College of Arts & Sciences Alumni Association Vol. 21 • Summer 2005

News from the chair Departmental excellence endures, despite losses ast year I began this column with a passage from Samuel Beckett’s Lnovel The Unnamable: “I can’t go on, I’ll go on.” This sentiment, as you will recall, was motivated by the human losses we sustained with the passings of Albert Wertheim and Tim Wiles. And, as you will read in this issue, our friend and colleague Jim Jensen succumbed to a fatal infection as last year’s News in English was in press. The endurance of which Beckett speaks is, thus, still requisite; we often measure our time, it seems, much as Clov and Hamm do in Endgame — by loss. But, unlike them, we don’t lose our ide- als, and we celebrate our many victories as well. You will read of many such victories in Chair Stephen Watt meets with the editors of The News in English. the pages that follow: the accomplishments of our colleagues Judith Anderson, Tony participation in the national Carnegie Ini- tion, will reach completion in the coming Ardizzone, Scott Sanders, and others; the tiative on the Doctorate, is also undergoing year. hiring of truly wonderful new faculty; and a major revision, which includes the secur- There is, therefore, much to celebrate. the significant awards won by our graduate ing of support to reduce teaching loads We do go on, and we will persist in our students Kyle Dargan, Gina Brandolino, from 2-1 to 1-1 for many doctoral students efforts to deserve our reputation as one Melissa Jones, and Tobias Menely, among at crucial moments in their programs. This of the best English departments in the others. Melissa was awarded the first an- initiative, which also will motivate changes country. nual Albert Wertheim Memorial Prize, a in curriculum and the qualifying examina- — Stephen Watt gift made possible by the generosity of the Wertheim family and friends to help sup- port student research in drama and theater history (see “Student Notes” on page 10.) In tribute to Jim Jensen In many respects, then, 2004 was a great s the last issue of the News in English was in press, we all heard the surprising year for the department, for its faculty and Aand tragic news that Jim Jensen had succumbed to a fatal infection. He had just students. been in Bloomington to attend the memorial for his dear friend Albert Wertheim, Another development that will change and many of us shared meals and visited with Jim and Susan while they were here. the nature of the department is its winning It was the old Jim in attendance last spring: hale, hearty, jovial, and generous. These of funds from the campuswide Commit- were gifts he possessed in great abundance and shared with all of us, from the time ment to Excellence Initiative. Our propos- of his arrival in Indiana in 1966, after completing his doctoral degree at Cornell al, “Renewing Leadership in the Humani- University, until his retirement in 1998. Like Albert, Jim was so enormously kind ties,” received university funding, allowing to me when I first arrived in 1985, I shall never forget it, nor be able to express us to hire four senior faculty in the next adequately what his friendship over the years has meant to me. few years. Of course, we can never replace Last August, the Jensen family held a memorial for Jim for which Sean McDow- a Pat Brantlinger or Larry Clopper, but ell, one of Jim’s former students, wrote the lovely poem reproduced in this newslet- we can try our best to attract distinguished ter on page 2. It captures more gracefully than I ever could Jim’s great love of life teacher-scholars to the department. And we — and of his family and friends. I am pleased to share it with you. will do so. — SW The graduate program, as a result of our 1 Around English

Bonding criticism and pop culture Rhode Island Passage Ian Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural For Jim Jensen Politics of 007, released in April by IU And those who knew him Press, is the product of the Ian Fleming conference that was held in Bloomington in I. Trompe-L’Oeil 2002 and hosted by the IU Department of He spoke of you more as celebrity than girl: English. Professor , an edi- Ed Comentale “She’s going to be an actress. Look how she holds tor of the book and author of one of its 15 essays, is satisfied with the way it success- expressions and emotes” — as if your face foretold fully straddles two camps. He explains that a multitude of talents time would unfurl. by applying critical theory to the analysis He acted, too: hunched his shoulders, bared his claws and of a celebrated pop culture icon, the book growled, a bear worth laughter and your apple-wedge grin. appeals to both scholars and Bond enthu- Later, we ploughed the waves, sea breezes tangled in siasts. your wispy hair, until he drove us to a strand. This serious look at Fleming’s work We strolled along your first New England shoreline reveals many perspectives of a hugely our feet muddy in sand. His hands cupping yours, you popular but also widely criticized character. stepped as if you couldn’t fall; he made us feel that too. Featuring what Comentale calls “smart es- But then my eyes awoke to gritty sunshine — says about many pertinent cultural topics,” wind, sand, salt, surf, and cries of gulls all fled from me. the book explores Bond’s not-so-notorious relationships, such as those with capitalism, Such times as these never were, nor would ever be. lesbianism, the Kennedys, and terrorism, rather than those with Solitaire or Tania II. Erasures Romanova. Ian Fleming and James Bond When rogue waves strike, they catch us unawares: covers the good, the bad, and the ugly of we may detect a swell but not its force; Bond, while affirming the relevance and they strip belongings, knock bodies off course, longevity of Fleming’s work. and leave behind a mess of losses, tears, and cares. Comentale has been pleased with the O father, friend, beloved, where have you gone? book’s good reviews from reputable schol- What wave has left us desolate? Where is ars, including Michael Bérubé, who says, the scholar who savored ideas? Where is “This is a compelling and important book the navy pilot who split wood at dawn? … [that] makes a significant contribution not only to studies of Bond and Ian Flem- These rooms contain echoes of the laughter ing, but also to studies of popular culture of him whose words beatified Handel, in general.” Initial sales indicate that the the connoisseur of wines we came to prize. public welcomes the work, and both Co- No more we’ll see his ruddy cheeks hereafter, mentale and Stephen Watt, another of the no more we’ll see his grin when lighting candles book’s editors, agree that they enjoyed the for meals, no more we’ll see his mischievous eyes. project enough to go for another round of Fleming discourse and shaken martinis. III. Life Study We can erect no better monument College English returns than to live well, a tribute surpassing stone. As of this fall, and continuing until 2011, Jim’s likes and dislikes permeate our own — the department will once again be head- all we need do is stoke new merriment. quarters for the distinguished journal Col- He taught us how: consider wine a food lege English. The editor will be Culbertson worth studying; laugh at human folly; Chair of Writing John Schilb. In the late read the great writers and those more jolly; 1970s and early ’80s, the journal was ed- simply remember, regardless of mood. ited here by Professor Don Gray, the first Reminisce with friends until the wee hours; Culbertson Chair. work with our hands; read for pleasure at night; Established in 1939 and now published ponder what is beauty and what is not. six times a year, College English is the of- Relate the stories of his life and ours ficial journal for the College Section of the together; seek the things that yield delight, National Council of Teachers of English. It has long been one of the most widely read for Jim would want us to, and he cannot. journals in our discipline, with a circula- — Sean McDowell (continued on page 3)

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Recent faculty awards, books Judith Anderson (Warsaw: Cyklady, 2004; a revised and expanded version of his Award: Lifetime Achievement Award of the International book A Double Dying, in Polish translation). Spenser Society, 2004. Award: Presidential appointee to the Holocaust Memorial Tony Ardizzone Council (second year of five-year term). Award: Tracey M. Sonneborn Award, IU, May, 2005. Scott Sanders Richard Cecil Book: Bad Man Ballad (novel reprint), with a new afterword Book: Twenty-First-Century Blues (Carbondale: Southern Il- by the author (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). linois University Press, 2004. Award: 2004–05 literature fellowship from the National En- dowment for the Arts. Ed Comentale Books: Masses in Relation: Art, Production, and Politics in John Schilb Avant-Garde England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Book: Making Arguments About Literature, edited with Press, 2004); Ian Fleming and James John Clifford (Boston: Bedford/St. Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007, Martin’s, 2005; first published in No- Edward Comentale, Stephen Watt, and vember 2004). Skip Willman, eds. (Bloomington: Indi- Editorship: College English, 2006–11. ana University Press, 2005). Janet Sorensen Mary Favret Award: Fellowship, National Endow- Award: Fellowship at the National Hu- ment for the Humanities, 2004. manities Center for 2004–05. Maura Stanton Susan Gubar Book: Cities in the Sea, stories, was one Book: Mother Songs, gift edition reprint (W.W. Norton) of eight finalists for the 2004 Patterson Fiction Prize (winner Award: Residency at the Bosliasco Foundation’s Liguria Study was Toni Morrison). Center for the Arts and Humanities (April 19–May 20, 2004). Samrat Upadhyay Ivan Kreilkamp Book: The Guru of Love, novel, Spanish edition (Barcelona: Award: Harrington Faculty Fellowship at the University of Ediciones del Bronce, 2004); The Guru of Love, novel, French Texas, Austin, 2005–06 academic year. edition (Paris: Mercure De France, 2004). Award: Finalist, The Guru of Love, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize, Karma Lochrie 2004. Book: Heterosyncrasies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn’t (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Stephen Watt Books: Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy, co- Maurice Manning written with Cary Nelson (New York: Routledge, 2004); Ian Book: A Companion for Owls, Being the Commonplace Book Fleming and James Bond: The Cultural Politics of 007, Edward of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, &c., collection of Comentale, Stephen Watt, and Skip Willman, eds. (Blooming- poetry (Orlando: Harcourt, 2004). ton: Indiana University Press, 2005). Manuel Martinez Kevin Young Award: Drift, novel, chosen by the American Library Associa- Books: Black Maria, poems based on film noir (New York: tion as one of the 2004 Best Books for Young Adults Books. Knopf, hardcover, 2005); Jelly Roll: A Blues (New York: Andrew Miller Knopf, hardcover, 2003. Knopf, paperback, February 2005); Award: Fellowship at the National Humanities Center for edited John Berryman: Selected Poems (New York: Library of 2004–05. America, 2004). David Nordloh Awards: National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 2005; Pat- Book: Editor, American Literary Scholarship: An Annual– erson Poetry Prize Winner for Jelly Roll: A Blues, 2004; final- 2002 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004). ist. Los Angeles Time Book Prize for Jelly Roll: A Blues (one of Alvin Rosenfeld five named); Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship for 2004. Book: Podwojna Smierc: Rozwazania O literturze Holocaustu

fine tradition, he also wants to take it in Around English exciting new directions. “I hope to make Visit us online (continued from page 2) College English socially relevant and intel- ee what’s going lectually fertile, especially at a time when tion of about 7,500. It is especially known on in English our field must deal with great changes in S for its essays on the teaching of literature, at IU. Visit the technology and the very nature of literacy.” composition, and creative writing. departmental Web Schilb expects to involve several of the Says Schilb, “I welcome the chance to site at www.indiana department’s graduate and undergraduate edit College English because throughout .edu/~engweb/. students in producing the journal. “It will my professional life, its articles have helped be a wonderful presence for us,” he notes, Stay connected to your IU home. me develop as a teacher and as a scholar.” “enhancing our intellectual community.” While he promises to continue the journal’s www.indiana.edu/~engweb/

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Anderson wins Lifetime Ardizzone wins Sonneborn Achievement Award Every year since 1986 the Tracy M. Son- Professor Judith Anderson will soon neborn Award has been given to Indiana have a new desk ornament: the Lifetime University professors who display exem- Achievement Award for studies on Spenser plary research and teaching. This year’s from the International Spenser Society. award goes to Tony Ardizzone, director Former president of the society, Ander- of the Creative Writing Program. He is the son playfully describes the medal she will second English professor to win this award. receive as “something like a paperweight,” James Naremore won it in 1994. Closely but the award is no joke. The International associated with the Sonneborn Award is Spenser Society was founded in 1977 and the Chancellor’s Professors Award, which gives out its annual award “as appropriate,” was won by Judith Anderson in 1999 and meaning that it won’t give it out if the by Robert Fulk in 2001. Tracy M. Son- Society doesn’t have an acceptable candi- neborn, for whom the award is named, was date. Paul Alpers, professor emeritus at the a distinguished biologist who came to IU the work of Derrida, Ricoeur, and cogni- University of California at Berkeley, also to teach in 1939 and stayed until his death tive scientists (neo-cognitivists, as Anderson received the award this year, but Anderson in 1981. Many of the past winners have calls them), this book is about language has the added prestige of being the young- also been scientists, although the award is theory and conditions of meaning in est recipient to date, as well as the first open to full professors in any university de- Tudor-Stuart times. Part history (conspicu- woman. partment and has been awarded widely, to ously including religious history), part clas- As the name of the award implies, professors of music, psychology, anthropol- sical rhetoric, and part economics, it also Anderson has taught, written, and given ogy, religious studies, education, biology, contains a chapter on Spenser and parts papers extensively on Spenser since receiv- chemistry, sociology, and English. of chapters on Shakespeare and Donne. ing her PhD from Yale University in 1965. Winners of the award must be nomi- Mainly, this is a book about culture, of She describes her first book, The Growth of nated by their department. Faculty, staff, which Anderson considers literature a vital a Personal Voice: “Piers Plowman” and “The and students are encouraged to nominate part. When asked about her future inter- Faerie Queene” (1976), as a book about candidates for both the Sonneborn and ests, she replied that she has been thinking allegory and textual relations. She is the Chancellor’s Professors Awards. As the quite a bit about “patience,” a “virtue with co-editor of Spenser’s Life and the Subject recipient of this award, Ardizzone had his an affective dimension,” specifically in rela- of Biography (1996), and she has given the name engraved on a plaque in the IMU, tion to Shakespeare and Milton. plenary talk at the Spenser Society lun- received a $3,500 cash prize, and gave a Anderson is also co-editing an anthology, cheon, as well as at the Medieval Confer- formal lecture in May to the university Integrating Literature and Writing Instruc- ence at Kalamazoo. Among her 30 articles community, titled “The Germ of the Story: tion: First-Year English, Humanities Core and papers on Spenser are such intrigu- Process and Metaphor in the Writing of Courses, Seminars, which has been accepted ing titles as “What I Really Teach When Fiction.” by the Modern Language Association. She I’m Teaching Spenser” (MLA Conven- Ardizzone teaches Fiction Writing, Eth- and Christine Farris, director of the fresh- tion, New Orleans); “What Comes After nic American Literature, and 20th-Century man composition program, introduce this Chaucer’s But: Adversative Constructions American Fiction. He has published six work, and Anderson has contributed one in Spenser” (published in Acts of Interpreta- books, both novels and short story collec- of the essays as well. Bringing literature tion: The Text in Its Contexts. 700–1600: Es- tions, including In the Garden of Papa San- back into freshman composition courses says on Medieval and Renaissance Literature tuzzu and Larabi’s Ox: Stories of Morocco. “for me involves a certain degree of mis- in Honor of E. Talbot Donaldson, 1982); In addition, he has edited four anthologies, sionary zeal,” she says. She thinks there is and “Venus and Adonis: The Spenserian including The Habit of Art: Best Stories from not enough language and rhetoric in the Context and Shakespearean Text” (seventh the Indiana University Fiction Workshop undergraduate program and that litera- World Shakespeare Congress Seminar, (forthcoming, Bloomington: Indiana ture ought not to be neglected as a means Valencia, Spain). As these titles reflect, in University Press, 2005). This collection is of teaching “more careful thinking and addition to Spenser, Anderson works with a project in honor of the Creative Writing writing,” attributes that “really underlie a “everything in the 16th, 17th centuries,” Program’s 25th anniversary and includes good citizen.” With this in mind, Ander- such as Milton, Donne, and Shakespeare, the work of Indiana University MFA gradu- son has taught courses dealing with such and even looks back to Chaucer and ates from the last 25 years. issues of language, both at the graduate Langland. “If I have three feet,” she says, Ardizzone has won many awards for his and undergraduate level: W141 Language “I have one in the Middle Ages,” with the fiction, including the Flannery O’Connor and Metaphor: The Ways We Think in other two in Renaissance/early modern. Award for Short Fiction, the Milkweed Words and L503 Language, Metaphor, and Although an acknowledged expert on National Fiction Prize, and two National Thought. She considers these courses and Spenser, Anderson has much broader in- Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist her forthcoming book as examples of the terests. Her book Translating Investments: Fellowships in Fiction. He has served on kind of work she does and of the premise Metaphor and the Dynamic of Cultural the board of directors of the Association of that “the translatability of an English de- Change in Tudor-Stuart England is forth- Writers and Writing Programs, and he has partment to a larger cultural significance is coming from Fordham University Press in helped shape the MFA program at IU into about language.” And for Judith Anderson, New York. Incorporating and building on (continued on page 5) this is an important issue. 4 counter to such methods. His arrival at Along with undergraduate and gradu- Faculty news Indiana helped create a climate conducive ate students who have benefited from (continued from page 4) to studying literature as a social process, a Brantlinger’s mentoring, so too have his “one of the most successful and distin- nationally identified strength of many of colleagues. “I simply cannot imagine a guished graduate writing programs in the the department’s programs today. better model of collegiality than Pat,” country.” Brantlinger’s insistence on connecting explains his colleague Janet Sorensen. “He Ardizzone’s philosophy of fiction writ- cultural production to historical pro- is unfailingly supportive of fellow faculty ing goes beyond the general advice “write cesses represents a continuous theme in his — particularly junior faculty — often read- what you know.” He says that “those who presentations and publications. A prolific ing their work-in-progress with enthusiasm choose to make a lifelong habit of writing scholar, he has penned eight books: The and tremendous speed. It would be difficult eventually learn that they must seek out a Spirit of Reform: British Literature and to estimate just how much it meant to me means to gain knowledge and expertise that Politics, 1830–1900; Bread and Circuses: when, in my early years at IU, Pat gave me goes beyond their primary life experiences.” Theories of Mass Culture as Social Decay; insightful, detailed, and always encouraging Accordingly, creative writers must “learn a Rule of Darkness: British Literature and feedback on my research. working process that allows them to move Imperialism, 1830–1914; Crusoe’s Foot- In addition to being an exemplary col- from the germ of a story through a series prints: Cultural Studies in Britain and league, Brantlinger has served as chair of of drafts into a more fully realized story.” America; Fictions of State: Culture and the English department (1990–94), as edi- Ardizzone is deeply interested in this Credit in Britain, 1694–1994; The Read- tor of Victorian Studies, and as an elected process and how to teach it to his creative ing Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in member of the Bloomington Faculty Coun- writing students. He believes that teaching 19th-Century British Fiction; Who Killed cil. During the mid-’70s, he was also active creative writing is ultimately about teaching Shakespeare? What’s Happened to English in the IU chapter of the AFT, which was the process of writing and helping students Since the Radical Sixties; and Dark Vanish- successful in its drive to get the university to find the “essential unifying rhythm and ings: Nineteenth-Century Discourse About to comply with laws guaranteeing public pattern” of their work. the Extinction of Primitive Races. His access to information and with improving corpus also includes one edited collection health benefits for faculty, staff, and gradu- and three co-edited anthologies, as well ate students. More recently, Brantlinger Native son makes a life at IU as scholarly editions of Philip Meadows has helped organize the Progressive Faculty On clear, crisp Taylor’s Confessions of a Thug and H. Rider Coalition’s weekly forums on globaliza- days, Patrick Haggard’s She. He is also the author of 34 tion and U.S. domestic and foreign policy. Brantlinger, articles since 1990 on Victorian culture, Following retirement, he looks forward to the James Rudy contemporary theory, and postcolonial traveling with his wife, Ellen, to participate Professor of Eng- studies. Characterizing himself as a “cultur- in the fifth World Social Forum in Brazil lish and College al historian,” Brantlinger often analyzes the as a member of a PFC-sponsored panel on Alumni Associa- social construction of ideas and values and activism and academia. tion Distinguished demonstrates how divisions between “high — Purnima Bose Professor, can be culture” and more popular cultural forms spotted pedaling bespeak political agendas that clash with Historical inquiry prevails his bike to or from the social well-being of different groups of The study of his home and his office in Ballantine Hall. people, such as the working classes, ethnic literature has pro- Devoid of the paper clutter characteristic of minorities, and colonized populations. ductively engaged the work spaces of many of his colleagues, These intellectual commitments enabled many theoretical his organized desk is an appropriate simile Brantlinger, along with James Naremore, questions and for Brantlinger’s intellectual ethos: Just to establish an interdisciplinary Cultural approaches across as he has ordered the array of files on his Studies Program at IU in the early ’90s. the past 40 years, desk, he sorts and processes historical Tom Foster, the current director of cul- many of which information and cultural trends to arrive at tural studies, notes that “Pat Brantlinger have come and theoretical insights that have informed his was a pioneer in arguing for the relevance gone in due research and teaching at Indiana University. of the British cultural studies movement course, while the A native Hoosier, Brantlinger returned to literary studies in the U.S. and the varieties of historical inquiry that Larry to his regional roots in 1968 as an assistant humanities generally. As a faculty member Clopper has pursued in his scholarship and professor of English, after receiving his doc- in the Cultural Studies Program here at teaching have held the abiding interest of torate at Harvard University. The depart- IU, and as someone who often taught the scholars in and beyond the field of medieval ment was undergoing an expansion in those Introduction to Cultural Studies course, studies. days, and Brantlinger was one of eight Brantlinger’s teaching was crucial in Clopper grew up in a rural community hires, the others including current lifelong opening new possibilities for research and on the eastern shore of Maryland, where friends, Mary Gaither and Chris Lohm- inquiry to a whole generation of graduate he learned to plow behind a mule, and pur- ann. New Criticism was the ruling ortho- students.” Besides working closely with sued an early interest in medicine at Johns doxy of the period: Undergraduate courses graduate students in the Cultural Studies Hopkins University. He took his bachelor’s sought to teach students “close reading” Program, Brantlinger has directed about 60 degree in 1963, having settled on Eng- skills, while graduate courses stressed at- PhD dissertations since 1977 and served lish as his major field. His MA and PhD tention to literary form and the importance as a member of approximately 90 other followed in quick order from Ohio State of scholarly editing. Brantlinger’s doctoral doctoral committees, including those of University, and he came to Indiana Uni- work on the Chartist movement during the graduate students from Purdue, Dalhousie, versity in 1969, where he has served both 1840s, with its emphasis on the relation- Alberta, Rhodes (South Africa), and West- the institution and the field of medieval ship between literature and history, ran ern Australia universities. (continued on page 6)

5 notwithstanding, awards of support from the university. Faculty news across more than Clopper has also served the IU commu- (continued from page 5) 15 years. The result nity three times as director of the Medieval studies in many ways ever since. Although of careful research Studies Institute and co-directed, with he arrived with the intention of working in into the politics historian Barbara Hanawalt, a National Old English studies, he soon expanded his of late medieval Endowment for Humanities Seminar for engagements with medieval literature to religious dissent was College Teachers in summer 1985. He include most of the major works other than “Songs of Rechele- has also served as both vice president and Chaucer from the late medieval period, snesse”: Langland president of the Medieval and Renaissance devoting a large part of his energies to and the Francis- Drama Society. medieval drama and to the great alliterative cans, published by His presence in the English department poem contemporary with The Canterbury the University of has led, in considerable measure, to the Tales, Piers Plowman. Michigan Press in national reputation enjoyed by the College Clopper’s first book was a volume in an 1997. Among other as supporting one of the best programs in ambitious series documenting the evidence provocative argu- medieval studies in the country. for play productions in England during ments concerning — Tom Goodmann the medieval and early modern periods. the structure and Drawing on a number of research visits to essential integrity of Lynch named Norton co-editor this complex poem, archives in England, Clopper compiled The The Norton Anthology of English Literature Clopper’s book makes the case for how the Dramatic Records of Chester, 1399–1642 has moved through three generations of author, William Langland, incorporates in for the Records of Early English Drama editors since it was founded in 1962, and his reformist poem criticisms first voiced series, or REED, from the University of all three generations have included profes- more than a century before within the Toronto Press. It is a work of scholarship sors from Indiana University. The latest is divided Franciscan order. in the purest sense, presenting the find- Deidre Lynch, who came to IU in 2001. Clopper’s next book, Drama, Play, and ings of painstaking efforts at documentary She is the associate editor for the romantic Game: English Festive Culture in the Medi- discovery, recovery, and interpretation for period for the eighth edition, which she eval and Early Modern Period (University modern readers. describes as “the most thorough revision of Chicago Press, 2001) offered a culmi- At about the same time (1979), Clopper of the Norton” in its 40-year history, and nation of nearly 30 years of researching, began to investigate the formal and polemi- which will appear later this summer. This teaching, and thinking about the nature cal strategies of Piers Plowman, an inquiry is the first edition to include work by Jane of early English drama, winning the David that would carry him, other projects Austen. Lynch edited Austen’s Love and Bevington Award from the Medieval and Friendship for inclusion in the anthology, Renaissance Drama Society. The book as well as Plan of a Novel, an unpublished offers a multidisciplinary reappraisal of the satiric piece that “outlines what a novel origins and development of medieval drama The News in English would look like according to the sugges- in specific sites, challenging earlier, evolu- tions [Austen] got from her family and tionary accounts and emphasizing remark- friends.” “It’s just hilarious,” Lynch says, This newsletter is published by the In- able cultural continuities across centuries and she is excited to have it included diana University Alumni Association, usually divided into the medieval and early in cooperation with the Department of because it “throws into relief how strange modern periods. English and the College of Arts and Sci- [Austen’s] novels seemed to her contem- In addition to authoring these books, ences Alumni Association, to encourage poraries … . Austen was really unconven- Clopper has co-edited a volume of essays alumni interest in and support for Indiana tional.” The eighth edition will also include in honor of his friend and dissertation University. For activities and membership work by novelist Maria Edgeworth, as well information, call (800) 824-3044 or send director, Martin Stevens, and has also as more poetry by women and new poems e-mail to [email protected]. authored more than 40 articles in scholarly by William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and journals, including essays addressing all Department of English John Keats. There will not be so pro- four of the poems by the anonymous au- Chair ...... Stephen Watt nounced a discrepancy between the space thor of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Editors ...... Emily Houlik-Ritchey, devoted to traditionally canonized writers as well as formative essays on medieval Kristina Pittman, Kristen Renzi and to those whose work has more recently romance, drama, and Langland engag- College of Arts & Sciences come to be valued. Also in this edition, ing many sources of evidence and inquiry, color pictures will be included for the first Dean ...... Kumble R. Subbaswamy including manuscripts, monastic orders, time; the editors are making a concerted Executive Director of Development and theological issues. Clopper has also & Alumni Programs .....David Ellies effort to include prose, such as the roman- written more than 25 book reviews and tic essay form; and they are paying better IU Alumni Association given dozens of papers at conferences. He attention to the satiric and political side of President/CEO ...... Ken Beckley serves as a referee to numerous academic the romantic period. Lynch explains that Director of Alumni presses and journals. His writing is a model the revisions are aimed at “keeping in touch Programs ...... Nicki Bland of informed scholarship communicated in with what’s working in the classroom.” Editor for Constituent clear and unpretentious prose. His work With all the big changes, it is an excit- Periodicals ...... Julie Dales has won him prestigious support from the Assistant Editor for Constituent ing time to be editing the Norton. Lynch National Endowment of Humanities, the Periodicals ...... Carol Edge is co-editor with Jack Stillinger, professor American Council of Learned Societies, Editorial Assistant ...... Keith Roach emeritus at the University of Illinois. She and the American Philosophical Society, as will be the sole editor of the ninth edition, well as a Guggenheim fellowship during and will take on a junior colleague for the the 1994–95 academic year, and numerous (continued on page 7)

6 graduate studies. Nash has been at IU since to York on a British Academy fellowship to Faculty news 1986, serving the past two years as DGS. Castle Howard and Burton-Constable Hall, (continued from page 6) He describes the position as “interesting, the country houses of two original breed- 10th. It is a big project and involves a lot stimulating, exciting, and sometimes frus- ers of the thoroughbred race horse. He is of work, such as rewriting introductions trating.” He loves the “creative problem interested in studying the invention of the and biographical pieces in light of new solving” he gets to do, and despite the fact thoroughbred and exploring what it means scholarship. Lynch describes it as “the kind that “the logistics of this job are pretty to invent an animal. Nash has enjoyed his of work where you get really excited about remarkable,” it has been an exciting and time as DGS and, in the future, he says, “I little things,” such as writing 35-word cap- pivotal time to be DGS. His term has co- could imagine doing it again.” tions that manage to explain concepts suc- incided with the Carnegie Initiative on the cinctly and clearly for undergraduates. “It’s Doctorate, a three-year process of evalua- Sanders returns — with prizes! tion sponsored by the Carnegie Institute like writing sonnets all the time: only 14 A man who has made his career at Indiana that is currently being undertaken by seven lines,” Lynch says. She also had to assimi- University, Scott Sanders started teaching partner departments across the nation. The late new information about the birthday of here in 1971 when he was 25, having just IU English department just completed its poet-novelist Mary Robinson that chrono- received his PhD in modernist literature third year, although it will continue the logically puts Robinson before William from the University of Cambridge. Even at process for another year independent of the Blake and necessitated the reordering of that time, Sanders was more interested in CID. Nash is pleased with the results of the table of contents. The romantic period writing than in scholarship. He decided to the CID. He says that we have “a structure now begins with a series of women writers come to Indiana because, of the universities emerging to deal with broad philosophical instead of men. that offered him jobs, it was the one most claims and outline a framework to accom- When she isn’t buried in footnotes and open to his exploration of creative as well as plish those initiatives.” One of the practical captions, Lynch has been working on a analytical pursuits. When he chose to focus changes that has “come to fruition” is the book project focusing, quite appropri- on creative writing, the department lived partial 1-1 teaching load for doctoral stu- ately, on the history of the anthology and up to its word by embracing this change. dents, which will continue “helping people the love of literature in the 18th century Eighteen books later, Sanders is still writ- complete degrees in a timely fashion,” as and romantic period. Lynch says she feels ing and serving the university as a whole. well as make the financial aid components honored to be part of an IU tradition Between 1997 and 2003, he took a leave of the program more attractive to appli- working with the anthology. “It’s not from the English department to work as cants. the monument I thought it was in my director of the Wells Scholars Program, Nash feels good about the time he and canon-busting days as an undergraduate,” a national competition that selects 20 to everyone else have put into the CID and she says. “It evolves but keeps a connec- 25 incoming freshmen each year for their the programmatic changes that have come tion with the past.” Through its efforts to academic excellence, social conscience, and out of the process. But his favorite part of respond to recent scholarship, represent the leadership potential. The program provides the job as DGS is mentoring the gradu- work of women who have previously been them with a full scholarship to IU along ate students. He likes “being in a position overlooked, and adapt itself to the needs with special seminars, events, speakers, to hear what they want from the program of its users, Lynch believes that the Norton and advising. Sanders began teaching in and figure out how to enable them to do retains the sense that “this is the best stuff. the program when it began in 1990, and, the work they want and at the same time It will blow students’ minds and open wide when the original director stepped down, meet bureaucratic requirements.” He new vistas. These are the most beautiful Sanders took his place. He calls his years notes that as the department has gotten poems in the language of the time.” with the Wells Scholars Program “tremen- smaller, it has limited the range of courses dously rewarding,” in that they gave him that are offered. At the same time, he has Nash steps down as DGS a chance to work with “the best faculty in seen a shift in the last 10 to 20 years from all fields,” while learning much more about Richard Nash’s sabbatical has come round, survey courses to specific, narrower courses the extensive resources IU has to offer. so he has stepped down as director of based on professors’ interests. Distribution Sanders chose to leave the Wells Program requirements have remained intact through in 2003 to devote more time and attention this shift. He sees it as part of his job to to his writing. He took a sabbatical last try to “figure out mechanisms to make year, during which he wrote the bulk of the dots [distribution requirements] make his newest book, titled A Private History of sense,” working with individual students to Awe, a spiritual memoir to be published in “find coherence among their own constella- February 2006 by Farrar Straus & Giroux. tion.” But the best part of being DGS, says This year, Sanders resumed teaching for Nash, is Awards Day, when he gets to stand the English department with a graduate up before the department and recognize workshop in nonfiction and an undergradu- students who have done good work. ate class on the art of the essay. While DGS, Nash has worked very hard But don’t expect him to stand still for to “keep some component of [his] research long. Sanders recently won a 2004–05 active,” by publishing and going to confer- NEA fellowship in creative writing, the ences, but he has not had much time for his second of his career. The award is to sup- favorite: archival work. He is, therefore, ex- port the writing of a book titled Common cited about his sabbatical next year. He has Wealth, which Sanders says will be a “de- a Mellon fellowship to work at the Hun- fense and celebration of the world we share tington in California, which has a collection — air, water, topsoil, schools, language, he’s interested in: the early history of thor- books, and much, much else.” He sees oughbred race horses. After that, he will go (continued on page 8) 7 director of the Carnegie Center for Literacy Faculty news and Learning. Wilkinson volunteers her (continued from page 7) time among non-students in support of the project as a response to our society’s literacy as a means of empowering people obsession with private wealth, an obsession from all walks of life. She gives readings in that threatens to undermine the natural, Bloomington with the IU Creative Writing social, and cultural sources of our well-be- Program and is also in demand around ing. He will begin work on the book in the country for a wide variety of speaking fall 2005. In addition to his teaching and engagements. writing, Sanders spends much time giving Wilkinson is distinguished as a founding lectures, readings, and workshops in con- member of the Affrilachian Poets, a family nection with his books and in service to the of writers based in Lexington whose works, causes he cares about. His latest effort was readings, and writing workshops help share the unique voices of black Appalachians. a series of speeches urging protection of the pate in a curriculum that would immerse The group is the subject of the 2001 film Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from oil him in reading and writing for a time while documentary Coal Black Voices, which was drilling. Sanders may be a faculty member also allowing him to “see if this [his writ- funded by educational and arts councils in at IU, but he also sees his work in broader ing] matters to anyone else.” Kentucky and Ohio and aired on Kentucky contexts and concedes that he “always feels Manning’s question has since been an- Educational Television. Along with the a tension between being a good citizen of swered with emphatic affirmation. His first publication of many of her short stories the department and university and being a book of poetry, Lawrence Booth’s Book of in anthologies and literary magazines, citizen of the state and nation.” Visions, was published in 2001 by Yale Uni- Wilkinson has published two books of short As a citizen of IU’s English department, versity and was selected by W.S. Merwin stories with London-based Toby Press. Sanders couldn’t be happier. He says that to receive the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Blackberries, Blackberries (2000) and Water he has been “thoroughly welcomed back” Poets Award. A second book, titled A Street (2002) celebrate the culture of rural and is “enthusiastic about the new and Companion for Owls: Being the Common- African-American women. The latter was veteran faculty.” He regrets that his time place Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back a finalist for both the United Kingdom’s as Wells Scholars director kept him from Woodsman, &c., was published by Harcourt Orange Prize and a Zora Neal Hurston/ getting to know a whole generation of last fall. Both books employ the use of the Richard Wright Foundation Legacy Award. new faculty in the department. He’s eager persona poem and dramatic monologue Wilkinson has two forthcoming novels, to catch up with all of his colleagues. This while also creating the sense that each col- Opulence and A Good Rain, and she also excitement embraces students as well, es- lection is its own book-length poem. And wants to continue exploring the form of pecially those in the MFA program, whom Manning’s third manuscript, a project he the short story cycle. Sanders describes as “stellar and inspiring.” describes as similar to the first two in form Wilkinson’s warm demeanor does her but different in voice, has been recently great service in the classroom, where she sent off to his publisher. Manning thinks of takes a leadership role but also thinks of New faculty the three books as a kind of pastoral trilogy, herself as another member of an active and he notes that an important focus of his writing community. She is excited about all IU raids Kentucky for writer writing is “the human relationship to the of her students’ successes, whether those natural world, and how this relationship Inspired by her students are preparing for publication or affects one’s understanding of self.” “enchanted child- writing fiction for the first time. Manning keeps himself busy, already hood” exploring In her spare time, Wilkinson enjoys having moved on to another collection hills and creeks in watching and analyzing movies with her of poetry. This newest project is differ- rural Kentucky, twin teenage daughters. She admits that her ent, in that the poems try to acknowledge Crystal Wilkinson home in Bloomington is still a bit bare, but consciously the presence of the reader, al- began writing cre- only because she and her family are waiting lowing the reader and poet to meet on the atively at an early to fill it with new memories. age. She chose to page. Appropriately, then, Manning seeks study journalism as to engage an active reader of his poetry. He an undergraduate Raiding Kentucky II believes that a reader of his poems should at Eastern Kentucky University, but this did Maurice Manning try to “keep in mind the process of think- not stop Wilkinson from honing her gift for never pictured ing and the move from looking outward fiction. While she may have employed her himself teaching to looking in, so that poems don’t become artistic flair to spice up some of her early as- and writing for a a solitary, alienating experience.” He cites signments, this would not suffice to satisfy living, even after justice as a concept he wants to continue to her inner-poet. After studying and working receiving a BA think about in relation to poetry, as, in his in journalism for several years, Wilkinson from Earlham Col- view, the medium of poetry sets itself up to entered the MFA program at Spalding Uni- lege and an MA in engage social issues and ethical concerns. versity. Since then, she has built a purpose- English literature Manning observes that “historically, when ful career around writing. from the Univer- instances of real justice have occurred, it Wilkinson taught creative writing at sity of Kentucky. has had the effect of a good metaphor, in EKU and the University of Kentucky; she Manning says that he later decided to that two entities that are opposed to each is the former chair of creative writing for enter an MFA program at the University of other in kind and degree are reconciled, the Kentucky Governor School for the Alabama because “I was addicted to writing and something new is made from that fu- Arts; and she comes to Bloomington from poetry, and I couldn’t do anything else.” sion.” Lexington, Ky., where she was the assistant He welcomed the opportunity to partici- (continued on page 9) 8 on a book about nightlife performance have been particularly welcoming,” he says. Faculty news and the Harlem Renaissance, a revision of “I’m happy with the intellectual commu- (continued from page 8) his dissertation. In this work, Vogel uses nity here.” Manning says he came to IU from a novels, poetry, and other literature in ad- teaching position at DePauw University dition to performance to investigate the Intellectual vs. freeway traffic because he is a big supporter of public question of “where nightlife goes when the Ranu Samantrai sun comes up.” He notes that though this education and was eager to try working in a has made a home project is historical, he came to it through different, larger, and more diverse environ- in Bloomington his interest in contemporary performance ment. The experience here has been a good amid what she and queer culture, most notably by the one. “I love teaching,” says Manning, who describes as “an responses he observed to such cultures is quick to note that his job is, above all, extraordinary gath- in the late 1990s, when NYC began to challenging. Manning’s primary goal as a ering of scholars.” re-assert archaic laws from the 1920s to teacher is to encourage young people to Samantrai has close cabarets again. The book thus looks care about reading and to read with care, earned degrees in backward, centering on cabaret’s multiple which he says extends to his writing classes literature, includ- images in the 1920s, particularly as these as well. He maintains that students can’t ing a PhD from images intersect and interact with sexuality, learn to write well unless they read well the University of Michigan, but from criminality, and racial difference. first. He enjoys the work he has to do in or- the beginning, her career has crossed Vogel’s work spans not only disciplines, der to keep his mind both sharp and recep- disciplines. She formerly served as chair but also time periods. He has also previous- tive to his students’ concerns and ideas, and of cultural studies at Claremont Gradu- ly written and published on contemporary he calls his work in the classroom “one of ate University in Claremont, Calif., and performance culture and live performance, the most stimulating experiences [he] can she was pleasantly surprised to see her last and he remains concerned with perfor- imagine.” Though he may not have always book, AlterNatives: Black Feminism in the mance historiography, giving attention to imagined taking this path in life, Manning Postimperial Nation (Stanford: Stanford the way the stage’s inherent mutability is is happy with the surprises life as a college University Press, 2002), reviewed by a wide documented. As a professor, Vogel intro- professor and published poet have brought range of academics, including those who duces his students to these multiple inter- him. He has faith in the importance of his study feminism, 20th-century Britain, and ests. Last fall, he taught a graduate course various roles here at IU. As he says, simply sociology. titled Performativity and Performance that and with a smile, “I believe in what I do.” According to Samantrai, she is simply served as a discussion springboard to both seeking answers to questions that come performance studies and critical theory. From New York to new job naturally to a humanist, and in doing so Next year, he will offer a graduate seminar she has become a specialist in many areas, Shane Vogel has titled Intimacy and Alienation in Modern including intellectual history and theory, spent the past American Drama 1900–1950 that will deal diaspora cultures, gender studies, feminist academic year more directly with avant-garde theater. theory, and post-World War II Britain. She transitioning: from Vogel is excited about his new role has already taught a graduate course cross- New York City teaching as an IU professor and says that listed as cultural studies and English and to Bloomington, he loves this aspect of his job. His approach looks forward to collaborating with other from grad student to teaching is, fittingly, interdisciplinary IU departments in the future. She is on the to professor. Hav- as well, for he believes it’s important that international editorial board of Meridians: ing first earned his students find novel ways of studying Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, a jour- a BA in English and approaching literature. Vogel likes to nal founded by a group of academic and and classics at introduce students, especially his under- creative writers that includes Ama Ata Ai- Tulane Univer- graduates, to new questions and problems doo, Toni Morrison, and Elena Poniatows- sity in New Orleans, Vogel then went while also offering them various methods of ka. In 2004, Samantrai was interviewed on in 2004 to receive his MA and PhD approach. He says that “it’s great to watch by Chicago Public Radio as an expert on in performance studies from New York students figure things out and think about immigration as a cultural phenomenon in University. Vogel says he decided to take things.” The questions they ask differ for the United Kingdom. a job at Indiana University because “the each person and also are different from Samantrai was eager to come to Indiana openness was strongest here.” He felt that the questions he himself asks, so he gains a both to immerse herself in its interdisciplin- the department was not only receptive to lot through the interaction. Though it has ary intellectual activity and to escape Los performance studies, but also welcomed been a year of changes for Vogel, he cer- Angeles area traffic. In Bloomington she the broader, interdisciplinary focus of his tainly is not complaining. “All the faculty work. For when asked what his scholarly has found a home that has the international interests are, Vogel’s list is not a short one presence she needs along with a tempo — performance studies, queer theory/gay that better suits her lifestyle. She loves the and lesbian studies, American literature, town’s music scene and its parks, and she and critical theory are some of the catego- frequents the Farmers’ Market. She started ries that top his list, all of which encourage the year excited to return to teaching such interdisciplinary approaches to learn- literature to undergraduates and has been ing and knowing. pleasantly surprised by the work ethic of IU students, many more of whom bal- Vogel says that one of his current main ance work and study than students she has interests rests in determining what sort of taught elsewhere. space performance has allowed for queer people and sexual cultures. He is working

9 Student News

Creative writing graduate student makes noise with first collection of poems Profile: The Listening yle Dargan is listening. To Karaoke — The Office Lounge K hip-hop. Sonnets. Muddy Waters. Professors philosophiz- Here’s to backriffs, the Japanese, naval ing. Basketball players trash-talk- baseball caps, pack-a-day rasp, thanking god ing. Barbershop chatter. Col- for being a boy, a country, tonight (no liquor trane. Cell phone conversations. sold on Sundays), cracking the fire Cowboy karaoke. Johnny Cash. exit, the Beethoven cellular opus The third-year graduate stubborn as a canker sore, Tom (going once, student in Indiana University Bloomington’s Creative Writ- going twice...), contagious slow dancing ing Program has absorbed all in the kitchen entrance, yellow spilling through of these sounds throughout his the white lyrics, 80s catalogues, hands colliding young life in order to make some a beat too late, contemplating Lou Rawls, major noise of his own. Now, forearm hair, STIHL patches, stars others are listening. His first col- and bars pulsing on pick-up windows lection of poems, aptly titled The in the dirt lot, Indiana, Johnny Listening: Poems (University of Cash and believing Georgia Press, 2004), received that the lord was on their side, sunset a favorable review last month in drawl, three-drink-makeovers, (instrumental the New York Times Book Review. break), men in each other’s blank It also has won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, which is awarded embrace, cigarette burns to the best first collection of and no pain, Bette Midler poetry written by an African Creative writing graduate student Kyle Dar- and chorus mentality, stripes American writer. “The Listening gan reads from The Listening: Poems, his really making you feel thinner, is right; Dargan has a marvelous critically acclaimed first collection of poems playing the air guitar like a penis ear,” wrote the Times reviewer. and redmen singing western, the last pair Dargan, a native of New- of Levi’s stitched in the states, ark, N.J., and a former recipient of IU’s poems appear in the New York America the plaid, saliva forgotten and the sol- Yusef Komunyakaa Fellowship in Poetry, is Times, Dargan is low-key about diers coming home. Maybe next Wednesday remarkably soft-spoken and philosophical the “OK review” and mentions I sing. for someone whose poems speak so loudly. a “much harsher” critique that When another writer might shout from one of his associates posted — Kyle Dargan the rooftops about having his first book of on a Web blog. When another writer might pat himself on the back for getting it “right” the To listen to Kyle Dargan reading first time, Dargan prefers to think about gan, who laughed when one writing journal from his collection of poems, go to what he’s going to try next. The thought that considered publishing his poems these Web links. The links require of getting comfortable clearly makes him wished him luck getting back to Ireland. RealPlayer, which is available free at uncomfortable. “It’s hard to put a finger on, which is good. http://www.real.com. The Listening reflects the efforts of a It means you have to think about it. I tend • Rememory (Parts 2 & 3) restless young writer eager to try differ- to have a philosophical tone. It’s what I like http://video.indiana.edu:8080/ ent techniques, play with language, and to read, and I’m happy when I achieve it.” ramgen/ip/iucast/news/ highlight his many influences — from jazz He credits his teachers and mentors, rememory.rm to hip-hop, Shakespeare to the slam poetry including Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Rita Dove and Charles Wright, and Kevin • Karaoke http://video.indiana of African-American poet/actor/musician Young, the Ruth Lilly Professor of poetry .edu:8080/ramgen/ip/iucast/ Saul Williams. Dargan admits that the book at IUB and a finalist for the 2003 National news/karaoke.rm is “all over the place. It’s an honest descrip- tion of how my writing has been all types of Book Award, with encouraging him to fol- To speak to Dargan or obtain a list of things. For me, the whole thing about po- low his muse and not worry about finding awards won by current students and etry is to keep it from being locked down a singular voice. They pressed him to try recent graduates of IUB’s Creative and lazy with language. I write poetry to different voices. In the hip-hop world, this Writing Program, contact Ryan challenge people and use language in a less is known as “sampling.” Piurek, IU Media Relations, at (812) obvious way than it was intended,” he says. That’s not to say Dargan didn’t already 855-5393 or [email protected]. “My tone is really confusing,” adds Dar- (continued on page 11)

10 Student news Brandolino steps up to the plate — and (continued from page 10) hits a homer — with service, scholarship have a clear sense of how he wanted his poetry to look his year Gina Brandolino earned one of and sound. Having listened to hip-hop while he was TIndiana University’s most prestigious academic growing up, he hoped to blend this powerful lan- awards, the Wells Graduate Fellowship. Chancellor guage of the street with his maturing sensibilities. “The Wells created the single-year, $30,000 fellowship, interlacing of sounds and consonants is definitely not which is awarded annually from his estate, to recog- something you’d expect of a Shakespearean sonnet,” he nize a doctoral or MFA student from any depart- says of the hip-hop language. “It’s unique in the same ment in the university who continues his legacy of way jazz is unique. The language of hip-hop and how “visionary leadership, academic excellence, character, it’s structured is very much like jazz. It sees patterns that social consciousness, and generosity.” Brandolino aren’t necessarily obvious.” meets the high standards set by Chancellor Wells Dargan says he has always been aware of the sounds with her efforts to ensure that academic opportuni- around him. His poetry is influenced by what he heard ties are available to students from diverse, working-class backgrounds. growing up in East Orange, N.J.; in Virginia, where he As a first-generation college graduate, Brandolino recognizes the strength reconnected with his grandfather’s Southern heritage; in in a university that “feels like home to everyone,” regardless of race or social his creative writing classes at the University of Virginia, class, and she actively works to make IU such a place. She has been a men- where he was the only black student and often struggled tor with the Groups program, which lends support to students who have a to get people to understand what he was saying; and in physical or learning disability, are the first in their families to attend college, faraway Bloomington, Ind. or have limited financial resources. She describes the first stage of Groups as a Using hip-hop language, Dargan sounds off on kind of “freshman boot camp,” and it is followed by academic advising, men- events both momentous and mundane — from the toring, tutoring, and financial aid counseling to ensure that these students legendary Ali-Frazier fight in Manila to a boyhood brawl have continued support while making the transition to college life. on a basketball court and a trip to the local barbershop. Brandolino is a medievalist, and her dissertation is titled, “Voice Les- His language has been described as “the language people sons: Violence, Voice, and Interiority in Middle English Religious Narratives speak.” While Dargan channels the speech of family 1300–1500.” In it, she explores how interiority is presented, developed, and and friends he grew up with, he believes the words he negotiated in a wide range of medieval religious genres, such as saints’ lives, chooses for his poems go beyond just people talking. mystery plays, miracle stories, lives of Christ, and biblical stories recast in Rather, the sounds of those words echo “what’s actually the vernacular. In addition to her academic work, she is co-manager of the going on,” he says, adding that his goal is to engage his English department’s softball team, Ballantine Tool & Die. readers in honest conversation. “I want to try to get people to not be so afraid of hip-hop and its sensibilities,” he says. “With this channel of writing, I won’t stray away from this. This is how people do speak where I live.” MFAs reach out to community with Only a good listener can truly know what’s going Writers in the Schools Week on, and Dargan is clearly tuned in to his surroundings. It’s all “the listening” that promises to make him worth any creative writing programs across the country engage in regular hearing whenever he decides to sing again. Mcommunity outreach efforts, often sending their writers to teach in retirement homes, prisons, and schools. Our MFA program can now count Notes itself among them, as the spring semester of 2005 marked the first Writers in the Schools Week. Graduate students enrolled in the MFA program visited • Indiana University offered courses in creative writ- nine classrooms across Monroe County, where they taught students ranging ing throughout most of the 20th century. Marguerite from second grade to 12th grade. Young, Robert P.T. Coffin, Robert Penn Warren, John Though smaller outreach efforts into the Bloomington community had Crowe Ransom, and Robert Frost taught courses in occurred in recent years, they were always initiated by forces outside of the poetry and fiction-writing at IU as early as 1941. The university. Meadowlands Retirement Community, for example, has twice in- graduate creative writing program is one of the nation’s vited poets out to give readings in their fireside lounge. The Harmony school oldest and most distinguished, having been founded in also sponsored a day on which writers were invited to read their own work. 1948 by short-story writer Peter Taylor. Yet many graduate students longed to teach creative writing (in addition to • More than one-third of IUB’s graduate students reading it) outside of the college setting. in creative writing are students of color, making the This spring, they seized the opportunity to do just that. Improvising in program the most successfully diversified creative writing their new setting, writers like Robin Vogelzang (poetry) and Tracey Truels program in the nation. (poetry) scaled down their usual classroom exercises into “madlibs” or fill-in • Kyle Dargan won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize in the blank poems for younger students. K. Keener used a fifth-grade class’s 2003. Other current students who have won or been fi- recent fieldtrip as an opportunity to teach persona poems; the class produced nalists for significant awards in the past two years include a poem titled “I Am the Bald Eagle.” Jennifer Scaife (poetry) led her high Emily Doak, Misty Harper, Robin Kish, Esther Lee, school students to consider the nature of dreams and how they can serve as Micah Ling, Mia Noffsinger, Alison Powell, Mary Austin inspirations for poems. Speaker, Sara Jane Stoner, and Robin Vogelzang. Prose and poetry produced from Writers in the Schools visits was gath- • For more news and information about the IU ered into a chapbook that was then distributed to participating schools. Creative Writing Program, go to www.indiana.edu/ The chapbook also appeared on Indiana Review’s Web site (www.indiana. ~mfawrite/programnews.html. edu/~inreview/). Indiana Review has also agreed to help find funding for — IU Office of Media Relations the continuation of the project through its grant-writing initiatives.

11 Student news (continued from page 10) First Wertheim Prize awarded Graduate students win national fellowships he English department found itself in Tthe welcome, but unusual, position of seeing not one, but two graduate students first win — then decline — Dissertation- Year Fellowships sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences. These fellowships are highly sought after, and it is cause for celebration when one of our students is awarded one. This year, both Tobias Menely and Melissa Jones were deserving recipients of these awards. Both, however, found themselves in the enviable position of declining them because each was also successful in prestigious national fellowship competition. Menely was selected as recipient of a Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship, sup- ported by the Woodrow Wilson Founda- tion, for his dissertation project “Cultivated Sympathies: Sentimentalism and Concern for the Nonhuman in Eighteenth-Century Britain.” Jones received an American As- sociation of University Women’s Fellowship to continue work on her project “Early Modern Pornographies.” The English department is pleased to share this wonderful news with its alumni and friends.

Judy Wertheim congratulates Melissa Jones, the first winner of the Albert Wertheim Graduate student Memorial Prize, which will be awarded annually to an outstanding student special- placement 2004–05 izing in drama and theater studies. First jobs Rebecca Black (MFA): Santa Clara Uni- versity Danit Brown (MFA): Albion College Great year for English Phi Beta Kappas Michael Chaney (PhD, American 19th- century literature): Dartmouth College he English department has not kept records on the number of its majors induct- ed annually into Phi Beta Kappa. Thus, it isn’t possible to assert with absolute Sara Biggs Chaney (PhD, composition): T accuracy that in 2004–05 the largest number of our majors ever was inducted. But Dartmouth College no one can remember a year in which as many as 23 were afforded this honor. We Emily Heady (PhD, Victorian literature): list their names here to celebrate their achievement. Liberty University Katie Levin (PhD, composition): Univer- December 2004 August Evans sity of Minnesota Andrew Bean Nicole Gealy Maureen Martin (PhD, Victorian litera- Thade Jude Correa Kathleen Gettelfinger ture): William Paterson University Leslie Cox Jennifer Jackson Rawley Fear Megan Kilbourn Mark Minster (PhD, Romanticism): Rose Jennifer Lichtblau Stephanie Morris Hulman Institute Kristina Pittman Adam Nussbaum Relocations Andrea Robinson Adam Plaiss Evan Davis, (PhD, 18th-century British Jenna Satterthwaite Rachel Plotnik literature): Hampton Sydney Amanda Trost Johanna Frank (PhD, American 20th-cen- April 2005 Virginia Vasquez tury): University of Windsor Merry Bartley Sarah Wilkins Shane Graham (PhD, postcolonial stud- Andrea Chmielewski Laurel Worthington ies), Utah State University Brenna Dwyer

12 Alumni Notebook

was published in 2005. That at Martin. I retired in 2001 adults: We Were There, Too!: Before 1960s makes about 11 or 12 pub- and moved to Scottsdale, Young People in U.S. History; Robert L. Willman, BA’40, lished books.” He is professor Ariz., where I hike, run, ride a It’s Our World, Too!: Stories of MS’51, served in the military emeritus of writing at Michigan bicycle, do yoga, and play rac- Young People Who Are Making for five years, was a teacher Technological University. The quetball.” He can be reached at a Difference; and Hey, Little and administrator for 33 years, Houghton, Mich., resident can [email protected]. Ant. Hoose is a staff member and has been retired for more be reached at [email protected]. Patricia Olds, MA’62, at the Nature Conservancy, than 25 years. He writes, “I am In June 2004, Sheila R. writes, “I moved to an inde- a founder and director of the happy and humble to have lived Finch, BA’59, MAT’62, lec- pendent living condo in Friends Children’s Music Network, and so long.” He lives in New Al- tured on science fiction aboard Care Community. I am active a songwriter and musician who bany, Ind., and can be reached the Queen Mary 2 (New York in promoting accessibility for performs with the Hoose Fam- at [email protected]. to Southampton, England) handicapped people.” She lives ily Band. He lives in Portland, Harry R. Bergdoll, BA’48, as part of Oxford University in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Maine. MS’55, writes, “I am a ‘retired Outreach. She lives in Long Sandra Fenichel Asher, William H. Phillips, farmer’ (tenant does work), Beach, Calif. BA’64, has published the PhD’72, has published the member of the local Lions picture book Too Many Frogs! third edition of Film: An Intro- Club, trustee of the United (Philomel Books, 2005) and a duction (Bedford/St. Martin’s, Methodist Church, and a Navy 1960s play adapting Avi’s Romeo and 2004), an outgrowth of his veteran of World War II: lieu- Toby M. Heathcotte, BA’60, Juliet — Together (and Alive!) research, writing, and years tenant junior grade, U.S. Naval MAT’68, recently released At Last. The Lancaster, Pa., of teaching introductory film Reserve, Amphibious Forces.” four novels — Alison’s Leg- resident has published 25 books courses at four universities. He He and his wife, Mary M. Berg- acy, Lainn’s Destiny, Angie’s for young readers (as Sandy is a visiting professor of English doll, have three daughters and Promise, and Full Contact Asher) and more than two at the University of Wisconsin eight grandchildren. He lives in — through two different pub- dozen plays. at Eau Claire. He lives in Eau Sweetser, Ind. lishers. She lives in Glendale, Sarah Lawson, BA’65, Claire and can be reached at Connie Frybarger Bretz, Ariz., and can be reached at writes, “The revised edition of [email protected]. BA’49, writes a weekly column [email protected]. my translation of Christine de John D. Walda, BA’72, for The Phoenix in Phoenixville, Ernest H. Lockridge, Pizan’s Treasure of the City of JD’75, joined the Indianapolis- Pa., and in 2004 received a BA’60, and his wife, Laurel Ladies has been issued by Pen- based law firm of Bose McKin- second-place award for headline Richardson, have published guin Classics (October 2003).” ney & Evans as a partner. He writing in Pennsylvania. She has Travels with Ernest (AltaMira She lives in London and can be most recently served Indiana published 2,085 pieces so far. Press, 2004). They tell of their reached at salawson@ntlworld University as executive direc- She also teaches for the Writing travels together in separate .com. tor of federal regulations, and Academy of Farmington, Minn. narratives and then discuss their Bruce D. Sunstein, MA’69, he served as president of IU’s Harley L. Sachs, BA’53, different constructions of these is co-founding partner of Board of Trustees from 1992 MAT’56, writes, “The second travels, which were experi- Bromberg & Sunstein, an to 1993 and 1994 to 2002. He in my series of ‘cozy’ mysteries, enced simultaneously but are intellectual-property law firm lives in Indianapolis. The Mystery Club and the Dead recalled and related differently. in Boston. The firm celebrated Arthrell D. Sanders, Doctor, was published in pa- A professor emeritus of English its 25th anniversary in October PhD’73, has retired after 44 perback and e-book formats in and creative writing at the 2004. Sunstein can be reached years at North Carolina Central January 2004 by wingsepress. Ohio State University, he is the at [email protected]. University as associate professor com. The third, The Mystery author of three novels, includ- of English and university mar- Club and the Hidden Witness, ing Prince Elmo’s shal. She writes, “After a fulfill- Fire, and editor 1970s ing career, I am now volunteer- of 20th-Century Nancy C. McEntire, MA’70, ing with the Durham Nativity ndiana University’s network Interpretations of PhD’90, has been awarded ten- School, the Orange County Iof alumni chapters in major The Great Gatsby. ure and promotion to associate Commission for Women, and metropolitan areas around the world The Columbus, professor in the Department of the Advisory Board on Aging.” provides stimulating, enriching, and Ohio, resident English at Indiana State Uni- exciting activities to keep members of She lives in Rougemont, N.C. the IU family connected to the univer- can be reached versity. She lives in Terre Haute, In February 2005, John K. sity — lifelong and worldwide. With at Lockridge.1@ Ind., and can be reached at Smeltzer, BA’75, JD’80, joined programs such as faculty presentations, osu.edu. [email protected]. Indianapolis-based law firm cultural events, career networking Phillip J. Phillip M. Hoose, BS’71, Sommer Barnard Attorneys as forums, and activities to recharge your Miller, BA’62, published The Race to Save the of counsel. He also serves on Hoosier spirit, IU alumni chapters pro- writes, “I taught Lord God Bird in 2004. He is the board of directors for the vide a lifetime of opportunities to keep and played the author of two other books Sigma Nu Alumni Association you connected, wherever you live. administrator for adults — Hoosiers: The Fab- of Indiana University and as To find an alumni chapter in your area, for 32 years at ulous Basketball Life of Indiana corporate counsel to the Profes- call (800) 824-3044, send e-mail to the University and Necessities: Racial Barriers sional Golfers Association of [email protected], or visit www of Tennessee in American Sports — and three America–Indiana Section, the .alumni.indiana.edu. books for children and young (continued on page 14) 13 Alumni notebook nity Schools. She is married to at [email protected]. 2003), a memoir about her Stuart Shear, a registered nurse, Christopher A. Cokinos, grandmother. In addition to (continued from page 13) and lives in Ellettsville, Ind. BA’86, is an assistant profes- working on a second book, she Indiana Golf Association, and sor of English at Utah State writes for magazines such as the Indiana Golf Foundation. University. He writes, “I have GQ, ESPN the Magazine, Self, He lives in Carmel, Ind. 1980s had poetry in Poetry, essays in Cooking Light, and The New Jonna M. MacDougall, Robert S. Hughes Jr., Shenandoah, and a book review York Times Magazine. She lives BA’77, MAT’81, JD’86, writes, PhD’81, writes, “My first in Science. In late 2003 and in Knoxville, Tenn. “I am a founding board mem- novel, Murder on Molokai, was early 2004, I had a National Stephen D. Schmahl, ber and secretary/treasurer published in 2004 and launches Science Foundation Antarctic BA’91, MBA’97, is vice of Outrun the Sun, a not-for- the ‘Surfing Detective’ mystery Visiting Artists and Writers president of contracts and pric- profit organization dedicated series.” His pen name is Chip grant and participated in the ing for Coram Healthcare in to raising awareness of the Hughes, and he has completed annual Antarctic Search for Denver. He and his wife, Amy risk factors of melanoma and drafts of two more Surfing Meteorites expedition as part of (Tardy) Schmahl, ’90, have other skin cancers and to raising Detective novels. The Kailua, my research on meteorites for three children: Emily, Sarah, funds for melanoma medical Hawaii, resident can be reached a nonfiction book.” His awards and David. He lives in Centen- research. Other founding board at [email protected]. include a 2003 Whiting Writers’ nial, Colo., and can be reached members are Marci A. Reddick, Kari J. Winter, ACJSt’81, Award and the 2003 Fineline at [email protected]. BA’78, JD’84; my sister, Anita BA’81, edited and wrote the Award for lyric prose from the Steven W. Thalheimer, J. Day, BA’84; and Jennifer introduction for the second Mid-American Review. He BA’91, and Andrea E. (Rahe) Patton.” MacDougall lives in edition of The Blind African lives in Nibley, Utah, and can Thalheimer, BS’90, have a son, Indianapolis. Slave; Or, Memoirs of Boyrereau be reached at [email protected] Luke Steven, who was born on Michael A. Martone, Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace .edu. April 16, 2004. BA’77, is a professor in the (University of Wisconsin Press, Ellen L. Swain, BA’89, Claire C. (Wishard) Hop- Department of English at the 2004), an abolitionist’s autobi- writes, “I am shifting gears after penworth, BA’92, writes, “My University of Alabama. He and ography detailing his boyhood a few years as a trial lawyer and husband and I welcomed our Robin C. Hemley, BA’80, a in Africa, his abduction and am now on the faculty at the beautiful daughter, Emily, on professor in the Department enslavement, his service in the Vermont Law School, where March 1, 2004, in Chicago.” of English at the Univer- Revolutionary War, and his I run the academic support Benjamin D. Kern, BA’92, sity of Iowa, edited Extreme years as a free man in Vermont. department and work as a was promoted to partner at Fiction (Longman, 2004). Winter provides annotations writing specialist. I am proud Gordon & Glickson, an infor- Martone lives in Tuscaloosa, and original documents for to report that I wove in a short mation technology law firm in Ala., and can be reached at the book, which was originally story plotline during my final Chicago. In November 2004, [email protected]. published in 1810. An asso- closing argument in a jury trial Kern also launched his own Charlette M. Perry, ciate professor of American in 2003. I am working on my technology company, Canary BA’77, writes, “I am cur- studies at the University at first novel and am an endur- Wireless. He lives in Chicago. rently enmeshed in the creative Buffalo, she can be reached at ance swimmer. Once an English Kathryn J. McGrath, endeavors of fine art, creative [email protected]. major, always an English BA’92, has been appointed writing, and the marketing Bruce K. Hetrick, BA’82, is major.” She lives in Sharon, instructor of English basic skills thereof!” She lives in Coving- president and CEO of India- Vt., and can be reached at at Bergen Community College ton, Ky., and can be reached at napolis-based Hetrick Commu- [email protected]. in Paramus, N.J. Previously [email protected]. nications. The public relations she was an English lecturer at Richard D. Engling, agency and its client American Baruch College and a teacher of MA’78, is forming a new Consulting recently won a Gold 1990s English as a second language. theater company in Chicago Quill Award, one of the top Timothy C. Armstrong, She lives in New York City. and will direct its first produc- international communications BA’90, is doctor of acupunc- Suzanne Child Silverstein, tion, Absolute Macbeth. The awards, for their communica- ture at the Center for Preven- CBSt’93, BA’93, has been theater’s Web site is www. tions program for Hyperfix tive Medicine in East Provi- promoted to vice president, di- petheatre.com. The Evanston, 65/70, which involved the dence, R.I. He is a 2002 magna visional merchandise manager, Ill., resident can be reached at complete shutdown of an cum laude graduate of the contemporary sportswear and [email protected]. interstate highway through Emperor’s College of Tradi- dresses, for Saks Fifth Avenue. Marsha R. Turner-Shear, downtown Indianapolis during tional Chinese Medicine and a She lives in New York City. BS’78, MAT’83, EdS’91, the summer of 2003. 2002 graduate of the American Will Clemens, BA’93, is EdD’92, has been named su- Margaret S. Perlstein, Acupuncture Academy. He lives program officer for Knowl- perintendent of Spencer-Owen BA’83, is a marriage and fam- in Providence, R.I. edgeWorks Foundation, a Community Schools in Spencer, ily therapist in private prac- James A. Bond, MA’90, not-for-profit organization that Ind., effective July 1, 2005. She tice. She lives in San Rafael, PhD’99, joined the faculty of supports education initiatives in has served as an English teacher Calif., and can be reached at California Lutheran University Ohio. He writes, “One of my at Bedford-North Lawrence [email protected]. as assistant professor of English tasks is to use Microsoft Share- High School, principal of Wash- Barbara B. Koons, BA’84, in fall 2004. He lives in Ca- Point to archive and share the ington Catholic Middle School, MFA’95, writes, “My first marillo, Calif. foundation’s history and digital principal of Marlin Elementary book, Night Highway, has been Allison J. Glock, BA’90, and traditional storytelling to School in Bloomington, Ind., published by Cloudbank Books won a 2004 Whiting Writ- seek perspectives on student and assistant superintendent of Corvallis, Ore.” She lives in ers’ Award for her first book, voices about our work.” He Indianapolis and can be reached Beauty Before Comfort (Knopf, of Spencer-Owen Commu- (continued on page 15)

14 older brother Jeremy. She career, a book deemed to be be reached at ralonzo@alumni. Alumni notebook writes, “I am a stay-at-home an outstanding contribution to indiana.edu. (continued from page 14) mom and writer working scholarship in the humanities. Jared M. Overdorf, BA’01, received his PhD in American on a novel about the Viking She lives in Tallahassee, Fla. and Heather M. (Cannataro) literature and creative writing settlements of Iceland and Kristina J. (Hiebert) Gib- Overdorf, BA’02, were mar- from the University of Cincin- Greenland.” She lives in Cin- ney, BA’98, and her husband, ried in Chicago. He is a client nati, where he earned the Rick- cinnati and can be reached at “a Purdue grad,” have a son, strategy specialist at CIGNA ing Fellowship for Excellence in [email protected]. Jackson, “a future Hoosier” HealthCare, and she is the cor- Doctoral Studies and Research. Kristin M. Johnson, BA’96, who was born on July 1, 2004. porate and foundation relations The Cincinnati resident can married Pedro Martinez She lives in Oak Park, Ill. associate at America’s Second be reached at wmclemens@aol Aguinaga on June 19, 2004, in Jonathan D. Purvis, BA’98, Harvest, a national food bank .com. Villavieja de Lozoya, Spain. She and Amy R. (Ransford) Purvis network. They live in Chicago. Carol A. Guess, MA’93, works for Orchestra Systems married on June 5, 2004. Juliet Heller Eichberg, MFA’94, published her fourth Translation Agency in Madrid Nate Klinck, BA’99, was BA’02, spent two years in book, Femme’s Dictionary (Ca- and can be reached at kristin named director of workforce London, where she performed lyx Books, 2004), a collection [email protected]. education and new initiatives with the City Lit Rep Company of poems. She writes, “I con- Courtney L. Rabada, for the Indiana University as the title role in The Country tinue to teach GLBT studies at BA’97, writes, “After associ- School of Continuing Studies. Wife, which was later produced Western Washington Universi- ate-producing a feature film He previously served as the off the West End at the Diora- ty.” She lives in Seattle and can while living in Atlanta, I moved WorkOne coordinator in north- ma Theatre. Upon returning to be reached at carolguess@aol back to my native California to central Indiana. The Indianapo- the United States, she appeared .com. begin working in Hollywood. I lis resident is working toward in The Importance of Being Michael A. Lubarsky, recently began a job with Cre- an IU graduate certificate in Earnest at the Barn Theatre and BA’93, has published his first ative Artists Agency, one of the public/nonprofit manage- recently wrapped production novel, Little Kingdoms (Author largest talent agencies in Los ment and can be reached at on two short films in the San House, 2004). He teaches at Angeles. I can be reached at [email protected]. Francisco Bay area. She lives in Franklin College and lives in [email protected].” Tracy Jensen May, BA’99, San Anselmo, Calif., and can Greenwood, Ind., with his wife Nancy B. Warren, PhD’97, married William May on Sept. be reached at jeichberg@yahoo. and two sons. an assistant professor in the 18, 2004. She is an event man- com. Melissa Cameron Butler, English department at Florida ager for the American Cancer Shane J. David, BA’03, BA’94, MIS’00, is a research State University, has won the Society in Chicago and can be ACLA&M’03, writes, “After associate II at Carnegie Mellon 2004 Gustave O. Arlt Award reached at [email protected]. graduation I spent the rest of University’s Human-Computer for her book Spiritual Econo- the summer working at Deer- Interaction Institute. She lives mies: Female Monasticism in heart Woods Organic Farm in Pittsburgh. Later Medieval England, pub- 2000s right outside Bloomington, Kriston Sites Eller, MA’95, lished in 2001. Awarded by the Rachael J. Alonzo, BA’00, has Ind., and then went on a whirl- and her husband, James Eller, Council of Graduate Schools, completed a master of fine arts wind tour of the West Coast have two sons: Kyle Kendrick, the national prize honors a in creative nonfiction at the with AmeriCorps*NCCC. born on May 20, 2004, and professor who has written, University of Alaska Fairbanks. Wow, what a year! 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