Susan Bazargan read a paper called "Joyce as Cartographer" at the annual American Association of Geographers Conference in Chicago on March 9th. She'll be joining a panel of her colleagues at the NEH summer institute she attended two summers ago on "Mapping Popular Cartography" at Newberry Library. Also, her biography of the contemporary Irish writer Joy Martin appears in the newly published Irish Women Writers: An A-to-Z Guide, edited by Alex Gonzalez (Greenwood Press).
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John Guzlowski
You all don't want to hear what the weather is like way down south in Georgia as I write this note—so I just won't say. But I will tell you my poem sequence “Looking for Work in America” was nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize by the journal Margie. A Polish translation of this poem by Feliks Netz is also appearing in the current issue of Slask, an art and culture journal published in Katowice , Poland .
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John Kilgore
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I've had two essays in The Vocabula Review recently: "Dispatches From Pronoun Hell" in January, and in February one that needs a shorter title: "Humpty-Dumpty in Lake Woebegon: On Grades and Grade Inflation."
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Ashley Tellis
Ashley Tellis will be a Bourses Fernand Braudel/Hermes Fellow at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris from May to August 2006. He will be completing his book manuscript on same-sex politics in India there.
He has an essay on Sol. B. River's drama published in Alternatives Within the Mainstream: British Black and Asian Theatre, ed. Dimple Godiwala, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006, and another, forthcoming in a similar anthology by the same press and editor, on gay and lesbian drama in Britain. His essay will be on the avant-garde performance art of Divine David (David Hoyle).
He has had several reviews published recently in journals like Gay and Lesbian Quarterly (GLQ) and Transforming Anthropology, among others.
He is about to self-publish QuEIUer: An Anthology of Queer Poetry by EIU Students.
He has several entries in 2 forthcoming encyclopedias: one on British poetry (on Veronica Forrrest-Thomson and Class in British poetry) and the other on World Poetry (Eunice de Souza, Mamta Kalia, Adil Jussawalla, Imtiaz Dharker).
As Asian Studies Minor faculty, he is organizing several events across April for Asian Heritage Month, including a panel of Asian-American students discussing their experiences of growing up Asian in the US and another around the book Everybody Was Kungfu Fighting by Vijay Prashad with Angela Aguayo, Robert Petersen, Rachel Vaughn and two students.