focus of “Heresy and Orthodoxy.” Completed proposals are preferred to be received online (www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc). Paper proposals must be submitted by August 31, 2008; session proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2008. For further details please contact: Axel E. W. Muller, International Medieval Congress Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Building 1.03, University of Leeds, LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK, Tel. +44(113) 343-3614, FAX: +44 (113) 343-3616, Email: imc@leeds.ac.uk.
The Wooden O Symposium, August 4-6, 2008, Southern Utah University, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Cedar City, Utah. This Symposium is a cross disciplinary conference exploring Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern Studies, through the text and performance of Shakespeare’s plays; this year the plays presented will be Two Gentlemen of Verona, Othello, and Taming of the Shrew as part of the 2008 summer season. Priority for papers/presentations at the conference will be given to research relating to one or more of these specific works. The deadline for the 250-word submission is April 18, 2008. Send to: Wooden O Symposium, c/o Utah Shakespearean Festival, 351 W. University Blvd., Cedar City, UT 84720. Phone: 435-586-7880; FAX: 435-865-8169; wooden@suu.edu; website: www.woodenosymposium.org.
Grants and Fellowships
Andrew Hilen Essay Prize. The Undergraduate Education Committee is currently soliciting essays submission from faculty and TAs for the Hilen Prize. The prize is awarded each spring for the best nonfiction essay in an English Department class. Submission may come from any English Department class between Spring Quarter of 2007 and Winter Quarter 2008. Students need not be English majors. Faculty and TAs must submit the essays to Linda C. Ahern in A-2-H by April 11, 2008. Please note essays brought in by students will not be accepted. The award will be announced by the end of Spring Quarter 2008.
Lectures, Reading, and Conferences
David Shields, reading from his new book, The Thing About Life is that One Day You'll Be Dead, Monday, March 10, 7:30 pm at Elliot Bay Book Company, 101 South Main Street, Seattle, WA.
Asian Languages & Literature Colloquium, Variability and Consistency of Chinese Writings from the Warring States Period (480-221 B.C.), Friday, March 14, 3:30-5:00pm, Thomson 211.
Dying Hopes: Understanding Hope in the Face of Death, A symposium to clarify our understanding of hope in managing patient care and clinical research. Sponsored by the UW Department of Philosophy and the Program on Values in Society. Friday, April 4, 2008, UW South Campus Center, Room 316R.
Call for Papers
2008 MLA Convention, in San Francisco, December 2008. Information at mla.org/pdf/calls_08_wlink.pdf.
Lectures and Conferences
Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism, a lecture by Greg Grandin, Professor of History at NYU, February 28, 2008, 2:30pm, MLR 301. Then on February 29, 2008, from 11:30-12:45pm, there will be an Informal Conversatorio, Simpson Center, CMU 202.
Cognitive Consequences of Bilingualism Across the Lifespan, a lecture by Ellen Bialystok, Professor of Psychology, York University, Friday, February 29, 2008, 3:30 pm, Gowen 201. Reception to follow in CMU 202.
Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, June 6-10, 2008, Homer Alaska (Land’s End Resort. Keynote Anne Lamott, fiction and nonfiction author. For more info and registration form: writersconference.homer.alaska.edu; email: iyconf@uaa.alaska.edu; phone: 907.235.7743.
The Work of Print, by Lisa Maruca, who will lecture on her new book on March 12, 6:00pm, at the Simpson Center, room TBA.
David Shields’ Readings, March 5, 2008; Kempler’s Bookstore, Menlo Park, CA, Sunday, March 2^nd , 5:00pm. March 5, 2008; Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA, Wednesday, March 5, 7:00pm.
Call for Papers
“Media and The Senses,” 7th annual summer institute in the arts & humanities (for undergraduates), June 23-August 22, 2008; University of Washington. Twenty selected undergraduate students engage in the research projects under the guidance of four interdisciplinary instructors. Selected students receive a Mary Gates Scholarship of $3,000 and earn academic credit for this full-time research experience. For application and info: www.washington.edu/research/urp/sinst/. Questions: urp@u.washington.edu. Deadline: Monday, March 10th, 5:00pm.
Lectures and Conferences
Battlefield Without Borders by author, poet and peace activist David Smith-Ferri, Saturday, March 1, 7 pm*, *will be reading at the University Friends Meeting, 4001 9th Ave NE, Seattle. On Sunday, March 2nd, 2-4 pm, he will read at the main Seattle Public Library, 2 to 4 pm. He will also discuss his work with the Direct Aid Initiative (DAI) in behalf of Iraqi refugees in Syria and Jordan.
Richard Kenney, Reading, Seattle Public Library, 7:00pm, February 25, 2008.
Lisa Maruca, (English, Wayne State University) will discuss her recent book, "The Work of Print: Authorship and the Labor of Literature in England, 1660-1760" (University of Washington Press, 2006), Wednesday, March 12th, 2008, 6:00pm, CMU 202. Free and open to the public.
Call for Papers
Creative Destruction: Innovation in History, 9th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, University of British Columbia, May 9-10, 2008. Abstracts of less than 300 words are due March 21, 2008, with the general theme of “Innovation.” Please send submissions and any further inquiries to: cners.Grad.conference.2008@gmail.com.
Grants and Fellowships
2008 Rattle Poetry Prize, ($5,000, plus ten $100 Honorable Mentions). Entry fee of $16.00 includes a one year subscription to RATTLE (or a one-year extension for subscribers). Open to writers, worldwide; poems must be written in English (no translations). For more information, go to www.Rattle.com; postmark deadline, August 1, 2008.
Call for Papers, Montana State University’s Literature and Arts Publication is extending the deadline for paper submission to the University of the Yellowstone’s Literature and Arts Conference, held April 17-20, 2008. The new deadline for paper submission is February 14, 2008. The maximum 3,000 word proposals of critical essays, creative non-fiction, original poetry, fiction, drama/screenplays, or panel proposals must include a registration fee of $500. For further information: www.montana.edu/readthis.
Creative Destruction: Innovation in History, 9th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, University of British Columbia, May 9-10, 2008. Abstracts of less than 300 words are due March 21, 2008, with the general theme of “Innovation.” Please send submissions and any further inquiries to: cners.Grad.conference.2008@gmail.com.
Grants and Fellowships
Dual Degree Graduate Program: M.A. in English Language & Literature, St. Louis University, Madrid Campus, Spain. Application packets for the Mater’s Program in English are available by emailing us at: graduate.admissions@madrid.slu.edu. All application materials (with the exception of GRE scores) must be sent directly to the Madrid Campus. Completed applications are initially reviewed on the Madrid Campus and then forwarded to the Graduate Schools of Saint Louis University and the Universidad Atónoma de Madrid for final approval. Deadlines: Fall-March 31st; Winter-Dec 1st; Spring-Feb. 1st.
Faculty Publications
Worth a second mention:
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, by David Shields, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY); 256 pp.
The One Strand River, by Richard Kenney, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 2007).
Lectures, Conferences and Workshops
"White Enough to Be American" Race Mixing, Indigenous Peoples, and the Boundaires of State and Nation, Thursday, February 7, 3:30-5:00pm, Parrington Hall, The Forum, 3rd Floor. Sponsored by the Center for Global Studies, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of Political Science, UW. This event is free and open to the public. For more information contact: tleonard@u.washington.edu.
"Queer Worlds: The Obligations of Intimacy," Lecture with Elizabeth A. Povinelli; February 7, 2008, 3:30-5:00pm, CMU 226; Graduate Student seminar 10:30-12:30pm, CMU 202.
"Queer Worlds: After Jack: Queer Virtuosity Queer Failure," Lecture with Jose Esteban Muňoz, May 2, 2008, 3:30-5:00pm, CMU 226; Graduate Student seminar 10:30-12:30pm, CMU 202.
Call for Papers
VISAWUS (Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies of the Western University States, "The Public and Private Politics of Victorian England," October 2-4, 2008, UW, Seattle, WA. Email a 300-word abstract and one-page CV by March 15, 2008, to Julie.codell@asu.edu. Local contact: Karen Teal, kkteal@u.washington.edu.
Grants and Fellowships
Fellowship to Pembroke College, Cambridge. This $20,000.00 fellowship is designed to permit a student to study at Cambridge. Application form, Statement of Purpose, and 3 letters of reference are to be emailed directly by the faculty writer to Dianne Zimmer in the Graduate School Fellowship and Assistantship Office by 5pm, February 29, 2008. For information about Pembroke College, Cambridge University, go to the Pembroke website at www.pem.cam.ac.uk.
Faculty Publications
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, by David Shields, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY); 256 pp.
The One Strand River, by Richard Kenney (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 2007).
Lectures, Conferences and Workshops
Preventing Violence. Students, Faculty and Staff are encouraged to attend this 50-minute session to learn: the warning signs of violence; how to respond in potentially violent situations; and what campus resources are available to assist those affected by violence. Sessions are free and open to the entire community. Winter sessions: February 4, and 27; March 10 & 26^th . For times on each day, or to register, go to: www.washington.edu/admin/hr/pod/catalog/gen/1/WPV01.html.
“Animals in Human Spaces” Workshop, by Professor Clare Palmer. Exploring human/animal relations in a variety of human spaces, including home, cities, zoos and behavioral research facilities. Saturday, February 2, 2008, 10:00am – 3:00pm, C101 Padelford Hall (CHID conference room). Electronic copies of the readings will be provided. To register, contact Dipika Nath: dipika@u.washington.edu or debra.durham@gmail.com.
The One Strand River, presented by author, Richard L. Kenney, Seattle Public Library, February 25th . For more information and time, contact Richard Kenney at rk@u.washington.edu.
Call For Papers
Write on the Sound Writers’ Conference, celebrating their 23rd year, October 3-5, 2008. Presented by the Edmonds Arts Commission. The conference focuses on the craft of writing; a variety of classes are offerece for all levels and interests; a keynote speaker; oe-on-one manuscript critique appointments; a themed writing contest; book sales; and more. For presenters, in interested call 425.771.0228 or view a copy of the 2007 brochure at: www.ci.edmonds.wa.us/artscommission/wots.stm. Proposals will be reviewed until April 11, 2008; send to: WOTS Presenters, 700 Main Street, Edmonds, WA 98020, or email to: wots@ci.edmonds.wa.us.
Read This, Montana State University’s Literature and Arts Conference, April 17-20, 2008. Theme for conference is “Germinate and Cultivate,” a subject of origins and developments. Submit papers of approximately 3,000 words, after viewing the guidelines on www.montana.edu/readthis. Paper due January 30, 2008.
Faculty Publications
Richard L. Kenney, The One Strand River, (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2007).
Department News:
Recycling packing peanuts. In case anyone else has been driving packing peanuts to UPS or Mailboxes Etc. to recycle them, they can be left on our loading dock for pickup. UW Recycled collects them. See "Peanuts" from other campus buildings at this link (and, no, it isn't a photo gallery): www.washington.edu/admin/recycling/procedures.html#Packaging.
Spring Quarter textbook order deadline: Just a reminder that textbooks must be ordered by January 25th, below is the link: www5.bookstore.washington.edu/textsys/TextReqLogin.taf?school=uwmain. Please list Linda Ahern, lahern@u.washington.edu as your textbook coordinator.
Congratulations:
Honni van Rijswijk has been awarded the Simpson Center 2008 Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship to support her work on "The Poetics of Personal Injury: Liability for Suffering in Twentieth-Century Law and Literature."
Todd Borlik has been awarded the Simpson Center 2008 Summer Dissertation Research Fellowship to support his work on "Green Pastures: Eco-criticism and Early Modern English Literature."
Lectures
David Shields, author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, at the Friends of the Libraries Annual Meeting Friday, January 25, 7 pm meeting /7:30 presentation, Suzzallo 101. Free to public. Please RSVP by January 21. 206-616-8397 or email uwlibs@u.washington.edu. Reception following, presentation and Q&A; book sales by University Book Store. For more info, visit www.lib.washington.edu/support/libraries_events.htm.
"Animal Ethics, Wild And Domestic," Professor Clare Palmer, Washington University, St. Louis, MO. Friday, Feb. 1, 2008, 4:00-6:00 p.m., CMU 120. Free and open to all. Professor Palmer will hold a workshop on animal ethics in the urban context on Sat., Feb. 2, 2008. Contact dipika@u.washington.edu for details and to register for the workshop.
Lectures and Conferences
The Sopranos: a metaphor for social, economic, and psychic changes in recent American Life, by Kirby Farrell, UMass Amherst. Thursday, January 10, 2008. Kane Hall 225, 7:30pm.
Call for Papers
Joyce Studies Annual will be publishing soon. Submissions invited, with a deadline of February 15, 2008. Manuscripts of 20-50 pages on any aspect of James Joyce studies: archival, theoretical or comparative. Fordham University Press uses Chicago Manual of Style Format. Send hard copy to: Moshe Gold/Philip Sicker, editors, Joyce Studies Annual, Department of English, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458. Direct inquiries to: mgold@fordham.edu or sicker@fordham.edu.
Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric is accepting proposals for its 13th annual conference this March 28-29, 2008, on the University of Anchorage, Alaska campus This year's theme is "Evolving Intertextualities: Voices, Visions, and Virtualities." Speakers include Dr. Lisa Surrdige and Dr. Bruce McComiskey will be hosting workshops and presenting keynote addresses. Direct questions and proposals to the conference's directors, Clare Chesher and Laura Eidam at ascc226@uaa.alaska.edu and/or aslbe@uaa.alaska.edu.
African Athena Conference, an Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Warwick, UK. held November 6-9, 2008. Keynote Speakers: Martin Bernal, Paul Gilroy, Stephen Howe, Partha Mitter, Valentin Y. Mudimbe, Patrice Rankin, and Robert J.C., Young. Send proposals of up to 500 words for papers by March 31, 2008 to Dr. Daniel Orrells, Department of Classics, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL. Email: D.Orrells@warwick.ac.uk.
Workshops
Slipping Into the Strange, with John Kessel, Writing Fantastic Fiction Workshop Series, November 18, 2008. Workshops include discussion, in-class writing exercises, and critiquing, followed by a reading and book signing for the general public the following day, Monday, at 7pm. Register at Richard Hugo House by phone (206.322-7030) or email events@nwmediaarts.com. Website: http:www.hugohouse.org/.
Lectures
"Unspoken History of the African-American Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Community" Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas American Heritage Series, Thursday, December 6, 2007, 7:00pm, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center. Chandan Reddy (English) will moderate a panel discussion on this hidden and unspoken history. Cost: $7/$5 for CD Forum & Seattle Black Pride members/students/seniors. For tickets, call 1-800-838-3006.
Call for Papers
"Wilder in the Twenty-first Century," First International Thornton Wilder Conference, October 2-4, 2008, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ. Possible topics include: Wilder: As American Writer; Religious Elements; Influence on American Drama; World Literature; A Remarkable Family; As Adaptor/ Translator; Adaptations of Works; Gender Roles; Reputation Abroad; As Screenwriter; Wilder and Music. One-page proposals for fifteen- to twenty-minute papers should be sent by mail or e-mail to: Jackson R. Bryer, Department of English, Susquehanna Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. Email: jbryer@umd.edu. Deadline: February 15, 2008.
Grants and Fellowships
Academic Fellowships at the American Antiquarian Society 2008-2009, is accepting applications for visiting academic research fellowship tenable for one to twelve months during the period of June 1, 2008 - May 31, 2009. At least three AAS-NEH fellowships will be awarded, together with some thirty short-term awards. To learn more about the Society and these fellowships, please go online to: www.americanantiquarian.org.
Faculty Publications
Language Development and Age (Cambridge U Press), by Julia Herschensohn,(Linguistics, UW), in a presentation and discussion of her new book, Tuesday, December 4, 2007, 4:00pm, CMU 206; reception to follow.
The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America (Oxford U Press 2007), by David Domke, Communication, UW (co-authored with Kevin Coe, Ph.C., U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), in a presentation and discussion of his new book, Wednesday, December 12, 2007, 5:30-7:00pm, CMU 206; reception to follow.
Lectures and Conferences
"Eternal Rome: The Power of an Idea," Friday, November 30, 7:30pm, Café Babel, (Ground Floor of Seattle Language Academy, 126 NW Canal Street). 206/325-4109. Admission: $5.00, Space is limited; please RSVP to events@sealang.org.
"Why ABC?" Richard Salomon, Professor of Sanskrit, Director, Early Buddhist Manuscripts Project, UW. Tuesday, November 20th, Kane Hall, Walker Ames Room. Reception to follow.
"The Long Civil Rights Movement: A Conversation with Jack O'Dell and Nikhil Pal Singh," Monday, November 26, 2007, 1:30-3:30pm, CMU 202.
"Navigating Difficult Dialogues: Promoting Difference, Dialogue, Communities, and Change," Saturday, December 1 and December 8, 2007, 11:00am-3:00pm, South Campus Center 254. Registration required, lunch provided. Space limited to 25 participants; and should plan on attending both days. To enroll, send a brief biographical statement of interest to diffdial@u.washington.edu, no later than November 21, 2007.
Call for Papers
August Wilson, The Second Half of the Cycle, April 11-12, 2008, Lexington, KY. Plenary Speakers include Harry Elam, Alan Nadel, Donald Pease, Yolanda Pierce, Sandra Shannon, and Steven Tracy. 20-minute papers sought on any of the last five plays produced in the Wilson cycle, on their relation to the earlier plays, or on the Wilson 10-play cycle as a whole. Send 250-500-word proposal and contact information to wilsonconference@uky.edu by January 15, 2008. Email notification by February 15th.
The films of Gus Van Sant. Film Auteur, a new journal of film and media studies published by Portland State University and Ooligan Press, requests submissions for its inaugural issue. The journal will be published twice annually, in both hard copy and online format. The journal is refereed, and all accepted papers will be compensated with a modest honorarium. The first issue's projected publication date for the first issue is early spring, 2008. All submissions should be made electronically as a Word attachment. Contact Dr. Michael J. Clark at clarkm@pdx.edu for further information. Deadline January 10, 2008.
Lectures and Conferences
Practical Pedagogy Roundtable, "Mobilizing Learning through Technologies," Wednesday, November 14th, 3:00pm in CMU 202. Facilitators Curtis Hisayasu and Jentery Sayers (English Dept.) discuss `What is mobile learning?' `How might it be used to facilitate research, writing and critical thinking both in and beyond the classroom?' and `How is it beneficial at a university such as the UW?'
The Institute for Ethnic Studies in the US (IESUS) invites applications from UW faculty members who are engaged in or are beginning projects on ethnic issues in the US. The deadline for application is November 15, 2007. For more information on application guidelines, please see the IESUS website at: depts.washington.edu/iesus/.
Ann Laura Stoler (Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School), "Along the Archival Grain: Thinking Through Colonial Ontologies," Friday, November 16, 2007, 1:00-3:00pm, CMU 120. Reception and Conversatorio to follow, 3:45-5:15pm, CMU 202. For more information on the readings, see www.simpsoncenter.org/empires.
Maria Lipman, Editor-in-Chair of Pro et Contra Journal, Carnegie Moscow Center, November 17, 2007, 7:00pm, Kane Hall, Room 120. This event sponsored by the Ellison Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, World Affairs Council, NCEEER, and UW Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures. For more information, call 206.543-4852 or email reecas@u.washington.edu.
Grants and Fellowships
Simpson Center Funding Opportunities. The Simpson Center invites project proposals in the humanities from UW faculty and graduate students. Funding opportunities include (but not limited to: research fellowships; associate professor crossdisciplinary research initiatives; full professor crossdisciplinary conversation awards; symposia, colloquia, and conferences; large-scale collaborations; and the Soloman Katz Distinguished Lectureship in the Humanities.
Lectures and Conferences
The 2008 Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, held April 24-27, 2008, in Long Beach, California. The conference theme is "Arrivals and Departures." Previous conference programs are available online at www.acla.org. This conference includes plenary sessions, workshops, roundtables, a business meeting, a banquet, and other events.
Queer Worlds Crossdisciplinary Research Cluster. Queer Worlds, Queer Dispositions: Disciplinarity, Pedagogy, and Community Conference, November 14, 207, 3:30-5:30pm, CMU 226.
Queer Worlds Regular Workshops: all workshops take place 3:30-5:30:
Call for Papers
The 2008 Meeting of the American Comp. Lit. Assn Conference, held 4/24-27/08, in Long Beach, California. If you're interested in presenting a paper, please contact Dr. Gert Hofmann, UCC g.hofmann@ucc.ie. Papers could explore places (such as Rome, Jerusalem, etc.), rituals, or secular inscriptions - "topographies" - of such "arrivals." See previous conference programs at www.acla.org.
2008 Special issue of ATQ: Class and Conflict in the 19th Century. ATQ welcomes submissions from scholars in a variety of disciplines, including literary studies, film/media studies, and education. Submit manuscripts (3,000 to 7.5000 words, following the MLA Handbook, 6th ed., 2003) by April 15, 2008. Submissions must have sufficient return postage. Send manuscripts/inquiries to: Claire Reynolds, ATQ Editor - 2008, Dept of English, Independence Hall, 60 Upper College Road, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881.
Faculty Publications
David Shields' Body Politics: The Great American Sports Machine is currently being published in paperback. The University of Nebraska Press/Bison Books has a publication date of November 28, 2007.
Lectures and Conferences
"The Novel and its Borders" Conference at the Centre for The Novel in association with the AHRC Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Plenary speaker: Terry Castel, Ian Duncan, Jonathan Lamb. Papers welcome on any aspect of the novel, contact Janet Todd at novel.conference@abdn.ac.uk. For additional information on the conference: www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference.
Sound Transit is hosting an informational presentation, followed by a Q & A session, to learn about the latest progress on the University of Washington light rail station. Come and learn about: Station design, entrances, and pedestrian access; Schedule for design work, construction, and staff of service; and Construction methods and mitigation efforts. Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 12:00-1:00 (followed by Q & A session), South Campus Center, Room 316-Right. For more info, contact Jeff Munnock, Sound Transit, at 206.398.5131, or munnockj@soundtransit.org; or Andy Casillas, Capital Project's Office, at 206.685.9055, or casillas@u.washington.edu. You can also visit Sound Transit's web site at www.soundtransit.org, or the UW Capital Projects office, at www.cpo.washington.edu/html/Projects_Sound_Transit.htm.
Call for Papers
2008 Discovery Seminars, August 29- September 19, 2008. Interested participants can send a one-page description of the class you'd like to teach, along with a letter of endorsement from your chair to: Paul LaPore, A & S Assistant Dean for Educational Programs, at leporepc@u.washington.edu, 543-2109, Box 353765. Proposals are due November 26, 2007. After consulting with departmental chairs, the 2008 seminars will be selected by the middle of December. More information on this year's seminar, go to artsci.washington.edu/discovery.
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY), April 25-26, 2008. Papers welcome on any area concerning Venue/Aphrodite, from ancient times into the 18th Century. Send proposals for papers (no more than 500 words in length), in MS Word format, or as text within an e-mail message to cemers@binghamton.edu. A hard copy should follow to : CEMERS, Attn: Venus Conference, Binghamton University, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000. Abstracts due by Friday, November 30, 2007.
Faculty Colloquim, Department of Communication. At the Frontiers of Science: The Rhetoric of Exploration and Exploitation in Contemporary Public Discourse about Science. Wednesday, November 7, 3:30-5:00pm, CMU 126. Refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Richard Kielbowicz, kielbowi@u.washington.edu.
"Talking Out The Trash," Graduate Student Conference, March 14-15, 2008, University of Victoria. Send 250-word (20 minute) proposals, along with your name, mailing and e-mail addresses, telephone number, and university affiliation to: tst@uvic.ca by January 15, 2008.
