Faculty News

Barry Gaines has signed a contract with Hackett Publishing to prepare the text and annotations for four “shrew” plays to be published together in a single volume thoughtfully entitled, Four Shrew Plays. The introduction will be written by Professor Margaret Maurer at Colgate University. The plays included are Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, the earlier anonymous play The Taming of a Shrew, John Fletcher’s rebuttal The Woman’s Prize; or, The Tamer Tamed, and the Restoration adaptation by John Lacy Sauny, The Scott; or, The Taming of the Shrew: A Comedy. He also recently discovered that a review of, “Little Women the Musical” attributed to Michael J. Roberts and posted on BroadwayWorld.com plagiarized a paragraph from Gaines’s review of the play in, “The Albuquerque Journal.” Shocking!

In February, Matthew Hofer was awarded a Strochlitz Fellowship to conduct archival research and give a public lecture at the University of Connecticut’s Thomas J. Dodd Center. He was also invited to contribute the “Ezra Pound and Education” chapter to the forthcoming Cambridge University Press volume, Ezra Pound in Context.

On February 14, when everyone else was enjoying songs of love, Wanda Martin, Valerie Thomas, and Phil Tietjen presented a training workshop, “Working with a Student Grantwriter,” for representatives of a dozen local non-profit organizations. Offered at the United Way of Central New Mexico in collaboration with the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, this training helps organizations prepare to be productive partners to students who write grant proposals as a service-learning project. Since 2004, students in sections of English 418/518, Proposals, have written proposals for more than fifty non-profit organizations; these proposals have brought over $250,000 to the organizations served.

Janet Yagoda Shagam will give her annual science writing workshop (May 16-23, 2008) for European Neurosciences Institute graduate students in Göttingen, Germany. The institute, affiliated with Georg-August University and the Max Planck Institute, attracts students from throughout the world. As an added bonus, the Neurosciences Institute Director schedules the writing workshop to coincide with the European Initiative for the Communicators of Science hands-on laboratory program.

Jerry Shea, who is always shamelessly plugging his Internet column is now shamelessly plugging himself reading vintage wonks in the cyberflesh. You can watch his podcast at unm live.