I wrote the following message to a national Sacred Harp listserv in December of 2006, during a two-year postdoctoral appointment at the University of Alberta. This research fellowship allowed me to […]
“English in Print” exhibition to open at the Grolier Club in New York
English in Print: From Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton, the companion exhibit to the new book by Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred C. Robinson, will open at The Grolier Club in […]
The TLS reviews Queneau’s “Letters, Numbers, Forms”
The April 4, 2008, issue of the The Times Literary Supplement features a review of Raymond Queneau’s Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70. The book’s translator receives high praise. “Jordan Stump has […]
More on digital delivery of academic scholarship
The New York Times reported today that three academic publishers are suing Georgia State University over GSU’s free distribution of copyrighted material in “coursepacks.” And, today’s Inside Higher Ed has a piece on professors […]
NEW YORK, NEW YORKED!
Sometimes, to maintain credibility, you need to point out the not-so-good reviews. The publicist sheepishly suggests, all publicity is good publicity. […]
Book Sense recommends Lorna Goodison
Lorna Goodison appears in Book Sense’s April picks list for her new book From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (Amistad/Harper Collins). The University of Illinois […]
Hazel Dickens radio interview
NPR affiliate WJFF Radio Catskill will air a segment featuring an interview with Hazel Dickens at 12:00 noon eastern time on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. Listen live, or via the station […]
Fun science news
If this blog stops publishing this summer, yesterday’s Los Angeles Times might have the explanation. “Europe’s enormous $8-billion particle accelerator, to be activated as early as this summer, is generating both excitement […]
Erika Falk on C-Span’s Book TV
Erika Falk, author of Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns, will be featured this weekend on C-Span’s Book TV. The segment was filmed at Dr. Falk’s recent lecture at the […]
Getting to know Champaign-Urbana, Part 6
Well, Hoopeston, Illinois, isn’t officially in the immediate Champaign-Urbana “neighborhood,” but we’re all East Central Illinoisans here. This week the New York Underground Film Festival is premiering the documentary Hoopeston, “a tale of […]
SUNY Press’s new E-Book initiative
Inside Higher Ed reports today that SUNY Press is testing a new way to sell text books. “Under the program, which was announced Tuesday, the press will simultaneously make available, for […]
“Lost” on tour
Following Oprah’s reading of David Wagoner’s poem Lost, the poet updated us on the varied apperances of this popular verse. “The poem has had a very strange history in addition to David Whyte‘s […]