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Holly A. Crocker received a Short-Term Fellowship from the Folger Shakespeare Library for her project, "John Foxe's Chaucer: Reading the Aesthetics of Reform in Early Modern England," which examines the growing connection between reformist aesthetics and reading practices in early modern England.
Stan Dubinsky won the 2006 Russell Research Award for Humanities and Social Sciences. This is the second time in four years that the award has gone to a member of the English Department (Janette Hospital won it in 2003). The award, established by Judge Donald S. Russell in 1957, recognizes faculty for outstanding research and scholarship, and is one of the university’s most prestigious annual prizes for research and scholarship. Besides the Russell Award, Professor Dubinsky won a NSF Grant for panel at 2005 LSA Annual Meeting and workshop at 2005 LSA Linguistic Institute ($18,696) entitled “The grammar of Raising and Control” (co-PI, Wm. Davies), is a co-PI and faculty mentor for Stella De Bode's Research and Productive Scholarship Award ($18,000) for the project, “Reducing
Cortical Atrophy and Improving Functional Outcomes in Post-Hemispherectomy Children” (co-PI & mentor for S. de Bode). He is also co-PI and director for Mila Tasseva's NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($11,936): “Continuity Hypotheses Revisited: English L2 Acquisition of Bulgarian Nominal Domain.”
Janette Turner Hospital's new novel, Orpheus Lost (forthcoming, May 2007), is already receiving recognition. The chapter that appeared in the Nimrod International Journal received the Geraldine McLoud Award.
Tony Jarrells garnered high honors as the 2006 recipient of the department’s prestigious “Excellence in Teaching” award. In the words of the teaching committee, he “carried the day by getting his entire undergraduate class to articulate nuanced perceptions about the Romantic city. Their graduate level performance, brilliantly held together by Jarrell's wit and charisma, was an experience to remember for a long time.” Also to be commended are the three finalists for the award: Elise Blackwell, Holly Crocker, and Bill Thesing.
Ed Madden was recognized as a “Distinguished Community Partner” by Palmetto AIDS Life Support Services at the World AIDS Day Remembrance Ceremony, November 30th, 2006, on the steps of the South Carolina State House. He also received honorable mention for the Gival Press 2006 Oscar Wilde Award, a national award for a poem that best represents GLBT experience.
David Shields was Visiting Humanities Fellow at Princeton University from October 13th to 18th. During his visit, he gave several lectures and workshops, including a talk on “The Invention of Glamour” for the English Department. Professor Shields was also elected to the Board of Directors of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation, the non-profit organization charged with the reintroduction and promotion of heritage rice and other grains into cultivation.
Meili Steele was selected for the NEH Institute “Human Rights in Conflict: Interdisciplinary Perspectives” at CUNY Graduate Center, July 2006, in support of his project, Imagining Human Rights, which develops a philosophical problematic that enables us to conceive of rights in terms of social imaginaries rather than simply as rules and principles.
Laura Wallsreceived a Research Professorship, Department of English at USC, Fall 2006, and a Research Fellowship from the Center for Humans and Nature, Spring 2007, both in support of her book project The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and Planet America, a history of the concept of Cosmos in nineteenth-century American literature and culture.
Harriett S. Williams received a continuing grant from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Adolescent Literacy ($56,500), and continuing grants from the National Writing Project, University of California ($185,000).
BOOKS:
Posted Before March 29, 2007
Matthew Bruccoli
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, with a new introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli (New York: Signet Classics/New American Library/Penguin, 2006).
Holly A. Crocker
Comic Provocations: Exposing the Corpus of Old French Fabliaux (New York: Palgrave, 2006). http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403970432.
This interdisciplinary collection explores the ability of Old French fabliaux to disrupt the bodies with which they come into contact. Essays in this volume address theoretical issues including fragmentation and multiplication, social anxiety and excessive circulation, performative productions and creative formations, to trace the competing consequences that result from this literary body’s unsettling capacity. Resisting the impulse to see the fabliaux as either liberatory or restrictive, comic or satiric, didactic or immoral, contributors assess the ways in which Old French fabliaux expose bodily relations that elude binary classifications.
Stan Dubinsky
(with William Davies) Guest edited issue of Syntax: A journal of theoretical, experimental and interdisciplinary research 9.2 (2006).
Special issue featuring articles based on a symposium at the 2005 Linguistics Society of America annual meeting, "New Horizons in the Grammar of Raising and Control."
Paula Feldman
The Keepsake for 1829, with an historical and critical introduction by Paula R. Feldman (Broadview Press: Ontario, Canada, 2006). http://www.broadviewpress.com/bvbooks.asp?BookID=742
Literary annuals played a major role in the popular culture of nineteenth-century Britain and America, and The Keepsake was the most distinguished, successful, and enduring of them all. The 1829 edition was stellar, with contributions by William Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Scott, Letitia Landon, Felicia Hemans, and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Tony Jarrells
Blackwood's Magazine, 1817-1825, Vol. 2: Prose Tales (6 Vols., general editor Nicholas Mason) (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2006).
A collection of regional, satirical, moral, and "terror" tales published in the early years of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (including works by James Hogg, John Galt, John Gibson Lockhart, Walter Scott, Caroline Bowles, David Macbeth Moir, John Howison, and others).
Larry Rhu
Stanley Cavell's American Dream: Shakespeare, Philosophy, and Hollywood Movies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006). http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/faculty_pages/rhu/cavell.html
This book explores Cavell's diverse writings along converging lines of thought rather than in isolated categories. It discusses moral perfectionism and skepticism as connecting links that demonstrate the integrity of Cavell's overall approach to interpretation as he brings it to bear on Shakespeare, Hollywood movies, ordinary language philosophy, and American transcendentalism. Cavell's keen ear for the expressive power of common speech makes him both a first-rate literary artist and a compelling philosopher of the everyday, and Rhu catches the tune that holds Cavell's manifold interests together, the poetry of ideas or lyrical philosophy that he composes. Rhu's book has garnered kudos from critics in a variety of fields. John Tobin, coeditor of The Riverside Shakespeare, calls it "a work for every Shakespearean-experts and amateurs, teachers and their students, whom this book will delight and instruct. Its eloquence and accessibility make it ideal for graduate and undergraduate classes." The novelist R.M. Berry remarks, "Stanley Cavell's American Dream moves from discussions of Cavell's philosophy to readings of Walker Percy, Harold Bloom, Shakespeare, Emerson, and contemporary novelist Jane Smiley, traversing institutional divides with a grace and lucidity which recalls the best writing of such stylistically-gifted critics as Hugh Kenner and Alfred Kazin. Rewarding and pleasurable to read." Film scholar William Rothman observes, "Stanley Cavell's American Dream is an insightful, original contribution to Shakespeare criticism, film criticism, and to our theoretical understanding of the relationship between the two great arts."
Laura Walls
More Day to Dawn: Thoreau’s “Walden” for a New Century, with “Afterword.” Coeditor with Sandra Petrulionis (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006).
These essays demonstrate that scholarship on Henry David Thoreau continues to break new ground. Emerging new voices join senior scholars in exploring a range of topics: Walden's climb to fame; modes of representation in the test; the relationship between fact and truth; Thoreau and violence; how women read Walden, and more. The volume closes with an afterword suggesting directions for future research.
ARTICLES:
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Holly A. Crocker
"Teaching Masculinities in Chaucer's Shorter Poems: Historical Myths and Helgeland's A Knight's Tale," Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems, Ed. Angela Jane Weisl and Tison Pugh (New York: Modern Language Association Press, 2006), pp. 76-80.
Stan Dubinsky
(with William Davies). "The place, range, and taxonomy of Control and Raising," Syntax: A Journal of Theoretical, Experimental, and Interdisciplinary Research 9.2 (2006): 1-7.
(with William Davies). "On the existence (and distribution) of sentential subjects," Festschrift for David Perlmutter. Ed. Gerdts, Moore, and Polinsky (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).
(with Shoko Hamano). "Control into Adverbial Predicate PPs," Japanese/Korean Linguistics 14. (Stanford: CSLI, Stanford University, 2006) pp. 177-188.
(with 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, Chizuru Nakao and Eri Takahashi (College Park MD: UMWPiL, 2006)
Paula Feldman
"Women, Literary Annuals, and the Evidence of Inscriptions," Keats-Shelley Journal (winter 2006): 54-62.
David Lee Miller
"The Faerie Queene, 1590," A Critical Companion to Spenser Studies, Ed. Bart van Es. (New York: Palgrave, 2006), pp. 139-165.
"Gender, Justice, and the Gods in The Faerie Queene, Book 5," Reading Renaissance Ethics, Ed. Marshall Grossman (London: Routledge, 2006).
Joel Myerson
"Walt Whitman and the Trimbles: New Zealand, the First Concordance of Leaves of Grass, and the Dunedin Public Library," Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 24 (Summer 2006): 20-32.
G. Ross Roy
"Robert Burns: Poet of the People" and "The Scottish-North-American Diaspora: Nineteenth-Century Poets Across the Atlantic," Alba Literaria: A History of Scottish Literature, Ed. Marco Fazzini, Venezia: Amos Edizioni, 2005 [2006]. 205-228; 245-262.
Patrick Scott
"Clough, Bankruptcy, and Disbelief: The Economic Background to 'Blank Misgivings'," Victorian Poetry, 44:2 (Summer 2006): 123-134.
“James Dickey’s Library [letter to the editor],” James Dickey Newsletter, 23:1 (Fall 2006).
“Tennyson’s In Memoriam, Section 123, and the Submarine Forest on the Lincolnshire Coast," Victorian Newsletter, 110 (Fall 2006): 28-30.
Laura Walls
“‘If Body Can Sing’: Emerson and Victorian Science,” Emerson Bicentennial Essays. Ed. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson (Massachusetts Historical Society/University of Virginia Press, 2006), pp. 334-366.
“Science,” American History through Literature, 1820-1870, Ed. Janet Gabler-Hover and Robert D. Sattelmeyer (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006), pp. 1036-1045
“Exploring the World,” Oxford History of Literary Translation in English, vol. 4, Ed. Peter France and Kenneth Haynes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 498-504.
Shevaun Watson
(with Morris Young), "Professing 'Western' Literacy: Globalization and Women's Education at the Western College for Women," Women and Literacy: Inquiries for a New Century. Ed. Beth Daniell and Peter Mortensen (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006), pp. 173-87.
Tracy Weldon
(with William Labov, Sharon Ash, Maciej Baranowski, Naomi Nagy, and Maya Ravindranath), "Listener's Sensitivity to the Frequency of Sociolinguistic Variables," University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, 12:2 (2006): 105-129.
Mary Ann Wimsatt
"Humor, Simms, Baldwin, and Me," Studies in American Humor 13 (2005-2006).
"Gail Goodwin" and "William Gilmore Simms," Southern Writers: A New Biographical Dictionary, Ed. Joseph M. Flora, et al. (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2006).
BOOK REVIEWS:
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David Lee Miller
Jim Ellis, Sexuality and Citizenship: Metamorphosis in Elizabethan Erotic Verse. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003), Shakespeare Studies, 2006.
Joel Myerson
Ed Folsom, Whitman Making Books / Books Making Whitman (Obermann Center for Advanced Study, 2005), Walt Whitman Quarterly Review, 24 (Summer 2006): 41-43.
Meili Steele
Pascal Michon, Rythmes, pouvoir, mondialisation (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2005), Comparative Literature 58 (2006) : 170-172.
POEMS:
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Ed Madden
"Amagon, Arkansas," Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 37 (December 2006): 172-73.
"Auction" and "Postcard: Michelangelo's Creation of Eve," Southern Humanities Review, 40.4 (fall 2006): 383-384.
"Jewels of Opar," Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 27 (fall/winter 2006): 40.
"Molasses," South Carolina Review, 39.1 (fall 2006): 112-113.
"Light," di-verse-city 2006: Anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival, Ed. Ken Fontenot (Austin: Austin Poets International, 2006), p. 52.
Tara Powell
"Homesick," and "Indian River Blues in Cayce," Pembroke Magazine 38 (2006): 286-287.
"Pond," "Growing Season," "Laundry," "Akhmatova," "Collected in Translation," "The Tattered Last of the Hurricane," and "Posture for Prayer." North Carolina Poet of the Week, October 2-8, 2006. North Carolina Arts Council. Available at: http://www.ncarts.org/freeform_scrn_template.cfm?ffscrn_id=262
SHORT FICTION:
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Elise Blackwell
"Seeing Water," Seed, June/July 2006.
"Juarez," Quick Fiction, October 2006.
"After Carville," Witness, November 2006.
Janette Turner Hospital
Two chapters of Orpheus Lost (forthcoming, May 2007) have appeared in Southern Humanities Review and Nimrod International Journal respectively. The chapter in Nimrod received the Geraldine McLoud Award (see Faculty Honors and Awards).
Readings, Lectures, and Conference Presentations:
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Elise Blackwell
Elise Blackwell read at the Seed launch party in New York and will give readings while on book tour this May.
Matthew Bruccoli
“The Future of Books in Libraries,” 26th Annual Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, November 8-11, 2006.
Holly A. Crocker
“Domestic Tyranny: Feminizing Shrews on the Renaissance Stage,” York Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, York, UK, May 2006 (invited lecture).
“Masculine Mimicry? Another Look Another Look at the Shipman's Tale, VII.11-19,” New Chaucer Society, New York, NY, July 2006.
Stan Dubinsky
“On the distribution of parasitic gaps in appositive clauses and restrictive modifiers,” Korean Generative Grammar Circle, Dongguk University, Seoul, July 2006 (invited lecture).
“Observations on Case and Control in Japanese and English,” Seoul National University, July 2006 (invited lecture).
“Sentential (and other non-nominal) subjects,” 2006 SMOG International Conference on Linguistics, The Society of Modern Grammar, Daegu Catholic University, Korea, July 2006 (invited forum lecture).
“Case and Control in Japanese (and English),” University of Kentucky, Department of English, March 2006 (invited lecture).
“Parasitic gaps in restrictive and appositive clauses,” Israeli Association of Theoretical Linguistics, Jerusalem, July 2006.
(with Shoko Hamano) “Some Japanese adverbial phrases: A grammatical puzzle,” Southern Japan Seminar, Coral Gables FL, March 2006.
“On the forms and functions of Control (and Raising),” Linguistic Society of Korea International Summer Conference, Seoul, July 2006.
Paula Feldman
“The Scholar Collector,” University of North Carolina at Charlotte, November 2006 (invited lecture).
“Literary Annuals, Inscriptions, and the Display of Affection,” Romantic Spectacle Conference, sponsored by the Centre for Romantic Studies, Roehampton University, London, England, July 2006.
“Women, Literary Annuals and Archival Evidence,” (Re)Collecting British Women Writers Conference sponsored by the 18th and 19th Century Women Writers Association, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, March 2006.
Mindy Fenske
“Picturing Tattoos: Image, Agency, and Performance” and “Rosie the Riveter, the Marlboro Man, and Umjammer Lammy: Tattoos, Advertising, and Fragmentation” National Communication Association Conference (NCA), San Antonio, TX, November 2006.
Tony Jarrells
“Provincialing Enlightenment: Edinburgh Historicism and Blackwood's Tales,” Scottish Romanticism and World Literature conference, Centre for British Studies, University of California, Berkeley, CA, September 2006
Ed Madden
Guest artist, Austin International Poetry Festival, Austin, TX, April 2006.
David Lee Miller
“Gender and Justice in The Faerie Queene, Book 5,” at “Spenser’s Civilizations,” the Fourth International Spenser Conference, University of Toronto, May 2006.
“Rereading the Sensible New Historicist,” MLA, Philadelphia, December 2006.
Joel Myerson
Chaired a panel on “Preparing the Next Generation of Editors,” Association for Documentary Editing conference, Quincy, Massachusetts, October 2006.
Tara Powell
“‘One drop / Distillate of Carolina reality / Might have cured much’: Minding the South in New South Verse Memoirs by Fred Chappell and Others,” W.J. Cash and the Idea of Progress, South Atlantic MLA, Charlotte, NC, November 2006.
“Cornbread and Sushi,” Hickory Hill Forum, Thomson, GA, November 2006.
“To Market, To Market: Strategies for Job Search Preparation,” Graduate Student Forum, Rocky Mountain MLA, Tucson, AZ, October 2006.
“Strategies for Job Market Preparation: Luncheon Panel,” Royster Fellows and Alumni Tenth Anniversary Celebration Weekend, Chapel Hill, NC, September 2006.
Chaired Panel, “SAMLA Creative Nonfiction Writers Read,” South Atlantic MLA, Charlotte, NC, November 2006.
Chaired Panels “Race and Gender in Literature and Film” and “Race in Contemporary Film,” Rocky Mountain MLA, Tucson, AZ, October 2006.
Patrick Scott
“Tennyson, Ossian and the Origins of In Memoriam,” Scottish Romanticism in World Literatures conference, University of California, Berkeley, CA September 2006; also chaired session, “Burns Abroad,” ibid.
“Arthur Hugh Clough and Florence Nightingale: A Relationship Reexamined,” at the 2006 Victorians Institute conference on “Gender and Reform,” Converse College, Spartanburg, SC, October 2006.
Rebecca Stern
“Time Bargains: Imagining Victorian Futures,” MLA, Philadelphia, December 2006.
David Shields
“The Genius of Ancient Britain, Reimagining Captain John Smith,” English Department, Yale University, October 2006 (invited lecture).
Meili Steele
“Language and Public Reason,” Philosophy and the Social Sciences Meeting, Prague, May 2006.
“Narrative, the Social Imaginary, and Public Reason” Association for Political Theory, Indiana University, November 2006.
Laura Walls
“‘Every Truth Tends to Become a Power’: Emerson, Faraday, and the Minding of Matter,” Transatlanticism in American Literature: Emerson, Hawthorne, Poe, Oxford University, UK, July 2006.
”Humboldt’s Bridge,” American Society for Environmental History, St. Paul, MN, March 2006.
Shevaun Watson
“‘Through a Glass Darkly’: Reflections on Freed Slave Women’s Petitions,” National Communication Association Conference (NCA), November 2006.
Harriett S. Williams
“What’s New In Young Adult Literature, 2006: A Look Inside Twenty New Titles,” Writing Improvement Network and S.C. State Department of Education’s Annual Conference, Greenville, SC, November 2006.
“Research on SAT’s New Essay,” National Writing Project Annual Meeting at National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2006.
(with Janet Swenson, Michigan State University) “The Writing Project Summer Institute: From Interview Through Inservice,” National Writing Project Annual Meeting at National Council of Teachers of English, Nashville, Tennessee, November 2006.
Professional Service:
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Stan Dubinsky
Editorial Board member, Syntax and Morphology section of Language and Linguistics Compass (peer-reviewed survey articles from across the entire discipline), Blackwell Publishing.
Paula Feldman
Editorial Board, CEA Critic.
Advisory Board member, Corvey Women Writers on the Web database project, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England.
President, Modern Language Association Division, “The English Romantic Period” January 2005 to present.
Delegate, Modern Language Association Delegate Assembly
Mindy Fenske
Co-planner and conference moderator for “Documenting and Evaluating Creative Work,” an NCA pre-conference, Fall 2005.
Appointed to the NCA task force charged with creating guidelines for performance review and for the retention, promotion and tenure of performance studies artists and scholars.
Joel Myerson
Named to Advisory Board, Nineteenth-Century Concord Digital Archive: sponsored by Texas A&M University and Concord Free Public Library.
Patrick Scott
Elected Vice-President of the Victorians Institute for 2006-2008.
David Shields
Appointed to the Program Committee of the 2007 American Studies Association Meeting to be held in Philadelphia.
Caught in the Creative Act
Janette Turner Hospital, Carolina Distinguished Professor Of English and Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, directed and taught a dazzling ten week course for all those who love books. Featured writers included Elie Wiesel, Geraldine Brooks, and E.L. Doctorow, among other nationally and internationally acclaimed authors. Participants in the course read the authors’ books and attended lectures by the writers. See full details of this exciting series at: http://www.cas.sc.edu/cica.
Fall Festival of Authors
This year’s Fall Festival of Authors (October 25-November 2) featured writers lê thi diem thúy, Joe Queenan, and Michael Ondaatje, as well as a night of readings by our talented MFA students. Rachel Luria coordinated the MFA Bistro. Professor Elise Blackwell and Karen Brown of the Thomas Cooper Library Co-Directed.
“Redistributing Harry: A Festival of Complicities”
On October 13-14 the English Department sponsored a conference in honor of Harry Berger, Jr., a noted literary critic and theorist of cultural change who was inducted the week before into the National Academy of Arts & Sciences. Organized by Professors David Lee Miller and Nina Levine, the conference featured papers on various aspects of Berger’s extraordinary work, presented by two dozen notable literary scholars and other humanists from across the country. USC faculty from other departments also presented: Professors Brad Collins and Carleton Hughes from Art, along with their graduate student Jane Boyer, discussed Berger's art criticism, and Professor Jill Frank of Political Science responded to his interpretations of Plato. Find out more at http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/harryfest.
Special Collections Exhibits
Professor Patrick Scott, Director of Special Collections, Thomas Cooper Library, has had an exciting term, with two major exhibits. The first marks the gift to the library of The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection, one of the finest collections of Milton and Miltonia in the world. It has been purchased for the University with the leading support of Mr. William L. Richter and the William L. Richter Family Foundation. See full details of the exhibit and its opening: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/milton/exhibit.html.
Special Collections also featured its first exhibit from the Robert D. Middendorf Collection of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, which was acquired in 2005 from Mr. Middendorf with a majority of gift from the collector and with additional support from donations to the library's Treasures Acquisition Program. Along with first editions and periodical writings of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, best-known for her Pulitzer-prizewinning novel The Yearling (1938), the Middendorf Collection also includes letters, proofs, and movie memorabilia. See full details of the exhibit and its opening: http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/rawlings/intro.html
Guest Lecture
In November the department was pleased to host Professor Robert Eaglestone, Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought, Royal Holloway, University of London, for a guest lecture entitled, “The Holocaust, Postmodernism, and Truth.”
Faculty Colloquium
In the spring, the faculty colloquium gathered to discuss a chapter from Professor Rebecca Stern’s new book, Home Economics: Domestic Fraud and Victorian England. In the fall, the group had a lively discussion of Professor Tony Jarrells’ essay, “Provincializing Enlightenment: Edinburgh Historicism and Blackwood’s Tales”
Jill Jividen was one of three recipients of the Smith/Reynolds Founders Fellowship awarded annually by the Hemingway Foundation. She also chaired the Hemingway Society Panel, “The Feminine in Hemingway,” in November, and resented her paper, “It’s Not the Size of the Word That Counts: Hemingway, Faulkner, Repudiation of the Feminine, and Feminization of the Rival,” at the MLA in December.
James S. Washick (BA 1990, MA 1993, PhD 1997), Associate Professor of English at North Greenville University, was a successful recent contender on Jeopardy, with a first-day total of over $20,000 (as aired on local TV on November 24).
“The James Dickey Conference: A Celebration of the Life and Works”
January 19-20, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Pat Conroy
On the 10th anniversary of his death, this conference will examine Dickey’s art, impact, and reputation. For more information, including program details, see: www.jamesdickey.org, or contact Professor William Thesing: thesingw@mailbox.sc.edu
“Romantic and Victorian Entertainments”
Graduate Student Literature Conference
March 23-24, 2007
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Barry J. Faulk, Florida State University, author of Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture
Plenary Speakers: David S. Shields, Professor of English and McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina
Tony Jarrells, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina
Our fifth annual graduate conference hopes to examine issues related to entertainment and leisure in the nineteenth century, as well as their relationship to both contemporary and modern literary creation, criticism, and reception. For more information, contact:
Melissa Edmundson: edmundrm@mailbox.sc.edu or
Celeste Pottier: pottier@mailbox.sc.edu
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