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Chris Nagle (PhD 2001), Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University, has published Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era with Palgrave Macmillan Press. Publisher's description: "Drawing together theoretically informed literary history and the cultural history of sexuality, friendship, and affective relations, this is the first study to trace fully the influence of this notorious yet often undervalued cultural tradition on British Romanticism, a movement thatnagle both draws on and resists Sensibility’s excessive embodiments of non-normative pleasure. Offering a broad consideration of literary genres while balancing the contributions of both canonical and non-canonical male and female writers, this bold new study insists on the need to revise the traditional boundaries of literary periods and establishes unexpected influences on both Romantic and early Victorian culture and their shared pleasures of attachment."
In the November 2007 issue of Oscholars (www.oscholars.com) Bruce Bashford published an article, "'Thinking in Stories': Oscar Wildes 'The Sphinx Without a Secret,'" and a review of two operas by Alexander von Zemlinsky, A Florentine Tragedy and The Dwarf (both based on Wilde works and performed summer 2007 at Bard College) in the November 2007 issue of Oscholars (www.oscholars.com). Oscholars has also posted a bibliograhy of Professor Bashford's scholarship on Wilde. His review of The Importance of Being Earnest Revisited by Christopher Nassaar appeared in English Literature in Transition: 1880-1920, 50:3 (2007) 345-49.  

Emily Churilla had her second peer-reviewed article, “Coming Home:  Communities beyond Borders in Caryl Phillips’ The Atlantic Sound and Leila Aboulela’s Minaret,” accepted for publication in the 2008 special “Ghana” edition of Obsidian III, where she also has a forthcoming book review on Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, edited by Jean and John L Comaroff.  In June she had the opportunity to participate in a weeklong seminar hosted by the Caribbean Literary Studies & Small Axe Journal at the University of Miami, titled the “Archaeologies of Black Memory,” under full fellowship; in September she presented “Accounting the Untranslatable: Pain and the Same in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of Hills” at The Southern Comparative Literature Association Thirty-Third Annual Conference, Topographies of Otherness.

Paul Devlin gave a paper at the MLA titled "You Can Have Watergate, Just Gimme Some Bucks and I'll Be Straight: James Brown's Richard Nixon." His review of Arnold Rampersad's "Ralph Ellison" was accepted by the Antioch Review and will appear in Summer 2008.

Patricia A. Dunn presented a paper, “Are Methods Courses Conflicts of Interest? Educating or Enabling Pre-Service Teachers”  at the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Conference, as part of a panel entitled, “Entangling Alliances: Where Should English Teacher Educators’ Loyalties Lie?" November 17, 2007, in New York, New York.

E. Ann Kaplan gave a presentation on the film The Best Years of Our Lives for the "Returning Veterans" broadcast on the MLA's radio program "What's the Word?" in November 2007.

Kenneth Lindblom published a book chapter (co-authored with former doctoral students at Illinois State University, Will Banks and Rise Quay):  “Mid-Nineteenth-Century Writing Instruction at Illinois State Normal University: Credentials, Correctness and the Rise of a Teaching Class” in Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition, Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon, Eds (Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) 94-114; an essay “Treating State Exams as Authentic Assessments,” English Leadership Quarterly 30.2 (2007): 10-11; a "Review Essay of James Fredel’s Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes"  JAC: Journal of Advanced Composition 27.1-2 (2007): 412-419. He presented “It’s Their Students, Stupid!” at the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention in November in New York.
  
Matt Lorenz presented "Blake's Ethical Aesthetic:  Wonder and the Other in Blake's Annotations to Reynolds," in September 2007 at the Southern Comparative Literature Association's conference in Raleigh, NC.  The essay received honorable mention for the Rutledge Prize, the S.C.L.A.'s award for the best graduate student essay presented at the conference.  As part of this recognition, the essay is presently being considered for publication in the S.C.L.A.'s journal, The Comparatist.

Peter Manning organized and chaired the MLA session on "Travel, Nationalism, and Meidcal Diagnosis" for the Division on English Romantic Period of the MLA at the 2007 convention Chicago.

Celia Marshik presented "Sartorial Scandal: Costume, Identity, and the Dreadnought Hoax" at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Long Beach, CA, November 2007.

Derek McGrath presented "'Is the World, Then, So Narrow?':  The Simultaneous Need for Home and Travel in Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter" at the 2007 MLA convention in Chicago.

Hope Terris, an MFA student at Stony Brook Southhampton, had a piece of her novel, Beat, published in the first issue of the Southampton Review and received a full scholarship to the Southampton Writers Conference for summer 2007.