|
|
|
Watching What You Say
Gail
Stygall and Sandy
Silberstein spoke on the power of language in public
and private life at our January showcase event. Silberstein offered a particularly
prescient analysis of news coverage in times of crisis.
Literary Adventures Abroad
Professors Shawn Wong and Rick
Kenney were featured speakers at the department’s
showcase event in February. They discussed their experience as writers and
travelers in a culture other than their own as teachers in our Rome Center programs.
Anis
Barwashi
Genre and the Invention of the Writer: Reconsidering the Place of Invention
in Composition was published in March by Utah State University Press.
In January, A Closer Look: The Writer’s Reader, edited by
Barwashi and Sidney I. Dobrin, was published by Magraw Hill.
Linda
Bierds
Read from her work at the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of
Congress in March. The reading was recorded for inclusion in the Library’s
archive. Her poem, “1934” appeared in the New Yorker,
December 9, 2002.
Herbert
Blau
Our Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities has received
a Royalty Research Fund award for his project, "As If: An Autobiography".
Tom
Lockwood
Has received a Simpson Center for the Humanities award for a graduate seminar
on early modern English and French novels narrated in the form of letters,
offering and opportunity to study works not often taught together. "Letters
Writing Novels" will be taught jointly with Dianah Leigh Jackson (French
and Italian Studies), and it will be cross-listed with French, English, and
Comparative Literature.
Heather
McHugh
EYESHOT, a collection of poems, will be published by in August.
ISBN 0-8195-6671-3.
Joycelyn
Moody
Will be Peterson Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society
in April. In February she served as one of the Ropes Lecturers at the University
of Cincinnati along with Percivall Everitt, Shelley F. Fishkin, Lawrence Levine, and Jane Smiley.
Also in February she participated, by invitation, on a panel of contributors
to the essay collection, When Race Becomes Real, edited by Bernestine Singley.
Paul
Remley
has received a fellowship at Clare Hall, Cambridge, for 2003-04
and has been appointed a lifetime fellow.
Steven
Shaviro
The University of Minnesota Press has accepted his manuscript,
Connected: or What it Means to Live in a Network Society, for publication.
David
Shields
Recently published essays include “Charles Barkley’s
Head Fake,” Slate,
11/22/02 and “36 Tattoos,” The Village Voice, 10/16/02, each a
cover article, and “Welcome to America,” The Stranger, 1/9/03.
John
Webster
The Internet Shakespeare Edition Swan Award is given to carefully selected
websites on the basis of scholarly content and site design. “Close
Reading Shakespeare: A Course Portfolio,” housed on both the English
Department and the National Teaching and Learning web sites, has just received
a Swan award.
Alys
Weinbaum
Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic
Modern Thought has been accepted for publication in 2004 by Duke Univ. Press.
Shawn
Wong
Was featured on all 3 nights of Bill Moyers’ PBS special Becoming
American: The Chinese Experience, March 25-27. Yes, that young cowboy on the cover of
March’s PBS magazine and on the show’s website, was none other than Professor Wong.
Shawn Wong, teacher, author, sailor?
Professor Wong related his experience growing up in America on a recent PBS special
series, Becoming American: the Chinese Experience.
