Fall 2003

Doughty poem accepted for publication
One of Dr. Del Doughty's poems, a haiku about cars, consumerism and the war on Iraq, has been accepted for publication in Volume 10 of Bottle Rockets: A Journal of Short Verse.

Doughty publishes, attends workshops
Dr. Del Doughty's second collection of poems, Flow, will be published next year by Red Moon Press.  On September 20, Doughty will attend the annual meeting of the Haiku Society of America in Evanston, IL.  On October 14, he will attend the National Endowment for the Arts grant writing workshop at the University of Notre Dame.  Doughty's attendance is at the invitation of U.S. Congressman Chris Chocola.

Doughty Poems to be published
A few poems written by Dr. Del Doughty will appear in September editions of the International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun, a Tokyo newspaper.  Also, "Followers of the Way," a long poem about faith and the fear of terror, will appear in the winter issue of Frogpond.

English students accepted in respected programs English student, Sarah Miller, was accepted to the Indiana University Writers Conference earlier this summer.  The conference consisted of a week of workshops, classes, and lectures for all types of writing styles.  Miller was accepted into the Poetry workshops.  Fellow English student, Carole Nickle, has recently received word that she was accepted to study in the Oxford program during the spring semester of 2004.

Three English Majors, in collaboration with Dr. Todd Martin, organized a panel entitled C. S. Lewis and the Moderns which will be a part of the Mideast Conference on Christianity and Literature in October.  Carole Nickle will present her paper, “The Mythopoeic Literature of C. S. Lewis: A Response to the Demythologization of the Gospel Tradition”; Claire Pontius will present her paper, “A Quest for Meaning in Aesthetic Beauty: James Joyce and C. S. Lewis”; and Jeff Scott will present his paper, “Attempting to Fill the Role of the Divine: Mrs. Ramsay and C. S. Lewis’ ‘Gift Love.’” 

Dr. Todd Martin will present his current research on Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat at the Southwest Conference of Christianity and Literature in a paper entitled “Still-birthed Savior: Seeking the Lost Soul of a People in Edwidge Danticat’s ‘Between the Pool and the Gardenias.’”

Dr. Jack Heller recently agreed to serve as a contributing editor for a new online quarterly, The New Pantagruel, with its first publication scheduled for January 2004.  He also attended the Shakespeare and Christianity Conference at Wheaton College.

Dr. Del Doughty recently completed his second poetry collection, entitled Flow, and wrote a review of N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines for Postmodern Culture. 

Spring 2003

Dr. Del Doughty was recognized in Modern Haiku for his long poem, "Flow," as the "Best Poem of the Spring Issue 2003."  In June, Dr. Doughty presented a poster session entitled, "A Kind of Science, A New Kind of Poetics?" at the conference, "A New Kind of Science 2003," in Boston.

Dr. Jack Heller presented "Dogberry's Inscrutable Grace: Reformist 'Propisms' and Renaissance Malapropisms" at the 38th Annual Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May.

Dr. Todd Martin has a review essay of After Southern Modernism which appears in a recent issue of South Atlantic Review, and he has completed an entry on E. E. Cummings for the Encyclopedia of the Home Front: World Wars I and II (forthcoming).  He also traveled to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in May to present a paper, "The Enormous Room as Spiritual Autobiography: A Puritan Context for the Text," at the American Literature Association's annual conference.

Lindsey Van Gelder receives award
Lindsey Van Gelder was named the English Department's Outstanding Senior at the recent Forester Night.

Dr. Urschel chaired a session on English instruction at small, liberal arts colleges at the National College English Association in St. Petersburg, Florida, in April.

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