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News from Raub Hall Newsletter of the English Department Lock Haven University 2016-2017 News from Raub Hall Newsletter of the English Department Lock Haven University 2016-2017 From the Chair Recently, the city of New Orleans has been taking down its monuments to Confederate “heroes,” and the process has generated some controversy, particularly among white supremacists. They argue that these statues celebrate Southern heritage, and only political correctness run amok demands that the city take this action. In an effort to combat this sort of nonsense, the mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, gave a speech highlighting why these monuments had to go. “These statues are not just stone and metal,” the mayor said. “They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement, and the terror that it actually stood for.” Our country has undergone a radical political revolution over the past year or so, a revolution that too often, as we are now finding out, has been undergirded by falsehoods and wishful thinking. It is time that citizens, following the lead of Mayor Landrieu, start scrubbing away the absurdity and face up to the reality of our circumstances. We can surely have political debates about the direction of our country, but these debates must be grounded in the world we inhabit, not the one we read about on the Internet or the one we might yearn for but that never really existed. English majors can play a vital role in this project of “scrubbing.” The critical thinking skills we have been taught can help us distinguish between “fake news” and considered facts. We can measure an opinion not just by how charismatically or loudly it is issued 1 but by the evidence that sustains it. We can also more easily escape our “bubble” and consider and possibly accept ideas that run counter to what we currently believe. These skills are no longer abstract concepts or talking points: they are necessary equipment for engaged citizenry. As always, this newsletter tells you about what our faculty and students have accomplished during the 2016-17 academic year. We are very interested in hearing from you about your adventures in the world beyond Lock Haven University. But this newsletter also serves as a tribute to our continued devotion to rationality and its commendable siblings: civil discourse, continued investigation and discussion, and devotion to the meaningfulness of all human beings. Warmly Dr. David Russell 2 Faculty Spotlight By Tabitha Fisher , Megan Mckenna and Tyler Tallmadge Elizabeth Gruber, Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking Cosmopolis, Routledge Studies in Shakespeare, 2017. Although Dr. Gruber’s previous work largely focused on Shakespearean adaptation, within the last seven years she says she has found herself drawn to ecopolitics in literature, or, as Dr. Gruber defines it, the way that ideas about nature end up being institutionalized. Shakespeare serves to anchor the book, Dr. Gruber says, but the book itself covers multiple figures including Francis Bacon, Thomas Kidd, and John Ford. Dr. Gruber says that the Renaissance is “the hinge which turns us toward the modern”, and the world of ecocriticism, the study of literature and the environment, is no exception. The book serves to explicate the conversation between classical, renaissance, and modern perspectives of science and literature and how they come together under the applications of ecopolitics. For Dr. Gruber, ecocriticism and the study of ecopolitics in literature open an avenue for us to start recognizing “kinship but also difference between humans and nature” as well as “the literary value and its practical world impact” of ecocriticism. Dr. Gruber’s book is on pre-order now on Amazon.com and will be available early this summer. 3 Marjorie Maddox HaFer, Wives’ Tales. Seven Kitchens Press, 2017. Marjorie Maddox HaFer, What She Was Saying. Fomite, 2017. Marjorie Maddox Hafer, A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball’s Great Experiment. Zing! Schoolwide, 2017. http://www.schoolwide.com/zing Marjorie Maddox HaFer, Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems. Zing! Schoolwide, 2017. http://www.schoolwide.com/zing Marjorie Maddox HaFer, True, False, None of the Above. Cascade Books Poiema Poetry, 2016. From her first publication in Campfire Magazine at eight years old, Professor Marjorie Maddox Hafer has published over 500 poems, stories, and essays in a variety of journals and magazines. In the past year she has published five works: What She Was Saying; Wives’ Tales; True, False, None of the Above; Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems, and A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball's Great Experiment. In What She Was Saying¸ Maddox Hafer explores a variety of women’s issues through different perspectives and backgrounds of women nationwide and includes a compilation of short stories, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction. In Wives’ Tales, Maddox Hafer brings a new life to classic fairy tales. The first half is written in the style of a twisted fairytale. The second half, however, focuses on the wives of famous literary characters named Peter, including but not limited to: Peter Pan, Peter Cottontail, and Peter Piper. In her poetry collection True, False, None of the Above (an Illumination Book Medalist in the category of Education), Maddox Hafer examines “how books mark and mirror our lives” and how literature sometimes portrays the struggle of the soul. Maddox Hafer has also been working on children’s books. She has recently agreed to a partnership with Schoolwide. In Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems for 4th - 8th grades, she writes poems about writing poems. This book is being 4 distributed to schools nationwide, and has writing exercises focusing on poems and how to create them. Maddox Hafer has also published this year A Man Named Branch: The True Story of Baseball’s Great Experiment. This is a more personal book for Maddox Hafer, as this middle-grade biography focuses on her great granduncle. Rickey is an important figure in American history, known as the man to help break the color barrier in baseball by signing Jackie Robinson. Maddox Hafer offered this bit of advice for future writers: “read and write as much as possible.” She also encourages those pursuing a writing career to allow themselves to fail often and to develop a thick skin. “There is a lot of rejection in the publishing industry, and authors need to be willing to try multiple times before their work is finally accepted. Be persistent. There are endless opportunities for student authors.” Robert Myers, Reconciling Nature: Literary Negotiations of the Natural, 1876-1945. University of Georgia Press, 2017. In his book, Dr. Myers seeks to discuss how ecological concerns play out in classic American novels, an area fairly neglected by ecocritics. Dr. Myers discusses complicated views of nature amongst Americans during periods of greater environmental awareness, and outlines the conflict between those who saw nature as needing to be protected, and those who saw it as a threat, as well as the historical circumstances informing those views. Dr. Myers says that his interests in ecocriticism began around ten years ago, coinciding with his own growing interest in the outdoors. The focus on this period between 1876 and 1945, according to Dr. Myers, is “fascinating” as it is a period characterized by “the struggle to define and understand nature in a period of rapid industrialization,” where “we see the present being born in the past.” 5 Dr. Myers’s book is anticipated for release towards the end of the year. This will be Dr. Myers second book. Faculty Kudos Devi, Gayatri. Review of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report by Saba Mahmood, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 23 April 2017. http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO/reviews/content/316 Devi, Gayatri. “A Sentence Within a Sentence: Solitary Confinement as Torture,” a review essay of Hell is a Very Small Place: Voices From Solitary Confinement, edited by Jean Casella, James Ridgeway and Sarah Shourd in North Dakota Quarterly 83.4, January 2017, pp. 128-135. Devi, Gayatri. “Misogyny, Gun Control, and Mental Illness: The Etiology of a Cultural Disease “ in Dangerous Discourses: Feminism, Gun Violence and Civic Life, ed. Catherine R. Squires, Peter Lang Publishing, 2016, pp. 157-176. Devi, Gayatri, Tara Mitchell, Nicole Burkholder-Mosco, Lisette Schillig, Katie Ely and Holle Canatella. “Analysis of Domestic Violence Services in Rural Pennsylvania.” Center for Rural Pennsylvania Publications, 2016. The research was grant funded by the Center for Rural Pennsylvania, a research office of the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Devi, Gayatri. “Old Enough to Drink: Women and Alcohol in College Drinking Party Films.” National PASSHE Women’s Consortium Conference, Kutztown University, 7-8 October 2016. Devi, Gayatri. “Mothering as an Imaginary of Political Peace: Mothers of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement and the Democratic Process.” 2017 International Symposium of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, Pendle Hill Quaker Center for Study and Contemplation, Wallingford, PA, 25 March 2017. Gayatri Devi and the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology (ASWM) were awarded 8000/- dollars in grant money from the Vaughan Family Foundation to 6 curate the work of indigenous and Native American feminist artists. Devi serves on the executive board of ASWM. Gruber, Elizabeth. Renaissance Ecopolitics from Shakespeare to Bacon: Rethinking Cosmopolis. Routledge, 2017. 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