English and Creative Writing Major Published in Top Journal

Julie Levine, a senior English and Creative Writing major, has published an article in the International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. Her article, entitled “The Psychodynamics of Shame and Guilt in Great Expectations,” is based on a paper she wrote for Professor Otis’s Victorian Novel course in the spring of 2010. Below is a link to her article, which examines the ways Charles Dickens represented guilt and shame. Congratulations to Julie for a fine publication!

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aps.313/abstract

Howard to Speak in Kemp Malone Library

Jean E. Howard, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University will present “Objects and the Displaced Subject: Shakespeare’s Othello and Salih’s Season of Migration to the North” in the Kemp Malone Library on Wednesday, October 5, at 4:00PM.  She will also conduct the colloquium Editing Shakespeare Now in the Kemp Malone at noon on Thursday, October 6.

Sally Wolff-King to Speak at Library of Congress

The Library of Congress asked Sally Wolff-King to talk about her most recent Faulkner book, Ledgers of History:  William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary (Wolff, LSU Press, 2010), on August 9, 2011.  The lecture will be webcast—not live, but posted on the Library of Congress website within a few weeks of the event itself.

Sally Wolff King spoke at Chapel Hill, Bucknell, and Macon State about her new book Ledgers of History:  William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary (Wolff, LSU Press, 2010). Other lectures will take place in the spring semester.  The book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

She has also had a number of speaking engagements around town, as well as book signings, in and out of town, including at the Emory Barnes and Noble.

Also the Emory bookstore hosted a signing for the new Emory history, which she co-edited with Gary Hauk.  The book is titled Where Courageous Inquiry Leads: The Emerging Life of Emory University (Hauk and King, Bookhouse Group, 2010).

Recent Reiss Publications

Ben Reiss’s review essay, “From Affect to Disorder: Pills and Personality in the Age of DSM-III” has been published in the March 2010 issue of American Quarterly.  Also, his book, The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum’s America, has been published in a new paperback edition by Harvard University Press.  It can be found on Amazon here.

Foster to Appear on Campus for Reading and Book Signing

Professor Frances Smith Foster, Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies, will read from her new book, Till Death or Distance Do Us Part:  Love and Marriage in African America (Oxford University Press, 2010) at 6:00 PM on Monday, March 22nd.  the reading will take place at the Center for Ethics, Room 102 and will be followed by a signing.

The book, which is based on evidence found in letters, poems, sermons, essays, and other documents, examines and challenges existing theories about slave marriages and the effect that slave marriages have had on modern African American unions.  The book is Professor Foster’s second contribution to the Center for the Study of Law and Religion’s project, “Sex, Marriage, and Family & the Religions of the Book,” the first being Love and Marriage in Early African America (Northeastern University Press, 2007).

More information about this event can be obtained by calling 404-727-6754.

Alumna Elliott Inks Publishing Deal

Rosslyn Elliott, Ph.D. ’06, has just signed a three-book contract for her historical novels with Thomas Nelson Publishers, the largest Christian publisher in the world and the seventh-largest trade book publisher in the USA. Rosslyn’s novels take place in nineteenth-century Ohio and are based on real families who worked on the Underground Railroad.

Sally Wolff-King’s Media Appearances

As a result of her recent connection of a ledger kept by a Mississippi slaveholder with the works of William Faulkner, Professor Sally Wolff-King has been interviewed this week by both  The New York Times and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.  Her book concerning this find and the friendship between Faulkner and the owner of the ledger, Edwin Wiggin Francisco, Jr., is called Ledgers of History:  William Faulkner, an Almost Forgotten Friendship, and an Antebellum Plantation Diary and will be published by LSU Press in the fall.

Schiff Article Accepted

Graduate student Sarah Schiff’s article, “Power Literature and the Myth of Racial Memory” was accepted for publication by Modern Fiction Studies.  Modern Fiction Studies, which is published by Johns Hopkins University Press, can be accessed through Emory Libraries’ eJournals web page.

Chase Hired by MARBL

Elizabeth Chase, a current graduate student who specializes in contemporary Irish literature and women’s studies, has been hired as the Coordinator of Research Services for Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL).