Reading Matters, Vol. 10, Issue 1, October 6, 2004
July marked the publication of Loren Glass's Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern
Teresa Mangum gave an invited lecture this summer at The Dickens Project (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz) titled "Terrible Women/Terrorist Women: Madame Defarge in Retrospect." Prior to that she was the faculty commencement speaker at the Spring 2004 UI Undergraduate Commencement. On September 10, she was one of two faculty invited to present their research to the CLAS Dean's Advisory Board. Her talk was titled "From Poetry to Pension Plans, From Elixirs to 'Elegant Economies': How the Nineteenth Century Set Our Imaginative Agendas for Old Age."
Congratulations to the following Ph.D. students who received their degrees this summer.
Bidisha Banerjee
Ruptured Identities and Resistant Narratives: Mapping a Discourse of the Body in Indian Diasporic Women's Fiction and Film (Mary Lou Emery, director)
Megan Early
Provocative Coutours: Tracing the Female Performer's Body in Victorian Literature and the Aesthetics of Performance (Teresa Mangum, director)
Jean Fernandez
In Service of Narration: Servants, the Rhetorics of Class and Narrational Politics in Nineteenth Century Fiction and Autobiography (Garrett Stewart, director)
Isiah Lavender
Otherhood(s): Mapping Race and Ethnicity in Science Fiction Literature (Brooks Landon, director)
Tom McLean
The Other East: Poland, Russia and British Romanticism (Judith Pascoe, director)
Welcome to the Ph.D. students admitted for Fall 2004!
Adkins, Taylor, B.A., State University of West Georgia, English, 2004
Basan, Benjamin, B.A., University of North London, English/German 1998
Blalock, Stephanie, B.A., Duke University, English, 2003
Boscaljon, Daniel, B.A., Buena Vista University (Iowa), Philosophy/Religion, 1998
Bygness, Megan, B.A., University of Iowa, Political Science/English, 2000; M.A., Kansas State University , 2004
deVega, Sean, B.A., Rice, English, 2004
Doyle, Shawn, B.A., Notre Dame, English/Government, 2004
Hines, Chad, B.A., Grinnell College, English, 2000; M.A. University of Chicago, Humanities, 2003
Holliday, Marta, B.A., Marymount College, English/Women’s Studies, 2004
Martini, Sarah, B.A., Purdue University, English/History, 2004
McDonald, Willis, B.A., Notre Dame, English, 2002; M.A. Notre Dame 2003
Newton, Scott, B.A., University of Wyoming, English/Psychology 2003
Nugent, Lynne, B.A., University of Chicago, Anthropology, 1994; M.F.A., University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing 2004
Row Lindsey, B.A., Greenville College (Illinois), English/Religion 2004
Savage, Holly, B.A., Baylor, English 2000; M.A. University of Colorado- Boulder, English 2003
West, Stephen, B.A., SUNY-Geneseo, English/Art, 2002
Whitehead, Brian, B.A., University of Oklahoma, English, 2003
Wriglesworth, Chad, B.A., Warner Pacific College, English 1993; M.A. Portland State University, English, 2004
The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies presents a mini-seminar, Nov. 1-2, 2004 titled "Language, Art, Programming and Networks: The Relationship of New Media Literature to 'Literature.'" English Department faculty Thom Swiss and Dee Morris will be participating, as will former UI facultly member N. Katherine Hayles. Other participants include Kate Armstrong, Mark Hansen, Brian Kim Stefans, and Joseph Tabbi. More details can be found on the seminar's website, including a complete schedule of events. For more information, please contact poroi@uiowa.edu.
Fri., Oct. 8 - The Faculty Colloquium will feature Patricia Foster and Kevin Kopelson on "The Autobiographical Muse." Gerber Lounge, 4 p.m.
Tue., Oct. 12 - Center for the Book hosts Sylvie L. Merian of the Pierpont Morgan Library presenting "What makes a medieval manuscript medieval? Problems with the periodization of Armenian manuscripts." E109 Art Building, 6 p.m.
Thr., Oct. 14 - English Department Graduate Reception will be held in the Gerber Lounge, 3:45-5:15 p.m.
Mon., Oct. 18 - Center for the Book's Brownell Lecture will be delivered by Susan Howe, SUNY-Buffalo, whose lecture will be titled "Remember we are traveling as relations." E109 Art Building, 5:30 p.m.
Sat., Oct. 23 - The UI Libraries will hold a book sale from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (books sold individually for $2 or less) and from 2 to 4 p.m. (books sold for $5 per bag) on the second floor of the Main Library.
Mon., Oct. 25 - English Dept. Ph.D. Mary Vermillion will read from her recent fiction at Prairie Lights at 8 p.m. The reading will also be aired on WSUI.
Fri., Nov. 5 - English Dept. Faculty member Patricia Foster will read from her recent nonfiction at Prairie Lights at 8 p.m. The reading will also be aired on WSUI.
Ongoing: The UI's Center for Human Rights' One Community, One Book Forum. This year's book is The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, and all adolescents and adults in Johnson County are invited to read the book and take part in various events. A complete list of the community forums is available. Of particular interest: Brooks Landon will be one of the participants in the brown bag lunch and panel presentation. Tue. Oct. 19, Iowa City Public Library, 12:00 noon.
Please send any items for Reading Matters to Carolyn Jacobson at carolyn-jacobson@uiowa.edu. Reading Matters will appear every other Wednesday, and submissions should be received by 5 p.m. on the preceeding Monday. Please send submissions for the next issue by 5 p.m. on October 18. Thanks very much.