Faculty News

Awards and Honors

The English-Speaking Union of the United States recently awarded its Ambassador Book Award to Joanna Scott for her novel Liberation.  This honor is given annually to authors whose works make an outstanding contribution to interpreting the life and culture of the United States to other English-speaking people.  Previous winners have included Grace Paley, John Updike, Philip Roth, and Annie Proulx. 

Kenneth Gross  has been awarded a fellowship and residency at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center in the fall of 2007 and will spend the spring of 2008 as a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin..

James Longenbach lectured and led seminars in American experimental poetry in the fall of 2006 as the Bain-Swiggett Professor of Poetry at Princeton University. 

Russell Peck was awarded the John Hurt Fisher Prize for 2006 in recognition of his edition of John Gower’s Confessio Amantis.

Frank Shuffelton was honored at the 2006 MLA meeting by the Division on American Literature to 1800 as a Distinguished Scholar in Early American Literature.

Recent and Forthcoming Publications 

Books:

 Kenneth Gross: Shylock Is Shakespeare: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.  Ken’s 1992 Dream of the Moving Statue is also forthcoming in a paperback reprint from the Pennsylvania State University Press.

James Longenbach: Draft of a Letter.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.  Jim’s third volume of poetry.

Joanna Scott: Everybody Loves Somebody.  Boston: Little, Brown, 2006.  Joanna’s second collection of short stories. 

Curt Smith: The Voice: Mel Allen’s Untold Story.  New York: Lyons Press, 2007. 

Selected Essays and Articles:

David Bleich, “The Materiality of Reading,” New Literary History 37(2006), 607-30.

Morris Eaves, “Crafting Editorial Settlements,” Romanticism on the Net http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/   Issues 41-42, 2006.

…….., “Multimedia Body Plans: A Self-Assessment” in Electronic Textual Editing. New York: MLA, 2006.  210-23.

…….., “National Arts and Disruptive Technologies in Blake’s Prospectus of 1793” in Blake, Nation and Empire.  London: Palgrave, 2006.  119-35

Genevieve Guenther, “Spenser’s Magic, or Instrumental Aesthetics in the 1590 Faerie Queene,” English Literary Renaissance 36(2006), 194-226.

Tom Hahn, “The Homosocial Robin Hood” (with Stephen Knight) in Medieval Outlawry in Modern Perspectives, ed. Helen Phillipps.  Liverpool: Univ. of Liverpool Press, 2007.

……….   “Middle English Romance” (with Dana Symons), in A Companion to Middle English Literature and Culture, ed. Peter Brown.  London: Blackwell’s, 2007. pp. 341-357.

Stephanie Li, “Motherhood as Resistance in Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 23(2006). 

………….  “Resistance, Silence, and Placées: Charles Bon’s Octoroon Mistress and Louisa Picquet,” American Literature 79(2007), 85-112.

Bette London, “What Not to Wear: Advice for Academic Job Seekers,” ADE Bulletin 140(Fall 2006), 25-27.

James Longenbach, “Purity, Stillness, Restraint,” Virginia Quarterly Review 82(2006), 223-34.

……….., “Inquest of the Real: The Art of Honoré Sharrer” in Humanism and Enigma: The Art of Honoré Sharrer. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006. 5-12.

Katherine Mannheimer, “To the Letter: The Material Text as Space of Adjudication in Pope’s First Satire of the Second Book of Horace,” Comparative Literature Studies 43(2006).

Joanna Scott, “”Heaven and Hell,” Conjunctions 47(2006), 58-68.

………., “In a Glance,” Conjunctions 46(2006), 16-28.

……....., “The Lucite Cane,” Subtropics, (spring 2006.)