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| Ray Armantrout's Versed is reviewed by Tim Griffin, bookforum.com |
 Fatima
el-Tayeb presented a paper entitled
Submissions: Queer Muslim bodies and Performative Politics
on April 7, 2009 at Rolfe Hall, UCLA as part of their Sexuality Studies
Speakers Series. |
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| Aimee Bahng has accepted an Assistant Professorship in the Department of English at Dartmouth College starting in Fall 2009. Congratulations! |
| Amie Filkow presented a paper entitled Dis-organized Crime: Piracy, Legitimacy and the West Indian Entrepreneur, at the 40th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), in Richmond, Virginia, March 26-29, 2009. Amie was also the recipient of the ASECS's Traveling Jam Pot Award. |
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Congratulations go to
Lisa Vernoy and Kedar Kulkarni for their
nomination to represent UCSD at the
2009 Dickens
Project Institute and Weekend Conference, to be held the first week
of August at UC Santa Cruz. This annual gathering of the world’s
foremost Victorian and Dickens scholars blends rigorous intellectual
activity and congenial company, and Kedar and Lisa will participate in
lectures, discussions, workshops, and professionalization activities of
their choosing, while enjoying the majesty of the redwoods and the
charms of |
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Jamie Rosenthal has been awarded the Mellon Fellowship for Dissertation Research in the Humanities in Original Sources, a nine-month fellowship intended to support research in libraries, archives, and other repositories in the U.S. and abroad. She has also been awarded the W.M. Keck Foundation Short-term Fellowship at the Huntington Library, the John Carter Brown Library Short-term Fellowship, and the ASECS Aubrey Williams Research Travel Award. |
| Katharine Slater will present Towards Rendering Truth for Children: Samuel Goodrich’s Exsanguination of James Riley’s Authentic Narrative at the Children's Literature Association (ChLA) conference in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 11 - 14. |
| L. Chase Smith was awarded a 2009-2010 Pacific Rim Research Program grant for his dissertation research and a Bancroft Library Summer Fellowship, available to graduate students on all University of California campuses who are conducting research that would benefit from the use of source materials in The Bancroft Library . |
| James Wicks has secured a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of World Literature at San Diego's Point Loma Nazarene University. He will begin in the fall while completing his dissertation, which he intends to complete in spring 2010. Congratulations James! |
