I.
Publications, Performances, Exhibits
Boyle, Anne M.
"Acadia/Wake Forest Writing Project:
Composition, Collaboration, and Computers," IMEJ (on-line journal), www.wfu.edu/IMEJ.
Brown, Elizabeth Barnsley
Essay on Adrienne Kennedy in Hollywood
on Stage: Playwrights Evaluate The Culture Industry Garland P, 1997.
Ed. Kimball King.
Caldwell, Janis M.
"Sympathy and Science in Frankenstein"
in Ethics in Literature, MacMillan. Due out June 1998.
El-Beshti, Bashir
"Signifying Texts and Displaud Contexts: Orientalism and the Ideological Foundations of the Early Modern European State," in Sign of the Early Modern 2. Fall 1997.
"The Seminotics of Salvation: Malcolm
X and the Autobiographical Self," Journal of Negro History. Spring
1998.
Mead, Jane
The Indiana Review, "Notes Toward a Definition of Prayer," poem.
Excerpt: "Sometimes the Mind," poem and an interview.
Shenandoah: "Wind," poem.
Meridian: "In the Opera of the Mind" and "Two Freedoms," poems.
The Asheville Poetry Review: "In The Iowa of the Mind, New York. New York: An Iowa in the New York of the Mind" and "Incomplete Scenario Involving Fire and Water," poems.
The Bellingham Review: "Several Scenes in Search of the Same Explosion," a poem in ten sections.
The American Poetry Review: "The River Itself" and "Some Days," poems.
The Sonora Review: "Rather a Pale Occasion for Flowers" and "Incomplete Scenario Involving What the Voice Said," poems.
Poetry Daily (http://www.Poems.com): "To The Body," poem, and "Paradise Consists of Forty-Nine Rotating Spheres." These poems were featured in May and July, respectively.
Chapters Bookstore. Read with Harriet Levine, Washington, DC, Spring 1998.
The Cathedral Church of Saint John The Divine. Read as part of Maundy Thursday’s reading of the Inferno, New York, NY, Spring 1998.
The Blacksmith Reading Series. Read with Gerald Stern, Boston, MA, Spring 1998.
Sweet Briar College. Taught class in structure of poetry and dance, Sweet Briar, VA, Spring 1998.
Sweet Briar College. Workshop and reading, Sweet Briar, VA, Fall 1997.
South West Texas State University. Reading, question and answer session, and class, San Marcos, TX, Fall 1997.
Salem College. Participant in Share Our Strength Benefit reading, Winston-Salem, NC, Fall 1997.
North Carolina Writers’ Network. Workshop on "Formal Poetry, Organic Form," Carrboro, NC, Fall 1997.
C, B and S Bookstore. Workshop and reading, Orlando, FL, Fall 1997.
Bettendorf Public Library. Workshop
and reading, Bettendorf, IA, Summer 1997.
Sigal, Gale
"Courted in the Country: The Precarious Place of the Lady in the Medieval Lyric Landscape." Published in Text and Territory. Edited by Sylvia Tomasch and Sealy Gilles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Spring 1998, 185-206.
The Power of Women: A Topos in Medieval Art and Literature by Susan L. Smith (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). Published in Studies in the Age of Chaucer (1997): 310-315.
Olivia Hill, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Mary Somerville. Published in Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. 2nd Edition. Edited by Katarina Wilson and Paul and June Schlueter, NY: Garland, 1997.
"A Medievalist’s Glimpse into the Late
Twentieth-century World of Pensions." Published in The Participant,
Quarterly News Magazine for TIAA-CREF participants. February 1998.
Thomas, Claudia
Review, Jean Marsden, The Re-Imagined
Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory,
in Comparative Drama 31.2 (Summer 1997): 319-23.
Weyler, Karen
Book review of Hinds, Janie. Private
Property: Charles Brockden Brown’s Gendered Economics of Virtue. Early
American Literature 32 (1997): 272-74.
Boyle, Anne M.
Chaired session on "Writing Stories of Technological Change," presented at 4C’s, College Composition and Communications Conference, Chicago, IL, April 4, 1998.
Presented paper, "Stories from the Classroom," "Writing Stories of Technological Change," College Composition and Communications Conference, Chicago, IL, April 4, 1998.
Jennifer Burg, Anne Boyle, Yue-ling
Wong, and Ching-Wan Yip, Telcom World Conference ’98, Freiburg, Germany,
June 1998. (Burg presented paper.)
Brown, Elizabeth Barnsley
Papers given at SAMLA, MLA & CLA
conferences. Also chaired and gave a paper for a national teaching and
learning conference.
Caldwell, Janis M.
"The Narrative Economy of Darwin’s Autobiography" Society of Literature and Science, Pittsburg, PA, November 1997.
"Ethical Complexity in Margaret Gatty’s
Parables from Nature" 18th and 19th Century
British Women Writers Conference, Chapel Hill, NC, March 1998.
DeShazer, Mary K.
"South African Women’s Writing of Resistance,"
Georgia/Carolinas College English Association Conference, Western Carolina
University, Summer 1997.
Klein, Scott
Invited moderator, panel "Narrative
Bodies." Narrative: An International Conference, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL, April 1998.
Kuberski, Philip
"Elite, Critical, Vulgar Realities," Society of Literature and Science Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1997.
"The Future of Emerson," invited lecture,
Randolph Macon College, November 1997.
McGohey, Tom
Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Panel Presentation: "The Plan for the Class of 2000: Writing
Stories of Technological Change at WFU."
Moss, William
"’He’s talking about a girl’... ‘He had to talk about something’: William Faulkner on the Subject and the Object of Literature," Panel, "Faulkner: Root and Flower," International Faulkner Symposium, Beijing, People's Republic of China, November 1-4, 1997.
Moderator, Panel, "Faulkner and Soldier’s
Pay, International Faulkner Symposium, Beijing, People’s Republic of
China, November 1-4, 1997.
Overing, Gillian
"Age of Social Context in Medieval Iceland," presented to Reynolda Gerontology Colloquium, September 1997.
"Medical Women in the Wilderness," American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, March 1998.
Chair of session, "Linking Psychoanalytic
and Historical Approaches to Medieval Literature," Medieval Congress, Michigan,
May 1998.
Prescott, Jeryl J.
"Privatizing the Publicized Body: Ventase Smith’s Metaphysical Approach to Physical Liberation," CLA, Tallahassee, FL, April 1998.
"Both ‘Witness and Participant’: The
Inescapable Black Masters in Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
and Ellison’s Invisible Man," SAMLA, Atlanta, GA, November 1997.
Sigal, Gale
"Why an M.A. in English at Wake Forest?"
presentation to Board of Visitors, Fall 1997.
Sternlieb, Lisa
"Jane Eyre: Hazarding Confidences." International Narrative Conference, Northwestern University, April 1998.
"Dickens’s Flora Finching and Joyce’s
Penelope." James Joyce Conference, Rome, Italy, June 1998.
Thomas, Claudia
"Pope’s and Kauffman’s Eloisa Different Disciplines, Different Heroines?", American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, April 1998.
"Bringing Eighteenth-Century Literature
into the Twenty-First Century Classroom: The Quest for Relevance," Southeastern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, GA, March 1998.
Valbuena, Olga
Convener/Chair, "Catholic Crimes and
the Infidel: Bloodlines, Law, and Religious (Dis)order in Early Modern
Spain and England." Attending to Early Modern Women: Crossing Boundaries,
November 6-9, 1997.
Weyler, Karen
"Politeness and the ‘Gentleman Stranger’:
Credit Economics in Arthur Mervyn and The Coquette." Society
of Early Americanists’ Panel. American Literature Association, San Diego,
CA, 1998.
III.
Editorships, Offices, and Consultancies
Boyle, Anne M.
Associate Editor of IMEJ: Interactive Multimedia Electronic Journal for Computer Enhanced Learning.
Vice President of AAUP.
Two-day consultation with English Department, Humanities Core, and Business School on teaching writing with technology at Villanova University.
Review of Core Text: A Handbook
for Writers by Hairston, Ruszkiewicz, and Seward for Longman Publishers.
DeShazer, Mary K.
Editorial Board, National Women’s Studies Association Journal.
Editorial Board, South Atlantic
Review.
El-Beshti, Bashir
Executive Committee Member, Group for Study of Colonialism.
ECHINDA DESIGN – Translation. One Month.
Moss, William
United States Representative, Editorial
Review Committee, "Selected Papers from the International Symposium," to
be published by Beijing University Press.
Overing, Gillian
Journal of Advanced Composition, Reader.
SEGD, Reader.
Medieval Feminist Newsletter, Book Reviewer.
Member of MLA.
Member of North Carolina Research Group
on Medieval and Early Modern Women.
Sigal, Gale
Editorial Board member (juror for articles in medieval literature), South Atlantic Review (journal of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association).
Book reviewer for Studies in the Age of Chaucer (Columbus: Ohio State University Press).
National Endowment for the Humanities,
Collaborative Grant Proposal Evaluator. The report took the month
of November 1997 to prepare.
Thomas, Claudia
Editor, The Scriblerian. Appointed Fall 1997.
Executive Board Member, Southeastern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Elected March 1998.
Brown, Elizabeth Barnsley
$1,200.00. Writer’s Residency,
Vermont Studio Center.
Valbuena, Olga
$3,700.00. Folger Institute:
"Redefining the Sacred in Early Modern England." National Endowment
for the Humanities.