Footnotes: The Department Newsletter

Volume 51 | August 28 2006 | Number 28

WELCOME NEW GRADUATE STUDENTS AND FACULTY!

Fall 2006 - Dates to Remember

September 8:     Last day to add name to October degree list
September 15:   Last day to take final exam for October doctoral degree
September 22:   Last day to deposit October master's theses
September 29:   Last day to deposit October doctoral dissertations
September 30:   Last day for student to add a semester course
October 15:       October Degree Conferral
November 10:    Last day to add name to December degree list
November 10:    Last day for a student to drop a semester course
December 1:      Last day to take final exam for December doctoral degree
December 8:      Last day to deposit December master's theses
December 11:    Last day to remove an I grade from spring or summer 2006 to prevent an F by rule December 15:    Last day to deposit December doctoral dissertations

Congratulations!

 Laura Kortiz successfully completed her dissertation "Holding Still" ( Kelly (ch) and Madonick) on 4/20/06

Lee McGuire successfully completed his dissertation "King of Hearts and Other Stories" ( Thompson (ch) and Powers ) on 2/20/06

Anne Shea Owen successfully completed her dissertation "Where the House Lands" (Madonick (ch) and Graham ) on 4/21/06

Richard Pierce successfully completed his dissertation "Bad Train" (Madonick (ch) and Kelly ) on 4/14/06

Paul Riegle successfully completed his dissertation "Like the Sheen of Color on a Hummingbird's Throat: Poems" (Madonick (ch) and Graham ) on 4/14/06

Erin Smith successfully completed her dissertation "Luminous Nomad" (Jess (ch) and Van Walleghen ) on 4/20/06

Ben Stephens successfully completed his dissertation "The master of Beauty" (Powers (ch) and Shakar) on 4/24/06

Jason Watt successfully completed his dissertation "Some Crap I wrote in Grad School or The Beginning of the End of Disco in Minot , North Dakota " (Madonick (ch) and Graham ) on 4/24/06

Dalton Johnson successfully passed his Special Field exam on "English Romanticism (Wood (ch); Underwood, Stillinger, Pollock) on 7/3/06

Susan Stewart successfully defended her dissertation "Hold your Tongue': Catholicism, Sexuality, and John Donne 's secrete (con) texts" (Guibbory (ch); Newcomb , Lesser, Neely) on 8/6/06

Jennifer Mylander successfully defended her dissertation "The English in America : National Identity and the Transatlantic Book trade, 1620-1688 (Guibbory (ch); Newcomb , Lesser, Klein ) on 7/7/06

Abram Steen successfully defended his dissertation "Painful Passages: Death, Ritual, and Literature in Post-Reformation England (Guibbory (ch); Lesser, Hibbard, Newcomb ) on 8/4/06

GRADUATE STUDENT INFORMATION FAIR

This fall, the Graduate College and University Housing will co-sponsor a Graduate Student Information Fair for all incoming graduate students and their families, in an effort to help familiarize them with the numerous campus and community resources to support their experience here at Illinois . Over 60 campus units and community organizations have been invited to participate in this event, including organizations like CITES, the Counseling Center , the Tenant Union, and the University Library.  Graduate student attendance over the last few years has been strong and continues to grow. 

I am writing to request that you share information about this event with the newly admitted students in your unit. Here are some key event details:

Friday, September 8, 2006
Illini Union rooms A, B, & C
10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Additional information at  www.grad.uiuc.edu/mastercalendar.

Richard P. Wheeler , Dean
Graduate College

PICTURES

New faculty and anyone wanting an updated picture should see Stephanie in 210 EB before September 8th.  These pictures will be posted in the glass case outside 208 EB.

REMINDER TO GRAD STUDENTS

The Registrar does not take account of teaching and research appointments when certifying full-time status of students.  TAs with student loans must carry 12 hours when full-time certification is necessary.  (Requirements can differ; check with your loan company.)  If you have any questions concerning your status, check with Stephanie in 210 EB.

REMINDER TO FACULTY & GRAD STUDENTS

It is our department's policy to keep on file syllabi for each section of all English Department courses (Literature, Rhetoric, Creative Writing and BTW). Please turn in a copy of your syllabus for each class you are teaching this semester to Maureen in room 200 EB.

FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Parker, Robert Dale.  "Ojibwe, British, Métis, American:  Conflicting Citizenships in Early American Indian Poetry," in a session on "Citizenship and the Study of U.S. Poetry," sponsored by the American Literature Section of the MLA.  MLA Convention, Washington , DC , December 2005.

---.  "From the Pine Tree to the Proud Republic:  Intransitive Place and Cultural Change at the Dawn of American Indian Poetry." Invited lecture for the American Indian Workshop:  Place in Native American History, Literature and Culture at the University of Wales , Swansea , UK , March 2006.

---.  "Place and the Literature of Louise Erdrich and Diane Glancy," panel chair, invited for the American Indian Workshop:  Place in Native American History, Literature and Culture at the University of Wales, Swansea, UK, March 2006.

---.  "Language, Literature, and Identity," panel chair.  Seventh Annual CIC American Indian Studies Consortium Conference, Indiana University , April 2006.

---.  "The Archive." Studies in American Indian Literature, 17.2 (Summer 2005), pp. 98-99.

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER STIPEND AWARDS 2007!

APPLICATIONS ARE INVITED FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES SUMMER STIPEND PROGRAM FOR SUMMER 2007. The program provides opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work that will enhance their capacities as interpreters of the humanities and enable them to make significant contributions to thought and knowledge in the humanities.
 
Awards are for $5,000 for two consecutive months of full-time research and writing. Summer Stipend recipients may hold other research grants during the tenure of their awards, but they must work full-time on their projects during the two months of their tenure.
 
Faculty applicants must be nominated to the NEH by their home institutions, with one nomination at the junior faculty level and one at the senior faculty level. Do not submit an application directly to the NEH . One hard copy of the completed application should be sent to the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, which will review the submissions and make the nominations in mid-September 2006. Following the selection of the UIUC nominees, those nominees will then submit their applications to the NEH. Awards will be announced by the NEH in early spring 2007, with project tenure to begin as early as May 2007.
 
Who is eligible? Applicants may be faculty or staff members of colleges or universities, or of primary or secondary schools, and scholars and writers. They must be U.S. citizens, native residents of U.S. jurisdictions, or foreign nationals who have resided in the U.S. or its jurisdictions for at least three years immediately prior to the time of application. Non-faculty applicants may apply directly to the NEH; please consult the NEH guidelines for more information. Recipients of a Summer Stipend in 2002 or after are ineligible. Students enrolled in a degree program are ineligible.
 
Information can be found at the NEH website: http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/stipends.html . Guidelines for the 2007 awards will be available on the site in summer 2006. Please check the "Frequently Asked Questions" section for a detailed discussion of the awards and the application process. To see previously funded projects, click on the "Sample Projects" link; applicants may request a hard copy of one of these proposals. UIUC faculty who are planning to submit an application are strongly encouraged to contact IPRH Associate Director Christine Catanzarite at 244-7913 or catanzar@uiuc.edu to discuss the details of the application process.
 
Completed applications are due in the IPRH office no later than Monday, September 11, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. Send all materials to: Christine Catanzarite , IPRH, 805 West Pennsylvania Avenue , MC-057 . All applicants will be contacted no later than Friday, September 15; applicants who are chosen as nominees to the NEH must submit their application materials to the NEH by October 2. For more information about these awards, please contact Christine Catanzarite at 244-7913 or catanzar@uiuc.edu .

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE SIXTEENTH ANNUAL MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND BAROQUE INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM - QUESTIONING COLONIALISM

University of Miami
D ept. of Modern Languages and Literatures
Coral Gables , FL
February 22 to 24, 2007
The Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Interdisciplinary Symposium of the University of Miami invites abstracts for papers on topics dealing with colonization and its aftermath in the Americas, Africa, the Mideast, and the Far East. Topics may include indigenous cultures and their reaction to colonization; navigation; cartography; visual and literary representations of the colonized and the colonizing; the transformation of European world views; and the effects of empire in North and South America . We welcome a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches.

There will be two major keynote speakers:
Rolena Adorno , Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Literature and Chair of the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
Karen Kupperman , Silver Professor of History, New York University

While there will be concurrent sessions, we plan to end the symposium with a plenary round-table discussion addressing major issues of colonialism. Please send a brief abstract of your proposed paper and a one-page CV (electronic submission encouraged) no later than October 15, 2006 to:

Mr. Aaron Merideth , Dept. of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Miami.
P.O. Box 248093, Coral Gables , FL 33124-2074
a.merideth@miami.edu ********************************************************************************************************************* MOSAIC, a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature , invites submissions for a special issue " Antigone ".
The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2006.
Remarking a turn to tragedy that has taken place at decisive moments in the history of the West and that is recurring in contemporary literary and critical theory, this special issue centers on the figure and the play, Antigone .

For a complete description of the submission guidelines, please visit: www.umanitoba.ca/mosaic address inquiries and submissions to: Dr. Dawne McCance , Editor, MOSIAC, University of Manitoba , 208 Tier Bldg., Winnipeg , Manitoba , R3T 2N2, Canada
Tel: 204-474-9763; Fax 204-474-7584; Email: Mosiac_Journal@umanitoba.ca
Flyer is also available in Reading Room

********************************************************************************************************************** ECONOMIES OF EMPIRE; BRITISH POLITICAL ECONOMY AND MODERNIZATION

February 8 - 9, 2007

An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Nicholson Center for British Studies, The University of Chicago.

Keynote Speakers:
Manu Goswami ( New York University ): Title TBA
Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University): " Access, Knowledge, and Production: the Everyday Origins of the Industrial Revolution"

British imperial expansion was a transformative experience for both colonized and colonizer, and this conference will explore those transformations through a fresh examination of economic modernization.  The Nicholson Center invites proposals for papers that address aspects of the following questions:

* How did British imperial expansion shape the development of colonial economies and post-colonial economic nationalism?

* To what extent did Britain 's great economic transformation result from smaller changes in information dissemination, taste, styles of production, and methods of distribution?

* How, when, and why did Britain 's economic changes manifest themselves in the economic identity of Britons?

* When and why did they see themselves participating in a national economy, an imperial or Atlantic economy, and/or a global economy?

* The Nicholson Center welcomes proposals from both faculty and graduate students.  Proposals should include both a 750-word prospectus of the paper and a curriculum vitae.  Submit proposals to Eva Wilhelm at ewilhelm@uchicago.edu by October 1, 2006.

This conference is sponsored by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Questions about this or any other Nicholson Center event may be addressed to Eva Wilhelm at 773-834-3403 or ewilhelm@uchicago.edu.

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NATIONAL ACADEMY OF EDUCATION 2007 - 2008
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

The National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early career scholars working in critical areas of education research.

Fellowship Award: Fellows will receive $55,000 for one academic year of research or $27,500/year for two years working half-time. Fellows take the equivalent of one year's teaching leave during the fellowship term. Fellowships must begin during the 2007-2008 academic year. Fellows participate in professional development retreats with National Academy of Education (NAEd) members and other pre-eminent leaders in the field. Up to twenty fellows will be awarded in 2007. Selection will be made by a committee of NAEd members.

Deadline to apply is November 10, 2006.
Awardees will be notified in May 2007.

Qualifications: Applicants must have earned PhD, EdD or equivalent research degree between January 1, 2001 and December 31, 2006. Applications from all disciplines are encouraged, provided that they describe research relevant to education. Proposed project must be a research project. Applications must be made by the individual applying for the fellowship; group applications will not be accepted. Applications will be judged on the applicant's past research record, promise of early work, career trajectory and quality of the project described in the application. Concurrent funding for the proposed project is not permitted. This is a non-residential fellowship. Non-US citizens are welcome to apply.

For the 2007 application form and guidelines, visit NAEd's website: www.naeducation.org

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NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER

Fellowships 2007 - 2008

 

The National Humanities Center offers 40 residential fellowships for advanced study in the humanities during the academic year, September 2007 through May 2008. Applicants must hold doctorate or equivalent scholarly credentials. Young scholars as well as senior scholars are encouraged to apply, but they must have a record of publication, and recent Ph.D.s should be aware that the Center does not support the revision of a doctoral dissertation. Scholars from any nation may apply. In addition to scholars from all fields of the humanities, the Center accepts individuals from the natural and social sciences, the arts, the professions, and public life who are engaged in humanistic projects.

 

Candidates with an interest in the impact of recent scientific research on the human attributes of autonomy, singularity, and creativity are encouraged to apply. Individual fellowships are also available

 

 

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