May 2007 News
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Alain J. J. Cohen
Les autres arts dans l’art du cinéma. D. Sipière & A. J.-J. Cohen (dir). Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007.
A. J.-J. Cohen & D. Sipière. “Scorsese peintre. Losey musicien.
Kubrick chorégraphe." Les autres arts dans l’art du cinéma. Introduction.
Alain J.-J. Cohen. “Cinéma et Peinture. Figures et abstractions.” Les autres arts dans l’art du cinéma. 11-25.
Lisa Lampert-Weissig
“Why is This Knight Different from All Other Knights? Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the Old French Grail Narratives.” Journal of English and Germanic Philology (April 2007): 224-247.
Intan Paramadith
"Pasir Berbisik and new women's aesthetics in Indonesian cinema. Jump Cut [film journal] (Spring 2007).
Wai-lim Yip
Two installments of a long essay, "Through the serious, ponderous age... ." The Epoch Poetry Quarterly 149-150 (2006-2007).
"Two Modernist Poetries in the Period between mid-1950's and mid-1970's in Taiwan." NTU Studies of Taiwan Literature 2. The Graduate Institute of Taiwan Literature, National Taiwan University (November 2006).
Yingjin Zhang published two
refereed articles in two edited volumes: UCSD Academic Senate Award for Excellence in
Teaching
Stephen Potts
has been named a recipient of a 2007 Barbara D. and Paul J. Saltman
Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate members. Helen Higbee has
accepted a tenure track Assistant Professorship in the Department of
English at Kentucky State University. Congratulations, Helen!! Irmary Reyes-Santos has accepted the
position of Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic
Studies at the University of Oregon. Congratulations, Irmary!! Kirsten Silva Gruesz teaches nineteenth- and twentieth-century
literatures of the Americas, including Latino literature. Her
work is broadly based in the cultural and political relations
between the U.S. and the rest of the Americas, particularly
Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America. The nineteenth
century is her usual period focus, but she also writes about
contemporary works by U.S. Latinas and Latinos, whose
experiences are deeply rooted in the history of the Americas.
Refusing to believe the myth that today's students are more concerned
with themselves than the world around them, UCSD Professors
Jorge
Mariscal of Literature and
David Pellow of Ethnic Studies created
a senior seminar designed to bring students into contact with local
activists and give them the tools and the inspiration - to take
action. UCSD-TV was there for several of these sessions, resulting in
the "Growing Activism" series airing this month.
“Rebel Without a Cause? China’s New Urban Generation and Postsocialist
Filmmaking.” The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the
Turn of the Twenty-first Century. Ed. Zhen Zhang. Durham, NC:
Duke University Press, 2007. 49-80.
“Artwork, Commodity, Event: Representations of the Female Body in Modern
Chinese Pictorials.” Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s. Ed.
Jason C. Kuo. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2007. 121-61.
AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
Christina
Accomando (PhD Literature, 1994), was honored at an April
30 ceremony celebrating her selection as Humboldt State University's
Outstanding Professor 2006-2007. An Associate Professor of
English, Ethnic Studies, and Women’s Studies, Dr. Accomando been
recognized by administration, faculty, and students alike for her
steadfast scholarship and “life-changing” teaching, which spans 22
different undergraduate and graduate classes, more than 20 university
committees, many publications, and numerous forums and workshops. At the
awards ceremony, Dr. Accomando presented a lecture entitled "'Poetry is
not a luxury': Literature as Resistance."
Scott
Boehm has been awarded a CILAS Travel/Research Award.
Congratulations, Scott!!
Stephen Cox
has been chosen to give the graduation speech at this year's Revelle
College commencement, where he will also be honored as the Revelle
College Outstanding Professor in the Humanities and Arts. He has
previously received teaching awards from Revelle and Muir Colleges, from
the Alumni Association, and from the Academic Senate.
Margaret Fajardo has been awarded a Mellon Postdoctoral
Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.
This two-year appointment combines the Lecturer and Postdoctoral
Researcher titles. Congratulations, Margaret!!
Emily Kugler presented a paper, "Debating English Protestantism:
The Ibn Tufayl translations 1671-1708," at the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Atlanta, 24 March 2007. She also presented a
paper entitled "Killing the Angel in the Household: Matriarchal
Alternatives in Charlotte Dacre's The Libertine" at the Pacific
Southwest Women's Studies Association Conference, Los Angeles, 13 April
2007.
Lisa
Lampert-Weissig visited Dartmouth’s Department of Religion in
April as the Dickinson Distinguished Fellow to give a lecture entitled
“The End of History and the Last Jew: Apocalypse and Anti-Semitism from
the Middle Ages to Left Behind.”
Gabriela McEvoy presented a paper at the 9th Annual Conference on
Hispanic and Lusophone Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics at
University of California, Santa Barbara April 21, 2007. The title of her
paper is "La construcción de la imagen heroica a través del discurso
periodístico: el caso de la activista peruana María."
Literature Graduate Enrichment Guest Lecturer
Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Associate Professor of Literature
UC Santa Cruz
"Language Ideology and Lived Bilingualism:
Looking Back to
Nineteenth-Century California"
Thursday, May 3, 2007 – 7:00 pm
Cross-Cultural Center
**free and open to the public**
Graduate Student Seminars - deCerteau Room, 155
Literature Building
Wednesday, May 2, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Geography, Americas Studies, and the Archive
Thursday, May 3, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Periodization, Literary History, and the Archive
"Growing Activism"
Series on UCSD-TV
"Labor/Community Strategy Center"
May 7 at 9pm
"Undocumented Students/DREAM Act"
May 28 at 8pm
"License to Freedom"
June 11 at 9pm
The "Growing Activism" series is funded by California Cultures and the
Chicano/Latino Arts & Humanities Program at UCSD. UCSD-TV airs on Cox
Digital Ch.135; Time Warner San Diego Ch.18; Time Warner Del Mar Ch. 68;
or UHF (no cable) Ch. 35.
The Department of Literature Faculty
Lecture Series
John Blanco
“Configurations of the Colonial State and Market in
Nineteenth-Century Philippine Culture”
Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 12:00 pm , deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
CILAS - Latin
American Studies Lecture Series
Spring 2007
"Postcolonial Antagonisms in Spanish Immigration Film:
From Cultural Conversion to Radical Cosmopolitanism"
When: Thursday, May 10, 2007, 3:30-5:00 PM
Where: Deutz Room, Institute of the Americas Complex
Professor Luis Martín-Cabrera will analyze how two Spanish films, La Vida Aqui (2003) and Princesas (2005
), uniquely deal with the emergence of Latin
American Immigrant communities and the transformation of
Spain into a postcolonial society. Following Gilroy’s
concept of cosmopolitanism, Cabrera argues that a deeper
understanding of the Spanish colonial heritage in relation
to the emergence of Latin American immigration provides a
powerful framework for shaping an anti-racist agenda and to
pave the way for the articulation of new forms of
transnational solidarity.
Stephanie Donald
Professor of International Studies
University of Technology
Sydney, Australia
“Landscapes and Class in Chinese Cinema:
Yellow Earth to
Still Life”
Thursday, May 10 – 4:00 pm
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Stephanie
Hemelryk Donald studied in Taiwan and at Oxford University
in the 1980s and obtained her PhD at the University of
Sussex in the 1990s. She worked with Harriet Evans and
Jeffrey Wasserstrom on the “Picturing Power” project, which
resulted in a traveling exhibition of Chinese political
posters of the 1960s and early 1970s as well as a volume of
essays, which she co-edited, Picturing Power in the
People’s Republic of China (1999). She is also the
author of Public Secrets, Public Spaces: Cinema and
Civility in China (2000) and Little Friends:
Children’s Film and Media Culture in China (2005);
co-author of The State of China Atlas (1999, 2nd
edition, 2005); co-editor of Culture/China: New
Formations (2001) and Media in China: Consumption,
Content and Crisis (2002).
History and Literature in Brazil: Interpreting Machado de Assis
◊ Friday, May 11, 2007 from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. ◊
◊ Deutz Room, Copley International Conference Center◊ ◊IOA Complex ◊
PRESENTERS
Sidney Chalhoub,
“Dom Casmurro, by Machado de Assis: The Social Logic of Fictional
Narrative”
Pedro Meira Monteiro,
“Absence of Time: The Counselor’s Dreams”
Leonardo Pereira,
“The 'History of Fifteen Days': literary chronicles of Machado de Assis
(1876-1878)”
Gabriela Sampaio,
“The people's government: religion and healing in Machado de Assis'
characters”
La UABC en UCSD
(The Universi ad Autónoma de Baja California
at the University of California, San Diego)
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Thursday, May 17, 2007 – 4:00 pm
Hugo Salcedo. “Literatura dramática ‘fronteriza’”
Playwright and essayist. Author of 21 obras en un acto (2002), El teatro para niños en México
(2002), and La ley del ranchero (2005). Several of his award-winning plays have been staged
in Latin America and Spain. Guest Professor at universities in Mexico, El Salvador, Spain,
France, and China. Drama Professsor at the UABC.
Sponsored by the
Division of Arts and Humanities and the
Department of
Literature
Contact: Max Parra
Center for Iberian and Latin
American Studies (CILAS)
presents
Alda Blanco,
"Spain at the Crossroads: Imperial Nostalgia or Modern Colonialism"
Thursday, May 24, 2007 - 3:30 pm,
Deutz Room (Institute of the Americas)
Alda Blanco, Professor of Spanish
studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received her Ph.D. at
UCSD in 1983. Blanco is currently writing a book entitled Writing the
Spanish Empire: Cultural Sites of Imperial Consciousness in XIXth-Century
Spain. Her work on gender and Spanish women's literature has
produced Escritores virtuosas: narradoras de la domesticidad en la
España isabelina (2001). She has also devoted many years to the
study of María Martínez Sierra, one of Spain's most forgotten writers
and feminist thinkers.
Sponsors:
CILAS and
Department of Literature
Contact:
Misha Kokotovic
Nahid Rachlin
reading from
Persian Girls
Friday, May 25, 2:00 pm
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Reviews of Nahid Rachlin’s recently published memoir,
Persian
Girls, has already garnered excellent reviews. Christopher Merrill, the
Director of Iowa International Writing Program, rates it as one
of the best four books of 2006, noting: "If you want to know
what it was like to grow up in Iran this is the book to read.”
In addition to Persian Girls, Nahid Rachlin’s publications
include four novels and a collection of
short stories, Veils (City Lights). Her individual short
stories have appeared in about fifty magazines, and several of her stories have
been reprinted in anthologies. Her essays and reviews have been
published in Natural History Magazine, The New York Times
Magazine, Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, and
Newsday.
Persian Girls and Jumping Over Fire will be for sale at the reading.
Spring Celebration of the
Arts Reading and Reception
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 3:00 pm
deCerteau Room, 155 Literature Building
Please join us for the Spring Celebration of the Arts Reading and Reception for student readings and the announcement of the winners for the Stewart Prize in Poetry and the Milton Saier Award in Fiction! After the readings, please join us for refreshments. We look forward to seeing you there!