March 2005 News
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Alain J.-J. Cohen
‘Three Dangerous Liaisons. Letter LXXXI filmed by Vadim, Forman, Frears.’
IRIS. A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound. «Film Adaptation:
Methodological Questions, Æsthetic Questions» 30 (2004): 55-71.
Michael Davidson
"Robert Duncan: A Metaphysical Quotient." Jacket 26 (Oct. 2004).
Roddey Reid
"Tensions within California Tobacco Control: Health Movements, State
Initiatives, and Community Mobilization." Science as Culture 13.
4 (2004): 516-37.
Wai-lim Yip
"Debunking claims of Xin, Da, and Ya: The Afterlife of Translations."
Twentieth-Century Chinese Translation Theory: modes, issues and debates.
Ed. Leo Tak-hung Chan. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing
Company, 2004.
NEW TO THE DEPARTMENT LIBRARY
“Reflejos poéticos entre España y China. Jorge Guillén y Wai-Lim Yip.” Recopilación, introducción y commentarios de Javier Yagűe Bosch. Boletín de la funcación Federico García Lorca 32 (Dic 2002): 57-119.
When Spanish poet Jorge Guillén visited UCSD for a month-long appointment as a visiting professor in spring 1968, he and Professor Wai-lim Yip developed a friendship that led to a cultural exchange in their work. Javier Yagűe Bosch translates Yip’s recollections of his initial conversations with Guillén, traces the subsequent development of Guillén’s interest in Chinese poets and aesthetics, and translates a selection of Yip’s poems set in the Spanish poet’s homeland.
Among the selections of Guillén’s poetry are his
“Versión de un Nombre Propio,” which he dedicated to Yip, and his
translation of a 1972 Yip poem, which he entitled “Paisajes castellanos.”
In addition to a number of poems set in Spain, the selected Yip poems
include “Carta a Jorge Guillén,” (1968), “Para Jorge Guillén,” (1978),
and “Una Voz, Trémula Pero Firme...” (1986), written in commemoration of
Guillén’s death.
Esther Lezra has been awarded the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship under the mentorship of George Lipsitz at UC Santa Cruz.
Yajaira Padilla has accepted a tenure track position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Spanish at the University of Kansas.
EXAMS & DEFENSES
MA Defense
Maria Howell – February 3, 2005
Qualifying Exam
Leslie Hammer- February 8, 2005
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? Ironic Replays in Literature"
March 1, 2005, 7:30 pm Fung Auditorium, Bioengineering Building
sponsor:
Department of Literature
contact:
Todd Kontje
http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents
"Dynamic: The Black Experience in America"
Book
discussions led by
Camille Forbes
Wednesday, March 2, 6:30 pm
Blues for Mister Charlie by James
Baldwin
San Diego Public Library, Central Branch, 820 E Street
http://www.sandiego.gov/public-library
Walton Look Lai
The University of the West
Indies, St. Augustine
"The Other Asian America: Labor Migration to the Caribbean Region after 1838"
Tuesday, March 8, 4:00 pm
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
sponsors: Departments of
Literature,
History, & Ethnic
Studies
contact: Lisa
Lowe
for details:
http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents
NEW WRITING SERIES –
WINTER
2005
All readings at 4:30 pm in the Visual Arts
Performance Space
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
SYRIA: BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE
A Film by Saul Landau, Sonia Angulo and Farrah Hassan
Post-Screening Discussion with Filmmaker Saul
Landau
WED. March 16, 2005 @ 3 p.m. UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Contact person: Jorge Mariscal
Details: http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents
"Rent Girl”
a reading with Michelle Tea
and a slide show by Lauren McCubben
from
their graphic novel Rent Girl
which came out this past fall from Last Gasp
Thurs. March 17 at 7PM in the DeCerteau Room
PLUS SPECIAL ADDED ATTRACTION!!!!
UCSD Writing faculty member
Ali Liebegott will give a short
cameo reading from her just published epic poem, The Beautifully Worthless.
sponsor:
Department of Literature
contact:
Eileen
Myles
details:
http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents
“The Practice of Dreams”
works by
Pasquale Verdicchio, Lynn Susholtz,
and Andrea Singer
Art Produce Gallery, 3139
University Avenue
through March 12
March 21: Opening night of DESSA ROSE
Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
Based on the acclaimed novel by Sherley Anne Williams, the show tells the story of a pregnant runaway slave and the woman who shelters her. It's a powerful tale of courage, brutality, redemption, and friendship.
Music By Stephen Flaherty Book & Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens Direction and Choreography by Graciela Daniele
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
150 West 65th Street New York, NY 10023
Tickets: 212-239-6200 or 800-432-7250
The Old Globe is presenting Himself and Nora, a world-premiere musical about the relationship between James Joyce and Nora Barnacle. By Jonathan Brielle (composer and co-lyricist) and Sheila Walsh (author and co-lyricist). Directed by Globe Associate Artist Joseph Hardy and Jeff Calhoun.
Upcoming Lectures – Details in future newsletters:
April 6, 2005 – Binder Lecture Series: Tzvetan Todorov
April 27, 2005 - Edith Wenzel
April 28, 2005 – Elliott Lecture Series: Amy Kaplan
May 5, 2005 – Emory Elliott
May 16, 2006 - Anne duCille
May 24, 2005 - Alumni Lecture Series: Frances Smith Foster