Division of Languages and Literature 2004-05

ENGLISH

Margaret Davis

Publications:

• "Teaching Short Fiction: A Fairy Tale Beginning" accepted for publication in Academic Exchange Quarterly for Spring 2005 (peer reviewed)

• "Narrative Struggle to Accept the Other: Diane McPherson's Coming Home, Sena Jeter Naslund's Four Spirits, and Will Campbell's Brother to a Dragonfly " accepted for publication in journal proceedings of the Conflict in Southern Writing conference (peer reviewed)

Awarded:

• Rank of professor

• Mini-grant from Alabama Humanities Foundation for the SHC Friends of the Library literary program

• Grant for Core Development Committee's summer workshop on assessment

 Attended:

• Conflict in Southern Writing Conference, Troy State University, Montgomery, Alabama 

• Presented conference paper: "The Narrative Struggle to Accept the Other"

• Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) Conference on General Education and Assessment: Creating Shared Responsibility for Learning Across the Curriculum, Atlanta, Georgia

• Fourth Jesuit Core Curriculum Conference, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

• Presented conference paper: "How Do They Know We're Who We Say We Are?"

• Led roundtable discussion following presentation 

• SHC professional development workshops

• SHC Teaching for Solidarity summer workshop

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Led interview and discussion with Sonny Brewer, author of Poet of Tolstoy Park, for SHC Friends of Library presentation

• Workshop for SHC faculty teaching writing-enriched courses (with Stephanie Girard)

Member:

• Friends of Spring Hill College Library:  Board of Directors; Director of Literary Series

Works in progress:

• Reworking Hopkins paper for submission to a journal

Stephanie Girard

Publications:

• Making Sense: Constructing Knowledge in the Arts and Sciences (with Coleman, Brittenham, and Campbell.)  2nd edition, Houghton-Mifflin (forthcoming, 2006)

Attended:

• Eugene Walter Writers Festival, Mobile, Alabama

• Roundtable presenter:  "Just the Facts?:  Putting the 'Creative' in Creative Nonfiction"

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Workshop for SHC faculty teaching writing-enriched courses (with Margaret Davis)

Works in progress:

• Working on the photojournalism and poverty project with Barbara Starr and others

John Hafner

Awarded:

• Gautrelet Award from the SHC Alumni Association for excellence in my profession

Attended:

• Alabama Writers Symposium, Monroeville, Alabama

• Chattanooga Conference on Southern Literature, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Lectures/talks/readings given:

• Delivered four lectures on southern literature at the West Regional Branch of the Mobile Public Library 

• Lectured on southern women writers at the Fairhope Public Library

• Interviewed Linda Busby Parker and Frye Gaillard for Friends of SHC Library series "Coming Home with Alabama Writers"

• Participated in day-long program sponsored by Mobile United and other persons on the anniversaries of Brown vs. Board of Education and Civil Rights Act of 1964 

Member:

• Alabama Humanities Foundation:  Board member

• Alabama Writers' Forum:  Board member

• Mobile Opera:  Board member

• Friends of SHC Library Board:  Vice-president

Michael Kaffer [Division Chair]

Awarded:

•  Dawson Research Award

• Sabbatical for Spring 2005 

Publications:

• "Women Trapped by Illusion," an article on Tennessee Williams, accepted by the Tennessee Williams Journal for publication in summer 2005 (refereed)

Attended:

• International Mamet Conference

• Presented paper:  "Language as Power in Oleanna"

• Chaired two sessions

• Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention

Member:

• Modern Language Association (MLA)

Reviewed 4th edition of Poetry: An Introduction for St. Martin's Press in preparation for the upcoming 5th edition

Audited second-year French

Works in progress:

• Four articles under consideration for publication:

• "Pittsburgh in the Literary Imagination of African-American Writers" in African-American Review

•  "The Things They Carried; the Things They Left Behind: War in Tim O'Brien" in the proposed Modern Language Association volume Approaches to Teaching Tim O'Brien

• "Chaos in the Works of Tom Stoppard" in Modern Drama

• "By Ibsen out of Russell: Shirley Valentine and A Doll's House" in Comparative Literature

• Received letter of interest in my book, Shakespeare and the Rhetoric of Drama: The Struggle for Narrative Control, from Palgrave Press; am working on completing the book 

David Sauer

Awarded Altmayer Chair in Literature for 2003-2005

Publications:

• Article for The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet

Attended:

• Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention

• David Mamet Society meeting, London, England

• Presented paper

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Concluding lecture as SHC's Altmayer Chair: "Staging Sexual Perversity in Chicago"

Directed two plays:

• Sexual Perversity in Chicago

• Much Ado About Nothing

Member:

• David Mamet Society

• President 

• Organized conference of 50 scholars in London, England

• Cooperative Center for Study Abroad (CCSA)

• Board member

• Director of London Summer Program

Works in progress:

• Book under consideration at University of Alabama Press

• Book on Mamet (at invitation of publisher)

• Working to revivify the David Mamet Review and David Mamet Society website

• Have proposed and am waiting for confirmation on a panel for the 2005 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention; the panel, representing international perspectives on Mamet in performance on stage and in film, will include papers from Canada, Wales, and the United States 

Catherine Swender

Attended:

• Modern Language Association (MLA) National Conference

• Spoke at a special topics session on the job market and the first year in an academic position

• Society for Early Americanists meeting

• Presented paper: " 'Feeling History': Susanna Rowson's Reuben and Rachel and the Historical Education of Daughters" (paper is part of a larger project on how women's education in history is portrayed in 18th- and 19th-century texts)

• Heartland-Delta Faculty Conversations Conference

• SHC summer faculty seminar on solidarity

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Guest lecturer in David Sauer's Introduction to Literary Theory class:  Two lectures on different types and applications of literary theory

Member:

• Modern Language Association (MLA)

• National Council for Teachers of English

• Society for Early Americanists

• American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Served as a judge in the Friends of the Mobile Public Library Creative Writing Contest:  judged fiction, poetry, and essays submitted by high school students in the Mobile area

Works in progress:

• Article: "The Horror of 'Making' History in Sophia Lee's The Recess"

Michael Williams, S.J.

Awarded sabbatical for Spring 2006 semester

Conference paper:

• Proposal for a paper on teaching John Ruskin's Unto This Last to undergraduates has been accepted for the forthcoming national conference at John Carroll University on social justice issues in Jesuit higher education 

Attended:

• Southern Regional meeting of the American Conference on Irish Studies

Works in progress:

• Have submitted paper proposals for two upcoming meetings in Irish studies

• Book: anthology of Irish plays

FOREIGN LANGUAGE

Charles Kargleder

Appointed as the Altmayer Endowed Chair of Literature for 2005-2007

Publications:

• Reviewed textbook, Explorando el espanol, for Heinle/Thomson

• Book review of Songs of Life and Hope by Ruben Dario; Duke University for SELA (Southeastern Latin Americanist)  (refereed)

Attended:

• Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS) annual meeting, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

• Presented paper:  "Social Justice and the Poet: A Study of Jorge Debravo's Los despiertos"

• Southeast Coastal Conference in Languages and Literature (SECCLL), Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia

• Presented paper:  "The Poet in Society: A Study of Jorge Debravo's Antologia mayor" 

Member:

• South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA)

• Alabama Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages (AATFL)

• American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP)

• Southwest Conference on Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)

• Southeastern Council on Latin American Studies (SECOLAS)

• North American Christian Foreign Language Association (NACFLA) 

Named to Who's Who in America, 2005 edition

Spent two weeks in Costa Rica doing research and cultural immersion

Works in progress:

• Articles on feminine poets in Costa Rica

Colette Windish

Awarded:

• Teagle Summer Research Grant:  used funds to do research on Paul Verlaine at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris

Attended:

• 19th Century French Studies Conference, St. Louis, Missouri

• Presented paper on Paul Verlaine

• 20^th-21^st Century French Studies Conference, Gainesville, Florida

• Presented paper on French popular culture and national identity

Lectures/workshops/presentations given:

• Co-presenter at SHC's Celebration of Our Learning (COOL) Day

Member:

• Mobile Alliance Française (French Institute to promote French culture and language in the United States and to strengthen Franco-American ties):  President 

Works in progress:

• Revising the paper presented at the 19th Century French Studies Conference to submit to the Revue Verlaine 

• Revising the paper presented at the 20^th-21^st Century French Studies Conference to submit to the journal Sites 

• Working on a paper to be submitted to the Twentieth-Century French Studies Conference

• Working on a paper to be submitted to the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Conference