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2019 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Fall 2019) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 12/1 Malini Johar Schueller‘s book, Campaigns of Knowledge: U.S. Pedagogies of Colonialism and Occupation in the Philippines and Japan, was published by Temple University Press. 11/1 Ange Mlinko’s poem “Watteau” is published in The London Review of Books.         Susan Hegeman […]

Fall 2018 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Fall 2018) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 11/19 Susan Hegeman was invited to speak on the plenary panel of the annual conference of the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers (ALSCW) at Vanderbilt University. Her topic was “The ‘Soft Power’ of Humanities Centers.” Phil Wegner presented the 2018 Lyman Tower […]

Spring 2013 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Fall 2012) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 5/7/13 Sid Dobrin recently delivered the paper “New Media (Complex) Ecology and The New Media Ecological Complex” at CCCC 2013, where he also served as respondent to three panels, two of which were organized to address his recent book Postcomposition. Dobrin also gave the keynote address […]

Spring 2014 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Fall 2013) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 5/13/14 Marsha Bryant is coauthor of “Women in Cardiology: The X Factor and the Heart of Medicine,” which appears in Journal of Clinical & Experimental Cardiology 5.2 (2014), doi: 10.4172/2155-9880.1000e134. The other co-authors are Alexandra Lucas (UF Medicine), Mary Ann Eaverly (UF Classics), and Grant McFadden (UF […]

Spring 2015 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Spring 2015) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 4/22/15 5 Flights Up, an adaptation of Jill Ciment’s Heroic Measures, will be in theaters May 8th. Judith W. Page was elected to the Board of Directors of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association at the annual meeting last month in Boston. Barbara Mennel organized a trip for undergraduates […]

Spring 2016 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Summer 2016) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 4/20/16 Pamela Gilbert has been awarded a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in support of her project Victorian Skin: Surface, Subjectivity, Affect. Professor Gilbert has also been awarded a residential Cornell Humanities Fellowship for the 2016–2017 academic year. Stephanie A. Smith has been awarded a […]

Spring 2017 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Fall 2016) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 4/19/17 Michael Hofmann has a piece on Elizabeth Bishop in the Times Literary Supplement (issue 5; April 2017). Maureen Turim presented “Next to Chantal Akerman: an Installation of Generations and the Shoah” on a panel on “Chantal Akerman: New Approaches” at the annual meeting of the Society for […]

Summer 2013 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Spring 2013) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 8/16/13 Marsha Bryant served as a grant review panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities. On July 25, her panel met in Washington, D.C., to assess fellowship applications in Comparative Literature. Richard Burt’s book What’s the Worst Thing You Can Do to Shakespeare?, co-authored with […]

Summer 2014 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Spring 2014) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 9/24/14 Marsha Bryant and Andrea Krafft are coauthors with UF colleagues on “The Virome—Viral Ghost Companion, Virus Wars.” Journal of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology (5.8, 2014). Marsha Bryant is also a co-recipient of National Science Foundation funding for a pedagogy workshop at the upcoming Materials Research Society meeting, along with UF […]

Summer 2015 Newsletter

Newsletter Archive (Fall 2001–Spring 2015) Department of English E-Newsletter News of Faculty 8/26/15 Pamela Gilbert is pleased to announce the publication of the four-volume, one-million-word Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature, of which she is associate editor (one of two, assisting Dino Felluga as general editor). In July, Kenneth Kidd was the keynote speaker for the 21st Annual Francelia Butler Conference […]