Aeolian harpings

AEOLIAN HARPINGS

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February 12, 2010 Department of English Volume XLIII, Number 8

Baylor University

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The Editor of Christianity and Literature has informed Dr. Maurice Hunt that his article titled "Christian Numerology in Shakespeare's The Tragedy of King Richard the Second" has been accepted for publication in a 2010 issue of the journal.

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Dr. William V. Davis’s book, Landscape and Journey, winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize, has been published.

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Dr. William V. Davis’s poems, “Mind Walk” and “Untitled,” have been published in RiverSedge, XXII:2 (Fall, 2009), 12, 76.

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Dr. William V. Davis’s poem, “Home Visit,” has been published in Barrow Street (Winter, 2009), p. 23.

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Dr. Greg Garrett published his second book of memoir, No Idea (David C. Cook) in September. The Voice of the Psalms (Thomas Nelson), a contemporary-language translation to which Dr. Garrett contributed five psalms, was published in November. The Revised Edition of Holy Superheroes! Exploring the Sacred in Comics, Graphic Novels, and Film, first published in 2008, has gone into a second printing from Westminster John Knox; a Spanish translation of the book, La Fe de Superheroes, has just been published in Spain by Sal Terrae. We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel according to U2, published in July, has also gone into a second printing. Dr. Garrett signed a contract with Westminster John Knox to write a book on post 9-11 politics, religion, and culture which will appear in 2012. Dr. Garrett also continued to write essays on religion, culture, and politics for his Christian Century blog The Other Jesus, still featured at Ethics Daily, and now a featured blog for Science and Religion Today (http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/), and had an article, “The Gospel according to U2,” and an excerpt from his book We Get to Carry Each Other published in the British magazine Reform.
On Sunday, September 6, Dr. Garrett preached at two services of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas. On September 18, Dr. Garrett spoke on writing at Cody High School, Cody, Wyoming, signed books at The Thistle Bookstore in Cody, and gave the 2009 Educational Trust Lecture, entitled “Good and Evil in Contemporary Film” at the Cody Public Library. On September 20, Dr. Garrett preached at two services at Christ Episcopal Church, Cody, and spoke on theology and film.
On October 12, Dr. Garrett discussed his book Stories from the Edge with the “Death and Dying” class at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin. On October 13, Dr. Garrett participated in an interview and signing of his book We Get to Carry Each Other: The Gospel according to U2 with local NPR news anchor Jennifer Staton at BookPeople in Austin. On October 16 and 17, he presented two workshops, “Finding God in Culture,” at the annual meeting of the Texas Episcopal Church Women at Camp Allen, Texas. October 22-24, Dr. Garrett was a panelist for the writer’s conference of the Austin Film Festival, moderating five panels on topics including writing comedy, writing screenplay treatments, TV development, and the film business. On October 30, Dr. Garrett read from and discussed his fiction for the UT Forum at the University of Texas at Austin.
On November 1, 8, and 15, Dr. Garrett taught a course based on his book We Get to Carry Each Other at St. David’s Episcopal Church, Austin. On November 6, Dr. Garrett presented a day-long workshop, “Finding God in the Culture,” and preached at Wesley Seminary in Washington, D.C. On November 29, Dr. Garrett preached at three morning services at St. David’s, Austin, and began a four-week Advent evening class on his book We Get to Carry Each Other at The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Austin. December 22-29, Dr. Garrett had a writing residency at Ghost Ranch, in Abiquiu, New Mexico, where he completed The Other Jesus, a book on 21st Century Christianity based on his blog. The book is slated for 2011 publication by Westminster John Knox.
Last fall Dr. Garrett was interviewed by or his work reviewed by Commonweal, Books & Culture, Youth Worker Journal, The Record (Perth, Australia), Living Church, Homiletic, Dallas Morning News (twice), Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Houston Chronicle, Tampa Tribune, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Cody (WY) Enterprise, Waco Tribune-Herald, Interfaith Voices (NPR/Sirius), “Q,” the national arts and culture show of the Canadian Broadcast Centre (CBC), WORD (Pittsburgh), WHKW (Cleveland, OH), WTKF (Newport, NC), WCBQ (Oxford, NC), KFUO (St. Louis, MO), WDJC (Birmingham, AL), KDAZ (Albuquerque, N; twice), WWJC (Duluth, MN), KFIA (Sacramento, CA), KWBU (Waco), WPOS (Toledo, OH), Science and Religion Today (http://www.scienceandreligiontoday.com/), Hearts and Minds (http://www.heartsandmindsbooks.com/), Spirituality and Practice (www.spiritualityandpractice.com), Wrecked (arts.wrecked.org), Catholic Chronicle (catholicchronicle.org).

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Margy Thomas presented a paper entitled, "Rot, Slush, and Flapdoodle: Rhetorical Conflict and Human Uncertainty in the Work of Mark Twain" at the Southwest CCL in Houston, Texas, in October.

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Margy Thomas presented a paper entitled, "Melville and the Missionaries: Reconciling Christian and Heathen in Omoo" at the South Atlantic MLA in Atlanta, Georgia, in November.

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Adrienne Akins had an article, “‘We weren’t laughing at them . . . We’re grieving with you’: Empathy and Comic Vision in Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter,” accepted for publication in The Southern Literary Journal.

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Jeffrey Bilbro's essay “Phantastical Regress: The Return of Desire and Deed in Phantastes and Pilgrim's Regress” has been accepted for publication in Mythlore.

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Jeffrey Bilbro's essay "'A real practical, in the American manner': Turgenev's Emersonian Reformer" has been accepted for publication in The Concord Saunterer.

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Christina Iluzada's article "'Whelm'd In Deeper Gulphs': Bipolar Disorder and the Poetry of William Cowper" was published in the December 2009 edition of Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.

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Christina Iluzada presented a paper entitled "The News and the Nature of Truth: A Structuralist Reading of the Sagebrush Literary Hoaxes" at the Southwest Conference of Christianity and Literature in October 2009.
CONFERENCES—CALLS FOR PAPERS
Information has been received from the DFW Writer’s Workshop concerning their writer’s conference. The conference begins on April 10 at 8:30 a.m. and lasts through April 11 at 6:00 p.m., and will be held in the Grapevine Convention Center, 1209 South Main Street. For more information, please visit their website at http://dfwwritersconference2010.eventbrite.com, or see the announcement on file in CS 106.
GRADUATE STUDIES
Information has been received from the University of California, Santa Barbara, concerning their English Department Ph.D. program. It is a small, selective program, enrolling approximately eight doctoral candidates per year. The program averages 20 seminars per year, which allows UC-Santa Barbara to offer a wide array of graduate courses. To register for the program, visit www.english.ucsb.edu/grad/index.asp. For more information, please call 805-564-2304, email Ken Hiltner, Director of Graduate Studies, at [e-mail], or see the flier on file in CS 106.

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Information has been received from Saint Louis University concerning their Masters of Arts in English and a Máster en Estudios Culturales y Literarios Anglo-norteamericanos from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Madrid, Spain. This unique program is the only double Master’s degree in English from accredited Spanish and U.S. Institutions. The program consists of 30 credit hours according to the American system. Courses are taught by doctoral faculty from the Madrid and Missouri campuses of Saint Louis University, as well as the Unversidad Autónoma de Madrid. For more information, please visit their website at http://spain.slu.edu, or see the flier on file in CS 106.
Echoes of the Aeolian Harp
There will not be an Advisory Committee meeting this week.

-- From Aeolian Harpings 21:99 (14 October 1981).