Cynthia Jones will be making the first colloquium presentation for Fall 2014. She will be giving a talk on literary form in ancient Egyptian poetry. UMKC faculty and students are invited to attend. Her talk will be 4:00-5:00 PM on Wednesday, October 15th, in 105A Cockefair Hall.
Good News: Recent Presentation by Jennifer Phegley
Jennifer Phegley presented a paper “Supplementary Spaces: Women Readers, Courtship, and Bow Bells’ Valentine’s Day Special Issues” at the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference in Wilmington, DE, September 12, 2014.
Browder’s Recent Publications and Awards
AWARDS: Catherine Browder’s story, “The Canine Cure,” won the Mighty River Fiction Prize from the literary magazine BIG MUDDY: a Journal of the Mississippi River Valley, and appeared in that magazine (Vol. 14.1) PRODUCTIONS: Her play, “The Falstaff Years” appeared in the KC Fringe Festival in July, as one of 4 one-acts in “Turning Points,”…
Stewart’s Recent Publication
Robert Stewart has published a collection of essays, The Narrow Gate: Writing, Art & Values with Serving House Books (2014).
Boisseau’s Recent Publications
Michelle Boisseau had seven poems appear in the most recent issue of The Missouri Review, Vol. 36. No 4, and a poem in the Spring 2014 issue The New Ohio Review which was reprinted on the March 5th issue of Poetry Daily.
Frangos Presents at ASECS Annual Conference
Jenni Frangos attended the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference in Williamsburg, Virginia (March 20-22, 2014), where she chaired two panels (one on slavery and the new world, and one on Jane Austen and her contemporaries) and delivered a paper on Daniel Defoe’s _A Tour thro the Whole Island of Great Britain_ on a…
Blanton Accepted To NEH Summer Seminar
Virginia Blanton has been accepted as a seminarian in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, “Art, Architecture, and Devotional Interaction, 1200-1600,” which will take place 9 June – 4 July 2014 at the University of York, York, UK.
Victorian Girls Gone Wild: Matrimonial Advertising and the Transformation of Courtship
The stacks and stacks of courtship advice books, etiquette guides, and love-letter writing manuals available to Victorian readers set forth a complex set of courtship rituals that were sanctioned by class-conscious parents who wanted their children to make marital matches that would improve the status of their families. These books generally pointed toward one recently…
Bar-Nadav’s Recent Publications
Poet and faculty member Hadara Bar-Nadav recently celebrated the following: Awards/Nominations –Winner, Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, Crazyhorse, for “Thumb” (2013). –Finalist, Rilke Poetry Prize, University of North Texas, for Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (2014). –Nomination for a Pushcart Prize, Crazyhorse, for “Thumb” (2013). –Nomination for a Pushcart Prize, Bellingham Review, for “I am Only Home…