NEW PUBLICATIONS
Michael
Davidson
“The Dream of a Public Language: Modernity,
Manifesto, and the Citizen Subject.” Cross Cultural Poetics 17
(March, 2007).
“Reading Lines Forum.” Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies 8/9
(Spring & Fall, 2006).
Shih-szu Hsu published an English article in a Taiwanese on-line
academic journal:
“Queer Spatial Lessons in Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together.” Cultural
Studies Monthly 64 (January 2007).
http://www.ncu.edu.tw/~csa/journal/64/journal_64.htm
Katie Sciurba [Literatures of The World graduate - 2001] is pleased to announce the publication of her first children's picture book, Oye, Celia!: A Song for Celia Cruz. The book, due for an April 17 release, is available now at amazon.com.
Wai-limi Yip
"Modernism and the Rise of Modernist poetry in Hong Kong." Conference
Papers of the 6th Hong Literature Festival. Hong Kong: Hong Kong
Arts Development Council, 2006.
NEW LECTURERS
Marivi Blanco – LTWR 107 – Writing for Children
Annick Gentet –
LTFR 116 – Themes in Intellectual and Literary History
Michael Grattan – LTEN 119 – Milton
Stanya Kahn
–
LTWR 100 – Short Fiction
Stephen Paul
Martin –
LTWR 100 – Short Fiction
James Meetze –
LTWR 115 – Experimental Writing
Rex Pickett –
LTWR – Screen Writing
Santiago Rubio-Fernaz –
LTWL 019C – Intro to the Ancient Greeks and Romans
Patricia Santana –
LTWR 113 – Intercultural Writing
Rikke Sommer –
LTFR 2C – Intermediate French III
NEW VISITING SCHOLAR: Alain Loute – sponsored by
Marcel
Hénaff
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
UCSD Center for
the Humanities Awards
“Transborder Interventions, Transcontinental Archives" Awards
Graduate student fellowships
Aimee Bahng, Junghyun Hwang,
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev
Faculty Fellowships
Sara Johnson,
Shelley Streeby,
Oumelbanine Zhiri
Collaborative research projects/conferences/guest lectures
John Blanco,
Jin-kyung Lee,
Roddey Reid,
Oumelbanine Zhiri
Graduate student dissertation fellowships
Neel Ahuja, Chunhui Peng,
Alexa Weik
Graduate student conference/travel grants
Scott Boehm,
Angie Chau,
Elizabeth Findlay,
Marla Fuentes,
Melissa Hidalgo,
Ana Grinberg-Vandersip,
Shih-szu Hsu,
Su Yun Kim,
Dixa Ramirez,
Kyla Schuller,
Elizabeth Steeby,
Alvin Ka Hin Wong
Scott Boehm presented a paper entitled "The Spy Inside:
Negotiating Labor, Language and Ethnicity in Native Speaker and
George Washington Gómez" at the annual MELUS conference in
Fresno, CA on March 22nd.
Chunhui Peng has been awarded a UC Pacific Rim mini-grant.
Michael Davidson has been elected to
the executive committee of the
Poetry
Division of the Modern Language Association.
He also gave a keynote address at the Association of English Graduate
Students Conference at USC, March 2, 2007.
Michael Grattan will be on a panel entitled "The Varied Politics
of Early Modern Historiography" at the annual Shakespeare Association of
America meeting in San Diego on April 7. His group covers
"Historiography, Translation, and Representation." His paper is entitled
"The Art and Politics of Translating Tacitus’ Histories."
Ana Grinberg-Vandersip is the recipient of a
Hispanic Fund Scholarship (HISPA - NCR)
for 2006-2007.
Sara Johnson's book
Kaiso!
has been named among the top ten arts books of 2006 by Booklist,
a review published by the American Library Association.
Esther Lezra has accepted an appointment as Assistant Professor
in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Congratulations Esther!!
Ali Liebegott will be on a reading tour with Sister Spit's Ramblin' Road Show from
April 5 - May 7. For the tour schedule and additional information, see the
Sister
Spit Next Generation website.
Jake Mattox has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the
English Department at Indiana University in South Bend. Congratulations
Jake!!
Gabriela Nunez has accepted a Mellon postdoctoral fellowship in
Latino/Latina Studies at Northwestern University. She will be affiliated
with the Department of English.
Edwige Tamalet Talbayev presented a paper entitled "Frantz
Fanon's Black Skins, Whites Masks: Anticolonial Struggle and the
French Humanist Tradition" at the Carolina Conference on Romance
Literatures organized by the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, March 29-31.
Alexa Weik organized two panels on "Sentimentalism and the 20th
Century Novel" at the 38th
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention in Baltimore, March 1-4, 2007. At one of the panels, she also
presented a paper entitled “‘My Several Worlds’: Pearl S. Buck and the
Ambiguities of
Transnational Sentiment.” Alexa has also been admitted to the 2007
School
of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, Ithaca, from June 17-July
26, 2007. She will participate in Bruce Robbins's seminar on
"Transnational Culture."
Faculty Career
Development Program Grants: Sara
Johnson and
Anna Joy Springer have been awarded
Faculty Career Development Program
grants for 2007-2008. Congratulations
to both!
EXAMS & DEFENSES
MA Degrees:
Patrick Gleason –
February 28, 2007, MA Literatures in English
"Dancing with Ghosts: Sherman Alexi's Indian Killer and the Haunting
of Historical Memory"
Jessica Audino -- March 19, 2007, MA Literatures in English
Qualifying Exam: Jin Liu – March 9, 2007 (also received an MA in Comparative Literature)
APRIL EVENTS
César E. Chávez 2007 Celebration
March 30 - May 7
Campus events include:
April 2: activist and author Enriqueta Vasquez will speak on Chicana
Activism During the Viet Nam War Era at 3 p.m. in the Cross-Cultural Center.
Professors Dionne Espinoza of California State University, Los Angeles and
Lorena Oropeza of UC Davis will comment.
April 3: César E. Chávez Celebration Kickoff Luncheon will be from 11:30
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Institute of the Americas. UCSD alumnus Victor
Nieblas and San Diego activist Olivia Puentes-Reynolds will be recognized
for their work to further the ideals of Cesar E. Chávez in their
communities.
April 17: Rudy Guevarra, UCSD professor of history, will speak on Mabuhay
Compañero: Interethnic Coalitions, 1920s - 1960s at noon at the
Cross-Cultural Center.
Saidiya Hartman
Professor of English & Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Faculty and Graduate Student Seminar
Wednesday, April 4, 1:00 - 3:00 pm
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Free Public Lecture
“The Dead
Book”
From Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Thursday, April 5, 4:00 pm ,
Atkinson Hall (Cal IT2) Auditorium
Saidiya Hartman is a specialist in African American literature and history whose theoretical and literary contributions to our understanding of slavery are profound and original. Professor Hartman's first book, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America is an erudite and subtle exploration of the intersections of enslavement, gender, desire, and the making of liberal reason in the United States. Worked through an engagement with a variety of cultural materials – slave narratives, song and dance, legal texts, journals, diaries, and narratives – Hartman explores the unstable institution of slave power.
The
Generation of Friendship:The Poetry of Saharan Exiles
Bahia M. H. Awah & Zahra Hasnaui
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 – 3:00 pm
deCerteau Room, 3155 Literature Building
Bahia M. H. Awah is a journalist and writer who has worked for the Spanish National Radio in the Sahara and for Radio Guiniguada in the Canary Islands. He currently lives and works in Madrid. Zahra Hasnaui is a poet and activist living in Guadalajara, Spain. Both are members of Generación de la Amistad Saharaui, a poetry collective of exiled Saharan intellectuals living in Spain who use poetry to further awareness of the culture and politics of the Western Sahara, with special attention to the role of Saharawi women.
New Writing Series
Spring 2007
Wednesday, April 4 – 4:30 pm -
Juliana Spahr
Wednesday, April 11 - 4:30 pm -
Jaime Hernandez
Friday, April 13 – 7:00 pm -
Sister Spit: The Next Generation
Wednesday, May 8 – 4:30 pm -
Chris Abani
Wednesday, May 16 - 4:30 pm -
Lucy Corin
UCSD
Center for the Humanities
Religion and Violence *
Spring 2007 Lecture Series
Tuesdays, April 10 – May 8, 2007,
4:30 – 6:00 pm
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
APRIL 10 -
Patrick Patterson UCSD History
-
Is Islam a Religion of War? Some Answers from the History of the Balkans
APRIL 17 -
Deborah Hertz UCSD History
-
“The Empire of Darkness: Why Jewish Women Became Radicals in Russia and Beyond
APRIL 24 -
Richard Madsen UCSD Sociology
-
Democracy’s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan
MAY 1 - Reading of the play “THREE NIGHTS IN PRAGUE”
by
Allan Havis UCSD Theatre & Dance
MAY 8 - Babak Rahimi UCSD Literature
- Forget “Suicide Terrorism”: Three Models of Martyrdom in Post-Baathist Iraq
The series brings poets, scholars, playwrights, and critics from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja
California, Tijuana campus, to UCSD to showcase their creative and scholarly works in the Department
of Literature.
Talks are in Spanish,
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building Thursday, April 19, 2007 – 4:00 pm: María del Carmen Castañeda. “Pedro Páramo: ficción o mito”
Essayist and critic. Former commentator for the literary program La Tertulia, in Radio
Estéreo-Frontera. Coordinator of the Literature Program at the UABC. Sponsored by the
Division of Arts and Humanities and the
Department of
Literature.
Contact: Max Parra
Roderick Ferguson Friday, April 20, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Roderick Ferguson is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, and an affiliated faculty in Women's Studies and African
American Studies. Ferguson is an interdisciplinary scholar best known for his theoretical work
on the intersection of race and sexuality within U.S. modernity. He is the author of
Aberrations
in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2003), a work that analyzes
the relationship between the construction of African Americans in the canonical sociology of
Gunnar Myrdal, Ernest Burgess, Robert Park, Daniel Patrick Moynihan and William Julius Wilson,
and in African American literature by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde,
and Toni Morrison. He is currently working on a book about the uses of rationality in the post-civil
rights academy. His article, “The Parvenue Baldwin and the Other Side of Redemption: Modernity, Race,
Sexuality and the Cold War,” received the Modern Language Association Crompton-Noll Award in 2000. Co-sponsored by the Departments of
Literature and
Ethnic Studies and the
Critical Gender Studies Program
Contact: Lisa Lowe
Paradigms Influx: New Perspectives on Shifting Grounds
in Contemporary China and Chinese Studies
Dialogues in Sexuality Studies
II -
"Imperialism and Citizenship" OPPORTUNITIES
Stewart Prize & Saier
Award for Undergraduate Students
Spring is upon us, and that means it's time for the
Department of Literature’s annual Stewart Prize in Poetry
($300 prize) and the Milton Saier Award in Fiction ($1,000
prize)! Feeling creative? Please come by the Undergraduate
Literature Office and pick up an entry form. 
THE
JAMES K. BINDER LECTURESHIP
IN LITERATURE
presents Belén Gopegui Award-Winning Spanish Writer
Belén Gopegui is renowned in Spain for her six novels,
two film scripts, and commentaries in El País and El Mundo.
Despite her young age, she is considered one of Spain’s
leading intellectuals.
Meet Belén Gopegui at one of her campus appearances
during her week-long visit:
Monday, April 16, 4:00 pm – deCerteau
Room, 155 Literature Building
Belén Gopegui joins experts from Spain, the University
of Michigan, UC Irvine, and UCSD in a roundtable discussion
on the culture of the left in contemporary Spain. This conversation will be in
Spanish.
Tuesday, April 17, 7:00 pm – Great
Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt College
Belén Gopegui presents the 2007 James K. Binder
Lectureship in Literature, "Un pistoletazo en medio de
un concierto" acerca de escribir de política en una obra
literaria [“A Gun Shot in the Middle of a Concert” On
Writing about Politics in a Literary Work]The lecture will be in Spanish,
with English translation available in advance. The Q&A will
be bi-lingual, with English translations provided.
Thursday, April 19, 5:30 pm –
Groundwork Books
Belén Gopegui meets with graduate and undergraduate
students for a discussion of her latest novel, El lado
frió de la almohada, and the fate of the Cuban
Revolution. This conversation will be primarily
in Spanish, with English translations as needed.
La UABC en UCSD (The Universidad Autónoma de Baja California
at the University of California, San Diego)
"The Relevance of Race for the Study of Sexuality"
de Certeau Room
155 Literature Building
UC-San Diego, April 20-22, 2007. All Friday and Saturday panels are held in Deutz Room,
Institute of the Americas Building (453);
the Sunday morning panel is held in deCerteau Room, Literature
Building (627). Contact: Yingjin Zhang
Featuring:
Nayan Shah
Associate Professor of History, UCSD and Chris Guzaitis,
PhD Candidate, Department of Literature, UCSD
moderator:
Lisa Lowe,
Professor of Comparative Literature, UCSD
Thursday, April 25, 5-7 pm,
LGBT Resource Center,
The contest rules are simple. To enter the Saier Award in
Fiction you need to submit one piece of fiction, 25 pages
maximum, and to enter the Stewart Prize in Poetry you can
submit up to 5 poems. More detailed information is included
on the entry forms. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2nd. The winners will be announced at the
Spring Celebration of the Arts Reading and Reception on May
30. We hope you will join us!