Alumni Accomplishments
Paul Brians was interviewed briefly about "Common Errors in English Usage" on The Lionel Show on Air America on December 28, 2008.
Michael Delahoyde published an article, "Edward de Vere's ‘Antony and Cleopatra’," in a collection titled “Discovering Shakespeare”.
Mike Garcia, former WSU M.A. Student, along with Chris Ritter and Jim Haendiges, gave presentations at the 4Cs in San Francisco. Their panel was entitled, "On Making Waves Without Falling Out of the Boat: The Experience of Composing an Electronic Dissertation." It was chaired by Dr. Cynthia Selfe.
Diane Gillespie (Prof. Emer.) will be presenting a paper entitled "A City in the Archives: Virginia Woolf and the Statues of London" at the Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Fordham University, Lincoln Center in New York City, June 4-7, 2009.
Hilary Hawley, English Department alumna, presented "Learning from the Extinctathon in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake." at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), which was held June 3-6, 2009, at the University of Victoria (BC).
Kurt Hemmer's film, "Rebel Roar, the Sound of Michael McClure" won the 2008 Disc Maker's Award at the Berkeley Video Film Festival. Hemmer (PhD 2000) continued his tradition of photographing the audience when accepting the award, as he did when introducing Beat poet McClure and musician Ray Manzarek on stage in Kimbrough Hall in 1999. The film has also received the (2004) Gold Award for Documentary at The Aurora Awards in Salt Lake City, Utah.
One of Collin Hughes Humanities 303 students--Amy Huseby--has won this year's Emeritus Society Award for Research and Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities for her research essay, "Cats, Birds, or Cows: Nietzsche on Women."
Amy Huseby--One of Collin Hughes Humanities 303 students--has won this year's Emeritus Society Award for Research and Scholarship in the Arts and Humanities for her research essay, "Cats, Birds, or Cows: Nietzsche on Women."
Virginia Hyde's edition of D. H. Lawrence's Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays will be released by Cambridge University Press this month. Culminating a 10-year project by Hyde, who is professor emerita in English, the volume is part of the 48-vol. Lawrence Edition. She was the only American woman chosen as one of the editors. Her volume contains all the essays Lawrence wrote in America about Mexican and Southwestern Indians. This is the first critical edition of these essays, including Lawrence writings that have never appeared before and restoration of parts of essays that were previously omitted because of typists' errors or editors' interference. In some cases, she had to locate manuscript/typescript copies that had been considered lost or that are in private collections. The volume more than doubles the number of essays that were in the original Mornings in Mexico (1927). Additionally, an essay by her, "The Multiple Suns of Mornings in Mexico: Microcosm and Cosmos," will appear in the volume "Terra Incognita": D. H. Lawrence at the Frontiers, scheduled for late 2009. Her review of Islands and the Modernists by Jill Franks will appear in the next D. H. Lawrence Review 33 (2009). Also, Windows to the Sun: D. H. Lawrence's "Thought-Adventures," edited by Earl Ingersoll and Virginia Hyde was released several months ago by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
Camille Roman (Professor Emeritus, English, American Studies, Women's Studies) reports that her coedited THE NEW ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN POETRY: MODERNISMS, 1900-1950 went into a fourth printing at Rutgers University Press earlier this year. She also reports that kindle electronic book editions of her co edited THE WOMEN & LANGUAGE DEBATE: A SOURCEBOOK and volume one of her co edited THE NEW ANTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN POETRY are now available. She also has signed a letter of agreement to consult on a public television film project about Hawaii.