January 2005 News
Michael Davidson
"A Cold War Correspondence: The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise
Levertov." Contemporary Literature (Fall, 2004).
"Bad Modernism: Souvenir," "Bad Modernism: The White City,"
"Anniversary," "Ligatures." [poems] Colorado Review 31.2 (Summer,
2004).
"Vacant Weather." [poem] Jacket 26 (October, 2004).
http://jacketmagazine.com/26/index.html
"Dancing with 'Racial Feet': Bert Williams and the Performance of Blackness." Theatre Journal 56 (December 2004):603-625. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/toc/tj56.4.html
Marcel Hénaff
"Gift Exchange, Play and Deception. " Deception in Markets. An
Economic Analysis. Ed. Caroline Gerschlager. London: Palgrave Mc
Millan, 2004: 323-351.
"Le Passeur. Lévi-Strauss avec Proust et Platon."
Cahiers de L'Herne. Ed. Michel Izard. Paris, 2004: 388- 405.
Bill Mohr
Review of Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy
Era. Ed Estele Gershgoren Novak (Albuquerque: University of New
Mexico Press, 2002). The New Review of Literature 2.1 (October,
2004): 195-200.
"A Covenant of Radiant Thirst." A review of books by Alicia Ostriker,
Doren Robbins, and Gloria Vando. Beyond Baroque Magazine 26.2
(June 2004):50-58.
"Fifteen Summers after the Nightstalker's Rampage." [poem] Beyond
Baroque Magazine 26.2 (June 2004): 95-96.
"Compugraphic 7500," [poem] Pemmican (Fall, 2004). http://www.pemmicanpress.com
Memoir, "Headway," Pemmican (Fall, 2004).
http://www.pemmicanpress.com
New Lecturers & Associates in Literature - Winter 2005
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Maria Bernath - Spanish Section LTSP/177 - Literature and Historical Migrations |
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Vince Biondo - Literatures of the World LTWL/138 - Islam: Origin & Spread as World Religion |
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Yelena Furman - Russian Section LTRU/110B - Russian and Soviet Literature 1860-1917 |
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Samantha Goldstein - Writing Section LTWR/8A - Writing Fiction |
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Weiko Lin - Writing Section LTWR/110 - Screen Writing LTWR/112 - Adapting Literature to the Screen |
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Shawna Overton - Program for the Study of
Religion REL/112 - Holy Book: Judaism, Christianity, Islam |
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Gina Valdes - Spanish Section LTSP/153 - Chicano Poetry |
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Rae Armantrout's latest book, Up to Speed, and Fanny Howe's On the Ground have been selected by Publishers Weekly as two of the five best books of poetry in 2004.
The Archive for New Poetry announces that Michael Davidson has been selected to receive the Archive for New Poetry/ Roy Harvey Pearce Prize. This is the first time a UCSD professor has won the prestigious prize, which is awarded biennially to an American poet-scholar who has made a significant lifetime contribution to American poetry and literary scholarship. The prize is named for UCSD's Archive for New Poetry, a major campus, community, and international resource for the study of post-1945 English-language poetry, and for Professor Emeritus Roy Harvey Pearce, a founding member of UCSD's Department of Literature and the founder of the Archive for New Poetry. Previous recipients are Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, and Rachel Blau Duplessis.
Pearce Prize recipients are
invited to campus to give a reading as well as a lecture on American
literature. Davidson, who was selected by a panel of judges that included
Lyn Hejinian, Roberto Tejada, and Paul Vangelisti, will be presenting his
reading and lecture in the spring at dates and times to be announced.
EXAMS & DEFENSES
PhD Defense
Ruben Murillo - December 9, 2004
"‘Ser o no ser’
Mapping the Rhetoric of Violence, the State, and the Chicano/a Body in
Contemporary Chicano Literature"
Qualifying Exams
Chunlin Li - December 7, 2004
Valentina di Pietro -
December 9, 2004
JANUARY
EVENTS
Jerome Rothenberg Reading
Friday, January 21, 7:00 pm
DG Wills Books, 7461 Girard Avenue,
La Jolla Ca. 92037 (858)456-1800
http://www.dgwillsbooks.com
Acclaimed author
Juan Felipe Herrera will join local
San Diego poets
for an evening of art and politics.
Friday, January 28, 7:00 pm
Memorial Academy Charter School, 2850 Logan Avenue,
San Diego, CA 92113
Open and free to the public.
Sponsored by the
Red Calaca Arts Collective and the UCSD Chicano/a~Latino/a Arts and
Humanities Program (CLAH).
NEW WRITING SERIES –
WINTER
2004
All readings at 4:30 pm in the Visual Arts
Performance Space
Catherine Wagner
and Martin Coreless-Smith
Wednesday, January 26
Catherine Wagner is the author of
Macular Hole and Miss America, both from Fence Books. She edits a
poetry column for Radical Society and lives in Boise, Idaho, where
she teaches at Boise State University and directs the new Center for Poetry and
Politics. Alice Notley has described Wagner’s poetry as “faithful to the scary
parts, and reckless.”
Martin Coreless-Smith is a native of Worcestershire, England. He is the author of Nota (Fence), Complete Travels (West House), and Of Piscator (U. of Georgia Press). He is also a painter. He teaches poetry at Boise State University. Coreless-Smith’s work explores a place where British poetic tradition meets contemporary linguistic innovation.
Thursday, February 10
Jordan Davis is the author of Million Poems Journal (Faux). With Chris
Edgar, he edits The Hat, an annual literary journal; with Sarah Manguso,
he edited Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books. In the
fall of 2004, he began hosting The Million Poems Show, a poetry talk show at the
Bowery Poetry Club.
Monica Youn
Wednesday, February 16
Monica Youn’s first book of poems, Barter, was published by Graywolf in 2003. She’s been awarded a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University, among other honors. She currently lives in Manhattan where she is an entertainment lawyer. Writing in The Constant Critic, Ray McDaniel says Youn’s poems make “a cocktail of politesse and shame, brewing it from her own peculiar napalm.
Lesley Stern
Wednesday, February 23
Lesley Stern is Professor of Visual Arts at UCSD. She writes at the intersection of fiction, memoir, history, and poetry. Her most recent publication, The Smoking Book, has been described as “a sexy and provocative collection of short stories and vignettes…fidgety riffs on smoking, sudden explosions of surprises and epigrammatic density.”
Fanny Howe
Wednesday, March 9
Celebrated poet, novelist, and UCSD literature professor emerita, Fanny Howe, returns to UCSD for this reading. Howe’s most recent books include On the Ground (Graywolf), The Wedding Dress, Gone, and Selected Poems (all from UC Press.) Her poems are incarnations in which spiritual longing and material fate intersect. Of Howe’s Selected Poems, John Ashbery writes, “Fanny Howe’s strangely hushed but busy landscape keeps leading us into it until we realize we’re lost but wouldn’t want to be anywhere else.”
The New Writing Series is sponsored by UCSD's
Department of Literature,
Division of Arts & Humanities, and
Muir
Provost's Humanities Fund.
Contact: Rae Armantrout
COMING
EVENTS
the James K. Binder Lectureship in Literature
presents
Klaus
Scherpe
Professor of Contemporary German Literature
Humboldt University in Berlin
"How German is it, and how American? Ironies of a relationship"
March 1, 2005, 7:30 pm Fung Auditorium, Bioengineering Building
Upcoming Lectures – Details in future newsletters:
March 8, 2005 – Walton Look Lai
April 6, 2005 – Binder Lecture Series: Tzvetan Todorov
April 28, 2005 – Elliott Lecture Series: Amy Kaplan
May 5, 2005 – Emory Elliott
May 24, 2005 - Alumni Lecture Series: Frances Smith Foster
For details and the latest updates, see:
Current Events on the Literature website at
http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents or
Literature Events Calendar at
http://literature.ucsd.edu/calendar
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here.
Western Humanities Alliance
24th Annual Conference
October 20-22, 2005
University of Arizona
Call for Papers due February 15, 2005
UCHRI Summer Seminar in Experimental Critical
Theory, "Present Tense Empires, Race, Bio-Politics,"
August 16-25, 2005
Applications are open to faculty, graduate students, other scholars, professionals, and public intellectuals. Up to 10 scholarships available for full-time registered students. Instructors: Ien Ang, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lisa Lowe, Achille Mbembe.