Faculty News
UB English Department faculty members are active in the profession as both researchers and lecturers. Here is a selection of their recent accomplishments.
Joan Copjec has been named the Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago for 2009-2010.
Robert Daly’s essay, "Guilty Pleasures: Cooper and Cognitive Theory," has
just appeared in The James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter for
Fall 2008, and his entry on William Bradford has been published in The Literary Encyclopedia, an online reference source.
Jim Holstun’s essay, “Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett’s Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime,” recently appeared in the journal Historical Materialism (16.3, 2008: 3-53).
Philosophy and Rhetoric recently published Arabella Lyon's essay "Rhetorical Authority in Athenian Democracy and the Chinese Legalism of Han Fei.” Her book review of Plagiarism: Alchemy and Remedy in Higher Education by Bill Marsh appeared in Composition Studies. In 2008 she has presented the following talks “Procedural Democracy and Deliberative Rhetoric: Revising Habermas” at Rhetoric Society of America, “Narratives, Private and Public: Hannah Arendt’s Storytelling” at SUNY Conference on Writing, “First Amendment Contradictions and Paradoxes" at Northeast Modern Language Association, and “Four Ways of Looking at Comparative Rhetoric” at Conference on College Composition and Communication. She was the invited respondent to Jiyuan Yu's Humanities Institute talk, “Metaphysics of the Soul and the Development of Chinese and Greek Ethics.”
Ruth Mack’s essay, “Horace Walpole and the Objects of Literary History,” appeared recently in English Literary History 75 (2008): 367-87.
Randy Schiff’s essay, “The Instructive Other Within: Secularized Jews in 'The Siege of Jerusalem,” was recently published in Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England, ed. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2008). In July 2008, he delivered a paper entitled, “Masks of Old Age: The Pardoner, Morgan le Fay, and Sublime Decrepitude,” at the International Congress of the New Chaucer Society, held at Swansea University in Wales.
Andrew Stott’s 2005 book, "Comedy" (Routledge), has just been translated into Persian and published by Nashr-e-Cheshmeh of Iran.
Oxford University Press will publish Max Wickert’s translation of Torquato Tasso’s The Liberation of Jerusalem in March 2009. In the same month, Professor Wickert will give an invited lecture on Tasso at the University of Exeter, England.
