Brenda Wineapple, the Doris Zemurray Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, has won this year’s SCMLA Kirby Prize for Best Article, “The Politics of Politics; or, How the Atomic Bomb Didn't Interest Gertrude Stein and Emily Dickinson,” published in the South Central Review, Vol. 23, No. 3, Fall 2006. The announcement will be made on Friday, Nov. 2, at the business luncheon at the South Central Modern Language Association’s 64th Annual Convention, to be held this year in Memphis, Tenn.
Writer-in-Residence Binyavanga Wainaina was a guest speaker and panelist this week at the New Images of Africa Conference in Olso, Norway, hosted by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Other speakers included Swedish writer Henning Mankell, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Sierra Leone, and Pumzile Mlambo-Ncguka, the vice president of South Africa. This month and next, Wainaina is also in Marfa, Texas on a Lannan Foundation scholarship.
Sandy Wimer, senior artist-in-residence, is exhibiting seven large-scale ink jet pigmented prints in “Print: McCulloch, Caine, Wimer, Casey” at the Arts Center Gallery in Saratoga Springs through Nov. 3. A final reception is scheduled for 5-8 p.m. that evening.
Christine Henseler, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, is publishing an interdisciplinary article, "On Going Nowhere Too Fast: José Ángel Mañas’s Historias del Kronen and the Surface Culture of Andy Warhol," in the Hispanic issue of “Modern Language Notes.”