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 Foundation.
We are very grateful for the kind permission of Mrs. Patricia Cheney, who allowed us to incorporate her late husband’s scholarly work into the project and furthermore agreed to transfer copyrights attached to her husband’s work to the University of Iowa Libraries.
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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. Astute about the nuances of sliding social class, the stories are tough, direct, grimly funny. We witness a parked-truck sexual encounter between one |
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 Tainted Gift:The Disease Method of Frontier Advance (2009), currently in production, she was there as a member of a hand-selected group of international scholars studying massacres of Native peoples around the world during colonial period from 1780 to 1820. On 30 July, as part of her tenure, Mann gave a well-received lecture, “Conquest of Empire,” to the humanities faculty of the University. In addition, she workshopped with her colleagues, planning a book on the same topic, for which she will be writing three chapters. Mann’s chapters will center on the “Creek War,” also called “The Red Sticks War,” of 1813-1814. This book will come out in 2012. In addition, along with each of her colleagues, she will produce an 8,000-word article for a special issue of a British Commonwealth journal on colonialism, to be published in 2010. Much as she enjoyed working with her international colleagues, Mann says that she most enjoyed her visit with the aboriginal peoples of Australia, comparing notes, drinking tea, and eating delicacies.
The 2nd Issue of the English Department’s Literary Journal- Toledo Review-has just been published. The journal was edited and designed by students in ENGL. 4950: Literary Magazine Production, and includes poetry and prose from both nationally recognized writers and local writers. Issues are available for $2.00 (less than 20 cents per poem) in the English Department Main Office. Spread the word!
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, also open to the public. The Summers Lecture invites writers of stature in the areas of literature, literary criticism, and linguistics. Recent lecturers have been Michael Berube, Sharon Olds, David Bevington, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edward Albee, Robert Pinsky. Workshops in preparation for these lectures conducted recently by Matthew Wikander and Andrew Mattison.
- Annual Shapiro Writing Festival Spring 2008 and 2009. Three days of workshops, readings, and other festivities. Open to the public.
English Department Faculty Members
Rane Arroyo:
- One of the founders of the Sofia Quintero Arts & Cultural Center in Toledo. Read the rest of this entry »
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:
and at Amazon (”where oddly,” as Prof. Mattison notes, “it’s $4 cheaper”):
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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. Her award was announced at the Cooper Conference in Oneonta on 15 July 2009. Please join with us in the Society in congratulating her on this well-deserved honor for her illuminating books and essays on Cooper, Jane Austen, and Native American history.” |
Three English majors were awarded the Block Scholarship in the Humanities for Academic Year 2009-10: Amanda Kaufman, Eric Sobel, and Laura Scroggs.
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.
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“An English Tale of the Ordinary Type:’ Jane Austen’s Influence on James Fenimore Cooper.”Persuasions, Spring 2009.
Dan Nowak’s first poetry collection, Recycle Suburbia, was the 2007 Quercus Review Poetry Series Annual Book Award Winner, and is now available at Amazon. Congratulations to Dan, a UT Creative Writing graduate! Here is a blurb about the book. “Dan Nowak’s Recycle Suburbia is effervescent, irreverent, erotic, and funny. He celebrates the absence of maps, and how you can get both lost and found in Toledo, Ohio. In these poems, it’s like he’s running through a museum tilting all the pictures askew so that we can see the world more clearly in all its beautiful untidiness.”
–Jim Daniels�