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2011:
Elif Armbruster's Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home is forthcoming in Spring 2011.
Nancy Caronia has two publications that will appear in Spring 2011. Her essay, “Meeting at Bruce’s Place: Springsteen’s Italian American Heritage and Global Notions of Family,” will appear in Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture: A Decade and Beyond of Insights and Challenges (CUNY/Calandra Institute). Her poem “Underworld” will appear in the anthology She is Everywhere: An anthology of Writing in Womanist/Feminist Spirituality.
Lori Harrison-Kahan has recently published The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (Rutgers). Harrison-Kahan received the 2010 Gloria E. Anzaldua Award for Independent Scholars and Contingent Faculty from the American Studies Association for her work in the area of inter-minority relations in American literature and culture. The award was in part given for work presented at the 2009 NEASA conference. Tim Ives authored an article titled “Reconstructing the Wangunk Reservation Land System: A Case Study of Native and Colonial Likeness in Central Connecticut,” that will be published in the winter 2011 issue of Ethnohistory.
Ben Railton's Redefining American Identity: From Cabeza de Vaca to Barack Obama will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in April 2011. Railton has also recently agreed to serve as a scholarly advisor for the American Writers Museum.
Sara Sikes's co-edited volume, Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 10, has gone to press. This is the 45th volume of the Adams Papers to be published and the fifth that Sikes has co-edited.
Jonathan Silverman's book on Johnny Cash, Nine Choices: Johnny Cash and American Culture came out in September from UMass Press. And the fourth edition of his textbook, co-written with Dean Rader, The World Is a Text, has just been released from Prentice Hall.
Older:
Caroline Frank received the Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize from the ASA. The dissertation is entitled "China as Object and Imaginary in the Making of an American Nation, 1690-1790." Thecommittee co-chairs were Robert Lee and Patrick Malone.
Allan Punzalan Isaac was recently promoted to Associate Professor at Wesleyan University in English. He was also given the 2006 Cultural Studies Book Award by the Association for Asian American Studies for, American Tropics: Articulating Filipino-America. Isaac's book exemplifies the best of recent works in the broad field of American hemispheric studies and holds significance for multiple fields including American studies, Asian American studies, and postcolonial studies. Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History, African American Studies and American Studies, at Wesleyan University has been awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation for a collaborative project "Focus on the Environment: Recruiting Underrepresented Minority Students into the Geosciences," along with Wesleyan colleagues: Suzanne O'Connell, Associate Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences; and Daniel Teraguchi, Dean for Diversity and Academic Advancement. Harriet Wilson's New England (University of New Hampsire Press/University Press of New England, 2007), co-edited by JerriAnne Boggis, NEASA President Eve Raimon, and Barbara W. White, and with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. For more information, visit the UPNE website. The American Association of State and Local History awarded Dane Morrison and Nancy L. Schultz the Award of Merit for their editing of the anthology, Salem: Place, Myth, and Memory. |