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Humanities News
GERMAN STUDIES
MAJOR APPROVED.
The Oregon University System board
gave final approval in 2005 to a
new German Studies major. See the
details of the major at the Modern
Languages/German page.
2005-2006 Student Highlights: 12 students presented at regional
conferences
N.U.C.L. 2006, Portland
Kendra Boettger, “The Coalesce a
Man: The Story of Hareton Earnshaw”
(ENG 415)
Lance Deal, Original Poetry (WR
461)
Cynthia Dusenbery, “Women’s Roles.”
(ENG 325: 20th Century British Literature)
Tiffany Graves, Original Poetry
(WR 461)
Ashley Kornstad, “On the Functions
of Truth and Lying.” (ENG 325)
Nicole Perry, “Three Blind MAUSes”
(ENG 407)
Northwest Communication Association,
Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. April, 2006.
Lee Clarkson, “Super Size Me: Will
Extreme Approach Spark Extreme Change?”
Stacie Wells, “Fostering Cultural
Acceptance: A Narrative Criticism
of Finding Forrester”
Will Florence, “The Rhetorical Power
of Symbolism in Advertisements:
Analyzing the Archaic Appeals of
Dean Guitars” [1st Honorable Mention
Undergraduate Paper, Northwest Communication
Association, 2006]
Maria Austin, “Emmeline B. Wells:
Revolutionary Woman of Words and
Action
Will Florence, “Martin Luther King,
Jr.: The Legacy, the Universalization,
and the Prize”
Steven Sharp, “Roper v. Simmons:
An Analysis of Oral Argument”
2 students were awarded Fulbright
Teaching fellowships in Austria
111 credits of internships were
earned over the year
The Delmar Dewey award winner
was a Philosophy major
Meyer Prize: Annual Competition
at WOU for best undergraduate
essay on literature. 2005-06 Winner:
Jennifer Carmichael, “From Brigand
to Bookworm: How Reading Shapes
Interiority” Tie: 2nd: Shauna
Anderson, “Center of Instability
as the Abyss of Paranoia” AND
Amanda Miles, “Joyce’s A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man:
From Freud to Erikson”
2005-2006 Faculty Highlights:
Cornelia Paraskevas was awarded
a congressional merit certificate
from Rep. Darlene Hooley, after
a nomination from students.
International Faculty Connections:
Eduardo Gonzalez-Viana: to Oviedo,
Spain (Fall 2006)
Seven faculty members presented
papers at international conferences
Publications
Books
- Molly Mayhead & B.D. Marshall
(Eds.) (2005). Women’s Political
Discourse: A 21st Century Perspective.
Blue Ridge Summit, PA: Rowman
& Littlefield.
- Eduardo González Viaña.
American Dreams (Tr. Heather Moore
Cantarero). Arte Público
Press, University of Houston,
2005.
- Cornelia Paraskevas: Conversations
About Writing: Eavesdropping,
Inkshedding and Joining In. (with
E. Sargent). Toronto, Canada:
Thomson/Nelson, 2005.
Articles
- Daniel, Susan. “Recent
Publications” for Collingwood
and British Idealism Studies.
- Hickerson, Ryan. “Getting
the Quasi-Picture” forthcoming
in the Journal of the History
of Philosophy.
-- “An Indirect Defense
of Direct Realism” in Journal
of Mind and Behavior
- Perlman, Mark. “The Modern
Philosophical Ressurection of
Teleology” in The Monist.
- Harding, Carol. Review of R.
Rutherford, Classical Literature:
A Concise History. (Oxford: Blackwell,
2005). Bryn Mawr Classical Review
(2005; online).
--“To Essay or Not to Essay.”
The Phi Kappa Phi Forum 84.4 (2004):
52-53.
- Hargreaves, David. 2004. “Language
Lessons” (poem) published
in the journal POEM, 91. Hunstville
Literary Association, Huntsville,Alabama.
--"Directional Prefixes in
Kathmandu Newar" in Anju
Saxena (ed.) Himalayan Languages:
Past and Present. Trends in Linguistics.
Studies and Monographs. Berlin:
Mouton.
--“Agency and Intentional
Action in Kathmandu Newar.”
Himalayan Linguistics 4. 1-48.
- Hughes, Henry. "Fish, Sex
and Cannibalism: Appetites for
Conversion in Melville's Typee."
Leviathan: A Journal of Melville
Studies 6.7 (2004): 3-16.
--Rev. of "Drunken Sailor
by John Montague." Forthcoming
in Harvard Review.
--Rev. of “The Fly Fishing
Anthology, edited by Danielle
Ibister.” Aethlon: the Journal
of Sport Literature 22.2 (Spring
2005): 170
--Rev. of "Poppy by Austin
Hummel and Wild Civility by David
Biespiel." Hiram Poetry Review
66 (Spring 2005): 34-39
--Rev. of "Found in a River:
Steelhead & Other Revelations
by Jeff Bright." Aethlon:
the Journal of Sport Literature
21:2 (Winter 2004): 106
--"Lisa's Treatment."
Northwest Review [University of
Oregon] 43.1 (2005): 141-146.
- Keulks, Gavin. 9 articles in
the Oxford Encyclopedia of British
Literature (forthcoming, November
2005).
- Paraskevas, Cornelia. “Learning
About Grammar: Analyze Aloud Protocols
of Preservice Teachers.”
International Journal of Learning,
vol 11: 93-99.
--“Language and Class in
Greek Cemeteries.” To appear
in Studies in Literary Imagination,
Spring 2006.
- Backus, Nick, & Ferraris,
Claire. (2004). Theory meets practice:
Using the Potter Box to teach
business communication ethics.
Proceedings of the 69th Annual
Convention of The Association
for Business Communication. Available:
http://pkp.ubc.ca/abc/ojs/viewarticle.php?id=53
- Nevius, Frank. Weather Reporting.
In The International Journal of
Knowledge, Culture and Change
Management. Commonground Publishing,
2006.
--Disney, Films and Youth: Guides
for Adolescent Development in
Entertainment. In GLIMPSE: Phenomenology
and Media. 2006.
- Plec. Emily. “Dualisms
to Dialogism: Ambivalency in Discourse
about the Natural World”
(with T. Marafiote). Environmental
Communication Yearbook, 2, in
press.
--“Characterizations and
Articulations in Vernacular Environmental
Discourse” (with T. Marafiote).
Journal of the Northwest Communication
Association, 33, 1-19. 2004
--“Poisoning a People, Poisoning
a Planet: Farmworkers, Environmentalist
Justice, and the Material Rhetoric
of Pesticides.” Proceedings
of the 2005 Conference on Communication
and the Environment. Jekyll Island,
Georgia. 2005
--“Frank Waters ecofeminist
sensibility.” In B. Waters
(Ed.), Rekindling the Inner Light
(pp. 167-182). Taos, NM: The Frank
Waters Foundation. 2004
- González-Viaña,
Eduardo. Weekly column, “Correo
de Salem,” published in
approximately 30 Spanish-language
newspapers in the Americas.
- Martella, Gianna. “Lucha
Corpi and the Latina PI in the
U.S.” New Directions in
Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Detective
Fiction. Eds. Jacqueline Collins
and Renée Craig Odders.
2005.
--“Larreta’s Volavérunt:
A Different Kind of Detective
Story.” Historical Detective
Fiction. Ed. Gina MacDonald. 2005.
--“National Identity and
Detective Fiction.” Latin
American Identities: Legacies
and Possibilities. Ed. Kate Quinn.
2005.
- Strand, Cheryl. "Iniciación
a la vida bajo la dictadura: Entrevista
con una española,"
forthcoming in España Contemporánea.
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