Faculty News

Associate Professor Tony C. Brown published his first book, The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic, with University of Minnesota Press. . . . Professor Maria Damon published a book of collaborative experimental poetry with Finnish artist Jukka-Pekka Kervinen entitled Door Marked X (cPress) . . . The scoop on the royal baby bump from an expert on British history and monarchy: Professor John Watkins gives a fun radio interview about the history of British monarchy and its political power, in light of the Duchess of Cambridge's pregnancy (WTIP-North Shore Community Radio).

New Book from Professor Rabinowitz

Professor Paula Rabinowitz is the co-editor with Cristina Giorcelli of Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I (University of Minnesota Press, August), the first volume of a four-part series charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing, dress and accessories to decipher how materials offer meanings. Professor Rabinowitz recently blogged about the brisk market for fake brand clothing, officially sanctioned or otherwise--the celebration of the "knock-off of the knock-off"--in Shanghai, China, where she taught as a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer in American Culture at East China Normal University this past spring.

Faculty Promotions and Service

English faculty Tony C. Brown and Siobhan Craig have been promoted with tenure to Associate Professor in recognition of their outstanding research, teaching, and service. Professor Craig last year published Cinema After Fascism: The Shattered Screen (Palgrave Macmillan), and Professor Brown's book The Primitive, the Aesthetic, and the Savage: An Enlightenment Problematic is forthcoming. . . . Professor and former English chair Paula Rabinowitz has been elected to the University of Minnesota Senate. Congratulations to all!

English in the News

Alumna Lucille Broderson (BA 1937) is interviewed, along with her long-time teacher and editor Professor Emeritus Michael Dennis Browne, in CLA's REACH magazine about her second collection of poetry, You're Wearing a Blue Shirt the Color of the Sky: Selected Poems (Nodin). REACH also spotlights reviews of books by alums Matt Burgess and Elizabeth Bourque Johnson. . . . MFA alumnus Burgess, author of the acclaimed debut novel Dogfight, a Love Story, was interviewed this month in the Star Tribune, for the "My Minnesota" feature. . . . Distinguished McKnight University Professor John Watkins was quoted in a Star Tribune article about the American fascination with British royalty. Watkins is also interviewed on the University home page this week. . . . Finally Edelstein-Keller Professor in Creative Writing Charles Baxter's latest story collection Gryphon is reviewed by Claire Messud in the April 28 New York Review of Books.