June 2002 News

Patrick J. Ledden

“Education and Social Class in Joyce’s Dublin” which originally appeared in the Journal of Modern Literature XXII (Winter, 1998-99) has been reprinted in Joyce and the Joyceans, ed. Morton P. Levitt. Syracuse University Press, 2002.

Masao Miyoshi

Rosaura Sánchez has been elected to the Executive Committee of the Modern Language Association.

Yi-Li Kao will present her paper on "Reading Modernism in Chinese Poetry and Painting During the 1950s and 1960s in Taiwan" at the Twelfth Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia at Columbia
University, to be held Feb. 7-8, 2003.

On January 22, 2003, Priya Venkatesan delivered a lecture entitled "Orientalism in the Context of the Asian-American Experience" for the Asian-American history course offered by the Department of History (HILD 7B).

NEW WRITING SERIES. Winter 2003
Visual Arts Performance Space, 4:30 pm

February 5: Eileen Myles, who joined the UCSD faculty as Professor of Writing this year, has published twelve books, most recently Cool for You, a novel, and two volumes of poetry: on my way, and Skies. The New York Times describes Myles as “a cult figure to a generation of post-punk females forming their own literary avant-garde.” Myles will read from new work, including her novel in progress, The Inferno.

February 12: Laurie Weeks, a writer who lives in New York, was a contributing writer to the film “Boys Don’t Cry.” Her play about lesbian serial killers, “Young Skulls,” was produced at the Wow Café, NYC, in 2000. Weeks will read from her two forthcoming titles: Zipper-mouth, a novel, and Debbie’s Barium Swallow or I Know I am a Flower, a short fiction collection.

February 18 (Tuesday): Stacy Doris is the author of books in both English and French. Her books of poetry written in English include Conference, Paramour, and Kildare. Of Conference, Publisher’s Weekly has said, “In the (eclectic) tradition of artists from Blake and Ann Radcliffe through Lewis Carroll and Odilion Redon, Doris dives deeply into a world that resembles ours but is infused with a supernal lightness that trembles with immanent violence.”

March 5: Hoa Nguyen and Dale Smith. Hoa Nguyen, born near Saigon, grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC, and studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco. With Dale Smith, she publishes Skanky Possum, a small poetry journal and book imprint. Her first full-length collection of poems, Your Ancient See Through, appeared in 2002.

Dale Smith was born in Garland, Texas in 1967. His American Rambler, a digressive narrative in prose and verse about the peregrinations of the 16th century conquistador Cabeza de Vaca, appeared in 2000. The Flood & The Garden, a daybook, was published in 2002. Smith currently resides in Austin with his wife, the poet Hoa Nguyen.

March 12: Roberto Tejada is an art critic, editor, and poet. From 1987 to 1997 he worked in Mexico City, where he founded the English-Spanish annual Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas. Tejada is the author of two books of poetry: Gift and Verdict and Amulet Anatomy. Dodie Bellamy has said Tejada’s “writing pingpongs from a short, fragmentary, careful line à la Beckett to vast post-apocalyptic caverns of fantasy and Bataillean distress.”

Sponsored by the Department of Literature and the University Events Office.

Contact: Rae Armantrout

UC Education Abroad Program, Faculty Exchange

EAP sponsors faculty exchanges with participating institutions. Applications, which must include an invitation from the foreign host department , a statement of purpose of the proposed visit, and a current CV, are due at the local EAP campus office by March 3, 2003.

For information, contact Ms. María del Carmen Tapia, 805-893-3075.

NEA Literature Fellowships

Through fellowships to published creative writers and translators of exceptional talent in the areas of prose and poetry, the Arts Endowment advances its goal of encouraging and supporting artistic creativity and preserving our diverse cultural heritage by expanding opportunities for artists to create and refine work. This program operates on a two-year cycle with fellowships in prose available one year and fellowships in poetry available the next.

Deadlines for Creative Writing:
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction (FY 2004): March 3, 2003
Poetry (FY 2005): March 1, 2004

Deadlines for Translation Projects:
Prose (FY 2004): February 3, 2003
Poetry (FY 2005): February 2, 2004

February 2003 News