Reading Matters, Vol. 10, Issue 2, October 20, 2004
Bluford Adams's essay "New Ireland: The Place of Immigrants in American Regionalism" will appear in the Winter 2005 issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History.
Matt Brown has published two review-essays for 2004: "Book History, Sexy Knowledge, and the Challenge of the New Boredom" in American Literary History, and "The Study and Story of Books in Early America," forthcoming in the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America.
Cheryl Herr published a happily controversial critique, "Re-Imagining Ireland, Rethinking Irish Studies" in New Hibernia Review 7 (dated 2003, published 2004). In April, she delivered a keynote at the Nordic Irish Studies Network annual conference in Falun, Sweden. She published "Re-Imagining Man of Aran," in the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (special issue on Irish film) 29 (Fall 2003, published July 2004). She was invited by a Belfast broadsheet to reprise her work on paramilitary fashion: "Marching Season Style" in The Vacuum, July 2004. She published a monograph, Joyce and the Art of Shaving (2004), commissioned by the National Library of Ireland to celebrate the centenary of Bloomsday. She was appointed to an advisory committee on "Women in Public and Cultural Life" for the Republic of Ireland's Higher Education Authority, was elected to a five-year executive committee term for the MLA's Anglo-Irish Literature Discussion Group, was appointed to the editorial advisory board for "Irish Women Writers: New Critical Editions" (Liverpool Univ. Press and Univ. of Chicago Press), and was invited to represent Irish cinema in a film research network on "Cinema and Emerging European Nations in the 20th Century" meeting in Helsinki in November.
Kevin Kopelson's new book, Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer's Desk, has just been published by the University of Minnesota Press.
Tom Lutz has been invited to give a paper at the Einstein Forum (no kidding) in Potsdam, Germany at a conference on compassion in December. His “The Cosmopolitan
At the Graduate Reception held on October 14, The John Gerber Award for Excellence in Teaching was presented to Bonnie Sunstein. Brooks Landon commended Bonnie for her work in mentoring 08N:080 Nonfiction Writing teachers and in creating a training program for that course. Since Bonnie was out of town attending a conference, Heal accepted the award on her behalf, expressing her gratitude for Bonnie's generosity as a mentor to graduate students in the Nonfiction Writing Program.
Photos from the Graduate Reception:
G. Robert Carlsen, 86, English/Curriculum and Instruction, Dec. 13, 2003
Donald Justice (PhD '54 in English), 78, Writers' Workshop, Aug. 6, 2004
Margaret B. McDowell (MA '46, PhD '54 in English), 80, Rhetoric/Women's Studies, Apr.1, 2004
William J. Paff, 96, English/Linguistics, Dec. 16, 2004
(taken from Arts & Sciences, Fall 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 faculty 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.
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 - Tom Lutz and Loren Glass will present a faculty colloquium. Gerber Lounge, 4 p.m.
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.
Fri., Nov. 12 - Huston Diehl and Linda Bolton will present a faculty Colloquium on "Race/Racism, Ethics/Pedagogy." Gerber Lounge, 4 p.m.
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.
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