Pable Picasso, "Guernica"
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Doug Trevor has been awarded the Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, which
provides nearly $76,000 to fund research and travel for one academic year and
a summer.
Trevor will use the fellowship to work on his second book, "The End of Belief: Theology and Gender in Seventeenth-Century England." This book analyzes the poet John Milton's high estimation of different-sex relations in Paradise Lost by arguing that the poet's emphasis on the merits of companionate marriage force him to downgrade a theological rationale for divine love in favor of domestic accord. More broadly, the book approaches the sex-gender system of early modern England from the vantage point of theological speculation-not only Milton's but also significant female religious thinkers such as Rachel Speght, Anne Askew, and Lucy Hutchinson.
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in honor of Charles A. Ryskamp, a literary scholar and long-serving trustee of the Foundation, these fellowships support advanced assistant professors in the humanities whose scholarly contributions have advanced their fields and who have well designed and carefully developed plans for new research. The fellowships seek to provide time and resources to enable these faculty members to conduct their research under optimal conditions.
Trevor, who specializes in Renaissance literature, has taught at the UI since 1999. He earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master's and doctorate from Harvard University.
The American Council of Learned Societies is a private non-profit federation
of sixty-six national scholarly organizations. The mission of the ACLS, as set
forth in its Constitution, is "the advancement of humanistic studies in
all fields of learning in the humanities and the social sciences and the maintenance
and strengthening of relations among the national societies devoted to such
studies."
Lectures of interest to the English Department, Spring 2003
Featuring or hosted by members of the English Department
February 12, 8:00 p.m. Etienne Van Heerden, Prairie Lights
February 13-16, "A Streetcar Named Desire," University Theatres Mainstage
February 14, 8:00 p.m. Paula Morris, Prairie Lights
February 20-23, "A Streetcar Named Desire," University Theatres Mainstage
February 21-23, Lisa Day, "Flying Lessons," University Theatres Gallery
February 27, 8:00 p.m. Sanjay Nigam, Prairie Lights
February 27, 7:30 p.m. Wendy Heller, Music History, Princeton University, Handel Society Annual Meeting and featured speaker in the 18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium: European Empires Series "Handel Meets Nero: Hamburg, Venice and Imperial Rome" http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/03-3-han.html
February 28-March 2, W. B. Yeats, "Uncontrollable Mystery," University Theatres Mainstage
February 28, 8:00 p.m. Nick Arvin, Prairie Lights
February 28 - the English Department hosts a one-day symposium
entitled "Approaching Technoculture" that will focus on issues and
methods in the developing interdisciplinary field of technoculture studies.
There will be two topical panels: the first, on Race and Technoculture, will
be chaired by Brooks Landon and will feature Doris Witt, of the UI's English
Department, and De Witt Douglas Kilgore, Associate Professor of English at the
University of Indiana; the second, on Technoculture and Science Fiction, will
be chaired by Rob Latham and will feature Roger Luckhurst, Professor of English
at the University of London, and Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Professor of English
at DePauw University. The panels will be held back-to-back starting at 2 p.m.
in 107 EPB.
February 28-March 1, James F. Jakobsen Graduate Forum featuring
English Department students
March 1 Deadline to submit proposals for special sessions or individual papers for the 2003 M/MLA, which will be held this year November 7-9 in Chicago. The informal theme of the conference is "The University," but proposals are not restricted to the topic. See the M/MLA's website at http://www.uiowa.edu/~mmla for membership, special session proposal forms, and further information about the 2003 convention.
March 5-9, W. B. Yeats, "Uncontrollable Myster." University Theatres Mainstage
March 6, 12:15 p.m. Leo and Jon Lee, Center for the Book, "Contemporary European Papermaking and Paper Mills," 2nd Floor Conference Room South, Main Library
March 7, 4:00 p.m. American Studies Floating Fridays: Ricardo Salvator, IFUSS visitor, Professor of History, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentine: "Practical Pan-Americanism: Business and Official Rhetoric in the Making of an Informal Empire," 7th floor, Jefferson Building
March 11, 8:00 p.m. Louise Erdrich, Prairie Lights
March 27-29, Stephanie Richards, "Southern Women," University Theatres Gallery
March 27-28, American Studies: David Hall, Ida Beam visitor, details TBA
March 28-30, Craft, Critique, Culture Conference. For more information, see: http://www.uiowa.edu/~c3conf/
April 7, 4:00 p.m. Anne Basting Davis, Director of the Center for the Study of Aging and an award winning playwright, will be here to discuss her play, Timeslips, and the theories of identity and narrative that have inspired her use of narrative as a means to communicate with Alzheimer's patients and to capture their experiences in theater. See her website, http://www.timeslips.org, for stunning photographs of the project.
April 7, 8:00 p.m. Patricia Hampl, Prairie Lights (hosted by the Nonfiction Writing Program)
April 11-12, Mid American American Studies Association and Great Lakes American Studies Association meets here, details TBA
April 14, 7:30 p.m. Todd Porterfield, Art Historian, University of Montreal, "Parisian Conquests of Egyp," 18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium: European Empires Series in E109 Art Building. Reception following.
April 18, 4:00 p.m. English Department Lecture Series: Cheryl Herr, "Smuggling Stories," Gerber Lounge
April 24, 4:00 p.m. Priya Joshi, English Department, Washington University, "Hindi Film," South Asian Seminar, Phillips Hall
April 25, 4:00 p.m. Priya Joshi, English Department, Washington University, " "Public Culture, Private Selves: The Social Lives of Institutions in Nineteenth-Century India," English Department Lectures Series and 18th and 19th Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium: European Empires Series. Gerber Lounge. Reception following at 1157 E. Court St.
May 2, 4:00 p.m. English Department Lecture Series: Florence
Boos, "Fanny Forrester: A Working-Class Woman Poet and the Limits of Language."
Gerber Lounge.
Reading Matters will appear on the Web and in faculty inboxes 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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