Department News
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Jessica Newberry interviewed Andre Dubus III at his home in Newbury, MA, on August 30, 2009. The focus of her interview was on perception in his novels House of Sand and Fog and The Garden of Last Days. She assisted in cataloging the archives of Andre Dubus with her thesis director, Dr. Olivia Carr Edenfield, on August 27 - 29, 2009.
Members of the department were involved in the American Literature Association Symposium on American Fiction 1890 - present in Savannah, GA on October 9-10:
- Olivia Carr Edenfield was the Conference Director (she has directed the conference for the past two years, and will do so for two more years).
- Jessica Newberry chaired a session and presented a paper: "Becoming an 'Object of Vision': Perception in Andre Dubus III's The Garden of Last Days."
- Leah DiNatale presented a paper: "Resisting the Feed: The Politics of Thrift in Laurie Halse Anderson's Prom."
- Laura Hakala presented a paper: "The Mad Child in the Attic: Hysteria and Gender Transitions in The Secret Garden."
- Taqwaa Saleem chaired a session.
- David Dudley chaired a session and presented a paper: "White, Black, or Both? - Racial anagnorsis in the works of Charles Chesnutt."
- Caren Town chaired a session and presented a paper: "Chris Crutcher's Triple Play."
- Bradley Edwards chaired a session and presented a paper: "Buddhist, Cherokee, and Quaker Paths to Peace in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain."
- Gautam Kundu presented a paper: 'Film Ambiance of The Beautiful and the Damned."
- Richard Flynn chaired a session.
News of Recent Graduates:
Dara Gibson has a full-time position teaching at East Georgia College.
Kelly Twilley has a full-time position teaching at Flint River Technical College.
Tyler Sasser entered the Ph.D. program at the University of Southern Mississippi with a graduate assistantship.
"Causation and the Cartesian Reduction of Motion: God's Role in Grinding the Gears," by William Eaton and Robert Higgerson, has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming book Causation: 1500-2000 (Routledge 2010).
Tim Whelan, Professor of English, has had two books published this year: Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1808 appeared in March and is published by the National Library of Wales Press; Baptist Autographs from the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1845 appeared in October and is published by Mercer University Press. Each book is approximately 500 pages. Another book, The Political Pamphlets of William Fox, 1791-94, co-edited with John Barrell of York University, will appear early in 2010. So far this year Dr. Whelan has published an article on William Fox in Eighteenth Century Studies, a review essay on Joseph Cottle in the Coleridge Bulletin; and a chapter on William Fox and Martha Gurney in Pulpit and People: Studies in 18th Century Baptist Life and Thought (Paternoster Press, 2009), ed. John Briggs. In the next few months Dr. Whelan will have an essay on Samuel Taylor Coleridge appear in Wordsworth and Coleridge in the West Country, ed. Nick Roe (Palgrave, 2009), an essay on Martha Gurney in Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865, ed. Elizabeth J. Clapp and Julie Roy Jeffrey (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010); an essay on Benjamin Flower in Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society; and an essay on the Baptist minister Robert Hall and the slave trade in The Abolition of Slavery: Debate and Dissension 1787-1840, ed. Susan Trouve (Paris: Armand Colin, 2010).
Dr. Bradley C. Edwards recently published Conversations with Bharati Mukherjee (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009), which contains a lengthy interview conducted by Edwards specifically for the book as well as Mukherjee's earliest interview, originally published in the Calcutta journal Desh and appearing here in English for the first time.
Dr. Hemchand Gossai recently spoke about his new book, A Requiem for Neil, at the Friday, September 4 Friends of Henderson Library/Hotel & Restaurant Management luncheon in the Family and Consumer Science Building.
Patrick Seafield, a Philosophy major, had his paper accepted to the University's Phi Kappa Phi Research Symposium. He gave his paper, "Is There A Functional Mind?" on Friday, April 3, 2009.
Erin Waddell (formerly Curley), one of our former M.A. students, has been awarded a Graduate Teaching Associate assistantship to continue her studies at the University of Central Florida.
Joseph T. Thomas, Jr., an alumnus from the Department who's currently a professor at San Diego State University, recently published Poetry's Playground: The Culture of Contemporary American Children's Poetry (Wayne State UP). His volume has been selected as the Children's Literature Association's 2009 honor book, for outstanding book-length scholarly work.
Timothy Whelan has recently published Politics, Religion, and Romance: The Letters of Benjamin Flower and Eliza Gould Flower, 1794-1808 (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 2008), as well as "Tim Whelan reads Joseph Cottle and the Romantics," Coleridge Bulletin (2009): 99-106; "A Calendar of Baptist Autographs in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 1741-1907," Baptist Quarterly 42 (2008): 577-612; "The Religion of Crabb Robinson," Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society 24 (April 2008): 112-34. He has articles that will be appearing shortly in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society, Wordsworth and Coleridge in the West Country, ed. Nick Roe (Palgrave, 2009), and Pulpit and People: Studies in 18th Century Baptist Life and Thought, ed. John Briggs (Paternoster Press, 2009). He has also been appointed a Visiting Fellow for the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent’s Park College, Oxford University; and Senior Visiting Fellow, Centre for Dissenting Studies, Dr. Williams’s Library, London.
