Department News
Rafia Zafar Colloquium - April 18th at 4:00 pm
The English Department is having a colloquium on April 18th at 4:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall Room 201 featuring Professor Rafia Zafar. The title is "Commensality and Civil Rights in the Works of Ernest Gaines, Anne Moody, and Alice Walker."
"This talk explores the conjunction of civil rights and commensality, the latter term referring to the practice or act of eating together. I will focus on the ways in which three literary works from the late 1960s to the 1980s depict food as a literal “field of action” (to borrow a phrase from anthropologist Mary Douglas).
Amy Hollywood Seminar April 14th 2:00 PM
The Amy Hollywood work-in-progress Seminar: "Acute Melancholia" will be at 2:00 pm in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall, Room 201. (pre-circulated paper available in the English Department office, Duncker Hall Room 116.
Amy Hollywood is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She is a historian of Christian thought specializing in mysticism, with strong interests in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy. Her first book, /The Soul as Virgin Wife: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhart/ (University of Notre Dame Press, 1995), is a study of the body and gender in late medieval Christian mysticism. It received the International Congress of Medieval Studies' Otto Grundler Prize for the best book in medieval studies. Her second book, /Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History/ (University of Chicago Press, 2001), deals with Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, and their fascination with excessive bodily and affective forms of Christian mysticism. Professor Hollywood is also the editor of the Gender, Theory, and Religions Series for Columbia University Press. She is currently writing about memory, mourning, and Christian mysticism.
For further information, please contact Jessica Rosenfeld (jrosenfe@wustl.edu).
Jani Scandura Lecture April 16 4:00 pm in Hurst Lounge
Mary Jo Bang wins the National Book Critics Award for Poetry
won for criticism.
Malcah Effron receives the 2007 Earl Award for best first paper in Detective Fiction
Amy Hollywood Lecture April 15th 4:00 pm in Hurst Lounge Duncker 201
Title of the Lecture is "Love of Neighbor, Love of God: Mary and Martha in the Christian Middle Ages"
Amy Hollywood Seminar April 16th 12:00 noon in Hurst Lounge
The Amy Hollywood Seminar is April 16th at 12:00 noon in Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall 201. Amy Hollywood is Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School. She is a historian of Christian thoughtspecializing in mysticism with strong interests in feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and continental philosophy. The title of her Interdisciplinary Methodology Seminar: "Freud and the Middle Ages".
RSVP for this Seminar by APRIL 1ST to jrosenfe@wustl.edu.
New Hurst Digital Archive Materials
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New audio excerpts from the Hurst Digital Archive are now available on the English Department website. Poetry from such voices as Jorie Graham (1992), Frank Bidart (2005), and Arthur Sze (2005), as well as fiction from Amy Hempel (2001) and Michael Martone (2005) are on hand. For a more extensive, and ever increasing, collection of excerpts from visiting Hurst professors, please visit http://artsci.wustl.edu/~hurst/. Interested individuals outside the campus community may also visit this web address for information about accessing our growing database.
New Online Journal, Arch, Launches First Issue
On Friday, February 1st, the online journal Arch celebrates its first issue with a social hour at 3:30 outside Hurst Lounge (sharing time and goodwill with GAP!). The following is a note from the editors of the journal, and a call for interested students to become involved:
Last year a small number of English and Comparative Literature graduate students volunteered to help put together a new online journal for translation, poetry, fiction, essays, and interviews. With much help and advice from many quarters, including the Center for the Humanities, we have made our start.
Please visit http://archjournal.wustl.edu to see our complete first issue.
We'd like you to consider working with us. We continue to need new staff for the different positions in the journal. Though we are based in the English department, we would especially like the help of graduate students from a variety of Arts & Sciences departments. Participation from many different departments would allow us to diversify the kinds of interviews we take on and the kinds of materials we publish.
If you can't come to the party or if you have questions, contact me lbrevard@artsci.wustl.edu, the journal itself archword@artsci.wustl.edu, or one of our editors—
Carter Smith—Essays Editor rcsmith@artsci.wustl.edu
Sarah Noonan—Online Editor slgarner@artsci.wustl.edu
Alex Quinlan––Poetry/Fiction Editor quinlan.alex@gmail.com
Emmanuelle Pourroy-Braud—Translation Editor epourroy@artsci.wustl.edu
2007 Graduate Teaching Awards
Each year the department reognizes graduate students for superior teaching in Writing 1, the department's freshman composition course. This year's winners are Erica Delsandro, Josh Hoeynck, Katie Muth, Carter Smith, and Tamara Taylor. Also, English graduate student Brooke Taylor won this year's Dean's Teaching Award sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Congratulations to our winners for their significant contributions in the education of the university's undergradutes.
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