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October 2009

Congratulations to Professor Jason Jones for being a Excellence in Teaching Award semi-finalist, and to Professor Steve Cohen for being on the honor roll.  Congratulations to Jason again on recent coverage of ProfHacker.com in the Chronicle

Congratulations to Professor Mary Collins on coverage of America Idle at Health.com, and, if you missed Mary yesterday at Central Authors, check out her talk at Borders on the 22^nd at 7 PM

Congratulations to Professor Seunghun Lee for his recently published article “Tone Neutralization due to Consonants in Mulao” Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 2:73-84 2009

He also gave two talks:

“Korean Affricates and Consonant-Tone Interaction”, The 6th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 6), Nagoya, Japan (with Jeremy Perkins)

“Consonant-tone interaction in Dagara: how depressors allow high tone,” a colloquium talk at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

And, please remember, that Seunghun's English Faculty Presentation Series talk is entitled "Opaque and transparent depressor consonants in Dagara (a Gur language)." Willard 225 on Thursday, Oct. 22 at 3:20.

Another reminder: 16 October English Undergraduate Research Conference 12-4 pm

August/September 2009

Welcome to the new Assistant Chair (Prof. Matt Ciscel) and all the new emergency position full-timers (Michael Krozel, Karen Morrison, Clementina Verge).  Plus a hearty welcome back to everyone else as well!

Prof. Rob Dowling recently published A Critical Companion to Eugene O’Neill (Facts on File, 2009)

A book that Prof. Seunghun Lee co-translated (from English to Korean), Doing OT (Optimality Theory) was published by Hankook Munhwasa (a Korean publisher) on July 30. Over the summer, Seunghun also published a paper: "The effect of glottal stops on tone in Burmese" in the Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society Vol 43 Nr. 1. pp. 199-213 and gave three talks: a. "The politeness markers '-ta' and '-yo' in evidential strategies" presented at the 24th Biennial Conference of the Association for Korean Studies in Europe. I also co-organized the panel with Lucien Brown at School of Oriental and Asian Studies in London. b. "The effect of depressor consonants on Digo phrasal tonology" presented at the Center for General Linguistics Phonology-Syntax Circle. c. "Downstep and consonant-tone interaction in Dagara" presented at the 6th World Congress of African Linguistics held in Cologne, Germany.

Prof. Jaclyn Geller has an essay appearing in the new Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson entitled “Samuel Johnson and Private Life.”

Forthcoming is Prof. Heather Urbanski’s Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric, an edited collection for McFarland.

Prof. Brian Folker had an article accepted called "The Photograph and the Parenthesis: Walt Whitman, Walter Benjamin, and the Management of Time in Song of Myself."  It's going to appear in the Arizona Quarterly.  The essay began as a FPS session and as a presentation at CCSU's Image conference in 2007, so some people should recall early versions of it.

Prof. Laurence Petit and significant other Pascal B. have been selected by the French publishing house Flammarion to translate A.S. Byatt's latest novel, The Children's Book. It's currently long-listed for this year's Booker Prize.

Congratulations to Prof. Matt Ciscel for being awarded a Fulbright to Romania in Spring 2010 (get those fangs sharpened, Matt!).

Prof. Vivian Martin was elected to lead the Small Programs Interest Group (SPIG) at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) convention in Boston last week. SPIG is one of more than 25 divisions, interests groups, and commissions within AEJMC, the major organization for journalism and mass communication education. SPIG, which has approximately 100 members from  colleges and universities throughout the country, focuses on issues of special interest to educators in private and public college and universities where teaching is the primary mission.

Adjunct Prof. Anna Dolan is back in CT and has won a large grant to do theater education in Micronesia.

Prof. Rob Dowling is thinking about organizing a Mark Twain event in the next year or so.  Contact him if you have ideas or would like to participate in organizing.

The two English majors who are winners of book scholarships for Fall 2009 are Tammy Subia and David Niemitz.

Friday, October 16^th, 12-4: The English Undergraduate Research Conference!  Please contact Prof. Barrington if you are or know someone who might be interested in participating.