Lex
Ames:
presented “Sir Gawain and the Green Other” at MMLA in
November.
Aaron
Belz: has a review of T.A. Shippey’s J.R.R.
Tokien: Author of the Century, published in the Jan./Feb.
2002 Books & Culture, and last month he published
the poems “Looking at Ducks” in Fence and “Map
Rules” and “The Slick Ruts” in Fine Madness.
Nikki
Bess: has an article on American women’s prison
literature accepted for publication in a collection to be published
by the University of Missouri Press next fall.
Bob
Blaskiewicz: presented “Remembering Death: American
Combat Memoirs of WW II” at MMLA in November.
Susan
Fanetti: presented “‘Guarding the Door of Darkness’:
The Primacy of Women in Joseph Conrad's Novels” at the New
Voices conference at Georgia State University.
Janet
Garrard-Willis: participated in the Graduate Research
Network at Computers & Writing in May, and, as part of her
SLU 2000 Research Assistantship, Janet is helping compile and
is an assistant editor of Edmund Spencer, On Line.
Graham
Johnson: published Tennyson's Pivotal Idyll: "Pelleas
and Ettarre" in The Year's Work for Medievalism XV and presented
a paper at the Medieval Association of the Midwest conference
in September.
Mark
Jones: has “Lay Women and Sarum Ritual: A Nuptial
Prayer from Morgan M. 861” forthcoming in Chaucer Review.
He really wishes he could be here but is currently tied up “grading
exams in Branson.”
Steve
Joos: presented his paper "Corrigidora's Blues"
at Mickelgemote IV.
Annie
Papreck: presented pre-show lectures for the Shakespeare
Festival of St. Louis' inaugural season production of Romeo
and Juliet and for the Repertory Theater of St. Louis' production
of King Lear. She is an assistant editor of Sir Philip
Sidney, On Line.
Art
Santirojprapai: presented "Christ at the Movies:
The Post-Modern Mythology of the Messiah" for the fall speakers
series at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. He’s passed
the written exam and will be taking the oral exam next week.
Roxanne
Schwab: was appointed Managing Editor of the African
American Review, and Editor of SLU's North Central Association
Self-Study.
Jeff
Schwarz: successfully completed scrutiny in June. The
tentative title of his dissertation is Confronting Ethnicity:
Irish, Italian, and Jewish American Literature of the 1920s and
1930s. Jeff also had "'The Saloon Must Go, and I Will
Take It with Me': American Prohibition, Nationalism, and Expatriation
in The Sun Also Rises" published in Studies in the Novel.
John
Walter: participated in the Graduate Research Network,
presented a paper, and was awarded the first Kairos/Lore Computers
and Writing Service Award for Graduate Students at the Computers
and Writing conference in May; joined the editorial board of Kairos:
A Journal of Writing in Webbed Environments, became an assistant
administrator of Connections MOO, and was awarded the Fontbonne
Teaching Fellowshiop in July; and presented “Beowulf
as Memoria: Cultural Memory, Trauma, and Narrative”
at the Medieval Association of the Midwest conference in September.
He continues to teach workshops on MOO pedagogy and programming
through the MOOShop Project and still coordinates the Thursday
Night MOO, a weekly discussion for the computers and writing community.
Terry
Wandtke: has the article “Saints, Artists, and Christian
Political Activism: Scrutinizing the Assault on Controversial
Art” forthcoming in Prism; offered the seminar “The
Dark Night and the Poet’s Soul, I: T.S. Eliot, Religious
Orthodoxy, and Revolutionary Poetry” at the 2001 Cornerstone
Festival; was a discussant on “What Is a —Christian
Film?” “Why Create [as a Filmmaker]?” panels at
the 2001 Flickerings Film Festival; planed and organized the 2nd
Annual Faith and Film Conference: A Reel to Real Conversation,
held in conjunction with the Saint Louis International Film Festival;
was a selector of finalists for the Saint Louis International
Film Festival Interfaith Award; and was awarded The Saint Louis
University “Walter J. Ong Award.”EGO Kudos List, Fall
2001
