Current News

The following is an overview of the recent publications, conferences and academic work done by the Graduate Students across departments.

Did a presentation, _Bigger Isn’t Better: Discovering Chamber Musicals_ on 27 October 2005, for the International Network of Schools for the Advancement of Arts Education-- Annual conference in Pittsburg, PA (http://www.artsschoolsnetwork.org)

Presented a paper at the Center for the Study of Books and Media at Princeton University on 25 February 2005. The title of the paper was "Revolution Under Review: The Reception of Crane Brinton's The Anatomy of Revolution".

Published a poem this year about World War I through the Rupert Brooke Society in Cambridge, England. At their editors' request, he is also currently cutting an article I wrote about Brooke and the manipulation of his persona by Churchill as a marketing device to encourage military volunteerism pre-draft in 1915 England and the consequent effect of his sexuality on his literary and critical reputation.

In July, presented a paper at the British Society for the History of Science annual meeting, 15-17 July 2005, Leeds, UK entitled "Conversations and Contrasting Views: Paleobotanical Debates in the Scientific Correspondence and Publications of William Crawford Williamson, 1831-1895"

Will be presenting a paper at the upcoming Modernist Studies Association conference in Chicago, IL, from November 3-6. The paper is entitled "Kleinian Mourning in Eudora Welty's _The Optimist's Daughter."

Will be presenting a paper titled "An Gorta Mor: Contemporary Commemorations of the Great Hunger" at the ACIS Conference, to be held at Drew on November 11-12.

"Milton's Ontology of Books and the _Areopagitica_" Forthcoming in the Conference Proceedings for the 8th International Milton Conference, Grenoble, FR June 2005.

"Baudrillard, _The Matrix_, and the Future of Religion." International Baudrillard Conference, Swansea, UK: Sept. 2006. By invitation.

"Creation Anxiety in Mary Shelley." 8th International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado Springs, CO: October 13-15, 2005.

Session Chair: Mary Shelley. 8th International Conference on Romanticism, Colorado Springs, CO: October 13-15, 2005.

"Milton's Ontology of Books and the _Areopagitica_." 8th International Milton Conference, Grenoble, FR: June 7-11, 2005.

Attended the Conference in Southern Writers, Oxford Mississippi. July 22, 2005 and presented a paper on Willa Cather for a special Cather panel. The paper was titled, “The Art of Accommodating: The Matriarch in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Cather’s My Antonia.”

Sarah Gardham

Presented a paper titled, "Subverting the Male Gaze: Cather's Lena Lingard and Faulkner's Lena Grove." at two conferences.

1. "Violence, the Arts, and Cather: The 10th International Cather Seminar, 2005"

2. "The Tenth Annual Southern Writers, Southern Writing Conference", in Oxford, Mississippi,

The paper she presented has been accepted for inclusion in the Nebraska conference's collection volume; a shorter version of the paper will also be appearing in the Willa Cather Newsletter and Review shortly.

Presented a series of 4 lectures on his work at the Biblical Cities Conference at the University of Oklahoma sponsored by the Biblical Archaeological Society, the Center for Classical Archaeology and Civilization and the University of Oklahoma Department of History. Next month, he will present a paper and host a session at the Batchelder Conference for Biblical Archaeology November 10-12 University of Nebraska at Omaha. The paper is titled, "Using both Text and Trowel: Historical and Archaeological Topographies."

He will also be presenting a paper at SBL in Philadelphia in November titled, "Revisiting the Temple of Bethsaida".

Presenting a paper at SBL conference in Philadelphia on November. The title: "To Everyone Who Conquers and Continues To Do My Works To The End, I Will Give Authority Over the Nations; To Rule Them With An Iron Rod" (Rev. 2:26-27): The Book of Revelation Through a Postcolonial Lens