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Spring Quarter 2008 Review
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Publications: Scholarly Monographs, Edited Volumes, Textbooks

Donoghue, Frank. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

Arnove, Robert F. and Harvey J. Graff, eds. National Literacy Campaigns and Movements: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, with a new introduction by Transaction Publishers. Edison, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2008.

Kiser, Lisa J., and Barbara A. Hanawalt, eds., Engaging with Nature: Essays on the Natural World in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008.

Martin, Lee. River of Heaven (a novel). New York: Crown/Shaye Areheart Books, 2008.

Articles, Essays, Book Chapters, Poems, Short Stories, Reviews

Allen, Chadwick. "Rere ke/ Moving differently: Indigenizing Methodologies for Comparative Indigenous Literary Studies." "Special Issue: Comparative Approaches to Indigenous Literary Studies." Journal of New Zealand Literature 24.2 (2007): 44-72.

_____. Rev. of Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey. Journal of New Zealand Literature 25 (2007): 182-87.

_____. "Indigeneity Inside and Outside the Metropolitan Conversation." Conciliation and Reconciliation. Volume 2: Art and Literature in the Pacific. Ed. Maryvonne Nedeljkovic. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2008. 105-115.

Allen, Chadwick and Alice Te Punga Somerville. "An Introductory Conversation." "Special Issue: Comparative Approaches to Indigenous Literary Studies." Journal of New Zealand Literature 24.2 (2007): 12-19.

Braun, Catherine C. and Kenneth L. Gilbert. "This Is Scholarship." Kairos 12.3 (May 2008): Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

Brewer, David A. Review of English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702 by Harold Love. Eighteenth-Century Studies 41 (2008): 433-35.

Callahan, Cynthia A. Review of Imagining Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama by Marianne Novy." Adoption Quarterly. 10.2 (2007): 98-92.

Cashman, Ray. Review of Remembering the Year of the French: Social Memory and Irish Folk History by Guy Beiner. New Hibernia Review vol. 12, no. 1 (2008), 146-150.

_____. Review of The Stars of Ballymenone by Henry Glassie. Western Folklore vol. 66, nos. 3-4 (2008), 389-392.

Gardner, Jared. "Ed Wheelan's Minute Movies." The Comics Journal (April 2008): 114-45.

Hamlin, Hannibal. Review of Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern England by Ariel Hessayon and Nicholas Keene, eds. Renaissance Quarterly 60/1 (Spring 2008) 281-83.

Hesford, Wendy and Eileen Schell. "Configurations of Transnationality: Locating Feminist Rhetorics" (with College English. 70.5 (May 2008): 453-462. Also guest editor of this special issue on Transnational Feminist Rhetorics.

Hudgins, Andrew. "Why I Love Ruby" and "My Sister's Stash." The Dark Horse: The Scottish-American Poetry Magazine 21 (Winter 2007-08). 68-69.

_____. "Poets Touch Us With the Everyday." Review of Spill by Michael Chitwood and Old War by Alan Shapiro. The Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer. 16 March 2008: 9D.

_____. "The Bedside Table: Downtown District, Plus the Great Metropolitan Bedside Area and Environs." The Southeast Review 26.1 (2007): 70-74.

_____. "Praying Drunk," "Compost: An Ode," "Beatitudes." Poems. Contemporary Poetry of the United States. ed. April Lindner. Moscow: OGI Press, 2007. 194-207. A bilingual anthology in Russian and English.

_____. "Chemical Zen." Poets on Prozac: Mental Illness, Treatment, and the Creative Process. ed. Richard M. Berlin, M.D. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2008. 161-171.

_____. "The Secret Sister." Writes of Passage: Coming of Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review. ed. Paula Dietz. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008. 358-372.

_____. "Southern Literature," "Arcadia," "Babylon in a Jar," "How to Stop," "Ashes," "Two Ember Days in Alabama," and "New Headstones at the Shelby Springs Confederate Cemetery." Gather Up Our Voices: Selected Writings from Recipients of the Harper Lee Award for Alabama?s Distinguished Writer 1998-2007. ed. Jeanie Thompson. Montgomery: Alabama Writers" Forum. 81-91.

_____. "The Imagined Copperhead" and "Blowfly." Poetry. 192.2. May 2008: 118-119.

_____. "Margaret and Her Puppy Ralph," "Spit Shine," "Accelerator," "The Boy." The Hopkins Review. 1.2 New Series. Spring 2008. 295-29

Knowles, Sebastian. Foreword to Manuscript Genetics: Joyce's Know-How, Beckett's Nohow by Dirk Van Hulle. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. xi-xii.

Leick, Karen. "Popular Modernism: Little Magazines and the American Daily Press." PMLA 123.1 (January 2008): 125-139.

Lindeman, Lis, and Gregory O. Smith. "Literature and Digital Illumination." Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. 12.3: Summer 2008. Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy

Martin, Lee. "Footnotes to a Life." Sonora Review 53 (2008): 46-48.

McGraw, Erin. "'Sheep in Wolves' Clothing." (article) Sonora Review 52 (2008): 120-126.

_____. Fortune Teller." Review of Margot Livesey's The House on Fortune Street. Raleigh News & Observer, 8-D. May 11, 2008.

Phelan, James. "Narratives in Contest; or, Another Twist in the Narrative Turn." PMLA 123.1 (2008): 166-75.

_____. But What's the Right Answer? Bottom Lines in Teaching the Humanities." Talking about Teaching 3 (2008): 33-40.

Ramspeck [Sutton-Ramspeck], Doug. "Asking the Dead." Poem. The Same 6.1-2 (Fall/Winter 2007): 71.

_____."Blue Toaster" and "Equivalence." Poems. Passages North 29.1 (Winter/Spring 2008): 80-81.

_____."Ezekiel Has an Epileptic Fit in the County Jail in Cincinnati." Poem. The Evansville Review 28 (2008): 75-76.

_____. "Fairy Tale" and "Two Boys Missing on Sweetbay Lake." Poems. Buffalo Carp 5 (2008): 15, 65-66.

_____. "Late Husband." Poem. New Zoo Poetry Review 11 (2008): 19.

_____. "Origins." Poem. Off the Coast 14.1 (2008): 53.

_____. "Epigraph." Poem. The Mid-America Poetry Review 9.1 (Spring 2008): 60.

_____. "Epistolary Evening." Poem. Vox 3 (2007): 85.

_____. "Escapologist." Poem. Lake Effect 12 (Spring 2008): 142-143.

_____. "Gravity." Poem. Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts 7 (2008): 21-22.

_____. "Scheherazade" and "Rock Garden." Poems. River Oak Review 2.5 (2008): 4, 47.

_____. "Bottomlands Rapture." Poem. Ellipsis 44 (2008): 32.

_____. "Mad Creek" and "Ruined Empire." Poems. The Louisiana Review 6 (Spring 2008): 55-56.

_____. "Merlin in Chicago with Alzheimer's." Poem. Plainsongs 28.3 (Spring 2008): 38.

_____. "Red Horse." Poem. Poet Lore 103.1/2 (Spring/Summer 2008): 31.

_____. "Swamp Lines." Poem. Willow Review 35 (Spring 2008): 84.

_____. "Waterborne." Poem. Valparaiso Poetry Review 9.2 (Spring/Summer 2008). Valparaiso Poetry Review.

_____. "The Adulterer's Wife." Poem. The Sierra Nevada Review 19 (Spring 2008): 48.

_____. "Late Husband." Poem. Rpt. in Verse Daily 27.2 (May 17, 2008). Verse Daily

_____. "Letter to a Young Poet." Poem. Karamu 21.1 (Spring 2008): 64.

_____. "Salt." Poem. Hayden's Ferry Review 42 (Spring/Summer 2008): 222.

Reno, Seth, Shawn Casey, and Doug Dangler. "Writing Centers and Heuristic Software: The Case of The Late Night Writer." The Writing Lab Newsletter 32.9 (2008): 8-13

Shuman, Amy. Review of The Performance of Human Rights in Morocco by Susan Slyomovics. Western Folklore 66: 3,4. (Summer and Fall 2007): 214-216.

_____. Review of The Story is True by Bruce Jackson. Journal of Folklore Research. Posted May 22, 2008. Journal of Folklore Research

Presentations

Braun, Catherine C. "New Media Scholarship Stakeholders: Departmental Issues." Computers and Writing. Athens, GA. May 2008.
Delagrange, Susan H. "Building a Digital Wunderkammer." Invited presentation for the Digital Union Showcase, The Ohio State University, May 21, 2008.
_____. "A Digital Wunderkammer." TELR Five Minutes of Fame, The Ohio State University, April 25, 2008.
_____. "When Revision Is Re-Design." Invited talk for the Professional Development Committee's Spring Research presentation, The Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH, April 28, 2008
Hamlin, Hannibal. "Strangers in Strange Lands: Biblical Models of Exile in Early Modern England." Conference: Exile and Religious Identity in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 17, 2008.
O'Sullivan, Sean. "Episode Five, or When Does a Narrative Become What It Is?" The Sopranos: A Wake. New York, NY. May 24, 2008.
Phelan, Jim. "Contemporary Narrative Theory as Focalized through the Editor of Narrative." Stanford University, April 10, 2008.
____."Voice, Form, and Politics in Their Eyes Were Watching God: The Initiation, the Launch, and Their Consequences." Conference on Race and Narrative Theory, Stanford University, April 11, 2008.
_____. "Narratives in Contest: Examples from Politics, Performance, and Literature." Keynote Address, College English Association of Ohio, Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, April 25, 2008.
_____."Narrative Beginnings: A Rhetorical Approach." International Conference on Narrative. Austin, Texas, May 2, 2008.
_____. "A Response to Alan Palmer's 'Attributions of Madness in Ian McEwan's Enduring Love." Workshop on Madness in Literature, Ghent, Belgium, May 15, 2008.
_____. "Madness, Unreliability, and Ethics: Martin Amis's Time's Arrow." Plenary Address, Workshop on Madness in Literature, Ghent, Belgium, May 16, 2008.
Ponce, Martin Joseph. Invited panelist. International Day for Telling Life Stories: Panel Discussion. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, May 16, 2008.
_____. "The Queer Villa." American Literature Association. San Francisco, CA, May 25, 2008.
Skinner, Carolyn. "Mutual Responsibility: The Woman's Medical Journal." Rhetoric Society of America Biennial Conference. Seattle, Washington, May 23, 2008.
Weiser, Elizabeth. "Making it Matter: The Importance of Timebound Analysis." Presentation to the Rhetoric Society of America, Seattle, WA, May 24, 2008.

Honors, Awards and Appointments

Frederick Aldama has received a 2008 Distinguished Diversity Enhancement award. This award recognizes individuals or groups who have demonstrated a significant commitment to enhancing diversity at Ohio State and to exceeding expectations in implementing the Diversity Action Plan.

David A. Brewer was awarded a Course Enhancement Grant from The Ohio State University Libraries for his Summer 2008 English 737 (Introduction to Graduate Study in the Eighteenth-Century English Novel).

Sheila Bock has received a Course Enhancement Grant from the OSU Libraries for teaching English 270 in Autumn 2008.

Mary Crone-Romanovski has been awarded an ASECS/Clark Library Fellowship by the UCLA Center for Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Studies for one month of research at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Ann Ferrell (Folklore) and Kelly Bradbury (RCL) have both been awarded American Fellowships from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The fellowships, awarded for the 2008-2009 school year, support women doctoral candidates completing their dissertations. Ferrell's working title for her dissertation is "Rhetorics of Tradition and Heritage and the Transition(s) of Kentucky Tobacco Farming." Bradbury's dissertation is currently titled "The Theory and Practice of Intellectualism in the U.S.: Literacy, Lyceums, and Labor Colleges."

Steve Fink and Donna Distel of the OSU Libraries received a second grant from the American Library Association and Nextbook to repeat the 5-part course "Modern Marvels: Jewish Adventures in the Graphic Novel," OSU Cartoon and Graphics Library (March 31, April14, 28, May 5 and 19, 2008).

Steve Fink is this year's recipient of the Rodica C. Botoman Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and Mentoring. Steve will be honored at the upcoming Baccalaureate, on June 7th.

The Undergraduate Professor of the Year, as selected by the Undergraduate Organization, EUGO, is Steven S. Fink, and the Graduate Professor of the Year, as selected by the Graduate Organization, EGO, is Marlene Longenecker.

Harvey J Graff has been invited to be an adviser for the Communications and Society Program of the Aspen Institute, for the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, 2008.

_____ received a Faculty Grant for Research and Creative Activity in the Arts and Humanities.

_____. has been invited to serve on the President's Advisory Board for the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University.

The University of Linkoping, Sweden, has received a grant from the Swedish Bicentennial Foundation (Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfont) to support the publication of a book, coedited by Harvey J. Graff, on "Understanding Literacy in its Historical Contexts."

Hannibal Hamlin has been elected to a three-year term on the Executive Council of the International Spenser Society.

_____ served as an Examiner in Shakespeare for the Swarthmore College Honors Program, May 22-24, 2008.

John Hellmann was interviewed by a journalist from the Russian Independent Media about the narrative myths that Americans generally share in the 21st century. The Russian translation appeared on March 27, 2008 on the website States-2008, which is a main Russian site devoted to American elections. The online link is http://states2008.russ.ru/amerika_nachala_stoletiya/mif_kak_instrument_politiki ..

David Herman was awarded Research Fellowships from the American Philosophical Society and the American Council for Learned Societies for his project on "Storytelling and the Sciences of Mind."

Andrew Hudgins judged the Mary C. Mohr Poetry Award. Southern Indiana Review. Spring 2008.

Sebastian Knowles was recognized at the President's Salute to Undergraduate Achievement by two students, Jennifer Duann (English and Molecular Genetics) and Kevin Humphries (English and Political Science).

Kyounghye Kwon is one of the recipients of this year's Dr. Gordon P. K. Chu Memorial Scholarship. Kwon will use the award to travel to Seoul, South Korea, to speak at the International Federation for Theatre Research in July 2008.

Emeritus Professor Ernest Lockridge received THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARD for his painting "Park of Roses," Spring 2008 Anthem Art Show, sponsored by the Worthington Area Art League.

Erin McCarthy has been selected to participate in the 2008 Mellon Summer Institute in English Paleography at the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA. This intensive course will be directed by Heather Wolfe, Curator of Manuscripts at the Folger Shakespeare Library, and will include training in reading and transcribing early modern manuscripts, textual editing, and bibliography.

Dorothy Noyes has been appointed to the editorial board of Western Folklore.

_____ has received funding from Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities for "The State and the Appropriation of Marginal Knowledges: The Military, the Local, and Its Academic Mediations," a conference co-organized with Tarak Barkawi and Josef Ansorge (Cambridge Centre of International Studies), to be held in Summer 2009.

James Phelan has received a 2008 University Distinguished Professor award. This permanent title recognizes accomplishments in research, scholarly work, teaching, and service that are both distinguished and distinctive.

The Graduate School has announced that Thomas Pruiksma, English, is one of the winners of this year?s Graduate Associate Teaching Award. The GATA award is Ohio State?s highest form of recognition for graduate teaching associates, and it recognizes GTAs who exhibit exceptional teaching. Pruiksma will receive a $1500 honorarium.

Elizabeth Renker has been awarded a Course Enhancement Grant by the University Libraries for her autumn 2008 graduate seminar in archival research methods.

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