April 2003 News
Mel
Freilicher
Book reviews for the San Diego Free Press:
Maurice Isserman. The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington.
March 2003
Lonny Shavelson. Hooked: Five Addicts Challenge Our Misguided Drug Rehab
System. April 2003
- Hellen Lee has been invited to
serve on a panel entitled “The Relations of the Master’s Degree to the
PhD” at the California Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education, to be
held at UCLA on Saturday, April 5.
- Haein Park has been awarded the
Erasmus Dissertation Fellowship, a one-year fellowship given by Notre Dame
University, for “Perceptions of Catholicism in late 19th and early 20th
century American Literature.”
UCSD Center for the Humanities Awards
- Faculty Fellowships: Camille Forbes
- Graduate Fellowships: Yu-Fang Cho
and
Chong Chon-Smith
Exams and Defenses
- PhD Defenses:
Philip Gunderson -- March 3, 2003
“The Veil of Being: Perspectivism and the Modern Subject of
Representation”
Jennifer Dyer Cornelissen -- March 17,
2003
“Family Matters: Kinship Prohibitions and Civic Relations”
Jim Hovde -- March 19, 2003
“God's Order & Worldly Action: Jose de Acosta, Ignatius Loyola, and
Augustine”
- MA Defense:
Sophia Aguilar --
March 17, 2003
“Multicultural Literature Instruction Using Critical Pedagogy”
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SPRING
QUARTER VISITING INSTRUCTORS |
Stephen Cope, Associate in Literature
LTWR/100 - Short Fiction
Karen Hollis, Lecturer
LTEN/120E - Women in the 18th Century
Stanya Kahn, Lecturer
LTWR/119 - Writing for Performance
Jean Louis Morhange, Lecturer
LTFR/116 - French Intellectual & Literary History
LTFR/125 - 20th Century Literature
Paul Naylor, Lecturer
LTEN/154 - The American Renaissance
Joseph Roach, Visiting Professor
LTTH/298 - Writing Performance History
Lisa Robertson, Lecturer
LTWR/102 – Poetry
LTWR/115 - Experimental Writing
Beheroze Shroff, Lecturer
LTEN/181 - Asian American Literature
Corinne Troussier-Singley. Lecturer
LTFR/2C - Intermediate French
Deana Weibel, Lecturer
RELI/188 - Special Topics/Religion
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Spring Quarter 2003 Calendar |
| Spring Quarter Begins |
Thursday, March 27 |
| Cesar Chavez Holiday |
Friday, March 28 |
| Instruction Begins |
Monday, March 31 |
| Memorial Day Observance |
Monday, May 26 |
| Instruction Ends |
Friday, June 6 |
| Final Exams |
Mon-Fri, June 9-13 |
| Spring Quarter Ends |
Friday, June 13 |
DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE
GRADUATE PROGRAM OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, April 3, 2003
- 9:30-11:00 am - Breakfast with Graduate Student
Committee and graduate student hosts
- 11-12:30 am - Section advisors available for office
consultations or campus tour or classroom visit
- 12:45-1:45 pm - Luncheon for incoming students and
faculty advisors at Faculty Club
- 2:00-3:30 pm - Section advisors available for office
consultations or library tour or classroom visit
- 3:30-4:30 pm - Coffee, questions, and information
about campus employment (writing programs and
language programs)
Contact: Ana Minvielle
Graduate Students
Qualifying Exam Colloquium
Friday, April 4, 2:00 pm
deCerteau Room
Panelists:
Nicole Tonkovich,
Aaron Eastley,
Hellen Lee, Liberty Smith
Contact: Jay Crum |
Elizabeth Dahab
“Voices in the Desert:
Arabic-Canadian Women Writers”
Friday, April 4, 4:00 pm
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Farida Elizabeth Dahab was born in London, England, and grew up in Cairo,
Egypt, in a francophone family. A trilingual Canadian citizen, she received
a B. A. in Psychology from McGill University and a Master’s of Education in
Educational Psychology from the University of Alberta. She obtained her
doctorate in Comparative Literature from the Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne
and has held faculty positions in French/Francophone Literatures in Arizona,
California, and Missouri.
Editor of Voices in the Desert: An Anthology of Arabic-Canadian Women
Writers, Professor Dahab is currently affiliated with the Department of
Comparative Literature at California State University, Long Beach.
Sponsored by the Department of Literature.
Contact: Pasquale Verdicchio
Gayle Wald
“From Spirituals to Swing: Rosetta Tharpe and Gospel Crossover”
Monday, April 7, 4:00 pm
de Certeau Room, 155 Literature Building
An associate professor of English at the George Washington University,
Gayle Wald is author of Crossing the Line: Racial Passing in
Twentieth-Century U.S. Literature and Culture (Duke 2000) and
numerous articles about popular music culture. She is currently working
on a project on Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the pre-history of "women in
rock."
Sponsored by the Department of Literature.
Contact: Judith Halberstam
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Jennifer Doyle
Assistant Professor of English, UCR
"White Sex: Vaginal Davis Does Vanessa Beecroft"
Thursday, April 17, 3:00 pm
Visual Arts Performance Space
Jennifer Doyle works on nineteenth-century American art and literature,
and gender and visual culture. Her current project, "Sex Objects," explores
the work of writers and artists who use sex to destabilize the distinction
between art and everyday life (Melville, Thomas Eakins, Andy Warhol, and
contemporary feminist artists like Tracey Emin). She is also developing the
manuscript for "Realism's Touch," a book about American realism and
fantasies of contact. She is co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol (Duke
University Press, 1996), and is the author of an article, "Sex, Scandal, and
Thomas Eakins's Gross Clinics" which was published in the journal
Representations in Fall 1999.
Sponsored by the Department of Literature.
Contact: Judith Halberstam
Colored (Black and White): Filipinos in American
Popular Media, 1896-1907
An exhibit curated by Abe Ignacio, Jr., Jorge Emmanuel, and Helen
Toribio
April 5 – May 31, 2003
Springfield Community Art Gallery
5348 University Avenue, Suite 119
Contact: Jody Blanco |
NEW WRITING SERIES. Spring 2003
Visual Arts Performance Space, 4:30 pm
April 9 -- JEFFERY RENARD ALLEN
Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of Harbors and Spirits, a collection of
poems, and the novel, Rails Under My Back, which won The Chicago Tribune’s
Heartland Prize for Fiction. Other awards include a Whiting Writer’s Award
and the Chicago Public Library’s Twenty-first Century Award. Allen’s work
has appeared in several anthologies, including Role Call: A Generational
Anthology of Black Literature and Art and Bum Rush the Page: A Def Jam
Poetry Anthology. He is Associate Professor of English at Queens College of
The City University of New York.
April 23 -- JULIE EZELLE PATTON
Julie Ezelle Patton’s visual and verbal poetry has been featured in
performance festivals and exhibition spaces in the Americas and abroad. Her
work has appeared in such anthologies as Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican
Poetry Café and Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by
Women. A librettist and vocalist, Patton tours and records with
composer/instrumentalist Uri Caine, and other musical luminaries. Her book
Teething on Type appeared in 1995. A new book, Do Rag, on and on, is
forthcoming from Tender Buttons.
April 30 -- LISA ROBERTSON
A past member of the Kootenay School of Writing, Lisa Robertson lives in
Vancouver, Canada and works as a freelance writer and teacher. She has
published three books of poetry: XEclogue, Debbie: an Epic (which was
nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry), and The Weather.
Writing in The Nation, Eileen Myles describes Lisa Robertson’s text as “a
Virgil who would lead us humming through our mutating atmosphere.” The
Vancouver Sun has called Robertson’s work, “a mysterious, diaphanous,
exquisite suite of poems you can talk about with strangers day in and day
out.” Robertson is currently a visiting lecturer at UCSD.
May 14 -- JEROME ROTHENBERG
Jerome Rothenberg’s most recent book of poems, A Book of Witness, his
twelfth from New Directions, has just been published. He is the author of
over seventy books of poetry and groundbreaking anthologies of experimental
and traditional poetry such as Technicians of the Sacred and Poems for the
Millennium. In 2002 he won his fourth PEN USA award for Antilyrik, his
translation of Czech modernist poet Vitezslav Nezval. Charles Bernstein
writes of him: “The significance of Jerome Rothenberg’s animating spirit
looms larger every year…(He) is the ultimate ‘hyphenated’ poet:
critic-anthropologist-editor-anthologist-performer-teacher-translator, to
each of which he brings an unbridled exuberance and an innovator’s
insistence on transforming a given state of affairs.”
May 20 (a Tuesday) SAMUEL R. DELANY
(This event will be at 8:00pm in 115 Center Hall.)
The New York Times Book Review calls Nebula Award-winning author Samuel R.
Delany “The most interesting writer of science fiction writing in English
today.” His novels include The Mad Man, Babel-17, and Nova, about which
Galaxy Magazine says, “As of this book Samuel R. Delany is the best science
fiction writer in the world.” Aye, and Gomorrah is forthcoming this spring.
Delany is also known for his nonfiction. His Times Square Red/Times Square
Blue is a provocative collection of essays on the gentrification of Times
Square.
May 28 -- THAD ZIOLKOWSKI
Thad Ziolkowski’s most recent book is the memoir On A Wave. Writing in The
New Yorker, William Finnegan calls it “more than an account of a sport
mastered. It’s a sharp, self-conscious portrait of the artist as a young
grommet.” (“Grommet” is slang for novice surfer.) Kirkus Review says “words
come fresh as a daisy from Ziolkowski’s pen…in shorn, unhurried sentences
that bite.” Ziolkowski’s collection of poems, Our Son the Arson, came out in
1996. His essays and reviews have appeared in The Village Voice, Art Forum,
Index, and Travel and Leisure. He currently directs the writing program at
Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Sponsored by the Department of Literature and the University Events
Office.
Contact: Rae Armantrout
LITERATURE OF EL SALVADOR:
FROM CONFLICT TO HOPE
A symposium at SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY and the UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
APRIL 28-29, 2003
Presentations in English: Monday, April 28, 4-7 pm at SDSU Library, Room
2203
Presentations in English & Spanish: Tuesday, April 29, 3-6 pm at UCSD,
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
“The Last Nahual: Salarrué’s Stories of Cuscatlán”
- Ricardo Aguilar, President of the
“Fundación la Casa de Salarrué” in El Salvador
Considered El Salvador’s most notable artist and author, Salarrué gave
visibility to common Salvadorans in collections of short stories titled
Cuentos de barro and Cuentos de cipotes.
“A Little Country in My Hands: Politics and Poetics in El Salvador”
- Dr. Rafael Lara-Martinez,
Salvadoran scholar of Latin American literature at New Mexico Tech
El Salvador’s struggles for justice and human rights are illustrated in
literary works of authors Alfredo Espino, Salarrué, Claudia Lars,
Alberto Masferrer, Manlio Argueta, Roque Dalton, and Mario Bencastro.
“Salarrué in New York: Literature, Love, and Theosophy”
- Dr. Janet N. Gold, scholar of
Central American literature at the University of New Hampshire
Salarrué’s years in New York as the Salvadoran Cultural Affairs Officer
brought intellectual and spiritual growth. His unpublished letters and
manuscripts reveal the challenges of a deeply rural author living in the
urban artists’ world center.
“Liberating Women's Voices in Jacinta Escudos's 'La noche de los
escritores asesinos'”
- Yajaira Padilla, PhD candidate
specializing in Central American Literature, UCSD
Focusing on the role of the woman writer in postwar El Salvador,
Escudos's short story “La noche de los escritores asesinos” critiques
the closing of the spaces opened up during the war years for women's
participation in cultural and political life.
Moderated at SDSU by Dr. Carlos Guillermo Wilson, Professor of
Caribbean and Central American literature.
Moderated at UCSD by Dr. Milos
Kokotovic, Assistant Professor of Latin American literature.
Sponsors:
San Diego State University Library * SDSU-- Research, Scholarship and
Creative Activities Award * Center for Latin American Studies, SDSU *
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature Department, SDSU *
Literature Department, UCSD * Center for Iberian and Latin American
Studies, UCSD * Back from Tomboctou, Latin American arts and crafts,
Adams Avenue, San Diego
Contact: Milos Kokotovic |
If you wish to learn how you can support UCSD's Department of Literature,
please contact:
Lynda Stansbury
Director of Arts & Humanities Development
858-534-1473
The Annual Robert C. Elliott Memorial Lecture
“Precarious Life”
Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative
Literature University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, April 29, 2003, 8:00 pm
Center Hall 115, University Center
Reception and Booksigning To Follow the Lecture
Judith Butler received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in
1984. She is the author of Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and
Death (Columbia University Press, 2000), Hegemony, Contingency,
Universality, with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek, (Verso Press,
2000), Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century
France (Columbia University Press, 1987), Gender Trouble:
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge, 1990), Bodies
That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (Routledge, 1993),
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (Stanford
University Press, 1997), Excitable Speech (Routledge, 1997), as
well as numerous articles and contributions on philosophy, feminist and
queer theory.
Professor Butler’s recent project is a critique of ethical violence and
an effort to formulate a theory of responsibility for a subject who
cannot always know herself. This manuscript works with Kafka, Freud,
Foucault, Adorno, and Levinas. She is also working on a set of essays
engaged with grievable and ungrievable lives, war, politics and the
suspension of civil liberties.
The Elliott Memorial Lecture series was established in the honor of
Robert C. Elliott, a founding member of the Department of Literature,
who died in 1981.
Contact: Michael Davidson |
On April 8th Kenneth Stow will
discuss his paper on the ghetto in Rome: "Discipline and
Counter-Discipline: The Emergence of a Jewish ‘Civil Society’ in the
‘Sacred’ Ghetto Precinct."
The essay addresses the question of "whether Roman Jewry, in the period of
the Ghetto, beginning in 1555 and ending in 1870, was able to establish a
‘civil society.’”
The brown bag seminar will take place in the Galbraith Conference Room
from 12:00 to 1:30 pm.
Kenneth Stow is Professor of Jewish history at the University of Haifa. He
is the author of Theater of Acculturation: The Roman Ghetto in the
Sixteenth Century as well as numerous other publications, including
Alienated Minority: The Jews of Medieval Latin Europe, Catholic Thought and
Papal Jewish Policy, and the two-volume The Jews in Rome. He is
also editor of the journal Jewish History.
Sponsored by the Judaic Studies Program and the Italian Studies program.
Contact: Lisa Lampert
Artists on the Cutting Edge XI: Cross Fertilizations
Performances at 7:30 pm, Sherwood Auditorium
Thursday, April 3
James Luna, Luseño Indian
performance artist
Kartik Seshadri, master of the sitar
Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate
1997-2000
Thursday, April 10
Jeffery Renard Allen, Chicago poet &
novelist
Greg Osby, jazz/hip-hop saxophonist
Jane Hirshfield, Zen poet
Thursday, April 17
Nora Okja Keller, Hawaiian novelist
and columnist
Gary Snyder, renowned Pulitzer
Prize-winning poet
Mississippi Charles Bevel,
multi-media blues artist
Thursday, April 24
Vinx, drummer/singer/songwriter
Diana Garcia, poet, storyteller
Robert Stone, contemporary novelist
Thursday, May 1
Elizabeth Alexander, award-winning
poet/playwright
Michael Ondaatje, Booker
Prize-winning novelist
Bill Saxton, musician, arranger,
composer, teacher
Quincy
Troupe, Artistic Director
Contact: 858-454-3541 or
http://www.mcasd.org |
UCSD 2003 Cesar E. Chavez Celebration
Celebrate, Educate, Serve
In celebration of the life and achievements of Cesar E. Chavez and in
conjunction with the California state holiday in his honor, the University
of California, San Diego will present a month-long series of events during
April, 2003. This diverse calendar is offered to the entire San Diego
community in recognition of Chavez's contributions as a champion of human
rights, a leader in the struggle for working families, and a disciple of the
philosophy of non-violence. Que siga la Causa!
Friday, March 28 * 7:30am
5th Annual Cesar E. Chavez Commemorative Breakfast
San Diego Convention Center * Ballroom
Friday, April 4 * 11:30am
California State Senator Richard Polanco Luncheon
Warren College Amphitheater
Friday, April 11 * 12pm-1:30pm
9/11 and Latina/o Immigrants: Collateral Damage Comes Home
Guest lecturer: Professor Kevin Johnson, UC Davis School of Law
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Friday, April 11 * 4pm
Filipina/o Americans, Agricultural Labor, and the U.S. West
Guest lecturer: Dr. Dorothy Fujita-Rony, UC Irvine
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Saturday, April 12 * 11am-5pm
25th Annual Thurgood Marshall College Cultural Celebration
Thurgood Marshall College
Monday, April 14 * 5:30pm
Teatro Izcalli Sin Verguenza
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Thursday, April 17 * 5pm
Film: Chicano Park
Guest muralist: Salvador Torres
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Saturday, April 19 * all day event
Field Trip to Chicano Park:
Our Youth of Today our Warriors of Tomorrow
Chicano Park
Monday, April 21 * noon
Official Unveiling of the Cesar E. Chavez Commemorative Stamp
Honorary Guest Speakers To Be Announced
UCSD Price Center Plaza
Tuesday, April 22 * 7pm & 10pm
Film: REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES
UCSD Price Center Theater * FREE
Wednesday, April 23 * 7pm
Real Women Have Courage: From San Luis Potosí to Hollywood
Guest speaker: Josefina Lopez
UCSD Price Center Theater
Monday, April 28 * 12pm & 4pm
Source of the River: The Social Origin of Freshmen at America's Selective
Colleges and Universities
Guest lecturer: Professor Camille Charles, University of Pennsylvania
Reception & Dialogue, 12pm * UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Lecture, 4pm * Literature Building Room 155
Wednesday, April 30 * 7pm
Walls of Resistance - Reclaiming la frontera, breaking down barriers
Womyn, Art and Activism Series
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
UCSD Chavez Celebration in collaboration with the Voz Alta Project of San
Diego present
Urban Word Poetry Series
Poetry, Spoken Word, and Performances featuring
Harry Gamboa -- friday, april 4th
Piri Thomas -- friday, april 18th
Marisela Norte -- friday, april 25th
4pm, UCSD Cross-Cultural Center |
The UCSD Cesar E. Chavez Celebration Planning Committee thanks the
following contributors: UCSD Chancellor Robert Dynes, Council of Provosts,
the Helen Edison Lecture Series, Cross-Cultural Center, Early Academic
Outreach Program, Kamalayan, Kaibigang Pilipino, MEChA, Office of Academic
Support and Instructional Support, Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts and Humanities
Program, Thurgood Marshall College Dean's Office, Student Office for Human
Relations, Pan-Asian Staff Association, Chicana(o)/Latina(o) Staff
Association, and the San Diego Cesar Chavez Commemoration Committee. For more information please call (858) 534-9689 or
cccenter@ucsd.edu.
Contact: Jorge Mariscal
May 8-9: Graduate Program Review
Monday, May 8, 5:00 pm: Baja California Poets (in Spanish & English)
Contact: Max Parra
Monday, May 12, 3:00 pm: Donna Haraway
“The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness”
Graduate Students’ Center for the Humanities Lecture
Contact: Jake Mattox
May 14-27: Visiting Professor Joseph Roach
Graduate Seminars: May 16, 20, & 22, 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Public Lecture (date TBD)
Saturday, May 31: Classical Studies Conference
Contact: Anthony Edwards
GASPAR DE PORTOLÀ
CATALONIAN STUDIES PROGRAM
CALL FOR EXCHANGE PROPOSALS
The Autonomous Government of Catalonia and the University of California,
Berkeley are pleased to invite, as part of the Gaspar de Portolà
Catalonian Studies Program agreement, applications from University of
California faculty for scholarly visits to Catalan universities and
research institutes. The purpose of an exchange visit would be to interact
with colleagues in Catalonia and to give lectures about one's own
scholarly work. UC faculty also may wish to be aware of a generous program
that also allows Catalan scholars to be sent to UC, which they can access
through the Office of the Director General for Research of the
Commissioner for Universities and Research, in Barcelona. Complete
information addressed to Catalan faculty (not available in English) on
this program is available through the web:
http://www.gencat.es/dursi. It appears
under "beques i ajuts" (grants).
Applications for visits in the fall should be received in Berkeley no
later than April 15th.
FULBRIGHT SCHOLAR PROGRAM OFFERS GRANTS IN 140 COUNTRIES
The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering lecturing/
research awards in some 140 countries for the 2004-2005 academic year.
Traditional Fulbright awards are available from two months to an academic
year or longer. A new short-term grants program—the Fulbright Senior
Specialists Program— offers two-to-six-week grants in a variety of
disciplines and fields.
While foreign language skills are needed in some countries, most Fulbright
lecturing assignments are in English. Some 80 percent of the awards are
for lecturing.
Application deadlines for 2004-2005 awards are:
May 1, 2003 for Fulbright Distinguished Chair awards in Europe, Canada,
and Russia
August 1, 2003 for Fulbright traditional lecturing and research grants
worldwide
Rolling deadline for Fulbright Senior Specialists Program
For information, contact the Council for International Exchange of
Scholars (CIES) at 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Suite 5L, Washington, DC
20008-3009. Telephone: 202-686-7877.
Information and an online application are also available at
http://www.cies.org. |
Memory, Material, and Meaning
WESTERN HUMANITIES ALLIANCE
22nd Annual Conference
October 16, 17, 18, 2003
University of Utah, Salt Lake City
The Western Humanities Alliance invites proposals for participation in the
22nd Annual Western Humanities Conference on the theme of "Memory,
Material, and Meaning." Paper Abstracts (250 words, max.) must be
postmarked on or before April 22, 2003. Complete panel submissions are
also encouraged.
Please submit proposals to:
WHA Conference Committee, Tanner Humanities Center
University of Utah, 380 S. 1400 E.,
Room 201 C Hall,
Salt Lake City UT 84112
Tel (801) 581-7127 Fax (801) 585-3510
http://www.hum.utah.edu/humcntr/
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