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Ursinus English Faculty at Work!
Kara McShane edited a special issue of the South Atlantic Review on the works of poet John Gower. Her contribution to the issue, “Social Healing in Gower’s Visio Angliae,” expands on a recent presentation at the Third International John Gower Society Congress.
This fall, Nzadi Keita has given five readings from her new book, BRIEF EVIDENCE OF HEAVEN: Poems from the life of Anna Murray Douglass, including one in at the R.F. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, where Keita spent time researching the book. Her reading was part of a Maryland Emancipation Day event.
As part of her Humanities Writ Large Fellowship at Duke University, Meredith Goldsmith presented on her work in progress on GIS mapping and American literature to Publishing Makerspace, a Mellon-funded working group on new approaches to the publishing process. At the invitation of the Associate Dean of the Graduate School, she also presented to Duke graduate students on “The Job Search at Small Colleges.” A selection from her on-going research on Harlem Renaissance women writers, “Jessie Fauset’s ‘Not-So-New Negro Woman,’” will appear in December 2015 in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (http://legacywomenwriters.org/). In addition, she recently presented two papers at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers.
Rebecca Jaroff presented her paper on Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s novel The Western Captive (1842) at the Society for the Study of American Women Writers conference in Philadelphia, November 2015.
Matt Kozusko presented two papers at The American Shakespeare Center’s bi-ennial Blackfriars Conference in October. His essay from the previous Blackfriars Conference, “Why are Shakespeare’s Characters So Relatable?”, appeared in the recent collection Shaping Shakespeare for Performance (eds Loomis and Ray, FDU 2015). He also attended a conference at the University of Georgia, where he gave a talk on publication and book proposals to English graduate students.
Patti Schroeder published “Neo-Hoodoo Dramaturgy: Robert Johnson on Stage” in African American Review 48.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2015): 83-96, and a book review of Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism by Paige A. McGinley, in African American Review: 48.4 (Winter 2015).
Anna Maria Hong published an excerpt from her novella H & G in Green Mountains Review and poems in Unsplendid. She was a featured guest author for The Best American Poetry blog in November.