Two of the department's student employees will graduate from the University of Iowa this Saturday, May 17. Kelly Damiano will graduate with honors in English, and has been employed by us since November of 2001. Along with front desk duties of aiding students and faculty, Kelly assisted with several mail merge projects. She will be entering Loyola Law School in Chicago in the fall.
Amanda Mittlestadt has worked here since August of 2000, and
graduates with a double major in political science and English. She has made
her mark in the department, leaving behind the production of Reading Matters,
our biweekly departmental newsletter, and as the editor of our upcoming Out
of Iowa, the English department's missive to alumni and supporters across
the country. Amanda will also finish her stint as the Opinions page editor at
The Daily Iowan when she moves to Boston in the fall. She is looking
for gainful employment in the publishing industry, so anyone with contacts there
- keep her in mind!
EPB now has wireless access! You can talk to Pete Trotter (335 5644) of ITS for more details. Dianne Jones also has more information about it too if you want to read about it. There is also a Web site for more details: http://www.its.uiowa.edu/cs/helpdesk/networking/wireless/index.htm
Since he began publishing essays, reviews, and books about Blake's composite visual and verbal art in 1960, John E. Grant has widely and deeply influenced the field of Blake studies, exhorting scholars and students to rethink old assumptions and insisting that those considering the words must attend to the pictures and those studying the visual art must read with care both Blake's poetry and works he illustrated. Over the last four decades Grant has shown by example how subtle, learned, and inventive Blake scholarship can be. This volume contains important new essays on Blake by a baker's dozen of Grant's friends, students, colleagues and admirers: Steven C. Behrendt, J.M.Q. Davies, Michael Ferber, Everett C. Frost, Alexander S. Gourlay, Catherine L. McClenahan, Jon Mee, Jennifer Davis Michael, Peter Otto, Morton D. Paley, G.A. Rosso, Sheila A. Spector, and Richard J. Squibbs.
The Office of the Vice President for Reseach and the Office of the Provost has awarded Arts and Humanities Initiative (AHI) grants to six faculty members in the Department of English for 2003-2004. They are Linda Bolton, Lori Branch, Barbara Eckstein, Teresa Mangum, Doug Trevor, and Jon Wilcox. AHI is a special recurring, state supported grants program dedicated to the support of humanities scholarship and work in the creative, visual, and performing arts.
Dean Linda Maxson has announced that Patricia Foster has been selected as one of the 2003-2005 class of Dean's Scholars in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This faculty development award recognizes mid-career faculty members who excel in both teaching and scholarship or creative work. Tenured associate professors currently in the third, fourth, or fifth year at rank are eligible for these two-year awards, each of which carries an annual grant of $5,000 that may be used for equipment, travel, supplies, and other support for research and teaching initiatives. The Dean's Scholars Award are funded by the Alumni Association's endowment of a Dean's Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Our DEO, Brooks Landon, has been designated as a Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. This award was created to recognize senior faculty whose distinction in teaching and scholarship is matched by exceptional leadership in service to the University, the College, and their departments. Dean Maxson writes "Please accept my warmest congratulations on your being named a Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In considering your nomination, the College's Named Chairs/Professorships ad hoc committee examined impressive information on the significance of your contributions, and strongly endorsed your being named to this honor ... Your professional career has brought honor and distinction to the College and University."
News from the Obermann Center:
Florence Boos and Teresa Mangum have been appointed as Scholars at the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies for the 2003 fall semester.
Corey Creekmur and Judith Pascoe have been selected to participate in the Obermann Interdisciplinary Research Semester, "Sounding the Voice," scheduled for spring semester 2004.
Huston Diehl has been awarded the Obermann Center for Advanced
Studies Spelman Rockefeller (CASSPR) Grant for her proposal, Dream Not of
Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated School, Louisa, VA 1970.
A grant proposal from Jeff Porter and Thomas Swiss to the College
of LIberal Arts & Sciences' Instructional Technology Committee has been
funded for $15,000. The grant will facilitate management and further development
of the undergraduate Multimedia Lab in 303 EPB.
Congratulations to the following eight Ph.D. students who took their degrees in Fall 2002 and Spring 2003.
Fall 2002
Jody Byrd
Florence Boos, Director; Colonialisms Cacophony: Settlers, Arrivants and
the Limits of Postcolonial Theory
Amy Lilly
Mary Lou Emery, Director; “This Way to the Exhibition”: Woolf,
Joyce, Rhys, and the 1930s Fascist Culture of Exhibitions
James Tweedie
Garrett Stewart, Director; Moving Pictures, Still Lives: Neobaroque Cinema:
Visual Culture, Theory
Jessica Walsh
Florence Boos, Director; The Writing Cure: Women, Poetry and Madness, 1880-1940
Spring 2003
Martin Buinicki
Ed Folsom, Director; Negotiating Copy Right Authorship and the Discourse
of Literary Property Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Thomas Gannon
Ed Folsom, Director; The Avian as Native and Natured Other: Reimagining
the Bird from British Romanticism to Contemporary Native American Literature
Mary Beth Pope
Brooks Landon, Director; Waiting for Ed McMahon
Joann Quinones-Perdomo
Bluford Adams, Director; A Splendid Little Postcolonial War: Colonial Theory
and Popular Images of the Spanish American War
Thanks to the good work of this year’s admissions committee, Ed Folsom, Rob Latham, Garrett Stewart, and Doug Trevor, guided by their chair, Barbara Eckstein, and to the funding acumen of the graduate finances director, Kathleen Diffley, we will be welcoming an incoming class of eighteen exceptionally interesting Ph.D. students next year. The group includes five Presidential Fellows, two Crossing Borders Fellows, and a Graduate Merit Fellow. The list below gives names and degrees:
Amit Baishya, B.A., Cotton College, India; M.A., J.N.U., India
Erica Daigle, B.S. (biology), LSU; M.A., LSU
Nicole Gainyard, B.A., Hunter College, N.Y.
Joshua, Gooch, B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
Katherine Gubbels, B.A. University of Nebraska, Omaha
Carolyn Hall, B.A. (German) Bucknell University; M.Ed., Grand Valley State, MI
Everett Hamner, B.A., Johns Hopkins; M.A.T. Johns Hopkins; M.C.S. Regents
College, Vancouver, B.C. CANADA
Amy Hezel, B.A., University of NY, Buffalo; M.L.S., University of NY, Buffalo
Robert Hunsicker, B.A. (philosophy), Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA
Jeremy Knapp, B.A., Thomas More College, KY
Deborah Manion, B.A., SUNY-Buffalo; M.A., SUNY-Buffalo
Christine Mazurkewycz, B.A.,University of Kansas; M.A., Purdue
Jailyn Moreland, B.A., University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Paige Nelson, B.A./B.S. (English, Spanish, psychology), University of Arizona, Tucson
Matthew Purdy, B.A., Connecticut College; M.A., SUNY-Binghamton
Eve Rosenbaum, B.A., SUNY-Binghamton; M.F.A. American University,
Washington, D.C.
LeDon Sweeney, B.A. (com. studs.), University of Iowa
Tevis Thompson, B.A. (gen. studs/hums.), University of Chicago; M.A. (Eastern
classics), St. John’s College, NM
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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