“Irving Kane Pond: A Michigan Architect in Chicago,” an old publication of Professor Emeritus Guy Szuberla’s, has been reprinted as the introduction to a new book, The Autobiography of Irving Kane Pond (Oak Park, Illinois: Hyoogen Pr., 2009). Pond (1857-1939) is perhaps best known as the architect of the Hull-House complex in Chicago, the [...]
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Freshly released from Praeger Press of ABC-CLIO, is Barbara Mann’s most recent book, The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Advance (2009).
She also just returned from keynoting an awards ceremony and leading student workshops in NY The keynote address was “The Jigonsaseh, Woman of Peace” at the 2009 Jigonsaseh Women of Peace Awards, Indigenous [...]
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Rane Arroyo’s poem, “The Buried Sea”, which was included in his collection published by University of Arizona Press, was published in Mid-American Review, Volume XXIX #1: pages 21-22.
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Professor Emeritus Larry Dessner sent us the following news about our late colleague, Professor Richard Cheney.
The University of Iowa Library has a collection of Leigh Hunt letters newly on line. The acknowledgments page includes this:
Creation of Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters has been made possible by the generous contribution from the Gladys Krieble Delmas [...]
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Jane Bradley’s story collection Are We Lucky Yet? Was a Runner Up in the AWP Grace Paley Short Fiction Competition with a rave review from the judge Allan Gurganus that notes: Comedy alongside heartache, these stories croon honky-tonk ballads after closing-time. They wade in loss but keep scanning for a Coast Guard rescue copter. [...]
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From 26 July to 1 August, 2009, Barbara Alice Mann ventured to Australia, brought in as the honored guest of the University of Newcastle, in the state of New South Wales, near Sydney, Australia. Based on her well-known book, George Washington’s War on Native America (2005, pb 2008), as well as advance buzz on The [...]
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The Department of English Language and Literature and its faculty are actively engaged with the Toledo-area community. Here are some recent examples.
English Department
Annual Summers Lecture with reception, free and open to the public, often preceded by workshops on the topic of the lecture, [...]
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Andrew Mattison’s Milton’s Uncertain Eden: Understanding Place in Paradise Lost (London and New York: Routledge, 2007) is now available in paperback.
Details can be found at Routledge:
http://www.routledgeliterature.com/books/Miltons-Uncertain-Eden-isbn9780415803014
and at Amazon (”where oddly,” as Prof. Mattison notes, “it’s $4 cheaper”):
http://www.amazon.com/Miltons-Uncertain-Eden-Understanding-Paradise/dp/0415803012/.
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Lance Schachterle, 2007-09 of the President of the James Fenimore Cooper Society writes, “I am pleased to inform you that your colleague Barbara A.Mann has received the 2009 James Franklin Beard award. This award goes annually to the untenured faculty member who has contributed significantly to scholarship on America’s first major author, James Fenimore Cooper. [...]
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Barbara Mann has two new publications:
“Aunt Jane and Father Fenimore: The Influence of Jane Austen on James Fenimore Cooper.” Literature in the Early Republic 1 (2009): 221.
and
“An English Tale of the Ordinary Type:’ Jane Austen’s Influence on James Fenimore Cooper.”Persuasions, Spring 2009.