Spring 2012 Newsletter
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News of Faculty
1/26/12
On January 6, Roger Beebe presented a reprise of his FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS program in St. Petersburg at C. Emerson Fine Arts. Prior to that, on December 10, he screened the 6-projector version of his “Last Light of a Dying Star” at a lunar eclipse show in O'leno State Park, a show that also featured music from Liza Kate, Holopaw, and Die Hoffnung.
Marsha Bryant presented a paper titled “Excavating H.D.’s Egypt” at the MLA convention (Seattle). Drawing from her co-authored work with Mary Ann Eaverly (UF, Classics), the talk was for a special session on Approaches to Teaching H.D.
Sid Dobrin’s edited collection, Ecology, Writing Theory, and New Media: Writing Ecology, was published earlier this month by Routledge. The book features chapters by Laurie Gries, Sean Morey (PhD, 2010), Raúl Sánchez, John Tinnell, and Gregory Ulmer.
Andrew Gordon’s review of Norman Mailer’s Later Fictions: Ancient Evenings through The Castle in the Forest appears in The Mailer Review (Fall 2011).
Susan Hegeman’s book, The Cultural Return, has been published by University of California Press in the Flashpoints Series (Modern Languages Initiative).
Judith W. Page’s essay “Edmund Kean” appears in The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature, ed. Frederick Burwick, et al., Wiley-Blackwell, 2012: vol. 2, pp. 698–704.
Phil Wegner presented his essay “Evental Genres: Science Fiction, Love, and Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker” at the MLA Convention (Seattle), as part of the Division on Film session organized by our former colleague, Nora Alter. Phil’s review of Lisa Yaszek’s Galactic Suburbia: Recovering Women’s Science Fiction appears in Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology 19.1 (Winter 2011).
1/7/12
Judith W. Page presented “Grace Aguilar’s ‘The Rocks of Elim’: Biblical Narrative and Romantic Lyric” as a part of a panel on nineteenth-century Anglo-Jewish literature at the recent national meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies.
Robert Ray’s new book Walden X 40: Essays on Thoreau has recently been published by Indiana University Press. He also has a poem (“Don't Know about You”) in the most recent New England Review.
Raúl Sánchez’s essay “Outside the Text: Retheorizing Empiricism and Identity” appears in College English 74.3 (January 2012).
Jodi Schorb’s essay “Hard-Hearted Women: Sentiment and the Scaffold” appears in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 28.2 (2011).
News of Current Students
1/26/12
Amy Scharmann’s story “Chromosome T” has been published in the electronic version of Tin House magazine.
1/7/12
Mauro Carassai co-edited with former UF student Elise Takehana a two-volume essay collection titled “Futures of Digital Studies” for the Digital Humanities Quarterly. The first DHQ special issue, featuring a co-authored Introduction by the editors, is available at: <http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/>.
Harry Leeds and John Westbrook’s translation of a Dmitry Golynko poem appears in The Broome Street Review.
Sarah Lewis Mitchem presented “Imperial Animality: Stratifications of Human/Non-Human Animal Assignments in Arcimbold’s Four Elements and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks” as part of the Brown Bag series for the Center for European Studies on December 7, 2011.
Emma Smith-Stevens’ story “Greyhounds” appears in Web Conjunctions.
John Tinnell’s article “All the World’s a Link: The Global Theater of Mobile World Browsers” appears in Enculturation 12 (2011).
News of Former Students
1/26/12
Mohana Rajakumar’s chapter titled, “Faceless Facebook: Female Qatari Users Choosing Wisely” will appear in New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders, published by Routledge (May 2012).
1/7/12
Jeff Rice’s article “I am McLuhan” appears in Enculturation 12 (2011).