January 2006 News
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Roddey Reid
Globalizing Tobacco Control: Anti-smoking Campaigns in California,
France, and Japan. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, December 2005.
(296 pages, 20 b&w photos)
Marta Sánchez
“Shakin’ Up” Race and Gender: Intercultural Connections in Puerto Rican,
African American, and Chicano Narratives and Culture (1965–1995).
Austin: University of Texas Press, January 2006. (224 pages, 3 line
drawings)
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exsansha.html
Pasquale
Verdicchio
Trans. The Southern Question. By Antonio Gramsci. 2nd
Ed. Toronto: Guerica Editions, 2005.
Lisa Yoneyama
( two articles in English)
“Liberation under Siege: U.S. Military Occupation and Japanese Women’s
Enfranchisement.” American Quarterly 57.3 (September 2005): 885-910.
“On the Unredressability of U.S. War Crimes: Vietnam and
Japan.” Amerasia Journal 31.2
(2005):140-44.
Yingjin Zhang
published a research article in Chinese:
“Literary Theory and Cultural Studies: Recent Trends in American Comparative
Literature.” Comparative Literature in China [Shanghai], 2005, no. 3:
125-39.
NEW LECTURERS
Babette Babich (Visiting Professor) - Literatures of the World
LTWL 176 – Literature and Ideas
Kimberly
Boys - Spanish Section
LTAM 110 – Latin American Literature in Translation:
Fantastic Literature
Diane
D’Andrade
- Writing Section
LTWR 107 – Writing for Children
Harriet Dodge - Writing
Section
LTWR 110 – Screen Writing
Jean-Louis Morhange -
French Section
LTFR 60A – French for Reading and Knowledge I
Halle Shilling - Writing
Section
LTWR 8C – Writing Non-Fiction
Richard Taylor - Cultural
Studies
LTCS 150 – Topics in Cultural Studies: War
Representation and Censorship in American Media,
1939-Present
Cecilia Ubilla - Spanish
Section
LTSP 174 – Topics in Culture and Politics: History, Art,
Literature and Ideology
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
has received a 2006 Literature Fellowship
from the National Endowment for the Arts. Open to "published
creative writers of exceptional talent," this major award
goes to prose fiction writers and poetry
writers in alternate years. Those honored with this year's
prose fiction prize will also receive a cash award of
$20,000.
http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/06grants/Lit.html
Iris Ruiz
will be presenting a paper at
the Conference on College Composition and Communications (4
Cs) in March. She has been awarded the Scholars for the
Dream Award given to first time presenters. The title of her
paper is: "Border Pedagogy or Contact Zone?"
TA Excellence Awards
Literature
Department
Gabriela Nuñez
Muir College Writing
Program
Lillian Atteridge
Margaret Fajardo
Melissa Hidalgo
Isa Murdock
David Najar
Ray Salcedo
Elizabeth Steeby
Karen Stuart
Making of the Modern
World
Leslie Hammer
Laura Pierson
EXAMS & DEFENSES
PhD defense:
Stephen Cope
– December 16, 2005
"The Poetics of Veracity: Collected Prose and Selected Papers of George
Oppen" (Edited and Annotated with an Introduction and Afterward by Stephen
Cope)
Qualifying Exams:
Marla Fuentes
– December 8, 2005. MA in Literatures in English.
Axel Montepeque – December 7, 2005. MA
in Spanish Literature.
Caitlin Yamamoto - December 8, 2005. MA
in Literatures in English.
Tuesday,
January 31 - 2:00-3:30 pm Ken Wissoker, who has been the
Editor-in-Chief at Duke University Press for a decade, will discuss
the practicalities of finding a publisher and what to expect in the
process. He will also consider issues such as how to think about
one's manuscript or project as a book; how to shape the book so it
will reach the widest audience; how a dissertation differs from a
book manuscript and how to get from one to the other; and the
different challenges of subsequent books. Additionally, he will
discuss the fast-changing publishing landscape and the situation of
scholarly publishing today and what that requires of us as scholars
and authors. This event is cosponsored by
the Departments of Communication and Literature.
"Smart
Publishing Decisions at a Challenging Time"
Ken Wissoker
Editor-in Chief
Duke University Press
http://www.dukeupress.edu
201 MCC (Communication)
Contact:
Lisa Lowe
New Writing Series
Winter 2006
Wed Jan 25
CLAUDIA RANKINE
Visual Arts Performance Space, 4:30 pm
Winner of an Academy of American Poets fellowship, Claudia Rankine is acclaimed for her poetry, a unique blend of essay, lyric and TV imagery.
Wed Feb 1
SUSAN WHEELER
Visual Arts Performance Space, 4:30 pm
Susan Wheeler, an award-winning poet, also has also written a novel. Toni Morrison has praised her work as "irresistible," and John Ashbery calls it "a treasure."
(Photo credit: Jonathan Furmanski)
Wed Feb 8
BRUCE BENDERSON
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building, 4:30 pm
Writer and translator Bruce Benderson recently became the first American to win the prestigious French literary prize, the Prix de Flore, for his memoir about erotic adventures in Rumania.
Thurs Feb 18
TOM RAWORTH
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building, 4:30 pm
British poet Tom Raworth, author of more than forty books, has been
Resident Poet at King's College, Cambridge, and has taught at several
universities, including the University of Cape Town and UCSD.
(Photo credit: Caroline Forbes)
Wed Feb 22
SHAHMUSH PARSIPUR
Visual Arts Performance Space, 4:30 pm
Shahrnush Parsipur was arrested several times for expressing her feminist views in Iran and imprisoned twice. She now continues her provocative writing as a political refugee in the US
THESE READINGS ARE SPONSORED BY THE DIVISION OF ARTS
AND HUMANITIES,
THE MANDEVILLE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY, THE DEPARTMENT OF
LITERATURE,
AND THE MUIR PROVOST’S HUMANITIES FUND.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
For details, go to the New Writing Series website: http://literature.ucsd.edu/news/currentevents/writingseries.html
The UCSD Center for the Humanities and Eleanor Roosevelt College present:
MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD |
WINTER 2006
a "short version" of the college's world civilization sequence
All lectures will be held at 7:00pm
in the Great Hall, UCSD Eleanor Roosevelt College
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
"The Idea of Tradition in Chinese Religion"
David K. Jordan, UCSD Professor
Emeritus of Anthropology
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
"Exodus: Myth or History?"
Shawna
Dolansky Overton, UCSD Lecturer in Religious Studies
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
"A City on a Hill (in the desert): Models of Christian Community
from Constantine to George Bush" Matthew
Herbst, UCSD Lecturer, Making of the Modern World
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
"The Medieval Church as Congregation and State"
Stanley
Chodorow, UCSD Professor Emeritus of
History and former Dean of Arts and Humanities
"Tracing cultural influence through language: English words with Arabic roots"
Janet Smarr, UCSD Professor of Theatre and Italian Studies
Wednesday, February 1 - 3:00 pm
Monica Szurmuk
Contact:
Jaime Concha
Thursday, February 9 - 7:00 pm
Spoken Word at the Museum: "Posts Respond to the Permanent
Collection"
featuring David Antin and Eileen Myles
Contact:
Rae Armantrout
The UCSD Center for the Humanities offers a number of competitive grants and fellowships for faculty and graduate students. Deadline: January 30, 2006. Graduate student proposals are due to Ana Minvielle by January 24, 2006.
The Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UC San Diego is pleased to announce a competition for the following grant programs:
2006-07 Research Conference Grants
2006-07 Faculty Research Planning / Travel Grants
2006-07 Graduate Travel Grants
2006-07 Undergraduate Travel Grants
For general information, see http://iicas.ucsd.edu/research/grants/iicas_grants.php.
The next deadline for Academic Senate travel grants is 2:00 pm on January 13.
http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/cor/calls/gctravel.htm
Proposals must be submitted to a campus committee before going to the Office of the President. The UCSD campus deadline is January 17, 2006.
http://www.ucop.edu/research/pacrim/
UC MEXUS
The 2006 UC MEXUS
call for proposals is available now. The deadline
for faculty and dissertation grants is March 27,
2006. Small grant deadlines are February 6, June
5, and October 2, 2006. UCMEXUS-CONACYT grant
deadlines are April 3, 2006.
For full details, please see
http://www.ucmexus.ucr.edu/