2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry or National Poetry Cave Canem poetry prize for Natasha Trethewey has a B.A Month, the Humani- the best first book by an Afri- in English from the University F ties Institute is can American of Georgia, an M.A. in Eng- continuing its tradition poet and also lish and Creative Writing from of bringing to the Uni- received the 2001 Hollins University, and a versity of South Flor- Lillian Smith M.F.A. in poetry from the ida a nationally known Award for Po- University of Massachusetts. poet. On April 17, etry. Her second She has received grants from 2008, Natasha Tre- work, Bellocq’s the Guggenheim Foundation, thewey, the 2007 Pul- Ophelia (2002), the Rockefeller Foundation, itzer Prize winner for received the 2003 the Bunting Fellowship Pro- poetry, will read and Mississippi Insti- gram of the Radcliffe Institute discuss her poetry in Photo © Jon Rou tute of Arts and for Advanced Studies at Har- Traditions Hall at 7:00pm. Letters Book prize and was vard University, and Ms. Trethewey won the 2007 a finalist for both the Acad- the National Endow- prize for her third poetry col- emy of American Poets’ ment for the Arts. lection, Native Guard (2006), James Laughlin and the She is presently the poems about black Union sol- Lenore Marshall prizes. It Phillis Wheatley diers who guarded a fort off was named a 2003 Notable Distinguished Chair, the coast of Mississippi during Book by the American Professor of Poetry the United States Civil War. Library Association. Her at Emory University. poetry has appeared in ma- With her first poetry collec- jor poetry journals, such as the This event is co-sponsored by tion, Domestic Work (2000), Kenyon Review, The Southern the Department of English, the she started to gather prizes and Review, and the American Department of Women’s Stud- national recognition. Domes- Poetry Review. ies, and Women in Leadership tic won the inaugural 1999 and Philanthropy. Science Fiction Symposium IV n Tuesday, March 18, ers, the Hugo Award (3), the Professor of English at the O 2008 at the Museum of Nebula Award, the British University of Tampa, who has Science and Industry Science Fiction Association written a book-length critical (MOSI) auditorium at 7:00pm Award (2), the Eurocon Merit study of Brian Aldiss, Aldiss the Humanities Institute and Award, the Prix Jules Verne Unbound: The Science Fic- the USF Tampa Library will (Sweden), and the Kurd Lass- tion of Brian W. Aldiss; from sponsor their fourth science witz Award the scientific view—Brian fiction symposium. Unlike (Germany). Two Space, Department of Chemis- the first three symposia that of his works have try, USF, who has been an featured panels of several been adapted for avid science fiction fan since science fiction authors, this films. Franken- childhood and who believes fourth one will concentrate stein Unbound that his love of science fiction UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA on only one science fiction was filmed by has been enhanced by the in- writer, Brian Aldiss, who Brian Aldiss Roger Corman in sights gained by way of his was named “Grand Master 1990, and his broad scientific training; from of Science Fiction” in 1999, short story “Supertoys Last All Aldiss’s fellow science fiction and on June 11, 2005 was Summer Long” was turned writers—John Clute, a major Humanities Institute awarded an OBE (Order of the into the movie Artificial Intel- producer of encyclopedias on British Empire) for Services to ligence: AI in 2001, directed science fiction and fantasy, Literature by Queen Elizabeth and co-produced by Steven and Elizabeth Hand, an award- II. Spielberg. Along with Aldiss, winning science fiction novel- Brian Aldiss has published a panel of four scholars will ist. Rick Wilber, School of Volume IV, Issue 2 over 80 books. He is a poet, comment on his works from Mass Communication, USF, dramatist, critic, and a fiction three distinct viewpoints: and a prominent science fic- Spring 2008 and science fiction writer. His From the literary view— tion writer himself, will mod- works have won, among oth- Richard Mathews, the Dana erate the panel discussion. Faculty Publications and Awards PUBLICATIONS English Mass Communications Tim Bajkiewicz. “When the In-Box Breaks: Sara Munson Deats. The critical essay An Exploratory Analysis of Online Network Africana Studies “Tamburlaine and Edward II: The Truth of Breaking News E-mail Alerts” Electronic Deborah G. Plant. Zora Neale Hurston: A Contraries” for the Washington Shakespeare News 1.4 (2007) Biography of the Spirit (London: Praeger, Theater’s Fall 2007 Seasons Guide, and she 2007). delivered the invited lecture “Marlowe and Humanities/American Studies Gender” at the Marlowe Symposium. Anthropology Priscilla Brewer. “The Chafing Dish and Nicole Discenza. “Alfred the Great’s the College Girl: The Evolution and Mean- Robert Tycot. “Early Neolithic obsidian Boethius.” Literature Compass 3 (2006) and ing of the ‘Spread’ at Northern Women’s trade in Sardinia: the Coastal Site of Santa “Teaching Guide to ‘Alfred the Great’s Colleges, 1870-1910” in Eating in Eden: Caterina di Pittinuri (Cuglieri - OR)” in Boethius.’” Compass Teaching Guides 3 Food and American Utopias (Lincoln, Préhistoire et protohistoire de l’aire tyrrhé- (2007). 2006). nienne/Preistoria e protostoria dell’area John Hatcher. The Ascent of Society: The Maria Cizmic. “Of Bodies and Narratives: tirrenica (Felici Editori, 2007); “Stable Iso- Social Imperative in Personal Salvation Musical Representations of Pain and Illness topes as Indicators of Change in the Food (Wilmette, 2007). in HBO’s Wit” in Sounding Off: Theorizing Procurement and Food Preference of Viking Pat Rogers. “What Stranger Cause? Family Disability in Music (Routledge 2006). Age and Early Christian Populations on and Kinship in The Rape of the Lock” in The Annette Cozzi. “Men and Menus: Dickens Gotland (Sweden)” Journal of Anthropo- Times Literary Supplement (Oct. 2007). and the Rise of the ‘Ordinary’ Gentleman” logical Archaeology 26 (2007); and “Dieta Philip Sipiora. “The Phenomenological in Edible Ideologies: Representing Food en sociedades alfareras de Chile Central: Quest of Stanley Kubrick: Eyes Wide Shut” and Meaning (SUNY Press, 2007). aporte de análisis de isótopos estables” in Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and James D'Emilio. “The Cathedral Chapter of Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena Legacy (McFarland, 2007) and “Living in a Lugo in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centu- 39.1 (2007). Darker World: Hemingway’s Figural, Phe- ries: Reform and Retrenchment” in Cross, Linda Whiteford co-authored Primary nomenal Florida Fiction” Florida English 5 Crescent, Conversion: Studies on Medieval Health Care in Cuba: The Other Revolution (2007). Spain and Christendom (Leiden, Brill, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). Government and International Affairs 2007) and “Inscriptions and the Roman- Communication esque Church: Patrons, Prelates, and Crafts- Cheryl Hall. “Recognizing the Passion in men in Romanesque Galicia” in Spanish Deliberation: Toward a More Democratic Stacy Holman Jones. Torch Singing: Per- Medieval Art (Arizona Center for Medieval Theory of Deliberative Democracy” in Hy- forming Resistance and Desire from Billie and Renaissance Studies, 2007). patia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy Holiday to Edith Piaf (Alta Mira Press, Silvio Gaggi. “The Visual, the Verbal, and 22.4 (Fall 2007). 2007). Beyond: Marcel Duchamp and the Large A Japanese translation of Ken Cissna’s co- History Glass in a special issue of Symbolism 8 authored book, The Martin Buber – Carl (2007). Rogers Dialogue: A New Transcript with Giovanna Benadusi. “Carteggi e negozi Adriana Novoa. “Teaching Latin America Commentary (SUNY Press, 1997) was re- della Granduchessa Vittoria della Rovere, in an Interdisciplinary Way” in Social Edu- leased by Shunjusha. 1634-1694” in Le donne Medici nel sistema cation (2007). Art Bochner. “Notes Toward an Ethics of europeo delle corti (Florence, 2007) and “La Memory in Autoethnography” in Ethical madre e il granduca: Stato e famiglia nelle Interdisciplinary Social Science Futures in Qualitative Research: Decoloniz- suppliche al Magistrato Supremo” in Kennan Ferguson. William James: Politics ing the Politics of Knowledge. (Left Coast Famiglie e Potere in Italia tra Medioevo ed in the Pluriverse (Rowman & Littlefield, Press, 2007). Età Moderno (Rome, 2007). 2007). Eric Eisenberg. E.. Strategic Ambiguities: Barbara Berglund. Making San Francisco Religious Studies Essays on Communication, Organization, American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban and Identity (Sage, 2007) and co-authored West, 1846-1906 (Kansas UP, 2007). James Strange. “Some Observations from Organizational Communication: Balancing Case Boterbloem. “The Genesis of Jan Archaeology and from Religious Studies on Creativity and Constraint (5th ed.) (St. Mar- Struys’s Perillous Voyages and the Business ETI,” Alien Worlds: Social and Religious tin's Press, 2007). of the Book Trade in the Dutch Republic” in Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact, Caroline Ellis. “Teaching Qualitative Meth- the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of (Syracuse U, 2007); “Archaeological Evi- ods” in Qualitative Methods: Syllabi and America (June 2007). dence for Jewish Christianity?” in Jewish Instructional Materials (Washington, DC, William Cummings. A Chain of Kings: The Believers in Jesus: The Early Centuries, 2007) and “Telling Secrets, Revealing Makassarese Chronicles of Gowa and Tal- (Hendrickson, 2007); “Sepphoris and the Lives: Relational loq (U of Washington P, 2007). Earliest Christian