Publications, Presentations, and other Faculty Matters

Congratulations to Huston Diehl who has been named 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 the department.

Loren Glass will be giving talk on April 12^th at a symposium on “Celebrity Culture” hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.  His talk is entitled “Buying In; Selling Out:  From Literary to Musical Celebrity in the United States,” and it will be published in the Spring issue of The Hedgehog Review.

Rob Latham's essay on "The New Wave" will be published in The Blackwell Companion to Science Fiction, edited by David Seed, forthcoming in May. He has recently delivered or is scheduled to deliver several talks that derive from his current book project: "New Worlds and Old Guards: Towards an Anatomy of the New Wave Controversy," at the 26th Annual Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, March 16-20; "Counterculture Collage: Experimental Techniques in 1960's 'New Wave' Science Fiction," at the "Collage as Cultural Practice" Conference at the University of Iowa, March 24-26; and "The New Wave in the Zines: Fan Culture and the Reshaping of Science Fiction During the 1960s," at the 21st Eaton Conference: "Inventing the 21st Century: Many Worlds, Many Histories," in Seattle, May 5-7. He will also be conducting research at the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection at UC-Riverside for two weeks in May, then heading off for a three-week "X Files" road trip in the Southwest (visiting Roswell, Area 51, Los Alamos, White Sands, etc.) before ending up at the Science Fiction Research Association Conference in Las Vegas in late June (if he is not abducted by aliens or mutated by radiation first).

Graduate Matters

On Apr. 18, Elizabeth Corsun will defend her dissertation, "Comic Pragmatism: Dickens and Early-Victorian Stage Farce." Garrett Stewart is the chair, and the defense will occur at 3:30 p.m., 323B EPB.

On Apr. 19, Margaret Loose will defend her dissertation, "Literary Form and Social Reform: The Politics of Chartist Literature." Florence Boos is the chair, and the defense will occur at 12:15 p.m., 323B EPB.

On Apr. 20, Marty Gould will defend his dissertation, "Rose Britannia: Theatricality and Empire in the Victorian Period." Teresa Mangum is the chair, and the defense will occur at 10:20 a.m., 331 EPB.