Elaine Kleiner, professor of English at Indiana State University, has edited (with Sam Hamill) Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth (Copper Canyon Press, 1997).

Alumni

Alumni News

Paul Alkon, the Leo S. Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California, has been appointed to the Board of Academic Advisors of the Churchill Center.

Stephen Arata, VA Associate Professor at University of Virginia (Charlottesville), is a recent Fulbright Scholar to India.

Frank D. Carson has been serving as coordinator of the Speakers Bureau and Community Outreach Programs, in charge of training speakers, hotline counselors, HIV-antibody test counselors and community liaison workers at the David Geffen Center for HIV Prevention and Health Education at the Gay Men's Health Crisis Center in New York City.

Mary Ellis Gibson has been appointed the Director of Women's Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

Katherine Kiblinger Gottschalk is serving as Director of the First-Year Writing Seminars in the Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell University.

Jan Keessen, an Associate Professor at Augustana College, produces a weekly radio program in Aledo, Illinois on WVIK, which is available at http://augustana.edu/users/keessen.

Seth Lerer (PhD 1981) recently ended his term as Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University with a stint as a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center to be followed with the Helen Cam Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.

Ann R. Meyer (PhD 1997), Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College, recently completed an Andrew Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library.

Jamil Mustafa (PhD 1999) has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at Lewis University.

Lauri Ramey (PhD 1996) is Professor of Creative Writing and English and Director of the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics at California State University, Los Angeles. She is editor of Black British Writing, with Victoria Arana (Palgrave Macmillan), and Every Goodbye Ain't Gone, with Aldon Lynn Nielsen (University of Alabama). She has also recently published two new books: The Heritage Series of Black Poetry, 1962-1975 (Ashgate, 2008) and Slave Songs and the Birth of African American Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). Fuller listings now are posted on In Their Own Words: http://magazine.uchicago.edu/books/#crit.

Lisa Tilton-Levine has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at Seton Hall University and is director of Freshman English.

Alumni Publications of Interest

John W. Atherton (AM 1940, PhD 1952), founding president of Pitzer College in Claremont, California, has recently published Imperial Steel, The History of the Isthmian Steamship Company 1910-1956.

John Bryant, Professor at Hofstra University, has recently published several works, including Herman Melville's Typee (Penguin American Classics).

Frances E. Dolan, Professor at Miami University, has published Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender and Seventeenth-Century Print Culture (Cornell, 1999).

John C. Jacobs, Assistant Professor of English at Loyola, has edited Theodore Silverstein, Literate Laughter: Critical Essays in Chaucer, Dante and the Romances (Peter Lang Publishing, 2002).

John N. King (AM 1966, PhD 1973), Professor at The Ohio State University, co-editor of Literature and History, and Associate Editor of Reformation, has published Milton and Religious Controversy: Satire and Polemic in Paradise Lost (Cambridge University Press).

George Klawitter, Assistant Professor at St. Edwards University, with Kenneth Borris of McGill University has recently edited a collection of fifteen essays called The Affectionate Shepherd: Celebrating Richard Barnfield (Susquehanna University Press).

Elaine Kleiner, professor of English at Indiana State University, has edited (with Sam Hamill) Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems of Kenneth Rexroth (Copper Canyon Press, 1997).

Yi-qing Liu, Professor and Vice-Chair of the College of Foreign Languages and Literature at Peking University, served as one of the Chief editors on the three volume, 1.8 million word textbook The History of European Literature.

Jane W. Stedman, Emeritus Professor of English from Roosevelt University, will soon publish her third book, W. S. Gilbert's Theatrical Criticism. Her second book, W. S. Gilbert: A Classic Victorian and His Theatre, was published by Oxford University Press in 1996.

Robert Wess, Associate Professor at Oregon State University, published Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric, Subjectivity, Postmodernism with Cambridge University Press in 1996. The book was reviewed in Modern Philology (vol. 96, 1999, 417-19).

Pamela Robertson Wojcik, Assistant Professor in the Department of Film Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, has recently published Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music (Duke University Press).

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