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News from Women Administrators and Faculty
Winter, 2006
Lesley Wheeler
English Department
With the assistance of a
fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Lesley
Wheeler is currently writing a book, Voiceprints: Sound and Presence
in American Poetry from the 1920s to the Present.
Her essay, "Against Usefulness,"
recently appeared in Studies
in American Culture, where it was commissioned for a symposium
entitled "A Muse of Fire: Poetry and Crisis." The symposium, containing
three essays in addition to Wheeler's, won the
Jerome Stern
Award for
the best piece published in SiAC that year.
Her poems
also appear or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, StorySouth,
Barrow Street, Triplopia, MARGIE, and Puerto del Sol.
Spring, 2005 Sonia Mereles Olivera Recently published works: Cumbres poéticas latinoamericanas: Nicanor Parra y Ernesto
Cardenal. Peter Lang, 2003. www.peterlangusa.com Cecile West-Settle Cecile West-Settle of Washington and Lee and Sylvia Sherno of UCLA have co-edited a volume of essays entitled Contemporary Spanish Poetry: the Word and the World. The collection of essays, written to honor the work of the late Andrew Debicki, eminent critic of Spanish poetry, will be published this spring by Fairleigh Dickinson Press.
Winter, 2005 Sascha Goluboff Short Term Research Grant, National Council for Eurasian and East European
Research, for my project "Modern Rites of Ancient Passage: An Ethnography
of Mountain Jews in Azerbaijan," undertaken in Summer 2004. Junior
Scholar Grant, Hadassah-Brandeis Research Institute, for my project
"Wailing Women and Death Rites: An Ethnography of Mountain Jews
in Azerbaijan," undertaken in Summer 2004. Invited participant in the Kennan Institute's workshop series entitled
"Religion in Post-Soviet Societies," sponsored by the U.S.
Department of State's Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe
and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII) and
the Institute's own George F. Kennan Fund. These workshops will
be held in Washington, D.C. and will bring Sonia Mereles Olivera Recently published works: Cumbres poéticas latinoamericanas: Nicanor Parra y Ernesto
Cardenal. Peter Lang, 2003. www.peterlangusa.com Deborah Miranda Salt Publishing’s launch of their new book series Earthworks
constitutes an unprecedented event in publishing history. Featuring
six new volumes by Native Ameican writers, Earthworks is the first series
by a major international press focusing on indigenous writing. The Earthworks
Series will not only include career-spanning collections by major Native
poets such as Diane Glancy and Carter Revard, but also new works by
established and emerging writers LeAnne Howe, Heid Erdrich and Deborah
Miranda, and a vibrant first collection by Qwo-Li Driskill.
Fall, 2004 Sascha Goluboff And in May 2004, Sascha was notified for her an award in which she received a Teaching Fellowship, by the Social Science Research Council’s Eurasia Program, for her proposed class “Conflicts in Eurasia: Globalization, New States, and Soviet Legacies" to be taught at Washington and Lee University.
Helen I'Anson Learn more about Helen I'Anson's current research by checking out her
website, http://biology.wlu.edu/i'anson.htm. Julie Campbell Lesley Wheeler Lesley Wheeler's article linking American and Irish poetry by women came
out this summer: “Both Flower and Flower-Gatherer: Medbh McGuckian’s
The Flower Master and H.D.’s Sea Garden” (Twentieth-Century
Literature 49.4. 494-519). An article she co-wrote with Christopher Gavaler,
“Impostors and Chameleons: Marianne Moore and the Carlisle Indian
School” is in proofs for Paideuma: A Special Issue on H. D. and
Marianne Moore, Fall 2004 (forthcoming).
Dr. Lisa Greer
Dawn Watkins, Dean of Students, was named chair of the Associated Colleges of the South - Student Affairs Committee. The Associated Colleges of the South is a consortium of 16 private liberal arts colleges and universities. More information about the Associated Colleges of the South can be found at http://www.colleges.org.
Ellen Mayock's book, The 'Strange Girl' in Twentieth-Century Spanish Novels Written by Women (New Orleans: UP of the South, 2004. ISBN: 1-931948-22-4) will be out this spring. The book traces the evolution of the female protagonist in Spanish novels of the pre- and post-Civil War periods and of the contemporary period following Franco's death and examines themes such as imprisonment and liberation, personal and professional struggles, and sexual coming-of-age and identity.
Dorothy Brown's casebook, "Critical Race Theory: Cases, Materials and Problems" was published earlier this year (West 2003). The casebook looks at the first year law school curriculum from a critical race theory perspective with a separate chapter for Torts, Contracts, Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law and Sentencing, Property, and Civil Procedure.
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