Department Faculty

Department Faculty 1999 - 2000

Left to Right:

Back Row Standing: Judith Hiltner, Laurence Musgrove, Augustus Kolich.

Middle Row Standing: Carol Poston, Norman Boyer,

Olga Vilella, John Gutowski.

Front Row Seated: Angelo Bonadonna, Maire Mullins,
Nelson Hathcock.

Updates:

John Gutowski has published The Beast of `Busco: an American Tradition in Midwestern Folklore, Vol. 24, nos. 1-2, 1998.

Nelson Hathcock presented a paper at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference at the University of Louisville, February 22-24, 1999: " `A Spy in the Enemy's Coutnry': Black Like Me as Cold War Narrative."

Judith Hiltner published two papers:

" `She Bled in Secret': Deborah Sampson, Herman Mann and The Female Review," appeared in Early American Literature (34:2, 1999); and, " `Like a bewildered star': Deborah Sampson, Herman Mann and Address Delivered with Applause," which appeared in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (29:2, 1999).

Augustus Kolich gave a paper in Rome, Italy at the Nineteenth-Century Americans in Rome: Cultural Encounters Conference, June 2-5, 1998: "Miriam and the Conversion of the Jews in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun."

Maire Mullins has had an article accepted for publication in The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Her essay is titled "Stopping History in Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps."

Carol Poston, Katie Witek and Judith Arnold have published Research Writing in the Information Age, Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.

Laima Rastenis presented her paper "Is There a Doctor in the House?: Hypochondria in Jane Austen's Emma" at the Jane Austen Society of North American's 21st Annual General Meeting, October 8-10, 1999 in Colorado Springs, CO.

On November 13, Laima was invited to read this same paper in the Chicago Authors Room at the Harold Washington Library. Her reading was sponsored by the Chicago Branch of the League of American Pen Women.

Olga Vilella presented a chapter of her dissertation, Exotics Abroad: Modernismo, Travel and Identity, 1880-1920 as part of the "Workshop of the Visual Arts of the Americas," at the University of Chicago on March 1999. The chapter, titled "Tan grande como la ciudad de Puebla: Modernista Crónicas and the World Fairs," deals with the experiences of the Modernista writers of Latin America as they surveyed their respective countries' participation in the great international world fairs of the century, with particular emphasis on the Chicago Columbian Exhibition of 1893 and the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900.

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Department Faculty 1999 - 2000

		Left to Right:
		Back Row Standing: *Judith Hiltner, Laurence Musgrove, Augustus Kolich.* Middle Row Standing: *Carol Poston, Norman Boyer,* *Olga Vilella, John Gutowski.* Front Row Seated: Angelo Bonadonna, Maire Mullins, Nelson Hathcock.


Updates:

	*John Gutowski has published The Beast of `Busco: an American Tradition* in Midwestern Folklore, Vol. 24, nos. 1-2, 1998.** Nelson Hathcock presented a paper at the Twentieth-Century Literature Conference at the University of Louisville, February 22-24, 1999: " `A Spy in the Enemy's Coutnry': Black Like Me as Cold War Narrative." Judith Hiltner published two papers: " `She Bled in Secret': Deborah Sampson, Herman Mann and The Female Review," appeared in Early American Literature (34:2, 1999); and, " `Like a bewildered star': Deborah Sampson, Herman Mann and Address Delivered with Applause," which appeared in Rhetoric Society Quarterly (29:2, 1999). Augustus Kolich gave a paper in Rome, Italy at the Nineteenth-Century Americans in Rome: Cultural Encounters Conference, June 2-5, 1998: "Miriam and the Conversion of the Jews in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Marble Faun." *Maire Mullins has had an article accepted for publication in The Walt Whitman Quarterly Review. Her essay is titled "Stopping History in Walt Whitman's Drum-Taps."*		*Carol Poston, Katie Witek and Judith Arnold have published Research Writing in the Information Age,* Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1999.** Laima Rastenis presented her paper "Is There a Doctor in the House?: Hypochondria in Jane Austen's Emma" at the Jane Austen Society of North American's 21st Annual General Meeting, October 8-10, 1999 in Colorado Springs, CO. On November 13, Laima was invited to read this same paper in the Chicago Authors Room at the Harold Washington Library. Her reading was sponsored by the Chicago Branch of the League of American Pen Women. Olga Vilella presented a chapter of her dissertation, Exotics Abroad: Modernismo, Travel and Identity, 1880-1920 as part of the "Workshop of the Visual Arts of the Americas," at the University of Chicago on March 1999. The chapter, titled "Tan grande como la ciudad de Puebla: Modernista Crónicas and the World Fairs," deals with the experiences of the Modernista writers of Latin America as they surveyed their respective countries' participation in the great international world fairs of the century, with particular emphasis on the Chicago Columbian Exhibition of 1893 and the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1900.