2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry

or National Poetry Cave Canem poetry prize for Natasha Trethewey has a B.A Month, the Humani- the best first book by an Afri- in English from the University F ties Institute is can American of Georgia, an M.A. in Eng- continuing its tradition poet and also lish and Creative Writing from of bringing to the Uni- received the 2001 Hollins University, and a versity of South Flor- Lillian Smith M.F.A. in poetry from the ida a nationally known Award for Po- University of Massachusetts. poet. On April 17, etry. Her second She has received grants from 2008, Natasha Tre- work, Bellocq’s the Guggenheim Foundation, thewey, the 2007 Pul- Ophelia (2002), the Rockefeller Foundation, itzer Prize winner for received the 2003 the Bunting Fellowship Pro- poetry, will read and Mississippi Insti- gram of the Radcliffe Institute discuss her poetry in Photo © Jon Rou tute of Arts and for Advanced Studies at Har- Traditions Hall at 7:00pm. Letters Book prize and was vard University, and Ms. Trethewey won the 2007 a finalist for both the Acad- the National Endow- prize for her third poetry col- emy of American Poets’ ment for the Arts. lection, Native Guard (2006), James Laughlin and the She is presently the poems about black Union sol- Lenore Marshall prizes. It Phillis Wheatley diers who guarded a fort off was named a 2003 Notable Distinguished Chair, the coast of Mississippi during Book by the American Professor of Poetry the United States Civil War. Library Association. Her at Emory University. poetry has appeared in ma- With her first poetry collec- jor poetry journals, such as the This event is co-sponsored by tion, Domestic Work (2000), Kenyon Review, The Southern the Department of English, the she started to gather prizes and Review, and the American Department of Women’s Stud- national recognition. Domes- Poetry Review. ies, and Women in Leadership tic won the inaugural 1999 and Philanthropy. Symposium IV

n Tuesday, March 18, ers, the (3), the Professor of English at the O 2008 at the Museum of , the British University of Tampa, who has Science and Industry Science Fiction Association written a book-length critical (MOSI) auditorium at 7:00pm Award (2), the Merit study of Brian Aldiss, Aldiss the Humanities Institute and Award, the Prix Jules Verne Unbound: The Science Fic- the USF Tampa Library will (Sweden), and the Kurd Lass- tion of Brian W. Aldiss; from sponsor their fourth science witz Award the scientific view—Brian fiction symposium. Unlike (Germany). Two Space, Department of Chemis- the first three symposia that of his works have try, USF, who has been an featured panels of several been adapted for avid science fiction fan since science fiction authors, this films. Franken- childhood and who believes fourth one will concentrate stein Unbound that his love of science fiction UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA on only one science fiction was filmed by has been enhanced by the in- writer, Brian Aldiss, who Brian Aldiss in sights gained by way of his was named “Grand Master 1990, and his broad scientific training; from of Science Fiction” in 1999, “Supertoys Last All Aldiss’s fellow science fiction and on June 11, 2005 was Summer Long” was turned writers—John Clute, a major

Humanities Institute awarded an OBE (Order of the into the movie Artificial Intel- producer of encyclopedias on British Empire) for Services to ligence: AI in 2001, directed science fiction and fantasy, Literature by Queen Elizabeth and co-produced by Steven and Elizabeth Hand, an award- II. Spielberg. Along with Aldiss, winning science fiction novel- Brian Aldiss has published a panel of four scholars will ist. Rick Wilber, School of Volume IV, Issue 2 over 80 books. He is a poet, comment on his works from Mass Communication, USF, dramatist, critic, and a fiction three distinct viewpoints: and a prominent science fic- Spring 2008 and science fiction writer. His From the literary view— tion writer himself, will mod- works have won, among oth- Richard Mathews, the Dana erate the panel discussion. Faculty Publications and Awards

PUBLICATIONS English Mass Communications Tim Bajkiewicz. “When the In-Box Breaks: Sara Munson Deats. The critical essay An Exploratory Analysis of Online Network Africana Studies “Tamburlaine and Edward II: The Truth of Breaking News E-mail Alerts” Electronic Deborah G. Plant. Zora Neale Hurston: A Contraries” for the Washington Shakespeare News 1.4 (2007) Biography of the Spirit (London: Praeger, Theater’s Fall 2007 Seasons Guide, and she 2007). delivered the invited lecture “Marlowe and Humanities/American Studies Gender” at the Marlowe Symposium. Anthropology Priscilla Brewer. “The Chafing Dish and Nicole Discenza. “Alfred the Great’s the College Girl: The Evolution and Mean- Robert Tycot. “Early Neolithic obsidian Boethius.” Literature Compass 3 (2006) and ing of the ‘Spread’ at Northern Women’s trade in Sardinia: the Coastal Site of Santa “Teaching Guide to ‘Alfred the Great’s Colleges, 1870-1910” in Eating in Eden: Caterina di Pittinuri (Cuglieri - OR)” in Boethius.’” Compass Teaching Guides 3 Food and American Utopias (Lincoln, Préhistoire et protohistoire de l’aire tyrrhé- (2007). 2006). nienne/Preistoria e protostoria dell’area John Hatcher. The Ascent of Society: The Maria Cizmic. “Of Bodies and Narratives: tirrenica (Felici Editori, 2007); “Stable Iso- Social Imperative in Personal Salvation Musical Representations of Pain and Illness topes as Indicators of Change in the Food (Wilmette, 2007). in HBO’s Wit” in Sounding Off: Theorizing Procurement and Food Preference of Viking Pat Rogers. “What Stranger Cause? Family Disability in Music (Routledge 2006). Age and Early Christian Populations on and Kinship in The Rape of the Lock” in The Annette Cozzi. “Men and Menus: Dickens Gotland (Sweden)” Journal of Anthropo- Times Literary Supplement (Oct. 2007). and the Rise of the ‘Ordinary’ Gentleman” logical Archaeology 26 (2007); and “Dieta Philip Sipiora. “The Phenomenological in Edible Ideologies: Representing Food en sociedades alfareras de Chile Central: Quest of : Eyes Wide Shut” and Meaning (SUNY Press, 2007). aporte de análisis de isótopos estables” in Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and James D'Emilio. “The Cathedral Chapter of Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena Legacy (McFarland, 2007) and “Living in a Lugo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centu- 39.1 (2007). Darker World: Hemingway’s Figural, Phe- ries: Reform and Retrenchment” in Cross, Linda Whiteford co-authored Primary nomenal Florida Fiction” Florida English 5 Crescent, Conversion: Studies on Medieval Health Care in Cuba: The Other Revolution (2007). Spain and Christendom (Leiden, Brill, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Government and International Affairs 2007) and “Inscriptions and the Roman- Communication esque Church: Patrons, Prelates, and Crafts- Cheryl Hall. “Recognizing the Passion in men in Romanesque Galicia” in Spanish Deliberation: Toward a More Democratic Stacy Holman Jones. Torch Singing: Per- Medieval Art (Arizona Center for Medieval Theory of Deliberative Democracy” in Hy- forming Resistance and Desire from Billie and Renaissance Studies, 2007). patia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Holiday to Edith Piaf (Alta Mira Press, Silvio Gaggi. “The Visual, the Verbal, and 22.4 (Fall 2007). 2007). Beyond: Marcel Duchamp and the Large A Japanese translation of Ken Cissna’s co- History Glass in a special issue of Symbolism 8 authored book, The Martin Buber – Carl (2007). Rogers Dialogue: A New Transcript with Giovanna Benadusi. “Carteggi e negozi Adriana Novoa. “Teaching Latin America Commentary (SUNY Press, 1997) was re- della Granduchessa Vittoria della Rovere, in an Interdisciplinary Way” in Social Edu- leased by Shunjusha. 1634-1694” in Le donne Medici nel sistema cation (2007). Art Bochner. “Notes Toward an Ethics of europeo delle corti (Florence, 2007) and “La Memory in Autoethnography” in Ethical madre e il granduca: Stato e famiglia nelle Interdisciplinary Social Science Futures in Qualitative Research: Decoloniz- suppliche al Magistrato Supremo” in Kennan Ferguson. William James: Politics ing the Politics of Knowledge. (Left Coast Famiglie e Potere in Italia tra Medioevo ed in the Pluriverse (Rowman & Littlefield, Press, 2007). Età Moderno (Rome, 2007). 2007). Eric Eisenberg. E.. Strategic Ambiguities: Barbara Berglund. Making San Francisco Religious Studies Essays on Communication, Organization, American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban and Identity (Sage, 2007) and co-authored West, 1846-1906 (Kansas UP, 2007). James Strange. “Some Observations from Organizational Communication: Balancing Case Boterbloem. “The Genesis of Jan Archaeology and from Religious Studies on Creativity and Constraint (5th ed.) (St. Mar- Struys’s Perillous Voyages and the Business ETI,” Alien Worlds: Social and Religious tin's Press, 2007). of the Book Trade in the Dutch Republic” in Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact, Caroline Ellis. “Teaching Qualitative Meth- the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of (Syracuse U, 2007); “Archaeological Evi- ods” in Qualitative Methods: Syllabi and America (June 2007). dence for Jewish Christianity?” in Jewish Instructional Materials (Washington, DC, William Cummings. A Chain of Kings: The Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries, 2007) and “Telling Secrets, Revealing Makassarese Chronicles of Gowa and Tal- (Hendrickson, 2007); “Sepphoris and the Lives: Relational loq (U of Washington P, 2007). Earliest Christian Congregations,” in The Ethics in Research Fraser Ottanelli. “Internationalism and the Archaeology of Difference: Gender, Ethnic- with Intimate Oth- Shaping of National and Ethnic Identity: ity, Class and the 'Other' in Antiquity ers” Qualitative Italian American Anti-Fascist Volunteers in (Boston, 2007); and “Farisæerne på Jesu Inquiry 13 (2007). the Spanish Civil War” in the Journal of Tid—hvad kan arkæologien lære os?” for American Ethnic History (December 2007). Tel (Aarhus, Denmark, 2007).

VOLUME IV, ISSUE 2 Page 2 Faculty Publications and Awards Continued

Women’s Studies also awarded a McKnight Junior Faculty , England. He presented both the Fellowship (2007-2008). Sara Crawley co-authored Gendering Bod- opening lecture and the closing discussion at Nancy Romero-Daza was the 2007 winner ies (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). the symposium. of the Faculty Hispanic Heritage Award

given by USF’s Hispanic Heritage Celebra- History World Languages tion Committee. John Belohlavek was selected to serve on Pablo Brescia. “Juan José Arreola, Robert Tycot was awarded grants from the the Florida Humanities Council and the City mecánico literario” in Hispanismo: Discur- Samuel H. Kress Foundation, The American of Tampa Ethics Commission. sos culturales, identidad y memoria Institute for Maghrib Studies, and is Co-PI Michael Decker received a Fulbright for (Tucumán, Argentina, 2007). on a NSF instrumentation award for volca- spring 2007 to study cultural resource man- Madeleine Camara. “Para llegar a Lydia nological, hydrogeological, and very-near- agement between archeologists, governments Cabrera a través de María Zambrano” in surface investigations. and tourist businesses in Jordan, Tunisia, and Antígona. Revista de la Fundación Maria Linda Whiteford won USF’s 2007 Women Egypt. Zambrano (Malaga, 2007), “Lo erótica en la in Leadership and Philanthropy Faculty Mark Greenberg, Director of Special Col- textualidad femenina hispanoamericana” in Research Recognition Award. lections at the USF Tampa Library, was Agora 12 (2007), and “Lecturas de Ochún named Top Young Historian by George Ma- en el discurso fundacional de la nación cu- Communication son University. bana” in Hilvanando el silencio (Madrid, Elizabeth Bell received the John I. Sisco Lu Ann Jones was a Senior Fellow at the 2007). Award for Excellence in Teaching. Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Margit Grieb. “New Media and Feminist Arthur P. Bochner is First Vice-President in spring 2007. Interventions: Valie Export's Medial Ana- of the National Communication Association William Murray was selected as a Fellow of grams” in Avant-Garde Film (Rodopi, for 2007. the University Seminar Program of the Alex- 2007). Kenneth N. Cissna won the T. Earle John- ander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Christine Probes. “La Représentation em- son – Edwin Paget Distinguished Service for 2007-2008. blématique de la femme à l’entrecroisement Award, Southern States Communication Jack Tunstall was elected this year to serve de l’art et de la poésie: Les gravures de Pi- Association, 2007. on the Board of Governors of The Historical erre de Loysi mises en rapport avec Les The Society for the Study of Symbolic In- Society. Sonnets franc-comtois” in L’âge de la repre- teraction Affiliate of the National Commu- sentation: l’art du spectacle au XVIIe siècle nication Association has named its annual Humanities/American Studies (Tübingen, 2007) and “Becoming Global in Research Award for USF professors Caro- the Early Modern: A Case of Modernity in Naomi Yavneh’s Sibling Relations and Gen- lyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner: the Ellis- French Emblematics” in Religion, Ethics der in the early Modern World: Sisters, Bochner Autoethnography and Personal and History in the French Long Seventeenth Brothers and Others has received the Society Narrative Research Award. Century (Oxford, 2007). for the Study of Early Modern Women’s Carolyn Ellis received USF’s President’s “Outstanding Collaborative Project Award.” Visual and Performing Arts “Women’s Leadership Award”. Elisabeth Fraser. “La politique de la fa- Stacy Holman Jones won the 2007 Out- Religious Studies mille sous la Restauration: les Massacres de standing Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award Scio d’Eugène Delacroix” in Représentation granted by the Organization for the Study of James Strange was Co-Convenor of the et pouvoir: la politique sym- Communication, Language and Gender. 2007 American Foundation for Greek Lan- bolique en France (1789- guage and Culture Forum: “Hellenic Models 1830) (Rennes, 2007). English of Excellence: Their Modern Relevance,” March 2-3, 2007 at USF. AWARDS John Hatcher's books The Purpose of Physical Reality and Close Connections Women’s Studies Anthropology were nominated in 2006 by ForeWord Gurleen Grewal was awarded an ACLS Robbie Baer was named to the editorial magazine as best book of the year in the Contemplative Practice Fellowship for 2007. field of philosophy. board of the American Anthropologist. World Languages Elizabeth Bird was named to the editorial Jay Hopler’s Green Squall won the 2007 boards of Critical Studies in Media Commu- Great Lakes Colleges Association New Madeleine Camara was selected for the Jury nication and Communication, Culture and Writers Award, The Foreword Magazine of the Spanish Section for the “Florida Books Critique. Book of the Year, the “Best Books” awards Award” 2006-2007. She also served as Re- Karla Davis-Salazar won the 2007 His- from USA Book News. viewer for the MacArthur Foundation, 2006- 2007. panic Pathways Award, given by the USF Elton Smith was one of 35 international Latin Community Advisory Board. scholars invited to participate in the Oxford Visual and Performing Arts Antoinette Jackson was appointed by the Round Table “Allusions to God in Litera- U.S. Department of the Interior to represent Elisabeth Fraser is Resident Fellow at the Florida on the Gullah/Geechee Cultural ture and Poetry: Britain and America” July Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Heritage Corridor Commission. She was 22-July 27, 2007 at Lady Margaret Hall, Reid Hall, Paris for 2007-2008.

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February 28 James Larner (Marian Col- APRIL JANUARY lege) discussing “Music As

Narrator: Mahler, Mussorg- James Brock (Fla. Gulf January 16 Research in the Humani- sky, and Beethoven in Vi- April 3 Coast Univ.) discussing Flor- ties with Laura Runge conti’s Death in Venice ida poets and poetry Grace (English) “Doing Humanities Grace Allen Room, Library Allen Room, Library Research in Digital Ar- 2:00 p.m. 5:00 pm chives”: 18th Century Women’s Poetry Manu- scripts”. MARCH April 10-11 Book 2.0: Can the Book Grace Allen Room, Library Survive the Information 2:00 p.m. March 18 Brian Aldiss (Grand Master of Revolution? Symposium

Science Fiction) and panel January 23 “New Faculty” Research consisting of Richard April 10 Domna Stanton (former Forum with Mariaelena Mathews (University of President of the MLA and Bartesaghi (Comm), An- Tampa), Brian Space Distinguished Professor at

nette Cozzi (Hum./Amer. (Chemistry), John Clute The Grad. Center of CUNY)

(Science fiction writer), and Std.), Kenneth Malmberg speaking on “The Book, the (Psych.) and Camilla Elizabeth Hand (Science Academy, and Their Discon-

Vasquez (World Lang.) fiction writer) and moderated tents”

Grace Allen Room, Library by Rick Wilber (Mass Com- Grace Allen Room, Library

12:00 p.m. munication) 7:00 p.m. MOSI Auditorium 7:00 p.m. January 30 “A Main Event” with Steve Co-sponsored April 11 Panels with USF faculty and Johnson (Govt. & Interna- Russ Ganim (Co-Director tional Affairs) discussing his March 19 Miri Talmon ( Wesleyan Univ. of Nebraska Center for book The Truth About Patro- Univ.) “Life in a State of War Digital Research in the Hu- itism and Terror: The Israeli Exis- manities) discussing “Old Grace Allen Room, Library tential Experience in Docu- Books, New Readers, Old 2:00 p.m. mentary and Feature Israelie Readers, New Books: Digital

Films.” Literacy For Our Times” and Grace Allen Room Meredith M. Babb FEBURARY 11:30 a.m. reception (Director, University Press of

12:00 p.m. talk Florida), discussing February 5 Elizabeth Bird Co-sponsored “University Presses in this (Anthropology) discussing Period of Change” “Real Bodies: The Public March 25 Research in Humanities with Grace Allen Room, Library

Display of Anatomy from Fraser Ottanelli (History) 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Pickling to Plastination” discussing “Class, Migration, TECO Room, Education and the Shaping of Ethnic April 10-13 Association of Ancient Histo-

Reception 5pm Identity: Italian American rians Annual Meeting

Talk 5:30p.m. Workers, 1881-1940” Hilton Garden Inn and

Grace Allen Room, Library ROTC Building February 14 A Main Event with Gäetan 2:00 p.m. Co-sponsored Brulotte (World Lang.) dis-

cussing his book The Ency- April 17 clopedia of Erotic Literature Natasha Trethewey Grace Allen Room, Library (Pulitzer Prize, Poetry, 2007) 11:30 a.m. Traditions Hall, Alumni 7:00 p.m. February 21 Thomas Burman (Univ. of Co-sponsored Tenn.) discussing “Medieval Manuscripts and Medieval Jewish-Christian-Muslim March 28-29 Conference on “The State of Relations” All events are free and open to the Traditions Hall Taste” TECO Room, Education public unless specified. 7:00 p.m. For more information Time: TBA Co-Sponsored call (813) 974-3657. Co-sponsored

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Sara Deats enthralls the packed audience with her talk on the Faust legend. Photo by R.R. Bajkiewicz

Under the Rock Umbrella Poets– (l to r) Alison Eir Jenks, William Walsh, Reginald Shepherd, and Erin Belieu. Photo by DT Porter

Colin Hedyt (Philosophy) thanks the Humanities Institute for sponsoring the “New Faculty” Research Forum; only the second in this new series. Photo by R.R. Bajkiewicz

Guest scholar Erec Koch (University of Tenn-Knox) during the Pascal Conference October 5, 2007. Photo by R.R. Bajkiewicz Highlights Visiting Lecturers Spring 2008

For spring semester 2008, the Humanities Marian College will discuss “Music as Nar- Dr. Talmon has recently taught at Florida Institute will present four visiting profes- rator: Mahler, Mussorgsky, and Beethoven Atlantic University a course entitled “The sors. On Thursday, February 21 in Tradi- in Visconti’s Death in Venice.” This lecture Holocaust and Israeli Consciousness: A tions Hall at 7:00 pm, Dr. Thomas Burman will explore the concept of music as narrator Cinematic Perspective.” from the University of Tennessee will open in Visconti’s 1971 film of Thomas Mann’s a symposium on “Illuminated Manuscripts” novella. The presentation will include clips On Thursday, April 3 in the Grace Allen by discussing “Medieval Manuscripts and from the film to illustrate Visconti’s use of Room at 5pm, James Brock will address the Medieval Jewish-Christian-Muslim Rela- Mahler’s music and music from Mussorgsky subject of Florida poets and poetry writing tions.” This lecture will explore Jewish- and Beethoven to evoke the emotions de- in general. Dr. Brock is the author of three Christian-Muslim relations relations in the scribed in the novella. books of poetry and has won fellowships Middle Ages as they can be perceived in from the National Endowment for the Arts, manuscript copies of the Bible and Qur’an On Wednesday, March 19 in the Grace Al- the Alex Haley Foundation, the Tennessee that circulated in that period. len Room at 12:00 Miri Talmon, a visiting Arts Commission, and the Idaho Commis- professor at Wesleyan University, will lec- sion for the Arts. He is a Professor of Eng- On Thursday, February 28 in the Grace Al- ture on “Life in a State of War and Terror: lish at Florida Gulf Coast University, where len Room at 2:00pm, James Larner from The Israeli Existential Experience in Docu- he directs the Graduate Program in English. mentary and Feature Israeli Films.” VOLUME IV, ISSUE 2 Page 5 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA Humanities Institute 4202 E. Fowler Ave., FAO 201; Tampa, FL 33620 Phone: (813) 974-3657 Fax: (813) 974-0810

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Book 2.0: Can the Book Survive the Information Revolution?

oday the aca- Thursday evening, April 10th, at 7:00pm feature two visiting lecturers. Russ T demic world is in the Grace Allen Room, Library with Ganim, Co-Director of the University of witnessing an opening address by Domna Stanton, Nebraska Center for Digital Research in major changes in the former President of the Modern Lan- the Humanities, will speak on “Old ways in which infor- guage Association and Distinguished Books, New Readers, Old Readers, New mation is dissemi- Professor at the Graduate Center Books: Digital Literacy for nated and received. of CUNY, speaking on “The Russ Ganim, Co- our Time.” This talk will In fact, the question Book, the Academy, and Their Director of the Uni- center on the responsibility versity of Nebraska has arisen as to Discontents.” On Friday from the Humanists bear in man- Center for Digital whether the “book” as 9:00am to 4:00pm in the Grace aging the transition from a we know it will main- Research in the Hu- Allen Room, panels of USF fac- manities psychological, technologi- tain its dominance in ulty will discuss such topics as cal, and cultural point of st the 21 century. the methods of how information view. The second visiting Domna Stanton, has been transmitted throughout speaker will be Meredith M. The Humanities Insti- former President of history and how the objects of Babb, Director of the Uni- tute will host a two- the Modern Lan- transmission are an integral part versity Press of Florida, who day conference on guage Association of learning; how the emerging will discuss how the changes April 10-11, 2008 on and technologies affect the delivery in the transmission of infor- this topic: “Book 2.0: Distinguished system of information; how gen- mation have affected univer- Can the Book Survive Professor at the erational/cultural/aesthetic aspects sity presses. the Information Revo- Graduate Center of affect the transmission of knowl- lution?” The sympo- CUNY edge. In addition to the panels, This two-day symposium is sium will begin on the symposium on Friday will free and open to the public.