Georgia College

The DoER

The Department of English & Rhetoric Newsletter

5.3 May 2013

Flaherty, Jennifer. "Heaven and Earth: Confession as Performance in Hamlet and Measure for Measure." Theatre Symposium: Ritual, Religion, and Theatre 21 (2013). Print.

 

Friman, Alice. "Aunt Nellie's Walk" and "The Brain." [Poems] The Georgia Review 67 (2013): 162-64. Print.

 

---. "The Body 101: Circulation" and "Surely experience taught him." [Poems] Flycatcher 2 (Jan. 2013). Web. http://www.flycatcherjournal.org/current-issue.php 

 

---.  "The Interruption" and "The Acolyte." [Poems] California Quarterly 38.3-4 (2013): 9, 62. Print.

 

---. "Now." [Poem] American Literary Review 23.2-24.1 (2012-2013): 122. Print.

 

---. "Silent Movie." [Poem, reprinted] Lake Oconee Living 16.1 (2013): 96. Print. 

 

---. "Tarnished." [Poem] Subtropics 15 (2013): 105-06. Print.

 

---. "Three Takes on a Couplet by Neruda." [Poem] Southern Poetry Review 50.2 (2013): 28-29. Print.

 

---. "Troubled Interiors," "Visiting Flannery," and "The Night I Saw Saturn." [Poems, reprinted] The Southern Poetry Anthology, 5: Georgia.  Eds. Paul Ruffin and William Wright. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review P, 2012. 101-03. Print.

 

---. "Visiting the Ruins." [Poem, reprinted] Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence. Ed. Laura Madeline Wiseman. Pittsburgh, PA: Hyacinth Girl, 2013. 61. Print. 

 

Gordon, Sarah. (Professor Emeritus) "Hiding Again from the Jehovah's Witnesses." [Poem] Southern Poetry Review 50.2 (2013): 31. Print.

 

---. "Narrative," “Acts of Love," and "A Call to Prophecy." [Poems] The Southern Poetry Anthology, 5: Georgia.  Ed. Paul Ruffin and William Wright. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review P, 2012. 110-13. Print.

 

Lavender, Josh. (BA '08) "The Death of Auntie Bellum’s Attic." [Poem] The Southern Poetry Anthology, 5: Georgia.  Ed. Paul Ruffin and William Wright. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review P, 2012. 165-66. Print.

 

Lyda, Laurie. Contributing Editor. New Horizons: The VMI Journal of Undergraduate Writing 7 (2013). Print.

 

---. "The New Magdalen and the Rhetoric of Prostitution: Restoring Mercy Merrick's Agency." The Wilkie Collins Journal 12 (2013): Print.

 

Marr, Jude. "Still Life." [Poem] The Binnacle: Ninth Annual Ultra-Short Competition. Machias, MN: U of Maine at Machias, 2012. n pag. Print.

 

Mitcham, Judson. "Evening" and "Next." [Poems] Southern Poetry Review 50.2 (2013): 41-42. Print.

 

---. "Night," "Praise," and "Tennessee." [Poems] The Southern Poetry Anthology, 5: Georgia.  Ed. Paul Ruffin and William Wright. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review P, 2012. 185-86. Print.

 

Sandella, T. J. "An Offering," "What It Must Feel Like to Drop a Bomb." [Poems.] The Fourth River 10 (2013). Print.

---. "My Mother Prepares Me for Her Death." [Poem.] Passages North 35 (2013). Print.

 

Sollenberger, Roger. "Alternate Routes." New Madrid (Winter 2013): 86-90. Print.

Blazer, Alex E. "People Show You Who They Really Are": A Lacanian Reading of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy." Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures. DeSoto Hilton Hotel, Savannah, GA. 4 Apr. 2013. Conference Presentation.

 

Dillard, Scott. "The Importance of Jerrry's Laugh." Southern Communication Association Convention. Seelbach Hilton, Louisville, KY. 10 Apr. 2013. Conference Presentation.

 

---. Panel Member. "From Soup Kitchens to Walk-A-Mile: Service Learning Partnerships with Nonprofit Organizations." Southern Communication Association Convention. Seelbach Hilton, Louisville, KY. 14 Apr. 2013.

 

---. Panel Respondent. "Contributed Papers in Performance Studies." Southern Communication Association Convention. Seelbach Hilton, Louisville, KY. 14 Apr. 2013.

 

Flaherty, Jennifer. "Violence of Rhetoric: Silencing the Tongue in Early Modern Revenge Tragedy." French Shakespeare Society Congress. Paris, Fr. 22 Mar. 2013. Conference Presentation.

 

---. "Our Virtues Lie in the Interpretation of the Time: Adapting Coriolanus." Literature as Protest. Shakespeare Association of America. Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto, Can. 27 Mar. 2013. Conference Presentation.

 

Friman, Alice. Panel Member. Bringing Home the Best: A Celebration of the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA. 8 Mar. 2013.

 

---. Panel Member. Women and The Anxiety of Influence. Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston, MA. 8 Mar. 2013.

 

---. Reading. College English Association. Savannah Riverfront Marriott, Savannah, GA. 5 Apr. 2013.

 

---. Reading. Seersucker Live: A Literary Performance. Savannah, GA. 18 Jan. 2013.

 

---. Reading. Troy University at Montgomery. Montgomery, AL. 20 Feb. 2012.

 

---. Reading and class visits. Troy University. Troy, AL. 20-21 Feb. 2012.

 

---. Reading for The Southern Poetry Anthology, 5: Georgia. Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, Atlanta, GA. 10 Apr. 2013.

 

Gentry, Marshall Bruce. "The Influence on Flannery O'Connor of Two Georgia Writers She Claimed to Hate." The Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. 23 Feb. 2013. Conference Presentation.

 

Lyda, Laurie. Organizing Chair. "Figuring Exile in British Literature, Sessions I and II." South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Imperial Convention Center, Durham, NC. 9 Nov. 2012.

 

---. "Containing the Contagion of Prostitution in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell." Figuring Exile in British Literature, Session II. South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Imperial Convention Center, Durham, NC. 10 Nov. 2012. Conference Presentation.

 

Marr, Jude. "To See and Be Seen: Feminism and Freud Go to the Movies." Georgia College Women's Studies Student Symposium. Georgia College, Milledgeville, GA. 22 Feb. 2013. Conference Presentation.

 

Palmer, Eustace. "Krio Adaptations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: A Krio Macbeth and a Krio Volpone." 39th Annual African Literature Association Conference. College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. 21 Mar. 2013. Conference Presentation.

 

---. Panel Member. "Remembering Chinua Achebe." 39th Annual African Literature Association Conference. College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. 22 Mar. 2013.

 

Sirmans, John M. "The Student-Edited Poetry Anthology."  Teaching Matters. Gordon State College. Barnesville, Georgia. 23 Mar. 2013. Conference Presentation.

 

Whitaker, Elaine. "First, Do No Harm! Innovations, Efficiencies, Disruptions from a Late-Career Department Chair." HEDS UP—A Series of Ten-Minute Presentations in the Spirit of "TED" Talks. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. Hyatt Regency, Atlanta. 24 Jan. 2013. Lecture.

Brett Chatham (BA '07) was admitted to the Strode Program in Renaissance Studies in the English Department at the University of Alabama.

 

Cohen Edenfield (BA '11) was admitted to the Graduate English program at Texas A&M University.

 

Alice Friman was named "Artist of the Month" for April 2013 by Image.

 

Alice Friman served as the final judge for Northern States Poetry Contest sponsored by Persimmon Tree.

 

Becker, Robin. "Stranger to Nothing." Rev. of Vinculum by Alice Friman. Women's Review of Books 30.1 (2013): 23-24. Print.

 

Manning, Katie. "Don't Skip the Sexy Parts." Rev. of Vinculum by Alice Friman. New Letters 79.1 (2012): 133-34. Print.

 

Marshall Bruce Gentry received the Georgia College Excellence in Scholarship Award.

 

T. J. Sandella's poem "My Mother Prepares Me for Her Death" was a finalist for the Elinor Benedict Prize for Poetry from Northern Michigan University (Passages North) and was selected as an Honorable Mention by Aimee Nezhukumatathil.