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Statistics Professor Ghosh delivers Invited Lecture
Statistics
October 26
Malay Ghosh, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics, delivered a special invited lecture entitled Benchmarked Small Area Estimators at the Sixth conference on Survey Sampling in Social and Economic Research held in Katowice, Poland on September 22,2009.
News from English
English
October 19
- From September 4 to October 12, Roger Beebe showed a program of his recent multi-projector films on a 20-city tour that took him from Gainesville to Duluth, MN and back. Screenings were held at various venues including the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Iowa, and the McKinney Avenue Contemporary in Dallas. He’ll be concluding the tour with a stop at UCF on October 30 and a final show at the Harn Museum on November 3. More information on the films and the tour (PDF).
- Marsha Bryant’s response “Counter-Intuitive Innovation” appears in the forum “Making It New: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Modernism” in Modernism/modernity 16.3 (September 2009): 482–84.
- Last month, Pamela Gilbert visited the UK, where she served as external examiner for a PhD at Sheffield, finalized copyediting queries for a scholarly edition of a novel, and gave an inaugural keynote address for the Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference at University College London, titled “‘Only Popular’: Thoughts toward a Reappraisal of the Victorian Novel.”
- On September 10 Andrew Gordon presented “‘Oy, a Mormon’: Jews and Mormons in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America” at the American Literature Association Conference on Jewish American Literature in Salt Lake City. He chaired a panel on “Maus and Beyond: Jewish Comic Books” at the same conference.
- Tace Hedrick’s essay “Queering the Cosmic Race: Esotericism, Mestizaje, and Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral and Gloria Anzaldúa” appears in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 34.2 (Fall 2009): 67–98.
- Padgett Powell is profiled in the October 18, 2009 issue of the New York Times Magazine.
- Malini J. Schueller’s essay “Decolonizing Global Theories Today: Hardt and Negri, Agamben, Butler” appears in Interventions 11.2 (2009): 235–54.
News of Current Students
- Kristin Allukian presented “Women of the Brotherhood: Gender, Class and the American City in George Lippard’s The Quaker City” at the New England American Studies Association’s Annual Meeting in Lowell, MA.
- Eric Doise’s “Unorthodox Iconography: Russian Orthodox Icons in Battleship Potemkin” appears in Film Criticism (Spring 2009).
News of Former Students
- Mary Beth Ferda’s (MFA 2009) poem “Bradford County Fair in the Daytime” appeared in the May 22, 2009 issue of the Times Literary Supplement.
News from English
English
October 5
- On August 1 in Woodstock, CT, John Cech gave a talk on the late, celebrated New England storyteller, Princess Red Wing, at the annual summer Pow-Wow of the Pokanoket Tribe. The Pokanokets (also known as the Wampanoags) were the Native Americans who celebrated the first Thanksgiving with the English colonists. Princess Red Wing was a direct descendent of one of their early leaders, Metacom (“King Philip”). Over the years, Cech has interviewed and written articles on Princess Red Wing, and he has produced “Recess!” radio segments using portions of his audio interviews with her. Cech and the Center for Children’s Literature and Culture are assisting the Pokanoket Tribal Council to develop an archive of materials related to Princess Red Wing for future biographical works about her. Preceding Cech’s presentation, he was officially adopted by the tribe, undergoing purification with sacred smoke (“smudging”), and given the tribal name “Many Arrows.”
- The PsyArt Foudation has published Norman Holland’s Literature in the Brain.
- Ed White’s essay “The Pequot Conspirator” appears in American Literature 81.3.
News of Former Students
- Kenneth Chan’s (PhD, 1999) book Remade in Hollywood: The Global Chinese Presence in Transnational Cinemas has been published by Hong Kong University Press (2009).
- Capers Jones’s (MA, 1961) 16th book, Software Engineering Best Practices, is being published in October of 2009 by McGraw Hill. His 15th book, Applied Software Measurement (3rd edition), and his 14th book, Estimating Software Costs (2nd edition), were published by McGraw Hill in 2008 and are available in Chinese and Japanse editions. His 13th book, The History and Future of Narragansett Bay, was published in 2006 by Universal Press. It is also available in an Amazon Kindle edition. Jones founded and was the chairman of Software Productivity Research, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, and is now an international consultant and speaker on software engineering and project management topics. He and his wife live in Narragansett, RI, and he is a member of the New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA) as well as several software professional associations.
- Oindrila Mukherjee (MFA, 2004) recently earned her PhD from University of Houston and is now a creative writing fellow at Emory University. Her story “The Way to Cook Fish” has been shortlisted for the Eric Hoffer Award.
- Dave Reidy’s (MFA, 2006) short story “Chasing Cars” appears on Granta.com.
