This just in from Jim Harms:
Sandy Baldwin is now Vice President
of the ELO, the largest and most significant organization in the field of
electronic literature; they just finished a major exhibit at the Library of
Congress. http://eliterature.org/2013/04/elo-elects-new-president-vice-president-and-secretary/
Brian Ballentine published a chapter in
an edited collection on digital pedagogy:
“Fighting for attention: Making space for deep learning.” In Randall
McClure and James Purdy (Eds.), The New
Digital Scholar (83-105). Medford, NJ: American Society for Information
Science and Technology.
Mark Brazaitis's The Incurables
is a finalist for ForeWord Reviews' Book of the Year Award in Short Stories: https://botya.forewordreviews.com/finalists/2012/short-stories/ The Incurables continues to receive
good reviews from Mark's immediate family as well as from WOSU 89.7 FM in
Columbus (Ohio): http://thelongestchapter.com/tag/the-incurables/
and (coming soon) the Mid-American Review: http://www.blakekimzey.com/ His Incurables national tour, in which
he didn't open for The Cure, has stopped in Notre Dame, Indiana (University of
Notre Dame), Sherman, Texas (Austin College), Cleveland, Ohio (90.3 FM WCPN and
Mac's Backs Books), Canonsburg, Pennsylvania (bathroom break), and Slippery
Rock, Pennsylvania (Slippery Rock University). His essay on the Heather Bresch/eMBA degree
scandal at WVU appeared in The Dominion Post: http://www.dominionpost.com/hpimages/scandal_essay.html His op-ed on Mindy McCready, depression,
guns, and suicide appeared in the Charleston Gazette: http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201303220237
His poem "I Imagine My Father's
Dying Request" is reprinted in The Waiting Room Reader II edited by
Rachel Hadas. He did fall during his
82-second turn as Cinderella's dad in "Cinderella on Ice" in March.
But it was in the script. He swears.
More about Mark below in the Katy Ryan listing.
Joy Carr received the Eberly College
Outstanding Teacher Award.
Ryan Claycomb published an essay,
"Here's How You Produce This Play: Toward a Narratology of Dramatic
Texts" in the May 2013 Issue of Narrative. He was also
just named the new Book Review Editor for Theatre Journal, the top
journal in the field of theatre studies.
Glenn Clifton has an article
forthcoming this summer in the Henry
James Review. The local Morgantown
theatre company, M.T. pockets, is producing two of his plays: the 10 minute play "Souvenir" will
be produced June 7-8 as part of their 10-minute play festival, directed by WVU
English's own David Beach; his one-act play "Paul and Erin Go to Bed"
will be getting a full production in October as a part of their 2013 season.
Patrick W. Conner published "On the
Nature of Matched Scribal Hands" in Scraped, Stroked, and Bound:
Materially Engaged Readings of Medieval Manuscripts. Ed. Jonathan Wilcox.
Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 23 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 39-73. http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503545493-1
His
theatrical and film credits include the following: Select Theatre:
Second Samuel (Frisky) Valley Players,
Ligonier 2013; Arsenic and Old Lace (Three
characters) Throughline Theatre 2012; Film: Escape from St. Quentin’s (Reader), Scott Peters, Dir. 2013; Foxcatcher
(Background actor), Bennett Miller, Dir. 2012; The Umbrella Man (Background actor), Michael Grasso, Dir. &
Prod. 2012
Lowell Duckert and Jeffrey J. Cohen co-edited
an issue of postmedieval called "Ecomaterialism." Lowell also
published an article, "Glacier," in the issue: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/pmed/index.html. Lowell also gave talks at the Shakespeare
Association of America conference -- "Exit, Pursued by a Polar Bear (More
to Follow)" -- and at George Washington University,
"Recreation."
Katie Fallon has an essay in the
current issue of The Minnesota Review;
another essay was a finalist in Phoebe's
nonfiction contest.
A
special issue of postmedieval edited by Lara Farina and Holly Dugan was published in December. (See the
fabulous cover, with photograph by Anne Hamilton, in the book case!) Her
article, "Wondrous Skins and Tactile Affection: The Blemmye's Touch,"
was recently published in Reading Skin in Medieval Literature and Culture,
ed. Katie Walter (Palgrave). In
February, she gave a talk to the faculty of William and Mary at the invitation
of the college's Medieval and Renaissance Program.
Marilyn Francus’s article "'Where Does Discretion End, and Avarice
Begin? The Mercenary and the Prudent in Austen," appears in the
current issue of Persuasions, Volume 34 (2013): 57-70. Marilyn presented “Spectral Motherhood:
Maternal Absence and the Fulfillment of Domestic Ideology,” at the
national conference of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
(ASECS), held in Cleveland in April 2013. Her short piece on Jane Austen
and finance, "Jane Austen, Pound for Pound,” was published in Persuasions
Online, Volume 33 #1, Winter 2012.
Jim Harms’s poem,
“The Clock” was featured on Poetry Daily http://poems.com/poem.php?date=15744
(February 7, 2013). His poems “The Lost Grove,” “Before Speech,” “1970,” and “Third Hand”
appeared in A Narrow Fellow 1.1 (April
2013).
Kirk Hazen coauthored a book
chapter with former WVDP research assistants Jaime Flesher and Erin
Simmons: The Appalachian range: the limits of language variation in West
Virginia. 2013. A chapter for Talking
Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community. Amy D. Clark and
Nancy M. Hayward, eds. University of Kentucky Press. 54-69. He is also
part of a team that was awarded a $20,000 ECAS Applied Computational Sciences
Innovation Award.
John Jones’ article, "Networked Activism, Hybrid
Structures, and Networked Power," has been accepted by Currents in
Electronic Literacy, and should appear in the summer/fall of 2013. His article, "Switching in Twitter's
Hashtag Exchanges," was accepted for publication in the Journal of
Business and Technical Communication; it should appear in Jan. 2014. In February he presented a talk titled
"Twitter's hashtag networks and writing in the networked humanities"
at the Networked Humanities Symposium in Lexington, KY. In March he presented a talk titled
"Writing Information Publics: The Pleasures of the Personal Web" at
the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Las Vegas. And in June, he will be presenting a paper
titled "Hashtags and Network Power" at the Computers and Writing
Conference in Frostburg, MD.
Renée K. Nicholson’s essay “In Sickness”
appeared in the Moon City Review and her essay “Out of the Blue”
appeared in Cleaver Magazine. Superstition Review invited Renée
to guest blog on their site, and her entry, “DIY Arts Entrepreneurship”
appeared on April 13th. Her review of the memoir Bleeder
(Shelby Smoak/MSU Press) appears in Sundog Lit. On May 2nd,
she will facilitate in the American Medical Student Association’s Medical
Humanities Series “The Physician in Literature” sponsored by Yale. She was
asked to the committee for the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre/WVU partnership, and
has writing projects with several professional ballet companies. Along with
Keegan Lester (WVU/English Dept. Alum), she launched Souvenir: A Journal,
which was recently featured on the Poetry Foundation’s blog, Harriet, in
an entry by poet Bianca Stone.
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang’s article: “Rituals of
Distrust”: Illicit Affairs and Metaphors of Transport in Ama Ata Aidoo’s “Two
Sisters” and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Birdsong” has been accepted for
publication in the Autumn edition of the Research in African Literatures
journal (44.3). His conference
proposal submission has been accepted for the 56th Annual Meeting of the African
Studies Association; he also will present a paper with the title “That Kind
of Nonsense”: Reverse Migration and the Paradox of Societal Expectation in Ayi
Kwei Armah’s Fragments. He has also been admitted to the 2013
session of the School of Criticism and Theory to be held at Cornell University
this summer.
Katy Ryan and Mark Brazaitis were awarded a West Virginia Humanities Council Grant
to organize a symposium next spring on Educational Justice and West Virginia
Prisons. The grant is for $6,885.90 with $7,785.37 in cost share for a project
total of $14,671.27.
Mary Ann Samyn was profiled on the WVU
Pros site (http://wvupros.com/2013/04/18/wvu-professor-feels-lucky/),
which, appearances to the contrary, is not in fact only about football.
Sadie Shorr-Parks received 2nd place in
the Hungry Poets Contest.
Timothy Sweet: Commentary. “What
Historians Think About Spielberg’s Lincoln.” Ed. Harold K.
Bush. Cineaste 38.2 (Spring 2013): 13-19. 19.
Natalie Sypolt has work appearing or
forthcoming in the following publications: Switchback,
r.k.vr.y., and Apeiron Review.
Her review essay of Scott McClanahan's book Crapalachia
appeared in the March issue of Paste.
Natalie is also now a member of the Los
Angeles Review book reviewing staff and her reviews appear regularly in
both the online and print editions of that journal.
Rebecca Thomas’s short story "Her
Time. Their Time." appears in the Spring 2013 edition of Graze Magazine
(http://www.grazemagazine.org).
Jeffrey Yeager presented two papers at
conferences: “Myth, Identity, & Deep
Ecology in Cormac McCarthy's All the
Pretty Horses & John Steinbeck's To
a God Unknown” at the Cormac McCarthy Society Conf from March 3-5 at Berea
College in Berea, KY. Next week, I'll be presenting a paper: "Waiting for
Lefty: Re-Reading Steinbeck's In Dubious Battle through Proletarian Drama"
at the International Steinbeck Conference at San Jose State University in San
Jose, CA.
Riggle
Fellowships: Lowell Duckert, John Jones, Sarah Neville
Summer
Senate Grants: Lowell Duckert, Glenn Taylor, Lisa Weihman
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