THE NEWSLETTER OF THE IALJS Literary jourNAl i s m VOL 8 NO 2 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES SPRING 2014 ANNUAL MEETING A GREAT TWO YEARS that we voted to run annual conferences. IN MAY IN PARIS We have been to Lisbon, Chicago, The registration for our annual conference WITH MORE TO COME London, Brussels, Toronto, Tampere, but in May in Paris, France can be completed My last letter as your president. we’ve not been back to France, and that using <http://www.ialjs.org/?page_id-37> makes a long seven-year hiatus. This time via PayPal with your credit card. You may around—Paris!—William Dow has asked also register with the form on Page 4 By Bill Reynolds French-speaking scholars to join us for a inside. As in the past, there is a substantial Ryerson University (Canada) couple of sessions, another first for IALJS. discount for early registration. While it will soon be my turn to as it been two years since Alice hand over the gavel to our incoming pres- Trindade passed the IALJS presidential ident, Norman Sims of University of FUTURE SITES FOR gavel to me in Toronto? I’ve been so Massachusetts at Amherst, I will not be ANNUAL MEETINGS Hbusy with the road show I’d not noticed. fading away. While the role of president IALJS-9: American University of Paris, Toronto 2012, Tampere 2013, Paris 2014, with of IALJS can be ambassadorial, I expect Paris, France,15-17 May 2014. ACLA stops at Providence 2012, Toronto that being the incoming editor of Literary IALJS-10: University of St. Thomas, (again) 2013, AEJMC stops in St. Louis 2011 and Journalism Studies will be more of a roll- St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A, 7-9 May 2015. Washington 2013 up-your-sleeves-and-get-to-work-buddy IALJS-11: Pontifícia Universidade and an ESSE stop in Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Istanbul 2012, our Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 19-21 IALJS traveling cir- Please don’t May 2016). cus of literary jour- IALJS-12: Universitat de Barcelona, nalism, if it had a forget to pay your 2014 Barcelona, Spain, 11-13 May 2017 (pend- theme song, it member dues, ing). would be James and we’ll celebrate in Paris IALJS-13: Brock University, St. Brown’s “Night in May Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 17-19 May Train.” 2018 (pending). It has been a IALJS-14: University of Nova Gorica, pleasure to serve as Slovenia, 9-11 May 2019 (pending). PRESIDENT’S your president for these past two years, kind of exercise. Right here is where I LETTER and I thank every- must thank John Hartsock of SUNY at INSIDE one involved in Cortland for agreeing to edit one addi- 2 Our Conference Host Departments making the confer- tional issue of the journal before signing 3 Schedule Summary for IALJS-9 ences so successful each year. This May, at the off, in order to give me time to complete 4 IALJS-9 Registration Form American University of Paris, with cofounding my tenure as president. I want to give 6 2014 Convention Program member William Dow acting as host, we will John a huge thank you for his tireless have 90 scholars on the program, twenty per efforts in launching the journal in 2009 15 Conference Hotel: Novotel Paris TE cent more than last year. There were so many and guiding it through its first five years. 16 Conference Hotel Registration Form good panel submissions, honestly, I felt so sorry John’s final issue is the one you will be 17 Acts of Creation for Robert Alexander of Brock University. It receiving in the mail soon. Whenyou see could not have been an easy job making deci- 18 Literary Journalism in the Philippines John at IALJS-9 in Paris, please walk up sions this year. To accommodate demand, we and shake his hand for a job well done. 20 Call - Profiles: Principles and Practice have decided to experiment with a three-panel As president, I also need to make 21 Interpretive Essay: Hunter S.Thompson parallel session format. We expect there may be two reminders: One, if you have not paid 33 IALJS Membership Form for 2014 many members shuffling back and forth your 2014 annual dues please do so at between rooms 31, 32 and 33 in the Bosquet your earliest convenience. Also, those 34 2014-2016 Officers Nominations Building on the AUP campus. participating in IALJS-9 need to pay their 36 Teaching Tips Paris! The IALJS was conceived in conference fees before March 31 and the Nancy, France in 2006. We went back to France costs increase. o the very next year—Paris!—and it was in 2007 See you in Paris. WWW.IALJS.ORG THE NEWSLETTER OF THE IALJS TWO DEPARTMENTS AT AUP WILL HOST IALJS-9 Our conference will help the American University of Paris celebrate its 50th anniversary. By Breanna Grove, American University of Paris (France) he IALJS-9 conference this May at Fashion, and Visual & Material Culture. Performance, and Creative Writing. The American University of Paris COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND ENGLISH Although relatively small, the (AUP) will be hosted by the The Department of Comparative Liter- Department of Comparative Literature TDepartment of Global Communications ature and English emphasizes educating and English provides thorough and inno- and the Department of English and students of literature through close study vative historical coverage of literary, theo- Comparative Literature. of the written word and in-depth analysis retical and cultural studies, as well as GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS of social, philosophical, psychological and gender studies, critical theory, African- The Department of Global Communica- linguistic processes surrounding language, American literature, French literature and tions at AUP seeks to prepare students to literature and writing. Students consider psychoanalysis and literature. think innovatively about our contemporary the relationship between works, cultures, Additionally, the department serves near- world of global exchange and communica- and disciplines in order to develop ly the entire student body at AUP tion, emphasizing nuanced and enlightened understandings through the English Foundation Program, how technology of cultural, historical and literary represen- a program for non-native English speak- allows for new tations. ers seeking additional training in English forms of cross-cul- Under the direction of language and writing skills. tural existence and Department Chair Jula Wildberger, the Courses in the Department of exchange. The Department of Comparative Literature Comparative Literature and English Department of and English offers majors in Comparative demonstrate AUP’s innovative education- Global Communi- Literature—exposing students to the study al model that incorporates theory and WELCOME, cations, chaired by of literature from antiquity through the intellectual study with extensive research IALJS Dr. Justin McGui- present day—and Literary Studies and the experience and internships, coupled with ness, provides Creative Arts, where students seeking to the innumerable cultural advantages of MEMBERS both undergradu- explore their own creativity combine study AUP’s location. In “Proust and Beckett: ate and graduate of literature and creative production of The Art of Failure,” students explore the students with a rich interdisciplinary theo- their own in literature, drama and the arts. works of these two authors, complement- retical and practical training drawing from The Department of Comparative Literature ed by study trips within Paris. Students several disciplines and practices. Degrees and English also offers minors in pursue internships with the Correspon- at the undergraduate level include both a Comparative Literature, Classical dence of Samuel Beckett project, an inter- major and a minor in Global Civilization, Medieval Studies, Critical Communications with specializations in Theory, Ancient Greek, Latin, Theater and Continued on next page Production, Media Convergence, Integrated Marketing Communications and Journalism. Housed within AUP’s new Graduate School for Global Studies, a plat- form for students to gain intellectual train- ing and professional experience in special- ized fields, is the Master of Arts in Global Communications (MAGC). In order to explore the evolving relationship between communication, technology and the mod- ern world, the MAGC, under the direction of Dr. Waddick Doyle, also offers three tracks: Development Communications, LITERARY JOURNALISM SPRING 2014 Vol. 8 No. 2 Editors: Bill Reynolds and David Abrahamson ISSN 1941-1030 (print) ISSN 1941-1049 (online) © 2014 The Newsletter of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies. All rights reserved. PAGE 2 LITERARY JOURNALISM / SPRING 2014 THE NEWSLETTER OF THE IALJS AUP Continued from previous page national and collaborative project to pub- lish a four-volume Selected Letters of Samuel Beckett whose connection with AUP has existed for over 15 years under the direction of Dr. Daniel Gunn. In “Paris Through Its Books,” students study how the city Paris is represented and used in lit- erature and how literature informs one’s experience in the city. “Production, Translation, Creation, Publication,” taught by Dr. Daniel Medin, professor and promi- nent editor for several literary journals, introduces students to writing and present- ing skills, focusing on areas such as jour- nalism, publicity, use of social media, trans- lation, and an exposure to the publication and promotion of literature in translation. At the graduate level, the Department of Comparative Literature and English offers a Master of Arts in Cultural Translation. The MA in Cultural Translation program, established in 2009 under the direction of Dr. Geoffrey Gilbert, is the first program of its kind as it moves translation beyond the foundation of liter- ary translation and theory, studying trans- lation as a negotiation of similarity, differ- ence, and meaning across peoples, cultures, and languages. The field of Cultural Translation takes the creative and practice of translation and applies the tools and the- ories of translation to conversation with other issues in the world, in an effort to discover innovative ways of addressing questions of culture, public policy, interna- tional business and intercultural communi- cation, translation, and writing.