Reading Matters, Vol. 10, Issue 6, December 15, 2004
Cheryl Herr has received an NEH Fellowship to complete her project, "Understanding Everyday Life in British and Irish Film."
Rob Latham published a note on fanzine research in the November 2004 issue of Science Fiction Studies based on his work in the archive of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection at the University of California at Riverside. He also has an article on "The New Wave" forthcoming in The Blackwell Companion to Science Fiction, edited by David Seed, and recently produced a 3000-word entry on "Science Fiction" for The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, edited by Carl Mitcham et al., forthcoming from Macmillan USA. He will have a number of entries appearing in two other reference works due out in 2005 from Greenwood Press: The Encyclopedia of Themes in Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Gary Westfahl, and World Supernatural
Literature: An Encyclopedia, edited by S.T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz. His article "'The Job of Dissevering Joy from Glop':
John Clute's New Worlds Criticism" is also forthcoming in Portals: A Festchrift for John and Judith Clute, edited for Old Earth Press by Farah Mendlesohn.
Continuing the good NEH news, Claire Sponsler has received an NEH Fellowship to complete her project, "The Making of Public Culture, 1350-1500."
Dissertation Defenses:
On Dec. 14, Mary Hayes successfully defended her dissertation, "Still Small Voice: Silence in Medieval Devotion and Literature." Jon Wilcox and Claire Sponsler were the co-chairs.
Jan. 19 through March 13 - The University of Iowa Museum of Art will feature an exhibit of "the Scroll," the 120-foot typescript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road.
Fri., Jan. 21 - WSUI's Know the Score will feature Rob Latham discussing the influence of Kerouac and the Beats on American literary and popular culture. The show can be heard online (91.7 FM) or can be attended at the art museum, where a cash bar can ease you into the weekend, 5-7 p.m. For more detail on the show, see WSUI's upcoming events page.
Fri., Jan 28 - Rob Latham will give a public lecture entitled "Beat versus Beatnik: Pop Cooptations of Kerouac and Company." University of Iowa Museum of Art, 7:30 p.m.
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 preceding Monday. This is the last Reading Matters of 2005, but we will begin again early next semester. Please send submissions for the next issue by 5 p.m. on Jan. 31, 2005. Thanks very much.