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Wes Burdine in January published an edited volume of soccer journalism, The Complete Darkness, and started an independent press that will be publishing six books this year called Byline Press.Seonna Kim presented a paper entitled "Camptown Biopolitics and Camptown Women's Activism in An Ilsun's Mudflat" at the 2014 Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference in October 2014. She'll be presenting another paper, "'One Korea Plus One America Equals...Countryless': Claiming Statelessness against the Biopolitics of Transnational Adoption and Homecoming in Jane Jeong Trenka's Memoirs," at the 2015 Association for Asian American Studies (AAAS) Conference in April 2015.
Adam Lindberg presented the invited talk "Playing Badly, Playing Well: Deviance and Meaningful Play in Video Games, Literature, and Popular Culture" at Glitch Gaming at the University of Minnesota in 2014. He was an invited panelist to "Thinking Critically about Video Games," co-sponsored by the U's Digital Arts Sciences + Humanities (DASH) and the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) in March of 2015. He will present "How to Do Anything with Game Ontology: Deviant and Meaningful Play" at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference in New Orleans, April 2015.
Andrew Marzoni reviewed Leonard Cohen and Philosophy (edited by Jason Holt) for Review 31. He was awarded a DDF Conference Presentation Grant (by the Graduate School) to present the paper "The Realities of Post-Fiction" at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference in New Orleans in April. He has an article titled "Sympathy for the Devil: Godard's One Plus One and the Battle of the Brows" forthcoming in Cinephile 11.1.
Kristina Popiel will give the paper "Work, work, work: Women's paid, unpaid, and literary labors in a historicized reading of Diana Garcia's labor poetry" at the Gender and Work: Exploring Intersectionality, Resistance, and Identity conference at the University of South Dakota, April 9-10, 2015.
Michael Rowe has an article entitled "Jack London's Wolf Cubs, Michel Serres's Burning Ship, and the Creaturely Situation" out in The European Journal of English Studies, spring 2015. He has also recently published a short story on Columbia's Catch & Release blog and will present a paper entitled "Real Intimacy is Unnatural: Deleuze, Timothy Morton, and Octavia Butler's 'Bloodchild'" at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Conference in New Orleans this April.
Amanda Taylor will publish "The Body of Law: Bodies, Combat, and Rhetoric in Sir Thomas Malory's Quest for Justice" in Arthuriana. She presided over three sessions and was co-editor of the forthcoming proceedings of the 2015 Newberry Graduate Student Conference. Her session with co-organizers Becky Krug and Theresa Kemp (UW-Eau Claire) was accepted for the 2015 Attending to Early Modern Women conference. She was invited to give the talk "Rhetorical Ornamentation and the Martial Body: Armor in Early Modern English and Italian Epic Romances" as part of the Literacy and Rhetorical Studies Spring Research Series. She was also named second alternate for a 2015-16 Interdisciplinary Fellowship.
PhD Alumnae/i
James J. Berg (PhD 1996) co-edited, with Chris Freeman, The American Isherwood, which was published in January by University of Minnesota Press.Ruth Berman (PhD 1979) translated and wrote an afterword for the publication of a pair of little-known 18th-century French fairytales, Louise Cavelier Levesque's "The Prince of the Aquamarines" and "The Invisible Prince" on Aqueduct Press, a small Seattle press focusing on feminist science fiction/fantasy.
Joyce Sutphen (BA 1982, MA 1993, PhD 1996) will serve as the Commencement Speaker at the University of Minnesota at Morris' 52nd commencement May 9. Sutphen was appointed as Minnesota's second poet laureate by Governor Mark Dayton in August 2011. As poet laureate, she is the state's primary spokesperson, supporter, and promoter of poetry. Sutphen also is a professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College.
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