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English Day, 2009

The English Department hosted 120 students and their teachers from 11 southern Illinois high schools on October 21. Students from Anna-Jonesboro, Carterville, Christopher, Coulterville, Frankfort Community, Goreville, Harrisburg, Joppa, Murphysboro, Salem Community, and Vienna attended English classes, toured the campus and/or the Morris Library, learned about university services, and enjoyed breakfast and lunch in the Student Center. Here are just a few pictures of our guests for the day.

 

 

Select Recent Publications, Awards, and Activities

Mary Bogumil published “August Wilson’s Relationship to Black Theatre” in The Cambridge Companion to August Wilson Cambridge UP, 2008. Her book Understanding August Wilson was just released in paperback.

Pinckney Benedict's apocalyptic story "The Beginnings of Sorrow," originally published in
the literary magazine Sonora Review, has been reprinted in the annual anthology The Mammoth Book of Best New Horro #20, edited by Stephen Jones and published this month in the US (Running Press) and UK (Robinson). Other writers in the anthology include Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, and Tanith Lee.

George Boulukos published The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture (Cambridge UP 2008) and received an NEH Summer Stipend for work on my edition of Thomas Hammond's Memoirs.

Ed Brunner published A review-essay of David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague, a study of the fifties-era panic over comic books in Michigan Quarterly Review, an essay entitled "Preserving Thresholds: The Scholar in the Museum, Junk Shop and Library" in Cary Nelsno and the Struggle for the University, a collection of essays on the problems of cultural criticism (State University of New York Press), and an essay on T. S. Eliot's "Gerontion" in The Cambridge Companion to T. S. Eliot, a collection of essays on the American poet T. S. Eliot (Cambridge University Press)

Betsy Dougherty was the Visiting Arts Faculty fellow at the National University of Ireland-Galway this past spring, and was recently been invited to give a lecture at Boston College this coming spring as part of the 2008-2009 Irish Studies Lecture Series on Irish Childhood and Society.

Allison Joseph was the inaugural winner of the Aquarius Press Legacy Award. The award is described here: http://news.siuc.edu/news/August09/082009amh9152.html

Elizabeth Klaver published an edited book, The Body in Medical Culture, SUNY Press. Read an article on Professor Klaver's research: http://news.siuc.edu/news/September09/090909amh9161.html

Mary Ellen Lamb’s book Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser, and Jonson (Routledge 2006) was just issued in paperback. She also co-edited volume Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts came out from Ashgate in January 2008. She served as trustee and chair of the nominating committee for Shakespeare Association of America last year and gave invited plenary addresses at two international conferences, one on early modern popular culture at the University of Sussex in Sept. and on early modern romance at the University of Dundee in October. She continues her work on the editorial board of English Literary Renaissance. Prof. Lamb also co-edited a book, Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare and published “Virtual Audiences and Virtual Authors: The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Old Wives’ Tales,” in Staging Early Modern Romance. Ed. by Valerie Wayne and Mary Ellen Lamb, Routledge, 2009. The last volume of the seven volume set, Ashgate Critical Studies in Women Writers in England, 1550-1700, has now appeared in print, under Mary Ellen Lamb as the General Editor, overseeing the project.

Scott McEathron published "Clare, John Atkin, and The Parish" in the John Clare Society Journal , vol 27 (2008).

Tony Williams published "The Road to Invincible Asia: Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia's Taiwanese Films." Asian Cinema 19.1 (2008) 1-31; "Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia: last eastern star of the late twentieth century." Journal of Chinese Cinemas 2.2. (2008): 147-157; "In the Garden of Cinematic Delights: Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django. Asian Cult Cinema 59 (2008); "Ruthless as Radical Psychobiography." Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour To Poverty Road. Ed. Gary Rhodes. Jefferson, NC.: Lexington Books. 2008; "From Red Dragon to Manhunter." Dissecting Hannibal Lecter. Ed. Benjamin Szumskyj. McFarland & Co, 2008, 102-117; and "The Dream Landscape of Killer's Kiss." Stanley Kubrick: Essays On His Films And Legacy. Ed. Gary Rhodes. McFarland & Co, 2008.

Dan M. Wiley, edited and contributed to Essays on the Early Irish King Tales (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008).

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