Wednesday, 3 May 2000
READING MATTERS Vol V, No 18
Special Year's End Edition
Cascading Kudos (Offered in no particular order, but in near certainty that I'll forget to mention a bunch of major accomplishments and regret the omissions all summer)
Congratulations to. . .
Corey Creekmur and Patricia Foster, who have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure and are now fair game for a whole bunch of new committee assignments.
Corey is going to be particularly busy, as he has also been elected to the Faculty Assembly and been selected to direct the Institute for Cinema and Culture for the next three years. He'll also be presenting his work in a short course organized by Lauren Rabinovitz and the American Studies Dept. this fall, with Lauren and Ida Beam visitors John Kasson and Joy Kasson. And he's been invited to attend at the 5th annual Oscar Micheaux [the first major African American filmmaker] festival in South Dakota (at Micheaux's homestead) this August, after performing with The Living Nickelodeon in Bologna, Italy in July.
Patricia has a gig of her own in Italy this summer, as she has been invited to lecture and give a reading at Sagarana University in Lucca, Italy, on June 15, 2000. Patricia's visit will also involve her in discussions about establishing a new Master's Program in Writing at Sagarana and as a first step in creating a program of international exchanges--both faculty and student--with Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program.
toLori Branch and Priya Kumar who will join our faculty as new assistant professors in 2000-2001
toLinda Bolton for winning the English Department's John Gerber Teaching Award
toMarilyn Abildskov for winning the English Department's Carl H. Klaus Award for Excellence in Nonfiction Writing & Teaching
toTeresa Mangum, who has been elected Secretary of Faculty Senate for 2000-2001
toHuston Diehl for winning the Regents Award for Faculty Excellence in recognition of her record of sustained excellence as a teacher, scholar, and departmental and university leader
toDee Morris for winning the University of Iowa Brody Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership in the English Department, in the University, and in the profession
toEd Folsom, who has been awarded a whopping big NEH grant. The National Endowment for the Humanties award is a Collaborative Research grant for $150,000 for three years. It will allow for the development of the Walt Whitman Hypertext Archive
(http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/whitman/).
Ed is the director of the project, with Kenneth Price (College of William & Mary, soon to be University of Nebraska) as principal collaborator. Funds will pay for work to be done at Iowa, Nebraska, and at the Institutue for Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia, where the Archive is "housed," virtually speaking.
toMiriam Gilbert and Jeff Porter, who received a $27,600 Student Computing Fee grant from the College of Liberal Arts to establish an English Department Undergraduate Multimedia Computing Lab. Miriam also scored a General Education Literature: Improvement in training Teaching Assistants grant from the College.
toBarbara Eckstein and Jim Throgmorton, who have been awarded a Humanities Iowa Grant to help fund their June Obermann Center 1999-2000 Humanities Symposium, "Planning as Storytelling: Sustaining America's Cities." Information about the symposium can be found at http://www.uiowa.edu/~obermann/planning.html and Barbara invites anyone in town June 15-17 to come. It's in 304 EPB.
toGarrett Stewart, whose Between Film and Screen: Modernism's Photo Synthesis has been published by the University of Chicago Press, making good on the promise of that snazzy cover
toKathy Lavezzo, Doug Trevor, and Susie Phillips, who have been awarded Old Gold Fellowships to support their research this summer and to Ashley Dawson and David Wittenberg who have been awarded rare Second Old Gold Fellowships. Kathy has also been awarded a CIFRE grant to support her research. And Ashley has also agreed to serve as the initial coordinator of the English Department's new Crossing Borders Committee and he invites anyone interested in this interdisciplinary project to join him in this pioneering venture.
toEmeritus Professor Jack Grant, who has been selected to receive the Eleanor M. Garvey Fellowship in Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard's Houghton Library, and to Professor Mary Lynn Grant, who's going to see whether the UI President's Office can still function after she retires at the end of this semester
toTom Lutz, who is keynoting an international conference on neurasthenia in Amsterdam in June. Tom's Crying will be appearing in an Italian translation next year (as well as Chinese, German, and Spanish).
toJon Miller, who will begin a tenure-track job at the University of Akron in the fall; to Debbie Blake, who will begin a tenure-track job at the University of Minnesota at Morris in the fall; to Beth Crachiolo, who will begin a tenure-track job at Berea College, KY in the fall; to Martha Patterson, who has accepted a position at Springhill College, AL; to Scott Juenghel, who is leaving South Alabama for a position at Michigan State University; and to MFA in Nonfiction Writing grad Mary Beth Simmons, who is headed to Villanova to be their new Writing Center Director
toDeidre McMahaon for winning the The John C. Gerber award for excellence in teaching General Education Literature
toElizabeth Corsun for winning The W.R. Irwin award for excellence in teaching General Education Literature
toA host of new, or soon-to-be-new PhDs (and their chairs): Delmar Arnold (chair, Florence Boos), Kate Moncrief (co-chairs Huston Diehl & Miriam Gilbert), Elliott Vanskike (co-chairs Rob Latham & Brooks Landon), Maura Brady (chair, Alvin Snider), Beth Crachiolo (co-chairs, Claire Sponsler & Jon Wilcox), Elizabeth Dietz (chair, Huston Diehl), Zofia Lesinska (chair, Ruedi Kuenzli), Jon Miller (chair, Tom Lutz), Eric Neel (chair, Linda Bolton), Richard Quinn (chair, Dee Morris), and Julie Schmid (chair, Dee Morris).
