New Books by English Professors

Since September, three English professors have published new works. Professor Paula Rabinowitz's American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street (Princeton University Press) has drawn praise for its passion and acuity. She was invited to write about her favorite post-war pulps in The Wall Street Journal. Fresh from his third appearance in the annual Best American Poetry anthology, Professor Ray Gonzalez published the "vibrant" (according to Booklist) Soul Over Lightning (University of Arizona Press), his 13th poetry collection. Finally, Professor Nabil Matar published his authoritative compendium of research on British Captives from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1563-1760 (The Atlantic World, Brill). Congratulations to all!

New English@Minnesota

"As the holiday season approaches and the Twin Cities strings up its lights," notes Professor and Chair Ellen Messer-Davidow, "English has plenty of dazzle to contribute to the festivities." For news about faculty, student, and alumnae/i accomplishments and awards, check out the winter 2011 alumni magazine, English@Minnesota. Professors Nabil Matar, Maria Damon, and Peter Campion are featured, along with lots more!

New Books From Faculty

With spring arrives another crop of books from the Department of English's award-winning faculty. Professor Nabil Matar, recently named a CLA Scholar of the College, co-authored with Gerald MacLean Britain and the Islamic World: 1558-1713 (University of Oxford Press, 2011). . . . Professor Maria Damon published Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries with the University of Iowa Press in April. . . . And Associate Professor Katherine Scheil co-edited with Randall Martin Shakespeare, Adaptation, Modern Drama: Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson (University of Toronto Press, 2011).

Professor Matar Recognized

Professor of English Nabil Matar was named College of Liberal Arts Scholar of the College, an award presented annually to acknowledge outstanding achievement by faculty in the college. Congratulations!

Nabil Matar on "Shared Cultural Spaces"

Professor of English Nabil Matar describes the upcoming international conference he is organizing, Shared Cultural Spaces: Islam and the West in the Arts and Sciences, on campus February 24 through 26. Matar received a $170,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to fund the conference, which will "explore ways that Muslim contributions to literature, science, art, and architecture have influenced and helped build the foundation for those disciplines in the West."

Nabil Matar Wins NEH Grant

Professor of English Nabil Matar was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a project entitled "Crossing Cultural Spaces: Islam and the West in Arts and Sciences." The grant will support an academic forum and program development workshop "exploring continuities between cultural and intellectual traditions in the Islamic worlds and Western civilization." Congratulations!