Professor Rachel Hall’s short story “Old Order” has just been published in the winter 2014 issue of the journal Midwestern Gothic.
McCoy essay to be reprinted in book history anthology
Distinguished Teaching Professor Beth McCoy’s 2006 PMLA article “Race and the (Para)textual Condition” will be reprinted in a new anthology on the history of the book due out in May 2014 from Broadview Press.
The Broadview Reader in Book History is edited by Michelle Levy and Tom Mole.
From the publisher’s website:
Book History has emerged as one of the most exciting new interdisciplinary fields of study in the humanities. By focusing on the production, circulation, and reception of the book in all its forms, it has transformed the study of history, literature and culture. The Broadview Reader in Book History is the most complete and up-to-date introduction available to this area of study.
The reader reprints edited versions of key essays in the field, grouped conceptually and provided with headnotes, explanatory footnotes, an introduction, a chronology and a glossary of terms.
Professor and alumna collaborate on encyclopedia article
Professor Tom Greenfield and Kaitlyn C. Allen (English ’12) have co-authored an article on “Broadway” for Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture, edited by Jacqueline Edmondson and published by Greenwood Press in October 2013.
According to the publisher’s website, Music in American Life “demonstrates the symbiotic relationship between this art form and our society. Entries include singers, composers, lyricists, songs, musical genres, places, instruments, technologies, music in films, music in political realms, and music shows on television.”
Bootlegged Stelzig essay on Dylan finally available in print
In 1976, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Gene Stelzig completed his contribution to a collection of academic essays on Bob Dylan, then watched for the publication of the volume, edited by Patrick Morrow, by the Popular Press.
The Popular Press reneged on the signed agreement and the volume never appeared. “Bob Dylan’s Career as a Blakean Visionary and Romantic,” Stelzig’s essay, thus began its career as bootleg scholarship, quietly circulated among fans and students of Dylan’s work. The essay was quoted several times in Robert Shelton’s biographical study No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (1986), though misidentified there as an unpublished dissertation.
Since, over the years, Stelzig has happily provided a copy of his essay to anyone who’s requested one, it would probably be more accurate to characterize his work as “privately transmitted open-access scholarship.” In any case, thanks to the Open SUNY Textbook Program, in which Geneseo’s Milne Library has played a leading role, the essay is at long last publicly available open-access scholarship, free for the downloading on the Milne Library website or available in a handsome, print-on-demand edition from Amazon.
“I’m delighted to participate as an open-access author and to have the essay available to anyone who wants to see it, either in print or online,” said Stelzig for SUNY Geneseo’s press release. “The piece has led a sort of underground life for decades in the wake of Robert Shelton listing it in the bibliography of his biography of Dylan, so I’m delighted that Milne Library is making it available and easily accessible to anyone.”
New article from McCoy
Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Beth McCoy’s essay “Second Line and the Art of Witness: Steve Prince’s Katrina Suite” appears in the most recent issue (78) of the journal Image.
The journal has made available this excerpt from McCoy’s essay as well as McCoy’s interview with Prince.
Prince, who has been selected by Image as its October 2013 artist of the month, visited SUNY Geneseo in March 2012.
Alumni in print
Two English major alums have made recent appearances in print.
Marc DiPaolo (1997), Assistant Professor of English and Film at Oklahoma City University is the editor of Unruly Catholics from Dante to Madonna: Faith, Heresy, and Politics in Cultural Studies, recently out from Scarecrow Press. Unruly Catholics is an interdisciplinary anthology featuring essays by, among others, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor Ronald Herzman, who contributed the essay “Dante: Cafeteria Catholic?” DiPaolo’s own contribution to the volume is an autobiographical essay on C.S. Lewis, Madonna, and the greatness of a SUNY Geneseo liberal arts education. Other contributors include Frederick S. Roden, Darren Middleton, and John Kenneth Muir. DiPaolo is also War, Politics, and Superheroes: Ethics and Propaganda in Comics and Film (2011); Emma Adapted: Jane Austen’s Heroine from Book to Film (2007); Godly Heretics: Essays on Alternative Christianity in Literature and Popular Culture (2013); and Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh (2013). You can learn more about him on the alumni profile page he recently created on our website.
Meanwhile, Patrick Morgan (2010), who is pursuing a Ph.D. in English at Duke University, has contributed an essay on Practicing Web Wisdom: Mindfully Incorporating Digital Literacies into the Classroom” to a new volume on open teaching titled Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning from HASTAC.
From the website: “Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning is intended to assist anyone embarking on open teaching. It offers foundational methods, examples, and explanatory theories for how to set up the practices of a class, how to determine guiding principles, how to theorize what you are doing in the classroom, how to design the class, how to include multimedia elements and approaches such as games, and how to ensure that you have designed a class for inclusion, not exclusion. Finally, the openness of the learning should continue even after the book is published/goes public, and the chapters in the ‘Invitations’ section offer advice on how to extend your open practices to the world beyond the classroom. This is by no means the only way to set up peer-to-peer teaching, but it is an account of the way we have done it, with as much detail as possible to encourage others to try, in whatever way suits their community and purposes.”