April 2002 News
Dylan Sailor, a UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate, has been appointed Assistant
Professor effective July 2002. Currently completing his dissertation, “Making
History: Studies in the Poetics of Tacitean Historiography,” Sailor brings an
extensive background in Classical Studies to the department, along with
experience teaching both Latin and Greek.
Named Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor in 1998-1999, Sailor combines
his interest in historiography with an interest in exploring ancient culture
from multiple perspectives. He is currently writing a book-length study of Roman
culture during the late Republic and early Principate.
Michael Davidson. “Vertige: La Pensée Comme Action Dans La Poésie de George
Oppen.” Fin. Jan 2002.
“Vacant Weather” and “Recording.” Dandelion 27:2 (2001).
Lisa Lowe. “Immigrant Literatures: A Modern Structure of Feeling.” Literature
on the Move: Comparing Disaporic Ethnicities in Europe and the Americas. D.
Marcais, M. Niemeyer, B. Vincent, C. Waenger, Eds. Heidelberg:
Universitaetsverlag C, 2002.
Bill Mohr. “In Line at Pancho’s Tacos” and “Why the Heart Never Develops
Cancer.” Stand Up Poetry: An Anthology. Charles Harper Webb, ed. Iowa City: U of
Iowa Press, 2002.
Lisa Yoneyama. “NHK’s Censorship of Japanese Crimes Against Humanity.”
Harvard Asia Quarterly 6:1 (Winter 2002).
Yingjin Zhang. Screening China: Critical Interventions, Cinematic
Reconfigurations, and the Transnational Imaginary in Contemporary Chinese
Cinema. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies, 2002.
Diane D'Andrade, Lecturer
Executive Editor, Harcourt Brace and Co. Publishers; editor of numerous
award-winning children's books.
LTWR 109 - Writing and Publishing Children's Literature
Robert Dorn, Lecturer
Practicing journalist and investigative reporter, who retired in July 2001
from a long-term lectureship in the Department of Literature
LTWR 128 - Editing Workshop
Samantha Goldstein, Lecturer
Ph.D., Literature, UC San Diego.
LTWR/8A - The Craft of Writing
Melisa Klimaszewski, Associate in Literature
Ph.D. candidate, Literature, UCSD.
LTEN 127A - The Victorian Period
David Morrow, Associate in Literature
Ph.D. candidate, Literature, UCSD.
LTEN113 - Shakespeare: Jacobean Period
Mbulelo Mzamane, Visiting Professor
Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Sheffield, UK. Former Vice
Chancellor, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
LTWL140 - Novel and History in the Third World
LTWR100 - Short Fiction
Madeleine Picciotto, Lecturer
Ph.D.,Comparative Literature, Princeton University.
LTWR/8C - Craft of Writing: Nonfiction
Malise Ruthven, Lecturer
Author of many publications on religious studies.
LTWL 139 - Gnosticism and LTWL 141 Islam and Modernity
Beheroze Shroff, Lecturer
Lecturer, filmmaker, writer
LTEN 60 - Topics in Ethnic American Literature
The African Literature Association 28th Annual Meeting
“African Diasporas: Ancestors, Migrations and Boundaries”
3 – 7 April 2002
KEYNOTE EVENTS INCLUDE:
Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) *
Lilia Momple (Mozambique) *
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
(Kenya) * Osonye Tess Onwueme (Nigeria) *
Jack Mapanje (Malawi) * Kamau Brathwaite
(Barbados) * Dr. Thomas Mapfumo and Blacks Unlimited (Zimbabwe) |
| UCSD PRESENTERS AT THE RADISSON HOTEL LA JOLLA INCLUDE:
Wednesday, April 3, 3:30 - 5:15
Panel: Nicole King, Chair - Rearticulations of Race and Gender in Neo- and
Post-Colonial Caribbean and African Literatures of the 20th Century
Hellen Lee, “Writing Gender, Writing Violence: Marie Chauvet’s Amour”
Esther Lezra, “Errant Narratives: Re-membering Bodies/Dis-ordering Stories in
The Pagoda and The Sand Child”
Tania Triana, “Race and Nationalism in Cuban Literature of the 1920s and
1930s”
Thursday, April 4, 10:45 - 12:15 - Jake Mattox,
“Citizenship, Subjectivity,
and Manifest Destiny: In Nicaragua with Martin Delany and William Walker”
Thursday, April 4, 2:00 - 3:45 - Winifred Woodhull, “Feminism, Democracy, Transnationalism”
Thursday, April 4, 4:00 - 5:45 - Plenary Session: “Cross-Atlantic Cultural
Currents: Verbal Arts and Music,” Robert Cancel, Chair
Friday, April 5, 4:00 - 5:45 - Bill Mohr, “The Climactic Library of Season of
Migration to the North: Three Degrees of Separation in the Textual Diaspora of
Historical Progress”
Saturday, April 6, 10:30 - 12:30 - “Black Paris: The African Writers’
Landscape “ (African and African American Studies Research Project, UC San
Diego), Benetta Jules-Rosette, Chair
Saturday, April 6, 10:30 - 12:30
Aaron C. Eastley, “Lifting ‘The Yoke of the Wrong Name’: How Walcott Uses
Character Names to Negotiate a Positive Afro-Caribbean Identity in Omeros”
Carlton D. Floyd, “A Plantation of Hair: Controversial Identities in James
Baldwin's ‘Come Out of the Wilderness’”
Sunday, April 7, 9:30 - 11:15
Clarissa Clò, "’Revolutionaries of the World Unite’: The Battle of Algiers as
an International Manifesto for Militancy”
Mbulelo Mzamane in Performance: Ìròhìn kò tó àfojú bà:
Mother-Tongues—Readings and Musings
Panel: Frances Gotkowitz, Chair - Challenging Borders: Female Voices and
Identities in African Diasporic Literatures
Frances Gotkowitz, “The Immigrant Experience in Edwidge Danticat”
Sharna Langlais, “The Curandera in Caribbean Diasporic Literature”
Irene Mata, “Home and Diaspora in Caribbean Literature through Anzaldua's
Theory”
Irmary Reyes-Santos, “Religious and Cultural Affinities in Condé and Aidoo”
Conveners: Robert Cancel & Winifred Woodhull
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All Performances at 7:30 p.m., Sherwood Auditorium
Ticket Information: 858-454-3541
Link to Museum of Contemporary Art Cross Fertilizations information:
http://www.mcasandiego.org/education_programs/
April 4
Kamau Brathwaite – Caribbean poet and playwright widely recognized as one of
the most important world poets. Ana Menéndez - Cuban writer best known for her
book of short stories, In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd.
Gary Bartz – Legendary
saxophonist and composer who has appeared on more than 130 recordings.
April 11
Robert Olen Butler – Renowned author of eight novels, including Fair Warning,
and numerous screenplays.
Brenda Hillman – Prizewinning author of Loose Sugar,
Death, Tractates, Bright Existence, and Cascadia.
Fred Ho – Baritone saxophonist
and composer, writer, political activist, and leader of Afro-Asian Music
Ensemble.
April 18
Paule Marshall – Chair holder in NYU’s Graduate Creative Writing Program and
Author of six books.
Dionisio D. Martinez – Poet, critic, essayist, and
instructor currently with the YMCA’s Writer’s Voice Project.
Victor Bailey –
Drummer and bass guitarist best known for his work with the jazz-fusion band
Weather Report.
April 25
Alan Cheuse – Novelist, journalist, and commentator on NPR’s All Things
Considered.
Lucille Clifton – Renowned poet, winner of the 2000 National Book
Award for Poetry.
Bennie Maupin – Jazz musician who played bass clairnet with
Miles Davis and has paired with Herbie Hancock.
May 2
Alexs D. Pate – Author of a best selling novel, Amistad: A Novel, and West of
Rehoboth.
Marie Howe – Author of The Good Thief, selected by Margaret Atwood for
the National Poetry Series.
Adam Holzman – Keyboardist with Miles Davis Band,
one of the most innovative players on the scene today.
Artistic Director: Quincy Troupe
| NEW WRITING SERIES, SPRING 2002
All events at 4:30 p.m., Visual Arts Performance Space
APRIL 17. Dionisio Martinez was born in Cuba and has lived in Spain and the
U.S. since 1965. He is the author of four volumes of poetry, including Climbing
Back, selected by Jorie Graham for the National Poetry Series, and Bad Alchemy,
one of the 25 titles in the New York Public Library’s 1996 “Books to Remember”
list.
APRIL 24. Born in Manhatten, poet and translator Michael Palmer
has lived in
San Francisco since 1969. He has worked extensively with contemporary dance for
25 years and has collaborated with numerous visual artists and composers. His
most recent poetry collections are At Passages, The Lion Bridge (Selected
Poems,1972-1995), The Promises of Glass, and Codes Appearing (Poems 1979-1988).
MAY 8. Hal Jaffe is editor-in-chief of Fiction International and Professor of
Creative Writing and Literature at SDSU. He is the author of seven fiction
collections and three novels, including False Positive, Sex for the Millennium,
Othello Blues, and Straight Razor. Stephen-Paul Martin is the author of 20 books
of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including Not Quite Fiction, Fear &
Philosophy, The Flood, and The Gothic Twilight, which was nominated for the
National Critics Circle Award in 1993. His most recent collection of fiction is
Instead of Confusion.
May 15. Rodrigo Toscano is originally from San Diego. After the success of
his first two books, The Disparities and Partisans, a third book, Platform, is
due out from Atelos Press this year. His work can be found in the upcoming
Rattapallax Anthology of International Poetry.
MAY 22. Ron Silliman’s long prose poems, Ketjak and Tjanting, have challenged
and expanded previous notions of poetic form. Since 1979 he has been working on
a very long poem entitled “The Alphabet.” Volumes published thus far from that
project have included Demo to Ink, Lit, Paradise, Toner, What, and Xing.
Silliman is the editor of an influential poetry anthology, In The American Tree,
which has just been reissued by The National Poetry Foundation.
Contact: Michael Davidson |
| 2002 CESAR CHAVEZ CELEBRATION AT UC SAN DIEGO |
All events are free and open to the public.
- April 5 (Cross-Cultural Center [CCC]): Chicano/as and the Law - 12-1:30
Presentation by California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno
- April 9, 4 p.m. (CCC)
Latinos and Higher Education
Lecture by Antonia Darder (Claremont Graduate University) "Reinventing Paulo
Freire: A Pedogogy of Love"
- April 11, 4-6 p.m. (CCC)
UCSD Local History presentation and student-led panel. Short theatrical
performance by Prof. Jorge Huerta and students.
- April 13 (Marshall College)
UCSD Cultural Celebration
- April 24 (CCC) 4 p.m. - Lecture by historian Vicki Ruiz (UC Irvine) "Big
Dreams. Rural Schools: Mexican Americans and Public Education, 1870-1950"
- April 29-May 3: Raza Awareness Week (see separate calendar)
- April 30 (Institute of the Americas) 7 p.m. - Appearance by Dolores Huerta
(Introduction: David Valladolid)
Contact: Jorge Mariscal
1st Annual Woman of Color Conference
April 5-7, 2002
“Breaking Chains of Oppression and Building Links of solidarity”
Keynote Speakers:
- La Jolla Tribal Chairwoman Wendy Schlater
- Chicana Queer Poet and Writer Cherrie Moraga
E-mail: ucwomenofcolor@hotmail.com
Phone: 858-534-4704
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| Geographies of Desire Spring Lecture Series
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Richard Meyer
“Spirals of Censorship”
Thursday, April 18, 4:00 p.m.
Michel de Certeau Room, 155 Literature Building
An Assistant Professor of Art History at USC, Meyer teaches modern art and
the history of photography. He is the author of Outlaw Representation:
Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art (Oxford
University Press, 2002). In this talk, Meyer will discuss the ways in which
censorship relies upon and reproduces the very images it aims to suppress.
Examples will be drawn both from Meyer's art-historical research and from his
own struggles with Oxford University Press over the content of his newly
published book.
José Esteban Munoz
(Title TBA)
Thursday, April 25, 4:00 p.m.
Michel de Certeau Room, 155 Literature Building
The Geographies of Desire Spring Lecture Series has been arranged by
Nayan
Shah (History), Steve Epstein (Sociology) and
Judith Halberstam (Literature).
Host: Judith Halberstam
- Regents’ Lecturer Nuruddin Farah
Monday, April 1, 3:00 p.m. (note time change)
Regents' Lecture, entitled "Yesterday, Today: The Somali Diaspora and its
Various Dimensions," at the Deutz Room, Copley International Center, Institute
of the Americas.
Tuesday, April 2, 3:00 p.m.
Reading at the de Certeau Room, 155 Literature Building.
Host: Robert Cancel
- UCSD CENTER FOR THE HUMANTIES
“An Evening with Edward O. Wilson”
Wednesday, April 3, 7:30 p.m.
Mandeville Auditorium
E-mail: humctr@ucsd.edu
Phone: 858-534-6270
- GRADUATE PROGRAM OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, April 4, 2002
- 9:30-10:30 am - Breakfast with Graduate Student Council and graduate student
hosts
- 10:30-11:30 am - Section advisors available for office consultations or
campus tour or
- classroom visit
- 11:45-1:30 pm - Luncheon for incoming students and faculty advisors at
faculty club
- 1:30-3:30 pm - Section advisors available for office consultations or library
tour or classroom visit
- 3:30-4:30 pm - Coffee, questions, and information about campus employment
(writing programs and language programs)
Contact: Ana Minvielle
- Paul Julian Smith
“Resurrecting the Art Movie: Almodovar’s Blue Period”
Monday, April 29, 4:00 p.m.
Michel de Certeau Room, 155 Literature Building
Professor of Hispanic Studies at Cambridge University, Paul Julian Smith
initiated critical discussions of homosexuality in Hispanic literature, first
with his pioneering book, Laws of Desire: Questions of Homosexuality in Spanish
Writing and Film, 1960-1990, published by Oxford UP in 1992, and then with the
anthology Entiendes?: Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings (Duke UP, 1995),
co-edited with Emilie Bermann. He is the author of the most important study of
Almodovar's films, Desire Uunlimited; The Cinema of Pedro Almodovar, first
published in 1994 and recently re-issued by Verso.
Host: Susan Kirkpatrick
- "Japanese Military Sex Slavery in Transnational Feminist Perspective"
April 29th, 3pm to 6pm, at the Women's Center.
Panel Discussion with Profs. Aiko Ohgoshi (Kinki University, Japan);
Midori Igeta (Tsukuba Women's University, Japan),
Laura Kang (UCI), Sarah Soh (SFSU);
Lisa Yoneyama (UCSD)
Hosts: Rosemary George & Lisa Yoneyama
- Miriam Cooke
“Islamic Feminism Before and After September 11”
Friday, May 3, 3:00 p.m.
Michel de Certeau Room, 155 Literature Building
Professor of Arabic Literature and Chair of the Department of Asian and
African Languages and Literature at Duke University, Miriam Cooke is the author
of a number of books on Middle Eastern women's writing.
Host: Winifred Woodhull
- The Group for the Study of 9.11 and Global Emergencies presents a Spring
Quarter Public Forum, on May 7th, 115 Center Hall, 7.00pm, featuring Hatem
Bazian (UCB), Anne Cubilie (Georgetown University), and
Muneer Ahmad (American
University).
Host: Rosemary George
- Marc Zimmerman
Distinguished Alumni Series Lecture
“Transnational Memories: Deconstructing a Nomad Intellectual on Latin
American/Latino/a Turf”
Wednesday, May 8, 4:00 p.m.
Michel de Certeau Room, 155 Literature Building
Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Illinois, Chicago,
Zimmerman was awarded his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCSD. An
award-winning author of twelve books and articles, he is Director of Latin
American Graduate Studies at UIC and Director of the Latin American Cultural
Activities and Studies Arena of Chicago.
Host: Rosaura Sánchez
- Regents’ Lecturer Nilita Vachani
Screening and Discussion
“When Mother Comes Home for Christmas”
Wednesday, May 15, 6:30 p.m.
Price Center Theater
Graduate Seminar on Feminist Film Making
“Eyes of Stone”
Friday, May 17, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Women’s Center
An independent film-maker, Vachani has been awarded numerous awards and
accolades for her work.
Host: Rosemary George
Beatriz Mariscal Rhett, March - August, 2002, under the sponsorship of Susan
Kirkpatrick. Professor of Spanish Literature, El Colegio de México, Ms. Rhett is
conducting research on Golden Age Literature.
| Awards
and other Achievements |
UC Poet Laureate Award
Congratulations to Bill Mohr, who was among the winners of this year’s UC
Poet Laureate Contest for his unpublished poems “Ravages,” “Down Time,” and “How
to Play Ping-Pong with a Mirror.”
Alain J.-J. Cohen has been elected Vice-President of SERCIA, Société d'Etudes
et de Recherches du Cinéma Américain, the French association devoted to the study of American
Cinema, for a two-year term, 2002-2004.
Bill Mohr has been awarded a Mellon Foundation Fellowship for a full month of
research at the Huntington Library in 2002-2003.
Lisa Yoneyama has been awarded a resident fellowship at the University of
California Humanities Research Institute for the Winter/Spring 2003 Quarters to
participate in the collaboratove research group, “Redress in Law, Literature and
Social Thought,” organized by Stephen Best.
Sangeeta Mediratta passed her qualifying exams and obtained her MA on March
6, 2002.
Doris Herwig obtained her MA on March 15, 2002.
Jennifer Lahmann passed her qualifying exams on March 19, 2002.
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Research/Fellowship Opportunities |
UC MEXUS GRANTS: UC MEXUS funds faculty and graduate students in the areas of:
- Mexico-Related Studies
- Latino Studies
- United States-Mexico Relations
- Critical U.S. – Mexico Issue
- Latino and Mexican Topics in the Arts
TITLE VI FLAS GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS
UCSD’s Council on East Asian Studies has announced Academic Year 2002-2002
and Summer Fellowships for graduate students enrolled in Chinese, Japanese, or
Korean language instruction. The AY fellowships will pay a stipend of $14,000
plus $11,000 toward fees. The summer fellowships pay $3,600 in tuition and a
$2,400 stipend.
Contact: Ana Minvielle
Academic Senate Seed Grants for Interdisciplinary Research
The Academic Senate is providing seed grants of $5,000 for:
- one faculty member to co-teach an undergraduate or graduate seminar with a
faculty member from a different department and up to two quarters of support for
a Graduate Student Researcher (at 50% time) to assist in the preparation of the
course, or
- $5,000 towards the establishment of an interdisciplinary colloquium that
brings together members of different departments or schools.
For more information, please see the Academic Senate web site:
http://www-senate.ucsd.edu/cor/irp.html
Center for Comparative Immigration Studies Second Annual Undergraduate
Research Conference – May 25, 2002
UCSD’s Center for Comparative Immigration Studies asks faculty to nominate
students who have conducted independent research on international migration or
refugee movements. Deadline for nominations: May 1, 2002. For more information,
contact Idean Salehyan, conference organizer.
Quarter begins: Thursday, March 28
César Chávez Holiday: Friday, March 29
Instruction Begins: Monday, April 1
Memorial Day Observance: Monday, May 27
Instruction Ends: Friday, June 7
Final Exams: Monday through Friday, June 10-14
Quarter Ends: Friday, June 14
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