Past Events
Fall 2012
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Faculty News
Dr. Greg Barnhisel received the Eugene P. Beard award, the top award for Ethics at Duquesne University, and was featured in the Awards and Honors section of Dateline Pittsburgh.
Dr. Barnhisel has also been awarded a one-year NEH Fellowship for 2013.
Craig Bernier is the 2012 winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award for his collection of short stories entitled Your Life Idyllic. Read more about it here.
Dr. Kathy Glass took over as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the department, beginning in Fall 2012.
Dr. Linda Kinnahan was named the Hillman Endowed Professor at Duquesne University in July 2011. This is a five-year term that will help support her research, particularly, on her current book project.
John Lane was granted tenure in Fall 2011.
Dr. Bernard Beranek and Dr. Frederick Newberry retired in Spring 2012. (We regret to add that Bernard Beranek passed away on November 23, 2012. His obituary is available here.)
Dr. Beth Buhot Runquist and Dr. Bettina Jones joined the department as one-year Visiting Assistant Professors for the 2012-2013 academic year.
*NEW* Concentration in Graduate Studies
The English Department has created a new concentration for graduate students in conjunction with the Journalsm and Multimedia Department:
M.A. in English with a Concentration in Writing, Media Arts and Technology
Graduate Student News
Maureen Gallagher (Ph.D. student) received a 2011-2012 Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Melissa Wehler (Ph.D. student) received the 2011 Eric Molin Graduate Student Essay Prize from the East Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
(anti)Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Conference
The English Graduate Organization will host this conference March 15-16, 2013. Proposals of academic papers from the humanities, arts, and sciences, as well as submissions of creative work from graduate and undergraduate students, are now being accepted. The deadline for all submissions is January 5, 2013.
Please visit the English Graduate Organization website for more information.
Meet some of our Current Students!
Recent Faculty and Student Publications
Dr. Danielle St. Hilaire
Satan's Poetry: Fallenness and Poetic Tradition in Paradise Lost.
Duquesne University Press, 2012.
Alumni Newsletter
Much Ado
The department is proud to announce the publication of our Alumni newsletter, "Much Ado". First published in Spring 2008, the newsletter was developed as a way for our graduates to stay up-to-date with what is happening in the department, as well as with each other. The department hopes to publish a new issue each semester.
We want to hear from you! If you have had any works published, presented papers, received an award or new position, or participated in anything else that you think may be of interest to our Alumni, please let us know.
Also, let us know if you would like to be included on the newsletter email and/or mailing list.
Contact: Nora McBurney, at (412)396-6420 or mcburne655@duq.edu
Previous newsletters:
Vol. 1, Issue 1- Spring 2008
Vol. 1, Issue 2- Fall 2008
Vol. 2, Issue 1- Spring 2009
Vol. 2, Issue 2- Spring 2010
Vol. 3, Issue 1- Summer 2010
Vol. 3, Issue 2- Fall 2010
Vol. 4, Issue 1- Spring 2011
Vol. 5, Issue 1- Fall 2011/Spring 2012
Events
Coffee House Reading Series
The Coffee House Reading Series is a monthly reading of creative writing at the Barnes & Noble Café in the Power Center on Forbes Avenue. Organized and sponsored by Duquesne University's English Department, the series aims to develop the creative writing and arts community on Duquesne's campus by inviting established writers to present their work along side the work of students and other emerging writers. You can view the current semester's schedule of readings below. For more information, contact friedj@duq.edu.
ALL READINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BARNES & NOBLE CAFÉ, POWER CENTER, at 7:00 pm
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Brian Clements, poetry
Dean Rader, poetry
Jonathan Silverman, creative nonfiction
Monday, November 5, 2012
Lawrence Wray, poetry
Jane McCafferty, fiction
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Mike Begnal, poetry
Peter Trachtenberg, creative nonfiction
Colloquium - 3:00 pm, 644 College Hall
Friday, September 7, 2012
Dr. Stuart Kurland will present "Shakespeare and Politics"
Friday, October 5, 2012
Dr. Robin Sowards will present "Counting and Collectivity in Wordsworth's 'We Are Seven'"
Friday, November 9, 2012
Dr. Tom Kinnahan will present "Elaborate Contradictions: Progress and Pastoralism in William Dean Howells' 'A Sennight of the Centennial'"
Bryon Williams will present "Praxis, Gnosis, Poiesis: Inhabitation in H.D. Thoreau and Robinson Jeffers"
Friday, December 7, 2012
**O'Donell Undergraduate Research Award Recipients**
Melissa Unger
Justin Fanzo
Theater
Check out the Red Masquers blog!
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Red Masquers!
All performances are at 8:00 pm in the Peter Mills Theater, Rockwell Hall, unless otherwise specified.
Septeber 27, 28 & 29
Variety Show Benefit- "The History of the Red Masquers"
Join emcees, Comedy and Tragedy, for the evening as they present a number of skits and musical performances
that bring together Masquers of yesterday and today.
The musical numbers are all pulled from shows previously performed by the Red Masquers.
The September 29 performance is an Alumni event to benefit the Keenan/Lane Scholarship,
and will be followed by a special reception.
October 11-13 and 18-20
Be Our Guest- World Premiere!
by Pittsburgh playwright F.J. Hartland
December 5-8
Masquer One Acts for Charity
Events for English and Theater Majors/Prospective Majors
Wednesday, October 3
4:00-5:30 pm, 553 College Hall
Join the English Department for free pizza and drinks as you learn about exciting opportunities, career options and events for current
and potential English and Theater Majors!
Department faculty as well as representatives from The Duquesne Duke, Lexicon, Yearbook, and the Red Masquers will be present to answer
your questions and give you information about their groups.
Friday, November 30
Applying for Graduate School in English
3:00 pm, 643 College Hall
Curious about graduate school in English? Attend this workshop and Q&A!
Open to anyone interested in pursuing an M.A., M.F.A. or Ph.D. in English.
The workshop will include tips for finding the right graduate program for you, preparing writing samples, taking the GRE, writing personal statements, and more!
Friday, December 7
Undergraduate English Majors Symposium
3:00 pm, 644 College Hall
Featuring winners of the 2011-2012 O'Donnell Undergraduate Research Award:
Melissa Unger, presenting "Transformation of the Self in the Captivity Narrative"
and
Justin Fanzo, presenting "Exploring Bakhtin's Carnival in H.P. Lovecraft's The Music of Erich Zann"
Information about the O'Donnell Undergraduate Research Award and applications for next summer will be available. Refreshments will also be served.
:Lexicon Release Party
Thursday, December 6
5:00 p.m., Souper Bowl
For more information, please visit the Lexicon page.
Spring 2012
Coffee House Reading Series
The Coffee House Reading Series is a monthly reading of creative writing at the Barnes & Noble Café in the Power Center on Forbes Avenue. Organized and sponsored by Duquesne University's English Department, the series aims to develop the creative writing and arts community on Duquesne's campus by inviting established writers to present their work along side the work of students and other emerging writers. You can view the current semester's schedule of readings below. For more information, contact friedj@duq.edu.
ALL READINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BARNES & NOBLE CAFÉ,POWER CENTER at 7:00 pm
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Laura Callanan, creative nonfiction
Ashley Kunsa, fiction
Monday, March 12, 2012
Ashley Cowger, fiction
Carl Marcum, poetry
Colloquium - 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Thursday, February 17, 2012
Ashley Kunsa will present ‘Betwixt and Between': Liminality, the American Soldier in Vietnam, and Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato"
Shannon Richter will present "A Tidy End to a Messy Villain: Controlling and Containing the "Self" in Lady Audley's Secret"
Wednesday, March 16, 2012
Emily Rutter will present "MOST YOUNG KINGS/ GET THEIR HEADS CUT OFF": Kevin Young's To Repel Ghosts: The Remix and the Legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Wednesday, April 20, 2012
Dr. Danielle St. Hilaire
Visiting Speakers
Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 4:30 pm, Papper Lecture Hall,
Bayer Learning Center
Desmond Egan, poetry reading
Monday, March 26, 2012, 7:00 pm, Duquesne University Power Center Ballroom
Stewart O'Nan reading his fiction click here for more information
Fall 2011
Coffee House Reading Series
The Coffee House Reading Series is a monthly reading of creative writing at the Barnes & Noble Café in the Power Center on Forbes Avenue. Organized and sponsored by Duquesne University’s English Department, the series aims to develop the creative writing and arts community on Duquesne’s campus by inviting established writers to present their work along side the work of students and other emerging writers. You can view the current semester's schedule of readings below. For more information, contact friedj@duq.edu.
ALL READINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BARNES & NOBLE CAFÉ,
POWER CENTER
Monday, October 3 7:00 pm
Shannon Cain, fiction
Sally Kindred, poetry
Wednesday, November 2 6:00 pm
Elizabeth Willis, poetry
Elizabeth Savage, poetry
Tuesday, December 6 7:00 pm
Edye Pucciarrelli, poetry
Joy Katz, poetry
Visiting Speakers
Wednesday, September 21 4:30 pm 644 College Hall
Dr. Jennie Batchelor
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Wednesday, November 2 7:00 pm Power Center Ballroom
Sudhir Venkatesh
- author of Gang Leader for a Day
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EGO Book and Bake Sale
Monday, October 24 9:00 am-4:00 pm 2nd floor lobby, College Hall
The English Graduate Organization will be holding their fall semester Book & Bake Sale on Monday, October 24, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., in the 2nd floor lobby of College Hall. There will be a wide variety of delicious baked goods available, and books will be priced as low as $1.00, so please come out, grab a snack, and browse through the stacks!
Colloquia
Friday, September 16 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Jade Higa, "Walpole's Monstrous Shrine: The Mysterious Mother and the Beauclerc Closet" and
Dr. Laura Engel, "Archival Performances: Fanny Kemble and Amelia Watson"
Friday, October 14 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Ian Butcher, " 'It only has to be done': Reading and Living Against the Censor in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room"
Friday, November 11 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
TBA
Friday, December 2 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
TBA
Dissertation Presentations
Monday, November 14 4:30 p.m. 644 College Hall
Beth Buhot will present "Women and the Suburbs in late 20th and Early 21st Century American Film and Fiction." (Director: Magali Michael, First Reader: Linda Kinnahan, Second Reader: Judy Suh)
:Lexicon Open Mic Night
Interested in sharing your poetry or fiction? Wondering how an audience will receive newly written monologues, creative nonfiction, or even comedy? Just curious about what the Duquesne community is writing, and thinking about sharing your voice….some time?
Come out to read, or just enjoy a coffee and listen to what Duquesne writers have to say!
Any questions can be directed to lexicon@duq.edu.
Tuesday, September 6 6:30 pm Barnes & Noble Cafe, Power Center
Monday, October 24 6:45 pm Barnes & Noble Cafe, Power Center
:Lexicon Fundraiser
Monday, October 24-Wednesday, October 26
:Lexicon fundraiser at TGI Friday's on Fifth Avenue (Consol Energy Center)
---pick up an invitation from the English Department or :Lexicon office (632 College Hall), turn it in with your bill at any time from the 24th-26th, and Friday's will donate a portion of your bill to the promotion of literary publications and opportunities on Duquesne's campus!
:Lexicon Release Party
Friday, December 2 5:00 pm TGI Friday's, Consol Energy Center
This fall's Release Party will be held at the TGI Friday's on 5th Avenue on the first floor of the Consol Energy Center. The Release Party will begin at 5, with the reading to start around 5:30. Come early to grab a seat and socialize over Friday's appetizers. As always, the reading is sure to provide entertainment, and our staff has worked incredibly hard on this issue, so we're excited to see what you think!
Panel/Roundtable Discussions
Thursday, October 27 5:00 pm 643 College Hall
Roundtable Discussion by the Department of English
- What does the English major offer socially conscious students?
- Why does literary scholarship matter in public debate about race and ethnicity in the U.S.?
- How does literature act as a vehicle for racial consciousness?
- How do race and ethnicity find expression in literature?
Light refreshments will be provided. Open to any Undergraduate students who are interested.
Friday, October 28 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
The Ins and Outs of Publishing Fiction and Poetry
We're pleased to announce a panel on the publishing of fiction and poetry, specifically directed at writers who are just trying to figure out how (and where?!?) to send their work. The panel will be held at 3 PM in College Hall 644, and will be followed by a Q&A period. After this Q&A, panelists will also be available to take a look at cover letters and/or query letters that you might already have on hand. Since all of our panelists are experienced with negotiating the territory of submissions to national literary magazines, and finding homes for their work, this is the perfect opportunity for writers who are just starting out, especially with a panel of such wide-ranging backgrounds in writing! Some of the topics we'll be covering include: how to figure out whether your work is ready for publication, general protocols for submitting work to national literary journals, writing those dreaded cover/query letters, presenting your work in its best light, finding the markets that are right for your work as you keep developing your craft, and considering whether or not an MFA might be right for your future (and, if so, what type?).
If you have questions ahead of time, feel free to direct them to :Lexicon's editor, Jennifer Collins, at collinsj@duq.edu, and she'll make sure they get included in the schedule.
Panelists will include Duquesne's own Craig Bernier, Anne Brannen, John Fried, and Brian Tierney.
Writer's Room
Monday, October 17 5:30 pm Barnes & Noble Cafe, Power Center
We are pleased to announce our first Writers' Room at our new location for
the fall semester, Barnes & Noble Cafe
Monday, October 17
From 5:30 - 7pm
Our theme this session, right in time for Halloween is: Alter Egos, Secret Identities. Poetry, fiction, nonfiction, even if you just write in your journal, come join us to read and write in a relaxed atmosphere where all genres and experience levels are welcome.
Bring your laptop or just a notebook and pen!
For more information and to keep informed via e-mail about upcoming sessions, please contact
Jill Khoury (khouryj@duq.edu)
Theater Performances
ALL PERFORMANCES WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE PETER MILLS PLAYHOUSE,
ROCKWELL HALL
September 29 & 30, October 1, 6, 7, & 8 8:00 pm
Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare
Red Masquers
November 9, 10, 11, & 12 8:00 pm
The Maids by Genet
Red Masquers
November 30 & December 1, 2, & 3 8:00 pm
Premiere Performances: One-acts written, directed, and produced by students
Red Masquers
Spring 2011
Coffee House Reading Series
The Coffee House Reading Series is a monthly reading of creative writing at the Barnes & Noble Café in the Power Center on Forbes Avenue. Organized and sponsored by Duquesne University’s English Department, the series aims to develop the creative writing and arts community on Duquesne’s campus by inviting established writers to present their work along side the work of students and other emerging writers. You can view the current semester's schedule of readings below. For more information, contact friedj@duq.edu.
ALL READINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BARNES & NOBLE CAFÉ,
POWER CENTER
Monday, January 24 7:00 pm
David Swerdlow, poetry
Irina Reyn, fiction
Tuesday, March 8 7:00 pm
Magali Cornier Michael, fiction
Deborah Bogen, poetry
Visiting Speakers
Tuesday, February 15 4:30 pm 644 College Hall
Caroline Bergvall
www.carolinebergvall.com
--"Writer and Cross-Disciplinary Artist"
--"Projects and research alternate between published poetic pieces and performance-oriented writing projects."
Friday, April 1 4:00 pm Power Center
Trinh Minh-ha, "Miles of Strangeness"
--Artist, Activist, Author, Filmmaker
--Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Rhetoric,
University of California, Berkeley
Monday, April 4 7:00 pm Power Center Ballroom
Terrance Hayes
--Pittsburgh poet and Carnegie Mellon University faculty member
--winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry for his collection, Lighthead
Colloquia
Friday, January 28 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Dr. Anne Brannen, "Speaking Subtleties: Ekphrastic Poetry at the Medieval English Feast"
Friday, February 18 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Erin Rentschler, "Teaching Narratives of War, Re-examining the Document" and Michelle Gaffey, "Recent Engagements with the Documentary Book Tradition"
Friday, March 25 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Shreyashi Mukherjee
Friday, April 8 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Laura Callanan, "Marilynne Robinson, Linda Hogan, and the Trope of the Exploding House; or, Requiem for the Strident Feminist Voice"
Dissertation Presentations
Friday, April 1 2:15 pm 644 College Hall
Sharon George will present her dissertation, "The Pursuit of Divinity: Religious Faith and Fear in late Victorian Women's Poetry," on Friday, April 1. (Director: Dan Watkins, First Reader: Laura Engel, Second Reader: Kathy Glass)
Thursday, April 14 3:00 pm 447 College Hall
Amy Criniti Phillips will present her dissertation, "Private Reader, Public Redactor: Narrative Strategies of the Nineteenth-Century Female Revisionist," on Thursday, April 14. (Director: Laura Callanan, First Reader: Laura Engel, Second Reader: Dan Watkins)
Monday, April 18 4:30 pm 644 College Hall
Bettina Jones will present her dissertation," 'This is Me Right Here': August Wilson and Pittsburgh's Hill District," on Monday, April 18. (Director: Linda Kinnahan, First Reader: Anne Brannen, Second Reader: Magali Michael)
:Lexicon Open Mic Night
Monday, March 28 6:45 pm Barnes & Noble Cafe, Power Center
Interested in sharing your poetry or fiction? Wondering how an audience will receive newly written monologues, creative nonfiction, or even comedy? Just curious about what the Duquesne community is writing, and thinking about sharing your voice….some time?
Come out to read, or just enjoy a coffee and listen to what Duquesne writers have to say!
Any questions can be directed to lexicon@duq.edu.
Theater Performances
ALL PERFORMANCES WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE PETER MILLS PLAYHOUSE,
ROCKWELL HALL
Saturday, January 15 8:00 pm
Pittsburgh Monologue Project by Robert Isenberg and Brad Keller,
directed by senior Jacob George
February 3, 4, 5 and 10, 11, 12 8:00 pm
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, a musical, directed by John Lane
April 7, 8, 9 and 14, 15, 16 8:00 pm
Speak Now by Robert Isenberg, directed by John Lane, a world premiere
Wednesday, April 20 8:00 pm
One Acts for Charity, produced and directed by students
Graduate Student Conference
"Echoes: Across Disciplines, Texts, and Times"
March 18 & 19
Call for Papers
Jane Austen Festival of Pittsburgh
March 12
Fall 2010
Coffee House Reading Series
The Coffee House Reading Series is a monthly reading of creative writing at the Barnes & Noble Café in the Power Center on Forbes Avenue. Organized and sponsored by Duquesne University’s English Department, the series aims to develop the creative writing and arts community on Duquesne’s campus by inviting established writers to present their work along side the work of students and other emerging writers. You can view the current semester's schedule of readings below. For more information, contact friedj@duq.edu.
ALL READINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BARNES & NOBLE CAFÉ,
POWER CENTER
Monday, September 27 7:00 pm
Jimmy Brancho, fiction
Robert Isenberg, nonfiction
Anne Brannen, poetry
Tuesday, October 26 7:00 pm
Mark Poteet, fiction
Lesley Wheeler, poetry
Monday, November 29 7:00 pm
Sarah Perrier, poetry
Sharon Dilworth, fiction
Visiting Speakers
Tuesday, October 12 4:00-6:00 pm Power Center Ballroom
Linda Hogan
--Author of Mean Spirit, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in fiction
-- One of today's most influential and provocative Native American figures
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Book-signing to follow.
Friday, November 12 3:00-4:30 pm 104 College Hall
Katherine Hayles,
"How We Read: Close, Hyper, Machine"
--Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Program of Literature, Duke University
Tuesday, November 16 7:00-8:30 pm Power Center Ballroom
Farhad Manjoo,
"Navigating a post-fact world: How to make sense of rumor, innuendo, and faux news in the Internet age"
--Slate.com and NPR technology commentator and author of True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society
Book-signing to follow.
Colloquia
Friday, September 3 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Dr. Greg Barnhisel, presenting "Encounter Magazine, Literary Modernism, and the Roots of Neoconservatism"
Friday, October 1 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Justin Kishbaugh, presenting "Editorial Images: Des Imagistes and Ezra Pound's Rendering of Imagism"
Friday, October 29 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Maria Barron, presenting "Lacking Testimony; or the Misappropriation of Nelly's Narrative in Wuthering Heights," and Glencora Cowan, presenting "This Hungry Space: A Poetic Inquiry into the Function of Economy"
Friday, December 3 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Dr. Magali Michael, presenting “An Anti-War Novel for the 21st Century: Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Rewrites Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughter House-Five”
Dissertation Presentations
Thursday, December 9 3:00 pm 643 College Hall
Janine Bayer will present her dissertation, "Nicomachean and Neo-Aristotelian Ethics and Shakespeare's Tragedies," on Thursday, December 9. (Director: Dr. Anne Brannen, First Reader: Dr. Bernard Beranek, Second Reader: Sr. Michele Bisbey, Ph.D.)
:Lexicon Release Party
Friday, December 3 5:00 pm 613 Student Union
Open to the entire Duquesne Community. Featuring a dramatic reading of "Nine to Five in the River Styx," a one-act by Thomas Svoboda, as well as readings from student and faculty contributors.
Theater Performances
ALL PERFORMANCES WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE PETER MILLS PLAYHOUSE,
ROCKWELL HALL
Saturday, September 4 8:00 pm
Pittsburgh Monologue Project by Robert Isenberg and Brad Keller,
directed by senior Joyce Hinebusch
September 15 through September 18 8:00 pm
Private Lives by Noel Coward, directed by senior Justin Sines
November 4, 5, 6 and 11, 12, 13 8:00 pm
The Country Wife by William Wycherley, directed by Jay Keenan
December 1 through December 4 8:00 pm
Premiere Performances- student written, directed and produced one-acts
Spring 2010
Coffee House Reading Series
The Coffee House Reading Series is a monthly reading of creative writing at the Barnes & Noble Café in the Power Center on Forbes Avenue. Organized and sponsored by Duquesne University’s English Department, the series aims to develop the creative writing and arts community on Duquesne’s campus by inviting established writers to present their work along side the work of students and other emerging writers. You can view the current semester's schedule of readings below. For more information, contact friedj@duq.edu.
ALL READINGS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BARNES & NOBLE CAFÉ,
POWER CENTER
Monday, February 1 7:00 pm
Claire Barbetti, poet and John Fried, fiction writer
Tuesday, March 16 7:00 pm
Sandy Tseng, poet and Lynn Emmanuel, Pitt professor and poet
Monday, April 19 7:00 pm
Jill Khoury, poet and Jim Zervanos, fiction writer
Poetry Reading
Wednesday, March 17 3:00 pm 613 Union
Desmond Egan
A renowned Irish poet, Egan has produced 23 collections of poetry; two of prose and two translations of Greek plays. He has won several awards, including the National Poetry Foundation of America award (1983), and he received an honorary doctorate in Literature from Washburn University in 1998. Egan lives in County Kildare, Ireland as a full time writer.
O'Donnell Scholarship Recipient Presentation
Friday, April 23 12:00 pm 643 College Hall
Monica Harold, 2009 recipient of the undergraduate O'Donnell Research Scholarship, will present her research on Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen on Friday, April 23.
Visiting Speakers
Thursday, March 11 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Peter Holland, Ph.D.
"Shakespeare, Theatre Companies, and the Internet"
Friday, March 12 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Romana Huk, Ph.D.
"Philosophy, Theology, and Poetry at Mid-Century: George Oppen & Denise Levertov square off"
Tuesday, April 13 4:00 pm Power Center Ballroom
Linda Hogan
CANCELLED
Due to health reasons, Linda Hogan's visit to Duquesne University on Tuesday, April 13th is cancelled. The department hopes to reschedule her visit for next Fall, 2010.
Colloquia
Friday, February 19 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Rachel Luckenbill, presenting "Pittsburgh Modern"
Friday, March 19 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Jennifer Collins, presenting "The Strategy of the British Country House in Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine"
Friday, April 16 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Jeff Stoyanoff, presenting "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Problems within Mythological and Folkloric Criticism"
Dissertation Presentations
Friday, April 9 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Claire Barbetti wil present her dissertation, "Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory", on Friday, April 9. (Director: Anne Brannen, First Reader: Linda Kinnahan, Second Reader: Bernard Beranek)
Monday, April 19 3:00 pm 600 Fisher Hall
Rita Kondrath will present her dissertation, "Performing to Reclaim: War Trauma and Female Non-Combatant Recovery in Sylvia Townsend, Virginia Woolf, and H.D.", on Monday, April 19. (Director: Laura Callanan, First Reader: Linda Kinnahan, Second Reader: Judy Suh, Third Reader: Laura Engel)
Wednesday, April 21 3:00 pm 310 Canevin Hall
John Zedolik will present his dissertation, "The Transcendent Comedy of the Canterbury Tales: Harmony in 'Quying', Harmony in Fragmentation", on Wednesday, April 21. (Director: Anne Brannen, First Reader: Bernard Beranek, Second Reader: Linda Kinnahan)
Friday, April 23 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Shayne Confer will present his dissertation, " 'Falling to a devilish exercise': Magic and Spectacle on the Renaissance Stage", on Friday, April 23. (Director: Bernard Beranek, First Reader: Stuart Kurland, Second Reader: Laura Engel)
Thursday, May 6 1:00 pm 346 College Hall
William Racicot will present his dissertation, " 'If We Shadows Have Offended': Reflections of Social Attitudes Towards Reform in Late Medieval and Reformation Dream Visions", on Thursday, May 6. (Director: Anne Brannen, First Reader: Bernard Beranek, Second Reader: Stuart Kurland)
Fall 2009
Coffee House Reading Series
Monday, September 28 7:00 pm
Shawn Klocek, student and winner of the Carroll Creative Writing Award & Justin Kishbaugh, Ph.D. candidate
Monday, October 26 7:00 pm
Bill Kirchner, fiction writer & Michael Begnal, poet
Thursday, November 19 7:00 pm
Susan Kelley-Stamerra, creative non-fiction & Rebecca Godfrey, creative non-fiction
Poetry Reading
Friday, September 11
MILOŠ DJURDJEVIĆ (Croatia), MEENA KANDASAMY (India), SOHEIL NAJM (Iraq)
Colloquia
Friday, September 18 3:00 pm 220 College Hall
Featuring Suzanne Cook, presenting "Macheath at the Scaffold: Fetishization of the Criminal Body in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera" and Melissa Wehler, presenting "Revising Ophelia: Joanna Baillie's Orra and the Tradition of Madwomen"
Friday, October 16 3:00 pm 220 College Hall
Featuring Dr. Linda Kinnahan, presenting "Mina Loy's War Poems, Hans Bellmar's Photographs, and Surrealism's Broken Body"
Friday, November 13 3:00 pm 220 College Hall
Featuring Mary Parish, presenting "9/11 and the Limitations of the 'Man's Man' Construction of Masculinity in Don DLillo's Falling Man" and Megan Kelly, presenting "Gender vs. Race: Constructing Conflict and Perpetuating Racial Patriarchy"
Friday, December 4 3:00 pm 220 College Hall
Featuring Mark Phillips, presenting "America's First Gay Novel"
Dissertation Presentations
Thursday, October 29 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Richard Clark will present his dissertation, "Fitzgerald in the late 1910s: War and Women", on Thursday, October 29. The dissertation argues for a reconsideration of F. Scott Fitzgerald's early fiction. ( Director: Linda Kinnahan, First Reader: Frederick Newberry, Second Reader: Greg Barnhisel)
Friday, November 20 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Julie Kloo will present her dissertation, "The Architecture of the Great House in the Contemporary PostColonial Novel", on Friday, November 20. ( Director: Magali Cornier Michael, First Reader: Laura Callanan, Second Reader: Judy Suh)
Thursday, December 3 3:00 pm 644 College Hall
Jessica Jost-Costanzo will present her dissertation, "The Editor, The Preface, and the Eighteenth-century Edition: A Critical Bibliographic Study", on Thursday, December 3. (Director: Susan Howard, First Reader: Laura Engel, Second Reader: Anne Brannen)
Faculty Presentations
Wednesday, October 28 3:00 pm Duquesne Room
Dr. Linda Kinnahan was chosen as a recipient of the Paluse Faculty Research Award through the Center for the Study of Catholic Social Thought. She will present her paper, "The Poetry of Mina Loy, The Catholic Worker, and Radical Representations of Poverty," along with three other recipients at the First Annual Paluse Lecture Series, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Catholic Social Thought.
Spring 2009
Coffee House Reading Series
Craig Bernier, Fiction Writer & Ava Cipri, Poet
Monday, February 2 at 7:00 pm at the Barnes & Noble Cafe, First floor, Power Center
Bill Kirchner, Fiction Writer & Jonathan Loucks, Poet
Monday, March 16 at 7:00 pm at the Barnes & Noble Cafe, First floor, Power Center
Linda Kinnahan, Professor of English & Poet, & Magali Cornier Michael, Professor of English and Fiction Writer
Monday, April 6 at 7:00 pm at the Barnes & Noble Cafe, First floor, Power Center
Mini-Conference
"Visionary Poetics Today: New Visions of Milton and the Romantics"
Featuring: Brad Hollingshead (Medaille College), Laura Knoppers (Penn State), and Keynote speaker, Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Jr. (CUNY Graduate Center)
Friday, February 20 at 3:00 pm in the Duquesne Room, Student Union
Visiting Speakers
John Keeble
Author of Yellowfish and Nocturnal America (Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
Co-Sponsored by the English Department, Duquesne Library, and McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Thursday, February 12
Reading, Power Center Ballroom, 7:00 pm
Friday, February 13
Lecture on Fiction vs. Non-Fiction, 104 College Hall, 3:30 pm
Desmond Egan
Poet and author of 17 books of poetry, and recipient of the National Poetry Foundation of American Award (1983)
St. Patrick's Day event to include a performance of Sean O'Casey's Bedtime Story by the Red Masquers
Tuesday, March 17
Shepperson Suite, Power Center, 7:00 pm
Samuel Hazo, Ph.D.
Poet and Professor Emeritus of English
Author of several books, including A Flight to Elsewhere and The Song of the Horse: Selected Poems, 1958-2008, and founder of the International Poetry Forum
Co-sponsored by the English Department and the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Friday, April 17
Reading, 104 College Hall, 3:30 pm
Colloquia
Friday, February 27
3:30-4:45, 346 College Hall
Maureen Gallagher presenting "The Debate over Integrating Literature and Freshman Composition" and Beth Buhot presenting "Designing the Suburbs and Redesigning Suburban Literature in D.J. Waldie's Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and David Beers's Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace"
Friday, March 13
3:30-4:45, 346 College Hall
Madhuchhanda Ray Choudhury presenting “Exploring the Lure of the Spectacle in The Necromancer”
Friday, April 3
3:30-4:45, 346 College Hall
Jess Chainer Nowacki presenting "The Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Dissertation as Journey into the Great Unknown" and Claire Barbetti, presenting “Secret Designs/ Public Shapes: Ekphrastic Tensions in Hildegard's Scivias”
Friday, April 17
3:30-4:45
Dr. Samuel Hazo, Professor Emeritus in English
Dissertation Presentations
Rosemary Scanlon McTier
Dissertation title: "An Insect View of Its Plain: Nature, Perception, and Insects in Thoreau, Dickinson, and Muir"
Tuesday, March 10 at 3:00 pm in 223 College Hall
Patricia A. Callahan
Dissertation title: "The Reader of Milton's Higher Argument in Paradise Lost"
Friday, March 20 at 10:00 am in 207 College Hall (Berger Gallery)
Fall 2008
Lifting Belly High: A Conference on Women's Poetry Since 1900
Hosted by the English Department at Duquesne University
Thursday-Saturday, September 11-13, 2008
Coffee House Reading Series
Joey Breslove and Amanda Minutola, DU students and winners of the 2008 Carroll Creative Writing Scholarship
Monday, September 22, 2008 at 7:00pm at Starbucks in the Duquesne Union
Gary Zebrun, fiction writer & author of Only the Lonely
Monday, October 6, 2008 at 7:00pm at Starbucks in the Duquesne Union
Heather McNaugher, Chatham Professor, poet, & author of Panic & Joy
Monday, November 3 at 7:00pm at Starbucks in the Duquesne Union
John Fried, Duquesne Professor
Thursday, December 11 at 7:00 pm in the Barnes & Noble Cafe
McAnulty College Invited Speaker
Horacio Moya
Co-sponsored by the English Department
Monday, October 27, 2008 at 4:30pm in the Power Center Ballroom
Visiting Speaker
Jackie Kay
Poet & Author of The Adoption Papers
Co-sponsored by English Department
Part of the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies
Monday, November 17, 2008 at 7:00pm in the Power Center Ballroom
Dissertation Presentations
Heather Shippen Cianciola
Dissertation title: "A Poetics of the Soul: Victorian Devotional Poetry in Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; and Christina Rossetti"
Friday, September 19 at 3:15pm in 644 College Hall
Kristianne Kalata Vaccaro
Dissertation title: "Transatlantic Acts: Nation, Self-Narration, and Celebrity in Victorian and Modernist Women's Autobiography"
Monday, November 17 at 4:30 pm in 351 College Hall
Sean Martin
Dissertation title: "H.P. Lovecraft and the Modernist Grotesque"
Wednesday, December 10 at 1:00 pm in 346 College Hall
Colloquia
Friday, October 10
"Literature and Activism"
Michelle Gaffey, " 'Gather[ing] up the fragments that/remain, that nothing be lost': The Radical Documentary Poetics of Chris Llewellyn's Fragments from the Fire"
Marianne Holohan, "Disrupting Middlebrow Taste: Zitkala-Sa's Autobiographical Writing and the Context of the Progressive-Era Atlantic Monthly"
Friday, November 7
Dr. Kathy Glass, "Love at Work: The Politics of Uplift in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy"
Friday, December 5
Dr. Timothy Vincent, "Einfuhlung and Virginia Woolf's Visual Aesthetic"