Uncategorized: December 2006 Archives
Project Muse, the electronic journal database, has recently added The Cambridge Quarterly to its collection. Published by Oxford University Press, the journal devotes itself principally to literary criticism and its fundamental aim to take a critical look at accepted views.
The Cambridge Quarterly also regularly publishes articles on music, cinema, painting, and sculpture, and endows a prize for, and publishes, the best Cambridge University Finals dissertation each year.
Full-text articles are available beginning with volume 35 (2006).
The Cambridge Quarterly also regularly publishes articles on music, cinema, painting, and sculpture, and endows a prize for, and publishes, the best Cambridge University Finals dissertation each year.
Full-text articles are available beginning with volume 35 (2006).
Public Readings by Recognized and Emerging Authors, Spring 2007
THALIA FIELD
February 1, 1:30-3:00, Center for Humanities Lounge, 10th floor Gladfelter
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics.
Thalia Field's work lives at the crossroads of poetry, prose,drama and essay. Her collections, Point and Line (2000) and Incarnate: Story Material (2004) are available from New Directions, and a book-length "performance novel" Ululu (Clown Shrapnel) is forthcoming from Coffee House press in 2007. Recently, her multimedia performance work has included Rest/Less (Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2005) and Zoologic (www.HOW2Journal.com; Vol. 2, No.2). Thalia's work has appeared in numerous journals including Theater, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Fence, and Conjunctions where she guest-edited issue #28 on experimental music-theater scores. Upcoming projects include an interdisciplinary DVD/book, Inside the Light, and a novel-length essay on the roots of experimentation in modern art and science, Experimental Animals.
DANIEL HOWE
February 8, 1:30-3:30, Weigley Room, 9th floor Gladfelter
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics and the Department of Film and Media Arts.
Daniel C. Howe is a digital media artist and researcher at NYU's Media Research Lab. His recent work has focused on interactive poetry generation systems and the use of 'virtual' spaces for recombinant poetics. In addition to a background in poetry and improvisational music, Daniel has master's degrees in Computer Science (U. Washington) and Interactive Media Art (NYU/ITP), as well as nearly 10 years experience as a programmer, software designer and educator. His recent work has appeared in Leonardo, the ELO Collection, Sci+Art NYC, Pixilerations, E-Fest '06, the Thailand New Media Arts Festival, ASCI Digital, PixxelPoint, and ArtBots. He is the 2005-06 recipient of the Brown Fellowship for Electronic Writing.
SANDRA NEWMAN
February 15, 3:30-4:30, Women's Studies Lounge, 8th floor Anderson
Sandra Newman is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-nominated novel The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, published by HarperCollins, and the forthcoming Cake, from Random House. Her fiction, essays, talks, and reviews have appeared in Harper's, Granta, on BBC's Radio 4, and in various literary journals. She is Writer-in-Residence at Temple University for the 2006-2007 academic year.
JUNOT DIAZ
March 15, 8:00, Room 222 at Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street
Junot Diaz is the author of Drown. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), and in Pushcart Prize XXII. He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
BHANU KAPIL
March 22, 8:00, Room 222 at Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics and the New India Seminar
Bhanu Kapil was born in England in 1968, to Indian parents, and grew up in a working-class, South-Asian community in Greater London. She came to the U.S. in 1990 and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches at Naropa University. A writer forged by this history of migration, and who has come to understand the border as a site of both transformation and loss, her work crosses genre and subject borders her books Autobiography of a Cyborg (2000), The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (2001) and Incubation: A Space for Monsters (2006). She has recently completed a long prose work, Humanimal: a project for future children, a creative non-fiction account of the Wolfgirls of Midnapure, two children found living with wolves in 1920s Bengal.
JOHANNA DRUCKER
April 4, 3:00-4:30, Weigley Room, 9th floor Gladfelter
Lecture: "The Book as a Writing Space"
JOHANNA DRUCKER
April 5, 8:00, Room 222 at Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics
Joanna Drucker is currently the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and Professor in the Department of English. In 2000, she helped establish the Speculative Computing laboratory, a research group dedicated to exploring experimental projects in Humanities Computing.
Her recent work focuses on aesthetics and digital media, particularly graphical communication and the expressive character of visual form. She is well known for her publications on the history of written forms, typography, design and visual poetics. Her most recent critical work, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity was published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2005. In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. Her work has been exhibited and collected in special collections in libraries and museums including the Getty Center for the Humanities, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, the New York Public Library, Houghton Library at Harvard University, and many others. She is currently working on a History of Graphic Design in collaboration with Emily McVarish, curating an exhibition at the University of Virginia Art museum titled "Complicit!," and printing a letterpress book, Testament of Women at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. Her other project is the development of a networked resource for the study of artists' books, ABSOnline.
TONYA FOSTER
April 12, 1:30-3:00, Women's Studies Lounge, 8th floor Anderson
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics
Tonya Foster is the author of poetry, fiction, and essays that have been published in a variety of journals from Callaloo to The Hat to Western Humanities Review. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna Press) and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art , published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She is currently completing a cross-genre piece on New Orleans, and Monkey Talk, an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, and surveillance. A recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and City University of New York, Tonya teaches at Cooper Union and Bard College, and edits Futurepoems books, a New York City-based publishing collaborative.
PETER CAREY
April 19, 6:30-7:30, Room 103, Tuttleman Learning Center
Co-sponsored by the Provost's Office
Peter Carey was born in Australia and has lived in New York City since 1990. He is one of only two writers in history to have won the Booker Prize twice. His 1985 novel, Illywhacker, was short-listed for the prize. His 1998 work, Oscar and Lucinda, won it; then, in 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang won once more. Professor Carey's novels have received every major Australian Literary award, including the Miles Franklin (3 times) and the National Book Council Award (3 times). His most recent works are My Life as a Fake and a memoir, Wrong About Japan. Carey now directs the Creative Writing MFA program at Hunter College.
Sponsored by the Temple University Creative Writing Program and the Richard Moyer Fund.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, call 215.204.1796.
THALIA FIELD
February 1, 1:30-3:00, Center for Humanities Lounge, 10th floor Gladfelter
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics.
Thalia Field's work lives at the crossroads of poetry, prose,drama and essay. Her collections, Point and Line (2000) and Incarnate: Story Material (2004) are available from New Directions, and a book-length "performance novel" Ululu (Clown Shrapnel) is forthcoming from Coffee House press in 2007. Recently, her multimedia performance work has included Rest/Less (Boston Cyberarts Festival, 2005) and Zoologic (www.HOW2Journal.com; Vol. 2, No.2). Thalia's work has appeared in numerous journals including Theater, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, Fence, and Conjunctions where she guest-edited issue #28 on experimental music-theater scores. Upcoming projects include an interdisciplinary DVD/book, Inside the Light, and a novel-length essay on the roots of experimentation in modern art and science, Experimental Animals.
DANIEL HOWE
February 8, 1:30-3:30, Weigley Room, 9th floor Gladfelter
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics and the Department of Film and Media Arts.
Daniel C. Howe is a digital media artist and researcher at NYU's Media Research Lab. His recent work has focused on interactive poetry generation systems and the use of 'virtual' spaces for recombinant poetics. In addition to a background in poetry and improvisational music, Daniel has master's degrees in Computer Science (U. Washington) and Interactive Media Art (NYU/ITP), as well as nearly 10 years experience as a programmer, software designer and educator. His recent work has appeared in Leonardo, the ELO Collection, Sci+Art NYC, Pixilerations, E-Fest '06, the Thailand New Media Arts Festival, ASCI Digital, PixxelPoint, and ArtBots. He is the 2005-06 recipient of the Brown Fellowship for Electronic Writing.
SANDRA NEWMAN
February 15, 3:30-4:30, Women's Studies Lounge, 8th floor Anderson
Sandra Newman is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-nominated novel The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done, published by HarperCollins, and the forthcoming Cake, from Random House. Her fiction, essays, talks, and reviews have appeared in Harper's, Granta, on BBC's Radio 4, and in various literary journals. She is Writer-in-Residence at Temple University for the 2006-2007 academic year.
JUNOT DIAZ
March 15, 8:00, Room 222 at Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street
Junot Diaz is the author of Drown. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), and in Pushcart Prize XXII. He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. He is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
BHANU KAPIL
March 22, 8:00, Room 222 at Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics and the New India Seminar
Bhanu Kapil was born in England in 1968, to Indian parents, and grew up in a working-class, South-Asian community in Greater London. She came to the U.S. in 1990 and currently lives in Boulder, Colorado, where she teaches at Naropa University. A writer forged by this history of migration, and who has come to understand the border as a site of both transformation and loss, her work crosses genre and subject borders her books Autobiography of a Cyborg (2000), The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (2001) and Incubation: A Space for Monsters (2006). She has recently completed a long prose work, Humanimal: a project for future children, a creative non-fiction account of the Wolfgirls of Midnapure, two children found living with wolves in 1920s Bengal.
JOHANNA DRUCKER
April 4, 3:00-4:30, Weigley Room, 9th floor Gladfelter
Lecture: "The Book as a Writing Space"
JOHANNA DRUCKER
April 5, 8:00, Room 222 at Temple Center City (TUCC), 1515 Market Street
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics
Joanna Drucker is currently the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and Professor in the Department of English. In 2000, she helped establish the Speculative Computing laboratory, a research group dedicated to exploring experimental projects in Humanities Computing.
Her recent work focuses on aesthetics and digital media, particularly graphical communication and the expressive character of visual form. She is well known for her publications on the history of written forms, typography, design and visual poetics. Her most recent critical work, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity was published by the University of Chicago Press in spring 2005. In addition to her scholarly work, Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. Her work has been exhibited and collected in special collections in libraries and museums including the Getty Center for the Humanities, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Marvin and Ruth Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry, the New York Public Library, Houghton Library at Harvard University, and many others. She is currently working on a History of Graphic Design in collaboration with Emily McVarish, curating an exhibition at the University of Virginia Art museum titled "Complicit!," and printing a letterpress book, Testament of Women at the Virginia Arts of the Book Center. Her other project is the development of a networked resource for the study of artists' books, ABSOnline.
TONYA FOSTER
April 12, 1:30-3:00, Women's Studies Lounge, 8th floor Anderson
Part of POETRY COMPLEX: Cross-Genre Writing, co-sponsored by Temple-Penn Poetics
Tonya Foster is the author of poetry, fiction, and essays that have been published in a variety of journals from Callaloo to The Hat to Western Humanities Review. She is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna Press) and co-editor of Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art , published by Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She is currently completing a cross-genre piece on New Orleans, and Monkey Talk, an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, and surveillance. A recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and City University of New York, Tonya teaches at Cooper Union and Bard College, and edits Futurepoems books, a New York City-based publishing collaborative.
PETER CAREY
April 19, 6:30-7:30, Room 103, Tuttleman Learning Center
Co-sponsored by the Provost's Office
Peter Carey was born in Australia and has lived in New York City since 1990. He is one of only two writers in history to have won the Booker Prize twice. His 1985 novel, Illywhacker, was short-listed for the prize. His 1998 work, Oscar and Lucinda, won it; then, in 2001 True History of the Kelly Gang won once more. Professor Carey's novels have received every major Australian Literary award, including the Miles Franklin (3 times) and the National Book Council Award (3 times). His most recent works are My Life as a Fake and a memoir, Wrong About Japan. Carey now directs the Creative Writing MFA program at Hunter College.
Sponsored by the Temple University Creative Writing Program and the Richard Moyer Fund.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information, call 215.204.1796.
The Fall 2006 issue of KB Journal /(vol. 3.1), an online journal elaborating on the work of Kenneth Burke, is now available. This issue features articles by Keith Gibson on the influence of Frazer's The Golden Bough on Burke's Attitudes Toward History; by Robert S. Littlefield, Timothy L. Sellnow, and Matthew I. Attansey on crisis communication responsive to the 2004 tsunami; and by Timothy Crusius on Burke and ethics.
TU Libraries has added 48 new titles to its collection of online reference works through Gale Virtual Reference Library. These full-text works are fully searchable and browsable.
Examples of some of the titles include:
- American History Through Literature 1870-1920
- History of the American Cinema, Volume 1
- History of the American Cinema, Volume 2
- History of the American Cinema, Volume 3
- History of the American Cinema, Volume 4
- History of the American Cinema, Volume 5
- History of the American Cinema, Volume 6
- Major 21st-Century Writers
- Reference Guide to Short Fiction, 2nd ed.
- Reference Guide to World Literature
- World Press Encyclopedia
JSTOR, the electronic journal database, has added Oceanic Linguistics to its collection. Published by the University of Hawai'i Press, the first 41 volumes of the journal (1962-2002) are available in full-text.
Temple University Libraries is pleased to announce the third annual Library Prize for Undergraduate Research. The Library Prize encourages the use of library resources and the development of library research techniques. The Prize honors the best research projects by Temple undergraduates.
Papers or projects, in any format, completed for a Temple University for-credit course in Summer 2006, Fall 2006 or Spring 2007 semesters may be submitted. The deadline for submissions is April 6, 2007.
Winners will be selected by a committee of faculty and librarians. Up to three grand prizes will be awarded. Winning research projects will receive a $1000 cash prize, and will be displayed online and in the library.
Please see http://library.temple.edu/prize for more information about the Prize, including application requirements, selection criteria and eligibility.
The New York Times Book Review published its top 10 list of the best fiction and non-fiction of 2006.
A book launch party will take place on Thursday, December 14, 2006, at 6pm at the Slought Gallery in celebration of Rachel Blau DuPlessis' two recent publications, Blue Studios: Poetry and its Cultural Work and The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice.A brief reading will also take place.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is Professor of English at Temple University and known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry, and as a poet and essayist.
Reading the Media: Media Literacy in High School English takes readers behind the scenes at Renee Hobbs, Associate Professor in the Broadcasting, Telecommunications and Mass Media (BTMM) Department as well as the Mass Media and Communication (MMC) program, is one of the nation’s leading authorities on media education. She directs the Media Education Lab at Temple University and is a co-founder of the Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA), the national membership organization that hosts the National Media Education Conference.