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July 21, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
LEON EDEL PRIZE
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of$150, and the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR. The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and graduate students are encouraged to apply. Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under submission elsewhere or previously published. Author’s name should not appear on the manuscript. Please identify essays as submissions for the Leon Edel Prize. A brief curriculum vitae should be included. Decisions about regular publication are also made at the same time as the prize decision. Send submissions (4 copies, produced according to current MLA style, and with return postage enclosed) to: Susan M. Griffin, Editor, The Henry James Review Department of English, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292. Deadline: November 1, 2009.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Women
Thirty years ago, the new fields of Women’s Studies and Feminist Criticism looked with interest at the fiction of Henry James. For many, his work offered an exception to the general misogyny of American male writing; for others, the Master’s oeuvre was irredeemably patriarchal. Those early studies re-oriented our critical understandings of Henry James. Recent archival, biographical, critical, and creative work have again shifted how we understand James’s life and writing and re-opened this topic. The Fall 2010 special issue of the Henry James Review seeks to explore, broadly, how we read James with women in the twenty-first century.
Some possible topics include:
● Women’s Studies’ Henry James vs. Gender Studies’ Henry James
● Letters to, from, and about women
● Women’s love, loving women
● Female bodies: beauty, sex, motherhood, health, disability
● James and female writers: predecessors, contemporaries, and followers; borrowings, criticism, influence, depictions
● Women artists’ James/James’s women artists: depiction, criticism, translation
● Fashion, clothing, interior decoration, objects
● Gendered politics: suffrage, nationalism, feminism, the law
● Women and money: work, consumption, inheritance, gifts, ownership, commodification
● Actresses: depictions, correspondence, casting, performances
● Hospitality: hostesses, salons, visits, parties
● Female family: mothers, sisters, aunts, nieces
Contributions should be submitted in duplicate and produced according to MLA style. Please enclose a cover letter identifying your
manuscript as a Forum submission. Also include return postage. One-page proposals or short (10-12 pages) essays should be sent by March 1, 2010, to:
Susan M. Griffin, Editor
Henry James Review
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
USA
April 20, 2009
Hello,
This will be last Composition News of the semester, and the last of my tenure as Director of Composition. Once again I want to thank everyone for an excellent semester. And once again I want to say how grateful and impressed I am every year with the dedication to student learning shown by instructors in this program. It has been a pleasure working with you and I wish you all clear sailing with your grading and a good summer ahead.
Now to business....there are seven items today but they cover important end-of-semester information so please read them and let me or Linda know if you have questions.
1) Grades: Once you have posted your grades online, you must turn a hard copy of your grades in to Linda Baldwin. We need these in case there are technical problems in the Registrar's Office as well as for our own records. Directions for posting your grades are in the Comp Program Handbook and on the bulletin board above the copier in the Comp Office.
2) Portfolio Storage: Any portfolios you do not return to your students must be stored for one year in the storage room at the back of 4F. There are detailed instructions on how to prepare your portfolios on the door of the storage room and a portfolio storage work area with necessary supplies of labels and tape in the kitchen behind 4H. Please follow these directions so that Linda can easily access student portfolios when she needs to. If you have questions, please contact Linda.
3) Evaluations: Student evaluations must be completed by the last regular day of class (April 22). Please follow the instructions in the evaluation packet.
4) E-Files: People from outside our program, whether across campus or at other universities, are very impressed with the idea of the E-Files Teaching Writing database. I think because we have this resources here we tend to take it for granted. But E-Files can only be a helpful resources if the instructors in the program keep it alive. There is so much good teaching going on that others can benefit from, both new and more experienced instructors. I know I have found a number of things on E-Files I plan to use in the fall. So I ask you to post your favorite assignments and course syllabi on E-Files. It takes just seconds. If you have questions about how to post something on E-Files, please contact Tabetha Adkins (tabetha.adkins@louisville.edu) until the end of May.
5) Copy Bills and Bonnie Library Books: If you received a bill for personal photocopying this semester, please settle that with Linda before the end of this semester. Please bring the bill with you. Also, if you have a Bonnie Library book checked out that you are not using please return that to Linda as well.
6) Digital Writing Classrooms: If you want scheduling preference for one of these classrooms for fall please fill out the scheduling form (http://louisville.edu/english/composition/request-a-computer-classroom) by this Wednesday, April 22. Questions should be directed to Matt Dowell (mldowe01@louisville.edu).
7) Book-in-Common Materials: Copies of the university book-in-common for 2009-2010, Luis Louis Alberto
Urrea's The Devil's Highway, are available in the Bonnie Library. A list of teaching resources is available in the Composition Program Office.
Best,
Bronwyn
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New Bonnie Books, July 2009
A Rhetoric of Style, Barry Brummett
Action Research and New Media, Hearn, Tacchi, Foth, & Lennie
Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s), Ritchie & Ronald, Eds.
Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement, Linda Flower
Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices, Lankshear & Knobel, Eds.
Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook, Lewiecki-Wilson & Brueggemann
Eyes on the Ought To Be: What We Teach When We Teach About Literacy, Kirk Branch
girls, feminism, and grassroots literacies: Activisn in the GirlZone, Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication, Bridgeford, Kitilong, & Selfe, Eds.
Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in 19th Century Black America, Shirley Wilson Logan
Making New Media: Creative Production and Digital Literacies, Andrew Burn
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Literacy Research (Second Edition), Beach, Green, Kamil, & Shanahan, Eds.
Participation and Power: Civic Discourse in Environmental Policy Decisions, W. Michele Simmons
Re-Mapping Narrative: Technology's Impact on the Way We Write, Pagnucci & Mauriello
Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric, Mao & Young, Eds.
Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture and Reading & Writing Online, Bronwyn T. Williams
The Idea of a Writing Laboratory, Neal Lerner
The Language of New Media Design: Theory and Practice, Martinec & van Leeuwen
The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary, Benson & Snee, Eds.
The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction, Shannon Carter
Who Owns This Text? Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures, Haviland & Mullin, Eds.
A Writer Teaches Writing (Revised Second Edition), Donald M. Murray
