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Dr. Robert Ficociello: “Steinbeck’s Civil War: War as Peace in the American 1930s,” The Grapes of Wrath: A Retrospective After 70 Years Ed. Michael J. Meyer, Rodopi Press (2009). 327-50.
Dr. Robert Ficociello chaired a panel titled, WWI/WWII: Literary and Philosophical Responses to WWI and WWII at the annual
conference of the Pop Culture Association and American Culture
Association. He also presented a paper "Greatness? The Great War and the Great Depression in Steinbeck’s 'The Grapes of Wrath'" at the same conference.
Dr. Tassi : Annual English Department Student Conference in
Language and Literature. The English Department welcomes submissions of
critical and creative work from undergraduate and graduate students for
its annual conference. Critical essays should be no more than eight
typed pages with a reading time of 15 minutes. Creative works should
have a reading time of no more than 10 minutes. Submissions must meet
with the approval of a faculty sponsor, whose signature should be
requested. Please limit yourself to no more than two submissions.
Submission forms can be picked up in the English office. Submissions
are due March 5, 2010.
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Dr. Susan Honeyman 's book, Consuming Agency in Fairy Tales and Folkliterature has just been published by Routledge. In this book Honeyman
looks at manifestations of youth agency as depicted in fairy tales,
childlore, and folk literature, investigating the dynamic of
ideological manipulation and independent resistance as it can be read
or expressed in bodies, first through social puppetry and then through
coercive temptation (our consumption replacing the more obvious strings
that bind us). |
Susanne George BloomfieldSpeaker. “Elia Peattie & and Short Story.” With Graduate Research Assistant Carrie
Crockett. John G. Neihardt Center for Vision and Learning. Bancroft, NE, 14
March 2010.
Humanities Speaker. “Adventures in reading the West.” Halsey
Public Schools K-6, Halsey, NE, 1 March 2010.
Humanities Speaker. “Adventures in Reading the West.” Gothenburg
Public Library, 24 February 2009.
Chair for the Scholarly Nonfiction division for theWILLA National Book
Award
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Dr. Robert Luscher received a Student Life Partnership
award from the UNK Division of Student Life for his work with the
Thompson Scholars learning Community in his first year as Faculty
Director of that program, which provides academic and co-curricular
support from UNK residents of the Susan Thompson Buffet Foundation
scholarship. |
Michael J. Johnson has just published a novel, The Bastards Club,
about Eric Darius, whose go-nowhere life is interrupted when he is
drawn into a secret club, where the game of chess goes off the board
and becomes a deadly reality.
Dr. Robert Luscher presented a paper, “John Updike’s
Early Stories: The Sequences/ Cycles Within,” at the American
Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction in Savannah in
October 2009. Luscher organized the two sessions on Updike for this
conference as an inaugural venture for the new John Updike Society,
which was formed in May 2009.
Dr. Susanne Bloomfield presented "Elia Pettie and the
Travel Narrative" at the Western Literature Association Conference in
Spearfish, South Dakota, in October 2009.
Allison Hedge Coke 's twelfth book publication (seventh edited edition) was just published by Salt Publishing, through the Earthworks Series. Effigies:An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, Pacific Rim,
2009, is a gathering of four chapbooks by emerging Native (women) poets
dg nanouk okpik, Cathy Tagnak Rexford, Brandy Nalani McDougall, and
Mahealani Perez-Wendt.
Dr. Martha Kruse has been chosen for the Academy for
Teacher Excellence awarded by the College of Education for her
outstanding contributions to the preparation of new teachers. Her role
as teacher/educator extends to all areas of teaching, scholarship, and
service.
Mike Springer has put together a panel of faculty and films to be viewed Tuesdays at 7pm in Copeland 140.
3/31 - "Metropolis" - Dr. Honeyman
4/7 - "The Handmaid's Tale" - Dr. Luscher
4/14 - "Children of Men" - Dr. S. Umland
The 2009-2010 Reynolds Series has presented distinguished visiting authors: Anne Waldman, Jan Beatty, Sam Hamill, Stephanie Griest, Mathew Shenoda, Ofelia Zepeda, Eddie Chuculate, and Stephen Graham Jones. The 2010 Spring Reynolds Series Honoring the Sandhill Cranes Migration Tribute Retreat III will confer March 17 through April 4, 2010. This third annual retreat is sponsored by the Reynolds Chair & English Department, the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, the Rowe Sanctuary, the Nebraska Arts Council, the Nebraska Humanities Council, the UNK Artists & Lecturers Series, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, International Studies, the University of Nebraska at Omaha Native Studies Department, Kearney Country Inn & Suites, Alley Rose, elements, Baristas, and other donors. For more information, please consult the Reynolds Series web page on this site or contact hedgecokeaa@unk.edu. Please keep watching for more updates on this upcoming event.