AEOLIAN HARPINGS
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March 21, 2014
Department of English
Volume XLV Number 11
Baylor University
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Dr. Richard Russell’s essay, “Radical Empathy in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway,” has been
accepted for publication in Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, which is published by Duke
University Press.
Dr. Richard Russell’s edited collection, Peter Fallon: Poet, Publisher, Editor, Translator
received positive reviews in both the Times Literary Supplement (January 16, 2014 issue) and the
Sunday Business Post (January 19, 2014).
Dr. Richard Russell gave a paper, “The Yeatsian Intertexts in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace” at the
annual meeting of the British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies conference in Savannah,
Georgia, February 14-15, 2014.
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Dr. William V. Davis’s poem, “John Ashbery in Ohio,” has been published in the Southwest
Review, 98:3, 384.
Dr. William V. Davis’s essay, “Crisscrossing the Continent: From Black Mountain to Vancouver,”
has been published in the book Cultural Circulation: Dialogues between Canada and the
American South, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz and Christoph Irmscher, eds. Verlag der
Ősterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Wien, 2013), 255-74.
Dr. William V. Davis’s poem “A Visit,” has been published in The Southern Review, 49:4
(Autumn, 2013), 626-27.
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Professor Arna Hemenway’s forthcoming book, Elegy on Kinderklavier (Sarabande, July 2014),
was chosen as a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers series pick for the summer. It
will be featured in a special display at all Barnes and Noble stores across the country. The book
has also been named a “Key Summer Title” by Library Journal.
Professor Arna Hemenway’s short story, “A Self-Made Man”, has been published in Ecotone
(Vol. 8.2, Issue 15, 2013), the literary review of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Professor Arna Hemenway’s short story, “Helping”, has been published in literary journal A
Public Space (Issue 20, Winter 2014), alongside work by Per Petterson, Helen Oyeyemi, Eileen
Myles and Ander Monson.
On February 5, Professor Arna Hemenway gave a reading and answered questions at the
Windhover Writers’ Festival at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas.
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Dr. Alex Engebretson published a review of Styles of Extinction: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
in Western American Literature Journal 48.4.
CONFERENCE—CALLS FOR PAPERS
Information has been received from Common Ground Publishing concerning their Books and
Publishing Conference. The conference is scheduled for November 8-9, 2014, in Boston, MA.
Proposals for paper presentations are encouraged, and topics may include publishing practices;
reading, writing, literacy, and learning; and books and literature. Presenters may also choose to
submit written papers for publications in the fully refereed International Journal of the Book.
The deadline for proposal submissions is April 1, 2014. For more information, please visit their
website at http://booksandpublishing.com/the-conference, or see the flier on file in CS 106.
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Information has been received from Belmont Abbey College concerning their second annual
literary conference, June 13-15, 2014, in Belmont, NC. The conference, “Voice and Resonance
in Contemporary Literary Studies,” will feature keynote speaker Mary Karr. Paper submissions
are welcome, and topics may include conceptions of voice in any of the periods of literary
history; tensions between voice and the formal or rhetorical elements of a poem; or questions
concerning gender, race, and the performance of voice, just to name a few. Paper abstracts of
250-300 can be submitted to josephpizza@bac.edu or albenthall@bac.edu by April 15, 2014. For
more information, please visit their website at www.bacliteraryconference.com, or see the flier
on file in CS 106.
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Information has been received from the University of Mississippi concerning their forty-first
annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference, entitled “Faulkner and History,” July 20-24,
2014. The conference program will include six keynote speakers, panel presentations, guided
daylong tours of North Mississippi, the Delta, and Memphis, and various sessions on “Teaching
Faulkner”. In addition to the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha conference, there will be a Southern
Writers, Southern Writing Graduate Student conference July 17-19, 2014. Bother critical and
creative submissions will be accepted, dealing with all aspects of Southern culture. The deadline
for submissions is April 1, 2014 by 5:00 p.m. For more information, please email Thomas
Bullington at swswgradconference@gmail.com, or see the flier on file in CS 106.
FURTHER STUDIES
Information has been received from the University of Houston-Downtown concerning the launch
of their Master of Arts program in Rhetoric and Composition (MARC). To apply, please
complete the Apply Texas form at www.applytexas.org, submit a 500-word statement of
purpose, a 10-15 page writing sample, two letters of recommendation, official transcripts, and
GRE score by July 15, 2014. For more information, please visit their website at
www.uhd.edu/marc, or see the flier on file in CS 106.