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Marcia Farrell (PhD ’05) will begin a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of English at Wilkes University in the fall.
Cristina Dascalu completed her Ph.D. under the direction of Jim Watson. She was given a Leadership Award by Graduate School Dean Janet Haggerty at the Annual TU Student Research Colloquium in early April.
Michael Gorman completed his Ph.D. under the direction of Jim Watson.
Intaek Oh completed his Ph.D. under the direction of Jim Watson and is teaching in Seoul.
Kara Ryan completed her Ph.D. under the direction of Joe Kestner. Two chapters from her dissertation—one on Harriet Martineau and the other on Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna—will shortly be published.
Marilyn Seymour completed her Ph.D. under the direction of Holly Laird. She has accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lenoir-Rhyne College in North Carolina.
Richard Black completed his PhD under the direction of Jim Watson and will assume a post-doctoral teaching appointment at TU this fall.
J. Matthew Huculak (PhD), had his article, “Song from San Francisco: Space, Time and Character in Eudora Welty’s 'Music from Spain’” accepted for publication in the Mississippi Quarterly. In addition, he is working with faculty and students at Grinnell College, Brown University, and TU to curate an exhibition on modern drawing in British magazines. The show will be on display in the Hogue Gallery in October 2006.
Eric Titterud (MA, ’07) will use support from the Henneke Fellowship to study British art and literature in London during the summer of 2006.
Andrea Bradley (MA, ‘99) received her Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt in May and will begin a post-doctoral teaching position there in the fall.
Erin Gore (MA, ’07) won the TU Writing Program’s award for Excellence in Teaching.
Karen Dutoi (PhD) won the TU Writing Program’s award for Excellence in Tutoring.
Sheila Black and Bronwen Llewellyn, and Laura McClain made a joint presentation at the Oklahoma City Community College Annual Writing Symposium.
Sara Beam, Lavaughn Towell, Erin Gore, Lisa Riggs, Elizabeth Thompson, Phillip Davis, Bronwen Llewellyn, Vicki May, Tracy Wendt, and Jeremy Saint Larance presented papers at the TU conference "Passing and Questions of Legitimacy."
Geoff Wright (PhD) presented papers at the Rutgers University Conference on Psychoanalysis and Community and at the Popular Culture Association in the South and American Culture Association in the South in Jacksonville, FL. This December he will be presenting a paper on Eudora Welty at the Modern Language Association.
Sara Beam (PhD), will be organizing an exhibit of materials from McFarlin’s Special Collections in conjunction with the upcoming South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference.
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Sandy Vice was a finalist for a second STAR award.
Katherine Adams continues to serve as Director of the Women's Studies Program. She published an article, "Chute Dialogics: A Sidelong Glance from Egypt, Maine," in the National Women's Studies Journal, and gave a paper at the 15th Cultural Studies Conference at the University of Kansas. She is currently finishing revisions to her book manuscript, Owning Up: Privacy, Propriety, and Belonging in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Life Writing.
Hermione de Almeida and George H. Gilpin published their interdisciplinary book on British Romantic art and culture, Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India this spring (Ashgate/Lund Humphries, 2006). Professor de Almeida, a board member of the International Byron Society, chaired its meeting at the Modern Language Association Convention in Washington, D. C., in December; the topic of the meeting was “Byron, Scotland, and the Scots,” and she is now editing a special issue of Studies in Romanticism on the subject.
Lars Engle had an article, "Oedipal Marlowe, Mimetic Middleton," accepted by Modern Philology and another, "Being Literary in the Wrong Way, Place, and Time: J. M. Coetzee's Youth," in English Studies in Africa. His essay "William Empson and the Sonnets" is forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets, and his article "Sovereign Cruelty in Montaigne and King Lear" is forthcoming in The Shakespearean International Yearbook. He published book reviews in Modern Philology, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Studies, and presented papers at the Blackfriars Conference in Virginia in October and the Shakespeare Association of America conference in Philadelphia in April. He continues to serve on the Shakespeare Division executive committee of the MLA, and was appointed to the executive committee of the Board of Trustees of the Oklahoma Humanities Council. He was elected a Trustee of the Shakespeare Association of America in the spring.
David Goldstein published “Recipes for Living: Martha Stewart and the New American Subject” in Ordinary Lifestyles: Popular Media, Consumption and Taste Cultures (London: Open University Press, 2005). He was awarded a second Faculty Research Grant from the University, as well as a research grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council, to continue work on his monograph, Digestion and Originality in Early Modern England. His entry “Food and Drink” is forthcoming in the Greenwood Shakespeare Encyclopedia, his article “Shakespeare and Food” is forthcoming from Blackwell Publishing Online, and he has book reviews forthcoming in Renaissance and Reformation and Shakespeare Bulletin. He delivered a paper on Anne Bradstreet at the North American Conference on British Studies and gave an invited lecture at the UCLA Shakespeare Symposium. On the creative front, he completed a book-length collection of poems, The Muses’ Birdcage, in the fall; it was listed as a finalist for the Action Books December Prize. He published two poems in Alice Blue Review and three poems in Dusie, and had poems accepted in Jubilat and Epoch. Wa-KOW, the Tulsa artist collective he co-founded last year, had work accepted in the online journal Action, Yes, and exhibited at a local art space in May.
Grant Matthew Jenkins spent his spring research leave revising his book manuscript, Poetic Obligation: Tracing Ethics from the “Objectivists” to Language Poetry. He also continued to work on his project on African American poetry, submitting an interview with Will Alexander to the literary review magazine, Rain Taxi, for publication and presenting two different papers this spring on Harryette Mullen at the University of Louisville’s Twentieth Century Conference and Lake Forest College’s &Now Literary Festival, respectively. He earlier presented the paper, “Part 2: ‘The Space of In Between:’ Mark McMorris’s Postcolonial Ethics,” at the American Literature Association Symposium on Poetic Form in San Diego, CA, in September 2005. His chapter “My Susan Howe, or Howe to Teach” has appear in print in the collection, Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, edited by Juliana Spahr and Joan Rettalack, from St. Martin’s/Palgrave Press.
Joseph Kestner gave ten presentations this year, including the keynote address, "The Dandy and St. George in Jane Austen’s Emma," at the annual conference of the Jane Austen Society of Australia in Sydney in July. He published three articles, ‘St. George and the Dandy in Jane Austen’s Emma ,’ in Sensibilities; ‘Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,’ in the Encyclopedia of Europe, ed. Thomas Carson, New York Scribner’s /Gale 2005; and ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ in Philbrook Magazine. He is Vice President of the Cinema Arts Foundation, Tulsa, and a member of the Oklahoma Film Commission.
Holly Laird moved from Editor to Executive Editor of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature in the fall. She published "The Feminist Legacy of Carolyn Heilbrun" in a special issue of TSWL she coedited with Susan Gubar entitled “The Legacy of Carolyn Heilbrun.” Her article “The Death of the Author by Suicide” appeared in The Fin-de-Siècle Poem, ed. Joseph Bristow (Ohio University Press, 2005). She was recently appointed to a second term on the advisory board of Princeton's Program in the Study of Women and Gender.
Sean Latham, editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and co-director of the Modernist Journals Project, published an article with Robert Scholes in PMLA on “The Rise of Periodical Studies” and also contributed an essay entitled “An Impossible Resignation: Faulkner and the Colonial Imagination” to the Blackwell Companion to William Faulkner. He delivered papers to the Modern Language Association, the Modernist Studies Association, and the North American James Joyce Conference and gave two invited lectures on libel law and literature to the Trieste Joyce Summer School and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In April, he was elected Second Vice President of the Modernist Studies Association (rising to President in 2008) and in October will host the organization’s annual conference with Professors Laird, Willis, and Kestner. He continues to serve as a member of the MLA’s Task Force on the Evaluation of Scholarship for Promotion and Tenure and a trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation.
Claudia Nogueira, who will join the department as an assistant professor in the fall, completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland with a dissertation titled Journeys of Redemption: Discoveries, Rediscoveries, and Cinematic Representations of the Americas.
Laura Stevens became Editor of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature in fall 2005. She published an article, "Reading the Hermit's Manuscript: The Female American and Female Robinsonades" in the MLA volume Approaches to Teaching Robinson Crusoe, and an article "Why Read Sermons? What Americanists Can Learn from the Sermons of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts," in History Compass, and has a book review forthcoming in The Journal of British Studies. She is currently president of the South-Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Her book, The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native American, and Colonial Sensibility (Penn UP), will appear in paperback this year.
Gordon Taylor addressed the McFarlin Fellows in January with a talk titled "'The Real War Will Never Get in the Books': Reflections on American Writers and the War in Vietnam." His essay on David Mura appeared in a new volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography devoted to Asian American writers. An essay on Ralph Ellison for a forthcoming Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture being produced by the Oklahoma Historical Society in conjunction with the statehood centennial is forthcoming.
James Watson published "Peter Matthiessen's Sal Si Puedes: In America with Cesar Chavez," in Genre and is guest-editing the Faulkner Special Issue of the Mississippi Quarterly due out in Summer 2007. He continues to work on a book-length study of Matthiessen.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko received Chile's highest honor from Michelle Bachelet, Chile's new President, remembering his connection as poet with democracy in that country and with the government of Salvador Allende. In October, he read poems and participated in a concert of Shostakovich's "Babi Yar" Symphony at the PAC. He continues to work on an anthology of the last 1000 years of Russian poetry. |
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The 8th Annual Meeting of the Modernist Studies Association will take place at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel from October 19-22 with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, James Joyce Quarterly, and Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.
This interdisciplinary conference will draw over 400 scholars from around the world to discuss the art, literature, and culture of the early twentieth century.
TU graduate students will be presenting papers and will also help run the event. Registration for TU faculty, students, and staff is free.
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