AEOLIAN HARPINGS
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February 22, 2013
Department of English
Volume XLV Number 4
Baylor University
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Dr. William V. Davis’s article, “‘Begin and cease, and then again begin’: Rereading Matthew
Arnold’s ‘Dover Beach,’” has been published in English Past and Present, Wolfgang Viereck,
ed. (Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main, 2012), 265-275.
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Dr. Joshua King has been invited to write an article, “The Oxford Movement and Victorian
Literature,” for The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Victorian Literature (4 vols.), eds. Dino Felluga,
Pamela K. Gilbert, and Linda K. Hughes (Blackwell 2015).
Dr. Joshua King has been invited to write an article, “Christianity and Literature,” for the
collection Reading Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature, ed. Emma Mason
(Bloomsbury 2014).
Dr. Joshua King has been invited to write an article, “Arnold and the Modern Story of Religion
and Literature,” for The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion, ed. Mark Knight
(Routledge 2015).
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Jeff Bilbro, David Clark, and Christina Iluzada have had their essay “Responding Effectively to
Composition Students: Comparing Student Perceptions of Written and Audio Feedback”
accepted for publication in the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching.
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Cameron Moore had an article, “Take Away the Supernatural and What Remains is the
Unnatural: Power, Secularization, and G.K. Chesterton’s Villains,” published in Inklings Forever
vol. 8 (2012).
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Christina Boyles had an article, “Ingmar Bergman Looks Through a Glass Darkly,” accepted for
publication in the South Central Review.
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Jeremy Larson had an article, “Samuel Johnson and Presbyterianism” published in Pro Rege
50.3 (2012): 18-30.
Jeremy Larson had an article, “Embracing Popular Culture’s Fascination with Mythology”
accepted for publication in Pro Rege 51.3 (2013).
CONFERENCES—CALLS FOR PAPERS
Information has been received from Sam Houston State University concerning their International
Conference on Medieval & Renaissance Thought April 4-6, 2013. The conference will feature
Professor Richard North, Scholar of Old English Literature from the University of London. For
more information, please contact Dr. Darci Hill at eng_dnh@shsu.edu, or call her at (936) 2941473.
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Information has been received from Hawaii University concerning their International Conference
June 10-12, 2013, at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu Hawaii. The HUIC encourages students
to submit papers, proposals and abstracts by March 15, 2013 pertaining to areas of Education,
Mathematics, Engineering Technology and related fields. The conference aims to provide a
platform for researchers, engineers and academicians, as well as industrial professionals to
present their research results and development. Please email abstracts and papers in PDF form to
either mathengineering@huicawaii.org or educations@huicawaii.org. Two submissions per
author are allowed. For more information, please visit their website at
http://www.huichawaii.org, or see the flier on file in CS 106.
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Information has been received from the University of Leeds concerning their International
Medieval Congress July 1-4, 2013, which will take place for the first time of the University of
Leeds’s main campus. The theme for this year’s conference is pleasure, and specifically the
medieval Christian’s attitude toward pleasure. For more information, please visit their website at
www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2013.html, or see the flier on file in CS 106.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Information has been received from Diablo Valley College concerning two full-time tenure track
positions open in the English Department for the 2013-2014 academic year. To apply, please
submit a cover letter, Contra Costa Community College application, resume, college transcripts,
and equivalency form with supporting documentation, as well as answer the required
supplemental questions. All applications and materials must be received by 4:00 p.m. on March
14, 2013. To apply, please visit their website at www.4cd.edu, and click on Career
Opportunities. For more information, please see the flier on file in CS 106
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Echoes of the Aeolian Harp
Dr. Tom Hanks reports the National Assessment of Educational Progress has recently published
Reading, Thinking, and Writing: Results from the 1979-80 National Assessment of Reading and
Literature. Chapter three discusses the approaches high school seniors take to poems and stories.
This study suggests that the primary emphasis—at least in English 2300—should be placed on
How one analyzes poetry, fiction, and drama. Otherwise, a student will dumbly accept faculty
interpretations, parrot them back, and thus fail to develop the ability to analyze literature for
him—or herself.
From Aeolian Harpings 31:19 (6 January 1982).