Literature News

Todd Kontje has been elected to a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Late 19th- and Early 20th-century German Literature (2009-14).

Sabrina Starnaman was accepted for the New Research in Cultural Studies seminar at the CSA in April 2009.

Edwige Tamalet Talbayev presented a paper entitled Global Encounters: Trans-Mediterranean Poetics at the Crossroads at the MLA Convention in San Francisco... More

Shira Scott, Graduate Coordinator. Shira comes to the Literature Department from SDSU where she has been admitting and advising graduate Business students for eight years. She was an advisor at USIU/Alliant University, has taught undergraduate courses, and has been a housing office administrator. Shira has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Communications from CSU Long Beach. Shira lives with her husband, a Physical Therapist at Scripps Clinic, two children, the dog Oliver, and Kettana the cat. Shira is happy to join the staff and thanks all the faculty, staff, and students, who have stopped by to welcome her. “I look forward to our many interactions in the future.”


		Arts and Humanities News UCSD News \| Center Blog For complete info click Details			Announcing the 2009 Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop June 28 - August 8 Applications accepted online January 2 – March 1. The 2009 writers in residence: Holly Black, Larissa Lai, Robert Crais, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Hand, and Paul Park. More
		Todd Kontje, Scott Boehm, Roddey Reid, Megan Wesling, and Wai-lim Yip have published ... More
		Todd Kontje has been elected to a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Late 19th- and Early 20th-century German Literature (2009-14). Sabrina Starnaman was accepted for the New Research in Cultural Studies seminar at the CSA in April 2009. Edwige Tamalet Talbayev presented a paper entitled Global Encounters: Trans-Mediterranean Poetics at the Crossroads at the MLA Convention in San Francisco... More Shira Scott, Graduate Coordinator. Shira comes to the Literature Department from SDSU where she has been admitting and advising graduate Business students for eight years. She was an advisor at USIU/Alliant University, has taught undergraduate courses, and has been a housing office administrator. Shira has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in Communications from CSU Long Beach. Shira lives with her husband, a Physical Therapist at Scripps Clinic, two children, the dog Oliver, and Kettana the cat. Shira is happy to join the staff and thanks all the faculty, staff, and students, who have stopped by to welcome her. “I look forward to our many interactions in the future.” Veronica Gonzalez – (WRITING)Lecturer – LTWR 104 (The Novella) Winter 2009 Jericho Brown, Amity Gaige, Graham Foust, Lisa Robertson, Miranda Mellis New Writing Series: Fall 2008-09 - Podcasts * Sarah Bynum * Sesshu Foster * Aaron Kunin Ph.D. Awarded Junghyun Hwang – Specters of the Cold War in America’s Century: The Korean War and Transnational Politics of National Imaginaries in the 1950’s, December 3, 2008 M.A Awarded – Spanish Literature Amanda Birmingham – Mis(s) Education: Locating Female Subjectivity and Resistance in the Spanish University, December 8, 2008 Qualifying Exam Completed Tania Jabour – December 11, 2008 (also received M.A. in Literatures in English)
					Sussan Babaie: Problematizing Modernity in Persian Visual Culture: Pictures and Performance in Contemporary Arts Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:00 p.m. Literature Building 155, (deCerteau) Silhouette City Friday, January 16, 2008 7:00 p.m. The Price Center Theatre Kari Elizabeth Hong: For the Bible Tells Me So: A Legal History of Religion and the Institution of Marriage Thursday, January 22, 2009 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. Cross-Cultural Center Communidad Room, 2nd Floor, Price Center East UCSD Chicano(a)/Latino(a) Concilio: Winter Retreat Saturday, January 24, 2009 9:00-2:00pm Oceanview Lounge, Marshall College Continental Breakfast Provided! More
					UC San Diego: Winter 2009 Career Workshops and Events for Master's and PhD Students hosted by the Career Services Center, various due dates UC Irvine, Department of Comparative Literature Graduate Students invite submissions for Politics of Crisis, due January 15, 2009 Mellow Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University: Due January 30, 2009 NYU/Columbia University Graduate Student Conference - Call for Papers: Crisscrossing, April 2009: Due February 2, 2009 The Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University: Humanities Fellowships—Spring 2010 Utopias/Dystopias and Social Transformation: Due March 2, 2009 IICAS 2nd annual Student Competition for Human Rights Fellowships. Due March 9, 2009 Harvard's Summer Program in Munich for 2009 More



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