New
Publications
Menoukha Case, a
PHD student, had several new poetry publications in The 13th Moon.
V.18, February 2004 “el sabor rico
Another new poetry
publication by Menoukha is “Empathy as Resistance in Two Feminist Futurist
Novels: Marge Piercy and Octavia Butler.” CRITICISM: In Writer’s Institute
Newsletter, University at
A forthcoming book in
2005 by Ronald Bosco is entitled The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo
Emerson. Editor (with Joel Myerson).
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Also, Ron has another
edited book forthcoming entitled Nature’s Panorama: Henry David Thoreau on
the Seasons. Editor. In The Spirit of Thoreau Series. (
A new book by Charles
Shepherdson The Epoch of the Body: On the Domain of Psychoanalysis
has been published (Stanford University
Press, 2004). His recent article ”Affect, Drive and the Work of Mourning: For
Teresa Brennan,” Essays for Teresa Brennan. Ed. Kelly Oliver and
Elizabeth Grozs (
Presentations
Menoukha Case’s conference
activities included a paper on “Gelede:
Revolution 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). Menoukha
also presented at 2 conferences, the Humanitech and English Conferences at
SUNY.
Teresa Ebert was
invited to participate in
In December she
delivered a paper to the Comparative Literature Division of MLA on “Theory as a
Material Force,” in which she offered a metareading of Paul de Man’s reading of
Proust and Marx’s reading of Balzac.
Eric Keenaghan made
a presentation at the
Charles
Shepherdson was invited to present a lecture at the
Charles
also gave a seminar on Philosophy, Poetry, and Religion at
Announcements
Spring
recruitment for Sigma Tau Delta continues so anyone who has a likely
candidate in class is asked to mention STD and encourage the student to apply.
We continue to have media sales-books, videos and CDs for only a dollar. Look for the tables in the
Jawbone
continues to be a bi-monthly event where graduate students read and perform
their creative work in a downtown venue. Their most recent event was held on
Friday, March 5 sharing an evening of poetry and fiction given by Mark
Daley and Deveshe Dutt at the Fuze Box (on
An
official call for nominations for Annual Presidential Awards for Undergraduate
Research has been announced. Nominations are due by
The
Undergraduate Awards Committee is calling for nominations for the following
2003-2004 awards: Vivian C. Hopkins Scholarship Fund,
deadline Friday, March 19, 2004; Arlene F Steinberg ‘71 Memorial Fund,
deadline Friday, March 19, 2004.
Details on the awards are found on FYE.
Please have all nominations and supporting materials to Pierre Joris by
the deadline announced for each award.
The
Undergraduate Program is also asking all faculty in the English Department to nominate
graduating seniors who have agreed they would like to be the speaker at the
English Department Convocation at graduation. Before submitting a nomination form, please
be sure that the student you are nominating is committed to attending
graduation. Nominees should be able to write an interesting, brief, timely
speech (no more than 1,000 words) and be good speakers. Submit a brief, typed
abstract (200 words) to the Undergraduate Director outlining the content of the
speech. There is no GPA
restriction. Deadline for submissions is
Thursday, April 1. After the
deadline, the Undergraduate Committee will review abstracts and invite five
finalists to audition. The audition will
consist of reading a brief (250 word) excerpt from an essay or speech of the
student’s own choosing. Please submit
nominations on the designated form (extras in HU 381 mail room) and return to
Rosemary Hennessy, Undergraduate Program Director, no later than April 1.
English
490, Internships in English, has great opportunities
for interesting professional placements for Fall ‘04. Two interest and information meetings were
held this week. To find out more about internships please contact Prof. Winter.
kwinter@nycap.rr.com. Her office is located in HU 364, Tel: 442-4071.
Gareth
Griffiths would like the faculty to note that the candidates for the Journalism
Search will be on campus starting next week. Details of the presentations have been sent
by FYE. Since this is a joint
appointment with English, he would like to encourage people to find the time to
attend.
Dr.
Thomas A. Bass an applicant for a faculty position
in Journalism will be presenting a lecture entitled “Journalists and Spies” on
Dr.
John C. Harstock, also an applicant for a faculty position
in Journalism, will be presenting a lecture on “Storytelling on the Front Page:
The Reappearance of Narrative Literary Journalism in American Newspapers,”
Thursday, March 18, from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
Bill
Rainbolt announced that e-zine is now available from Prof. David
Washburn’s AJRL 364 class, “Ezine: Web Magazine Publishing.” This is the first of three issues to be
published this semester; the next two will be in April and May. The April issue also will be a collaboration
between this class and Prof. Katherine Van Acker’s AJRL 364 class, “Photojournalism.” The current issue focuses
on AIDS in
The
13th Moon Volume 18 is here!! We are offering all University at
Eisodos: A Film festival
on Performance took place on March 4th at the Recital Hall. Komediant:
Followed the trials and tribulations of the Burstein family as they took
you through the short, stormy but charming history of Yiddish theatre. Screening was followed by a discussion led by
Prof. Joel Berkowitz, a prominent scholar of the Yiddish Theatre.
Mike Hill has announced that he is organizing
an Annual Book-Launch event to help promote and celebrate new books
published by the faculty in the last year or two. This event would be for authors in English
and invite colleagues, students, and community members to come to one of the
local bookstores. Please contact Mike
(mikehill@albany.edu) if you have a book for a late Spring event, and he will
do the same next year for 2004-05 publications.
Upcoming
Meetings & Events
Branka Arsic discussed
“The Literary in Theory” on March 9 as part of the Forum on the New
Humanities. This series is organized in
conjunction with the English Honors Seminar on literary and cultural studies
and is open to the public.
The next event for the Forum on the New
Humanities will be held on Tuesday, March 16th in Humanities Building
Room 354, 1:00-2:20 pm. Helene Scheck, Assistant Professor of English
will be presenting “An Open Forum on the Postmodern Medieval.” The forum is
open to students, faculty and members of the community, who are invited to
participate in the discussions that will follow the main presentation.
Initiatives
in Teaching is a series of afternoon conversations
for English faculty and teaching assistants dealing with the topic of student
work. The first meeting was Friday, March 5
(subsequent meetings will be on Friday, March 19 and Friday, April 23
from 3:00-5:00 in HU 290). All teaching faculty are invited.
March
12 & 13, Friday and Saturday “All in the
Timing,” David Ives sketches, 8:00 pm Studio Theatre, Performing Arts
Center cost: $12/$8 for students seniors and staff. Also on Sunday, March 14 at 3:00
PM. Wednesday to Saturday, March
17-20 at 8:00 pm. Call 518/442-3997 for Performing Arts Center Box Office. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/writingsemester.html#ives.
NY State Writer’s
Institute Events
March
12, Friday, 7:30 PM. Film Cul-de-Sac. Screening at Page Hall,
Upcoming
Department Meetings
On March 31st at
12:15pm, HU 354, there will be a meeting about the Graduate Program revisions.
Conferences
and Workshops
Tara
Needham, first year PhD student, will present a two-day
workshop in April on the cultural history and creation of ‘zines at the
The San Juan
Workshops are held every summer in
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