Publications, Presentations, and other Faculty Matters
Huston
Diehl writes: My book Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching
in a Segregated School, Louisa, VA 1970 was accepted for publication
by the University of Iowa Press and will appear in spring 2007. An
essay drawn from this book, "We're All Colored," is scheduled
to appear in The
Massachusetts Review in July. In addition, my essay "'Strike
All that Look Upon With Marvel': Theatrical and Theological Wonder
in The Winter's Tale," recently appeared in Rematerializing
Shakespeare, edited by Bryan Reynolds and William N. West
(Palgrave Macmillan). And another essay, "The Pauline Rebuke
and Paulina's Lawful Magic in The Winter's Tale" will
appear this fall in Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance,
ed. Paul Yachnin and Patricia Badir (Ashgate).
Congratulations to Barbara Eckstein, who won the Brody Award, given to outstanding faculty who have made exceptional contributions to the UI and the community. The CLAS announcement includes this: "Eckstein has made invaluable contributions to the quality of academic and community life through her service on significant university committees. These include chairing the University Planning Committee, the Faculty Budget Committee, the search committee for Associate Vice President of Facilities Management and the search committee for the Head Librarian of the Main Library. In addition to leading these important committees, Eckstein has also served as a highly dedicated member of the President's University Diversity Committee, Committee to Review the University's Office of the General Counsel and the Committee to Review the Vice President for Finance and University Services. Further, Eckstein has served the Department of English in the major administrative position of Associate Chair for Faculty Programs. While on a developmental assignment during fall 2005, she continued to widen her service commitments, joining a coalition to address homelessness in Iowa City, undergoing the training to become a volunteer at the Crisis Center, volunteering in the Media Center at Horace Mann school, preparing a new course on veterans and war literature that will engage students in a service learning experience at Veterans Hospital, and, following the publication of her new book on New Orleans, giving three community lectures on the disastrous situation there."
In May, Ed Folsom will be presenting a paper at the American Literature Association (San Francisco) on the first census of copies of the 1855 Leaves of Grass.
David
Hamilton's first book of poetry, Ossabaw,
has been published by Salt Publishing in Cambridge UK. The publisher's
website states: "Believing in invention as the art of finding
things, David Hamilton has been concerned with finding what, in memory,
in nature, in his reading, and in daily events, suggests a poem. Some
of the results are 'found poems' in the strict sense, as he samples
and refashions existing texts; other poems in this remarkable book
could be said to be found in the extended sense of being discovered
in memory or by observation." David will also be participating
in a lecture series of Missouri writers at the Kirkwood Library in
Kirkwood, Missouri this month.
Tom
Lutz writes: "My new book, Doing
Nothing, is officially published in a couple weeks, but books
have actually arrived. It has been reviewed positively in Publisher’s
Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, and Library Journal,
and there are reviews have been scheduled for the New York Times
Book Review, Boston Globe (with interview), LA Weekly
(with interview), Esquire (with interview), Newsday,
Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Magazine,
People, Los Angeles Times, and Texas Monthly.
I will be reading at the Los Angeles Public Library, the Opium
Magazine reading series at Happy Ending in NYC, Powell's Bookstore
in Portland, Oregon, Booksmith in San Francisco, Elliott Bay in Seattle,
and Skylight in L.A. in the coming months, along with whatever else
the folks at FSG can scare up in the meantime. I suppose the bigger
news is that UC Riverside is preparing an offer that may mean the
end my time at Iowa ……"
The
University of Illinois Press has recently published John Raeburn's
A Staggering
Revolution: A Cultural History of Thirties Photography, which,
Alan Trachtenberg says, "tells an extraordinary story of the
‘rebirth,’ the flowering, and the cultural legitimation
of photography in America, both as art and ‘popular preoccupation,’
in the 1930s." The publishers website includes this: "While
other studies of thirties photography have concentrated on the documentary
work of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), no previous book has
considered it alongside so many of the decade's other important photographic
projects. A Staggering Revolution includes individual chapters
on Edward Steichen's celebrity portraiture; Berenice Abbott's Changing
New York project; the Photo League's ethnography of Harlem; and Edward
Weston's western landscapes, made under the auspices of the first
Guggenheim Fellowship awarded to a photographer. It also examines
Margaret Bourke-White's industrial and documentary pictures, the collective
undertakings by California's Group f.64, and the fashion magazine
specialists, as well as the activities of the FSA and the Photo League."
Graduate Matters
And congratulations to Everett Hamner who received an Outstanding TA Award
from the Council on Teaching.