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Free Verse 25th issue now in publication

Faculty Notes

Nov 28, 2014

Gene Melton presents paper

On November 9, Gene Melton participated in the “Performance, Performativity, and the Harlem Renaissance” Seminar at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Pittsburgh, PA.  His paper focused on “Erotic Friendship and Intertextuality in the Fiction of Richard Bruce Nugent.”

Nov 28, 2014

Sheila Smith McKoy participates in panel

On November 17, Sheila Smith McKoy led and presented at the panel discussion on “Ebola, 2014: Anatomy of an Epidemic.”

Nov 28, 2014

Catherine Mainland to publish paper

Catherine Mainland’s “Domestic Colonialism: Sophie von Sternheim’s Bourgeois Conquests” will appear in a special edition of the South Atlantic Review this winter.

Nov 28, 2014

Andrew Johnston gives invited lecture

On October 28, Andrew Johnston gave an invited lecture titled “Models of Code and the Digital Architecture of Time” at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (University of Maryland, College Park) as a part of their Digital Dialogues speaker series (http://mith.umd.edu/podcasts/dd_fall-2014-andrew-johnston/). This lecture is based on an article of the same title that…

Nov 28, 2014

Paul Fyfe delivers keynote

Paul Fyfe gave the opening keynote at the 2014 colloquium of the Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship at Case Western Reserve University. He also led a working group on visualization and virtual worlds at the Mellon-funded Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute.

Nov 28, 2014

Helen Burgess participates in panel, publishes book

Helen Burgess created and presented “Kai-Awase: A Shell Game” as part of a panel on medieval fragments at the Babel Working Group Biennale at UC Santa Barbara, October 16–18. Burgess’s book Highways of the Mind was published on November 1 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Her co-edited collection The Handbook of Digital Medieval Literature…

Nov 28, 2014

John Balaban gives lecture, reading

On November 3, John Balaban gave a class lecture at Holy Cross University, and he joined a panel and gave a reading at Haverford College, November 11–12.

Nov 28, 2014

Chris Anson publishes book, gives talks

Chris Anson’s new book Understanding and Creating Digital Texts: An Activity-Based Approach (written with Richard Beach, Lee-Ann Kastman Breuch, and Tom Reynolds) has just been released from Rowan and Littlefield. Anson and his son Ian, who is finishing his dissertation in political science at Indiana University and replicating Chris’s research on response to student writing, also spoke…

Oct 30, 2014

John N. Wall publishes articles

John N. Wall’s “George Herbert’s Incarnational Poetics” was recently published in Renaissance Papers 2013. “The Virtual Paul’s Cross Project: Digital Modeling’s Uneasy Approximations” appears in EDUCAUSE Review Online (October 2014): https://www.educause.edu/ero/article/virtual-paul%E2%80%99s-cross-project-digital-modeling%E2%80%99s-uneasy-approximations

Oct 30, 2014

Free Verse 25th issue now in publication

The journal Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics, edited by  Jon Thompson, just released its 25th issue. It contains work by Stephen Burt, Nick Flynn, John Peck, Yusef Komunyakaa, Medbh McGuckian, Susan Stewart and other celebrated poets (http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/).