The Ohio State University
English Department News
November 13, 2009Publications
Articles, Essays, Book Chapters, Poems, Short Stories, Reviews
Fagan, Kathy. "Autumn," a personal essay. River Teeth 11.1 (2009): 109-120._____. "'Let Me Begin Again': Nice Work If You Can Get It," an essay on Philip Levine. FIELD 81 (Fall 2009): 24-28.
_____ . "Elelendish," "Poem with its Heart Buried Under the Floorboards," amp; "Life, with Eyeliner." poems amp; an interview. Connotation, November 2009.
Weiser, Elizabeth. "Who Are We? Museums Telling the Nation's Story." International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 2.2 (2009): 29-38.
Presentations
Fagan, Kathy. "A Reading from Lip." The Word Works' Cafe Muse, Chevy Chase, MD. Oct 5, 2009._____ . "A Reading from Lip." UC Reading Series, University of Cincinnati, Nov 6, 2009.
Fink, Steven. "The Wide World of Jewish Graphic Novels: A Conversation with Steve Sheinkin." Dialogue. Columbus Jewish Community Center, Nov. 10, 2009. Co-sponsored by the OSU Melton Center for Jewish Studies and the Columbus JCC Book Fair.
_____. "Changing Perceptions about Jewish American Holocaust Literature" (Satire in Jewish American Holocaust Literature). Congregation Beth Tikvah, Columbus OH. A 2-part mini-course, Nov. 8 and 22, 2009.
Friedman, Ryan. "'A Moving-Picture of Democracy': President Obama and African American Film History Beyond the Mirror Screen," paper delivered at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 7, 2009.
_____. Response to "James Baldwin and the Devil's Work: Screening Citizenship and National Belonging in Harlem, London, and Istanbul," panel at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 7, 2009.
Judkins, Ryan presented "Ethical Conflicts and Monkish Venery: The Aristocratic Background of Chaucer's Monk." Pacific and Modern and Ancient Language Association. San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA. November 6-7, 2009.
Lee Martin read from his fiction at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, TX. November 5, 2009.
Mitchell, Koritha. "Family Time: Reading Lynching Dramas at the Turn of the Century." PAMLA conference. San Francisco, California. November 7, 2009.
Ruderman, D.B. "Pent-up Emotions: City Feelings in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge," Romanticism and the City, The 2009 International Conference on Romanticism, CUNY Graduate Center, NY, New York, 5 November, 2009.
Honors, Awards & Appointments
Fagan, Kathy. Judge of the 2008 Annual Georgia Author of the Year Awards (poetry). Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, 2009.Announcements
This Afternoon, Friday, November 13, Project Narrative will present "A Dialogue on Feminist, Cognitive, Rhetorical, and Postmodern Narratologies" from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (311 DE). Professors David Herman, Robyn Warhol-Down, and Jim Phelan, from the English department, along with Brian Richardson, University of Maryland, and Peter J. Rabinowitz, Hamilton College, will be featured panel speakers.On Tuesday, November 17, the Center for the Study and Teaching of Writing will kick off the CSTW Writers Talk Book Club with Dog by Michelle Herman. The inaugural meeting will be at 11:30 a.m. in the Denney Hall Commons Room (311 DE). Herman will join the group's second meeting on Friday, December 4th at 12:30 p.m. For further details, go to "http://cstw.osu.edu/podcasts/writerstalk.cfm.
Want to become more involved in the English department? It is as easy as joining Sigma Tau Delta! A chapter of the International English Honor Society, Sigma Tau Delta is for all students, sixth quarter sophomores and above, who have a GPA of 3.0 overall and a 3.3 in English and have taken two classes past ENG 110. Sigma Tau Delta helps students form stronger bonds within the English department with other majors and minors, faculty, and staff, along with reaching out and helping the literary community in Columbus and around the nation. It hosts socials, educational programs, career guidance events and more! Interested in joining during winter quarter? Come to our informational session, Tuesday, November 17th at 6 p.m. in Denney Hall room 311! Email Jackie Hicks, recruitment chair, at Hicks.305@osu.edu for more information!
The OSU Creative Writing Program Visiting Writer Reading Series will present Linda Bierds on Thursday, November 19, 2009, in the Denney Hall Commons Room (311 DE) at 7:00 p.m. The reading will be free and open to the public.
The Informing Ohio Communities symposium will take place on Friday, November 20, 2009 at the Barristers Club, on the corner of High Street and West 11th above Panera Bread, from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Opening Remarks will be made by Harvey J. Graff, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and Professor of English and History, the Program Director, Literacy Studies. Panel moderators and participants include Brenda Brueggemann, Professor of English, Disability Studies; H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor of English, Digital Media Studies; and Amy Shuman, Professor of English and Anthropology. It is open to the public, but advance registration is required to attend. Email literacystudies@osu.edu.
"The Fire This Time," a painting by Professor Emeritus Ernest Lockridge, won First Place in the Worthington Area Art League's annual autumn exhibit at the High Road Gallery, 12 East Stafford at High Street, Worthington. The exhibit, "Autumn Joy," is there through November 21. His exhibit of recent paintings, "No Comfort Zone," is at Market Mortgage of Worthington, 330 E. Wilson Bridge Rd., through December.
Newsletter Entries
Material for the EDN should be sent to woodman.11@osu.edu. Because the EDN is distributed to a number of professional venues outside the Department, it follows that the same standards used in other publications will also be used in our newsletter. Information on publications and presentations that does not conform to proper MLA style will be returned for reformatting. Also, since quite a lot of printed material is also available online (especially reviews in periodicals), please include any available URLs with announcements of your publications, so that others can readily read your work. The deadline for the next edition is 12:00 noon, Thursday, November 19, 2009.Take a look at our Archived Department News.
