Georgia College

The DoER

The Department of English & Rhetoric Newsletter

8.2 May 2016

Blazer, Alex E. "A Phenomenological Approach to Donnie Darko." Film-Philosophy Journal 19 (2015): 208-20. Web. 22 Dec. 2015.

Friman, Alice. "All for the Love of You." [Reprinted poem] Vox Populi 8 Feb. 2016. http://voxpopulisphere.com/2016/02/08/alice

---. "The Doll." [Poem] The Doll Collection. Ed. Diane Lockward. West Caldwell,
NJ: Terrapin, 2016. 48-50. Print.

---. "Geometry," "The Poet," and "Dallas." [Reprinted poems] Far Out: Poems of the '60s. Ed. Wendy Barker and Dave Parsons. San Antonio, TX: Wings, 2016.
29-30, 40-42, 100-01. [Friman's statement about living through the '60s is on
325.] Print.

---. "Instructions for Floating" and "Knock and the World Knocks with You, Cry and You Cry Alone." [Poems] Women's Review of Books 32.6 (Nov./Dec. 2015):
10. Print.

---. "Late Night Conversation." [Poem, with "Author's Note"] Poem of the Week for The Missouri Review Online.  4 Jan. 2016.
http://www.missourireview.com/archives/alice-friman-late-night-conversation/.

---. "Rumba." [Poem] The MacGuffin 32.1 (Fall 2015): 132-33. Print.

---. "The Visitation." [Poem] Valparaiso Poetry Review 17.1 (2015-2016). Web. http://www.valpo.edu/vpr/v17n1/v17n1poetry/frimanvisitation.php.

---. "White Out." [Poem] The Georgia Review 49 (2015): 607-08. Print.

McClelland, Mike. [MFA Student] "Embarrassing Body." Cactus Heart 14.5 (2016): 57-67. Print.

---. "Limerick." Not Just Another Pretty Face. Ed. Louis Flint Ceci. Nevada City: Beautiful Dreamer Press, 2016. 109-140. Print.

---. "The Self-Banished." ink&coda 3.1 (2016). Web.

Blazer, Alex E. "Sooooooooo Real, Sooooooooo Much Trouble: The Familiar Tormenting Textuality of Mark Z. Danielewski." Southeast Coastal Conference on Languages & Literatures. Coastal Georgia Center, Savannah, GA. 7 Apr. 2016. Conference Presentation.

Bowlin, Catherine. [MA Student] "Erasing Annie Lee Jackson: O'Connor in Iowa." Women's and Gender Studies Symposium. Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA. 1 Apr. 2016. Conference Presentation.

---. "'Where You Come From is Gone': Hazel Motes's Mother in John Huston's Wise Blood." Student Research Conference. Georgia College & State University, Milledgeville, GA. 22 Apr. 2016. Conference Presentation.

Flaherty, Jennifer. "Banishing Jack: Chimes at Midnight and My Own Private Idaho." Shakespeare Association of America. Sheraton Hotel, New Orleans, LA. 24 Mar. 2016. Conference Presentation.

---. Introduction and Discussion Moderator. Orson Welles's Macbeth. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. 2 Mar. 2016. Moderator.

---. "Kingly or Colonized: Adapting Shakespeare's Caliban." Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ. 1 Mar. 2016. Presentation.

Friman, Alice. Reading. Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation Benefit/Gala, Atlanta, 31 Jan. 2016.

---. Reading. University of Arkansas. Fayetteville. 8 Mar. 2016.

---. Reading. Offsite group reading at AWP convention for Far Out: Poems of the '60s. Los Angeles. 1 Apr. 2016.

---. Reading. "Poetry and Barbecue," sponsored by Laura (Riding) Jackson
Foundation. Vero Beach, FL. 10 Apr. 2016. 

---. Reading. Central Georgia Technical College. Macon. 14 Apr. 2016.

Gentry, Marshall Bruce. "Flannery O'Connor and the Substitute Child." University of Arkansas. Fayetteville. 8 Mar. 2016. Presentation.

Martin, Laura M. [MFA Student] "Renewing Constraint: The Legacy and Practice of Restricted Writing." Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference. JW Marriott Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 1 Apr. 2016. Conference Panel.

McClelland, Mike. [MFA Student] "Saints and Sinners Reading Series: Writers Read." The 13th Annual Saints and Sinners Literary Festival. Hotel Monteleone, New Orleans, LA. 2 Apr. 2016. Reading.

Palmer, Eustace. "Post-War Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Sierra Leonean Literature: A Comparative look at Delia Jarrett-Macauley and Yema Lucilda Hunter." 42nd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association. Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA. 6 Apr. 2016. Conference Presentation.

---. "Roundtable: African Literature Today: Its History, Story, Impact and Continuing Journey." 42nd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association. Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA. 7 Apr. 2016. Conference Panel.

---. "Soundings: An Evening of Readings in Mother Tongue African Languages." [Palmer dramatized a scene from his translation of Ben Jonson's Volpone into his native Krio] 42nd Annual Conference of the African Literature Association. Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, GA. 7 Apr. 2016. Performance.

Skelton, Shannon. [MFA Student] "Renewing Constraint: The Legacy and Practice of Restricted Writing." Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference. JW Marriott Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 1 Apr. 2016. Conference Panel.

Catherine Bowlin [MA Student] was hired as an English adjunct instructor at Central Georgia Technical College, Milledgeville campus, in January 2016.

 

Jennifer Flaherty received an International Development Grant to attend the World Shakespeare Congress in London, research current performances of Shakespeare's plays, and conduct a site visit of our Oxford exchange program during summer 2016.


Jennifer Flaherty and Katie Simon received a MURACE grant to study literature capstone projects.