AEOLIAN HARPINGS
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October 25, 2013
Department of English
Volume XLV Number 8
Baylor University
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Dr. William V. Davis’s poem “A Walk Around the Block” has been published in The Hopkins
Review, 6:2 New Series (Spring, 2013), 212.
Dr. William V. Davis gave a reading of my poems at the Langdon Review Weekend in
Granbury, Texas, September 6, 2013.
Dr. William V. Davis’s poem “Message” has been published in The Hopkins Review, 6:2 New
Series (Spring, 2013), 213.
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Dr. Joshua King has been commissioned to write an article, “Newman and Print Culture”
(10,000 words) for The Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman, ed. Frederick D. Aquino and
Benjamin J. King (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017).
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Dr. Marie Smart’s article “New Novel, Old Tune: Beckett, Radio, and Postwar France” will
appear in an upcoming issue of Modernism/modernity (Johns Hopkins University Press).
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Dr. Alex Engebretson signed a book contract with the University of South Carolina Press to
publish “Understanding Marilynne Robinson” in 2015.
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Rachel Pietka’s article, “There Is No Me Like My Statue: Life and Text in Zora Neale Hurston’s
Dust Tracks on a Road,” will be published in Pacific Coast Philology, Spring 2014.
Rachel Pietka’s article, “Stories for ‘good young girls’: Louisa May Alcott, Gender, and
Realism,” was accepted for publication in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
Rachel Pietka presented a paper, “A Gluttonous and Feathery Virtue: Emily Dickinson and Hope,”
at the Conference on Christianity and Literature at Houston Baptist University, Sept. 2013.
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Dr. Elisabeth Wolfe’s (Ph.D., ’09) article “Þaʒ Hit Displese Oft: Monastic Obedience in
Patience” was scheduled to appear in the summer 2013 issue of Christianity and Literature.
Dr. Elisabeth Wolfe had a chapter accepted for a book on the TV series Supernatural that’s
being published by Palgrave Macmillan.
Dr. Elisabeth Wolfe has a historical fantasy novella that should be serialized in a new online
magazine, Liberty Island, beginning next month.
Dr. Elisabeth Wolfe self-published her historical novella Loyal Valley: Assassination through
Smashwords and CreateSpace.
Dr. Elisabeth Wolfe had been invited to appear at the Harker Heights Library Author Fair on
November 9, 2013.
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Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson (Ph.D., ’09), Associate Director of the Honors program and Assistant
Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at John Brown University, has two books under
peer review at academic publishing houses.
Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson received a Fulbright award to teach in Prague next year.
CONFERENCES—CALLS FOR PAPERS
Information has been received from Colorado Mesa University concerning their request for prose
and poetry submissions to Pinyon, their journal of literature and art. Any subject or style may be
submitted in typewritten form and mailed to Managing Editor; Pinyon; Languages, Literature
and Mass Communications; Colorado Mesa University; 1100 North Avenue; Grand Junction,
CO 81501. If submitting poems, please send 3-5 single page poems with your name, address,
phone number, and email address; fiction and non-creative fiction pieces should contain the same
information on the first page. All submissions must include a self-addressed stamped envelope.
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2013. For more information, please see the flyer on
file in CS 106.
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Information has been received from The University of Texas concerning their African
conference, “African Diasporas: Old and New.” The aim of the conference, scheduled for April
3-6, 2014, is to create an interdisciplinary dialogue about African and Africans throughout the
world from both historical and contemporary approaches. Interested participants may submit
paper proposals on subjects ranging from the concept of homeland to new media and social
media in the African Diaspora. Submitted papers will be assigned to different panels throughout
the conference according to their theme, topic, discipline, or geographical location. Selected
papers will be publishing in a book. Proposals should include a 250-word abstract and title, along
with the author’s name, address, telephone number, email address, and institutional affiliation.
The deadline for submissions is November 20, 2013, and can be sent to Cacee Hoyer or Danielle
Sanchez at africaconference2014@gmail.com or toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu. For more
information, please visit their website at http://www.utexas.edu/cola/orgs/2014africaconference/calls-for-papers.php, or see the flyer on file in CS 106.
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Information has been received from Colorado State University-Pueblo concerning their twentythird annual conference, “The Image of the Hero (Heroine, Anti-hero, Villain) in Literature,
Media, and Society.” Some suggested topics for paper submissions are the hero in literature, art,
popular culture: novels, statues, movies, TV, songs, comics; the emergence of the superhero:
from comics to mainstream; and villains as necessary contrast (foils). Please submit a one-page
abstract or panel proposal with abstracts to hero@colostate-pueblo.edu by December 9, 2013.
For more information, please contact Will Wright at 719-549-2538 or will.wright@colostatepueblo.edu, or see the flyer on file in CS 106.