DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
FACULTY ACTIVITIES REPORT
JULY 1, 1999-JUNE 30, 2000
I. Publications, Performances, Exhibits
Ed.
Final Vinyl Days by Jill McCorkle.
Reader's Group Edition. New York: Ballantine, 1999.
Review of Lee
Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group (Baton Rouge: LSU P, 1998) by
Nancy C. Parrish. American Literature
(Summer 1999): 375-76.
Review
of Eating the Cheshire Cat (New York:
Scribner, 2000) by Helen Ellis. The Winston-Salem Journal (9 April
2000): A16.
Review of Ecology
of a Cracker Childhood (Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed, 1999) by
Janisse Ray. The
Winston-Salem Journal (5 March 2000): A20.
Review of Between
the Flowers (East Lansing: Michigan SU Press, 1999) by Harriette
Simpson Arnow. The
Winston-Salem Journal (30 Jan. 2000): A20.
Review of Home
Across the Road (New York: Longstreet, 1999) by Nancy Peacock. The Winston-Salem Journal (19 Dec.
1999): A24.
Review of The
Slow Way Back (New York: Morrow, 1999) by Judy Goldman. The Winston-Salem Journal (14 Nov. 1999):
A22.
Review
of Reason For Hope: A Spiritual Journey (New
York: Warner Books, 1999) by Jane Goodall with Phillip Berman. The Winston-Salem Journal (24 Oct.
1999): A20.
Burg, Wong, Pfeifer, Boyle, and Yip,
"Publishing an imej Journal for Computer-Enhanced Learning, Proceedings of ED-Media 99, Seattle:
AACE, June 1999.
“Castrating [W]itches: Impotence and Magic in The Merry Wives of Windsor.” 1987. Rpt.
in Shakespeare Criticism 47. Summer 1999.
“Renaissance Noblewomen.” 1980. Rpt. in Readings
in Renaissance Women’s Drama: Criticism, History, and Performance. Ed. S.
P. Cerasono and Marion Wynne-Davies. London: Routledge, 1998 [1999].
32-46.
“Liz Lochhead,” “Baroness Orczy,” “Denise Robins,”
and “Rose Tremain.” An Encyclopedia of
British Women Writers. 2d ed. Ed. Paul and June Schlueter. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1998 [1999].
“Nobody’s Renown:
Plagiarism and Publicity in the Career of Jack London.” American
Literature 71:3 (September 1999) 529-49.
“Pope as a Book Collector,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Pre-Nineteenth-Century British Book
Collectors and Bibliographers, eds. William Baker and Kenneth Womack
(Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999): 279-87.
13 Article Reviews in The Scriblerian 31.2-32.1 (Spring and Autumn 1999)
Article on 1960 sit-in for Wake Forest magazine,
scheduled for June 2000 issue (David Fyten, editor)
“The Euphonium Cagehaused in Either Notation: John
Cage and Finnegans Wake.” In Bronze by Gold: The Music of Joyce,
ed. Sebastian D. G. Knowles. New York and London: Garland, 1999, pp. 151-70.
“Transatlantic Joyces.” Review Essay, Modern
Fiction Studies, vol. 45, no. 4 (Winter 1999) pp. 1007-11.
Review, Jane Lilienfeld, Reading Alcoholisms:
Theorizing Character and Narrative in Selected Novels of Thomas Hardy, James
Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. James Joyce Literary Supplement, vol. 14,
no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 29-30.
“A
Worldly Mind: Natural History and the Experience of Consciousness,” Substance,
Vol. 29, No. 1 (2000), 7-22.
“Yeat’s
Political Imagination,” Seminar Lecture, Dept. of Rhetoric, University of
California, Berkeley, Novermber 1999.
Review of New Essays on The Education of Henry
Adams (Cambridge University Press, 1996), Henry Adams Newsletter,
Spring 2000.
‘99-2000 Three substantial verse sheafs of A.M.,
with facing text, translations by Alessandro Carrera in Poesia, Origini & Itinerari filosofici.
Sept-Oct ’99 Wake Forest Francesco Rosi visit; Allen
Mandelbaum translated for him, and shepherded discussion at NC School of the Arts after the
showing of La Tregua
Oct. 21, ’99 Istituto Italiano di Cultura / NY:
Presentation of the work of Claudio Magris
Nov. 11, ’99 Harvard
Club, reading of A.M.’s poetry
Nov. 12, ’99 1.
Participated in Commemorative Conference on work of William Bronk
2. “Binding the Lands:
Present Day Poetry, Present Day Poets”: at the Italian Cultural Institute, NY.
Dec. 06, ’99 Hunter
College: Lecture-discussion of A.M’s work on Dante
Mar. 16, ’99 U
of Miami: Gates of Horn, Gates of Ivory.
Lecture and verse reading.
Apr. 2000 Dante
2000 / Columbia U. Chaired session on Dante and Ovid.
Apr. 2000 AAIS at Sheraton Hotel, NY. Chaired session
on Pasolini and the Furies; was
honored at
concluding banquet (A.M.’s work was presented
by Teodolina Barolini, of Columbia U): concluding the banquet, A.M. read from
his poety.
June 2-4, ’00 Receives the Gold Medal of the City of
Florence for his translation of Divine
Comedy, and delivers his address—La
doppia danza—at the Palazzo Vecchio.
The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets, Ed. Michael Collier (New
England University Press): “However,” “Incomplete Scenario Involving What the
Voice Said,” “Point and Counter-Point in All Things,” and “Sometimes the Mind,”
poems.
American Poetry Review: “Point and Counter-Point in All Things,” “The
Animal Messenger,” “To Break the Spell Is To Invite Chaos Into The Universe,”
“Nina, Remembering,” “Lack, The Willow,” “Lack, The Hummingbird,” and “But What
If As Is,” poems.
Great River Review: “The Bird That Keeps The Slow Boy
Spinning,” “Hint,” and “Prosody,”
poems.
TriQuarterly: “Wing Of Newt,” “Myth,” “Seventy Feet From The Magnolia Blossom,”
and “The World,” poems.
The Body Electric, (Anthology, Norton)
“LaGuardia, The Story” and “Delphi, coming Around The Corner,” poems.
Poetry
Reading: Left Bank Books, St. Louis.
Poetry
Reading: Washington University, St.
Louis.
Poetry Reading: Lynchburg
College in VA.
Lynchburg College,
Lynchburg, VA: symposium participant, “Poetry--Who needs it” and “Solitude and
Society”.
Richardson and Fielding: the
Dynamics of a Critical Rivalry (Bucknell University Press)
Constant Longing, a volume of poetry, Carnegie Mellow
University Press, Feb. 2000.
“Evening Inventory,” a poem from Constant Longing (see above), featured in The Washington
Post (Poet’s Choice, ed. Rita Dove) April 23, 2000.
Readings at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem,
NC and at California State University, Fresno, in Fresno, CA.
“’Three Leahs to Get One Rachel’: Redundant Women in
Tess of the d’Urbervilles”
"The Alba Lady,
Sex-roles and Social Roles." In
Reconstructive Polyphony: Studies in the Rhetorical Poetics of the Middle Ages. Eds., John M. Hill
and Deborah Sinnreich-Levi. Madison, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Press, 2000, 221-240.
“’Reis glorios’: A
Commentary.” In Teaching Medieval Lyric with Modern Technology: An NEH Project
(CD-Rom). Margaret Switten, Director,
Mount Holyoke College, 2000.
Shoemaker, Steve
“Carl Rakosi’s Poetic Argument.” Encyclopedia of
Jewish-American Poetry and Drama.
Greenwood Publishers, 1999.
Contribution to Poetics@. Roof Books, 1999.
Poetry reading at D.C. Arts
Center, May 1999.
Valbuena, Olga
“‘The dyer’s hand’: The
Reproduction of Blot and Coercion in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” James Schiffer,
ed. Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Critical Essays. New York: Garland (1999): 325-45.
Topic Essay, “Recusancy” Brown Women Writers Project-Renaissance Women Online. Ed. Paul Caton. Published 1999.
Contextual Introduction, Elizabeth Evelinge, translator, “The history of
the angelicall virgin glorious Saint Clare”(1635). Brown Women Writers Project-Renaissance
Women Online. Ed. Paul Caton. Published 1999.
Contextual Introduction, Alexia Gray, translator, “The rule of the most
blissed father (1632). Brown Women
Writers Project-Renaissance Women Online.
Ed. Paul Caton. Published 1999.
Wilson, Eric
Romantic Turbulence: Chaos,
Ecology, and American Space (New York: St. Martin’s, 2000)
“Whitman’s Rhizomes,” Arizona Quarterly 55:3 (Autumn 1999): 1-22.
“Emerson’s Nature,
Paralogy, and the Physics of the Sublime,” Mosaic
33:1 (March 2000): 15-38.
Bennett, Barbara
Panel: “The Other in Southern Literature.” The Society for the Study of
Southern Literature. Orlando, FL, April 2000.
MLA: “Eyeing the Desert: Mary Austin’s Desert
Epiphanies” (Dec., 1999)
Interdisciplinary Conference on Nature &
Culture: (poetry reading, Feb., 2000)
Boyle
and Rigg, Technology and Problem-Based
Learning: The Virtual Benefits of the
Processes of Critical Thinking and Collaborative Writing, Philadelphia: International Conference on Teaching with Technology, March 1999.
Boyle, From Peer Review to Collaboration: Transforming the Relationship Between
Readers and Writers through Hypermedia.
From Panel compromised of Burg,
Wong, Pfeifer, Boyle, and Yip, "Publishing an imej Journal for
Computer-Enhanced Learning, Seattle:
ED-Media 99.
“The Work of Mourning: Fetishizing the Royal
Martyr,” Group for Early Modern
Cultural Studies Conference, Miami, October 1999.
“Impersonating
the Audience: Edward Bok and The Ladies’ Home Journal.” Popular Culture Association Annual
Conference. New Orleans. 19-22 April 2000.
Paper at international meeting of American Committee
for Irish Studies, Limerick, Ireland.
“Recent Counter-Reformational Poetry in Ireland & England”, 27 June,
1999.
Chair: “Living Book Review: Derek Malion’s Collected Poems”, 27
June, 1999.
Session
chair, New Light on Samuel Johnson,
annual meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Savannah, Georgia, March 2000.
Organizer
and Chair, “James Joyce and the 19th century” International James
Joyce Sympsium, London, June 2000.
“Pierre
Menard, Author of Ulysses,” International James Joyce Symosium, June
2000.
Session
leader and respondent, “Wyndham Lewis: the Avant-gardist as Fascist.”
Convention of the Modern Language Association, Chicago, December 1999.
“Picture and Text: Venetian Interiors by Henry James
and John Singer Sargent,” Henry James Society Meeting, Canterbury, England,
July 9-12, 1999.
Michie, Allen
“Reading Sterne through Locke through Chaos
Theory.” American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies conference, Philadelphia, April 18, 2000.
“Chaos Theory as a New Paradigm for the Arts.” Celebration of Human Inquiry Symposium,
Coastal Carolina University, Feb 17, 2000.
Guest speaker, dedication of books and papers to the
Harriett Hawkins collection at the Massachusetts Renaissance Center, U.
Massachusetts and Amherst, April 5, 2000.
Accompanied four undergraduates to Conway, SC for
the Celebration of Human Inquiry Symposium at Coastal Carolina University on
Feb. 17, 2000. We all read papers for a
panel entitled “Science and Literature: Chaos Theory as a New Paradigm for the
Beautiful.”
Chair, Chaucer and Langland session. 2nd
International Langland Conference, July 1999, Asheville, NC.
“The Unpainted Canvas: Sordid Visions in Victorian
Modern Life Painting,” 19th Century Studies Association, Washington,
DC
“How to Handle a Woman: Ship her Off? Marry her
Off?” International Narrative Conference, Atlanta.
Paper: “Jane Eyre: Hazarding Confidences,” Roehampton
Institute, London, Fall 1999.
Invited talk:
“Becoming a Professor,” for
Graduate Students, Princeton University, Spring 2000.
“National Narrative and the Legend of Louis
Sockalexis”,South Central Modern Language Association, Memphis, TN, October
28-30, 1999.
III. Editorships, Offices, and Consultancies
Bennett, Barbara
Reader/reviewer
of manuscripts for Louisiana State University Press (1999-present).
Reader/reviewer
of manuscripts for South Atlantic Review (1997- present).
Editorial board member: ISLE (Interdisciplinary
Studies in Literature & Environment)
Co-Editor of IMEJ: The Interactive Multimedia
Electronic Journal of Computer-Enhanced
Learning (two issues published)
Meredith College--Technology in Writing and
Literature (One day workshop)
Editorial Board, Radical
Pedagogy
Editorial
Board, Collegiate Press
Member, Executive Committee , Group for the Study of
Colonialism
Two manuscripts evaluated for Tulsa Studies in
Language and Literature
Johnston,
Dillon
External Reviewer, Pre-tenure Review, Emory
University
Co-editor,
The Scriblerian
Executive
Board member, Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Served as a consultant to the English Department at
Duke University as they sought to make an appointment at the
Associate-Professor level in her field.
At their request, she reviewed the publications of Srinivas Aravamudan
and wrote a report recommending the appointment with tenure.
King,
Wayne
Editorial Board: Academe
Secretary, Popular Culture Division, South Atlantic
Modern Language Association. Attended
meeting at Atlanta, Nov. 22, 1999
Chair, Popular Culture Division, South Atlantic
Modern Language Association. Selected
papers and will attend meeting in Birmingham, Alabama on Nov. 10-12, 2000.
Studies
in the Age of Chaucer (book reviewer)
South
Atlantic Review (essay reviewer)
BETA Tester: NEH Teaching Medieval Lyric With Modern
Technology. Margaret Switten, Director.
National Endowment for the Humanities; 3 weeks of review involved.
Strysick, Michael
Elected Secretary of the Native American Studies
section of the South Central Modern Language Association for the 2000-2001
term. Will succeed as President of the
section in 2001-2002.
Wilson, Eric
Expert Reader, University of
California Press, 15 hours
Mead, Jane
Completion Grant from the Patrick Lannan Foundation
in the amount of $30,000 to enable me
to free up some time for writing. This
grant is an award in the sense that there is no application process.