October 2003 News
Alain
J.-J. Cohen
Rosemary Marangoly George
Marcel Hénaff
Yi-li Kao
Sara
Johnson
Lisa
Lowe Jordana
Rosenberg
Donald Wesling Wai-lim
Yip
Yingjin Zhang
Sara Johnson
Frances Gotkowitz, 1957-2003
Jennifer Dyer
Cornelissen, Lecturer Renee Gladman, Lecturer Ali Liebegott, Lecturer Anna Joy Springer, Lecturer Laurie Weeks, Lecturer
Karen Tongston has been selected as a President's Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2003-2004 academic year. Professor Judith Halberstam will be her mentor.
Burckhardt Prize Winners Winners of the Burckhardt Prize, announced by Professor Emeritus Andrew Wright at the Honors Reception held June 10, 2003, were as follows: Taylor Rhodes Lowe: "Natural Selection or Selection of 'Natural': The Operation and Perpetuation of Natural Discourses Within Jane Austen's Novels and National Park" Tristan Wand: "Meanwhile at the Stank Bank" and "Don't Pay Us -- We'll Pay You" Distinguished guests were emeriti professors Andrew Wright, attending with his wife Gina; Roy Harvey Pearce; and Leonard Newmark, also with his wife. Professors Wright, Pearce, and Newmark, along with the late Professor Sigurd Burckhardt, were the founding members of UCSD's Department of Literature in the early 1960s. Clarissa Cló has accepted a three-year appointment as a lecturer in Italian in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Omayra Cruz has been appointed to the position of Lecturer in American Thought and Culture in the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham (UK). It is a permanent full-time position comparable to an assistant professorship. The position begins on September 1, 2003. Amie Filkow will be presenting a paper at the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Conference in Newport Beach, CA, October 23-26. Her paper is entitled "Creative Destruction: Francis Bacon and State-Sponsored Invention." Erin Gayton presented a paper entitled "'Love and bread and butter': Fanny Fern and the Literary Wife" at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers International Conference, held in Ft. Worth, TX, September 24-27. Michael Grattan will be presenting a paper on October 25th at a conference in Newport Beach for the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies. The paper is entitled "Teaching Revolution: Pedagogy and Political Discourse in the Late Sixteenth Century." He will also be chairing the panel on Early Modern Pedagogy and Authority. Leslie Hammer presented a paper entitled "Desiring Economic Independence: Remodeling the 'Home Office' in Hannah Lee's Elinor Fulton " at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers International Conference in Ft. Worth, TX, September 24-27. In June, Su Yun Kim was awarded by the Joseph Naiman Fellowship of Japanese Studies Program. Susan Kirkpatrick has been named Acting Provost of John Muir College through winter term while Provost Pat Ledden is on leave. Ruben R. Murillo was awarded a Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Summer 2003 Dissertation Research Fellowship in Ethnic Studies and/or Chicana/Latino Studies. Tania Triana has been selected for the 2003-2004 President's Dissertation Year Fellowship. Ariel Tumbaga has been awarded a Rae K. Hepps Fellowship. Rita Urquijo-Ruiz has been awarded a UCMexus Dissertation Research Fellowship. Yingjin Zhang has accepted one of the six Fulbright China Research Fellowships in 2003-2004 and will start a project on modern Chinese literary historiography.
EXAMS & DEFENSES Roberto
Strongman - June 10, 2003 Demian
Pritchard - June 11, 2003 Kathy
Glass - September 16, 2003
Master's degrees: Literatures in English Soo-Yeon
Choi -
June 9, 2003
Sharna Langlais -
June 10, 2003
Qualifying Exams: Jennifer
Diamond - June 11 Mata Gonzales - June 12 Heidi
Hoechst - June 4 Jinah
Kim - June 11 Jake
Mattox - June 12 Gabriela
Nunez - June 9
Contemporary China Reflected in Underground Films: For the full festival schedule, go to http://cuff.ucsd.edu.
All films to be screened at the
Price Center Theater. 7:00 PM 夜上海 / Shanghai Dreams (Documentary film by Chen Miao, 2001, 70 minutes)
任消遙 / Unknown Pleasures (Fictional film by Jia Zhangke,
2003, 110 minutes). October 9, (Thursday), 2003 1:00 PM 舊約 / Old Testament (Fictional film by Cui Zi’en, 2001, 90 minutes) Warning: Sexual content and nudity. Viewer discretion advised.
盒子 / Box (Documentary film by Ying Weiwei, 2001, 90
minutes) Warning: Nudity. Viewer discretion advised. 6:30 PM 今年夏天 / Fish and Elephant (Fictional film by Li Yu, 2000, 90 minutes) Warning: Nudity, sexual content. Viewer discretion advised. 上海男孩 / Snake Boy / (Documentary film by Chen Miao, 2002, 60 minutes) October 10, (Friday),
2003 6:30 PM
哭泣的女人
/ Crying Woman (Fictional film by Liu Bingjian, 2002, 90 minutes)
Warning: Contact: Yingjin Zhang (yinzhang@ucsd.edu)
NEW WRITING SERIES, Fall 2003 October 8 MAGGIE NELSON and HUNG TU – Visual Arts Performance Space
Maggie Nelson is the author of two
poetry collections, Shiner and The Latest Winter. Her poems
have appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including The Best
American Poetry of 2002. She is founding editor of Fort Necessity, a
small literary magazine, and is currently running the Monday Night Reading
Series at The Poetry Project in NYC. She teaches writing courses at Pratt
Institute and the New School MFA Program. October 15 JESSICA HAGEDORN – Cross-Cultural Center Jessica Hagedorn is an acclaimed novelist, playwright and poet whose debut novel, The Dogeaters, was nominated for a National Book Award. Her play “Dogeaters” had its premier at the La Jolla Playhouse in 1998. Born and raised the Philippines, she moved to the United States in her teens. Hagedorn’s other books include Dangerous Music and Dream Jungle. October 22 RENEE GLADMAN and ANNA JOY SPRINGER – Visual Arts Performance Space Renee Gladman is the author of The Activist and Juice, which Publishers Weekly has called “an agreeably personal and expansively philosophical collection of four fictional prose poems.” She has edited the Leroy Chapbook Series and has recently launched Leon Works, a perfect-bound press for experimental prose. Anna Joy Springer is a queer, cross-genre writer and artist from Merced, California. Her most recent work is accessible on-line at Blithe House Quarterly and in the journals Nerve Lantern and Avoid Strange Men. October 29 JACKSON MAC LOW and ANNE TARDOS – Visual Arts Performance Space Jackson Mac Low makes poems, essays, performance, and radio works. Author of about 30 books and published in over 90 collections, Mac Low has performed (often with poet, visual artist, and composer Anne Tardos) in many countries. Mac Low’s awards include the Guggenheim, the NEA and CAPS Fellowships, and the 1999 Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets. His most recent book is Doings: An Assortment of Performance Pieces 1955-2002. Anne Tardos is a poet, visual artist, and composer. She is the author of the multilingual performance work Among Men, which was produced by West German Radio in Cologne. Her visual texts have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Her most recent book of multilingual poems and graphics is The Dik-dik’s Solitude. November 5 TREVOR JOYCE – Visual Arts Performance Space Irish poet and scholar Trevor Joyce is a man of diverse accomplishments. Having read Philosophy and English at University College Dublin, he moved to Cork where he studied mathematics. Joyce has worked as a systems analyst and lectured on classical Chinese poetry. He has published 9 volumes of poetry, including The Poems of Sweeny Peregrine and stone floods, which was nominated for the Irish Times Literary Prize. Appointed a Fulbright Scholar for 2002-2003, Joyce is researching specific overlaps in science, history, and poetry. November 12 LYNNE TILLMAN – deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building Lynne Tillman’s novels include Motion Sickness, Cast In Doubt, and No Lease on Life (a National Book Critics Circle Finalist, 1998). Her recent short story collection, This Is Not It, was voted one of the best books of 2002 by The Village Voice. Tillman’s fiction was chosen for the 1995 Whitney Biennial catalogue, along with the poetry of John Ashbery, to represent U.S. writing. Contact: Rae Armantrout (rarmantrout@ucsd.edu) "What you need to know about next week's recall election" - A teach-in for staff, students, and faculty Thursday, October 2 Scheduled speakers: Sponsored by the UCSD Chicano/Latino Concilio and the Cross Cultural Center. Contact person: Jorge Mariscal Bram Dijkstra
"The Jews and the Blacks in the Thirties" UCSD Open House 2003 will take place on Saturday, October 25, from 8 am – 1 pm. The theme this year, in keeping with the 100th anniversary of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is "Oceans of Fun."
Distinguished Alumni
Lecture June Howard (Ph.D. in English, 1979) has been invited to deliver the department's Distinguished Alumni Lecture at 4:00 pm on Thursday, November 13. She is currently Professor of English, American Culture, and Women's Studies, and Associate Dean, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, at the University of Michigan. Professor Howard's primary interests are in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century U.S. literature and culture, cultural theory, women’s studies, and American studies. Her publications include Publishing the Family (Duke University Press, 2001); “What is Sentimentality?” American Literary History (Spring, 1999); and Form and History in American Literary Naturalism (University of North Carolina Press, 1985). She also edited and introduced New Essays on Sarah Orne Jewett’s Country of the Pointed Firs (1994).
Irreconcilable Differences? Symposium on Early Modern Women The Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland is sponsoring a symposium entitled "Attending to Early Modern Women: Structures and Subjectivities" on November 6-8, 2003. The Persistence of
Form:
29th Annual Conference on Literature and Film
SECRETS AND LIES
2004 German Studies
Conference at Stanford University Proposal due date: November 1, 2003. 2003 Modern Language Association Convention Scheduled December 27-30 in San Diego, the 119th annual MLA convention will be headquartered at the Manchester Grand Hyatt (English) and the San Diego Marriott (foreign languages), with both English and foreign language sessions at the Convention Center. Deadline for registration and housing is December 1. For details, please go to http://www.mla.org.
Academic
Senate Committee on Research Please remember only one trip per fiscal year for any Senate member will be awarded. UCSD's fiscal year begins July 1 and ends June 30. Academic Senate research and travel grant support are updated on a continuous basis at http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/cor.htm. APPLICATION FORMS are available at http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/cor/applications/corapps.htm. UC President’s Research Fellowships in the Humanities Academic Senate members doing research in the humanities are invited to apply for the President’s Research Fellowships in the Humanities. Assistant professors are encouraged to apply. Interactive application materials are available at http://www.ucop.edu/research/prfh. Applications must be received by October 13, 2003. UC Humanities Research Institute, 2004-05 Conference Grants are designed to foster an intellectual community among University of California scholars from a range of campuses and disciplines. Grants range from $5,000 to $15,000 and require at least 50% matching funds from the applicant's home campus or other sources. Seminar Grants are intended to be more focused in content and smaller in scale—generally focusing on a research problem within a discipline, though inter-disciplinary discussions on a seminar scale are also appropriate. Grants range from $3,000 to $5,000, and require at least 50% matched funds. For information and application forms, please see the UCHRI website at www.hri.uci.edu. Proposals must be received by October 15, 2003. National Humanities Center Fellowships Fellowships of up to $50,000 are available. Younger scholars are encouraged to apply, but they should be engaged in research other than the revision of a doctoral dissertation. Deadline: October 15, 2003. Stanford Humanities Center Fellowships External fellowships offer faculty research opportunities to members of humanities departments and to other scholars interested in humanistic issues. Applicants must be three years beyond receipt of their Ph.D. at the time the award begins. For information, see http://shc.stanford.edu Deadline: October 15, 2003 American Antiquarian Society Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowships Scholars
who are no more than three years beyond receipt of the doctorate
are invited to apply. Any topic relevant to the
Society's library collections--American history and culture through
1876--is eligible. Deadline: October 15, 2003 Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities Post-doctoral fellowships are available for those who received the Ph.D. between January 1, 1998 and July 1, 2004. For details, go to http://www.columbia.edu/cu/societyoffellows Deadline: October 15, 2003 Getty Research Institute Grants for Getty Scholars and Visiting Scholars The institute’s theme for 2004-05 is "Duration." Applications are welcome from scholars whose projects are related to this theme. Library grants, guest scholar grants, and nonresidential grants, including postdoctoral fellowships, are also available. For further information, go to http://www.getty.edu/grants/research/scholars/scholars.html. Deadline: November 1, 2003. Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grants in Women's Studies These grants encourage original research that crosses disciplinary, regional, or cultural boundaries. See http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies/. Deadline: November 3, 2003 National Endowment for the Humanities Grants Projects must involve a minimum of two scholars or be large enough to require additional staff and resources. For details, go to http://www.neh.gov. Deadline: November 3 American
Association of University Women Women may apply for Postdoctoral Research Leave Fellowships, Dissertation Fellowships, and Summer/Short-Term Research Publication Grants. See http://www.aauw.org/fga/fellowships_grants. Deadline: November 15, 2003 Princeton University Institute for Advanced Studies – The School of Social Science Senior and junior scholars are invited to apply to become Visiting Members. The theme for 2004-2005 is Interdisciplinarity and Its Objects. A completed doctorate or equivalent is required of all applicants. Deadline: November 15, 2003 UCSD Libraries offer Melvyl Catalog Training The Melvyl Catalog, your online gateway to books, journals, and other materials owned by University of California libraries, has a new look and improved searching capabilities. To familiarize the UCSD community with this new and improved catalog, the UCSD Libraries will offer Melvyl training sessions every week throughout October. |