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Holly A. Crocker was awarded the Josephine Abney Research Award from the USC Women’s Studies Program. With this award, she will write the title chapter of her next book, Conductive Subjects: Engendering Virtue in Premodern England, which examines the impact of a cultivated ideal of femininity on an empowered model of masculinity in England between 1350 and 1625.
Scott Gwara won an award of $8,000 from the Humanities Council of SC/NEH for the project, “Pages from the Past: A Legacy of Medieval Books from South Carolina Collections.” This is an exciting project that will allow Scott to create the first exhibition of medieval manuscripts in the state, and to write a detailed catalogue for it
Tony Jarrells won a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University, in support of his project, "The Time of the Tale: Romanticism, Genre, and the 'intermixing' of Enlightenment.".
Nina Levine was awarded an English department Research Fellowship for Spring 2008, to complete a book on drama and early modern London, titled Practicing the City.
Ed Madden received the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize for Signals. The prize is sponsored by the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and USC Press. The judge, Afaa Michael Weaver, a professor of English at Simmons College in Boston, said of the manuscript: “Signals combines a matter of fact lyrical eye with a view to harder social realities…. This collection bears the evidence of a high level of craft alongside a concern for what goes on in our lives.” The book will be published by USC Press in 2008. Madden also won the 2007 South Carolina Poem Contest, sponsored by The State newspaper and the SC Poetry Initiative.
David Lee Miller's Spenser Project received an NEH Scholarly Editions Grant in the amount of $150,000. Principal investigator on the grant is Joseph Loewenstein at Washington University, with the South Carolina team in a collaborative role. Among other things, funds from the grant will provide partial support for Postdoctoral Fellow Randall Cream, who joined us here at USC this summer to work on the construction of a digital archive. With support from the College of Arts & Sciences, the Division of Instructional Technology, the Research and Productive Scholarship program, and a fellowship from the NEH during the current year, the Spenser Project has made rapid progress toward both the hardcover edition of Spenser's collected works, under contract to Oxford University Press, and the digital archive to support research and teaching of Spenser's works.
David Shields was appointed Director of the Southern Texts Society, an association of scholars devoted to consolidating editions of the works of the major figures of southern intellectual history. Founded in 1989, the STS has book series published by the University of Virginia Press and the University of Georgia Press. He also received a Research Professorship, Department of English at USC, Fall 2007.
Meili Steele won the 2007 Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences, one of the university’s most prestigious annual prizes for research and scholarship. This is the third time in five years that the award has gone to a member of the English Department. Previous recipients include Stan Dubinsky (2006) and Janette Hospital (2003).
Laura Walls was awarded a research fellowship for Spring 2007 from the Center for Humans and Nature (based in New York and Chicago), in support of her book project, The Passage to Cosmos, on the concept of Cosmos in nineteenth-century American literature and culture. As part of her Research Professorship, she delivered a public lecture entitled “The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and American Literature” (see Readings, Lectures, and Conference Presentations, below).
BOOKS:
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Elise Blackwell
The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish. A coming-of-age story set against the great flood of 1927, this novel examines the various meanings of the word natural and its antonyms. More information at http://unbridledbooks.com/cypressparish.html
Janette Turner Hospital
Orpheus Lost. Professor Hospital’s new novel has been released in Australia to rave reviews (see sample from Australian Literary Review). It is a love story on a grand scale that spans America, Australia and the Middle East. It is also an exploration of the ghastly side effects of terrorism and of the nightmarish mistakes of war time from which the lovers must struggle to extricate themselves. Review of Hospital's Work
ARTICLES:
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Holly A. Crocker
“Chaucer’s Man Show: Anachronistic Authority in Brian Helgeland’s A Knight’s Tale.”
Race, Class, and Gender in “Medieval” Cinema. Ed. Lynn Ramey and Tison
Pugh. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 183-97.
Stan Dubinsky
Dubinsky, Stanley. “Parasitic gaps in restrictive and appositive clauses.” Proceedings of
Israel Association for Theoretical Linguistics (IATL) 22. Jerusalem: The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, 2007 (19 pp.).
http://atar.mscc.huji.ac.il/~english/IATL/22/TOC.html/
Dubinsky, Stanley, and Shoko Hamano. “A window into the syntax of Control: Event opacity in Japanese and English.” University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics (UMWPiL) 15. Ed. Anastasia Conroy, Chunyuan Jing, ChizuruNakao and Eri Takahashi. College Park MD: UMWPiL. 73-97. http://www.ling.umd.edu/publications/volume15/
Greg Forter
“Against Melancholia: Contemporary Mourning Theory, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,
and the Politics of Unfinished Grief” (2003). Reprinted in Modernism and Mourning. Ed. Patricia Rae. (Bucknell UP, 2007). 239-59.
“Faulkner, Trauma, and the Uses of Crime Fiction.” The Blackwell Companion to William Faulkner. Ed. Rick Moreland. (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007). 373-393.
Nina Levine
"Citizens' Games: Differentiating Collaboration and Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare Quarterly 58 (2007): 31-64.
Ed Madden
“Penetrating Matthew Arnold.” Michael Field and Their World. Ed. Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A. Wilson. High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England: Rivendale Press, 2007. 83-95.
David Lee Miller
“Building a Spenser Archive—One Scan at a Time.” Duke University Libraries 20:2/3 (Spring-Summer 2007): 14-19.
“Rereading the Sensible New Historicist.” The Spenser Review 38.1 (Winter, 2007): 10-12.
“Gender, Justice, and the Gods in The Faerie Queene, Book 5.” Reading Renaissance Ethics, Ed. Marshall Grossman. Routledge, 2007. 19-37.
Joel Myerson
“The Times They Are A-Changin’: Literary Documentary Editing in an Electronic Post-Structuralist World.” Documentary Editing, 28 (Spring 2006): 29-31.
David S. Shields
“We Declare you Independent Whether you wish it or Not; The Print Culture of Early
Filibusterism” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, Winter 2007.
BOOK REVIEWS:
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Greg Forter
Review of Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature
by Josephine Gattuso Hendin, and Mystery, Violence, and Popular Culture by John G. Cawelti, American Literature 78.4 (December 2006): 897-899.
POEMS:
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Ed Madden
"Sacrifice” and “Aisling,” The Book of Irish American Poetry from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Ed. Daniel Tobin. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2007. 836-837.
“Viscous,” The Gay and Lesbian Review, Worldwide 14.3 (May-June 2007): 24. [“Viscous” received honorable mention for the Gival Press 2006 Oscar Wilde Award.]
“Flaneur,” White Crane 71 (winter 2006-2007): 18.
Other Creative Work:
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Ed Madden
“Home Economics,” poetry and mixed media collaboration with textile artist Susan Lenz. Exhibited and auctioned at AIDS Benefit Foundation dessert and silent auction event, 28 April 2007.
Readings, Lectures, and Conference Presentations:
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Elise Blackwell
Elise Blackwell was on the “Natural Disaster in Fact and Fiction” panel at the Virginia Book Festival (March 2007). Between March and June, she is giving fiction readings at Dartmouth College, the University of California-Irvine, the KGB Bar (New York), the Faulkner Society (New Orleans), and two-dozen bookstores across the south.
Holly A. Crocker
“Hidden in Plain Sight: Masculinity and Invisibility in the Canterbury Tales,” Forty-Second International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2007.
Stan Dubinsky
“Mediating the syntax and semantics of Control,” UNC-Chapel Hill Department of
Linguistics Spring Colloquium. March 2007 (invited lecture).
“On the syntax of exhaustive Control and the calculus of events.” LSA Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, January 2007.
Greg Forter
“Absalom, Absalom! and Light in August: History, Fiction, Traumatic Form,” MLA, Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.
Janette Turner Hospital
In support of her new novel, Orpheus Lost, Professor Hospital spent May and June on a
book-tour of all Australian capital cities.
Tony Jarrells
"Making Fun: James Hogg and the Early Blackwood's," Nineteenth-Century Graduate
Student Conference, USC, March 2007 (plenary lecture).
Nina Levine
"The Place of the Present: Historicity and City Comedy," Shakespeare Association of
America Conference, San Diego, CA, April 2007.
Ed Madden
“Scabies, Matt Dillon, and the Fighting Beta: Economies of Masculinity in Mark
O’Rowe’s Howie the Rookie,” American Conference for Irish Studies, New York
University, New York, NY, April 2007.
“Poetry and Karaoke: Masculinity and Emotion in Jimmy Smallhorne’s 2x4,” American Conference for Irish Studies – Southern Region, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, March 2007.
“GLBT Social Justice Activism in South Carolina: The Fairness for All Families Amendment Campaign,” 20th Annual USC Women’s Studies Conference, “Feminisms and Justice,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March 2007.
Joel Myerson
“Emerson Family Matters: Recapturing the Lives of the Emerson Brothers” (with Ronald
A. Bosco), American Literature Association Symposium on Biography, Puerto Vallarta,
Mexico, December 2006.
Chair, “Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century Concord,” MLA, Philadelphia, PA, December 2006.
“Shared Concerns: Concord, the Burden of the Past, and the Emerson Brothers” (with Ronald A. Bosco), Philological Association of the Carolinas conference, Myrtle Beach, SC, March 2007.
David Shields
“The Scholarly Journal and Pressures Imposed by the Crisis in Academic Book
Publication,” Council of Editors of Learned Journals, MLA, Philadelphia, PA, December
2006.
“History of the English invasions of Spanish America, 1585-1809,” Quarterly Scholar’s Salon, McNeil Center of Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, January 2007 (invited lecture).
“The Life of Captain John Smith,” Great Lives Lecture Series, Mary Washington University, February 2007.
Laura Walls
"The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and American Literature," Research Professor Lecture, USC English Department, March 2007 (invited lecture).
“Trembling on the Verge of Science: Thoughts from an English Professor,” Last Lecture Series, USC Students’ “Last Lecture” Series, March 2007 (invited lecture).
Shevaun Watson
"Pedagogical Memory and the Transferability of Writing Knowledge." Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). New York, March 2007.
Professional Service:
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David S. Shields
Program Committee, American Studies Association, March 2007.
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James Dickey Conference
Professor William Thesing directed this exciting conference, held at USC on January 19, and 20, 2007. Over 350 people attended conference sessions, which explored many aspects of Dickey’s life and works. Some of the highlights included a panel on the sexual, teaching, and musical aspects of Deliverance (book and novel), retrospective accounts of Dickey’s life at USC, and papers by honors college students examining Dickey’s continuing influence on American letters. This event coincided with the opening of the James Dickey exhibition at the Thomas Cooper Library, and culminated with a keynote address by Pat Conroy. Also, 18 essays were accepted from the conference for a new volume, The Way We Read James Dickey, which is being edited by Professor Thesing and Dr. Theda Wrede for USC press.
Nineteenth-Century Seminar
In February, Mary Poovey, the Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at NYU, and Clifford Siskin, Professor of English at NYU led a department-sponsored seminar entitled "Imagining Futures for Literary Study: Problems, Methods, Possibilities."
Special Collections Exhibits
Professor Patrick Scott, Director of Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, hosted the following exhibits:
* Hugh MacDiarmid & Friends: an exhibit of 20th Century Scottish poetry from the G. Ross Roy Collection.
Graniteville Room (December 2006-January, 2007).
* James Dickey at USC: an exhibit chiefly from James Dickey’s Personal Library, the Matthew J. & Arlyn Bruccoli Collection of Ellen Greiner Collection of James Dickey. Mounted for the conference on James Dickey: A Celebration
Mezzanine Exhibition Gallery (January-March, 2007), with additional material in the Graniteville Room for the opening.
* Olaudah Equiano & 18th Century African Writers: an exhibit marking the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. Main Floor Lobby (February-March 2007)
* The Scottish Novel & the Blackwood’s Circle: an exhibition for the 19th Century Studies Conference.
Graniteville Room (Graniteville Room, March 2007: Main Floor Lobby, June-July 2007)
* Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, & Kant: an exhibition from the James Willard Oliver Collection, the books of Dr. Madeleine Roy, and other collections for the Department of Philosophy’s research symposium on naturalism. Graniteville Room (March-April 2007).
* Charles Darwin: an exhibition from the C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection. Mounted for the first A.C. Moore Endowed Lectures and the 2007 meeting of the Association of Southeastern Biologists. Mezzanine Exhibition Gallery (April-June 2007).
* For more information about these exciting exhibits, see the webpage at Rare Books and Special Collections: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/rarebook.html
Southern Writers Series
With the guidance of Professor Tara Powell, the USC Institute for Southern Studies and the Friends of the Richland County Public Library co-sponsored a Southern Writers Series for Spring 2007. Featuring novelists from North and South Carolina, the series included readings and book-signings by Josephine Humphreys, Pam Durban, and George Singleton, among others.
Faculty Colloquium
In the spring, the faculty colloquium discussed a chapter from Professor Dan Smith’s new book, Rhetoric, Composition, Life: Rhythms of Pedagogy, Politics, and Virtue.
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In the 2007 National Student Book Collecting Award, Shelley Johnson and Dawson Jones, winners of this year's USC student book-collecting award, received an honorable mention (and a year's subscription to Fine Books & Collections magazine) for their entry on the poet Mary Robinson (1758-1800).
Carl Jenkinson won the Graduate School's Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2007. Carl will receive his award at the Graduate Student Day on Wednesday, April 4th. Only one award is given each year. Congratulations also to Bill Rivers, Christy Friend, Lee Bauknight, Elizabeth Smith, and all those who do such an excellent job of training and mentoring our teaching assistants.
Celeste Pottier was awarded a Graduate School Travel Grant for the summer of 2007.
Brian Ray was chosen too appear in the Charleston Post and Courier’s South Carolina Fiction Project issue. He is one of only twelve writers chosen for publication in the issue, an honor that also carries a substantial cash prize.
Grace Wetzel won a Graduate School Travel Grant for the summer of 2007.
Fall Festival of Writers
This year’s Fall Festival of Authors (September 25-November 6) features writers Bobby Ann Mason, Galway Kinnell, James Barilla, as well as a night of readings by our talented MFA students. Please contact Professor Fred Dings, this year’s director, for further information.
Caught in the Creative Act
Carolina Distinguished Professor of English and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Janette Turner Hospital will direct and teach another spectacular course for all those who love books. The Fall and Spring sessions will bring seven acclaimed writers to USC, including Joyce Carol Oates and Salman Rushdie. See the English Department Website for full details: http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/
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