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New Publications A new publication by Menoukha Case (please note correction) is an essay “Empathy as Resistance in Two Feminist Futurist Novels: Marge Piercy and Octavia Butler.” CRITICISM: In Writer’s Institute Newsletter, University at Albany (2003). Adjunct Alyssa Colton’s (PhD ‘01) essay “From Trauma to (Re) Birth: The Birth Story as a Site of Transformation” will appear in a forthcoming issue of JAC: A Quarterly Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Rhetoric, Literacy, Culture, and Politics. Mike Hill’s new book, After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority, was chosen to be featured on the April version of the “New Faculty Book” part of the UA Library’s Main page.” Pierre Joris’ essay ”The Space opened by Blanchot” was published in Nowhere Without No: In Memory of Maurice Blanchot edited by Kevin Hart & with contributions by, among others, Lydia Davis, Jean Luc Nancy, Charlotte Mandell, Mark C. Taylor, Geoffrey Hartman and Jacques Derrida. (Vagabond Press, Sydney, Australia). Pierre’s Translations of Paul Celan and Anise Koltz were published by the e-magizine Cipherjournal at: http://www.cipherjournal.com/. At the AWP conference in Chicago (March 25-28) Pierre gave two papers “Toward a Performance of Cruelty” and “Poet & Translator: Meme Combat!” as well as two poetry readings. Robert Wilkie, a PhD student, has a new article “W” as a Floating Signifier: Class and Politics after the “Post” published in Journal of Advanced Composition (JAC), 22 (3).
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Presentations and Workshops Branka Arsic launched her new book The Passive Eye: Gaze and Subjectivity in Berkeley (via Beckett) in Philadelphia last month. The Slought Foundation presented “Beckett and the Unfilmable”, a public conversation on February 12, 2004 with Branka and Jean-Michel Rabaté, engaging the relationship between Beckett, Film and Philosophy. It is curated by Aaron Levy. A public screening of Beckett’s Film (1965) accompanied the talk. Menoukha Case’s conference activities included a paper (please note correction) on “Gelede: Revelation of Women through Art in Yorubaland,” given at the Mothering, Religion and Spirituality 7th Annual Conference of the Association for Research on Mothering (ARM), York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (2003). Adjunct Alyssa Colton will be a guest at Southern Vermont College on April 3, where she will conduct student workshops and give an evening reading open to the public. On April 2, Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte will be at Beyond Baroque (Venice, CA) staging SUMERICAVE - A voco-visual performance combining sound, text, and image, and what lies in between. On April 4 they will be presenting a performance of translations at Otis College, Los Angeles. Announcements Aloha. The Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta is celebrating spring (?) by inviting chapters from neighboring colleges, faculty and friends to an authentic LUAU. They are preparing traditional Hawaiian foods, decorating HUM 354 with palm trees and creating a beach attitude. Please join us on Sat., March 27 (this Sat.) at 4:30 pm for food and song hula and spring break feelings. Your RSVP to Kate Winter would be helpful but not necessary
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