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College of Arts & Sciences Chuck Maland and ENGLISHMary Papke, Editors | http://english.utk.edu | [email protected] INSIDE THE FALL 2017 ISSUE HEADNOTE: 2016-17 2 By Allen Dunn lection is “deft and Faculty News wonderful”! elcome to the 2016-17 Eng- Also in the lish Department Newsletter. spring, we cel- We have had another eventful ebrated the life 8 year,W and I am happy to have the op- and work of the Recent portunity to share some of the highlights ever-popular Jane Faculty Books with you. At the start of last fall semester, Austen in Austen- first—year students read Margaret Dean’s fest, organized by Allen Dunn Leaving Orbit, her book about the Apollo Misty Anderson Space Program. After meeting with and Hilary Havens. It was a three-day ex- faculty members to discuss the book and travaganza that included films, lectures, its implications for future space explora- dramatic readings, high tea, period cos- 9 tion, these students were treated to a talk tumes, and a Regency ball with ballroom Welcome... by space shuttle astronaut Scott Kelly dancing. These events drew in numerous who then appeared with Margaret in a participants from the Knoxville com- In Memoriam: Allen Carroll | 12 question-and-answer session. Margaret is munity including the local high school currently co-authoring Kelly’s autobiog- and college students who took part in the Advanced Degrees Granted | 13 raphy which is due out from Knopf this Austenfest essay contest. Austenfest was coming November. Later in the fall, we followed by the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Alumni News | 14 held a reception at The Lighthouse to cel- production of The Busy Body by eigh- ebrate the arrival of poet Joy Harjo, our teenth-century American playwright Su- new Chair of Excellence. Besides being an sanna Centlivre. Directed by John Sipes accomplished poet, Joy is a talented musi- and produced and adapted by John Sipes cian who sings and plays both the saxo- and Misty Anderson, this comedy was phone and the flute. At the reception, she a smashing success: most of the perfor- combined forces with a band of Nashville mances sold out, and new performances musicians to produce a wonderful concert were added. It is clear that both Austen that included poetry, jazz music, and and Centlivre retain the power to speak song. As the evening concluded, I heard to contemporary audiences. During this more than one person exclaim, “Best time we also interviewed candidates for a English Department Party Ever!” Later position in Latino/a Literature which we in the year, we learned that Joy had won will be sharing with the Modern Foreign the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize which comes Languages and Literatures Department. with a $100,000 award and is bestowed The search culminated with the hire of on a living American poet for outstand- Liliana González who recently completed ing lifetime accomplishments. This is her Ph.D. at the University of Arizona. Joy’s second major award in as many We are excited to welcome Liliana, who years. Last year she received the Wallace joined us this fall. Stevens Award which also recognized her There were also dramatic develop- Having a ball at the Austenfest lifetime of achievement. To complete our ments in the Department’s Writing Regency Ball, see page 10 Creative Writing trifecta, in the spring, division. Thanks in part to a generous Michael Knight published a collection of gift from Judi and James Herbert, the short stories entitled Eveningland which Writing Center will be able to signifi- received a glowing full-page review in the cantly expand the tutoring that it gives New York Times Book Review. According to the reviewer, the first story in the col- Headnote continued on page 9 . . . DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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Misty Anderson was one of the plenary Americanists and the New Directions in speakers at the UCLA/Clark Center’s Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Scholar- conference on “Music and Theatre in the ship conferences. She also completed her 18th Century.” Also, her article “Zombie year in residence at the UT Humanities Sovereignty” was published in the fall Center as a Faculty Fellow. issue of Restoration. She is also happy to announce that the first volume ofThe This Spring,Dawn Coleman published Routledge Anthology of Restoration and two essays on Melville: “Melville and the Eighteenth-Century Drama, edited with Unitarian Conscience,” in Visionary of Danny O’Quinn and Kristina Straub, the Word: Melville and Religion, edited is now in print. The documentary she by Jonathan A. Cook and Brian Yothers is producing about the recent CBT (Northwestern UP 2017), and “Whales production of her adaptation (with John in Cincinnati,” in Leviathan: A Journal of Sipes) of Centlivre’s The Busy Body will be Melville Studies 19.1 ( 2017), on featured with the play in the anthology at two Moby-Dick-related art exhibitions http://theatre.utk.edu/the-busy-body/. in Cincinnati last year, one of which was the first all-woman Moby-Dick art show. Kirsten Benson’s article “‘What’s your She also continued to serve as the book name, kid?’: The Acousmatic Voiceovers review editor of Leviathan and presented of Private Edward P. Train in The Thin a paper at MLA in Philadelphia, drawn In January 2017, Amy Elias was Red Line,” co-written with Clint Stivers from her second book project, on the appointed the new Director of the (English Ph.D., 2012), appeared in POST dynamics of women’s religious skepticism University of Humani- SCRIPT, 34.2-3, 36-52. She also presented in Henry Adams’s 1884 novel Esther. ties Center [http://artsci.utk.edu/ a paper entitled “New College Composi- dialogue/elias-appointed-as-new- tion Teachers and the Challenge of Devel- In the summer of 2016, Michelle director-of-ut-humanities-center/] oping Professional Identity” at the Council Commander gave a keynote address on The UTHC represents nine de- of Writing Program Administrators confer- Afro-speculation for Freie Universität’s partments in the College of Arts ence in Raleigh, NC, in July 2016. Graduate School for North American and Sciences and hosts faculty Studies’ International Graduate Confer- and graduate-student residential Wendy Braun’s entries for “Curan- ence (Berlin, Germany), “Flows and fellowships, research seminars, dera,” “White Slavery Hysteria,” “As- Undercurrents—Dimensions of (Im)mo- a distinguished lecture series, sociation of Southern Women for the bility in North America.” She also gave graduate internships, and other Prevention of Lynching,” “Hispanic a paper presentation at the International forms of humanities research sup- Women’s Council,” “Alice B. Toklas,” James Baldwin Conference (American port. Amy follows Tom Heffernan “Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education University of Paris) entitled “On the as director as the UTHC enters Network,” and “Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez” Limitations of Expatriation: Breath and its second stage of development. were published in Women in American Social Life in Baldwin’s Proto-Specula- In addition, she co-edited, with History: A Social, Political, and Cultural tive Thought and Reginald McKnight’s Joel Burges, Time: A Vocabulary of Encyclopedia and Document Collection, I Get on the Bus.” In addition, Michelle the Present, a collection of twenty edited by Peg A. Lamphier and Rosanne saw published her “The Space for Race: keyword essays about time in Welch for ABC-CLIO. Black American Exile and the Rise of contemporary culture; the collec- Afro-Speculation” in the September tion was published by NYU Press Katy Chiles published her essay entitled 2016 issue of ASAP/Journal. in summer 2016. She gave an “Tribal Sovereignty, Native American invited talk at Ohio State Uni- Literature, and the Complex Legacy of Bethany Dumas presented “Language versity in Fall 2016 concerning Hendrick Aupaumut” in Stories of Na- Sensitivity and Clients” at “Ethics and her own essay, “Past/Future,” in tion: Fiction, Politics, and the American Professionalism: Exploring Bias,” a Sym- that volume; and with Jonathan Experience, edited by Martin Griffin and posium hosted by the Tennessee Journal Eburne she hosted two panels at a Christopher Hebert. In addition to giv- of Race, Gender, and Social Justice and fall 2016 conference at Penn State ing an invited talk to the City of Knox- co-sponsored by the College of Law and University. She is the co-author ville Equity Committee, she presented the Tennessee Law Review, February 26, of an interview with the interna- conference papers at the Society of Early 2016, Knoxville. tionally known visual artist Fred 2 Wilson that appears in issue 2.1 Journals (CELJ) and launched a new funded by a Hodges Summer Research (January 2017) of ASAP/Journal. online, open-access supplement titled Grant and with the help of research assis- In Fall 2016, she served on the ASAP/J http://asapjournal.com/. Her tants funded by the Office of Undergradu- Executive Committee of the In- own research work has included a co- ate Research. ternational Society for the Study edited interview with the artist Fred of Narrative, serving this year on Wilson in ASAP/Journal, issue 2.1 Martin Griffin attended the four-week its “Graduate Student Essay Prize” and an invited plenary talk at Queen NEH Summer Institute on “Ernest J. Committee and the “Best Article Mary University, London, for the Gaines and the Southern Experience” at Published in NARRATIVE” Com- symposium “New Media and Con- the University of Louisiana in Lafayette mittee. At UT, among her other temporary Literature.” during June 2016. He also presented work, she continues to serve as a paper on “The German Intellectual: Core Faculty [with Jered Sprecher Stan Garner’s joint review of Rhonda Transatlantic Idealism and the Irony of (Art) and Dan Magilow (MFLL)] Blair and Amy Cooks, eds., Theatre, Rejection in Howells’ A Hazard of New of the Contemporary Arts and Performance, and Cognition: Languages, Fortunes and Warren’s Wilderness” at Society Research Seminar at the Bodies and Ecologies and Clelia Falletti, the Transatlantic Studies Association in UTHC, and she was a panelist for Gabriele Sofia, and Victor Jacono, eds., Plymouth, UK, July 4-6, 2016. Martin Life of the Mind on a panel dis- Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience ap- has also been nominated for election to cussion about the 2016 selection, peared in the December 2016 issue of the executive committee of the MLA Margaret Dean’s Leaving Orbit. Theatre Journal. section for Late 19th- and Early 20th- Century . Billie Giles accepted the Writing Center In April 2017, with Michelle Com- Specialist position at Columbia Southern Tom Haddox’s article “Between His- mander, Amy also co-hosted “Af- University in Orange Beach, AL. tory and Aesthetics: Dirt and Desire in rofuturism Week” at UT that offered Dialogue with Affect Theory and Paul films, talks, and educational activities Jessi Grieser’s book review article for The Ricoeur” appeared in the spring 2016 about African and African diasporic Oxford Handbook of African American issue of south: a scholarly journal. His speculative fiction. The highlight was Language (ed. Sonja Lanehart) appears article “Literature” appeared in Key- the UT symposium “The Futures of in the December 2016 issue of Language words for Southern Studies, a volume Afrofuturism” that featured eight na- in Society. She traveled to Austin, TX in published in 2016 by the University of tionally prominent speakers, includ- January 2017 to present “Repair as a Clue Georgia Press and co-edited by Scott ing the Nigerian-American fiction to Sociolinguistic Markedness” at the An- Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson. In writer Nnedi Okorafor [http://english. nual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of October he presented a paper entitled utk.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ America and to present on a panel about “’s Aesthetic of Datedness” Afrofuturism-Program-03303117. teaching undergraduates about linguistic at the American Literature Association’s pdf]. This year Amy also served as a discrimination with colleagues Robin symposium on the future of the Ameri- tenure review external evaluator for Queen and Norma Mendoza-Denton can short story in Savannah, Georgia. faculty at both CUNY Queens Col- at the Annual Meeting of the American Tom’s review of A Lillian Smith Reader, lege and Goldsmiths, University of Dialect Society. She was invited to speak in eds. Margaret Rose Gladney and Lisa London and was an external reviewer March as part of the UTK Africana Stud- Hodgens, was published in the Ameri- for the American Academy in Berlin. ies Spring Symposium and also gave an can Literary History Online Review, This spring she continued to serve invited talk for the University of Kentucky Series X (2017). In March he presented on the executive committee of the Department of Linguistics. She ended a paper entitled “’s International Society for the Study spring term with a panel presentation, Novels and the Question of a of Narrative and the Matei Calinescu “How We Talk When We Talk About the Lyric Plot” at the International Society Book Prize committee for the MLA as Police,” at the UTK Critical Race Confer- for the Study of Narrative Conference well as on the Motherboard of ASAP: ence. She spent two weeks this summer in Lexington, Kentucky. The Association for the Study of teaching Structure of Modern English in the Arts of the Present. She remains Nanjing, China, as part of a joint program Bill Hardwig has been named D. Allen co-editor-in-chief of ASAP/Journal, between UTK and Southeastern Univer- Carroll Distinguished Teaching Profes- which in December 2016 won the sity, and then spent the remainder of the sor, and he begins his two-year term this Best New Journal Design Award from summer completing fieldwork for her The Council of Editors of Learned book project, Talking Place, Speaking Race, Faculty News continued on page 4 . . . 3 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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fall. The Professorship is named for the land. With her co-editor Priscilla Page, first time, the focus of the conference former English Department Head and she submitted a manuscript with Harjo’s was a non-Dickens novel, George Eliot’s a passionate teacher of Shakespeare, and original one-woman show play “Wings Middlemarch. Three English Depart- one of the duties of the Professor is to of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light” ment graduate students also attended this plan departmental events focusing on and interviews and essays to Wesleyan year’s conference. Nancy continues as the topics and issues related to teaching. Bill University Press. She is also at work on International Co-editor of the UK-based succeeds Mary Papke as Distinguished an arts mentoring project for teenage Journal of Victorian Culture and Associate Teaching Professor. Muscogee Creek girls in her Oklahoma Editor of the journal George Eliot-George home community. Henry Lewes Studies. In May 2017 she Joy Harjo’s “By the Way, for Adrienne was interviewed by the UK’s Guardian Rich” was published in the December In October, Hilary Havens published newspaper about a newly discovered 5, 2016, edition of the New Yorker a short article called “Maria Edge- portrait of George Eliot. magazine. She was Chair of the Jury for worth’s (Deleted) Thoughts on Fran- Poetry for the National Book Awards. ces Burney’s Evelina” at Aphra Behn Heather Hirschfeld was deeply honored Joy performed at multiple venues: Uni- Online Public: An Interactive Forum to receive the 2016 Chancellor’s Award versity of Oklahoma, School of Music, for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830. In for Excellence in Teaching in spring Norman, OK with her band (and here January, Hilary published her essay 2016. Her “The Revenger’s Tragedy: The at UTK with Tony James and band); collection entitled Didactic Novels and Critical Backstory” was published in Oc- National Bookfair, Washington DC; British Women’s Writing, 1790-1820 tober in The Revenger’s Tragedy: A Critical Cornell University, Eastern Kentucky with Routledge. She wrote the intro- Guide as part of the Arden Early Mod- University, Lynchburg College, Provi- duction and a chapter entitled “Maria ern Drama Series. Another essay on the dence College, Miami Bookfair, Uni- Edgeworth’s Revisions to National- same play, “‘Wildfire at Midnight’:The versity of Arizona Poetry Center, and ism and Didacticism in Patronage.” Revenger’s Tragedy and the Gunpowder Breaking Silence with Witness with her She also gave two presentations at Plot,” was published online in the Review English 484 students. She also per- the American Society for Eighteenth- of English Studies and will appear in print formed “Water is Life” (song and video) Century Studies conference at the in the coming year. She is serving this with New Mexico native musicians. She end of March: a paper discussing year as the Vice-President of the South- wrote and performed opening voice and Frances Burney’s connections to the eastern Renaissance Conference. saxophone tracks. Graduate student Jer- Bluestocking circle and a roundtable emy Reed videotaped her for the video. presentation examining Maria Edge- Zoe Hitzel’s poem, “Gender Dysphoria Joy gave the Second Annual Robert F. worth’s social authorship. versus the February Skyline,” was pub- Berkhofer, Jr. Lecture at University of lished in Blue Lyra Review in March for Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Chris Hebert and Martin Griffin’s ed- their sixth annual issue http://bluelyrare- March 10th, performed at Bryn Mawr ited collection Stories of Nation: Fictions, view.com/issue-6-1-spring-2017/ College on March 29th, and was part of Politics, and the American Experience was the Casa del Largo Poetry Festival in published by UT Press as part of their Thorsten Huth, Assistant Professor in Mexico City, Mexico on April 1st. Late Tennessee Studies in Literature. The Modern Foreign Languages and Litera- April she performed with the incom- book contains Hebert’s essay “The Death tures and in English, published two pa- parable David Amram at the Woody and Life of American Adam: Myth and pers during the academic year 2016/17: Guthrie Center in Tulsa. Their perfor- the Contemporary American Political one co-written journal article “Teaching mance was entitled “Kerouac, Woody, Novel” and a co-written introduction. variant types of weil and obwohl struc- and Their Embrace of America.” They (See New Books.) tures in German” in Die Unterrichtsprax- read poetry, spoke, sang and played a is/Teaching German 49 (2), 214-227, and variety of instruments. Amram collabo- In 2017, Nancy Henry gave talks at the a single-authored book chapter “Playing rated with Jack Kerouac to accompany MLA in Philadelphia, the North Ameri- with turns, playing with action: A social- the Beat poets with jazz. May 1st she can Victorian Studies Conference in interactionist perspective” in Multiple visited Francis W. Parker School in Florence, Italy, the Women, Money and perspectives on language play, ed. Nancy Chicago, visited classes, performed for Markets Conference at King’s College, Bell, pp. 47-72. He presented two papers students from third to twelfth grades, London and the Dickens Universe in at international conferences. The talk and then ended the evening with a pub- Santa Cruz. She served as lead co-orga- “Talk-in-interaction as learning target? lic performance. May 7th she performed nizer with Jonathan Grossman (UCLA) How language ideologies and resources for a poetry festival in Chiasso, Switzer- of the Dickens Universe 2017. For the for teaching methodology inform lan- 4 guage teacher training” was delivered at and community outreach initiative of are forthcoming in Plume and Black- the University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, the Society. The society heart Magazine, which publishes anti- in January 2017 as part of the conference launched the project on February 18, gun writing. This spring new poems by “Interactional competences and practices 2006, on the occasion of Toni Morri- Marilyn have appeared in War, Litera- in a second language.” The presentation son’s 75th Birthday. ture and the Arts, curated by UT gradu- “Teaching interaction, learning inter- ate alum Jesse Goolsby, in a special issue action: Research-based approaches to Fall 2016 was a time for Marilyn Kallet on “Peace.” Poems have also appeared in teaching language and culture with inter- to do strenuous outreach, as well as for Plume, Asheville Poetry Review, 2 Bridges actional structures” was presented at the offering poetry readings and workshops. Review, New Millennium Writings. Her “Internationale Begegnungstagung” in She made a return visit to Kingston poem “Warrior Song After Brexit” ap- Toronto, Canada, in April 2017, which Academy, a court-appointed youth pears in the anthology Truth to Power: event was organized by the German Aca- and psychiatric residential treatment Writers Respond to the Rhetoric of Hate demic Exchange Service (DAAD). facility. There she gave readings for and Fear, published by Cutthroat: The two groups, the youngest children and Journal. Three poems—“Hard Love,” La Vinia Delois Jennings attended the the adolescents (September 23). That “Praise,” and “How Our Bodies Learned seventh biennial conference of the Toni turned out to be useful preparation for About Flint”—appeared last May in Morrison Society in intensive work in Tulsa, Oklahoma, an anthology of “inspired” verse, In from July 20-24, 2016. The conference, October 6-7, organized by UT gradu- God’s Hand, edited by Patricia Hope. entitled “Toni Morrison & Her Role As ate alum Dr. Taryn Norman. During In addition, this spring Marilyn had Editor,” was also a celebration of Profes- a visit co-sponsored by the University the honor and joy of giving two poetry sor Morrison’s eighty-fifth birthday. At of Tulsa’s English Department and performances at the Big Ears Festival the closing of the meeting, the Society Titan (U of Tulsa Institute for Trauma, in Knoxville on March 23 and 25. On placed its twentieth Bench by Adversity and Injustice) and Domestic April 5, she read and offered craft advice in Harlem at the Schomburg Center for Violence Intervention Services, she at Pellissippi’s Strawberry Plains cam- Research in Black Culture to mark the gave a poetry reading at the University pus, hosted by Patricia Ireland, one of center’s importance in African-American and a workshop for the creative writing our own MA grads in creative writing. history. The University of Virginia students; offered a workshop for women On April 8, she gave a reading, work- Press published La Vinia’s third edited living at the domestic violence shelter; shop and publication talk at the Duck volume, Margaret Garner: The Premiere and gave a reading for children at the River Writers’ Conference, at Columbia Performances of Toni Morrison’s Libretto, shelter library (October 6). On October College in Tennessee. Marilyn offered in September. On April 29, 2017, La 7, Marilyn led a poetry workshop for the memorial poem again this year Vinia attended the Toni Morrison the women at Tulsa Women’s Prison for all University of Tennessee faculty, Society’s twenty-first bench placement and a workshop for the staff members students, and staff, May 5, at UT Gar- dedicated to the memory of Daniel at DIVIS, on using creative writing for dens. For the 9th year, she led the poetry Alexander Payne Murray (1852-1925) trauma victims and self-care. She also workshop “O Taste and See: Writing at Neptune Plaza (the Jefferson Build- offered a reading and discussion on po- the Senses in Deep France,” June 5-12, ing) at the Library of Congress. Murray, etry and hope for Sertoma of Knoxville in Auvillar, France. The workshop is the first African-American Assistant and a poetry reading for Temple Beth El sponsored by VCCA-France. This year Librarian of Congress, profoundly Sisterhood in July 2016. October 25th, five UT students or alums were among influenced the field of black historical she gave a workshop on writing poetry the participants in her atelier. record keeping in our nation at a time from dreams for the Arts & Culture when African-centered books, objects, Alliance of Knoxville. On a lighter note, Lisa King’s article “Revisiting Win- and artifacts were ignored, destroyed, she gave a poetry reading at Malaprop’s netou: The Karl May Museum, Cultural or kept in private homes. During his bookstore in Asheville, November 19th, Appropriation, and Indigenous Self- tenure at the Library of Congress, Mur- for Plume literary magazine. Poems have Representation” appeared in the Sum- ray developed an interest in catalogu- been published recently in Blue Lyra mer 2016 issue of Studies in American ing what he referred to as “outstanding Review; The Best of Cutthroat: A Journal Indian Literature; the Hodges Research persons of African descent.” In 1900, at of the Arts, 2016; J Journal: New Writing Grant Committee funded a research the Paris Exposition Universelle, Murray on Justice, Vol 9:1; Iodine Poetry Journal; trip to Germany in 2013 to support the organized and exhibited over 500 books Rays Road Review; Still: The Journal; completion of this work. Additionally, on the African diaspora. The Bench by Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, the Road Project is a memorial history 1:8; and Plume, May 2016. New poems Faculty News continued on page 6 . . . 5 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

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she and research assistant Peter Cates two UT Press volumes in The Works of the South Central Renaissance Confer- presented on their preliminary research James Agee: one on Agee’s screenplays, ence in Austin, TX. on Knoxville area Native mound sites edited by Jeffrey Couchman, and one on at the 2016 Cultural Rhetorics Confer- Agee’s movie criticism, edited by Chuck For the tenth year in a row, Mary Papke ence in late September: Cate’s paper was Maland. He also served as moderator for organized and moderated a four-day His- entitled “Public Memory: The Effects of “Wilma Dykeman Stokely and Appala- torical Fiction Workshop at the annual Historical Framing on Knoxville’s Ameri- chian Culture: A Panel Discussion” held Society for Values in Higher Education can Indian Burial Mounds,” followed by in Knoxville, TN, on April 8, 2016; gave conference at Oberlin; she also led the King’s paper, “Eroding and Restoring the paper “Stereotype and Synthesis as discussion of Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Indigenous Memory: Reading Knoxville’s National Compromise: The Life of Ma- Mounds and the Competing Narra- Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak or Black Hawk In October, Kat Powell presented a tives of Place.” Lisa’s essay “Stories Like (1833)” at the 23rd Triennial Conference paper entitled “Full STEAM Ahead: Salmon: Indigenous Peoples and Ricochet International Association of University Railway Safety Reform and Interdisci- River” appeared in the 25th anniversary Professors of English (London, July plinarity in Charlotte Riddell’s City and edition of the novel Ricochet River by 25-29, 2016); chaired and organized Suburb” at Victorian S.T.E.A.M., the Robin Cody (April 2017). Addition- “James Agee and the South,” for the St. Victorians Institute Conference at N.C. ally, she co-led the teaching workshop George Tucker Society Annual Meeting State, Raleigh. A longer version of this “Writing, Making, Cultivating, Doing: (Asheville, NC, July 30, 2016), deliver- paper, “Railway Crossings: Intersectional An Indigenous Pedagogy Giveaway,” ing a paper there entitled “By Book and Railway Safety Advocacy in Charlotte presented “Avoiding Rhetorical Mono- By Film: James Agee Reviews the South Riddell’s City and Suburb,” was accepted cropping: Cultivating a Diversity of (1927-1948).” for publication in Partial Answers: Jour- Rhetorical Makings in the Classroom,” nal of Literature and the History of Ideas and served as co-chair for the American In preparation for the publication of his (Johns Hopkins Press, Spring 2017). Kat Indian Caucus at the Conference on Col- complete edition of James Agee’s movie had yet another article, “Loco-Motives: lege Composition and Communication reviews and criticism (see New Books), Railway Financial Mania and the Trope in March 2017 in Portland, Oregon. Chuck Maland prepared an article of Insanity in Lady Audley’s Secret,” ac- for the fall issue of Cineaste magazine, cepted for publication in Wilkie Collins Ben Lee’s review of George Cotkin’s “The Unpublished James Agee,” which Journal (January 2017). Feast of Excess: A Cultural History of the included excerpts of Agee’s previously New Sensibility is available in the April unpublished movie writings. Chuck also Tanita Saenkhum’s Decisions, Agency, 2017 issue of Modernism/modernity. In published two reviews of new Criterion and Advising (see New Books) considers January and February, he presented new Blu-Ray editions in Cineaste, one on the role of students’ own agency in the work on Amiri Baraka and the 1967 Kurosawa’s Ikiru (in the summer issue), placement of multilingual writers—in- Newark riots at MLA in Philadelphia and one on Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (in cluding international students and US and at the Louisville Conference on the winter issue). In addition, Chuck residents or citizens who are nonnative Literature and Culture since 1900. This introduced Farrabique at the Big Ears users of English—in US college composi- spring he founded the Beaumont Poetry Festival as part of this year’s movie of- tion programs. Grounded in qualitative Project, working with language arts ferings: the film, recently restored for a research and concerned equally with teachers and with R.B. Morris, Knox- 50th anniversary screening at the Cannes theory and practice, the book explores ville’s first Poet Laureate, to prepare Film Festival, was one that Agee loved how multilingual students exercise fourth graders to perform their poems when he reviewed it in 1948. Finally, agency in their placement decisions at Beaumont Rocks, an annual concert Chuck chaired a panel called “Nazis, and how student agency can inform and fundraiser. Fascists, Reds, and Hollywood: Ideologi- the overall programmatic placement cal Complexities and the American Film of multilingual students into first-year Michael A. Lofaro is the editor of Let Us Industry, 1933-1947” at the Society for composition courses. In addition, at the Now Praise Famous Men at 75: Anniver- Cinema and Media Studies conference 15th Symposium on Second Language sary Essays, for the UT Press, to which in Chicago. Writing, which took place on October he contributed “Famous Men By the 19-22, 2016, at Arizona State University Numbers: An Analysis of Agee’s Changes Senior Lecturer Samantha Murphy in Tempe, Arizona, Tanita delivered two from Cotton Tenants to Let Us Now Praise presented a talk entitled “From Virgin presentations. First, she was one speaker Famous Men” (see New Books). He is Queen to Fecund Father: The Incestuous for an invited colloquium entitled also the General Editor for the next Economies of Elizabeth I and James I” at “Expertise Optional?: What We Wish 6 We Knew Before Becoming L2 WPAs.” Urmila received three national awards Regarding Arts and Letters. In spring, she Second, she presented her individual to support research for the first schol- presented on prose poetry and domestic research paper on “Preparing L2 Writ- arly textual edition of Virginia Woolf’s fabulism at the New Orleans Poetry ing Teachers to Use Assessment Rubrics memoir “A Sketch of the Past”: an NEH Festival and read for the Pittsburgh in Composition Classrooms: Teacher Summer Stipend, an American Philo- Poetry Review launch at AWP. She was Perspectives.” Tanita was a speaker for a sophical Society Franklin Grant, and also awarded the Chancellor’s Excellence workshop titled “Cultivating Inclusive, a Smith College Mortimer Fellowship. Award in Teaching. Multilingual Pedagogies and Practices The edition will be published by Cornell in Composition Work” at the annual University Press and will include previ- Mark Tabone’s essay entitled “Re- Conference on College Composition and ously unpublished material by Woolf. thinking ‘Paradise’: Toni Morrison and Communication, which took place in In March, Urmila was Distinguished Utopia at the Millennium” appeared in March 2017 in Portland, Oregon. She Speaker at Ithaca College’s Modernism the summer issue of African American was also elected as the Chair-Elect for and its Global Inheritors Seminar, for Review. On October 27, he presented the Second Language Writing Interest which she gave a talk from her book-in- a paper entitled “Utopia Will Not Be Section (SLW-IS) at TESOL (Teachers of progress Still Shocking: Modernism and Televised: Apocalypse, Revolution, and English to Speakers of Other Languages) Fiction in the 21st Century. This summer, Representation in Black Power SF” at International Association for the year of she co-led a seminar and presented a the Society for Utopian Studies’ Annual 2017-2018. paper on modernism’s contemporary Meeting in St. Petersburg, FL. Mark’s legacies at the conference of the Ameri- “Narrative Wreckage: Terror, Illness, and In the fall of 2016, Lisi Schoenbach co- can Comparative Literature Association Healing in the Post-9/11 Poethics of organized a roundtable on “Sociologies in Utrecht. Claudia Rankine” appeared in Terror in of Modernism” at the Modernist Studies Global Narrative: Representations of 9/11 Association. This spring, she was invited Art Smith published two poems “Fami- in the Age of Late-Late Capitalism, edited to participate in a conference on “The ly” and “Replacing the Deck” in Southern by George Fragopoulos and Liliana Culture of Experience: Pragmatism and Poetry Review, December 2016, 54:2, Naydan, and published in December by Early-Twentieth-Century U.S. Litera- and an essay entitled “Edna St. Vincent Palgrave MacMillan. ture” at Rutgers University. She contrib- Millay: ‘What lips my lips have kissed, uted a chapter on Proust and William and where, and why’” was reprinted on Daniel Wallace published the essay “Is James to the newly published Under- Poetry Daily, 26 April 2017. It Possible to Read Literary Magazines?” standing James, Understanding Modern- in the fall 2016 issue of Compose Journal. ism (Bloomsbury, 2017), and her review Erin Elizabeth Smith had poems ap- He edited, designed, and published Bill of Lee Konstantinou’s Cool Characters: pear fall semester of 2016 in Permafrost Buege’s debut collection of poetry, Stum- Irony and American Fiction appeared in Magazine and the NonBinary Review. ble Into A Lighted Room, for Burlesque the most recent issue of the American She also presented on three panels at Press, the independent press for which Literary History Online Review (https:// the Independent Literature Festival he is editor in chief. He wrote the study academic.oup.com/alh/pages/alh_review_ in Frostburg, MD, and read at the guide for Amy Elias’ and Joel Burges’s series_10) Meacham Writers Workshop at the Time: A Vocabulary of the Present, released University of Tennessee-Chattanooga by NYU Press. He also concluded his Urmila Seshagiri presented her paper and the Impossible Language Reading work as editorial assistant for ASAP/Jour- “The Limits of Meaning” at a 2016 Series in Memphis, TN. Her manu- nal and began a post-doctoral lectureship conference on J. M. Coetzee in Prato, script entitled Down: The Alice Poems at the University of Tennessee. Italy. She then gave two talks at the was runner-up for Cider Press Review’s Modernist Studies Association Confer- Book Award and a finalist at Diode Anthony Welch’s essay entitled “Paradise ence in Pasadena, one on the contem- Editions and Gunpowder Press. In that Lost and English Mock Heroic” was pub- porary presence of modernism and one same semester, her ENGL 255 students lished in the volume Milton in the Long on the practices of archival research. She crossed the $100,000 fundraising mark Restoration, eds. Blair Hoxby and Ann has been named “Out of the Archives” for Knoxville nonprofits for the Indi- Baynes Coiro (Oxford UP, 2016). His editor for a new journal published by egogo project Smith designed and began review of Romance and History: Imagining Routledge, Feminist Modernist Studies. teaching in spring of 2014. Erin has Time from the Medieval to the Early Mod- At the University of Tennessee, she in- poetry forthcoming in Ecotone, inter- ern Period, ed. Jon Whitman (Cambridge augurated a new program called Chan- rupture, Ovenbird Poetry, Sakura Review, UP, 2015) appeared in the summer 2016 cellor’s Honors Reads. In spring 2017, and the special Resist Issue of REAL: issue of Renaissance Quarterly. 7 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

2016-17 FACULTY BOOKS

nglish Department faculty published a variety of books La Vinia Jennings’ edition on the premiere performances of this past year, including Michael Knight’s collection of Toni Morrison’s libretto Margaret Garner; Michelle Command- short stories set in and around Mobile, Eveningland; Joy er’s book on returns to Africa, real and speculative, African- EHarjo’s meditation on conflict resolution; two books by RWL American Flight; Chris Hebert and Martin Griffin’s collection faculty, including Lisa King’s edition on teaching American on political fictions (film and literature) in American culture; Indian rhetorics and Tanita Saenkhum’s study of issues of and two books related to Knoxville native James Agee—Mike placement in first-year composition classes for L2 students; Lofaro’s collection of essays celebrating the 75th anniversary of Mary Dzon’s monograph on the image of the Christ Child in the publication of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and Chuck the later middle ages; and five books by members of the depart- Maland’s edition of James Agee’s movie writings, Volume 5 of ment’s modern and contemporary literature and culture group: the Complete Works of James Agee.

Michael Knight, Atlantic Lisa King, Rose Gubela, and Tanita Saenkhum, La Vinia Jennings, Monthly Press Joyce Rain Anderson, eds. Utah State UP University of Virginia Press

Joy Harjo, Mary Dzon, University of Michael Lofaro, ed. Chuck Maland, University Norton Pennsylvania Press University of Tennessee Press of Tennessee Press

Michelle Commander Duke University Press

Martin Griffin and Chris Hebert, eds. Tennessee Studies in Literature

8 LET’S WELCOME: Liliana González

e’re happy to welcome Liliana C. González to the department this fall. Liliana is Assistant Professor of Latino/a Literature with half-time ap- pointments in both the Department of English and the Department of ModernW Foreign Languages and Literatures. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Latin American Literature and Culture, her M.A. in Hispanic Studies from the University of Illinois, Champaign, and B.A. in Chicana/o Latino/a Studies and Spanish from the University of California, Irvine. Liliana is currently working on a book project that examines racial and class discourses in hemispheric narco cultural production through a queer critique. Her broader research interests include Chicano/a, U.S. Latino/a and Latin American cultural studies, feminist theory, gender studies, and queer theory. We’re looking forward to the new dimensions she’ll be adding to the department with her specialty.

STAFF NEWS

eanne Hinkle (writing as Leanne Tyler) is happy to announce she’s had two releases this year. First, the fourth book in the Good Luck Series, The Good Luck Clover, was released, and her novella Sabrina’s Curse was pub- Llished in the Masquerade anthology. Both releases happened in March 2017. She is currently working on a second Christmas novella entitled A Charming Wed- ding for that series which will appear in print along with the novella A Charm- ing Christmas sometime this fall in the Charming the Holidays anthology. In addition, her young adult alter ego Lexi Witcher will have her fourth book in A Dodie Jenks Novel series, Postmortem Sixteen, release in July.

. . . Headnote continued from page 1 to upper-division students in all disciplines. The new Writing Thanks to all of you who have supported our mission by Center services for upper-division students across the curricu- contributing to the Department. Your contributions support lum and first-year composition students will add about 10,000 a variety of undergraduate and graduate scholarships, student student visits per year, on top of the usual average of 15,000 research grants and assistantships, and other programs that visits per year. In conjunction with this, we will be developing a enrich our students’ educational experience. Anyone who program in writing across the curriculum that will assist faculty wishes to contribute to the English Enrichment Fund can from other departments with their writing instruction. The donate at any time (follow the link at http://english.utk.edu/ Writing Division has also been a University leader in develop- support-the-department/). Those of you who are graduates of ing courses with an Experience Learning component. Through our department and those who are not but who follow and internships and editorial assistantships, these courses allow stu- support our work remain a crucial part of our success. Our dents to develop and apply their skills in various types of work- website (http://english.utk.edu/) will help us bring you exciting place environments. Thanks to financial help from Dr. Michael new information on the department and its many activities. Dennis, we have been able to provide conference funding for We also have a Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ undergraduate students who want to network with prospective UTKDepartmentOfEnglish) which features weekly news about employers. We are constantly looking for ways to connect our events, readings, pictures of campus life, and faculty and student graduates with career opportunities, and as part of this effort, we news. Check it out when you get a chance, and don’t hesitate to are establishing a network of alumni who are able to offer advice let us know if there’s any way these sites can serve you better. and introductions. Have a happy and productive year, and please stay in touch. 9 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

AUSTENFEST

or the past several years, Humanities departments have had a spring celebration honoring the work of a variety of writers, including Joyce, Nabokov, and Melville. As Allen FDunn’s Headnote pointed out, this year Misty Anderson and Hilary Havens organized an Austenfest to honor the work of the British novelist. Here are some pictures from the events.

Left and above: Festivities at the Austenfest Regency Ball

Right: Three members of the local chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America pose at the Austen tea held in Hodges Library

10 “Crack,” which was then published in the KUDOS TO OUR GRADUATE STUDENTS magazine. He also published “Uncovering the Buddhist Lessons in Alan Moore’s everal English Ph.D. students received by Amie Doughty. She also published a Swamp Thing Comics” inLion’s Roar: competitive university-wide scholar- book review of Diane Long Hoeveler’s Buddhist Wisdom for Our Time. ships in Spring 2017. Two awards The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Swent to incoming Ph.D. students. Holland Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, MFA student Anna Megdell published Prior, who specializes in Rhetoric and Com- 1780-1880 in XVIII: New Perspectives on “Advice to My Younger Self” in position Studies, received the Isobel Griscom the Eighteenth Century. Midwestern Gothic: A Literary Journal. Graduate School Fellowship, and Medieval- ist Karen Norwood received the Herman Ph.D. student Kerri Considine published Ph.D. student Lucas Nossaman E. Spivey Humanities Graduate Fellowship. a performance review of Robert Askin’s published a review of Jeffrey Bilbao’s Among returning Ph.D. students, fiction Hand to God in Theatre Journal, and her Loving God’s Wildness: The Christian writer Elizabeth Weld won the Shipley- essay “Teaching Treadwell’s Machinal” is Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Swann Graduate School Fellowship, and forthcoming in How to Teach a Play, edited Literature in Christianity & Literature, and Southernist Jill Fennell won the Oscar Roy by Miriam Chirico and Kelly Younger. his essay “The Wisdom of ‘The Farm’: Ashley Graduate School Fellowship. Sabbath Theology and Wendell Berry’s Ph.D. student Lance Dyzak published Pastoralism,” is forthcoming in Renascence: the short story “Even If It’s Only Me” in Essays on Values in Literature. the online journal Per Contra. Ph.D. student Jeremy Reed published MFA student Norris Eppes’s essay numerous poems this past year in venues “Rural Noir: Muddying the Waters such as Still: The Journal, The Museum of Southern Mystery Fiction” is of Americana, Red Paint Hill, Stirring: A forthcoming in The Bitter Southerner. Literary Collection, and GRIST: A Journal of the Literary Arts. Nancy Henry and Allison Clymer Ph.D. student Richard Hermes won a W. at the Dickens Universe K. McClure Scholarship from UTK’s Center MA student Trent Sanders’s essay “The for International Education to conduct Promethean Form: A Poet’s Ontological Ph.D. student and new GSE chair dissertation research in Thailand in Fall Metamorphosis in Emerson’s ‘Self- Allison Clymer was selected to 2016. He also edited the tenth anniversary Reliance’ and ‘The Poet’” was accepted for serve as one of two “Cruise Direc- edition of UT’s GRIST: A Journal of the publication in Philosophy and Literature. tors,” or graduate student organiz- Literary Arts, published in Spring 2017. The ers, for the 2017 Dickens Universe issue received financial support from the Ph.D. student Matthew Smith’s essay in Santa Cruz, California. In this Tennessee Arts Commission and featured a “Revisiting the Creole Controversy: Realism, role, she planned and facilitated high-profile roster of contributors, including Romanticism, and Race in the Writing of daily forums for graduate-faculty a National Book Award winner and two Charles Gayarre and George Washington networking and socialization during Pulitzer Prize finalists. Cable” was accepted for publication at the this week-long conference. Journal of Louisiana Creole Studies. MFA student Jeb Herrin’s poem “Soldier to Civilian” appeared in Political Punch: MFA student Mollie Swayne’s poem Ph.D. student Katie Condon published Contemporary Poems on the Politics of “Thoughts on the Unabomber” was numerous poems this past year in venues Identity, edited by Fox Frazier-Foley and published in Euphony. such as Ruminate, Public Pool, The Adroit Erin Elizabeth Smith. Journal, Four Way Review, and Narrative Ph.D. student Caroline Wilkinson Backstage. In November, her poem Ph.D. student Jacqueline Kerr’s essay published the poem “Lyme, and her Disease” “Argument for Loving from a Distance” “Designing Doubt: The Tactical Use of in the Sonora Review and a review of Peter was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Uncertainty in Hydraulic Fracturing Capuano’s Changing Hands: Industry, Debates,” will appear in Hot Topics: Evolution, and the Reconfiguration of the Ph.D. student Staci Conner published Common Topics in Environmental Victorian Body in Victoriographies. the essay “We are Beasts and This is Our Rhetoric, edited by Derek Ross. Consolation: Fairy Tale Revision and MFA student Nicole Yackley published Combination in Joyce Carol Oates’s Beasts” MFA student Myles McDonough won three poems—“Phoenix,” “Caught in the in Children’s and Young Adult Literature the Great American Fiction contest at the Eye,” and “Worse Left Unsaid”—in Z Poetry: and Culture: A Mosaic of Criticism, edited Saturday Evening Post for his short story An International Journal of Indie Poetry. 11 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

IN MEMORIAMMEMORIAM: Remembering Allen Carroll

By Bob Leggett

ne of my earliest memories of Allen has him offering to give me his car. This must have been soon after we all settled in Knoxville, Corinne and I in ‘65, Allen Oand Lisa in ‘69. If any of my other newfound colleagues had offered me a car, I would have recognized the joke, but I had gotten to know Allen well enough to see that he was entirely serious. This kind of extraordinary generosity was something I always associated with him, and somewhere along the way I came to see that it was just one manifestation of a larger quality he possessed that’s quite rare, especially among aca- demics. I never had a name for it, but I think of it as whatever Wordsworth claimed to have lost and spent the rest of his life writing poems about. With Allen it took a number of different forms. One of them was a candor as extreme as his generosity. At times it got him into trouble. He would tell aspiring job candidates why they didn’t get the offer, sometimes in terms they didn’t really want to hear. I remember once when he was department head he put me up for some honor, and he showed me the letter he had written on my behalf. At the time I thought I was at the top of my game, and I read where he had written that “it would be fitting for Professor Leggett to receive this honor in the twilight of his career.” Related to his fearless candor was his assurance of certain of his assumptions. He never questioned his assumption that his own field of interest represented the high point of English and American literature and that everything that followed was a sad falling off. Since his field was the English Renaissance, whose chief poet and dramatist was William Shakespeare, it Allen Carroll was perhaps a safe assumption, but he rubbed it in by repeating on several occasions a story from graduate school. One of his characteristic gesture he had of joining thumb, index finger, and professors had apparently been chided for his lack of interest in middle finger, as if adding a pinch of salt. “Just fine,” with the the literature of his own country. The professor agreed that he accompanying gesture, was his ultimate accolade, which many was largely ignorant of American literature and promised to take people in the department have, I’m sure, received. His critique an afternoon off sometime and read it. of the novel was one sentence. He said, “I like the way he talks.” For an eminent Renaissance scholar Allen’s non-academic I don’t recall us ever discussing it again, but we did discuss interests may seem surprising. They included Wake Forest many times before and after the novel the experience that inspired athletics, the San Antonio Spurs, but only because their center it. As my department head and friend, Allen got me through that was from Wake Forest, the Chicago Cubs, tennis, for which he horrific experience, and I’m not sure I ever properly credited him. spent a lifetime trying to perfect a serve, and poker, at which he I was one of many who benefitted in various ways from his long excelled. I suspect that he was one of the few poker players who tenure as head of the English Department. I think some people cashed in his final chips a lifetime winner. were surprised that he turned out to be such an outstanding head, I didn’t share Allen’s interest—I was bad at poker and even maybe because he didn’t fit the stereotype of the administrator, or worse at tennis—and he didn’t share my interests in movies maybe because his motto was “All change is bad.” and popular fiction, especially mystery novels. Fiction, he said, Nobody was surprised that he was a fine scholar. He was was by definition made up, but he did enjoy historical novels, trained at Chapel Hill, which was at the time regarded as one which were not entirely made up. Knowing his attitude toward of the best graduate programs in the South. Nobody was sur- popular fiction, it was with some trepidation that I gave him a prised that he won every teaching award given by the university copy of my first attempt at a novel, but he was, as you would ex- and by the South Atlantic Modern Language Association. He pect, very gracious in his response. “Just fine,” he said, with that was a natural, he worked hard at it, and he loved the classroom. 12 2015–2016 CONTRIBUTORS Thanks to all our friends, alumni, and colleagues whose generous contributions help provide a margin of excellence But whatever the stereotype for administrators, a life-long friend, I came upon a letter written by for the Department. Allen did it his own way, and although I’ve been Albert Einstein on the death of his life-long friend Anderson, Misty and John Tirro blessed with excellent department heads, nobody Michele Besso. Einstein wrote this to Besso’s sister: Austin, Jr, Marvin and did it better. But on this issue I defer to our col- “Now he has departed from this strange world a Virginia Austin league Allen Wier, who’s had more department little ahead of me. That signifies nothing. . . . The Baird, Richard heads than anybody else I know, and so has a larger distinction between past, present, and future is only Bowers, Bege pool for comparison. When I asked him how a stubbornly persistent illusion.” Einstein’s words Brewster, Glen E. many, he calculated somewhere between fourteen offer a kind of abstract consolation in suggesting Bruell, Susan and eighteen. He said that of this number two that his loss is not, in the language of science, a Buettner, Anne Marie Brisby Campbell, Janet Blakemore stand out—his very first department head, who singular event but part of the natural order of things and Robert D. Campbell unfortunately misled him into thinking that all de- in which he himself has a part. This was ironically Carnival, Nicole partment heads would be fair-minded, thoughtful, borne out when Einstein died than a month Coltman, Evelyn smart, people of integrity, and the head who hired after composing this letter. Derling, Elizabeth K. him for his last tenured position. It was, of course, It would seem foolhardy to argue with the Diamond, James Allen, who exhibited these qualities and added words of one of the great geniuses of the Twenti- Elias, Amy some of his own. eth Century, but I would quibble with Einstein’s Elkins, Linda C. One of Allen’s memorable qualities as depart- notion of the significance of a friend’s death. One Ellen, III, John H. ment head was his continuing battle against of the kindest, most generous of men has departed Elliott, Jeffrey boredom—in the classroom, in faculty meetings, in from this strange world, and for those of us who Goodman, Nathan scholarly endeavors. His unwavering belief was that remember him with such affection, it signifies a Gordon, Douglas K. Hite, Samantha no academic performance should exceed eleven great deal. It is true that his death was not a singu- Hodges, James R. minutes, and it is at this point that I picture him lar event, but Allen Carroll was a singular man, a Isenhour, Judith with raised eyebrows pointing to his watch. most singular man. To borrow Hamlet’s words on Jennings, La Vinia Perhaps he would permit me one final personal the death of his father, we “shall not look upon his Joerschke, John and word. In looking for consolation on the death of like again.” Bonnie Joerschke Johnson, Jr., Edwin Jones, Paul C. Kennan, Hugh T. Lange, Julie Blair Larsen, William ADVANCED DEGREES GRANTED Lee, Benjamin Luck, Jessica Lewis Congratulations to all our students who were (King); Stephanie Metz, “Gothic Naturalism Manson, Linda Anne granted advanced degrees in 2015-16. and American Women Writers” (Papke); Brent Maynor, Natalie Robida, “Shelley’s Delusive Flames: Self and Milstead, Claudia C. Fall 2015 Poetry in The Major Works” (Dunn); Donald Nixon, Catherine Ph.D.: Melissa Rack, “‘O Careful Verse’: Shultz, “Time and Trope: The Underlying Richman, Cara Lorin Neoteric Poetics in the Shorter Poems of Temporal Assumption Common to Critical Lautner, Kori Furcolowe Edmund Spenser” (Stillman) Theory” (Haddox); Michael Shum, “Queen of Roberts, Katrina Spades” (Knight) Sherrod, Melissa M.A.: Molly Rigell, “‘I guess someone forgot Slagle, Judith B. to ask us if we wanted to be America’s diversity M.F.A.: Lyric Dunagan, “Solace and Decay” Stanley, Brooke H. and Isabel Bonnyman Stanley mascots’: The Identity Journey of Transracial, (Kallet); Lance Dyzak, “Rivers Bend” (Dean); Starnes, Sharon L. Transnational, Korean” (King) Paige Lockhart, “Sinkhole” (Dean); Jennifer Taylor, Keith B. Strife, “No Sign of Flowers” (Smith) True, Warren Spring 2016 Vande Brake, Tim Ph.D.: Heather Hess, “Innocence Revisited: M.A.: Stephanie Derochers; Rachel Walters, Matthew Brett Nineteenth-Century Intertextuality in the Dunsmore, “Embodied Social Death: Speaking Ward, Carol Works of C.S. Lewis” (Billone); Bushra and Nonspeaking Corpse in Hannah Craft’s West, Cynthia S. Malaibari, “/Entee Min Faine/? [Where Are The Bond Woman Narrative and Solomon White, Andrew You From?]: The Rhetoric of Nationality of Northup’s 12 Years a Slave” (Chiles); Victoria Witt, Virginia and Douglas C. Witt Muslim Women in the American Southeast” Ruiz, Stacy Sivinski Wood, Susan H. 13 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

ALUMNI NEWS ENGLISH DEPARTMENT ongratulations to Alan Gratz, UT graduate in cre- GRADUATE RANKINGS ative writing, whose novel Refugee traces the journey of a 12-year-old Syrian boy after his home in Aleppo JUMP FORWARD Cis destroyed and he must make his way to Europe. The book U.S. News and World Report has made best seller list in his category of When published their rank- Middle Grade Hardcover fiction, and Alan told theTimes that ings of U.S. graduate programs earlier this year, the UT graduate program in English jumped more than a dozen in the book he “wanted to make the individual refugees visible th and turn statistics into names and faces that kids could relate to” spots to a tie for 57 . The rankings include both private (see https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/books/refugee-crisis- and public institutions, and in this year’s list, only three childrens-books.html). public institutions in the Southeast ranked above Ten- nessee: the University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the University of Georgia. Congratulations should go not only to department heads Stan Garner and Allen Dunn, and directors of graduate study Tom Haddox and Dawn Coleman, but also to fac- ulty teacher/scholars and the achievements of our graduate students, some of which are listed on page 11.

Alan Gratz signs his novel after a reading in Knoxville.

David Taylor (Ph.D., 1994), who teaches in the Sustainability Studies Program at Stony Brook University, has published his WHERE ARE THEY NOW? sixth and seventh books: a co-edited (with Steve Wolverton) • Matthew Brock is an assistant professor at Gulf Coast collection about an interdisciplinary project on Mesa Verde State College. archaeological sites, entitled Sushi in Cortez: Essays from the Edge of Academia (University of Utah Press, 2015), and a volume of • Norris Eppes is teaching English at Florida Preparatory poetry, Palm Up, Palm Down (Wings Press, 2017). David will Academy in Melbourne, FL. revisit campus in October for a reading. • Andrew Lallier is a lecturer at UNC-Chapel Hill. Sarah Patterson (BA, 2011) • Jeremy Locke is teaching at Dominion Christian is now a tenure-track assistant Schools in Georgia. professor in the English • Teresa Lopez has been appointed an Assistant Professor Department at the University of at Pellissippi State in Knoxville. Massachusetts, Amherst, where she specializes in 19th-century • Eight new Ph.D.’s have been appointed post-doctoral African American literature, teaching fellows at UTK: Scott Bevill, Kerri Considine, American women’s literature, and Stephanie Metz, Kat Powell, Brent Robida, James feminist thought. Stewart, Matt Smith, and Daniel Wallace.

14 AMY ELIAS NAMED DIRECTOR OF UT HUMANITIES CENTER

e’re pleased to let our readers know that earlier this year our colleague Amy Elias was named Director of the UT Humanities Center, succeeding the center’s firstW director, Tom Heffernan. Since its inception, the Center has been dedicated to facilitating and improving research oppor- tunities in humanities disciplines, offering year-long fellowships to both faculty and graduate students to enable sustained work on scholarly books and dissertations. The Center also sponsors a visiting scholar program and an active set of research seminars that you can learn more about on their website. Last month the Center represented the humanities by arrang- ing an exhibit at the Join the Journey campaign at the Knoxville Convention Center. Hundreds of people attended the evening kickoff, and presentations included those by Governor Bill Haslam and Peyton Manning. The Humanities exhibit includ- ed copies of books written by UT Humanities scholars, media presentations on faculty research project, and—as you can see by the picture below—Amy was joined by William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, played by UT Theater students Chauncey Whitlock and Luke Atchley. Congratulations to Amy and best wishes to her and the Center. From left to right: Luke Atchley, Amy Elias, and Chauncey Whitlock.

HUNTING DOWN AGEE’S TIME MOVIE REVIEWS

By Chuck Maland writings, which included many Time movie reviews, and asked him if he had any way of verifying authorship. I was lucky: y colleague Mike Lofaro Bill told me that in the 1940s, whenever an issue of Time was and UT grad Hugh Davis printed, the copy desk staff secured a finished issue and entered continue to serve as gen- by hand the name of the author of each of the pieces in the Meral editors of The Complete Works issue. Each quarter, these “authorship issues” were bound in of James Agee, a UT Press project three-month volumes, and Bill reported that those volumes that will eventually include all the were stored in his archives. published work of Knoxville native What we discovered was revealing. First, we found that over James Agee. Today he may be most a dozen reviews included in Agee on Film, a posthumous col- Bill Hooper well known as author of Let Us Now lection of Agee’s movie reviews, were in fact written by other Praise Famous Men and A Death in Time staffers. Then we found a few more reviews Agee wrote the Family, but he first achieved national fame in the 1940s as a that were not included in the bibliography I sent him. Mr. movie reviewer. For the past few years I’ve been preparing an edi- Hooper also told me that the bound volume for the first three tion of Agee’s movie criticism for the Complete Works, aiming to months of 1946 had been lost, but fortunately, during that include all of Agee’s movie reviews at Time and the Nation, where time Agee was on special assignment: he had written the Time he reviewed between 1942 and 1948; all the other movie articles cover story after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiro- published during his lifetime; and some previously unpublished shima and Nagasaki in August 1945, and publisher Henry essays and letters that shed light on Agee’s movie tastes and aes- Luce had assigned Agee to write on social and political topics thetic. The task was complicated by the fact thatTime didn’t give of his choice until Agee asked to return to movie reviewing author’s bylines during the time that Agee wrote for the magazine, in April 1946. So with Mr. Hooper’s help, we were able to and that fact allowed me to go on a kind of detective hunt, one of determine as closely as is humanly possible all the movies that my favorite activities in humanities research. Agee reviewed at Time. The book was published this August My partner in determining Agee’s authorship of Time movie as volume five of the Complete Works, so for the first time reviews was Bill Hooper, Time’s chief archivist. When I wrote all of Agee’s published movie reviews are now available in one to Bill asking for assistance, I enclosed a bibliography of Agee’s volume. Thanks to Bill Hooper for his invaluable help! 15 CONTRIBUTION FORM

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