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Lamya Almas (PhD 2009) is Assistant Professor of English in the English/Humanities Department at Alabama State University in Montgomery. Adam Barrows (PhD 2006) published The Cosmic Time of Empire: Modern Britain and World Literature (University of California Press). His essay, “The Shortcomings of Timetables: Greenwich, Modernism, and the Limits of Modernity,” published in the journal PhD alumni Modern Fiction Studies (56: 2) has been awarded the Margaret Church Memorial Award for best essay of 2010. Terry Castle (PhD 1980) is Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford, not Professor Emerita, as described in the Winter 2010 english@minnesota. She was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle for Criticism for her book The Professor. Michael Dickel (PhD 1999) is the editor of Voices Israel, the annual anthology of English-language poetry from around the world, which publishes Volume 37 in fall 2011. Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt (PhD 2002) published The Postcolonial Citizen: Intellectual Migrant (Peter Lang Publishing) in 2010. She is associate professor at Linfield College, Portland, Oregon. Nicholas Hengen (PhD 2011) accepted a tenure-track instructor position at Portland Community College in Oregon. He published “Silver Linings?” in Inside Higher Ed in November. Elizabeth Bourque Johnson (PhD 1998) is the co-editor of the anthology, The Wind Blows, The Ice Breaks: Poems of Loss and Renewal by Minnesota Poets (Nodin Press, 2010). Mary Johnston (PhD 1984) continues to teach at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is in her 23rd year as a professor in the English Department. She was awarded a Teaching Scholar Fellowship this summer, for the project “Contemporary Indian Women Writers.” She still keeps in touch with her “wonderful mentor,” Professor Emeritus Norman Fruman. Chang-Hee Kim (PhD 2009) accepted a tenure-track position at Ulsan Nation- NEWS al Institute of Science and Engineering in South Korea. Mary E. Knatterud (PhD 1997, MA 1979) received this year’s Golden Apple award from the national American Medical Writers Association. The award, given for “consistently outstanding workshop leadership” over the past 20 years, was formally presented at the national conference on November 12, 2010, in Milwaukee, WI. Knatterud is a research associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Arizona in Tucson (telecommuting from her home in St. Paul). She did similar manuscript editing work for 21 years for the University of Minnesota’s Department of Surgery in Minneapolis. Marcela Kostihova (PhD 2004) published Shakespeare in Transition: Political Appropriations in the Postcommunist Czech Republic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). She is Assistant Professor of English at Hamline University. Anca Parvulescu (PhD 2006) published Laughter: Notes on a Passion (Short Circuit/MIT Press, 2010). She is Assistant Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. William Reichard (PhD 1997) was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award for his poetry collection Sin Eater. He edited the anthology American Tensions: Literature of Identity and the Search for english@minnesota l Social Justice (New Village Press). Kevin Riordan (PhD 2011) presented “Performing Ghost Translations” at the MLA convention in Los Angeles, January 2011. Nick Robinette (PhD 2010) accepted a tenure-track position at James Madison University in Virginia. He previously was Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin College. Sharin Schroeder (PhD 2011) accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan. She published “‘It’s Alive!’: Tolkien’s Monster on the Screen” in Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy, edited by Janice Bogstad (McFarland). She presented “‘[T]here needs no ghost come from the grave to tell us this’: The Search for Spiritual Authority in Margaret Oliphant’s Life of Edward Irving” at the British Women Writers Conference in Columbus, Ohio, March–April, 2011. Karen Steigman (PhD 2007) received the 2010 New Teacher of the Year award at Otterbein University. Steigman is assistant professor of English and faculty advisor of the student humanities journal, Aegis. In Memoriam: Reuben Chirambo (PhD 2005) died of cancer October 6, 2011. He was 48. He served as a senior lecturer in the Department of English Language & Literature in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town. “He is remembered not only for his academic zeal,” wrote University of Cape Town Vice Chancellor Max Price, “but also for his enormous integrity, his keen sense of humour and his unfailing kindness and respect in his dealings with colleagues and students.” Chirambo’s manuscript on Malawian literature had just been accepted for publication. “His dissertation was a wonderful analysis of how Malawian dictator Hastings Banda Send us your news! sutt0063@umn.edu
l //english.cla.umn.edu/ used music and other forms of popular culture to sustain his political control over the country,” noted Professor Charles Sugnet, who advised Chirambo with Professor Timothy Brennan. “When I visited him and sat in on his class at the University of Cape Town in 2009, it was clear that he had found an ideal job and was enjoying both his teaching and his research.” Frederick C. Mish (PhD 1973) died September 27, 2010. He was the former editor-in-chief of Merriam-Webster, and edited three successive editions of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary: the 9th (1983), the 10th (1993) and the 11th (2003). As the New York Times Magazine noted, “Mish is fondly remembered in M-W’s Springfield, Mass., offices for both his erudition and humility.” His wife, Judith Solberg Mish, received her BA and MA in English at the University of Minnesota. and Tobacco in the Sensation Decade” at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference in Albuquerque, March 2011. L. Lelaine Bonine received a fellowship from the Japanese government to present “Master of (Global) Suspense: Digital Hitchcock and Cinephilia Gone Global,” at the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminar, Nanzan University, Japan, summer 2011. She presented “For the Love of Film: In Search of the Referent on the Cinephilic Pilgrimage” at the Film & History Conference in Milwaukee, November 2010. Eric Brownell received the Samuel Holt Monk Memorial Prize for Published Scholarship, for “Our Lady of the Telegraph: Mina as Medieval Cyborg in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Journal of Dracula Studies (December 2010). He also was awarded Graduate Research Partnership Program PhD student NEWS Sunyoung Ahn presented “Human Clones in Everyday Life: The Uncanny Familiarity of the Alternate World in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go (2005)” at the Midwest Modern Language Association conference in Chicago, November 2010. Emily Anderson received the Garner- McNaron-Sprengnether Fellowship for summer research, summer 2011, for her project “Marrying Monsters, Becoming Bridezillas: The Reimagining of the Gothic in Twenty-first Century Narratives of Marriage.” Patricia Baehler received the Thomas F. Wallace Fellowship for 2010–11, for her dissertation “‘Convey’d to Your Hand’: The Delivery and Circulation of Letters in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 1684-1815.” Jennifer Baltzer-Lovato presented “Walls of Smoke: Gender, Exchange, (GRPP) support, summer 2011, for his project “The Winking Portrait: Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Ghost and Mrs. Muir as Postwar Pastiche.” W. H. Burdine presented “Material Apocalypse: American Utopianism Through Anti-Materialism” at the Society for Utopian Studies conference in Milwaukee, October 2010. He presented “Lawrence, Marx, and the Narrative Structure of Apocalypse” at “The End?” Graduate Student Conference at Indiana University, March 1010. Erik Carlson was awarded a Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2011–12, for his dissertation project “The Old English Language of Fear.” He will publish “The Gothic Vocabulary of Fear” in the Journal of English and Germanic Philology. He presented “Translating Fear in the Prose Lives of St. Guthlac” at the Medieval Academy of America meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 2011. Lindsay Craig presented “Just Friends and Friendly Wars: Malory’s Morte D’Arthur as Foundation of Humanitarian Law” at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2011. Renee DeLong accepted a tenure-track position at Minneapolis Community and Technical College. She presented “Re-viewing Azalea: A Magazine for Third World Lesbians 1977-1983” at the “In Amerika They Call us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 1970s” Conference at CUNY, October 2010. Elissa Hansen was awarded a Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship 2011–12, for her dissertation project “Signs of the Time: Temporality in Fourteenth-Century English Contemplative Writing.” She will publish “Making a Place: Imitatio Mariae in Julian of Norwich’s Self-Construction, in Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women, edited by Bradley Herzog and Margaret Corter-Lynch (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Hyeryung Hwang presented “‘I would prefer not to’: Embodied Subjectivity as the Site of Resistance” at the Marxist Literary Group: Institute on Culture and Society (MLG-ICS) in Chicago, June 2011. Jennifer Kang presented “The Rhetorics of Enlightenment: Horkheimer/ Adorno’s Theory of Enlightenment and Use of Personification” at the English Graduate Conference, University of St. Thomas, May 2011. William Kanyusik received Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) support, summer 2011, for his project “The Problem of Recognition: The Disabled Male Veteran and Masculinity as Spectacle.” Eun Joo Kim received the Audrey Christensen Library Acquisition Prize. continued page 28
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