News Archives: Fall 2008

• Fall 2008 Newsletter: The English Department has released the third issue of its newsletter, Alumni Notes.
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• Professor Linda Bamber Reads from "Metropolitan Tang": Professor of English Linda Bamber's poetry has been called "edgy, aware, urgent and dazzling." Her poems, stories, essays and reviews have appeared in The Harvard Review, The Kenyon Review, BOMB, Tikkun, The Nation, Raritan, and Ploughshares, which awarded her the Ploughshares Prize for her story, "The Time-to-Teach-Jane-Eyre-Again Blues." Professor Bamber reads from her latest collection of poetry, "Metropolitan Tang," on Nov. 18, 6:30 PM at the Tufts University Bookstore (4 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA) and on January 28, 2009 at 6:30 PM at the Suffolk University Poetry Center (Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 73 Tremont Street, 3rd floor).
   
• English Department holds open house: The Department welcomed new graduate students, faculty, and staff with refreshments and dessert last month at the annual English Department open house in East Hall lounge. The event, which took place Sept. 22, brought together returning and incoming members of the English Department community to kick off the new school year.
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• "New Year Baby" director comes to Tufts: English graduate student Lai Ying Yu has teamed up with Prof. Barbara Grossman from the Department of Drama and Dance to host Cambodian-American filmmaker Socheata Poeuv for a screening and discussion of her film, "New Year Baby."
  
  "New Year Baby" is the riveting story about Poeuv's family's experiences during the Cambodian Genocide. The screening will take place Wednesday, Oct. 22 at 7 p.m. in Cabot Auditorium, followed by a question and answer session at 8:30.
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• Faculty member and graduate student named to CHAT fellowships: Professor of English Kevin Dunn was named a CHAT Faculty Fellow at Tufts' newly formed Center for the Humanities, which is headed by Professor of English Jonathan Wilson. Dunn receives a research award, given "in recognition of scholarly or creative work that serves as a focus for humanistic scholarship and artistic creation."
  
  English graduate student Ashley Shelden is one of two CHAT Graduate Fellows; as such she will receive a fellowship stipend. Each Fellow will deliver a talk on aspects of his or her research and will be an active participant in the Center's work.
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• A true story of adventure and discovery: How did two amateur spelunkers stumble upon an undiscovered natural wonder that would become Arizona's most popular state park – and keep it a secret for 14 years? That's the question that Lecturer in English Neil Miller set out to answer in his newest investigative book, "A Tale of Two Cavemen."
  
  The book, Miller's fifth, chronicles the lives of Randy Tufts and Gary Tenen, the cavers who discovered a pristine, stalactite-filled series of caves in Arizona known as Kartchner Caverns. It would become their profound secret, as they sought for over a decade to protect the cave's natural magnificence and undisturbed beauty.
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