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William Conwill discusses Family Intervention program to International Conference
African American Studies
August 26, 2009
African American Studies professor William Conwill presented a paper at the 16th Congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in Kunming (Hunnan Province), China, July 27-31. The theme of the congress was Humanity, Development and Cultural Diversity. Hunnan Province, home to about 25 ethnic minorities, is one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the world.
Conwill presented an ethnography of a joint (the Oregon Social Learning Center in Eugene, OR and Wayne County, Michigan) project to introduce PMTO, an evidence-based family intervention program, throughout the ethnically diverse Detroit area during a challenging period of its development. In "Parent Management Training--Oregon-style in Wayne County, Michigan: What Would Maslow Do?" Conwill emphasized the marked improvement in families' financial resources following their adoption of PMTO to manage their children's behavior.
Faye Harrison serves as speaker and chair at International Anthropological Conference
African American Studies, Anthropology
August 25, 2009
Faye V. Harrison, Director of African American Studies and Professor of Anthropology was a Distinguished Speaker and chair of a scientific session at the 16th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences. She is serving a second term as a member-at-large on the IUAES's Executive Committee. The congress was held at Yunnan University in Kunming, People's Republic of China.
American Society of Landscape Architects Names Bob Graham as an Honorary Member
Graham Center for Public Service
August 25
Bob Graham was one of 10 new honorary members named to the to the American Society of Landscape Architects for his work in education, government, environmental activism, and dedication to the landscape architecture profession.
The society specifically cited his commitment to the environment in his career:
"Throughout his political career, Senator Graham has led local, national and international initiatives to protect and conserve natural resources. A champion of the Everglades, he recognizes that conservation and sound development can coexist. As governor, he led the charge to secure public ownership of more environmentally endangered lands than any other state in the nation."
Honorary membership in the ASLA is the highest honor bestowed upon non-landscape architects by the society. Since 1899, the ASLA has awarded only 134 honorary memberships.
News from English
English
August 23, 2009
- Richard Burt's “Border Skirmishes: Weaving Around the Bayeux Tapestry and Cinema in Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves and El Cid” appears in Medieval Film, eds. Anke Bernau and Bettina Bildhauer (Manchester UP, 2009), 158–81.
- Jill Ciment’s new novel, Heroic Measures, was chosen as a notable summer novel by The Wall Street Journal and O, The Oprah Magazine.
- Andrew Gordon spoke on “Everything Is Illuminated: Novel and Film” and was respondent in a panel on the fiction of Saul Bellow at the American Literature Association Conference May 21 in Boston.
- Andrew Gordon and Norman Holland organized the 26th annual International Conference on Literature and Psychology, held July 15 at the University of Viterbo, Italy. 55 papers were presented by conferees from the U.S., Portugal, Italy, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Iran. Gordon spoke on “Oedipus as Time Traveler in the Back to the Future Trilogy.” The next International Conference on Literature and Psychology will be held June 23–27, 2010 at the University of Pecs, Hungary. For details, contact Gordon at <agordon@ufl.edu>.
- Kenneth Kidd presented a paper at the June meeting of the Children’s Literature Association, along with Anastasia Ulanowicz and 10 UF graduate students. More critically, Kenneth made his fictional debut in a story by Joseba Gabilondo in his book apokalipsia guztioi erakutsia (in Basque). Kenneth plays an evil librarian in the British Museum who protects a scandalous secret: that Shakespeare copied from a Basque author.
- Mary Robison’s novel One DOA, One on the Way was listed on O, The Oprah Magazine’s 2009 Summer Reading List.
- Phil Wegner’s essay “Ken MacLeod’s Permanent Revolution: Utopian Possible Worlds, History, and the Augenblick in the ‘Fall Revolution’” has been published in Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction (Pluto Press/Wesleyan University Press), eds. Mark Bould and China Miéville.
- Phil Wegner’s essay “Learning to Live in History: Alternate Historicities and the 1990s in The Years of Rice and Salt” has been published in Kim Stanley Robinson Maps the Unimaginable: Critical Essays (McFarland), edited by the late William J. Burling. His book Life Between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties has been published by Duke University Press.
- Jodi Schorb’s review of Thomas Foster’s Sex and the Eighteenth Century Man: Massachusetts and the History of Sexuality in America, “Masters of their Domain,” appears in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 15.3 (Summer 2009).
- Stephanie Smith presented “Three Journeys Back to the Future: SF and the 19th Century” at the Eaton Science Fiction Conference, April 30–May 3 at UC Riverside.
- “Secret Witness or, the Fantasy Structure of Republicanism,” co-authored by Ed White and Michael Drexler, appears in Early American Literature.
News of Current Students
- Kristin Allukian presented “From Servant to CEO: Negotiating Spheres of Work in Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig” and Mauro Carassai presented “American Digital Studies: Problem and Perspectives in Envisioning a Culturally-Oriented New Media Sub-Field” at Re-Configurations of American Studies, the 2009 Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth College.
- Ramona Caponegro presented “Trials and Their Tribulations: Performances of (In)Justice in Realistic Children’s Novels” at the 36th Annual Children’s Literature Association Conference. Her entries “Blind Man’s Bluff” and “Jump Rope” appear in the Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society, ed. Rodney P. Carlisle (SAGE Publications, 2009), and her entries “Richard Paul Evans” and “The Christmas Box” appear in the Encyclopedia of American Popular Fiction, ed. Geoff Hamilton and Brian Jones (Facts on File, 2009).
- Claudia Hoffman presented both “Localizing the Transnational: The Negotiation of Immigrant Spaces in ‘Accented’ Nollywood Films” at Nollywood and Beyond: Transnational Dimensions of the African Video Industry in Mainz, Germany and “Watching the ‘Globalization of the Poor’: Cinematic Representations of Undocumented African Workers in Europe” at the Third Annual European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) in Leipzig, Germany.
- Cari Keebaugh presented “‘Dragonology’: The History of Samaranth from the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica Trilogy” at the 2009 Children’s Literature Association Conference, “The Best of Three,” in Charlotte, NC.
- Ellen Joy Letostak presented “The Tragedy of Errors: Star Crossed and Transmediacy” during the Shakespeare Cinetextuality seminar at the Shakespeare Association of America 37th Annual Meeting, Washington DC, April 2009.
- Hanh Nguyen’s chapter “The Case of Nguyen Nguyet Cam’s Two Cakes Fit for a King: Female Appropriation of Autochthonous Mythology through Aesthetic Transmission to the Diaspora,” co-authored with R.C. Lutz, appears in From Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in Women’s Aesthetic Production, eds. V. G. Julie Rajan and and Sanja Bahun-Radunovic (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Also co-authored with Lutz, “A Bridge Between Two Worlds: Crossing to America in Monkey Bridge” appears in The Emergence of Buddhist American Literature, eds. John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff (SUNY Press).
- Horacio Sierra’s review of Acts and Texts: Performance and Ritual in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, eds. Laurie Postlewate and Wim Hüsken, appears in The Sixteenth Century Journal, 40.2 (Summer 2009): 598–99.
- John Tinnell’s review of Steven Mailloux’s Disciplinary Identities: Rhetorical Paths of English, Speech, and Composition appears in Composition Forum: A Journal of Pedagogical Theory in Rhetoric and Composition 20 (Summer 2009).
News of Former Students
- Sharmain van Blommestein (PhD, 2005) has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Communication at SUNY Potsdam since Fall 2007 (tenure track) and was appointed, July 1, 2009, as the Director of Graduate Studies.
- Natasa Kovacevic’s (PhD, 2006) book Narrating Post/Communism: Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization is now in paperback (Routledge, 2009).
- Maud (Rebecca) Newton (BA, 1993) appears on the cover of the Spring issue of Narrative magazine, which includes an except from her novel-in-progress. Her writing has recently appeared at Granta Online and in Bookforum, and her essay “Conversations You Have at Twenty,” which won second prize in Narrative’s 2008 Love Story Contest, appears in Love is a Four-Letter Word, an anthology also featuring contributions from Kate Christensen, Junot Diaz, Gary Shteyngart, Lynda Barry, Said Sayrafiezadeh, Wendy McClure, Amanda Stern, and more. She has reviewed books for the New York Times Book Review and many other newspapers, and is a contributor to NPR’s “Books We Like.” She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, fellow UF English Department alum Max Clarke.
- Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar’s (PhD, 2008) Haram in the Harem has been published by Peter Lang publishers. Her essay “Between Women and Their Bodies: Male Perspectives of Female Partition Experiences in the Writing of Khadija Mastur” appears in South Asian Review 29.1.
- Since his last newsletter submission (April 2007), Robert Walker (PhD, 1974) has continued to write about 18th-century and modern literature from retirement in St. Petersburg, FL. In addition to five book reviews, in the past two years he has written three notes on Samuel Richardson (two in Notes & Queries and one in the Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer), an essay on Samuel Johnson in the Saint Austin Review, an essay on Curzio Malaparte for the Sewanee Review and an essay on James Boswell for English Studies.
News from the Department of Statistics
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