News and Events
Dr. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory headed for TSU
With mixed feelings, the Department of English announces that Dr. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory has accepted the position of Associate Provost at Texas Southern University, effective September 1, 2009. The Department and The University as a whole will miss Dr. Brown-Guillory, who has been part of the UH community for over 20 years. She is a distinguished scholar of African American literature, a playwright, and an award winning teacher. She founded The Houston Suitcase Theater in 1992, which brought students, faculty and staff together in new, experimental and traditional drama, and performed at local schools and community theaters.
While the Department is sad to mark her departure, Dr. Brown-Guillory has herself noted this will serve as a chance for UH and TSU to forge new and creative partnerships. Please join us in wishing her a wonderful future in her new position.
Visiting Scholars
September 16 through 18: Martha Gano Houstoun Distinguished Visiting Professor Rachael Hadas, from Rutgers University, will give lectures on literature and disability as well as a talk on translation and poetic form (organizer, David Mikics).
October 16, 2009: Martha Gano Houstoun Distinguished Visiting Professor Lynn Worsham, from Idaho State University, will discuss “Rhetoric in an Age of Catastrophe” at 2:30pm in The Honors College Commons, reception to follow. (organizer, Paul Butler).
Past News
English faculty part of 2009 QEP
English faculty members will participate in the UH Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). The University of Houston is bolstering student’s research skills with the Learning Through Discovery Initiative.The initiative promotes a teaching and learning culture supportive of research in all disciplines for all undergraduate students.
Congratulations are extended to the following faculty members for their project recognition:
- Maria González
- Carl Lindhal
- David Mazella
- Lynn Voskuil
Publications
- Lawrence Hogue has published “Post Modern American Literature and Its Other” (University of Illinois Press)
- Hosam Aboul-Ela has published “Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariategui Tradition” (University of Pittsburgh Press)
- Dorothy Baker has published “America’s Gothic Fiction” (Ohio State University Press)
- Elizabeth Brown Guillory has published “Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History” (Ohio State University Press)
- Chitra Divakaruni has published “The Palace of Illusions” (Doubleday)
- Elizabeth Gregory has published, “Ready: Why Women are Embracing the New Later Motherhood”
- Wyman Herendeen has published "William Camden: A Life in Context" (Boydell & Brewer)
- Mat Johnson has published “Incognegro” (Bloomsbury USA)
- Elizabeth Kessler has published, “Chican@s in the Conversations”, (Pearson Education, Inc)
- David Mazella has published “The Making of Modern Cynicism” (University of Virginia Press)
- David Mikics has published “A New Handbook of Literary Terms” (Yale University Press)
- Robert Phillips has published”Are Those Real Poems or Did You Write Them Yourself” (Texas Review Press) and “Essays on Elizabeth Spencer” (Texas Review Press)
- James Pipkin has published "Sporting Lives: Metaphor and Myth in American Sports Autobiographies" (Universitiy of Missouri Press)
- Irving Rothman has published “Daniel Defoe: An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions” (AMS Press, Inc.)
- Roberta Weldon has published, "Hawthorne, Gender, and Death; Christianity and Its Discontents" (Palgrave MacMillan)
