Volume 49.6

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Chair: Kent Baxter
Notes compiled by: Kate Haake

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Announcements

Check out the English Department grad students in conversation with the Art Department grad students. “(Re)Composition: A Call and Response between Artists and Writers,” is a collaboration between Leilani Hall‘s Graduate Studies in Creative Writing course and the Art Department’s Professor Michelle Rozic’s Graduate MFA Seminar course.  Artists and writers each began by creating a piece of creative writing or an artwork.  Writers and artists then exchanged and created a response inspired by the initial call, filtered through the lens of the formal and conceptual parameters of their personal aesthetic. The exhibit runs from November 13 through November 16 in the CSUN West Gallery. A reading will take place on Tuesday, November 14, from 4:00 p.m to 5:30 p.m. with a reception to follow.

The Awards Committee has announced the opening of our fall awards season. These awards include  the Linda Nichols Joseph English Merit Scholarship, the Oliver W. Evans Writing Prize, the Eva Latif Writing Prize in Children’s Literature, the Philip E. Love English 205 Scholarship, the Peterson Morley Award, the Richard Lid and Helen Lodge Scholarship, and the Thomas Matthew Magness Graduate Memorial Fund. These awards are important to students and carry, in addition to coveted recognitions, monetary benefits, especially valued in the holiday season. Please do your part to encourage your most gifted students to apply and to make nominations of your own. For complete details, including eligibility requirements and application instructions, please contact Amenities and Awards Committee Chair, Leilani Hall, at leilani.hall@csun.edu.

The Northridge Review had a fabulous launch of its new, three-semester edition last night. The event was well attended, and except for an escaped helium balloon still floating high in CSUN’s Bianchi Planetarium, all went smoothly and to rave reviews. Look for your own copy on the 7th floor soon. Meantime, deepest thanks to all those who at helped make this issue and event such a great success, beginning with Chris Higgs, who steered it through its recent transition following Mona Houghton’s retirement, and Kristin Kaz, who made it beautiful, to match the writing. In recognition of the evening, the Review has reopened submissions for a one-week period, ending next Wednesday, November 15. Please let your students know there is still time to submit their best work.

Achievements

Irene Clark’s chapter titled, “ Neuroplasticity, Genre, and Identity: Possibilities and Complications” has been published in Contemporary Perspectives on Cognition and Writing, edited by Patricia Portanova, J. Michael Rifenburg, and Duane Roen. The book is available in print through the University Press of Colorado and in PDF and ePub formats from the WAC Clearinghouse at https://wac.colostate.edu.
John Garcia, who will be joining us in the Spring after completing a post-doc in Philadelphia, had an article “He Hath Ceased to Be a Citizen”: Stephen Burroughs, Late Loyalists, Lower Canada, published in Early American in an issue of the journal John also co-edited . Here are the links for your reading pleasure https://muse.jhu.edu/article/675666 and https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/37360/.
Noreen Lace had a poem, “UnWalden Pond,” published in What Lies Beneath: a Journal of Literature and Poetry.

Colleen Tripp’s article “Beyond the Black Atlantic: Pacific Rebellions and the Gothic in Herman Melville’s “Benito Cereno” just came out! It’s in The Journal of Transnational American Studies, and the issue’s theme is “Transnational American Studies in the Age of Trump” (Volume 8 Issue 1, 2017). And it can be read here: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5k00f4gh.