Kelly Hunnings published in Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Fall 2015

Review of Gender Hurts: a Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism by Sheila Jeffreys [New York: Routledge].  Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Fall 2015 (69.2)

Kelly Hunnings published in Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Spring 2015

Review of Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism by James Prothero [Cambridge Scholars Publishing].  Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Spring 2015 (69.1): 114-116.

Faculty & Graduate Conference Appearances and Presentations since Spring 2014

Anita Obermeier. "Birth and Birth Control in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales." Biennial London Chaucer Conference: Science, Magic, and Technology. University of London. London, UK: July 10-11, 2015.

Anita Obermeier. "Merlin, the Clown, and the Queer in Rowley’s The Birth of Merlin." 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies,. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI: May 14-17, 2015.

Anita Obermeier. "Teaching Provençal Lyrics and the Cathars." 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI: May 14-17, 2015.

Kelly J. Hunnings. "Patronage, Poetic Identity, and Domestic Tensions: Jane Wiseman and Mary Leapor, 1717-1746." Feminist Research Institute (FRI) Lecture Series . Univ. of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: April 2015.

Anita Obermeier. “Medieval Empress Cunegund’s Sterility as Disability and Magic in 21st-Century German Historical Fiction." Annual Meeting of the Medieval Association of the Pacific. University of Nevada-Reno. Reno, NV: April 10-11, 2015.

Kelly J. Hunnings. "Mary Robinson, Collaborative Writing, and Genres of Women's Autobiography." America Society of Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS). . Los Angeles, CA: March 2015.

Presented with Leslie Morrison, PhD

Julie Williams. "One Voice is Not Enough to Tell a Story: Writing as Community Creation in Native American Women's Fiction." Native American Literature Symposium. . Isleta, NM: March 12-14, 2015.

Julie Williams. "Access to Nature for Students with Disabilities." Center for Teaching Excellence Success in the Classroom Conference. University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM: February 19, 2015.

Julie Williams. "Trans-Atlantic Artistry in Blue Ravens, Hungry Generations, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk." American Indian Studies Association. . Albuquerque, NM: February 5-6, 2015.

Julie Williams. "Preparing for Take-Off: Learning to Fly in Graduate School." Modern Language Association. Canada. Vancouver, BC: January 8-11, 2015.

Kelly J. Hunnings. "Solitude and Isolation: John Clare's Struggle for Childhood Familiarity." Pacific Ancient Modern Language Association (PAMLA). . San Diego, CA: May 2014.

Anita Obermeier. “’Torn between Two Lovers’: Formalism, Feminism, and Other Isms in Teaching the Pan-European Medieval Lyrics." 49th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University. Kalamazoo, MI: May 8-11, 2014.

Alemán publishes chapter on teaching nineteenth-century US Latino/a literatures

Jesse Alemán’s chapter, “Recovered and Recovery Texts of the Nineteenth Century,” leads off Latino/a Literature in the Classroom: Twenty-First-Century Approaches to Teaching, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and recently published by Routledge. The essay is a scholarly piece on teaching nineteenth-century US Latino/a literatures, surveying major texts to be included in the classroom, presenting approaches to themes, genres, and authors that structure the Latino nineteenth century, and most importantly, arguing for a different model of teaching American literary history to be inclusive of early US Latino/a print cultures.

PhD Alumna Ashley Carlson accepts Tenure Track position

Please join us in congratulating Ashley Carlson on her Tenure Track position teaching later British literature (18-21st centuries) at the University of Montana Western!

Alemán Elected to C19 Executive Committee

Dr. Jesse Alemán has been elected to the Executive Committee of C19—The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. He will serve as Membership Chair for the first academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century American literary studies. C19 holds an annual conference; publishes J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists; and invites student membership for $35, faculty membership for $65, and institutional membership for $80 annually.
For more information, see: http://c19.psu.edu/membership/join

N. Scott Momaday to teach at UNM in Fall 2014

The English Department is very pleased to announce that a premier writer of our time N. Scott Momaday will be a Visiting Professor in our Creative Writing and American Literary Studies Programs during the 2014-15 academic year. Specializing in poetry and the Native oral tradition, in fall 2014 he will teach 487/587 The Native American Oral Tradition.

He received the National Medal of Arts in November 2007 ‘for his writings and his work that celebrate and preserve Native American art and oral tradition.’  In addition to the National Medal of Arts, he has received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his first novel, House Made of Dawn, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, the Premio Letterario Internazionale “Mondello”, Italy’s highest literary award, The Saint Louis Literary Award, the Premio Fronterizo, the highest award of the Border Book Festival, the 2008 Oklahoma Humanities Award, and the 2003 Autry Center for the American West Humanities Award.  UNESCO named him an Artist for Peace in 2003, the first American to be so honored since the United States rejoined UNESCO.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds 20 honorary degrees from colleges and universities including Yale University, the University of Massachusetts, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Tulsa in his home state of Oklahoma, Blaise Pascal University (France) and his alma mater, the University of New Mexico.

A member of the Kiowa Nation, Momaday has written the following books: The Complete Poems of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (Oxford University Press), House Made of Dawn (Harper and Row), The Way to Rainy Mountain (University of New Mexico Press), Angle of Geese (David R. Godine), The Gourd Dancer (Harper and Row), The Names (Harper and Row), The Ancient Child (Doubleday), In the Presence of the Sun (St. Martin’s Press), The Man Made of Words (St. Martin’s Press), In the Bear’s House (St. Martin’s Press), Circle of Wonder:  A Native American Christmas Story (University of New Mexico Press), Les Enfants du Soleil (Le Seuil, Paris), and Four Arrows and Magpie (Hawk Publ. Group).

Marisa Sikes to teach Middle English at Austin Peay

In April, Marisa Sikes, PhD in Medieval Studies, accepted a tenure-track position at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, one of the Tennessee state universities. She will be joining their faculty as the Middle English specialist with secondary responsibilities in History of the English Language and World Literature. We wish you all the best, Marisa, and a wonderful career.
~Dr. Obermeier

Faculty and Graduate Student Appearances in Fall 2013

September

Jonathan Davis-Secord. "Exploitation of Compound Frequency in Old English Style." Studies in the History of the English Language. Brigham Young University. Provo, UT: September 26-28, 2013.

October

Lisa Myers. "Music Theory and Performance in the Middle English Breton Lay Sir Orfeo." Southeastern Medieval Association. Appalachian State University. Boone, NC: October 3-5, 2013.

Association for the Arts of the Present (ASAP). Wayne State University. Detroit, MI: October 3-6, 2013.
W. Oliver Baker. "Meth, Rural Whiteness, and the Ozarks: Neoliberalism and the Great Recession in Winter’s Bone."
Ann D’Orazio. "Save Our City: Transmetropolitan and the Antihero Citizen."
Stephanie Spong. "'Affection Would Be Revolution Enough': Public Eroticism and the Re-Imagined Love Lyric in Bruce Andrews' Designated Heartbeat."

Western Literature Association. Berkeley, CA: October 9-12, 2013.
Erin Murrah-Mandril. "Preserving the Ghosts of the Alamo: Adina de Zavala's History and Legends."
Melina Vizcaino-Alemán. "Critical Regionalism and The West: Intersections of Architecture and Literature in the Southwest."
Julie Williams. "Western Writing and Wheelchairs: Embodiment and Ability in Women's Writing about Place."

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association. Vancouver, WA. October 9-13, 2013.
Doaa Omran. "(Re) Defining Islamic Terrorism: A Middle Eastern Perspective."
Erin Woltkamp. "Performing the Discourse of Power: Breaking Away From the Madwoman in the Attic Through Discursive Tactics in Villette."

Natasha Jones. "Social Justice as Technical Communication Pedagogy." Council for Programs on Technical and Scientific Communication (CPTSC). Cincinnati, OH: October 2013.

November

Daoine Bachran. "Being (post)Human: Mechanization, Militarization, and Human Rights in Chicana/o Science Fiction." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington D.C.: November 21, 2013.

Kathleen Washburn. "Modern American Indian Literature: Early Twentieth-Century Texts and Contexts." The Newberry Library Colloquium. Chicago, IL: November 13, 2013.

Daniel Worden awarded a B-Side Modernism/Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Fellowship

Professor Daniel Worden has been awarded a B-Side Modernism/Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Fellowship by the academic journal Nonsite. Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, the fellowship funds archival research at Emory University’s Raymond Danowski Poetry Library. The results of Professor Worden’s research will then appear in a special issue of Nonsite on “B-Side Modernism.” For more information, see http://www.nonsite.org

ALS at the MLA

It was another strong showing of American Literary Studies faculty and graduate students at the 2014 MLA in Chicago.

New doctoral student, Amy Gore, presented “Indigenizing the Gothic Novel: Harold Johnson’s Backtrack and Its Uncanny Conventions” at the Native Voices in Genre Fiction panel, and she also presided over a session on the American Indian Gothic. The Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures arranged both panels.

Oliver Baker, a second year doctoral student, presented “Dispossession and Instability: The Free Labor Market and Southern Anxieties in John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta” at the Native South panel organized by the Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Katie Walkiewicz, who earned her MA in English and UNM and is now completing her PhD at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was also on the panel.

Dr. Kathleen Washburn presented “After 1893: Writing Indigenous Chicago in the Early Twentieth Century” at the Native Literary Chicago panel arranged by the Division on American Indian Literatures.

Dr. Jesse Alemán served as a panelist on a round-table session titled “Rethinking Postbellum Literary History.” He also completed his three-year term on the Advisory Council of the American Literature Section and started his elected seat on the MLA’s Delegate Assembly.

Rivera Garners UNM-Mellon Fellowship

ALS PhD candidate in English, Díana Noreen Rivera, has been awarded a UNM-Mellon Doctoral Defense Preparation Fellowship to facilitate the completion of her dissertation, “Remapping the U.S. Southwest: Early Mexican American Literature and the Production of Transnational Counterspaces (1874-1958).” Her study argues that early Mexican American writers offer an alternative paradigm of transnationalism for understanding the literature, culture, and geography of the U.S. Southwest as it has been imagined in Anglo American cultural production about the region. Dr. Jesse Alemán, ALS coordinator, directs the dissertation.

Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the highly competitive UNM-Mellon awards dissertation fellowships in the humanistic social sciences across ten UNM departments to senior doctoral students working on studies relevant to Latino/a or Native American communities. This is the first year that the English Department’s ALS program has been included in the qualified field of humanistic social sciences at UNM designated by the Mellon Foundation. The six-month award is meant to assist in the completion of the dissertation by providing a $12,500.00 stipend; tuition remission and health care coverage; and a $500.00 professional development or research support fund.

Rivera was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and received her BA and MA at the University of Texas-Pan American. She credits her passion for Mexican American literary study to her parents and grandmothers, who shared family stories of life in the U.S.-Mexican borderlands and beyond. Her publications include “Third Space Resistance in Américo Paredes’s With His Pistol in His Hand: A Defense of Nuevo Santander” (forthcoming) in Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Volume IX; “Reconsidering Jovita González’s Life, Letters and Pre-1935 Folkloric Production: A Proto-Chicana’s Conscious Revolt Against Anglo Academic Patriarchy” (2011) in Chicana/Latina Studies Journal; and “Dime con quién andas”: Toward the Construction of a Dicho Paradigm and Its Significance in Chicano/a Literature” (2008) in the Journal of the American Studies Association of Texas. She’s the recipient of the American Association of University Women Santa Fe scholarship, the Office of Graduate Studies Earickson Trust award, the New Mexico Folklore Scholarship, and she was the English Department’s inaugural Center for Regional Studies Hector Torres fellow.

UNM Alumni Assn. awards 2014 Faculty Teaching Award to Feroza Jussawalla

Join us in congratulating Professor Jussawalla!

Professor Feroza Jussawalla’s specialty of postcolonial literature in the UNM English department lends itself to teaching at a minority-majority university. Jussawalla earned her BA at a women’s college in India before furthering her studies at the University of Utah. She taught at UTEP for 21 years before coming to UNM in 2001. In her classes, Jussawalla relates the experiences of international writers who lived under colonial rule to the experiences of the myriad cultures in the Southwest. She embraces the importance of teaching and research, and works to see her students succeed at both.

English 500 Symposium -- Friday, Dec. 6, 2013 in Zimmerman Library

The English 500 Symposium

Friday, December 6th
Frank Waters Room, Zimmerman Library

9:00-10:20: PANEL I

Emily Frontiere (MA program, Medieval Studies)
“Costs, Costs, Costs and Nothing is Done”: Lawyers and Power in Charles Dickens’s Bleak House

Emily Simons (MA program, Medieval Studies)
Blurred Lines: The Female and the Animal in Marie de France’s Lais

Bradley Tepper (MA program, Literature)
Thomas Hardy’s Use of Law in Tess of the d’Urbervilles

10:30-11:50: PANEL II

Margaux Brown (MA program, Literature)
From Christian Salvation to Literary Salvation: Jupiter Hammon’s “An Essay on Slavery”

Megan Malcom-Morgan (MA program, Literature)
An Echo in the Hollow: The Intrusion of Race in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Mariya Tseptsura (PhD program, Rhetoric & Writing)
The Return of Cold War Rhetoric: Mission Possible?

12-1: LUNCH BREAK

1:10-2:30: PANEL III

Leandra Binder (PhD program, BILS)
“Maddened Blood”: Nietzschean Animalism in Felix Salten’s Bambi

Kelly Hunnings (PhD program, BILS)
Seeking the Familiar in John Clare’s Middle Period Satire

Gerard Lavin (MA program, Medieval Studies)
Instrument of Revelation: Understanding “Pearl” as an Object of Religious Contemplation

2:40-4:30: PANEL IV

Diana Filar (MA program, Literature)
Windigo, Overheard Dreams, and the Direct Impact of Story: Vengeful Agency as Influenced by Ancestral Stories in Louise Erdrich’s Round House

Amy Gore (PhD program, ALS)
Indigenizing the Gothic Novel: Harold Johnson’s Backtrack and its Uncanny Conventions

Kathryn Manis (MA program, Art History)
Man and Superman: Reframing the “Man of Steel” in Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Karra Shimabukuro (PhD program, BILS)
Grimm and La Llorona: Liminal Space or Appropriation?

Jesse Alemán delivers the Hutchins Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill

On November 17, Dr. Jesse Alemán delivered the Hutchins Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Center for the Study of the American South. Named after James A. Hutchins, a UNC alumnus, and generously funded by the Hutchins Family Foundation, the Hutchins lecture series invites researchers to UNC to present their scholarship to mixed public and academic audiences as a way of fostering communication between faculty, students, and community members. Dr. Alemán was invited to present “Loreta Janeta Velazquez’s Civil Wars as a Cuban and a Confederate” after his research was featured in the PBS film, Rebel, and his edition of The Woman in Battle was required reading for an English doctoral seminar on the global south. Dr. Alemán’s lecture focused on how the Civil War serves as a backdrop for the “internal civil wars” between gender, sexual, linguistic, religious, and national identities that forge Velazquez’s emergence as a nineteenth-century US Latina.

http://south.unc.edu/category/hutchins-lectures/

Daniel Worden speaks on “Neoliberal Style: Alex Haley, Hunter S. Thompson, and Countercultures”

UNM Department of English Language & Literature
invites you to the
Fall 2013 Colloquium Series

A talk by

Daniel Worden
Assistant Professor
UNM Department of English Language & Literature
American Literary Studies

“Neoliberal Style: Alex Haley, Hunter S. Thompson, and Countercultures”

In this talk, Daniel Worden will present work from his current book project, Cool Realism: The New Journalism and American Literary Culture. His talk will chart how the highly successful work of two New Journalists—Alex Haley and Hunter S. Thompson—articulates a view of the social world that can now, retrospectively, be described as neoliberalism.

Daniel Worden is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Mexico.  He is the author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism, which received the Thomas J. Lyon Book Award in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies and was recently reissued in paperback. His work on American literature, comics, film, and television has appeared in a number of journals and edited volumes, including Criticism, Modern Fiction Studies, Southern Literary Journal, Twentieth-Century Literature, and The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing is a Way of Thinking.

Please join us
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
12:30 p.m.
English Department Library
Humanities Building, Room 324

Matt Hofer's Series: Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics

The first two books of Matt Hofer's UNM Press series Recencies: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics. Professor Hofer edited The Shoshoneans, which also boasts a fine new introduction by Simon Ortiz.

Summer Study in Germany -- Botany, Society & the Revolution in Taste

SUMMER STUDY IN GERMANY

(no knowledge of German required)

Botany, Society & the Revolution in Taste

Study abroad in Germany for 4 weeks (June 2 – 27, 2014):
•    Learn about the history of botany and its impact on medicine, horticulture, politics, and economics in Western Europe
•    Examine the botanic imagination of 18th & 19th century writers whose works transformed how we think about and act in relation to nature
•    Travel to Berlin, Weimar, and Düsseldorf to visit botanic gardens and explore Goethe’s world
•    Stay at a monastery “Nikolauskloster” and study at the historic castle “Schloss Dyck” and its famous landscape garden near Düsseldorf
•    Earn 6 UNM credits in 2 linked courses:  ENGL/COMP 330 and BIOL 402/502

Estimated program cost: $2,600-2,900 plus airfare, GEO application fee, insurance, and UNM summer tuition.  Summer scholarships available (Regents’ International Travel Grants, ISI Summer Scholarships).

For more information, and complete syllabi for all classes, visit the Wiki site
http://unmgermansummer2014.pbworks.com/ 
and/or contact:
•    Prof. Gary Harrison, English Department, garyh@unm.edu
•    Prof. Tim Lowrey, Biology Department, tlowrey@unm.edu
•    Prof. Christine Sauer, Associate ISI Director, sauer@unm.edu
•    Jazmin Knight, ISI Operations Specialist, jkknight@unm.edu

Course Description
ENGL 330/556, COMP 330: The Botanic Imagination: Goethe, Rousseau, Charlotte Smith (3 credits, cross-listed as INTS 410 and ARTH 429)
Taught by Gary Harrison, Professor of English & Presidential Teaching Fellow, garyh@unm.edu

This first course in the Schloss Dyck program will examine the “botanical imagination” in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Reveries of a Solitary Walker, and Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head and Other Poems.  Examining the changing perspectives on landscape, gardens, and human sensibility in these three works, we will also discuss the way that the burgeoning discourse of botany in part shapes the literary and cultural imagination of these writers whose work marks a major transformation in the ways we think about and act in relationship to nature.  To that end, we will also read excerpts from a few important works on the aesthetics— of the sublime, the beautiful and the picturesque —by such writers as Joseph Addison, Edmund Burke, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, and William Gilpin; as well as selected readings from a few recent scholarly articles on botany and romantic (and pre-romantic) literature.  Taking advantage of the park and gardens at Schloss Dyck, you will be encouraged to keep a “walking journal” to reflect upon your own experiences in the gardens and landscapes you encounter in your travels, as well as to write a critical and comparative analysis of the works we read during the program.  We will take field trips to the Goethe Museum at Schloss Jägerhoff and the Heinrich Heine Institute and Museum in Düsseldorf.  On a multi-day field trip to Weimar, we will visit the Goethe National Museum and tour Goethe’s cottage and gardens at Ilm Park; the palace at Weimar, which Duke Carl August redesigned in a neo-classical style under the guidance of Goethe; and Goethe’s residence on Frauenplan.

Requirements:  One six-page paper, a “walking journal,” and one 15-20 minute presentation.

Erin Murrah-Mandril speaks on "Ghosts in the Archive: Recovering the Work of Adina De Zavala" Wednesday, Nov. 13, 12:00 noon

The Feminist Research Institute is proud to host the FRI Research Lecture Series:

"Ghosts in the Archive: Recovering the Work of Adina De Zavala"
Erin Murrah-Mandril, Department of English 

Wednesday, November 13, 12:00 – 1:00 
SUB Luminaria 

http://femresin.unm.edu/events/2013/11/murrah-mandril/

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at femresin@unm.edu or visit us on the web at http://femresin.unm.edu.

Aeron Hunt's talk, “The Heir Apparent: Gender and the Transmission of Talent in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester,” Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 12:00 noon

UNM Department of English Language & Literature

invites you to the Fall 2013 Colloquium Series

A talk by

Aeron Hunt

Assistant Professor, British and Irish Literary Studies

“The Heir Apparent: Gender and the Transmission of Talent in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester”

Dr. Hunt’s EDC talk is drawn from her forthcoming book Personal Business: Character and Commerce in Victorian Literature and Culture, which explores the intersections of literature, economics, and commerce in Victorian Britain by turning attention to the embodied, interpersonal, and socially embedded interactions of everyday economic life. Drawing on a broad range of sources, Personal Business examines how the personal and its textual and performative form, character, represent a crucial mode of power within the Victorian economy. By placing representations of the personal in business by novelists such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Margaret Oliphant alongside nonliterary genres, Personal Business provides new ways to understand the history of the Victorian novel and its implication in the turbulent experience of nineteenth-century capitalism. In so doing, Personal Business presents a case for the continued value of interdisciplinary scholarship as a means to generate fresh insights in literary, historical, and cultural studies alike. This presentation will examine Margaret Oliphant’s novel Hester (1883) in light of the turn to scientific language to construct the personal in business, arguing that Oliphant’s attention to gender as she maps the vagaries of “hereditary talent” challenges readers to reevaluate contemporary narratives of business character.

  

Please join us 

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

12:00 p.m. 

English Department Lounge

Humanities Building, Second Floor