AEOLIAN HARPINGS
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April 29, 2011 Department of English Volume XLIV Number 5
Baylor University
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Dr. Joshua King had a story written up in the Lariat about his class ENG 3370: Poetry and Religion in 19th C. Britain. The story, “Classroom Connects Religion, Poetry,” appeared in the April 1, 2011 Lariat. The newspaper contacted Dr. King to ask about the class after hearing about it from students and seeing a flier advertising it for the fall 2011 semester. In addition to interviewing Dr. King about what he's done with the class in the past, the Lariat interviewed students who have taken the course.
Dr. Joshua King was invited to deliver a lecture, “Force Field: The King James in 19th C. Poetry,” at a special event for Baylor’s King James Conference. The event was entitled “The King James Bible in Poetry and Song,” and included Dr. King’s lecture and a special concert organized by Carlos Colon. The concert and lecture took place on April 8, 4:00pm in the Armstrong Browning Library.
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Dr. William V. Davis’s prose poems “A True Story” and “A Postcard from San Gimignano” have been published in the Chiron Review, Issue # 93 (Winter, 2010), 47.
Dr. William V. Davis’s essay, “Robert Bly,” on Bly’s life and career, has been published in the Critical Survey of Poetry, 4th edition, edited by Rosemary M. Canfield Reisman (Salem Press, 2011), 188-197.
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Dr. Michael-John DePalma co-facilitated a half-day workshop entitled “Negotiating Archival Spaces: Exploring Existing Archives and Building New Ones” on April 5, 2011 at the 62nd Annual Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication in Atlanta, GA. His talk on problem-solving in archival research was entitled “Translating the Archive at Andover Theological Seminary.”
Dr. Michael-John DePalma’s article entitled “Re-envisioning Religious Discourses as Rhetorical Resources in Composition Teaching: A Pragmatic Response to the Challenge of Belief” has been accepted for publication in College Composition and Communication. It’s scheduled for print in the December issue.
Dr. Michael-John DePalma reviewed Rise Axelrod and Charles Cooper’s Ninth Edition of The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing.
Dr. Michael-John DePalma gave a presentation at the Eastern Communication Association’s 102nd convention in Arlington, Virginia on April 15, 2011. The title of his talk was “Mining the Prospects of Sacred Display: An Exploration of Epideictic Rhetoric in the Nineteenth Century Pulpit.”
Dr. Michael-John DePalma has been awarded a University Teaching Development Grant from the Academy for Teaching and Learning at Baylor to support his work at the Rhetoric Society of America’s 2011 Summer Institute.
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Dr. Emily Setina has been selected to participate in “The Art of T.S. Eliot's Poetry,” a summer institute to be held at the National Humanities Center. She will present a paper titled “Impossible Reading: John Ashbery’s Gertrude Stein” at this year's American Literature Association conference in Boston in May.
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The Routledge Encyclopedia and Mark Twain, edited by J. R. LeMaster and James D. Wilson, and The Routledge Encyclopedia of Walt Whitman, edited by J. R. LeMaster and Donald D. Kummings, were bothpublished in March of this year.
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Cameron Moore gave a paper entitled “‘Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water, Right Enough:’ The Rural Landscape in Bernard MacLaverty’s Cal” at the American Center for Irish Studies Southern Regional Conference in Savannah, Georgia, on February 18.
Cameron Moore presented his paper “’Man found alive with two legs:’ Chesterton’s Defamiliarizing Method” at the C.S. Lewis and Inklings Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on April 1.
CONFERENCES—CALLS FOR PAPERS
Information has been received from the Universidad de Granada, in Granada, Spain, concerning their Ninth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities from June 8-11, 2011. In addition to various speakers, the conference will include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. Interested participants can submit papers for publication in The International Journal of the Humanities. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available, which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal. The deadline for the next round of papers, which includes a title and short abstract, is May 5, 2011. Future deadline will be announced on the conference website. For more information, please visit their website at or see the flier on file in CS 106.
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Information has been received from the University of Leeds concerning their International Medieval Congress July 9-12, 2012. The IMC seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of all aspects of Medieval Studies. Papers and sessions on any topic related to the European Middle Ages are welcome. Proposals should be submitted online at online proposals form will be available from May 1, 2011. Paper proposals must be submitted by August 31, 2011; session proposals must be submitted by September 30, 2011. For more information, please visit their website at or see the flier on file in CS 106.
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Echoes of the Aeolian Harp
Dr. Linda Walker-Kennedy, Associate Professor of English, will be facilitating a discussion of the book, A Lesson Before Dying by Earnest Gaines, on Friday, April 25, 2003, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m., at the Reynolds Conference Suite – Alexander Hall. Please come and share your thoughts on this powerful book and the important themes it addresses.
From Aeolian Harpings 38:16 (16 April 2003).