Professor Rivka Swenson is giving a talk for the Eighteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Group at the City University of New York on Friday, November 20. The talk title is "'The Eye, in this Respect, is a Female': Subjects, Objects, and the Eighteenth-Century Gaze."
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The VCU Department of English is pleased to host a lecture by Professor Rivka Swensen as a part on its ongoing "First Friday" lecture series. The lecture will take place this Friday, November 6 at 3pm in Hibbs 308. Topic: "Vulnerable Subjects: Theorizing the Eighteenth-Century Gaze."
All First Friday events are free and open to the public.
In case you missed it, Gregory Donovan's poem, "Is There a Dead Mule In It," was recently published in storySouth. You can access it here:
http://www.storysouth.com/2009/03/is-there-a-dead-mule-in-it.html
In a recent article titled "Thursday Things We Like for 6.25: Trailer Bride, Dead Mules, and Juke Joints as Fine Art," the Yellowhammer Press website recommended Donovan's poem, alongside recommendations for the photographer Birney Imes and the altcountry band Trailer Brides:
http://www.yellowhammerpress.com/2009/06/24/thursday-things-we-like-for-6-25-trailer-bride-dead-mules-and-juke-joints-as-fine-art
MFA Alum Diana Woodcock has her first two chapbooks coming out shortly. Mandala will be published by Foothills Publishing as the 14th in their "Poets on Peace" series; and Travels of a Gwai Lo will be published by Toadlily Press. In 2008 her poem, "Survivor," was selected by Mark Strand for Best New Poets 2008.
Laura Browder's history/photography book based on her highly acclaimed show, “When Janey Comes Marching Home,” will be published by University of North Carolina Press in the Spring 2010. The show attracted international attention from newspapers in Germany and Austria; was previewed in Virginia Quarterly Review and reviewed very favorably in Art Papers. The exhibit's venues included Hollins University, the Women’s Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery and the National Museum of the Marine Corps.
Patty Paine and Samia Touati of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, and Jeff Lodge of VCU Richmond, recently signed a contract with Garnet Publishing/Ithaca Press to publish Bint Ar-rimal: An Anthology of Contemporary Arabian Gulf Poetry, of which they are the editors. The anthology will feature the work of 30-40 poets from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and of translators, including those most well-regarded in the field, from the world over. Publication is scheduled for spring/summer 2011.
Tom De Haven completed work on Our Hero, a book-length essay about Superman for Yale University Press's Icons of America Series (to be published Feb. 1, 2010) and also finished co-editing (with former MFA students Andrew Blossom and Brian Castleberry) Richmond Noir, to be published on March 1 2010 by Akashic Press. (De Haven's story, "Playing with DaBlonde" appears in the book.)
Recent MA graduates Leslie Cohngee and Carolyn White were hired as collateral faculty at VCU University College.
Professor Josh Eckhardt's book, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry, will be published next month by Oxford University Press.
