Here is what we have heard from you since February. Please stay in touch, and if you have news to share, send an email to shc-newsletter@stanford.edu.
2004-2005
BRETT WHALEN published his first book, Dominion of God: Christendom and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages (Harvard University Press, 2009).
1997-98
JOHN BENDER (also 1988-89) and Michael Marrinan (Art and Art History) published The Culture of Diagram (Stanford University Press, 2010). The Culture of Diagram explores a terrain where words meet pictures and formulas meet figures, foregrounding diagrams as tools for blurring those boundaries to focus on the production of knowledge as process. Read more about the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Culture-Diagram-John-Bender/dp/0804745056.
1993-94
PERICLES LEWIS Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale, recently published his third book, Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2010). He is now working on a new edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature, for which he is editing the 20th-century volume.
JOHN MORAN GONZALEZ published his first book, Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature (University of Texas Press, 2009). The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels, which he first worked on as his dissertation during his fellowship year, will be published by Ohio State University Press in October 2010.
ALLEGRA GOODMAN has a new novel, The Cookbook Collector, appearing in July, 2010. Goodman’s short story “La Vita Nuova” is featured in the April 26 issue of The New Yorker. Read an email exchange between Goodman and Cressida Leyshon, a fiction editor at the magazine, about art, writing, and Goodman’s new novel, here: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/04/this-week-in-fiction-allegra-goodman.html
HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT will receive an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University, Denmark. Gumbrecht, the Albert Guérard Professor of Literature in the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, will receive the honorary degree on Sept. 10, 2010, in conjunction with the university’s 82nd anniversary. Rumor has it the Danish queen will be present at the ceremony.
1992-93
MICHAEL FELLMAN has just published In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History with Yale University Press. Read more about the book on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Name-God-Country-Reconsidering-Terrorism/dp/0300115105/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_3
1988-89
ANNIE FINCH published a book-length narrative and dramatic poem, Among the Goddesses: A Libretto in Seven Dreams (Red Hen Press). Her first book of poetry, Eve, was reissued as part of Carnegie Mellon University Press’s Classic Contemporaries Poetry Series, and her second book of poetry, Calendars, was released in an audio CD format, read by the author, by its original publisher, Tupelo Press. Annie also published two related textbooks with the University of Michigan Press: A Poet’s Ear: A Handbook of Meter and Form and A Poet’s Craft: A Complete Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry. Annie was awarded the 2009 Robert Fitzgerald Award for contributions to the art and science of prosody.
