For the record, May 20, 2005

Rudi Matthee, professor of history, “Negotiating Across Cultures: The Duch Van Leene Mission to the Iranian Court of Shah Sulayman, 1689-1692,” in Eurasian Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pages 35-64 and “Tobacco in Iran,” in Smoke: A Global History of Smoking, pages 58-69, 369-371, Reaktion Press.

Ben Yagoda, professor of English, “Grunt’s Eye View,” in Columbia Journalism Review, March/April [http://www.cjr.org/issues/2005/2/second-read.asp].

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, poems, “Flt. #4372,” in On the Wing, American Poems of Air and Space Flight, University of Iowa Press, 2005, pages 76-77; “Protestant Icon” and “Laying the Stones,” in Rock and Sing, vol. 1, no. 1, pages 106-107; “Bell,” in The Christian Century, May 3, 2005, page 11; “How Mother Courage Saves Desdemona,” in In A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare, University of Iowa Press, page 79; and essays, “Breaking the Illusions: What Playwrights Owe to Actors,” in Image, no. 45, pages 79-80, and “A Comment on the State of the Art: Poetry in 2004,” in Christianity and Literature, vol. 54, no. 1, pages 93-110.

Presentations

Ann Ardis, professor of English and associate dean of arts and sciences, “Modernism in The New Age: Promoting/Protesting an Emergent Aesthetic,” at Society for the Study of Narrative Literature meeting, April, Louisville, Ky.

Joan DelFattore, professor of English, an invited paper, “What Is Past Is Prelude: The Newdow Case and the Evolution of Thought on Religious Affirmations in Public Schools,” at Penn Law Journal of Constitutional Law Symposium, Feb. 12, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 12.

John Jebb, assistant professor of English, designed and led biweekly series, “Detective Fiction: Tradition and Innovation,” at Rising Sun Public Library, April and May.

Kevin Kerrane, professor of English, “Journalistic Tools: Quotes vs. Descriptive Detail,” at Wilmington Writers’ Workshop, April 17.

Elaine Safer, professor of English, “Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and The Plot Against America,” at Pennsylvania State University, March 17; “Mocking the Age: The Plot Against America,” at 20th-Century Colloquium, April 7; “The Plot Against America: Possibility or Paranoia,”at Jewish Studies Program, University of Delaware, April 19; “Humor in Philip Roth,” at International Society for Humor Studies meeting, June 13-17, Youngstown State University, Ohio; and member of Philip Roth panel, and panel chair of “American Visions of Europe,” at American Literature Association meeting, May 26-29, Boston.

Jeanne Walker, professor of English, poetry readings: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Ardmore, Pa., Feb. 13; Westmont College, Santa Barbara, Calif., Feb. 18; Eastern University, St. David’s, Pa., Feb. 23; Academy of Lifelong Learning, Wilmington, Del., March 8; The Center for the Book, Pennsylvania State University, March 24; Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Ill., April 14; and Rosenbach Museum and Library, April 20; staged reading and talk, “The Queen’s Two Bodies” at the Arts and Soul Conference, April 9, Baylor University, Waco, Texas; and panelist at AWP Convention, April 2, Vancouver, B.C.

Awards

Carl Dawson, professor of English, and Susan Goodman, H. Fletcher Brown Professor of English, received an Andrew W. Mellow Fellowship, Huntington Library, to write a biography of Mary Austin.

J.A. Leo Lemay, Winterthur Professor pf English, received an award for distinguished contributions to early American studies from the Society of Early Americanists, March 31, Alexandria, Va.

Service

Joan DelFattore, professor of English, was elected to the board of directors of the Delaware ACLU and will serve on the organization’s Legal Affairs Committee.

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