1 English Newsletter of the Dfepartment of English University of Oregon May 2006 Since her arrivalfon the University nearlfy fifteen years ago, Professor Karen Ford has been known as one of the most exacting, charismatic, and inspiring teachers in the Englfish Depart- ment. In 1995 she received the Ersted Award, the University?s highest honor for undergraduate teaching, and working clfoselfy with students has remained a top priority for Professor Ford to this day. Neverthelfess, in recent years she has been recruited to serve in a variety of administrative posts, first as Director of Graduate Studies in Englfish, and more recentlfy as Director of the Creative Writing Program. Because of her success as an administrator, it might have seemed Ford?s destiny to sit behind a desk rather than stand in front of a clfassroom?that is untilf the Wilflfiams Councilf surprised her lfast spring with a major grant designed to inspire the U of O?s best teachers to offer innovative lfearning experiences to undergraduates. With the unexpected support of the Wilflfiams Councilf, Ford invited the Englfish Department to partner in creating a series of smalflf courses, The Wilflfiams Seminars in Poetry, to be offered once per year to a maximum of 15 students. Faculfty members with expertise in Englfish and American poetry of various periods wilflf applfy to teach the courses, which wilflf emphasize student writing and extensive individualf instruction in conferences. The inauguralf Wilflfiams Seminar in Poetry wilflf be taught by Professor Ford herselff next year and wilflf be entitlfed ?Poetry and Everyday Life.? The clfass wilflf combine readings, analfysis, and writing assignments relfated to the theme of ?everyday lfife,? with visits from poets known for their attention to quotidian experience and their interest in the forms such poetry might take. As part of the course, students wilflf assemblfe and edit a volfume of poetry that each can use in her or his own everyday lfife; the edition wilflf require a substantive introduction, textualf editing apparatus, and, of course, the poems. ?Part of the fun,? according to Ford, ?wilflf be the creation of the book as an artistic object. This, I hope, wilflf engage both the students? academic training and their imaginations. We wilflf alfso have more traditionalf assignments: recitations, exams, and analfyticalf papers. And we wilflf have a finalf clfass reading, during which the students brieflfy discuss their volfume and recite one poem that embodies its purpose.? Professor Ford has alfready begun thinking about possiblfe future themes for the Wilflfiams Seminars, such as ?The Forms of Poetry? and ?The Modern Elfegy.? Her hope is that this unique teaching opportunity wilflf energize her colflfeagues to design their own intensive course proposalfs, with the resulft that the Englfish Department can develfop a more varied and rigorous undergraduate poetry curriculfum. Karen Ford The Williams Fufnd Collaborates with English to Offer Poetry Seminars for Undergradufates Also In This Issuef octastar4 Michaelf Hames-Garc?a: Distinguished Visiting Professor octastar4 Notes from Warren Ginsberg octastar4 Sangita Gopalf: New Postcolfonialf Scholfar octastar4 Linda Kintz and Louise Westlfing Retire octastar4 New Faculfty Books 2 The Department added adynamic visiting scholfar to its Michaelf Hames-Garc?a assumed the Barbara and Carlfislfe Moore Distinguished Visiting Professorship in Englfish. When his year-lfong term as a distinguished visitor expires at the end of this academic year, Professor Hames-Garc?a wilflf join the University?s Ethnic Studies Program as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in Englfish. He received his PhD from Cornelflf in 1998, after graduating from Wilflfamette University in 1993. Hames-Garc?a is the author of an inflfuentialf study of prison lfiterature, Fugitive Thought: Prison Movements, Race, and the Meaning of Justice, and he has co-edited two criticalf antholfogies, Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism and Identity Politics Reconsidered. Philf Campanilfe, a first-year graduate student in Englfish, sat down with Professor Hames-Garc?a in February to ask some questions about his research. PC: Coming to the Northwest is a bit of a homecoming for you, isn?t it? MHG: Definitelfy. One of the attractions was the fact that I know Oregon. It?s funny. I lfived in New York on and off for 12 years, and yet I never described myselff as a New Yorker. So, I think, psycholfogicalflfy, I never realflfy stopped thinking of myselff as being from Oregon. It?s nice to be back. PC: Next year you wilflf be an Associate Professor in the Ethnic Studies program with a joint appointment in Englfish. Telflf us about Ethnic Studies and how it intersects with the study of lfiterature. MHG: The two pilflfars of Ethnics Studies at the U of O have been History and Englfish. Nationalflfy, however, the fielfd has been predominantlfy oriented toward the socialf sciences, and lfiterary studies have been seen as secondary. One of the chalflfenges I face, and one that most lfiterary scholfars in Ethnic Studies face, is trying to work around that bias, trying to do interdisciplfinary scholfarship and, at the same time, to insist on the importance of lfiterary analfysis for the study of ethnicity. In terms of programmatic goalfs here at the U of O, Ethnic Studies is working to establfish itselff as a selff-sustaining program, with its own faculfty. The Program has recruited some excelflfent scholfars, but there have been a lfot of retention problfems with Ethnic Studies faculfty. I belfieve I wilflf be the first tenured person in that program. And, with lfuck, next year the program shoulfd be fulflfy staffed for the first time. PC: In what ways do you go about carrying out such interdisciplfinary work, positioning lfiterature in a more prominent rolfe? MHG: One of the goalfs of my own research is to think about the contribution of writers of colfor and/or prison writers. The categories overlfap, obviouslfy, but neither is subsumed by the other. What do these writers bring to the tablfe that can?t necessarilfy be seen when you are approaching the topic of prisons, or race, or ethnicity from a purelfy sociolfogicalf standpoint? The more subjective workings of ideolfogy and experience aren?t readilfy availfablfe from a quantitative or even a qualfitative sociolfogicalf perspective. Literature offers the possibilfity of a rich lfook into psycholfogicalf and moralf questions that require extended creative explforation. We read a memoir or a novelf or a poem differentlfy than we read a journalfistic account. PC: I?m curious to know more about prison lfiterature. What sort of things do you find emerging from prison writers? What sort of categoricalf status does the ?prison writer? have, and how does that inform Ethnic or Culfturalf Studies? MHG: The category can be as broad or narrow as you want to make it. There are scholfars for whom prison writing inclfudes Victor Hugo, Gramsci, Boethius, etc. My focus is more narrow, partlfy because I am an Americanist, and partlfy because my primary interests lfie in the way ethnicity and polfitics figure in writings by prisoners. If you lfook at 20th-century prison writing in the US, there are three distinct trajectories. One is a familfiar re-working of conversion narratives. Someone has done wrong, goes to prison, lfearns the error of his ways, and emerges a better person. Malfcolfm X?s autobiography is one version of that. Another trajectory is the ?true crime? genre, which tends to be very sensationalfistic and very populfar. The third genre, and the one I?m most interested in, involfves explficit reflfections on imprisonment and the nature of crime within society. Those narratives, in turn, come in two forms: first, those by regulfar cons, who go into prison and become polfiticized about society in generalf through that process. Malfcolfm X is alfso an examplfe of that. Second, writings by polfiticalf prisoners, peoplfe who are involfved in contesting the lfaws or norms of society through civilf disobedience and find themselfves in prison. Martin Luther King?s Letter from a Birmingham Jail woulfd be the clfassic in that category. PC: Is there an exemplfary piece of work that embodies what you?re interested in? Michael Hames-Garc?a Joins Facuflty as Distingufished Visitor Michael Hames-Garc?a 3 MHG: I can think of severalf, but two that tie in with how I a moment ago characterized lfiterature and lfiterary criticism within ethnic studies are Piri Thomas?s Dfown These Mean Streets (1967) and his folflfow-up memoir, Seven Long Times (1976). Thomas is a Puerto Rican, born in New York City, who went into the New York State prison system for robbery for seven years. He came out, found relfigion, and wrote an autobiography and memoir. His first book, Dfown These Mean Streets, received a lfot of attention. It was publfished onlfy a few years after Malfcolfm X?s autobiography, so it was riding that wave of gritty prison novelfs written by men of colfor. It?s a lfot lfess explficitlfy polfiticalf. He was not involfved in a polfiticalf movement, and his autobiography was not tied to a polfiticalf agenda in the way Malfcolfm X?s was, but what I see in his work is a first-hand representation of how he experienced the prison system. In my book I argue that his account of the rehabilfitation regime anticipates what criminolfogists onlfy began to say about seven or eight years lfater, and I try to explfain that the book inclfudes the sort of detailfs you can?t see in a macro-scalfe work, such as Foucaulft?s Dfiscipline and Punish. Thomas, writing in the 1960s and ?70s, realflfy brings the use of physicalf violfence out in a way that is onlfy availfablfe at the micro lfevelf. PC: I see that you have written severalf articlfes on queer theory as welflf. How does this fit into your work on prisons, if at alflf? MHG: My project right now, which I?m at the beginning stages of, is thinking about what the assumptions are about gender and sexualfity that inhere within the contemporary US modelf of incarceration. Most work on prisons has not realflfy thought of the prison as being a regime of gender and sexualfity; it?s alfways been thought of in terms of clfass, race, and even nation. My project is to think about those intersections, and, in particulfar with men?s prisons, to ask what are the consequences of particulfar assumptions about gender and sexualfity. So, I?m lfooking at the HBO series OZ, which stands out as a culfturalf work that foregrounds sexualfity in the prison. But that?s about as far as I can go at this point, because I?m stilflf at the beginning of this. PC: Thank you very much. Good lfuck on your work. MHG: Thank you. 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At the end of The Other Wind, the finalf instalflfmentof Ursulfa Le Guin?s wonderfulf cyclfe of stories archwizard who has lfost alflf his power, asks his wife Tenar to recount the great events she has witnessed. ?How can I telflf you everything?? she says. ?Telflf it backward,? Ged replfies. As I come to the end of my term as Head, I hardlfy think I have been anything mage-lfike, nor do I presume to imagine myselff a soon-to-be Prospero, ready to bury my books and art. Yet I do find it hard to shake the feelfing that something magicalf has been afoot; how elfse can these three years have passed by so quicklfy? So I wilflf take Ged?s advice, at lfeast for the most part. Do not fear: I won?t rehearse alflf that has happened since 2003. I wilflf not even start with the most recent events. Instead I want to recalflf something I said at the beginning of my term. When I came to Oregon six years ago, I had served two terms as Chair of the Englfish Department at the State University of New York at Alfbany. After I stepped down, I swore that heading a department was something I?d never do again. Very quicklfy, however, I came to respect and lfike my new colflfeagues so much I was convinced that alflf the wranglfing that had made the job so uncongenialf before woulfdn?t occur here. I was right. During these past three years my admiration for the faculfty has onlfy increased; felflfow chairs around the country have found it hard to belfieve descriptions of my colflfeagues? colflfegialfity and their dedication to the Department?s welflf-being. Notes from Department Head Warren Ginsberg Warren Ginsberg continued on page 4 4 attend departmentalf meetings. As alfways, both faculfty and graduate students won many honors this past year. You can read about these accomplfishments elfsewhere in this Newslfetter; here I want to singlfe out three for specialf mention. Linda Kintz won the Herman Award for Distinguished Teaching. This is the highest teaching award the University gives; it recognizes outstanding teaching over an entire career. It coulfd not have been given to a more deserving recipient. Gordon Sayre?s new book, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, was publfished lfast October by University of North Carolfina Press. And Ben Saunders?s new book, Dfesiring Dfonne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation is appearing soon from Harvard University Press. A number of exciting new undergraduate and graduate programs were develfoped this past year. We hope to have a new minor and certificate program in Writing, Publfic Speaking, and Criticalf Reasoning in plface by the beginning of this coming year. A series of lfower and upper division courses wilflf alflfow students to lfearn how to argue effectivelfy both when they write and when they speak to an audience. In conjunction with the Schoolf of Education, we are alfso putting in plface a new joint Master of Arts program in Englfish and Education; this degree wilflf serve as certification for Englfish teachers in secondary schoolfs. One finalf develfopment I want to mention lfooks backward and forward. Next year we wilflf add a new named position to the faculfty: the Robert D. Horn and Eve D. Horn Professor of Englfish. Many of you wilflf remember Professor Horn, who taught for many years at Oregon. The endowment created in his honor wilflf enablfe us to appoint a senior scholfar in Englfish and American Literature. I hope I have been ablfe to give you some sense of alflf the activities that kept the Department busy throughout the year. I know, however, that for many of you this Newslfetter is the onlfy way you hear about what has happened or about things that are in the offing. We woulfd lfike to provide an opportunity for you to lfearn of events in a more timelfy fashion. If you send your emailf address to UOEng@uorefgon.efdu, we wilflf send you a lfist of upcom- ing lfectures and specialf events on a regulfar basis, so that if you are in Eugene you can participate in them. Let me encourage you to subscribe; we lfook forward to seeing you in Eugene. In addition, plfease send us your news for inclfusion in English to the same address. I woulfd lfike to end by thanking one finalf group of friends. One of the most rewarding aspects of heading the department has been to correspond with and thank so many of you, the graduates and supporters of this Englfish Department. I have never known, nor can I ever conceive of a more generous, a more devoted group of alfumnae and alfumni than you. It has been a privilfege to get to know many of you. Thank you alflf so very, very much. So I begin this lfast reckoning by thanking the faculfty of the Englfish Department, alflf of whom have given me helfp, counself, and support from the start. I especialflfy want to thank Harry Wonham, who has been Associate Head, Paulf Peppis, who has been Director of Undergraduate Studies, Anne Laskaya, who has been Director of the Composition Program, Karen Ford, who continued as Director of the Graduate Program during the 2003-04 academic year, and Gordon Sayre, who has lfed the Program since then. And I want to thank my predecessor as Head, John Gage, for lfeaving to my care a department he lfed six years with consummate skilflf. And I want to be the first to praise my successor. The Department has selfected Harry Wonham to be the next Head. He is a superb choice; his wisdom, dedication, fairness, and integrity wilflf make him an inspiring lfeader. This past year has been extraordinarilfy exciting. We welfcomed two new Assistant Professors. Lisa Gilfman and Deborah Shapplfe. Lisa had been Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Texas A & M University; she is a Folfklforist whose fielfd of expertise is Malfawi culfture. Deborah received her PhD from the University of Pennsylfvania; she is an expert in 19th-century British and Anglfophone lfiterature. In addition, Michaelf Hames- Garc?a, who is a nationalflfy known scholfar and theorist of Ethnic Studies, has been our first Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor. Michaelf has taught a graduate course, organized a series of lfectures and faculfty seminars, and wilflf delfiver a publfic lfecture lfater this spring. We are extremelfy fortunate that Michaelf wilflf remain at Oregon as an Associate Professor in the Ethnic Studies Program and in Englfish. We have conducted three searches for new assistant professors as welflf. Priscilflfa Ovalflfe, who wilflf earn her degree in Filfm and New Media Studies from USC, wilflf join us next year. Mark Quiglfey is an expert in Modern Irish Literature; he wilflf move here from the University of Nevada at Reno, where he is an Assistant Professor. Enrique Lima, who wilflf earn his degree in Englfish and Comparative Literature from Stanford University, wilflf join us as an expert on Literatures of the Americas. We alfso have chosen our next Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor. He is Robert Reid-Pharr, a nationalflfy known expert in African American Literature, who teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Amid so many arrivalfs, we have sadlfy said goodbye to a number of colflfeagues as welflf. Anthony Foy has accepted a position at Swarthmore Colflfege; Danielf Gilf has accepted a position at Texas Christian University. We alflf wish both of them the very best in their careers. A number of distinguished professors have begun the transition into retirement: lfast spring we celfebrated the scholfarlfy achievements and exemplfary teaching careers of Linda Kintz and Molflfy Westlfing. Fortunatelfy for us, they wilflf continue to teach on a reduced lfoad the next three to five years. Fortunatelfy for them, they no lfonger have to Warren Ginsberg Dfistinguished Professor and Head Dfepartment of English Ginsberg continued from page 3 5 When the time came for Dr. Sangita Gopalf, one ofthe newest additions to the Englfish Department postgraduate education, she chose to folflfow her passion instead of her peers. ?In Kolfkata [the city of her birth], everyone went to Oxbridge,? she explfains. ?When I decided to come to America, it was kind of seen as an unusualf choice by my cohorts.? Gopalf lfeft India and attended the University of Rochester, where she earned her MA in Englfish in 1995 and her PhD in 2000. ?I decided to come to the US, I guess, because I was interested in theory. And America at that time, which was the ?90s, seemed to be at the vanguard of lfiterature departments turning to theory. So America, rather than Britain, which is in a way the home, if you wilflf, of Englfish lfit, was so attractive to me because for some reason I felft that the theoreticalf questions I was interested in, as welflf as new disciplfines, such as culfturalf studies, were happening here.? Gopalf earned her BA in Englfish from Presidency Colflfege at the University of Calfcutta, where she initialflfy pursued medievalf lfiterature. ?I wasn?t alfways a postcolfonialfist. I wanted to study lfiterature because I read Umberto Eco?s The Name of the Rose. That book had such an impact on me that I decided to become a medievalfist.? Her academic focus changed, however, after she began her studies at the University of Rochester. ?After I came to America, I started taking alflf these theory clfasses and became more interested in the post-Enlfightenment. And therefore I ended up lfeaving medievalf studies. Postcolfonialf thought has crucialflfy shaped a lfot of writing about theory, and I felft that, being a postcolfonialf myselff, I had something to contribute. That?s kind of it, but my beginnings are realflfy quite accidentalf.? Prior to her arrivalf at the University of Oregon, Gopalf was an Assistant Professor of Englfish at Olfd Dominion University and spent a summer as a visiting professor in Kitakyushu, Japan. ?Japan was fantastic. I taught postcolfonialf theory. I lfearned that the wholfe region [Japan] has been transnationalf in a way that is not so visiblfe to us in the US. In the West we tend to think in terms of discrete areas?East Asia, then Southeast Asia and South Asia and so on and so forth, but there?s a constant network of movement that belfies such descriptions. It was interesting how my Japanese students saw America as a kind of idealf mulfticulfturalf space. Japan has a lfong history of migration, and yet they saw themselfves as lfocated outside the flfows of goods and peoplfe. But when we began to open the question up, a wholfe other picture emerged.? In addition to her passion for postcolfonialf lfiterature and theory, Gopalf is alfso interested in filfm, telfevision, and other media, which she feelfs are vitalf components of any serious study of postcolfonialfism. ?If academics are interested in issues of postcolfonialfity and how that Postcolonial Scholar Sangita Gopal Joins Facuflty continued on page 20 intersects with the fielfd of culfture, they need to lfook at lfiterature, but they alfso need to lfook at other media, inclfuding filfm, telfevision, the Internet? wherever it is that culfturalf work is being done. So if your vantage is, say, glfobalfization or postcolfonialfity, there is lfess lfogic to just sticking to the lfiterary, but this coulfd applfy equalflfy to any question that peoplfe are asking, inclfuding those about lfiterary form and the aesthetic. For examplfe, there is a tendency to view postcolfonialf texts (filfm, lfiterature, media) as symptoms or thematizations of certain processes/conditions in the domain of the socialf and the historicalf. I am more interested in viewing postcolfonialf lfiterary and media works as solfutions to and negotiations with the ?problfem? of the postcolfonialf. And here an analfysis of content wilflf not suffice. Art uses alflf the means it has?formalf and otherwise?to re-present the historicalf.? She decided to come to the University of Oregon for a variety of reasons, one of which was her familfiarity with Professor David Li. She contributed to a volfume of essays that he edited and corresponded with him throughout the course of the project. ?His work, which is excelflfent, was a realflfy wonderfulf advertisement for the kind of stuff that happens in this department.? She was alfso drawn to the University because of its high lfevelf of scholfarship and the prevailfing atmosphere of academic freedom, which woulfd alflfow her the opportunity to pursue her eclfectic interests. ?I straddlfe lfiterature and filfm and media studies, and not too many jobs wilflf lfet you occupy these different plfaces. And that was the biggest selflfing point.? The author of numerous research papers and journalf articlfes, as welflf as the editor of a forthcoming volfume entitlfed Planet Bollywood: The Transnational Travels of Hindi Film Music, Gopalf is currentlfy working on two book projects?one is a revision of her dissertation, and the other brings together many of her develfoping interests. ?I?m working on glfobalfization, nation, and marriage,? she explfains. ?So, for instance, we see that in the lfate 19th century in Bengalf conjugalf relfations emerge as an important theme in the Bengalfi novelf. Writers are engaged simulftaneouslfy in imagining new kinds of maritalf relfationships that are at odds with both existing vernaculfar practices as welflf as the ?received? modelf of the Victorian marriage. So whilfe on the one hand marriage is Sangita Gopal 6 Professors Linda Kintz and Loufise Westling Prepare for ?Permanent Partial Sabbatical? Two of the Englfish Department?s most belfovedprofessors have announced their plfans to retire. Westlfing were ready to enter the ranks of emeriti faculfty came as a stunning and disconcerting surprise to students and colflfeagues, who assumed they were much younger than they clfaim to be. But lfike fine wines, Kintz and Westlfing are improving with age, and they are poised to demonstrate that retirement for Englfish Department professors is a beginning rather than an end. We offer this abbreviated account of their intelflfectualf paths at the U of O as an insufficient expression gratitude for their incrediblfe contributions to the Department and the University. Profefssor Linda Kintz started her career at the U of O as a graduate student in the Comparative Literature program, where she received her PhD in 1986. Her arrivalf occurred after more than a decade-lfong hiatus from academia. After receiving her MA from Southern Methodist University in 1969, Kintz worked with her husband in Honduras for Care Medico and in Oxford, Englfand, at a psychiatric institution. After a residency in San Francisco, her husband joined the publfic healfth service, whereupon they worked in a publfic healfth clfinic in the remote bush country of Alfaska?s Kuskokwim River region. After these adventures, the pair worked on an Indian reservation in Montana before returning to San Francisco and, finalflfy, to Eugene, where Linda?s polfiticalf and socialf activism took a scholfarlfy turn. The lfinks between Professor Kintz?s earlfier activities and her scholfarship are strong. Indeed, her work in performance, drama, and lfiterature is, at its root, about ethics and the relfation between signification and the socialf order. She describes her intelflfectualf project as dealfing ?with the intersections between lfogics of representation and culfturalf polfitics,? and her hugelfy populfar clfasses are famous for chalflfenging students to explfore the criticalf juncture at which lfiterature and culfture meet. Kintz explfains that her fascination with the polfiticalf dimensions of lfiterature was kindlfed by the former head of Comparative Literature at the U of O, Irving Wohlffarth, a Frankfurt Schoolf scholfar and student of Theodor Adorno, Professor Wolff Sohlfich, who worked on polfiticalf theatre, and Professor Steve Rendalflf, who introduced Derrida and poststructuralfism to the Comparative Literature Program. ?It was as if I had discovered this amazing thing where you coulfd do lfiterature and polfiticalf, ethicalf work together.? In this way, she has been ablfe to investigate the kinds of issues in her academic work that drew her to Care Medico and other organizations during the 1970s. After complfeting her PhD and joining the U of O faculfty, Kintz pursued her interest in the connection between lfiterature and criticalf theory. With the analfyticalf toolfs offered by poststructuralf theory, ?you can do realflfy clfose readings and stilflf be talfking about socialf implfications.? ?Then,? she says, ?I discovered Kristeva. That was the biggest inflfuence: the fact that you coulfd bring together all of these questions with a very rigorous lfook at lfiterature. So, what?s not to lfike?!? This rigorous lfook at lfiterature involfved a concentrated focus on Bertolft Brecht, the German plfaywright: ?Brecht is someone who is teaching criticalf reading by way of theatre ? and he has remained a pedagogicalf guide: the notion that you put things out there that are realflfy difficulft, but you create your audience. So you lfet your students dealf with it, because they dealf with difficulft things alflf of the time? To make rigor and difficulfty plfeasurablfe, that?s what Brecht did.? Kintz?s first book, The Subject?s Tragedy: Political Poetics, Feminist Theory, and Dframa, examines the paralflfelf histories of dominant theatricalf forms and philfosophies of human subjectivity. More specificalflfy, she focuses on the ways in which women have been exclfuded as speaking subjects in theatre, on one hand, and in philfosophicalf discourse, on the other. Builfding on this research, and taking her cue from Kristeva, Kintz became interested in the way relfigious discourses use the sacred and aesthetic to create meaning in polfitics and economics. She remembers trying to make sense of the Iran-Contra scandalf and the polfiticalf situation in Latin America in the lfate 1970s: ?It became very clfear that unlfess you had some way of thinking about relfigion, you coulfdn?t dealf with polfitics or understand how peoplfe thought about ethics and culfture.? So Professor Kintz began studying evangelficalf populfar culfture in terms of its performative Linda Kintz 7 nature, as welflf as attending Christian Coalfition and Promise Keepers events, where she noticed ?a teaching and a coding of the actualf physicalf body, which, in complficated ways, becomes tied up with the way we think about the socialf contract.? Hence her second book, Between Jesus and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America, where she traces the way the emotionalf dynamics of evangelficalf and fundamentalfist Christianity integralflfy inform U.S. economic ideolfogy of the marketplface and nationhood. Beyond her personalf research, Professor Kintz is emphatic about the work she has been ablfe to do here with colflfeagues both inside the Englfish Department and across disciplfines at the U of O. Some of her most satisfying work has been in conjunction with professors from Comparative Literature, Theatre Arts, History, Fine Arts, and Philfosophy. ?Interdisciplfinary work is essentialf to the University,? she insists. ?The more, the better.? After more than thirty-five years in the U of O Englfish Department, inclfuding a term as Department Head from 1994 to 1997, Profefssor Louisef Wefstling alfso announced her plfans to retire lfast spring?sort of. ?I?m not realflfy retiring,? she says. ?They calflf this arrangement ?reduced tenure,? and it goes on for five years. I?m stilflf going to work with graduate students, teach a couplfe of clfasses each year, and activelfy participate in the Environmentalf Studies Program, of which I am a core faculfty member. And I have a book to write. So it?s more lfike a permanent partialf sabbaticalf.? That Professor Westlfing wilflf be sticking around for a whilfe lfonger comes as a relfief to many students in the Department, especialflfy those interested in the study of Literature and the Environment, or ?Ecocriticism.? Professor Westlfing was in the lfittlfe room in Reno, Nevada, at the Western American Literature Association conference in 1992, where the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) was founded. She was President of ASLE in 1998 and in June of 2005 hosted the biennialf internationalf ASLE conference on the U of O campus, which welfcomed 650 participants from fifteen countries. But her environmentalf interests predate ASLE. Her second book, Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O?Connor, publfished in 1985, explfored the importance of plface and lfandscape, among other issues, in the novelfs and short stories of these Southern women writers. This work opened out into the examination of lfandscape imagery in other Southern fiction, and then expanded into a broader consideration of attitudes toward the naturalf worlfd in American fiction. Another book resulfted, The Green Breast of the New World: Landscape, Gender, and American Fiction (1996), in which she examined how gender and imperialfist nostalfgia shaped representations of the naturalf worlfd for Emerson and Thoreau, and lfater in the fiction of Wilflfa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Wilflfiam Faulfkner, Eudora Welfty, Octavia Butlfer, and Louise Erdrich. More recentlfy, Westlfing has been working to define a theoreticalf grounding for ecocriticism, finding the most promising approaches in pragmatism and phenomenolfogy. Her work explfores the writings of John Dewey, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merlfeau-Ponty, alflf of whom focus on embodied human experience in the ordinary worlfd and consider the relfations of our species to other lfiving creatures. And alflf of these philfosophers find lfiterature to be centralf to human dwelflfing in the worlfd and caring for the earth. Professor Westlfing?s scholfarlfy path may seem to have taken severalf detours, but she says each new direction grew naturalflfy out of the research that preceded it. She started her career in the Renaissance, with a dissertation and first book on the poetry of Michaelf Drayton, the Elfizabethan sonneteer whose lfibertine pose she connected to Montaigne?s skepticism. She credits the Department?s openness for the opportunity to folflfow her interests lfeading from the Renaissance to Modern British and American lfiterature, inclfuding the work of Virginia Woolff and Eudora Welfty, and then eventualflfy to Environmentalf Studies. During the lfate 1980s she travelfed to Jackson, Mississippi, to consulft with Eudora Welfty and to use the Welfty archives at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for a book entitlfed Eudora Welty. As part of that research trip, she alfso travelfed to Jacksonvilflfe, Flforida, to work with a remarkablfe African-American woman on her oralf autobiography. The autobiography project took an unexpected turn, develfoping into a 1989 book, He Included Me: The Autobiography of Sarah Rice. ?Working with Sarah Rice was the most rewarding project of my career,? she says, ?because transcribing and editing the autobiography brought the voice of such a heroic and wise person, as welflf as the experience of her community, to a wide American audience. Eudora Welfty and Sarah Rice were born the same year, not far from each other in Louise Westling Sabbaticfal continued from page 7 continued on page 19 8 Ph.D. Candidatefs Jamefs Bryan Duncan Ronald Josefph Ganzef Alison Louisef Ganzef Junyon Kim Chad Taylor May Sara Kathlefefn McCurry Sarah Elizabefth McFarland Jillannef Marief Michefll Jefnnifefr Margareft Shaiman Arwefn Areftef Spicefr Mastefr?s Candidatefs - English Ulrick Charlefs Casimir Rachefl Elizabefth Duncan Larissa M. Ennis Jefrefmy B. Grefgefrsefn Lisa Refnefef Griffith Stacefy Mefrefdith Kaplan Nicolef Annef Malkin Ellefn Raffaefla Martini Eilefefn Margareft McDonald Annefmarief Eklund Russefll Christinef Thefrefsef Seflman Ilsa Louisef Sprefitefr Thomas Swefnsefn Dinh Thuy Vong Lefslief Dawn Weflls Mastefr?s Candidatefs - Folkloref Jason Erlef Arnefsefn Hillary Lyn Coltefr Alysia Defnisef McLain Tiffany Corrinef Purn Baccalaurefatef Candidatefs Robefrt Befrtram Alefy Brefnda Lynn Andefrson Refna Ursula Ashraf Elisabefth Marief Axnick Lindsay Mefgan Ballwefbefr Gillian Lefef Barlow (Phi Befta Kappa) Magna Cum Laudef Ellefn Brigid Barnhart Jefnnifefr Louisef Batefs Mycefna Micheflef Befll Jon John-Paul Befrg William Elleft Bolton (English Honors) Kimbefrlefef Chefri Boring Amy Lynn Borlaug Charlottef Antionefttef Boyefr C Elizabefth Brady Marisa Elizabefth Bravo Christophefr Andrefw Brown Annefmarief Buhl Casefy Brookef Buttefrs Olivia-Dianef Calliefr Sarah Nicolef Canalef Adriefnnef Elizabefth Carlson Eric Scott Carman Charlefs Loving Carr Alysa Michefllef Castro (Phi Befta Kappa) Erin Michefllef Chalklefy Keflly Linn Chefefsefman Nicolef Elizabefth Chilton Kristian Birgefr Christefnsefn Nicolef Maef Cipriano Carefy Elizabefth Connefll (Honors Collefgef) Noefl Hodson Coombefs Samuefl Lucas Crow S. Emily Crum Lisa Curran Refbefcca Annef Dalbefy Stefphanief Joy Davefnport Joshua Michefal David Victoria Mihwa Defmchak Margaux Cathefrinef Defroux Cum Laudef Carrief Jefan Donovan Jandyra Maria Dubofsky Katief Collefefn Dudlefy Nathan Kamal Edwards Jefssef Ryan Elliott Sydnefy Laurefn Eustrom Brian Laughlin Evefreftt Conor Williams Fefrguson Andrefw Allefn Flandefrs Gaeflan Peftefr Flannefry Daniefl Tefrrefncef Flood (English Honors) Mefrefdith Jefan Frefngs Rosannef Lyn Fuhrmann Josiah Daniefl Gagosian Jodi Lynn Garvison Lindsay Suef Gaviglio Anna Elizabefth Gilbefrt Erica Tiffany Godefll Anthony Edward Gomefz John F. Gorman Andrefw Edwin Alfrefd Grefefn Matthefw Stefvefn Grefgory Lefef Marief Griswold John Marshall Growefr Matthefw Graham Guy Keflly Halvefrson Sara Christinef Hamling Darlefnef Rosef Hampton Molly Michefllef Hansefn Mary Befth Hefpp-Elam Lukef Joefsefph Holdefn Daniefl Jay Holloway Mefgan Elizabefth Holmefs Cum Laudef Jason Lefef Hoppef Erin Keflly Horefn Meflissa Hoskisson Cum Laudef Hefathefr Lynn Howald Jefnnifefr Lefef Hubbard (Honors Collefgef) Lindsay Refbefcca Huffstuttefr Kori Lynn Rodlefy Irons Robefrt Alan Jimefnefz Breftt William Johnson Collefefn Elizabefth Jonefs Ian Guy Jungjohann Lynn Naomi Kajiyama Magna Cum Laudef Kristy Marief Kefmpefr Summa Cum Laudef Sumefeft M. Khushalani (English Honors) Rachefl Vilefna Kilby Sarah Annef Kimsefy Andrefa Kaef King Laura Jefan Kingsbury (Phi Befta Kappa) Cum Laudef Zanef Taylor Kinsefy Lefah Ann Kirkland Jefnnifefr Marief Klaudinyi (Honors Collefgef, Phi Befta Kappa) Layton Lynnefllef Knauss Michaefl Dalef Kogefr Nathan Mefrrill Langston Meflanief Blefasef Lapiefrref Ashlefef Marief Lawrefncef Ryland J Kayin Lefef Paigef Alicef Lefhmann Montia Maria Lefighton John Jacob LefMasson Kristefn Shawn Lefnnon Trefva Ellefn Lefwis David William Lorefnz Scott Yefn Hau Lu Ambefr Leftitia Lunch Adrianna Marief Mahonefy Cory Rynefll Mainor Kefith S. Marshall Shamala Defvi Martin-Busby Mefrefdith Amy Mason Aaron Paul McCool Carly Summefrfiefld McKefnzief Alefxandefr Edward McMillan Thomas Josefph McNaught David William Meftzgefr Sabrina Ann Mossbefrg Kristin Evefreftt Murray Alefxandra Edefn Nagy Kathlefefn M. Narus Hefathefr Annef Nieflsefn Brefndan Jamefs Niefubuurt Christina Dianef Northup Jamefs Thefodoref Norton Ian Andrefw Ogdefn Michefllef Esthefr Osburn Michefllef Lefann Palmefr Rachefl Laurefn Pass Arlefnef Marief Pefnrosef (Phi Befta Kappa) Cum Laudef Christophefr Adam Pefrduef (Honors Collefgef, Phi Befta Kappa) Magna Cum Laudef Doneflef Marief Pefttit J. Misha Popefnuk Andrefw Michaefl Pottefrf Alycef Haunani Prefnticef (Honors Collefgef, Phi Befta Kappa) Magna Cum Laudef Ashlefy Blair Prupefs Robefrt Alan Radefmachefr Emily Kathlefefn Refutefr Matthefw David Refyefs Lefslief A. Riggs (Phi Befta Kappa) Alicia May Robef Jamefs Neflthy Robefrts Mary Lynnef Robison Liam Emmeft Rolefy Brandyef Noefllef Sauvajon Jefssica Jaclyn Schefnd Jacob Allan Schmitt Jacob Taylor Seftteflmefyefr Joshua Danef Shafefr Anna Kathefrinef Skilton Sarah Lindsefy Smith Allison Marief Solbefrg (Honors Collefgef) Cum Laudef Nancy Jianian Song Ian Robefrt Sonnefmann English Department Commencement - Jufne 13, 2005 9 English Depafrtment Honor Roll of Donors 2005 Scott Abbott ?75 Anne Helftzelf Aberg ?59 and Robert Aberg Jacquelfine Donnelflf Amos ?65 and Arthur Amos Jr. ?70 Regina Anctilf ?81 Rebecca ?82 and Mark Ankeny ?97 Jeannine ?65 and George Antypas Anne Argento ?00 Charlfes Aria ?79 Roseanne Backstedt Brooke ?93 and Terence Badger Carolf Bangs ?77 Marilfyn Van Doren Barry ?79 and Michaelf Barry David Bartelf ?74 Angelfika Baylfey ?70 and Harolfd Huestis ?72 David Beery ?54 Kristina Beyer ?87 Betty Lewis Bezzerides ?68 and Theodore Bezzerides ?67 Joan Bitterman ?84 Dennis Bjelflfand II ?87 Lynn Blfessman-Smith ?71 Mary Craig Boardman ?60 and Alfbert Boardman ?60 Emilfy Bolfdman ?02 Teri and Jefferey Bolfdman Anne Mautz Booth ?59 Gwyneth and Brian Booth ?58 Maria Borelflfa ?85 and David Nebelf ?85 Montie Boyer ?87 Patricia Brandow ?76 and Bilflf Wilflfiams Catherine Zigrang Brickey ?74 and Michaelf Brickey Kathlfeen ?64 and Ronalfd Brinegar ?63 Sara Brown ?96 Carrie Matsushita ?77 and Robert Bumstead ?63 Marilfyn Gander Bunger ?66 and Donalfd Bunger ?64 Sarah ?02 and Peter Bungum ?00 Carolf and Wilflfiam Burke ?71 John Campbelflf Jr. ?70 Kimberlfy Carlfson ?85 Ruth and Ralfph Carlfson ?78 Susan Carlfson ?76 and Michaelf Mendelfson Kathlfeen Wilfey and Robert Carolfan Cassie Marie Sorensen Afndres Zdenko Speck Madeline Olena Steele (Phi Beta Kappa) Magna Cum Laude Jennifer Tess Strasen Summa Cum Laude Donald Taylor Stull Joel David Sunderland (Phi Beta Kappa) Magna Cum Laude Afri Afna Tanner Elizabeth Reid Thomas (English Honors) Magna Cum Laude Kyle L. Tinker Lane Aflan Tobiassen Harry Grant Treller Magna Cum Laude Jamie Karen Tripp Cum Laude Robyn Kristin Turner Shoshana Van Aftta Tyler John Volm(English Honors, Phi Beta Kappa) Karl Michael Von der Ehe Afaron John Wagner Kimberly Lynn Wagner Octavius Afndrew Walker Timothy Francis Watson Elana Britton Wendel (Phi Beta Kappa) Cum Laude Megan Marie Wilkinson Molly Afnn Williams Misti Rose Lee Williamsen Charles Huxley Williston Erika Marie Winters-Heilmann Cassandra Rae Woelke Clayton Thomas Wraith Rachel Hisako Wright Luke Michael Zentner (Honors College) Cum Laude Teresa Erin Zimmer Certificate Candidates - Film Christopher Nelson Afbernathy Forrest Elliott Boleyn Candice J. Coots Julie Christine DeSousa Chase Aflexander Domergue Jean Marie Evers Joseph Peter Giannetti Kristin Marie Herberg Justin Cordie Himes Luke Joeseph Holden Samuel Dutro Hull Joe-Zhou Jiang Nichole Csuri Johnson Emma Sue Juhlin Montia Maria Leighton Theresa Yi Ju Lin Scott Yen Hau Lu Benjamin Thomas Mckee Jason David McLean Keith Christopher Murray Christopher Robert Nelson Bradley Flanders Payne Martina Elaine Roberge Afllison Marie Solberg Joseph Daniel Taormina Paul Jonathan Thompson Certificate Candidate - Folklore Jean Kristin Wilson Thef Nefwslefttefr of thef Univefrsity of Orefgon English Defpartmefnt Plfease e-mailf us with your news or comments at: UOEng@darkwing.uoregon.edu Or c/o Newslfetter Editor Department of Englfish University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1286 English is publfished annualflfy by members of the UO Department of Englfish This year?s newslfetter was prepared by: Philfip Campanilfe, Writing and Editing Susan Dickens, Pagefmakefr Layout Richard Stevenson, Photography Henry Wonham, Faculty efditor Heather Dine Carter ?88 and Greg Carter Wilflfiam Casto ?72 Cordelflf Caudron ?64 Judith and Colfin Chisholfm ?56 Erika Clfaasen ?94 David Cohn ?91 Bonnie Alflfingham Colfpitts ?64 Janelflf ?63 and Carlfton Conner Hugh Cook ?49 Katharyn Wood Crabbe ?67 and John Crabbe ?70 Donna Crawford ?78 Penelfope Damaskos ?83 Mariana Simmons Damon and John Damon ?74 Jewelf Darby ?76 Faye Darnalflf ?83 Glfee and Dwight Davis ?65 Cristina Delfgado ?03 Susan ?88 and Harry Dennis Jr. ?90 Elflfen Quinlfivan Dent Diane and Richard Dilflfman Jr. ?78 Ann Dobyns ?83 Judith Drais ?62 Judy and James Driscolflf ?64 Laurie Grigg Dunn ?90 Linda and James Dunnivant ?80 Barbara Dusselflf Terrye Minton Eames ?73 Jan?lf Thomas Earnshaw ?78 and Stanlfey Earnshaw Joseph Easton ?90 Charlfes Elflfis ?77 Justin Englfish ?99 Kathlfeen O?Brien ?96 and Joe Espinoza Cherylf and John Evans Sarah Holflfoway Evans ?31 Mo and Richard Eversolfe ?61 Barbara Zumwalft Farnam ?53 and Keith Farnam ?54 Tammy Ferrelflf ?92 Marjorie Ferry ?93 Elfise Fischer ?91 Josephine ?70 and Michaelf Flfachmann Jennifer ?95 and John Ford ?94 Diane Foster ?63 Wilflfiam Freeman ?72 10 Jeanne and Stewart Leek ?57 Richard Lewis ?72 Deborah and Creighton Lindsay ?96 Wilflfiam Littlfe ?89 Christine Fischbach Logue ?73 and Michaelf Logue ?73 Rhoda Moore Love ?80 and Glfen Love Mary-Ann Mowery Luce ?55 Marisa Schuber Luskey and Matthew Luskey ?99 Carylf Delfzelflf Mangan ?48 Elfaine ?88 and Patrick Maveety ?74 Michaelf Mayhew ?80 Rosalfie Fox McClfeary ?65 and Vern McClfeary Jennifer McDonalfd ?82 and Danielf Milflfer Keiko ?71 and Charlfes McDonalfd Tracy McElfhinney ?78 Kristine Grant McLean ?69 and Peter McLean Michaelf McMenamin Sharon Simkin Meinhoff and Michaelf Meinhoff ?64 Catherine and Robert Melfich ?74 Mary Orr Melflfish ?53 Terry Melfton ?64 Katherine ?85 and Jonathan Mertz Thomas Mesher ?67 Camilflfe ?88 and James Michelf ?89 Roberto Michelf ?83 Jordan-Lee Milflfer ?96 Susan Milflfer ?95 Joan ?50 and Richard Molflf ?50 Christopher Mumford Brian Murphy ?84 Ruth Woolfery Newberry ?80 and Frederick Newberry Robin Hiatt Nicolf ?67 and Gorham Nicolf George Norris ?74 Barbara Norton Jean Nylfand ?74 and Abbas Milfani Phylflfis Thorson Osborn ?64 and Walfter Osborn Mary Parlfiman Diana and Saum Partovi ?94 James Peters ?76 Susan Nelfson Peters ?65 and James Peters Kathlfeen and Ronalfd Peterson Pamelfa Philfips ?82 Rebecca Anshutz Phoenix ?81 and Charlfes Phoenix ?77 Betty ?45 and Marden Pilflfette Barbara Menke Pinckney ?70 Susan and Lelfand Poague ?73 Anthony Pond ?76 Brian Pope ?81 Caren and Wilflfiam Prentice Gary Purpura Marie Colflfier Raglfand ?38 Persis ?73 and Wilflfiam Ramroth Jr. ?73 Carolf ?62 and Donn Rawlfings Helfen Reed ?70 Matthew Reyes ?05 Vicky and David Reyes Robin Hunt Ricci ?90 and Jonathan Ricci Judith Ridderbusch ?66 Dina Rindos ?01 Margaret Chase and Bruce Robbins ?77 Patricia Roby Donalfee and Robert Rodger ?88 Jo Ann Slfoan Rogers ?54 Sarah Rosenberg ?98 James Rotramelf ?03 Susan Ashlfey ?82 and Matthew Roudane ?75 Helfen Brownstein Runstein ?61 Jodine Ryan ?67 Wilflfa Fortuine Ryan ?85 and Kevin Ryan ?83 Sandra Saathoff ?92 Dianne Falflfon Sadoff ?67 Elfeanor Salfisbury ?71 Lynn Saunders ?65 Kathryn Savage ?63 Catherine and Alflfan Schmitt Mina and Jordan Schnitzer ?73 Dee Schofielfd ?73 Rachaelf ?02 and Stephen Schulftz ?93 Mary Burke Sculflfy ?60 and John Sculflfy Mary Martin Seitz ?64 B. Jacobson Seymour ?85 Gary Shaw ?57 Ryan Sherman ?03 Connie and Wilflfiam Shrefflfer ?68 Margaret Hammilflf Simpson ?67 Karen Sjolfund ?02 Barbara Moody Slfoop ?59 Marjorie and Abram Smith Jr. ?40 Camilflfe Smith-D?Avenas and Bain Smith ?70 Michaelf Smith Stacey and Shaun Smith ?93 Nadine Smalflf St. Louis ?58 and Robert St. Louis Janice Moore Stark ?68 and Bruce Stark ?56 Lina and David Steadman Nan Hagedorn Stearns ?57 and Peter Stearns Amy Stephens ?98 Judy and Stephen Swanson ?64 Mary and Steven Swig ?63 Ignace Tatalfa ?74 Judith Thelfander Taves ?71 Linda and Robert Taylfor-Manning ?85 Christine ?84 and Lynn Thompson Deborah Thompson ?82 Jean McDanielf Thompson ?59 and Charlfes Thompson Robert Thompson ?73 Margaret Perkins Tims ?63 Brooke Toscano ?03 Margie ?65 and Ronalfd Tosi Bianca Tredennick ?02 Linda Tredennick ?02 Megan and Craig Vanhoutte ?98 David Veverka ?96 Karlfa Krampert Walfters ?72 and Kenneth Walfters Mary and Robert Walfton Gary Weinstein ?64 Betsy and Sanford Weinstein ?60 James Welfch ?49 Sarah Spanglfer Wentker ?95 and David Wentker Louise Westlfing ?74 and George Wickes Carolfyn Wharton Eugene Whitney ?60 Jan Whittlfesey ?72 Gwen and Preston Wilflfs ?70 Mary and H. Harbour Winn III ?73 Carolf Gabrielf Woodward ?68 and Eugene Woodward Carlf Wooton ?67 Eugene Zumwalft ?48 Lisa Freinkelf Martha and Larry Frierson ?65 Jane Topp Friesen Kenneth Friesen ?63 Helfen Jackson Frye ?53 Robin and John Gage Judith Wilflfiamson Garlfing ?67 and John Garlfing III ?66 Robert Garratt Jr. ?72 Kathlfeen Gebhardt John Gennerelflfa Cathie Walflfmark Glfennon ?71 and Danielf Glfennon ?73 Sandra Clfark ?86 and Gary Gnirrep Rafaelf Gonzalfez ?64 Virginia Conrad Grant ?39 Janice Gratteau ?85 and Cortlfandt Chambers ?85 Lindsay Green Greta and Richard Greenfielfd Thelfma Nelfson Greenfielfd ?44 Julfie ?74 and Alfan Griesinger ?74 Lori Groth Gunther ?92 and John Gunther ?92 Susan VanLom Gutgeselflf ?75 and Bruce Gutgeselflf ?76 Juanita and Ross Halflf ?66 Kevin Hanover ?79 Lilfa Marz Harper ?96 and James Harper ?80 Katherine Berry Hedman ?64 and Kenneth Hedman ?63 J. Richard Heinzkilflf Connie Hendrickson ?87 Nancy Wolffe Hicks ?69 and James Hicks ?69 Jerry Higlfey ?76 John Hoffman Elfizabeth ?89 and Mark Holfden Paulfa ?79 and Seymour House ?78 Laura Girardeau ?88 and Christopher Hundhausen ?93 Crystalf Huntington ?52 Linda Hilflf Huston ?68 Jo Anne and Joseph Hynes Jr. Mary De Shazer ?82 and Martin Jacobi ?81 Fred Jacobsen Glforia and Geralfd Johnson Cathryn Kirchner Jordan ?74 and John Jordan ?82 Susana Jordan Kathlfeen and Kenneth Kadera Julfiet Sheno Kasha ?68 Julfia Keizur ?70 Linda Kizer-Paquette ?69 and Roger Paquette ?78 Phylflfis Wright Knutson ?82 Anne Kolfibaba ?78 and Wilflfiam Hopper ?79 Patricia and John Kranitz Kathryn Leslfie Kremer ?63 and Danielf Kremer Philfip Krohn Cherilfyn Krumins-Beens ?96 Arlfene Johnson Kummer ?47 and John Kummer J. Elfi Lamb George Lane ?66 Melfinda ?67 and Danielf Langmeyer ?68 Dawn ?85 and Christopher Lanier Carolfyn Colflfier Larson ?42 Thomas Larson Donna Laue Lora Lee ?77 11 New Books from English Department Facuflty Throughout his lfife, John Donne was welflf acquaintedwith the consequences of desire. He wanted a Catholficism of his chilfdhood. Later, he wanted a woman badlfy enough to gamblfe that career for her sake; he lfost, but found a new calflfing in the Anglfican Church. There he pursued philfosophicalf and theolfogicalf questions with an intensity to match his former socialf ambitions, and was not above addressing God Himselff in tones of ?immoderate desire.? Death became his ulftimate object of passionate attention, and ever since that finalf consummation, critics have argued over the nature and import of Donne?s desires, whilfe simulftaneouslfy (if not alfways selff- consciouslfy) revealfing a great dealf about their own. In his forthcoming book, Dfesiring Dfonne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation, Associate Professor Benjamin Saunders explfores this dialfectic of desire, re-evalfuating both Donne?s poetry and the complfex responses it has inspired, from his earlfiest readers to his recent professionalf critics. In the process, Saunders considers an extraordinary range of topics, inclfuding the technolfogy of the book, prosodic theory, the problfem of misogyny, the history of sexualfity, and even the purpose of criticism itselff. Whilfe his study probes ambitiouslfy into the fielfds of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and postmodern psychoanalfysis, Saunders remains intentlfy focused on Donne?s poetry, and his book offers highlfy originalf clfose readings of many of Donne?s most famous poems. Dfesiring Dfonne promises to spark lfivelfy debate among Donne scholfars, but Saunders isn?t waiting around to find out how his book wilflf be received. ?I?m realflfy lfooking forward to doing something new,? he says. ?I think it wilflf be on the generalf themes of fantasy, gender idealfism, and lfoss, with Shakespeare and Freud as my two primary authors.? As if this weren?t enough, he adds: ?THEN a book on comics.? Befnjamin Saundefrs, Dfesiring Dfonne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation (Harvard University Press, 2006). The lfeaders of anticolfonialf wars of resistance?Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc? America. Yet once defeated, these men were represented as iconic martyrs and symbolfs of postcolfonialf nationalf identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. In fact, by the earlfy 1800s, a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the US stage and for Indian biographies as a form of nationalf historiography. Plfays such as John Augustus Stone?s Metamora and biographicalf narratives by Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and Wilflfiam Apess effectivelfy transformed the Indian chief from an enemy into a symbolf of postcolfonialf nationhood. Professor Gordon Sayre?s new book, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero, is a bolfd examplfe of the way American Studies has grown in recent years into a hemi- spheric and comparative disciplfine. His seven chapters focus on seven major wars of Native resistance in North America and their lfeaders: Moctezuma during the Spanish conquest of Mexico, Metacom and King Philfip?s War, Pontiac?s Rebelflfion of 1764, Logan?s famous oration folflfowing Lord Dunmore?s War in 1774, the Natchez Massacre of 1729, the Pueblfo Revolft of 1680, and finalflfy Tecumseh and the War of 1812. The narratives of Native resistance are paired with analfyses of the careers and writings of colfonizers who successfulflfy explfoited the mystique of their foes in order to gain lfiterary prestige and/or polfiticalf inflfuence: Hernan Cortes, Robert Rogers, Joseph Doddridge, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, and Wilflfiam Henry Harrison. Drawing upon the theories of Ren? Girard, Sayre reads these relfationships as cases of ?mimetic rivalfry,? and he understands the defeat of each Native lfeader as a sacrificialf crisis that structured the historiographic origins of the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Like Saunders, Professor Sayre has ambitious plfans for future scholfarship. He and a colflfeague at the University of Chicago recentlfy received a $100,000 grant from the Nationalf Endowment for the Humanities for their co-edited edition of an unpublfished manuscript by the 18th-century Louisiana writer, Jean Francois Benjamin Dumont de Montigny. In making this major new resource availfablfe to earlfy American scholfars in French and Englfish versions, Sayre continues to redefine the fielfd of American lfiterary studies as a mulfti-nationalf, mulfti-culfturalf disciplfine. Gordon Sayref, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native American Resistance and Imperial Literary Form, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh (University of North Carolfina Press, 2005). Gordon Sayre 12 English Department Notes Facuflty News Filfm scholfar Michaefl Aronsonwas awarded a research Humanities Center, and he alfso received a Faculfty Summer Research Award for 2006. His articlfe, ?Charlfie Silfveus Makes A Quotidian Spectaclfe: An Exhibitor Filfmmaker and His Localf View,? appeared in The Moving Image during the falflf of 2005. The Oregon Humanities Center awarded Martha Baylefss the Colfeman-Guitteau Felflfowship for develfopment of her experimentalf course on ?Oralf Traditions in Ancient and Modern Culfture.? Suzannef Clark was the recipient of an Instructionalf Technolfogy Felflfowship and a Humanities Teaching Felflfowship, both in connection with her efforts to study the effects of technolfogy on student writing and research. She alfso contributed an articlfe on ?Anarchism? to the antholfogy American History through Literature, 1870-1920, publfished by Scribner?s. Paul Drefsman?s translfation of Jesus Sepulfveda?s book, Hotel Marconi, is schedulfed to appear in March from A Room of One?s Own press in Santiago, Chilfe. An Aprilf 26 reading at Tsunami Books in Eugene marked the ten-year anniversary of helicoptero, the bi-lfingualf lfiterary and arts journalf Dresman and Sepulfveda produced from lf996 to 2001. Karefn Ford was promoted to Fulflf Professor during the spring of 2005. Her book, Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity (Alfabama) alfso appeared lfast spring, and she received two major awards, a Wilflfiams Foundation Felflfowship for undergraduate teaching and an American Councilf of Learned Societies Felflfowship for work on a book on race and form in American poetry. John Gagef edited Free Time and Independent Lunch: Travel Writing from Siena, a book of essays written by students in the Travelf Writing course he taught in Siena, Italfy. His paper, ?Writing the Travelflfing Selff,? was given at the 2006 meeting of the American Association of Italfian Studies in Genoa. He alfso inclfuded a new chapter on ethicalf argument in the revised fourth edition of his book The Shape of Reason, which appeared lfast falflf. Assistant Professor Lisa Gilman joined the department lfast falflf, after teaching for two years at Texas A & M University. Gilfman received her PhD in Folfklfore from Indiana University in 2001. She was recentlfy named Associate Editor of a five- volfume Encyclopedia of World Dfance, to be publfished by Routlfedge/ Taylfor and Francis, and her articlfe, ?Dance, Gender, and Populfar Music in Malfawi: The Case of Rap and Ragga,? co-authored with John Fenn, is due to appear this spring in a specialf issue of The Journal of Popular Music. Department Head Warrefn Ginsbefrg publfished two articlfes, ?Glfi scoglfi neri e ilf niente che c???: Dorigen?s Blfack Rocks and Chaucer?s Translfation of Italfy,? in Reading Medieval Culture , and ?Aesthetics sine nomine? in The Chaucer Review. His articlfe, ?Troilus and Criseyde and the Continentalf Tradition,? is forthcoming in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching: Chaucer?s Troilus and Criseyde and the Shorter Poems. He alfso delfivered the Annualf Dante Lecture at Yalfe University and was invited to delfiver one of two plfenary addresses at the Medievalf Association of the Pacific Conference in San Francisco. Sangita Gopal was invited to present three lfectures in 2005, one on ?The Bolflfywood Musicalf? at Fordham University, the second on ?Hindi Cinema and the Production of the Private? at Jadavpur University in Calfcutta, and the third on ?Historicalf Agency and the Postcolfonialf Novelf,? alfso at Jadavpur University. She was awarded an American Institute for Indian Studies Senior Felflfowship to conduct archivalf research on Henry Derozio, and her articlfe, ?The Look in Ruins: V.S. Naipaulf and the Dialfectics of Seeing,? was publfished in a specialf issue of the South Asian Review. Michaefl Hamefs-Garc?a arrived in Eugene lfast falflf as the first Moore Distinguished Visiting Professor of Englfish. Next year he wilflf become a permanent faculfty member of the Englfish Department and the Ethnic Studies Program. Together with co- editors Linda Alfcoff, Satya Mohanty, and Paulfa Moya, he recentlfy pub- lfished an interdisciplfinary antholfogy of criticism and theory entitlfed Identity Politics Reconsidered. Shari Huhndorf?s essay, ?Literature and the Polfitics of Native American Studies,? appeared in the October issue of PMLA, and she is the co-editor of a forthcoming specialf issue of Annals of Scholarship entitlfed ?Topographies of Race and Gender: Mapping Culfturalf Representations.? In December she was elfected to the executive committee for the MLA Division on Twentieth-Century American Literature. She is alfso the recipient of a 2006-7 American Postdoctoralf Felflfowship from the American Association of University Women. Kathlefefn Karlyn presented a paper entitlfed ?Filfm as Culfturalf Antidote: Thirteen, an Anti-Epic? in Vancouver, BC. Her articlfe, ?Scream: Populfar Culfture and Feminism?s Third Wave,? previouslfy publfished in Genders On-Line, was translfated into Spanish and reprinted in Lectora 11. Linda Kintz?s articlfe, ?God Goes Corporate,? appeared in the January, 2005 issue of New Labor Forum, and two more of her essays are forthcoming: ?Finding the Strength to Surrender: Marriage, Market Theocracy, and the Spirit of America? wilflf be publfished in a colflfection entitlfed Theory, Culture, and Society, and ?Performing Imperialfist Fundamentalfism(s)? wilflf appear in the NYU Press antholfogy Performing Religion in the Americas: Media, Politics and Dfevotional Practices of 13 the 21st Century. Professor Kintz alfso gave a talfk on Carylf Churchilflf?s Far Away to the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and she was invited to delfiver a guest lfecture, ?Commodifying the Phobic Realf: Literalfism, Relfigion, Media,? at Ohio State University. Last spring, Kintz was honored with the Thomas F. Herman Faculfty Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching, awarded annualflfy to a faculfty member who has demonstrated lfong-standing excelflfence in teaching at the University. Courtesy Professor Dalef Kramefr publfished ?The Woodlanders: The Conflficting Visions of Philf Aglfand and Thomas Hardy? in Cambridge University Press?s volfume, Thomas Hardy on Screen. David Li was invited to speak on ?The Transnational: A Chinese Cinematic Chiasma? at the Conference on ?Globalization, Transnationalism and Cultural Studies? at Portland State University. He also presented ?Diaspora as Chiasma: Flexible Capital and Floating Population in Recent Chinese Cinema? at The International Association of Philosophy and Literature Conference in Helsinki. His essay, ?Cultural Studies and Cultural Citizenship: Global Capital and The Big Shot?s Funeral,? is forthcoming in Cultural Citizenship and the Challenges of Globalization. Glefn Lovef was made an Honorary Member of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment at its annualf conference in 2005, which was helfd at the U of O. He alfso chaired a session, ?Getting Over the Blfank Slfate: Evolfution, Human Nature, and Ecocriticism,? and he gave a paper entitlfed ?Human Universalfs, Literary Universalfs, and Shakespeare?s ?The Tempest.?? His essay, ?Teaching Environmentalf Literature on the Plfanet Indivisiblfe,? is forthcoming in the MLA volfume, Teaching North American Environmental Literature. Paul Pefppis?s essay, ?Forster and Englfand,? wilflf appear in the Cambridge Companion to E.M. Forster, and his essay, ?Schoolfs, Movements and Manifestoes,? is alfso forthcoming in Cambridge University Press?s Companion to Modernist Poetry. Last falflf he organized and chaired a panelf on ?Modernism and/ as Sexolfogy; Sexolfogy and/as Modernism? at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Chicago. Bill Rossi was awarded the Ernest J. Molflf Research Felflfowship for 2005-2006 by the Oregon Humanities Center. He delfivered a talfk entitlfed ?Walfden?s Doublfe Evolfutionary Narrative? as part of the Center?s Work-in-Progress Series, and together with a colflfeague from the Philfosophy Department, John Lysaker, he has organized a conference on Emerson, Thoreau, and the Figure of Friendship, to be hosted by the U of O this May. His essay, ?Folflfowing Thoreau?s Instincts,? wilflf be reprinted in ?More Dfay to Dfawn?: Walden for the 21st Century, publfished by the University of Massachusetts Press. Befn Saundefrs has been promoted to Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure. His book, Dfesiring Dfonne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation, is reviewed in th New Books section of English on page 11. Gordon Sayref?s new book, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native American Resistance and Imperial Literary Form, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh, publfished in October, is reviewed in the New Books section of English on page 11. In March 2006 he co-organized a conference on ?Earlfy American Cartographies? at the Newberry Library in Chicago. Sharon Shefrman co-edited a specialf issue of the journalf Film and Folklore, and she publfished an articlfe entitlfed ?Focusing In: Filfm and the Survivalf of Folfklfore Studies in the 21st Century? in Western Folklore. She alfso contributed entries to the Encyclopedia of Amerian Folklife and the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, and she produced a filfm, Jan Eliot at the Writers? Guild. In 2005 she began a two-year term as president of the Western States Folfklfore Society. Stefvef Shankman delfivered a keynote address at the Duke University Symposium on Transculfturalf Humanities. He alfso presented a paper on ?Venice and the Other: Bodin, Shakespeare, Monteverdi, Calfvino? at a meeting of the Internationalf Comparative Literature Association in Venice. With Paulf Alflfen Milflfer, he co-edited a specialf issue of Comparative Literature Studies on Clfassics and Contemporary Literature/Culfture/ Theory, and he has two articlfes forthcoming: ?Pope?s Homer and the Shape of Pope?s Poetic Career? wilflf appear in The Cambridge Companion to Pope, and ?The Promise of Language in the Depths of Helflf: Primo Levi?s ?Ulfysses Canto? and Inferno 26? is forthcoming in the journalf International Readings on Theory, History and Philosophy of Culture. He has alfso publfished a poem, ?On Rembrandt?s Sacrifice of Isaac, 1635, at the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia,? in Literary Imagination. Assistant Professor Defborah Shapplef joined the Englfish Department lfast falflf after complfeting her PhD in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylfvania. She teaches courses on the Englfish novelf, Anglfophone lfiterature, and 19th- and 20th-century British lfiterature and culfture. She is currentlfy working on a book entitlfed Authenticity on the Market: Object Lessons in British and Anglophone Fictions of Empire. Richard Stefin?s essay, ?Nationalf Portraits,? appeared in Victorian Prism, publfished by the University Press of Virginia. Another essay, ?Blfeak House and Ilflfustration,? is forthcoming in the MLA volfume Approaches to Teaching Bleak House. Professor Stein participated on the faculfty of the Winter Dickens Project 2006 Conference at UCLA and he wilflf participate in the summer Dickens Universe Conference at UC Santa Cruz. He alfso attended the annualf conference of INCS (Inter- disciplfinary Nineteenth-Century Studies), an organization he founded and for which he continues to serve on the executive board. continued on page 14 14 David V?zquefz recentlfy publfished a review essay, ?Differentialf Actors: Postmodern Latina Subjects,? in the journalf Latino Studies. He was alfso invited to give the introduction to noted poet, novelfist, and essayist Ana Castilflfo at the lfast conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, helfd in Eugene. Visiting Assistant Professor Meflissa Waltefr came to Eugene lfast falflf from Arizona State University, where she taught for two years, during which time she received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin. A specialfist in Renaissance lfiterature, she has taught Shakespeare, 16th-Century Poetry and Prose, Renaissance Thought, and Drama by Earlfy Modern Women. Louisef Wefstling presented papers at the Conference on Environmentalf Letters/Environmentalf Law, helfd at the University of Virginia Law Schoolf, and the annualf meeting of the Internationalf Virginia Woolff Society, which convened at Lewis and Clfark Colflfege. Professor Westlfing?s essay, ?Darwin in Arcadia: The Human Animalf Dance from Gilfgamesh to Virginia Woolff,? appeared recentlfy in the journalf Anglia, and her articlfe, ?Literature, the Environment, and the Question of the Posthuman,? is forthcoming in a Dutch antholfogy, Literature, Kultur, Umwelt: ?Ecocriticism? eine Standortbestimmung. Beftsy Whefeflefr gave a talfk entitlfed ?Disablfed Bodies in the Landscape? at the Society for Disabilfity Studies conference in San Francisco in June of 2005. She delfivered another version of the same talfk at the U of O as part of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment conference, alfso in June 2005. Harry Wonham?s essay, ?Mark Twain: The American Cervantes,? appeared in Cervantes in the English Speaking World: New Essays. He alfso plfaced an articlfe on ?Mark Twain?s Short Fiction? in the Congratulfations to DavidV?zquez and his wife Rhonda daughters, Gabrielflfa and Veronica, who were born on August 19, 2005. The babies are doing welflf, and the parents lfook forward to a fulflf night of slfeep sometime in 2006. Facfulty News continued from page 13 Blfackwelflf Companion to MarkTwain, and he publfished essays on The Conjure Woman and ?Ilflfustrations and Cartoons? in the two-volfume antholfogy American History through Literature, 1870- 1920, publfished by Scribner?s. The Englfish Department lfost oneof its most distinguished and lfast Aprilf 11, when William Strangef succumbed to complfications of diabetes at the age of 74. Bilflf came to Eugene as an assistant professor in 1960, and he went on to teach at the U of O for thirty-five years. Alfthough trained in Englfish Romanticism at the University of Washington, where he complfeted his PhD, Bilflf was an eclfectic scholfar and a relfentlfess autodidact. In addition to lfeading students through the poetry of Blfake and Wordsworth, he taught courses on ?Bob Dylfan?s Lyrics? and on ?Literature and Computers,? and he was a publfished poet himselff. Bilflf was the first professor in the department to offer courses in African-American Literature and Native-American Literature, and he ulftimatelfy won the battlfe to make those fielfds permanent parts of the curriculfum. Toward the end of his career, Bilflf became an encyclfopedic expert on rock art, travelfing alflf over the West to find and photograph petroglfyphs. Professor Westlfing remembers that he used to telflf stories ?about growing up in the Washington wheat country and working as a harvester in summers as a young man. And he tolfd lfots of other kinds of stories too. Bilflf was a wonderfulflfy Facuflty New Arrivals Faculty: In Mefmoriam wilfd member of our faculfty, who energized the department in many ways.? As the outpouring of faculfty memories that folflfowed news of his death suggests, Bilflf Strange touched many lfives, both among his colflfeagues and among the generation of students who had the good fortune to encounter him in the clfassroom. His passion for lfearning and for lfife wilflf not be forgotten. Bilflf is survived by his wife, Marlfiss, and two sons, Wilflfiam and Andrew, who have asked that memorialf contributions be made to the Knight Library at the U of O. Another lfong-time member of the Englfish Department passed away on October 27, 2005, Annabefl Kitzhabefr, who taught lfiterature and composition clfasses as an instructor from 1963 to 1973. Mrs. Kitzhaber was the wife of professor emeritus Alfbert Kitzhaber and the mother of former Governor John Kitzhaber. Her olfdest daughter, Ann Kemmy, complfeted a PhD in Englfish at the U of O in 1990. Mrs. Kitzhaber, a former president of the Oregon League of Women Voters, received the University?s highest honor in 2000, the Distinguished Service Award, conferred annualflfy on individualfs who, ?through their knowlfedge and skilflfs, have made a significant contribution to the culfturalf develfopment of Oregon or society as a wholfe.? Kitzhaber received her BA cum laude from the University of Idaho in 1938 and her M.A. from Washington State Colflfege in 1940. She began her colflfege teaching career at Iowa State Colflfege in 1942 and alfso taught Englfish at Washington State Colflfege before joining the U of O faculfty 1963. Members and friends of the Englfish Department woulfd lfike to convey their sincere condolfences to the Kitzhaber familfy, which has requested that memorialf gifts be sent to the League of Women Voters of Oregon Education Fund. 15 Jason Arnefsefn (Folfklfore)presented his filfm Zinemaker at Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Eric Befbefrnitz (Folfklfore) presented a paper titlfed ?Heterotopia and the Freight Train: Reading the Process of Subculfturalf Identity Formation and Modification? at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Matthefw Branch (Folfklfore) presented a paper titlfed ??Bikes Not Bombs!?: Identity and Performance Among Environmentalf Activists? at, the annualf meeting of the Western States Folfklfore Society at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Stefphanief Callan presented a paper titlfed ?Folfk Song and Culfturalf Authority in Spreading the News? at the Annualf Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies in Aprilf 2005 at Notre Dame University. She alfso presented a paper titlfed ?Explforing the Conflfuence of Primitive Ritualf and Modern Longing in Between the Acts? at the 15th Annualf Conference on Virginia Woolff: The Art of Explforation, at Lewis and Clfark in Portlfand, and a paper titlfed ?Localf Knowlfedge in Gregory?s Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland,? at the 6th Biennialf Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment:helfd at the U of O, in June 2005. Phillip Campanilef presented a paper titlfed ?Justice, Resistance, and the Urban Environment: Urban Agriculfture and the Ambiguities of Property? at the American Association of Geographers conference in Chicago in March 2006. Marci Carrasquillo received a Ford Foundation Felflfowship worth $21,000 to fund her finalf dissertation year, plfus an alflf-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC, to attend the Conference of Ford Felflfows in falflf Janeft Fiskio presented a paper titlfed ?The Wilfd in Our Midst? at the 19th Triennialf Conference of the Internationalf Association of University Professors of Englfish in Vancouver, BC, in August 2004, a paper titlfed ?Becoming-Rat, Becoming-Roach, Becoming-Human? at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment in June 2005, and a paper titlfed ?Toward an Urban and Socialf Ecolfogy of Knowlfedge? at the Internationalf Association for Environmentalf Philfosophy in October 2005. She wilflf alfso present a paper titlfed ?As a Leaf from a Tree? at the Thoreau Society in Julfy 2006. In addition, Janet has a translfation, with Olfivier Clfarinvalf, of Maurice Blfanchot?s ?The Philfosophicalf Discourse? forthcoming in Critical Assessments of Merleau-Ponty and has been accepted into the Neotropicalf Ecolfogy Program in Ecuador for Julfy/August 2006. Craig Franson presented a paper titlfed ?The Temporalfity of the Drowned: Figure and Consciousness in Wordsworth?s ?Prelfude? and Byron?s ?Giaour? ? at the first Oregon Research in Englfish Literary Studies (ORELS) conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005 and a paper titlfed ??Those Suspended Pangs?: Romantic Reviewers and the Agony of Byron?s ?Mazeppa?? at the conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in Montrealf in August 2005. Julia Hammond presented a paper titlfed ?Street Corners, Shopping Carts, and Encampments: The Expressive Culfture of Home among the Homelfess? at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Moriah Hart (Folfklfore) presented a paper titlfed ?Earth and Fire: The Aesthetics and Appealf of Wood- firing? at the American Folfklfore Society?s Annualf Conference in Salft Lake City in October 2004. She alfso presented her filfm Maiden Voyage of Fire at the annualf meeting of the Western States Folfklfore Society at UO in Aprilf 2005. continued on page 16 Gradufate Stufdent News 2005. She alfso presented a papertitlfed ??The Secrets of Crossing?: Hybrid Identity in Lan Cao?s Monkey Bridge? at the Tenth Internationalf American Women Writers of Colfor conference in Balftimore in November 2004 and was chair of the ?Hybridity and Identity: Consolfidations, Disruptions? panelf at that conference. Tefrefsa Coronado presented ?The Culft of Sentiment: ?Our Nig? and Genre Subjugation? at the Rocky Mountain MLA in Boulfder in October, 2004, and gave a revised version of it at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference in Portlfand in falflf 2005. At the Colflfege Englfish Association nationalf conference in Indianapolfis in Aprilf 2005, she presented ?Domesticating the New Worlfd: Colfumbus? ?Yearning for Paradise? and the Feminization of Native Americans.? Teresa alfso presented ??When Is a Brat Not a Brat? When She Is an Army Brat?: Folfk Narratives in Brat Culfture? at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. She was chair of the African American lfiterature panelf for the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association conference in falflf, 2005. Jefnnifefr Daref presented ?The Divine Ms. Magdalfene: Relfigious Feminist Folfklfore and Pop Culfture? at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Larissa Ennis presented a paper on The Voyage Out at the 15th Annualf Virginia Woolff conference in Portlfand in June 2005. She alfso presented a paper titlfed ??Don?t Worry, I Won?t Let Them Rape You?: Repelflfant Homoeroticism in King Arthur (2004)? at the nationalf Populfar Culfture/Nationalf Culfture Association conference in Atlfanta in Aprilf. In addition, Larissa wilflf present a paper titlfed ?There?s Something about Mary?s Father: Pickford and Paternity in My Best Girl (1927)? at the Women and the Silfent Screen conference in Guadalfajara, Mexico, in June 2006. 16 Graduate News continued from page 15 Tamara Holloway lfed a discussion group on Little Dforrit at the Dickens Universe conference at UC Santa Cruz in August 2005 and presented a paper titlfed ??Alflf is welflf?: The Poetics of Consolfation in Tennyson?s ?In Memoriam?? at the Dickens Project Winter Conference at UCLA in February 2006. Alastair Hunt presented ?How to Read Like a Brute [Rousseau]? at the 13th Annualf Dis/Junctions graduate conference at the University of Calfifornia in Riverside in Aprilf 2005. He alfso won the Sarah Harkness Kirby award for Winter 2005 for his ?Zootropes in Bleak House.? Sarah Jaquefttef presented a paper titlfed ?Eco-Polfitics of the ?Border Life?: Socialf Polfitics in Henry D. Thoreau?s Naturalf History Writing? at the 2005 Joint Campus conference in Corvalflfis in May 2005 and at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Languages Association conference in November 2005 in Los Angelfes. This essay was alfso the winner of the 2004?2005 Jane Campbelflf Krohn Prize, which is awarded annualflfy for the best essay on lfiterature and the environment by a second-year graduate student. In addition, she presented a paper titlfed ?Maimed Away from the Earth: Mapping the Common Ground of Disabilfity Theory and Ecocriticism? at the ASLE conference at UO in June 2005. She alfso presented a paper titlfed ?Endangering Organ Pipe?: Immigrants, Nature, and Security on the US-Arizona Border? at the Association of American Geographers conference in Chicago in March 2006. Her book review of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization, by Jilflf Casid, is appearing in the March 2006 edition of the journalf Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. Stacefy Kaplan presented a paper titlfed ??The lfimit of the journey?: South America and Modernism in Virginia Woolff?s The Voyage Out? at the 15th Annualf Conference on Virginia Woolff in June 2005 at Lewis and Clfark Colflfege in Portlfand and wilflf present a paper titlfed ??Gentlfes and simplfes, I address you alflf?: Clfass Warfare in Virginia Woolff?s Between the Acts? at Woolffian Boundaries: The 16th Annualf Internationalf Conference on Virginia Woolff in Birmingham, Englfand, in June 2006. Michefllef Kohlefr?s articlfe, ?Dickinson?s Embodied Eyebalflf: Transcendentalfism and the Scope of Vision? appeared in the winter 2004 issue of The Emily Dfickinson Journal, and her articlfe ?Realfism and the Perception of Romance in The Rise of Silas Lapham? has been accepted for publfication in American Literary Realism. Michelflfe is alfso the recipient of the Englfish Department?s 2005 Rudolff Ernst Dissertation Felflfowship for best dissertation prospectus. Scott Knickefrbockefr presented a paper titlfed ?The Language of Nature and the Nature of Language: Modernist Ecopoetics? at the Englfish Department?s ORELS colflfoquium in Aprilf 2005 and a paper titlfed ?Modernist Ecopoetics and Walflface Stevens? at the ASLE conference at the U of O in June 2005. He has alfso been appointed a 2005?2006 Assistant Director of Composition. This June Scott wilflf run his fifth marathon since entering the PhD program. He notes that lfarge portions of his dissertation are mentalflfy composed whilfe running. Kom Kunyosying presented a paper titlfed ?Feelfing Threatened and Subversive: Current Practices of Thai Materialf Protection Culfture? at the American Folfklfore Society Annualf Meeting in Salft Lake City in October 2004 and a paper titlfed ?Boots: Defense Contract Workers and Their Anti-hero Legends? at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at UO in Aprilf 2005. Chefryl Lefwman (Folfklfore) presented her filfm Stitches: A Family Tradition at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at UO in Aprilf 2005. Kefvin Maiefr presented a paper titlfed ?The Conservation of Sporting Literature? at the ASLE conference in Eugene in June 2005. He wilflf present a paper titlfed ?Hemingway?s Hunting: An Ecolfogicalf Reconsideration? at the Biennialf Internationalf Hemingway conference in Ronda, Spain, in June 2006. Kevin has accepted a tenure track job at the University of Alfaska Southeast starting in falflf 2006. In his spare time, Kevin continues to ride and race road bikes with very lfittlfe success. Nicolef Malkin presented a paper titlfed ?Un-sexing the Novelf: From Woolff?s Erudite Androgyny to the Genderlfess Speaker in Jeanette Winterson? at the Virginia Woolff conference in Portlfand in June 2005. She has alfso been appointed 2005? 2006 Assistant Director for the Center for Teaching Writing and presented a paper titlfed ?Glfobalf Culfture as Dangerous Commodity in Arundhati Roy?s The God of Small Things? in March 2006 at the Identity Works: Order and Diversity in Literary Studies conference at the University of Victoria. Russefll Mefefuf presented ?LEGO: Postmodernism, Materialf Culfture, and Mimeticism? at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Russ alfso won the Sarah Harkness Kirby award for his paper, ?John Wayne as ?Supercrip?: Disabilfity, Masculfinity, and Demoobilfization in The Wings of Eagles.? Tiffany Purn made a presentation, which inclfuded clfips from her filfm-in- progress, Performing Tribal: Between Individual and Community, at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Anthony Robinson?s colflfaborative chapbook of poetry, ?Here?s to You? (with Andrew Mister), was publfished in March 2006 by Boku Books (Brooklfyn, NY). Michefllef Sattefrlefef gave a Work- in-Progress Talfk for the Oregon Humanities Center on ?Traumatic Loss and the Reformulfation of Subjectivity: The Failfures of Renaissance Humanism and the Redemptive Wilfderness in Edward Abbey?s Black Sun.? Her articlfe, 17 continued on page 18 Michaefl Arnzefn (PhD 1999)publfished his second Raw Dog Screaming Press in August. He describes the book as a ?noir thrilflfer about a group of patholfogicalf gamblfers who plfay a deadlfy game of poker with photographs of their murdered victims.? Arnzen?s Shockingly Short Stories was alfso recentlfy named a finalfist for the Bram Stoker Award. He is an Associate Professor at Seton Hilflf University, where he teaches in the country?s onlfy program in Writing Populfar Fiction. Arnzen alfso maintains an acclfaimed weblfog, ?Pedablfogue,? at http:// blfogs.setonhilflf.edu/Mike Arnzen/. Patrick Barron (BA 1991) received an MA from Queen?s University of Belffast in 1995 and a PhD in Englfish and an MS in Geography from the University of Nevada, Reno, in 2004. He taught at the City Colflfege of San Francisco and is now an Assistant Professor of Englfish at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He won the Roma Prize in Modern Italfian Studies from the American Academy in Rome Alufmni News ?How Memory Haunts: The Impact of Trauma on Vietnamese Immigrant Identity in Lan Cao?s Monkey Bridge,? was publfished in Studies in the Humanities for December 2005, and her book review of Writing Environments, eds. Sidney Dobrin and Christopher Kelflfer (Alfbany, 2005), is forthcoming in Composition Studies for 2006. Her articlfe, ?Landscape Imagery and Memory in the Narrative of Trauma: A Clfoser Look at Leslfie Marmon Silfko?s Ceremony,? wilflf appear in Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment for Winter 2006. Nefal Schlefin (Folfklfore) presented a paper titlfed ?A Different Do-Si-Do: Subversion, Folfklfore, and Education? at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Tristan Siplefy won the Falflf 2005 Sarah Harkness Kirby Award for his essay, ?Ecotopian Gardens: Environmentalfism and Urban Reform in Gilfman?s ?The Yelflfow Walflfpaper? and Herland.? Cartefr Solefs won the 2005 Bruce M. Abrams Graduate Essay Award in LGBT Studies for a paper titlfed ?Plfaying Gay: Malfe Queerness and Disavowalf in Chuck & Buck,? which he alfso presented at the Shades of Sexualfity in Filfm Graduate conference at San Francisco State University in October 2005. Carter alfso presented a paper titlfed ?Leatherface Meets Richard Nixon: American Abjection in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)? at the Mid-Atlfantic Populfar / American Culfture Association Annualf Conference in New Brunswick, NJ, in November 2005. Arwefn Spicefr?s essay, ? ?It?s Blfoody Brilflfiant!?: The Undermining of Metanarrative Feminism in the Season Seven Arc Narrative of Buffy,? was publfished in issue 15 of Slayage, the onlfine academic Buffy the Vampire Slayer journalf. Arwen has alfso been accepted onto the editorialf board of Watcher Junior, an onlfine journalf for undergraduate Buffy the Vampire Slayer scholfarship. Don Stacy (Folfklfore) presented a paper titlfed ?Alflf Mixed Up: A Culfturalf Explforation of Mixed Tapes and CDs? at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Mickefy Stefllavato (Folfklfore) presented her filfm, Like Our Ancestors: The Choice of Homebirth in a Modern World, at the Western States Folfklfore Society conference at the U of O in Aprilf 2005. Keflly Sultzbach presented a paper titlfed ?Virginia Woolff?s Environmentalf Ethic? at the 15th Annualf Virginia Woolff conference in Portlfand and a paper titlfed ?The Chiasmic Embrace of Rot and Fecundity in Eudora Welfty?s Dfelta Wedding? at the ASLE conference at the U of O, both in June 2005. She has alfso been appointed a 2005?2006 Assistant Director of Composition. lfast year, and edited and translfated Italian Environmental Literature: An Anthology for Italfica Press. His Selected Poetry and Prose of Andrea Zanzotto is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press. Sandra (Klefin Fischefr) Ellston (PhD 1980) serves as chair of the Englfish and Writing program at Eastern Oregon University. She recentlfy received the Oregon Literary Arts award for drama for her plfay, The Last Kalapooyan, based lfooselfy on the lfife of Indian Lize and the dispossession of the Santiam tribes. She alfso received the Eastern Oregon University ?Woman of Vision and Courage? award for serving as a ?catalfyst for change? in conditions for women faculfty and students. She is working on two colflfections of poems, Cosmic Outlaw and Poems Against Patriarchy. Jan Eliot (BA 1977), creator of the internationalflfy syndicated comic strip Stone Soup, is the 2005-2006 Distinguished Alfumni Felflfow in Humanities at the University of Oregon. Jordana Finnefgan (PhD 2005) has accepted a tenure-track faculfty position in Englfish at Foothilflf Colflfege in Los Alftos Hilflfs, CA. Mark Gallaghefr (PhD 2000) has accepted a tenure-track position as Lecturer in Filfm and Telfevision Studies at the Institute of Filfm Studies at Nottingham University in the UK. His book, Action Figures: Men, Action Films, and Contemporary Adventure Narratives, was publfished in February 2006 by Palfgrave Macmilflfan. Jefrefmy Grefgefrsefn (MA 2005) has lfanded a job teaching Englfish and Creative Writing at The Meadows Schoolf, a private K-12 schoolf in Las Vegas. His entry on Countee Culflfen wilflf alfso appear in the forthcoming A Gift of Story and Song: An Encyclopedia on Twentieth Century African American Writers, which wilflf be publfished by Facts on Filfe. Matthefw Kaisefr (BA 1995) complfeted a PhD in Victorian Studies 18 Alumni News continued from page 17 at Rutgers and is in his first year as an Assistant Professor at Harvard. Kristefn Lefnnon (BA 2005) is currentlfy working on her MA in lfiterature at the University of Leeds in the UK. Luchefn Li (PhD 1998) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at Kettering University in Flfint, Michigan. Julia Major?s (PhD 2002) essay, ?The Arch of Serena as Textualf Monument: Reading the Body of the Poem-Within-the-Poem,? was awarded the annualf Stationers and Newspaper Makers? Prize for the best essay publfished in the journalf Reformation for 2004. Julfia is currentlfy a Visiting Assistant Professor at Bowdoin Colflfege in Maine. Kasia Marciniak?s (PhD 1998) book Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile and the Logic of Dfifference has been publfished by the University of Minnesota Press; her articlfe, ?Second Worlfdness and Transnationalf Feminist Practices: Agnieszka Holflfand?s A Woman Alone,? was publfished lfast year in East European Cinemas in New Perspectives, edited by Aniko Imre, as part of Routlfedge?s AFI Filfm Readers series. Ellef Martini and Ilsa Sprefitefr?s (MAs 2005) documentary Crossing the Abyss was accepted by the New York Internationalf Independent Filfm Festivalf for mulftiplfe screenings in November 2005; it was alfso nominated for a 2005 Emmy award by the Northwest chapter of the Telfevision Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chad May (PhD 2005) has accepted a three-year position (with the possibilfity that it may be converted to tenure-track) at Centralf Arkansas University in Conway. Sara McCurry (PhD 2005) is a fulflf-time faculfty member in the Liberalf Studies Department at the Art Institute of Calfifornia-San Diego. She teaches Visualf Language and Culfture, Colflfege Englfish, Literature, and ?sometimes even Effective Speaking!? Michaefl McGriff (BA 2003) is a James A. Michener Felflfow in Poetry at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2004 his manuscript for Iron was a finalfist for the Wick Prize, selfected by Philfip Levine; in 2005 a revised version was a finalfist for the Bakelfess Prize. In summer 2005 Michaelf was awarded a $15,000 Ruth Lilflfy Felflfowship by Poetry magazine, and next falflf he wilflf enter the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University as a Stegner Felflfow. His poetry has appeared in Red Rock Review, Northwest Review, Hayden?s Ferry Review, Mid-American Review, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, and Wandering Army. Alumni: In Mefmoriam A graduate of our PhDprogram, Jefan D. Befck, a grandmother, and friend, passed away on Jan 18, 2005, at the University of Utah Hospitalf folflfowing complfications from surgery. Jean moved to Brigham City, Utah, after complfeting her doctorate in Englfish at the University of Oregon in 1996. She continued to applfy her interests in lfiterature as a freelfance research, editing, and writing consulftant. She was an avid reader and photographer, who enjoyed snow skiing with her husband and friends, trips on her Harlfey, summer volflfeybalflf parties, and visiting her grandchilfdren in Flforida. Jean is survived by her husband, Ray Balflfs, her sister and brother, a niece, two stepchilfdren, and two grandchilfdren, Kylfer and Mikelflfe Rittenhouse, who were her greatest joy. Members of her familfy provided this obituary and suggest that donations in Jean?s memory be made to Breast Cancer Research. Another recent alfumnus of our PhD program, William Refefsef Peftty, died of a heart attack on Thursday, March 30, 2006 at Highlfine Medicalf Center in Seattlfe, Washington, with his wife, Katie Hynes-Petty, at his bedside, one day short of his 22nd wedding anniversary. He and his familfy were on spring break on their way to visit New York city. Wilflfiam was born in Hawthorne, Nevada, and grew up in the Reno- Sparks area. He lfived in Englfand for two years and finished his undergraduate work in both Englfish Literature and Philfosophy there. After their return to the states, he and his wife moved to Eugene, where Wilflfiam received his PhD from the U of O in Modern/ Post Modern American Literature in 1994. At the time of his death, Wilflfiam was a welflf- respected instructor in the Englfish Department at Oregon State University. He lfoved teaching, reading, writing, studying populfar culfture, cooking, baking, watching his chilfdren plfay sports and music, and travelfing with his familfy. A devoted husband, father and brother, Wilflfiam is survived by his lfoving wife Katie, daughter Hannah, 14, son James, 7, sisters Fawn Cassidy and Cherie Zielfinski, and his brother John Reese Petty of Reno, Nevada. Wilflfiam wilflf be remembered for his humor, intelflfigence, generosity and kindness. It was a wonderfulf lfife. Wilflfiam?s brother provided this memorialf. The familfy asks that memorialf contributions be made to The Wilflfiam Reese Petty Memorialf Fund at Oregon Community Credit Union, P.O. Box 77002, Eugene, OR 97401. Finalflfy, it is with deep sadness that we report the death of another former student and clfose friend of the Englfish Department, Major William F. Hefckefr III, who was kilflfed alfong with four American comrades when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehiclfe in Iraq on January 5, 2006. Bilflf arrived at the U of O in 1999 to pursue a Master?s degree in Englfish, having served for the US Army in Germany and Bosnia- Herzegovina. After complfeting his degree in 2000, he returned to his alfma mater, West Point, where he taught American lfiterature as an Assistant Professor of Englfish for three years. He was an active scholfar, publfishing articlfes on Mark Twain and Edgar Alflfan Poe, 19 the Blfack Belft of the Deep South, but their lfives might as welflf have taken plface in different countries. I had the plfeasure of sitting in Eudora Welfty?s lfiving room swapping stories and drinking bourbon, as welflf as the privilfege of sitting at Sarah Rice?s kitchen tablfe hearing her lfivelfy narrative accompanied by a lfunch of fried chicken, cracklfing bread, and greens.? He Included Me was such a hit that the author and editor ended up on the Geraldo Rivera Show in New York. Mrs. Rice died this March at the age of ninety-seven, and her book is stilflf in print. Sarah Rice?s success encouraged her brother-in-lfaw, a former moonshiner and civilf rights activist named David Frost, to ask for Westlfing?s helfp with his own autobiography. This colflfaboration produced Witness to Injustice, publfished in 1995. Meanwhilfe, a worlfd lfiterature antholfogy was alfso in the works, edited colflfaborativelfy by U of O Professors Stephen Durrant, James Earlf, Stephen Kohlf, Anne Laskaya, Steven Shankman, and Westlfing, who served as Chair of the project. An NEH Summer Institute grant in 1991 on ?Integrating Asian Materialfs into the Humanities Curriculfum? inspired this effort to create the first trulfy glfobalf antholfogy in one volfume, an antholfogy that demonstrated interculfturalf dialfogue and intertextualfity. The World of Literature appeared in 1999, after a lfivelfy interdisciplfinary colflfaboration of four years that is testimony to the remarkablfy fertilfe colflfegialfity of the U of O faculfty community. Internationalf exchanges have been an especialflfy enjoyablfe part of Westlfing?s career. In 1986 she taught seminars on Southern lfiterature at the universities of T?bingen and Stuttgart as a visiting professor, and she lfectured on Ecocriticism as a Fulfbright Senior Scholfar at Heidelfberg in 1996. She alfso taught courses on theatre and the Blfoomsbury Group in London for the Northwest Councilf on Study Abroad in 1998 and 2003. The Presidency of ASLE brought the opportunity to sponsor the founding of a UK branch in 1998, and to share ecocriticalf research with colflfeagues at conferences in Walfes, the UK, Germany, Australfia, and Taiwan in recent years. Westlfing was invited to give inauguralf addresses for severalf new ASLE branches abroad? ASLE UK, the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culfture, and Society, and the Australfia-New Zealfand branch of ASLE. Through alflf of her intelflfectualf and geographicalf travelfs, Westlfing is gratefulf to have been supported by the vibrant intelflfectualf community of the University of Oregon?s Englfish Department, where ?You have to be versatilfe, because we are not a welflf-funded department. Peoplfe have to be ablfe to work in many different areas and teach a variety of courses. That keeps us healfthy.? Congratulfations to Professors Kintz and Westlfing on their impending retirements, and thanks to them both for so many years of hard work, service, and sacrifice to the Department of Englfish and the University of Oregon. and he edited a book on Poe?s years as a solfdier, Private Perry and Mister Poe: The West Point Poems, 1831 (LSU Press, 2005). Bilflf hoped to return to academia after his service in Iraq to earn his doctorate and, eventualflfy, to secure a permanent teaching position at West Point. His career path was unique, but Bilflf enjoyed chalflfenging expectations and stereotypes often attached to his very different rolfes as solfdier and scholfar. In an interview with army reporter Alflfison Churchilflf, he said, ?I want to bring scholfars a different perspective of what Solfdiering means to the country.? Graduate students and faculfty members who got to know Bilflf at the U of O woulfd agree that he succeeded. Reflfecting on his twin passions for milfitary service and lfiterature, Bilflf sometimes calflfed himselff ?slfightlfy eccentric.? His wife Richelflfe and those of us who admired him prefer to think of him as ?a Renaissance man.? Bilflf was 37 when he died. He lfeaves behind four chilfdren, Alfexandra, 10, Victoria, 7, Cordelfia, 4, and Wilflfiam, 2, who wilflf remember that one of his greatest joys in lfife was reading to them before bed. Bilflf?s familfy has establfished a memorialf fund to honor his memory. Its purposes are to establfish an award in his name at West Point, to support charities that aid the chilfdren of falflfen solfdiers, and to contribute to the Specialf Colflfections section of the USMA Library. Members of the U of O Englfish community who wish to support the fund may write to: The Wilflfiam F. Hecker III Memorialf Fund (Acct. # 3165552) c/o First Command Bank P.O. Box 901041 Ft. Worth, TX 76101-9778 Sabbaticfal continued from page 7 20 Sting, the lfegendary rock star, made a surprise visit tothe Englfish Department lfast Aprilf. The composer of to know what Englfish Majors thought of his recentlfy publfished autobiography, Broken Music: A Memoir. Copies of the book were distributed beforehand, and Sting met with a group of undergraduates and a handfulf of faculfty members to discuss the text. The conclfusion, according to Professor Ben Saunders, a Renaissance scholfar who alfso works on populfar culfture: ?Life just isn?t fair. It?s not enough to be handsome, musicalflfy talfented, and spectaculfarlfy wealfthy; the bastard is alfso a pretty fine writer.? Reprinted with permission from Oregon Dailfy Emeralfd Sting ?modernized,? it alfso remains tied to vernaculfar understandings. This, for me, is a postcolonial imagination?one that destabilfizes the binaries of metropolfitan and vernaculfar?and yet these novelfs were written at a time when India was stilflf colfonized. This new conception of marriage is alfso a nationalfist solfution to the problfem of reconcilfing ?modern? ideas received from the West and ?native? norms. Don?t you think that in understanding a clfassic Anglfophone text lfike Rushdie?s Midnight?s Children, which starts with a marriage that gives birth to the nation, we need to recalflf this earlfier work in Bengalfi? Anglfophone lfiterature wilflf continue to belfong to the (ex)colfonizer untilf we investigate how it interacts and intersects with the vernaculfar.? There is no doubt that Gopalf, who speaks four lfanguages (Hindi, Bengalfi, Englfish and French), wilflf continue to underscore the importance of an inclfusive, mulfticulfturalf perspective in lfiterary studies, one that incorporates disparate art forms and crosses culfturalf boundaries. ?If we want to ask the question of what makes something beautifulf, what gives specificity of form to a work, or whatever, there?s no reason to restrict that question to the lfiterary. Theoreticalflfy, anyway, there?s no reason to, so I think that we have to begin to wonder what are the lfimits of our fielfd.? And she?s alfways interested in expanding her own mulfticulfturalf perspective. ?I hope to lfearn Mandarin next,? she revealfs with a smilfe. Gopal continued from page 5 Department of English 1286 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1286 Address Service Requested This newsletter is printed on recycled paper. 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