Lex Ames:
had his dissertation proposal accepted.
Aaron Belz: accepted a full-time
position at Westminster Christian Academy, teaching American Lit
and Worldviews; is publishing “J. R. R. Tolkien As the Father
of Epic Fantasy” in Christian History and “Planet-Like
Music: A Review of Sidney's Apology for Poetry” in Comment;
poems in Boston Review, Canary, Delmar,
Margie, and Carve; and a review of John Ashbery's
Chinese Whispers in Boston Review.
Bob Blaskiewicz: had an entry
on Paul and Arno Heuduck published in Oxford UP's American National
Biography and will be writing an entry for Art Deco artist Hildreth
Meiere, put together the ongoing exhibit “Hildreth Meiere:
A Profile of the Artist" as part of his SLU 2000 fellowship,
is the graduate student representative to the University Board
of Graduate Studies, is the GSA Treasurer, and was elected Vice-President
of GSA for the 2003-2004 academic year.
Eric Bryan: finshed the M.A..
passing the M.A. exams with distinction, will begin the Ph.D.
program in the fall, and served as one of EGO’s representatives
to the Graduate Student Association.
Roshaunda Cade: passed her Spanish
language and Ph.D. exams, and was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship
in the African American Studies Department.
Patrick Chura: has finished the
Ph.D.
Cheryl DeBeaux: passed her Ph.D.
exams and served as EGO’s vice-president.
Susan Fanetti: presented “Self,
Translation, Memory: The Possibility of Intercultural Literacy”
at CCCC and for Micklegemote VII.
Lea Luecking Frost: participated
in the Shakespeare Associations of America’s research seminar
“Performance and Self-Reference on the Early Modern Stage"
with the paper “King Lear and the Paradox of Antitheatricality.”
Janet Garrard-Willis: passed
her Ph.D. exams, was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship, and served
as EGO’s representative to the department graduate committee.
Patrick Hurley: finished the
Ph.D. and has “Pynchon, Grimm and Swinish Duality: A Note
on the Pig Image in Gravity's Rainbow” forthcoming
in Pynchon Notes.
Deborah Hyland: will present
“Visualizing Burd Helen: Medieval Fallen Woman as Victorian
Heroine” and chair “Church, Mission, Inculturation,
and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages”
at the International Congress on Medieval Studies this week.
Brian Jackson: served as one
of EGO’s representatives to the Graduate Student Associtation.
Graham Johnson: was awarded a
dissertation fellowship, completed the Certificate in Medieval
Studies, and presented “Signs of Religious Affiliation in
the Exeter Book of Old English Poetry” at the 27th Annual
MAMA Conference.
Mark Jones: published “Lay
Women and Sarum Ritual: A Nuptial Prayer from Morgan MS 861”
in Chaucer Review.
Keith Kelly: had “Medieval
Movie Madness: An Approach to Movies and Medieval Studies”
accepted for publication in Medievalism: The Year's Work for
2003, gave the public guest lecture “Beneath the Shadow:
Heroism and Despair in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings”
at Middlebury College, and presented “Outlawry, Heroism
and Liminality in the Life and Legend of Hereward the Wake”
at the Annual Meeting of the Medieval Academy of America.
Gina Merys Mahaffey: presented
“Acrobatics and Code-Switching: Framing Self and Society”
at CCCC and for Micklegemote VII, is a member of the Computers
& Writing Online 2003 conference committee, and served as
EGO’s secretary.
Chris Miller: finished the M.A.
Erin V. Obermueller: has “The
Artist’s Model in Mid-Victorian Women's Fiction” forthcoming
in Women’s Writing, and “‘Shifting
Ground’: Postcolonialism and Eavan Boland’s Poetry”
forthcoming in the IASIL 2000 conference proceedings from Bath
University Press.
Annie Papreck: delivered the
lecture “Deceiving Macbeth: Jesuitical Equivocation in Shakespeare's
Tragedy” for the Saint Louis, will hopefully have dissertation
proposal accepted later this afternoon, was awarded a pre-doctoral
fellowship, served as EGO’s representative to the department’s
undergraduate committee, and wants us all to know that she is
currently batting .750 for her softball team.
John Reep: presented a paper
at NEMLA and was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship.
Peggy Sahaida: finished the Ph.D.
and is moving to Ann Arbor to write and “worm her way into
the staff of the University of Michigan Press” before going
on the market for a teaching or publishing job next fall.
Art Santirojprapai: presented
“The Chronotope of the Body in Martin Scorsese’s Raging
Bull (1980) and The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)” at
the 2003 Southwest–Texas PCA/ACA Annual Regional Meeting
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, will have his dissertation proposal
accepted next week, and was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship.
Debbie Scaggs: presented “Discourses,
Literacies, Communities: Ethnographic Transformations” at
CCCC and for Micklegemote VII and “Witches and Gender”
for a department colloquium, will discuss “Why Johnny Can't
Write: An Old Debate Technologized” as part of the Graduate
Research Network at Computers & Writing, and served as EGO’s
Treasurer.
Eve Siebert: passed her Ph.D.
exams with distinction.
Katie St. Peters: presented “Textbooks,
Literacies, and the Writing Classroom” at CCCC and for Micklegemote
VII, and served as EGO’s representative to the department
FIRE fund committee.
Jeff Schwarz: has had “‘Who’s
the Foreigner Now?’: Rethinking 1920s American Prejudice
in A Farewell to Arms” accepted for inclusion in
an upcoming anthology on Hemingway, and Italy and presented “Between
the Dio of Catholicism and the Dio of Capitalism: Harmony in the
Tenements of Pietro di Donato’s Christ in Concrete?”
at the 20th-Century Literature Conference.
Jason Tanner: finished the M.A.
John Walter: was invited by the
Texas Tech University English Department to present “Remembering
That Which We Forgot: Reviving Medieval Memoria for the
Contemporary Classroom” as a featured speaker for their
8th Annual Graduate English Society Conference and to give a workshop
on teaching literature with technology and co-presented “Writing
a Virtual Body: Readability on the MOO” at CCCC, where he
also served as a Digital Troubleshooter. He is currently chairing
the Computers and Writing Online 2003 conference and co-coordinating
the Graduate Research Network Online 2003, is serving on the selection
committee for the 2003 Kairos/LORE Computers and Writing
Awards for TAs and Adjuncts, has been appointed to a three-year
term as a member of the CCCC Committee on Computers in Composition
and Communication, continues to be an assistant administrator
of the educational MOO Connections and is a member of the editorial
board of Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy,
was awarded a pre-doctoral fellowship, was interviewed by the
University of Oregon’s student newspaper about Tolkien and
teaching Tolkien courses, and served as EGO’s president.
