June 2002 News

NEW PUBLICATIONS

Rae Armantrout
“Range,” “The Book,” “Crossing,” “The Known,” “Turn of Events,” “Birthmark: The Pretext,” “Here,” “Theories,” “As We’re Told,” and “Veil” [ poems]. Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California. Vol. 5 of The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century. Ed. Douglas Messerli. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005. 66-81.

Stephen Cox
“Representing Isabel Paterson.” American Literary History 17 (Summer 2005): 244-58.

“Wanderings in the Quest” [retrospective on Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology]. Liberty 19 (May 2005): 48-53.

“The Literary Achievement of The Fountainhead.” The Literary Art of Ayn Rand. Ed. William Thomas. Poughkeepsie: Objectivist Center, 2005. 39-53.

Michael Davidson
"The Waking," "Concrete Example," "The Philosophy of Composition," "Paranoia, The Doppelganger of Hemophilia," "Post Hoc," "Hypothesis," "Gentrification," and "Translation" [poems]. Intersections: Innovative Poetry in Southern California. Vol. 5 of The PIP Anthology of World Poetry of the 20th Century. Ed. Douglas Messerli. Los Angeles: Green Integer, 2005.

Marcel Hénaff
"La dette." Lexique de l'actuel. Vol.I. Ed. Pierre-Marc de Bias. Paris: Calmann-Levy, 2005. 147-158.

Misha Kokotovic
The Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative: Social Conflict and Transculturation. Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press, 2005.

Jeyseon Lee & Kangjin Lee
Beginner's Korean. New York: Hippocrene Books, 2005.

Lisa Lowe
"On Edward Said." Amerasia Journal 31,1 (2005): 48-51.

Chloe Rutter
Ed. Pasarela paralela: escenarios de la estética y el poder en los reinados de belleza. Bogotá: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2005. http://www.lalibreriadelau.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/650?
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Donald Wesling
"Emotion Deriving from Sequence in William Carlos Williams's 'Spring and All.'" William Carlos Williams Review 24,2 (Fall 2004): 41-47.

Wai-lim Yip
"Cross-fertilization: Tensional Dialogues in Chinese-American Literature." Forum for Chinese Literature of the World, No 4. Jiansu: Academy of Social Sciences, 2004.

"Quest." Poetry Section, in a CD for Hong Kong Literature Appreciation [set of three]. Ed. Tsui Yingying. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.

"Six Poems." Modern Poetry II: Reader for the Citizens of Taiwan. Ed Lin Ruiming. Taipei: Yushan Press, 2005.

"When Lakes and Mountains Quietly Speak" [lyrical prose]. Liberty Times [Taipei], April 14, 2005: Literary Page.

Yingjin Zhang published one new article in Chinese:
“Theorizing Early Cinema: Collective Sensorium and Vernacular Modernism.” Contemporary Cinema [Beijing] (2005), no. 1.

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Neda Atanasoski has been offered a Faculty Fellowship at UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Film Studies under the mentorship of Professor Lisa Parks.

Page duBois has just been named next year's Academic Senate Faculty Research Lecturer. Only two faculty members are granted this distinguished award annually – one in Arts/Humanities/
Social Sciences, and one in Natural/Medical Sciences – chosen from "a group of highly meritorious candidates." Professor duBois will present the Faculty Research Lecture next spring.

Leslie Hammer's essay “Fighting like a ‘Lady’ for Native Hawaiian Sovereignty: US Sentimental Culture and Queen Lili‘uokalani’s Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen” won the 2004-2005 UCSD George Haydu Essay Prize for the Study of Culture, Behavior, and Human Values.

Fanny Howe has been awarded a 2005 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for her project on essays on the relationship between conversion and rhetoric.

Sara Johnson has been awarded a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2005-2006 academic year. She will be affiliated with the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of California, Riverside.

Hellen Lee will deliver a talk entitled "Working Women and Racial Politics in San Francisco in the Late 19th Century" on May 19, 2005 at the UC Berkeley Faculty Club. This is the last in a series of four Spring Round Tables featuring the insights and discoveries of gifted young scholars working at the Bancroft Library.

Laura Manzo was just named to a position in Spanish at Modesto Jr. College, starting in August. Laura earned her M.A. here last June.

Harleen Singh has accepted a position as a tenure-track assistant professor in South Asian Literature and Women's Studies in the Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literature, and in their Women's Studies Program at Brandeis University, effective fall 2005. She spent 2003-2005 as a Mellon Fellow of Gender and Postcolonial Studies in the Department of Romance and Comparative Literature and in the Women's Studies Program at Brandeis prior to being offered the tenure-track position.

Ariel Tumbaga has been accepted to the PhD program at UCLA. The Spanish and Portuguese Department offered Ariel a year-long fellowship.

Priya Venkatesan has received a 2-3 year postdoctoral fellowship appointment in the Department of Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School. She will be conducting research on chromatin structure and continue working on the intersection between literature/literary theory and science.

EXAMS & DEFENSES

Qualifying Exams

Emily Kugler - April 27, 2005 (also received an MA in Literatures in English)

Raymond Salcedo - April 1, 2005 (also received an MA in Literatures in English)

May 2005 News