Wednesday, 17 April 2002
Reading
Matters Vol. VII, No. 2
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters. -Frank Lloyd Wright
Reading
Matters Vol. VII, No. 2
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools.
Let's start with typewriters. -Frank Lloyd Wright
Announcements
The English Department announces its upcoming Undergraduate Honors Award Ceremony. The ceremony will be held Thursday, April 25, in the South Room of the IMU. There will be a reception at 3:30 PM and the ceremony will begin at 4:00 PM. The department will celebrate the achievements of students graduating with honors and those who have won university and departmental scholarships and awards this year. Invitations will be in faculty mailboxes soon. Please mark it on your calendar. Departmental scholarships and prizes were awarded to the following students this spring:
Holsteen Scholarships: Eileen Duhig, Sangina Patnaik, and Michael Sudmeier
Einspahr Scholarships: Travis Rupp and Angie Stolte
Loring Scholarships: Jared Peterson and Brian Valentyn
Anderson Scholarship: Conor Moran and Marjorie Gere
Darwin T. Turner Award: Kevin Phan
Fairall Scholarships were awarded to Alisha McCracken, Eric Kintner, and Erin McKee last October
Dee Morris and Thom Swiss are organizing an international conference to held October 11-12, 2002, sponsored by the IWP and the English Department, with support from POROI and other groups on campus - "New Media Poetry: Aesthetics,Institutions, and Audiences." Participants include: N. Katherine Hayles, Marjorie Perloff, Kenneth Goldsmith, Jennifer Ley, Giselle Beiguelman, Katherine Parrish, Barrett Watten, Martin Spinelli, Loss Glazier, Alan Golding, Al Filreis,Carrie Noland, Etienne van Heerden and others. For more information, visit the Web site: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/newmedia/.
TIR WEB IS BACK! Publishing electronic literature since 1999, The Iowa Review Web is well-known for its commitment to new writing. Starting in 2002, TIR Web is expanding under the direction of a new editor, Thomas Swiss, and a new national editorial board. It will now include -- along with electronic literature -- other varieties of experimental writing and art. It will also feature interviews with innovative writers and New Media artists, as well as critical articles and essays. Each issue of TIR Web includes work from both The Iowa Review and 91¡ Meridian, published by the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. For more information, visit the site: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/.
Publishing Matters
In February, Eric Gidal's book, Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British Museum, was released by Bucknell University Press.
Lori Branch has an article coming out in the 2002 volume of Studies in Scottish Literature, titled "Plain Style, or the High Fashion of Empire: Colonialism, Resistance & Assimilation in Adam Smith's Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres."
Bill Kupersmith has co-authored with Jan Waples, "Psychic Spirituality and Theological Romance in Susan Howatch's Mystical Paths and The Wonder Worker," Christianity and Literature 51 (Autumn 2001): 65-78.
The article, "Ten Journeys to the Venusberg: Morris' Drafts for 'The Hill of Venus," by Florence Boos, appeared in Victorian Poetry 39.4 (winter 2001), 597-615. She has also published "The Pre-Raphaelites," in The Year's Work in Victorian Poetry, 39.3 (Fall 2001), 479-90.
Awards and Honors
Teresa Mangum has received another grant from International Programs, on behalf of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium here on campus. She'll use that money to host a lecture series on European Empires in 2002-03, and she welcomes suggestions for senior scholars who are also dynamic lecturers whom our colleagues would find interesting.
Teresa has also just been elected to the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies' Executive Board.
Mary Lou Emery won a Collegiate Teaching Award this year. She'll be recognized this month by the College of Liberal Arts for this university-wide award.
Other Matters
The University of Iowa has completed discussions with the Preferred Travel Agencies regarding service fees. As of April 8, 2002, the following maximum fee schedule will apply:
$35 per domestic airline ticket
$50 per International ticket
$25 for ticket exchanges
Note: This $25 service fee is in addition to a $100 exchange fee charged by the airline. As mentioned in the memo sent on March 25, 2002, the increase in fees is necessary due to the elimination of commissions paid to travel agencies by all major airlines. The University highly recommends the use of Meacham Travel Service, Short's Travel Service or Winebrenner Red Carpet Travel because of the valuable professional service they provide to those traveling on University business. Only these agencies can utilize the University's negotiated discounts on American and United Airlines to provide the best overall travel value. The University encourages departments to monitor the cost of airline tickets purchased from other sources to ensure that the lowest available fare has been obtained per the University's Travel Policy.
As we near the end of the fiscal year (June 30th), just a few reminders about money from Gayle:
1. Grants: If you have grants from anywhere, or promised money of any sort, you almost always need to work through the English Department to spend it. Most funds need to be dispersed by June 15th. If you expect the department to use its procurement card, that date is May 20th. Due to fiscal crisis issues, it will be very difficult to carry over any funds. Please contact Gayle immediately if this applies to you.
2. Travel: We have allocated travel money to you according to the travel survey you filled out last fall. If your plans have changed, please let Amy know. This includes trips you thought you would take and won't, or trips you might need to add. We will balance these to try to accommodate changing plans. You must complete travel by June 30th to qualify for departmental money. For trips that are finished before June 1, you must submit travel vouchers by June 1.
3. Events FY 03: As soon as you receive notification of money received, or know of plans for speakers/events/conferences for next year, please notify Gayle. There are new rules for payment to international scholars, honorariums, travel, etc. that she can help you with.
4. Money = Contact Gayle (the sooner the better). Thanks!
Adding LDAP Directory Using Eudora 5
Starting April 30, access to Ph services will be restricted to delivery of "@uiowa.edu" addresses. Prior to April 29, it is recommended that you redirect your white pages applications to the LDAP white pages. If you are still using Eudora 3x or 4x, you will need to upgrade to Eudora 5.0 in order to use the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) services that ITS is recommending.
By using LDAP, Eudora allows you to look up individuals within the university and on the Internet using several directory service protocols. Each of these protocols is a search method following a set of predefined rules. An LDAP server, which uses the LDAP protocol, is the service that provides information about people when you do these searches. Instructions on how to configure LDAP services within Eudora 5 are on the following web site: Windows users: http://www.its.uiowa.edu/cs/email/ldap/wineudoraattributes.htm
Macintosh users: http://www.its.uiowa.edu/cs/email/ldap/ldapmaceudora.html
If these instructions are confusing, e-mail Dianne Jones (dianne-jones@uiowa.edu) and she will upgrade and or configure Eudora to use LDAP for you.
Graduate Matters
English Department graduate students won four of the prestigious Ada Louisa Ballard and Seashore Dissertation-Year Fellowships, which will provide support in 2002-2003 to help students complete the writing of their dissertation.
Ballard/Seashore winners were:David Banash (dir. Kuenzli), Megan Early (dir. Mangum), Damon Franke (dir. Boos), and Elyse Myers (dir. Lutz).
In addition to these Graduate College awards, the English Department also awarded its own fellowship and range of scholarships. The Frederic F. Seely Distinguished Dissertation Fellowship for Teaching and Research for 2002-2003 has been awarded to Marty Gould (dir. Mangum).
The Dissertation Scholarships for 2002-2003 were awarded as follows: the Freda Dixon Malone Dissertation Scholarship to Jean Fernandez (dir. Stewart); the Frederick P. W. McDowell Dissertation Scholarship to Jennifer Ryan (dir. Morris); the Prairie Lights/Sherman Paul Dissertation Scholarship to Bidisha Banerjee (dir. Emery); and the Edwin Ford Piper Memorial Scholarship to Robin Barrow (dir Boos).
In addition to these awards, the Graduate Steering Committee selected two winners for the Best Essay Prize for an outstanding essay published in the last two years: Bidisha Banerjee and Damon Franke.
Please congratulate these winners and join us at the graduate reception early in the fall semester when these awards will be officially recognized.
Marty Gould has received two dissertation research awards this semester: the Stanley Graduate Fellowship for Research Abroad (administered by UI International Programs), and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship (administered by the Council for European Studies).
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