Wednesday, 9 October 2002
"I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets."
-John Glenn
Announcements
N. Katherine Hayles, Professor of English and Design/Media Arts, UCLA; Ida Cornelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor. Oct. 9-12, 2002 (arranged in conjunction with New Media Poetics): Aesthetics, Institutions, Audiences
Oct. 11-12: Ida Beam Events: 2 Lectures and a Seminar
Wednesday, Oct. 9th, 8:00 p.m. "Why We Should Re-Think Textuality," Gerber Lounge, 304 EPB. This lecture will examine the ways in which electronic media force us to re-think some of the fundamental assumptions of critical theory and textual scholarship.
Thursday, Oct. 10, 2:30-3:45 p.m. "Writing Machines: A Preview," 218 EPB. An overview of Professor Hayles' forthcoming book, Writing Machines, followed by an open conversation with faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates on electronic textuality and new media research.
Saturday, Oct. 12, 10:00-10:45 a.m. "The Time of Electronic Poetry: From Object to Event," 2217 Seamans. This talk explores the construction of temporality in works by two distinguished practitioners of poetry in networked and programmable media, Stephanie Strickland and John Cayley.
Associated Events: Strickland and Cayley will present their work at A Caberet of New Media Writing, Friday, Oct. 11th, at 8:00 p.m. in Shambaugh Auditorium
Full conference schedule available at http://www.uiowa.edu/~iwp/newmedia/
A journal of New Media and experimental writing and art, The Iowa Review Web is published at the University of Iowa with support from the Department of English and in collaboration with The International Writing Program and the Iowa Review.
Volume 4, Number 6 (Oct. 2002) (http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/)NEW! Richard Kostelanetz "Remembering M y Life In/Of Words"
Richard Kostelanetz is a writer, artist, critic, and editor who is productive in many fields. Among his works are Recyclings: A Literary Autobiography (1974, 1984), Politics in the African-American Novel (1991), Published Encomia, 1967-91 (1991), and On Innovative Art(ist)s (1992). His films include "A Berlin Lost" (1984) and "Berlin Sche-Einena Jother" (1988), both with Martin Koerber. http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/kostelanetz/NEW! The International Writing Program and the English Department Present: New Media Poetry Conference: Aesthetics, Institutions & Audiences, University of Iowa, Oct. 11-12, 2002. Critics and writers 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, Talan Memmot, John Cayley, Stephanie Strickland,and others. Visit: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/conference/
NEW MEDIA WRITING "V: VNIVERSE," A preview of Stephanie Strickland's new poem "V" (Penguin 2002), featuring V's Web section, "V: VNIVERSE," an interview with Strickland by Jaishree K. Odin, and a critical essay by Odin on "Image and Text: The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot." All at: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/strickland/
FROM 91 MERIDIAN: Aida Nasrallah 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. All at: http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/91/sept/
FROM THE IOWA REVIEW: Peter Walpole received an MFA from Western Michigan University. 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/
Coming up: Interviews with New Media writers Stuart Moulthrop, Diana Slattery, and Miekal And; critic Joseph Tabbi; artists Jody Zelen and Mark Napier; and others. New work by Jody Zelen, Catlin Fisher, Talan Memmott, and others.
Policy Change
The travel office is changing some of their policies to take effect at the end of October. Significant changes include:
1. You can no longer get a trip number or travel advance to purchase your plane ticket. You must either purchase the ticket yourself and be reimbursed when you return, or call one of the preferred vendors (Meacham's, Short's, or Winebrenner's) to reserve a spot. Amy will then arrange for payment with the procurement card. You cannot count on using the procurement card for online purchase, as airlines now require that the card be with you when you check in.
2. Travel advances are only available under certain circumstances, i.e. domestic travel which exceeds 14 days and an annual salary of less than $50,000, and international travel.
In other travel news: Look in the next issue of Reading Matters for the departmental allocations for your trips this year.
Deadlines
Listed below are dates of importance for the next calendar year. Please mark your calendars to ensure that deadlines are met. We are still getting messages from the dean that faculty are missing final grade deadlines. If you are on leave or away from campus, you are responsible for making arrangements with Sharry for your class lists. Please remember these deadlines when you agree to work with an independent study and are not in Iowa City for deadlines.
Fall 2002 Dates of Importance
Oct. 9: American Literature area committee meets from 3:30-5:30 in Gerber
Oct. 14: 20th Century Literatures area committee meets from 3:30-5:30 in Gerber
Oct. 17: Midterm
Oc. 21: Thanksgiving recess
Nov. 28-29: University offices closed
Dec. 16-20: Finals week
Dec. 24-25: University offices closed (Christmas)
Dec. 26: Final class lists/grades dueSpring 2003 Dates of Importance
Jan. 10: Fall 2003 course descriptions due to Sharry, Vicky
Jan. 21: Spring classes open
May 12-16: Finals week
May 20 Final class lists/grades due
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
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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