Recent Faculty Research and Professional Activity
Christopher Coffman
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (English & Psychology), Franklin & Marshall College; MA, PhD (English Language & Literature),The Catholic University of America
presentations:
“Paul Muldoon’s America: Murderous Colonies, Marvelous Countries,” Marvels and Monuments:
American Conference for Irish Studies New England Regional Conference, Boston University,
MA, 11/2008
“Aztec and Anarchist, Iroquois and Jesuit: Re-representation of American Colonization in
Thomas Pynchon and William T. Vollmann,” Arrivals and Departures: Annual Meeting of the
American Comparative Literature Association, Long Beach, CA, 04/2008
“All your ages lie at once: Time, the Poetics of Space, and Berryman?s Bradstreet,”
Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Philological Association, Austin Peay State University,
TN, 02/2008
refereed article:
“From Verbum to vox: W. H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror and the Development of James
Merrill’s Humane Aesthetic.” Symbiosis 12.2 (2008): 115-28.
book review:
“Matthew Bevis, The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2007).” Rhetorical Review 6:3 (2008): 1-4.
<http://www.nnrh.dk/RR/oct08.html>.
Jay Corrin
Chairman, Division of Social Science; Professor of Social Science
BA (history), Michigan State University; MA (Asian history), University of Hawaii; PhD (Modern European & British history), Boston University
Research interests: religion and politics, especially the influence of Catholicism on political thought and actions
Corrin, Jay, Michael Kort, and June Grasso. Forthcoming. “Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to the 2008 Olympics.” M.E. Sharpe.
The Chairs and I presented a workshop on “Settling Our Differences: Using Grading Criteria as a Means for Establishing Priorities in General Education,” Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), Annual meeting, Boston, 21-23 Feb. 2008
“Fascism in General Francisco Franco’s Spain,” paper presented at Boston University’s International History Institute’s Symposium on European Fascism, 24 March 2008
“The English Catholic New Left and the McCabe Affair,” paper presented at the North American Conference on British Studies, 5 October 2008, Cincinnati, Ohio.
“The Iraq Project and Just War Theory,” article for a new publication to be published by Boston University’s Marsh Chapel. Publication date November 2008.
Reviewed a manuscript on the rhetorical strategy and literary criticism of G.K. Chesterton for publication, Catholic University of America Press.
John Fawell
Associate Professor of Humanities
BA (general studies in the humanities), MA (comparative literature), PhD (comparative literature), University of Chicago; Dipl A, Universite Paris (France)
Research interests: film, Alfred Hitchcock, 19th-century world literature
While the greatness of the classic Hollywood film is, for many of us, settled business, there are also a great number who have difficulty understanding why these films – which can often seem dated and unrealistic compared to modern fare – are taken as seriously as they are. Although we tend to accord our highest praise to films with strong and often didactic messages, Hollywood is resolutely unserious in its goals, and closer perhaps to music than to literature in this regard. Thus, in order to appreciate classic American movies, we have to understand them as the result of a style of filmmaking that justifies itself not through ideas or social relevance, but through the grace and beauty of its form. The beauty of the Hollywood film challenges our notion of film as the poorer cousin of the “high arts,” or as worthwhile only when it serves a social purpose. In his effort to answer the many questions that classic American cinema suggests, author John Fawell considers previous criticism of Hollywood, but also draws from a huge fund of recorded interviews with the directors, writers, cinematographers, set designers, producers, and actors who were a part of the studio process, in order to give the filmmakers themselves the chance to explain a very elusive phenomenon: the glancing beauty of the Hollywood film. The films of certain great auteurs, including Charlie Chaplin, Ernst Lubitsch, Preston Sturges, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Ford, and Orson Welles, receive particular attention here, but this book is organized by ideas rather than films or artists, and it draws from a wide array of Hollywood films, both successes and failures, to make its points.
About the Author
JOHN FAWELL is Associate Professor at Boston University. He has written two books, Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”: The Well Made Film and The Art of Sergio Leone’s “Once Upon a Time in the West”, as well as a variety of articles on the nature of film, on Hollywood, on French Cinema, and on literature (Tolstoy, Valery, Tennyson, Maupassant.)
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Praeger Publishers (October 30, 2008
June Grasso
Associate Professor of Social Science
BA (Asian studies), Wellesley College; MA (Asian studies), PhD (modern China, Japan & international relations), Tufts University
Research interests: U.S.–China policy; modern Chinese history
Grasso, June, Jay Corrin, and Michael Kort. Forthcoming. Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to the Olympics, Fourth Edition. Armonk: NY, M.E. Sharpe. Updated version of this popular text with photographs. Earlier versions of this text were reviewed in journals in the U.S., Asia, and Europe.
June Grasso, Jay Corrin, and Michael Kort will be hosting a discussion for BU’s International History Institute (IHI) on the process of writing an undergraduate text and Chinese history and key trends in modern Chinese History. March 16, 2009
Grasso, June. Forthcoming. “United States – China Relations.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group.
Grasso, June. Forthcoming. “United Nations – China Relations.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group.
Grasso, June. Forthcoming. “Potsdam Conference.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group.
Grasso, June. Forthcoming. “Lansing-Ishii Agreement.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group.
Grasso, June. Forthcoming. “Foreign Debt in Modern China.” BerkshireEncyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group.
Grasso, June. Forthcoming. “Chinatowns.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group.
Grasso, June. Forthcoming. “Shanghai Communiqué.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group.
Grasso, June. Forthcoming. “Sino-American Commercial Treaty.” Berkshire Encyclopedia of China. Berkshire Publishing Group.
Gregg Jaeger
Associate Professor of Natural Science
BS (mathematics, philosophy & physics), University of Wisconsin; PhD (physics), Boston University
http://math.bu.edu/people/jaeger/
Research interests: quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and quantum biophysics
Publications/Exhibitions for 2008. Includes works in print or in press and completed presentations.
Books :
» Gregg Jaeger, Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Springer;
Heidelberg, in press)
Journal Articles (Refereed) :
» Kevin Ann and Gregg Jaeger, “Generic tripartite Bell nonlocality sudden death under local phase
noise,” Physics Letters A 372, 6853 (2008).
» Gregg Jaeger and Kevin Ann, “Local basis-dependent noise-induced Bell-nonlocality sudden death in
tripartite systems” Physics Letters A 372, 2212 (2008).
» Gregg Jaeger and Alexander Sergienko,
“Constructing four-photon states for quantum communication and information processing,” International
Journal of Theoretical Physics 47, 2120 (2008).
» Kevin Ann and Gregg Jaeger, “Entanglement sudden death in qubit-qutrit systems,”
Physics Letters A 372, 579 (2008).
Proceedings (Refereed) :
» Gregg Jaeger and Kevin Ann, “Nonlocality sudden death in tripartite systems”
AIP Conference Proceedings (in press).
Other Publications :
» Article in encyclopedic compendium:
Gregg Jaeger, “Double-slit experiment,” in Compendium of Quantum Physics
(D. Greenberger, K. Hentschel, F. Weinert, eds.) (Springer; Heidelberg, in press)
» Article in encyclopedic compendium:
Paul Busch and Gregg Jaeger, “Which-way/welcher-weg experiment,”
in Compendium of Quantum Physics (D. Greenberger, K. Hentschel, F. Weinert, eds.) (Springer;
Heidelberg, in press)
Exhibitions, concerts, commissioned works, media productions completed, prizes won, scholarly papers
presented, invited lectures given.
Invited lectures :
» G.S. Jaeger, “Quantum Computing,” France-US Kavli Frontiers of Science, Roscoff, France (November,
2008)
» G.S. Jaeger, “Sudden Death of Nonlocality,”Foundations of Probability and Physics-5, Vaxjo, Sweden
(August, 2008)
9. Professionally-related service, consulting and/or teaching (whether compensated or not) at other
institutions, in government, private organizations, clinical affiliations or industry.
» International Conference on the Foundations of Probability and Physics – 5, Vaxjo University, Vaxjo,
Sweden. I was a co-organizer of this conference, held in August 2008 in Vaxjo, Sweden.
» Foundations on Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, Prague, Czech Republic
I was a member of the scientific committee of the conference, held in July 2008 in Prague, in the
Czech Republic.
Michael Kort
Professor of Social Science
BA (history), Johns Hopkins University; MA (Russian history), PhD (Russian, economic & modern European history), New York University
Research interests: Soviet Union, cold war, history of freedom, the end of World War II in the Asian/Pacifc theater and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
I’ve published four books (not including more than a dozen books for young adults):
A Brief History of Russia. Facts on File, 2008
The Columbia Guide to Hiroshima and the Bomb. Columbia Univ. Press, 2007
The Soviet Colossus: History and Aftermath. 6th ed. M.E. Sharpe, 2006 (Orignally: The Soviet Colossus: A History of the USSR, Scribner’s, 1985.) The original was an alternate selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
For fun, my latest article:
“Hiroshima to Rekishika: Shusei shugi no kobo” ["Historians and Hiroshima: The Rise and Fall of Revisionism"] Doshisha hogaku [The Doshisha Law Review 60], no.6 (January 31, 2009), 471-491. (The article was translated into Japanese by the noted Japanese historian Sadao Asada.)
I’m also a senior fellow at BU’s International History Institute.
I’m co-author with Jay Corrin and June Grasso of Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to World Power, 4th edition, M.E. Sharpe, in press. The first edition, with no subtitle, came out in 1991.
Kari Lavalli
Assistant Professor of Natural Science
BA (bio-mathematics), Wells College; PhD (marine biology studies), Boston University
Research interests: behavioral ecology of lobsters, predator-prey interactions, animal behavior, inquiry-based science education, community involvement in resource conservation (via The Lobster Conservancy community-based programs)
Selected Publications:
Lavalli, K.L. and D.E. Barshaw. (1986) Burrows protect postlarval lobsters Homarus americanus from predation by the non-burrowing cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus but not from the burrowing mud crab Neopanope texani. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 32: 13-16.
Barshaw, D.E. and K.L. Lavalli. (1988) Predation upon postlarval lobsters Homarus americanus by cunners Tautogolabrus adspersus and mud crabs Neopanope sayi on three different substrates: eelgrass, mud, and rock. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 48: 119-123.
Lavalli, K.L. and D.E. Barshaw. (1989) Post-larval American lobsters (Homarus americanus) living in burrows may be suspension feeding. Mar. Behav. & Physiol. 15: 255-264.
Lavalli, K.L. (1991) Survival of early juvenile American lobsters (Homarus americanus) during their first season on diets of mesoplankton, microplankton, and frozen brine shrimp. Fishery Bulletin 89: 61-68.
Lavalli, K.L. and J.R. Factor. (1992) Functional morphology of the mouthparts of juvenile lobsters, Homarus americanus (Decapoda: Nephropidae), and comparison with the larval stages. J. Crust. Biol. 12(3): 467-510.
Lavalli, K.L. and J.R. Factor. (1995) The feeding appendages, Chapter 14. In: The Biology of the Lobster, Homarus americanus, (Jan Robert Factor, ed.), Academic Press, NY. pp. 349-393.
Lawton, P. and K.L. Lavalli. (1995) Postlarval, juvenile, and adult ecology, Chapter 4. In: The Biology of the Lobster, Homarus americanus, (Jan Robert Factor, ed.), Academic Press, NY. pp. 47-88.
Lavalli, K.L. and P. Lawton. (1996) Historical review of lobster life history terminology and proposed modifications to current schemes. Crustaceana 69(5): 594-609.
Spanier, E. and K.L. Lavalli. (1998) Natural history of Scyllarides latus (Crustacea, Decapoda): a review of the contemporary biological knowledge of the Mediterranean slipper lobster. Nat. Hist. 32(6): 1769-1786.
Nicosia, F.W. and K.L. Lavalli. (1999) Homarid lobster hatcheries: Their history and role in research, management, and aquaculture. Mar. Fish. Rev. 61(2): 1-56.
Herrnkind, W.F., M.J. Childress, and K.L. Lavalli. (2001) Defense coordination and other benefits among exposed spiny lobsters: Inferences from mass migratory and mesocosm studies of group size and behavior. Mar. Freshwater Res. 52: 1113-1124.
Lavalli, K.L. and E. Spanier. (2001) Does gregarious behavior function as an anti-predator mechanism in Mediterranean slipper lobster, Scyllarides latus? Mar. Freshwater Res. 52: 1133-1143.
Weisbaum, D. and K.L. Lavalli. (2004) Morphology and distribution of antennular setae of scyllarid lobsters (Scyllarides aequinoctialis, S. latus, and S. nodifer), with comments on their possible function. Invertebrate Biology 123(4): 324-342.
Tarsitano, S.F. and K.L. Lavalli. (2005) Shell disease in American lobsters, Homarus americanus: Disease or malfunction of the calcification process followed by opportunistic infection? In: Tlusty, M.F., Halvorson, H.O., Smolowitz, R., and U. Sharma, eds. Lobster Shell Disease Workshop. Aquatic Forum Series 05-1. New England Aquarium, Boston, MA., pp. 83-85.
Tarsitano, S.F., K.L. Lavalli, F. Horne, and E. Spanier. (2005) The constructional properties of the exoskeleton of homarid, scyllarid, and palinurid lobsters. Hydrobiologia 557: 9-20.
Spanier, E. and K.L. Lavalli. (2006) Scyllarides spp. In: Lobsters: Biology, Management, Aquaculture, and Fisheries, (B.F. Phillips, ed.), Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, U.K., pp. 462-496.
*Lavalli, K.L. & E. Spanier. (2007) Introduction to the biology and fisheries of slipper lobsters. In: (Lavalli, K.L. and E. Spanier, eds.) The Biology and Fisheries of Slipper Lobsters. Crustacean Issues, Vol. 17. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), NY, pp. 3-21.
*Lavalli, K.L., E. Spanier, & F. Grasso. (2007) Behavior and sensory biology of slipper lobsters. In: (Lavalli, K.L. and E. Spanier, eds.) The Biology and Fisheries of Slipper Lobsters. Crustacean Issues, Vol. 17. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), NY, pp. 133-181.
*Spanier, E. & K.L. Lavalli. (2007) Directions for future research in slipper lobster biology. In: (Lavalli, K.L. and E. Spanier, eds.) The Biology and Fisheries of Slipper Lobsters. Crustacean Issues, Vol. 17. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), NY, pp. 221-228.
*Spanier, E. & K.L. Lavalli. (2007) Slipper lobster fisheries—Present status and future perspectives. In: (Lavalli, K.L. and E. Spanier, eds.) The Biology and Fisheries of Slipper Lobsters. Crustacean Issues, Vol. 17. CRC Press (Taylor & Francis Group), NY, pp. 377-391.
Scrham, F.R., S.T. Ahyong, K.A. Crandall, F. Gherardi, M.J. Grygier, K.L. Lavalli, G. Poore, D.C. Rogers, G. Scholtz, T. Simon, S. Tamone, and M. Wickstein (2008) Publication in the Journal of Crustacean Biology. J. Crust. Biol. 28(2): 197-202.
Lavalli, K.L. and W.F. Herrnkind. (in press) Defensive strategies of Caribbean spiny lobsters: effects of group size and predator group size. N.Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res.
Lavalli, K.L. and C.N. Malcom (in press) Functional morphology of scyllarid walking legs with regards to feeding behavior. N.Z. J. Mar. Freshwater Res.
* Note: the artwork for this book’s cover was done by CGS Alum ’07, Megan Stover.
Susan Lee
Assistant Professor of Social Science
AB (American civilization), Brown University; MDiv (divinity), Harvard University; PhD (sociology), Boston University
Research interests: gender and development, third-world women, family violence, sociology of women, Cambodia, widows
Lee, Susan Hagood. 2008. “World Bank.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online, ed. George Ritzer. New York: Blackwell Publishing. http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com.
_____. 2008. “World Trade Organization.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online, ed. George Ritzer. New York: Blackwell Publishing. http://www.sociologyencyclopedia.com.
_____. 2006. “Rice Plus:” Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia. New Approaches in Sociology: Studies in Social Inequality, Social Change, and Social Justice series, ed. Nancy Naples. New York: Routledge.
_____. 2009. “Female-headed households: Still a relevant category?” Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, Savannah, Georgia.
_____. 2008. “Female Ascetics in Khmer Buddhism.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts, August.
_____. 2008. “Daun-Chi and Prestige Markers in Khmer Buddhism.” Sociologists for Women in Society Winter Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, February.
_____. 2007. “Gender and Prestige in Khmer Buddhism.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, August.
“Widows in Rural Cambodia: ‘Rice Plus’ and Family Solidarity.” Southeast Asia in World Politics, Department of International Relations, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, April 2008.
“‘Rice Plus’: Widows’ Work in Rural Cambodia.” Asian Studies Faculty Lunch, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, February 2008.
“Transition to America: Cambodian Women and Girls in Fall River.” American Association of University Women Massachusetts Chapter Winter Conference, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Massachusetts, February 2008.
“Rural Cambodian Widows’ Family Relationships.” Sociology of Aging, Department of Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2007.
Kathleen Martin
Assistant Professor of Social Science
BA (sociology), Dickinson College; MA (sociology), Ohio State University; PhD (comparative history), Brandeis University
Research interests: the social science of poverty, the relationship between religion and other social factors, and comparative study of European and East Asian culture
Hard and Unreal Advice: Mothers, Social Science, and the Victorian Poverty Experts (Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
Excerpts from V.I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Latest Stage of Capitalism, translated from the Russian and annotated by Kathleen Callanan Martin, in Readings in Social Theory and Modernization, v.2, Spring 2007, 2008, and 2009
“Social Change,” in Readings in Social Theory and Modernization, v.1, Fall 2009
“Teaching the Shoah: Four Approaches that Draw Students In,” The History Teacher, August 2007, 493-502
Review of Women, Welfare and Local Politics, 1880-1920: “We Might Be Trusted” by Steven King, Journal of Social History, December 2007
Review of Blame Welfare, Ignore Poverty and Inequality, by Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Journal of Social History, June 2008
“Teaching the Shoah as a Contemporary Concern,” presented at the Boston University “Constructing the New Humanist in Undergraduate Education” on April 18, 2008
Natalie McKnight
Natalie McKnight
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development; Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning; Professor, Humanities
BA (English & drama), Washington College; MA (creative writing), Johns Hopkins University; PhD (English & American literature), University of Delaware
Research interests: Dickens, Victorian literature, creative writing, popular culture, gender studies
Recent Publications:
“Dickens and Gender.” Blackwell’s Companion to Dickens. Blackwell’s, 2011.
Dickens Studies Annual. Co-Editor. Volume 42. AMS Press, 2011.
Fathers in Victorian Fiction. Co-Author and Editor. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011.
Matthew Parfitt
Chairman, Division of Rhetoric; Associate Professor of Rhetoric
BA (English), MA (English), University of Toronto; PhD (English), Boston College
Research interests: composition, literary theory, British literature 1880–1930, gender studies, World War I, Robert Frost
Parfitt, Matthew. “Teaching Writing in Prison: Rage, Longing and the Academic Essay.” At Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, LA. April 4, 2008.
Kevin Stoehr
Associate Professor of Humanities
AB (philosophy), Bowdoin College; MA (philosophy), PhD (philosophy), Boston University
Research interests: ethics, existentialism, film studies, and philosophy of film
Best known for his enduring westerns (Stagecoach, The Searchers) and classic films (The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man) American film director John Ford received an unprecedented four Academy Awards for Best Director over his lifetime. This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of Ford’s life and career, revealing the frequent intersections between Ford’s personal life and artistic vision. Part one provides an overview of Ford’s importance in the early development of cinema. Part two focuses on selected aspects of Ford’s personal life, specifically his genealogy, Irish heritage, and roots in the coastal community of Portland, Maine. Part three situates Ford’s films within a broader cultural and intellectual context, exploring theories that explain why Ford’s movies have sparked such interest, debate, and enjoyment among Hollywood film critics and the general cinema community.
About the Author
Kevin L. Stoehr is associate professor of humanities at Boston University and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of Nihilism in Film and Television (2006) and edited the collection Film and Knowledge (2002). Michael C. Connolly is associate professor of history at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine.
Meg Tyler
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (English), Kenyon College; PhD (literature), Boston University
Research interests: The history of lyric poetry; 20th-century British, Irish, and American poetry; the familiar essay; the elegy; Seamus Heaney
AWARDS:
2008 Elected Junior Fellow, 2008-2009 academic year, Society of Fellows, Boston
University Humanities Foundation, one-semester paid leave from teaching
PUBLICATIONS:
Review of Alice Oswald’s Spacecraft Voyager I: New and Selected Poems, Harvard Review,
Spring 2008 issue 34
Review of Michael Longley’s Collected Poems, Estudios Irlandeses, Issue 3, March 2008
“Paths and Aftermaths: Some Thoughts about Seamus Heaney’s and Michael Longley’s Recent
Sonnets,” The Journal of Sonnet Studies (Volume 1, Issue 1, February 2008)
Seamus Heaney’s “Follower” and “Two Lorries,” The Facts on File Companion to British
Poetry: 1900 to the Present. Ed. James Persoon and Robert Watson. New York:
Facts on File, 2008.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION:
Conference Chairperson and Director, New England Region of the American Conference for
Irish Studies (NEACIS), Boston University (November 8, 2008). And Chair of panel
on “Irish Poetry and the Harmonizing of Disharmonies.”
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (RMMLA) Annual Convention, Reno, Nevada (October 9-11, 2008), “Sonnet Shapes: Wallace Stevens and Alice Oswald.”
Conference on “Constructing the New Humanist in Undergraduate Education,”
Boston University (April 18, 2008), “Community in Undergraduate Education,”
Participant in Roundtable Discussion.
Other:
Seminar Paper on “Broken Sonnets,” Society of Fellows, BU Humanities Foundation, College of Arts and Sciences, November 17, 2008
Introduction to book launch for Rosanna Warren’s Fables of the Self: Studies in Lyric Poetry, Barnes and Noble Bookstore at Boston University, October 14, 2008
Judge, Poetry Contest, Barnes and Noble at Boston University, May 2008
Faculty Member, Boston Scholars Summer Program, 2006-2007
in November 2008 we hosted the Northern Irish poet Nick Laird who gave a reading to the public and members of an interdisciplinary Irish Studies conference).
Jeffery Vail
Assistant Professor of Humanities
BA (English literature), Washington College; MA (English literature), University of Delaware; PhD (English literature), University of Delaware
Research interests: British romantic poetry; 18th-century British literature; 19th-century fiction; modern and postmodern poetry
In 2008 my article “Little’s leadless pistol’: Byron’s Turn from Erotic Poetry to Popeian Satire” was published in the volume Lord Byron: ‘Correspondence(s)’, edited by Christiane Vigouroux. I presented this paper at the 2006 International Byron Society Conference, held at La Sorbonne in Paris, France. The article concerns the influence of Thomas Moore’s Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little (1801) on Lord Byron’s early lyric poetry, and Byron’s subsequent turn toward satirical verse (such as English Bards and Scotch Reviewers) inspired by the more ‘masculine’ poetry of Alexander Pope.
In November 2008 I presented the paper, ‘Editing the Unpublished Correspondence of Thomas Moore‘ at a conference entitled Thomas Moore: Texts/ Contexts/ Hypertext, held at the National University of Ireland, Galway. A version of this paper will be published in the conference Proceedings, tentatively scheduled to appear later this year. In this paper I discussed several unpublished Moore letters that I have discovered.
My 8,000-word chapter ‘Thomas Moore: After the Battle‘ will appear in The Blackwell Companion to Irish Literature, edited by Julia M. Wright, which is due to appear later this year. The chapter is a critical analysis of Moore’s writing and politics, and of his enormous influence upon Irish literature and culture. In early April I will be presenting a version of his chapter as a keynote speech at a conference on Moore in Belfast, Ireland.
I continue to work on my new edition of the correspondence of Thomas Moore. I have located and transcribed over 650 unpublished letters written by Moore so far.
Thomas Whalen
Associate Professor of Social Science
BA (history), Bates College; MA (American history), PhD (American history), Boston College
Research interests: modern American politics and culture, American foreign policy and the American presidency
Robert Wexelblatt
Professor of Humanities
BA (English), University of Pennsylvania; MA (English & American literature), University of Michigan; PhD (English and American literature), Brandeis University
Research interests: 20th-century literature, philosophical problems, fiction, poetry, informal essays
Publications:
a novel:
Zublinka Among Women, Portland: KenArnoldBooks, 2008
stories:
“Steppe Story,” Witness, 21 (2007), 3-9
“On the Boughs Our Bodies Shall Be Strung, “ Amarillo Bay, 10, 1 (Winter 2008), 7pp.
“Red-Headed Women,” Ginosko, 6 (Spring 2008), 48-56
“Lar,” Eleven Eleven, 5 (Fall 2008), 57-64
“Brother Owen,” Taj Mahal Review, 7, 1 (Spring 2008), 283-297
“The Dreams of Count Wenzel von Geiz and the Jew Eisik,” Offcourse, 34 (Summer 2008), 10 pp.
“Radio Free Me,” Nimrod, 52, 1 (Fall/Winter 2008), 163-179
“Ostbrück,” Offcourse, 35 (Fall 2008), 7 pp.
“Kolwitzer’s Father,” Sojourn, 21 (2008), 13-33
“Parataria Ruina,” Taj Mahal Review, 7, 2 (Winter 2008), 168-180
another story published since the first of the year:
“The Five,” Black and White, Electronic Edition No. 5 (January 2009), 1-20
another story due out any day now:
“Urbs Fabula Sine Argumentum Est,” Amarillo Bay (Winter 2009)
essays:
“Fein on Villainy,” North Dakota Quarterly, 74,3 (Summer 2007), 160-171
“Fein on Philippe Leconte Duparc, “Northwest Review, 46, 2 (Spring 2008), 142-157
poems:
“Diva,” Light Quarterly, 58 (Autumn 2007), 23
“We Lead Three Lives,” reprinted in Descant – Fifty Years, ed. David Kuhne,
Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2008, 160-161
“The Losing Candidates Will Now Say A Few Words, “Café Review, 19 (Fall 2008), 14-15
prizes, awards:
Zublinka Among Women was the winner of First Grand Prize for Fiction and Winner in the
General Fiction/Novel category, Indie Book Awards, 2008
“Kolwitzer’s Father” was given the Editor’s Choice Award for Fiction by Sojourn
“Fein on Philippe Leconte Duparc” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize
Outside involvements:
Faculty Advisor, BU Debate Team (I give no advice and they require none)
Outside Reader for a Senior Thesis in the University Professors Program, Spring 2008