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Wednesday, 11 September 2002
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Announcements
M. Jimmie Killingsworth, professor of English at Texas A&M University, will be at the UI on September 26 and 27. Killingsworth is the author of Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text (1989) and The Growth of Leaves of Grass (1993), as well as co-editor of Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America (1992), co-author of Signs, Genres, and Communities in Technical Communication (1992), and author of the textbook Information in Action: A Guide to Technical Communication (1996). Professor Killingsworth will give a talk in the Gerber Lounge at 3:45 on September 26 on his latest book project, an ecocritical study of Whitman. Anyone interested in having Professor Killingsworth visit a class should contact Ed Folsom.
TIR Web Number 5: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/
NEW MEDIA WRITING "V:VNIVERSE" A preview of Stephanie Strickland's new collection of poems (Penquin, 2002), including the book's New Media Web site, an interview with Strickland by Jaishree K. Odin, and a critical essay by Odin on "Image and Text." All at: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/strickland/index.html
THE ANIMAL, TO THE LETTER: In Spanish and English. Eloy Fern‡ndez Porta is a Fellow Lecturer at Duke University. Here at: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/fernandez/index.html
NEW MEDIA WRITING BY WILLIAM GILLESPIE AND MARK MARINO William Gillespie hosts the radio show "Eclectic Seizure," and runs Spineless Books. Also, an interview with Gillespie by Dirk Stratton. Mark Marino is the editor of Bunk Magazine . Gillespie and Marino at: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/sept/index.html
FROM 91 MERIDIAN Aida Nasrallah (poet, Israel; b. 1958, Uhm el Fahm) is the pen name of Mahammeed Nasra. She teaches at the High School for the Arts in Naamat, and organized and ran a weekly salon for women poets and writers, serving as mentor for Arab women in Israel who wish to experiment with poetry and fiction. Moccaccino with Double Solitude translated by Natasa Durovicova. http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/91/sept/index.html
FROM THE IOWA REVIEW Peter Walpole: His work has appeared in The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Southern Humanities Review, and others. Margaret Gibson is the author of seven books, most recently Icon and Evidence. Another, Autumn Grasses, is forthcoming from LSU. All at http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/ir/sept/index.htm
IWP and the English Department Present: New Media Poetry: Aesthetics,Institutions, and Audiences, October 11-12, 2002. 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, Talal Memmot, John Cayley, Stephanie Strickland,and others. For more information: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/newmedia/
Deadlines
Deadlines for Faculty Development Programs, Regents Award, and Ida Beam can be found at http://www.clas.uiowa.edu/deomailing/2002/05/22/deadlines.shtml
Lectures
Our Freedman Lecture this fall will be given by Franco Moretti, who has taught English and Comparative Literature in various Italian universities and at Columbia (1990-1999) before moving to Stanford in 2000. Author of Signs Taken for Wonders (1983), The Way of the World (1987), Modern Epic (1995), and Atlas of the European Novel 1800-1900 (1998), he has given the Gauss seminars at Princeton and has been a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He is also the founder and director of Stanford's Center for the Study of the Novel. Pursuing his current interest in cultural geography and the history of reading, he will deliver a lecture at 7:30 pm on Thursday, Sept. 19th, in the Gerber Lounge, EPB 304, entitled "Maps." It will be followed by "Graphs," an open seminar for faculty and students, also in the Gerber lounge, the next afternoon at 3:45. Though his emphasis in the talks for us will be on patterns of literary circulation, if you wish to sample the methodological slant of his new work in advance you might take a look at "Planet Hollywood," currently on the New Left Review website at http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR24306.shtml
Lecture announcement: Judith Pascoe, ãQueen Charlotteâs Hand-Copied Books.ä Thursday, September 26, in the Kirkwood Room (IMU 257), 12 pm to 1pm. The Book Culture Brown Bag series is excited to begin with the English departmentâs own Judith Pascoe, discussing work from her current research project, The Hummingbird Cabinet: A Rare and Curious History of Romantic Collectors. The Book Culture Brown Bag is a lunch-hour discussion series sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for the Book. It brings together experts from the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences to converse about the varied meanings of the book in society. Speakers will deliver short talks, which will be followed by a question-and-answer period. Please join us in the Kirkwood Room (IMU 257) Thursdays this fall for a stimulating set of speakers. For more information, contact Matthew P. Brown (English/UICB), matthew-p-brown@uiowa.edu
English Department *Lecture Series*, Fall 2002 (Events Featuring or Hosted by Members of the English Department)
Sept. 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Africa Night: Amma Darko, Peter Nazareth, and others Shambaugh House (IWP).
Sept. 14, 10:00 a.m. David Wittenberg, CLAS Saturday Scholar Lecture: "The Big, the Violent, and the Expensive: How We Make Pictures of War," 40 Schaeffer Hall.
Sept. 19, 7:30 p.m. Freedman Lecture: Franco Moretti, Stanford University, "Maps," Gerber Lounge.
Sept. 20, 3:45 p.m. Freedman Lecture: Franco Moretti, Stanford University, "Graphs," Gerber Lounge.
Sept. 26, tba Center for the Book Brown Bag Lunch Lecture: Judith Pascoe, "Queen Charlotte's Hand-Copied Books," Details TBA.
Sept. 26, 3:45 p.m. M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Texas A&M University, "Walt Whitman and American Ecopoetics," Gerber Lounge.
Oct. 4, 4:00 John Raeburn, "The Museum of Modern Art and the Cultural Establishment of Photography." American Studies, Floating Fridays, 7th Floor Lounge, Jefferson Building.
Oct. 8, 3:45 p.m. Dee Morris and Thom Swiss, Conference Preview: The New Media Poetry: Aesthetics, Institutions, and Audiences. Sponsored by IWP, English, and others. http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/newmedia/ Shambaugh House (also a preview of the IWP's new home).
Oct. 9, 8:00 p.m. Kate Hayles, Ida Beam Lecturer, "Why We Should Re-Think Textuality," Gerber Lounge.
Oct. 11-12. Conference: The New Media Poetry: Aesthetics, Institutions, and Audiences. Sponsored by IWP, English, and others. Details at http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/newmedia/
*Oct. 18, 4:00 Jon Wilcox, "A Medieval-Modern World: Walking the Pilgrimage Trail to Santiago de Compostella," Gerber Lounge.
Oct. 18, 8:00 p.m. Nonfiction Writing Reading: Gayle Pemberton, Wesleyan University, Reading from a book of essays on black women and film forthcoming from Norton, Gerber Lounge.
Oct. 24, 4:00 p.m. Corey Creekmur, SASP Lecture: "Bombay Boys: Projecting the Male Child in Popular Hindi Cinema," 315 Phillips Hall.
*Oct. 25, 4:00 p.m. "Opening the Book on Book Studies in the Department of English." Panel featuring Jon Wilcox, Matt Brown, Kathleen Diffley, Susie Phillips, Phil Round, 105 EPB.
*Nov. 1, 4:00 p.m. Lori Branch, "Rational Mastery, Secular Sexualities, and the Queerness of Faith in Shaftesbury's ASKHMATA," 105 EPB.
Nov. 7-10 Midwest Modern Language Association Conference, Minneapolis Executive Director: Kathleen Diffley
*Nov. 15, 4:00 p.m. Claire Fox, "Globalization and Popular Movements in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region," 105 EPB.
*Dec. 13, 4:00 p.m. Harry Stecopoulos, "South of the Color Line: James Weldon Johnson, Latin America, and New Negro Tropicalism," Gerber Lounge
READING MATTERS will appear on the web and in your mailboxes every other Wednesday as a combination of memos from the chair, announcements, deadlines, publication announcements, notices of speakers, conferences, and visitors of interest to the department. To be included in READING MATTERS, announcements should be e-mailed to Amanda at am_17@hotmail.com by Monday afternoon.
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