Ty Roth, who graduated with an MA in Literature in 2005 while teaching high school full time in Port Clinton, Ohio, has just signed a two-book deal with Delecorte, a Random House imprint, based on their acquisition of his first novel, So Shelly. According to the official announcement at Publishers Weekly, So Shelly “transposes Romantic [...]
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A new booklet, Guide to the English Major at the University of Toledo, is now available in the English Department main office. The Guide describes the four concentrations within the English Major, lists their requirements and the courses that meet each requirement, and gives information on English Honors, graduate study, scholarships, and faculty specialties. The [...]
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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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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.
John Boening, English Department Professor Emeritus and a former Chair of the Department, recently published “Rilke’s Panther, Kafka’s Ape: Literature and the Human(e) in J. M. Coetzee’s The Lives of Animals,” in the volume Komparatistik als Humanwissenschaft /Comparative Literature as a Human/e Discipline , ed. Monika Schmitz-Emans, Claudia Schmitt and Christian Winterhalter (Würzburg: Konigshausen & [...]
Prof. Matt Wikander delivered a paper, “Rubens, the Court Masques, and Royal Martyrdom,” at the International Globe Theatre Conference on “Role and Rule,” which was co-sponsored by Globe Education and the University of Padua at Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London, February 6-8.
A Companion to Tragedy, edited by Rebecca Bushnell, originally published in hardcover in 2005, will [...]