Russ Kilbourn, Chair of English and Film Studies, in conjunction with the English Students and Film Studies Students Associations, organized a book launch and Meet the Profs event held on October 18, 2023. The event was well attended, with convivial intellectual and social exchange.
Students introduced faculty members who talked about and read excerpts from their recent books.
Makayla Mallet introduced Professor Tamas Dobozy who launched 5 Mishaps (School Gallery, 2021) and Ghost Geographies: Fictions (New Star Books, 2021).
Alejandro Mansilla introduced Professor Richard Nemesvari who talked about why there was a need for Wilkie Collins in Context (co-ed. William Baker) (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
Mazada Eva introduced Professor Mariam Pirbhai who read from Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging (Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, 2023)
Deni Pivač introduced Professors Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring who talked about the genesis of Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited (Wayne State University Press, 2023)
Virginia Murphy introduced Professor Eleanor Ty who spoke about Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives (Ohio State University Press 2022)
Lauren Miatello introduced Professor Jing Jing Chang who talked about the essays inChinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization (co-eds. Jeff Kyong-McClain, Russell Meeuf) (Hong Kong University Press, 2022).
The evening ended pleasantly with informal conversations over light snacks. Some books were even sold, courtesy of Laurier Bookstore.
Professor Eleanor Ty’s Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives (Ohio State University Press, 2022) won the 2022 Prize for Edited Book Collection from the Comics Studies Society.
The prize was presented by the President of the society, Corey Creekmur (University of Iowa) at the annual conference of the Comics Studies Society held at the University of North Texas in July 2023.
The volume features work on historical, autobiographical graphic narratives as well as on superheroes.
Eleanor Ty was very honoured and pleased to receive this recognition for her work.
Chang, Jing Jing, co-edited with Jeff Kyong-McClain and Russell Meeuf. Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power and Globalization. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022.
Gates, Philippa and Katherine Spring, eds. Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021.
McDonald, Terrance H. and Christine Daigle. (eds.). From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism: Philosophies of Immanence. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Poetzsch, Markus and Cassandra Falke, eds. Wild Romanticism. Routledge, 2021.
Ty, Eleanor, ed. Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives. Ohio State University Press, 2022.
Edition:
Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Edited by Richard Nemesvari. Revised 2nd ed. Broadview Press, 2021.
Journal issues edited:
Annett, Sandra, editor-in-chief. Mechademia Second Arc vol. 14 no. 2: New Formulations of the Otaku, guest ed. Susan J. Napier, Spring 2021.
Chapters in Books:
DiCenzo, Maria, Luce Beeckmans, Anne-Marie D’Aoust, Valerie De Craene, Kristien Hens, Anneleen Kenis, Robert McRuer, Anne-Christel Zeiter. “Daughters of the Pandemic” in “Covid-19 Roundtable.” Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt). 8.1 (2021), pp. 6-21.
Gates, Philippa. “Controlling Racism: The Production Code Administration and the Representation of Chinese/Americans.” In Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited. Eds. Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring. Wayne State University Press, 2021. 155-68.
Gates, Philippa. “Objects of an Orientalist Gaze: Chinese Immigrants in American Silent Film.” In Asian American Literature in Transition, 1850-1930. Eds. Josephine Lee and Julia Lee. Cambridge University Press, 2021. 121-35.
Hron, Madelaine. “Stillbirth Grief, Eco-grief and Corona Grief: Reflections on Denialism.” In Eco-Anxiety and Planetary Hope: Experiencing the Twin Disasters of COVID-19 and Climate Change. Eds. Douglas A. Vakoch and Sam Mickey. Springer, 2022. 67-75
Jeffries, Dru. “Flickers of Black and White: Cinema and Genre in Watchmen and Doomsday Clock.” In After Midnight: Watchmen after Watchmen. Ed. Drew Morton. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2022: 15–28.
Kerber, Jenny and Cheryl Lousley. “Literary Responses to Indigenous Climate Justice and the Canadian Settler-State.” The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Climate, edited by. A. Johns-Putra and K. Sultzbach. Cambridge UP, 2022, pp. 269-279.
Kilbourn, Russell J.A. “The Pope, The Queen, and the Football Star: An Introduction to Paolo Sorrentino.” Solaris, Textos de cine 6 (Spain). Special issue on Paolo Sorrentino (September 2021), pp. 19-28.
Kilbourn, Russell J.A. “Affect/Face/Close-up: Beyond the Affection-Image in Postsecular Cinema.” In From Deleuze to Posthumanism: Philosophies of Immanence. Ed. Christine Daigle and Terrance McDonald. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2022. 147-69.
MacDonald, Tanis. “Elton John and the Mondegreen Girls.” Rock Music Icons: Musical and Cultural Impacts. Ed. Robert McParland. Lanham, ML: Lexington, 2022. 45-53.
McDonald, Terrance H. “Life, Risk and the Structuring Force of Exposure in Maelström.” Refocus: The Films of Denis Villeneuve. Eds. Jeri English and Marie Pascal. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 93-109.
McDonald, Terrance H. “Posthuman Cinema: Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life.” From Deleuze and Guattari to Posthumanism: Philosophies of Immanence. Eds. Christine Daigle & Terrance H. McDonald. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 129-146.
Spring, Katherine. “Introduction.” In Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited. Eds. Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Spring, Katherine. “Trading on Songs: The Emergence of the Film Musical as a Genre Label.” In Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited. Eds. Philippa Gates and Katherine Spring. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2021.
Ty, Eleanor. “Empowerment through Multiple Voices: Culture, Media, and Identity in Eddie Huang’s Fresh Off the Boat.” Empowering Contemporary Fiction in English. Ed Ralf Hertel and Eva-Maria Windberger. Brill Rodopi, 2021. 160-171.
Journal Articles:
Jeffries, Dru. “Kayfabe and Authenticity: The Challenges of Extending Professional Wrestling Storyworlds to Comics.” Professional Wrestling Studies Journal 3.1 (April 2022): 63–80.
Kerber, Jenny. “Tracing One Warm Line: Climate Stories and Silences in Northwest Passage Tourism.” Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 55, No. 4 (July 2022), 271-303.
Kilbourn, Russell J.A., “Adorno, Beckett…Wagner, Artaud: Reflections on Stefan Sorgner’s Philosophy of Posthuman Art.” Deliberatio 2:2 (2022): pp. 83-100.
MacDonald, Tanis. “Prescription.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice 42.1 (Summer 2021): online.
Poetzsch, Markus. “Picturesque Wilderness and the Human Problem.” The Wordsworth Circle 52.3(Summer 2021): 329-341.
Waugh, Robin, “A Pious Knight’s Flaw, Quandary, and Burden: Gold and Fee in Sir Isumbras,” Viator 51, no. 2 (2022 for 2020): 263-96.
Waugh, Robin, “Satire of Patience Advice in Sir Isumbras,” Studies in Philology 118 (2021): 459-90.
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