Q&A with Margaret Ezell

Q&A with Margaret Ezell

We asked Margaret Ezell (Department of English), who presents on Wednesday, 2 April on "Elizabeth Isham and the Technologies of Memory," a few questions about her work:

MGGCHR: What is your presentation's argument?

Margaret Ezell: I'm not sure :-) I'm hoping that will become clearer through the discussion--

MGGCHR: How did you hit on the focus of your current research and what interests you about it?

Margaret Ezell: I was invited to respond to two manuscript texts as part of a symposium held on them at Princeton in the fall. The aspect which most interested me was the ways in which the two manuscripts are so physically different, even though by the same person and about the same time period.

MGGCHR: What is the most interesting place your research has taken you?

Margaret Ezell: One of the prettiest was the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, which took me many, many hours by train to reach through gorgeous landscape. One of the strangest was the former coal hole at Christ Church College, Oxford, where at that time they kept their manuscript collection and was opened with an enormous iron key...

MGGCHR: What is your favorite course to teach, and what makes it your favorite?

Margaret Ezell: Hard to say--I really like teaching the Milton & his Contemporaries course because he was in the middle of such interesting times and so involved in the events of it, along with a lot of very interesting other people. And, of course, he is an amazing poet. The most fun course I have taught recently was called "Drama Queens" and was about women and the theatre in the early modern period, as writers, performers and patrons. I learned a lot putting that one together.

MGGCHR: If you had the opportunity to invite any living humanities scholar to come speak at the Glasscock Center, who would it be and why?

Margaret Ezell: Helene Cixous--because she is still amazing.

MGGCHR: If you were stranded on a desert island, what material would you want with you?

Margaret Ezell: Probably a good radio transmitter to get me off of it!

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

The following is a list of next week’s events supported by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and/or its affiliated programs:

**Monday, 24 March**
Visiting Fellow: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego) will be in residence all week.

**Tuesday, 25 March**
Co-Sponsored Event: Gabriel Peveroni, “Territorios Ocupados,” 4:00 p.m., Academic Building, Room 128. For more information contact Sarah Misemer at smisemer@tamu.edu.

Glasscock Center Lecture Series “How Do We Keep Knowing?”: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego), presenting “Journalism in an Era of ‘Truthiness’,” 7:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Wednesday, 26 March**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. Featuring Michael Schudson, Visiting Fellow.

Visiting Fellow Colloquium: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego), 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Thursday, 27 March**
Graduate Colloquium: Jared Peatman (History), “Gettysburg Remembers the Address, 1913,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Friday, 28 March**
Women’s Studies Lunch Lecture: Eileen Cleere (Southwestern University), presenting “Intensive Culture: Aesthetics and Purity in the Eugenic Novels of Sarah Grand,” 12:30-1:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.


**If you are interested in meeting with any of our visiting speakers contact Dr. Donnalee Dox at dox@libarts.tamu.edu
**For further information consult the Glasscock Center website at http:// glasscock.tamu.edu/
**For current events at the Glasscock Center consult our blog at http://glasscockcenter.blogspot.com/

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships

Folks,
FYI 2008 due dates will be posted soon, but the 2007 guildlines can be used as reference(http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/Fellowships.html)

NEH Fellowships support individuals pursuing advanced research that is of value to scholars and general audiences in the humanities. Recipients usually produce articles, monographs, books, digital materials, archaeological site reports, translations, editions, and other scholarly tools. Fellowships support continuous full-time work for a period of six to twelve months. NEH Fellowships may not be used for: curricular or pedagogical methods, theories, or surveys; preparation or revision of textbooks; projects that seek to promote a particular political, philosophical, religious, or ideological point of view; projects that advocate a particular program of social action; works in the creative and performing arts, e.g., painting, writing fiction or poetry, dance performance, etc.; or doctoral dissertations or theses.

Next Week's Events at the Glasscock Center

The following is a list of next week’s events supported by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and/or its affiliated programs:

**Monday, 3 March**
American Culture Reading Group and Africana Studies Working Group Joint Meeting: 4:00-6:00 p.m., Blocker Building, Room 234. For more information contact Kim Cox at willow28@tamu.edu.

New Modern British Studies Working Group Lecture: Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto), presenting “Literary History and Men Who Love Too Much,” 7:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Tuesday, 4 March**
New Modern British Studies Working Group Colloquium: Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto), presenting “Dead Poet Love,” 2:30-3:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Wednesday, 5 March**
Glasscock Coffee Come & Go: 8:30-9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. Featuring Ben Crouch, Executive Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts.

Faculty Colloquium: Sabine Arnaud (EURO), presenting “Narratives of Hysteria and the Shaping of Eighteenth Century Medicine as a Discipline,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

**Thursday, 6 March**
Co-Sponsored Event: Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford), “Lone Star Tour Lecture in Philosophy,” 3:45-5:30 p.m., Bolton Hall, Room 213. For more information contact Robin Smith at rasmith@tamu.edu.

Graduate Colloquium: Jesse L. Rester (English), “Political Skin: Reading the Maria/Hel Complex in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis,” 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Co-Sponsored Lecture: Amita Baviskar (Delhi University), presenting “Cows, Cars, and Cycle-rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi, India,” 4:00-6:00 p.m., Blocker Building, Room 203.

**Friday, 7 March**
APLICATIONS DUE: Co-Sponsorship Grants, Internal Faculty Fellowships, Graduate Stipendiary Fellowships, Faculty Stipendiary Fellowships, Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Award.


**If you are interested in meeting with any of our visiting speakers contact Dr. Donnalee Dox at dox@libarts.tamu.edu
**For further information consult the Glasscock Center website at http:// glasscock.tamu.edu/
**For current events at the Glasscock Center consult our blog at http://glasscockcenter.blogspot.com/

Lawrence Grossberg of the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill to Present in the Glasscock Center Lecture Series “How Do We Keep Knowing?”

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research announces a public lecture in its continuing series “How Do We Keep Knowing?” Dr. Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, will present "Economies, Discourses and Contexts: On Avoiding the Bottom Line," on Wednesday, 27 February 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Professor Grossberg’s numerous publications in cultural studies and communication include Caught in the Crossfire: Kids, Politics, and America’s Future (2005), “Does cultural studies have futures? Should it? (or What’s the matter with New York?)” in
Cultural Studies, and the monograph What’s going on? Cultural Studies und Popularkultur (2000). This lecture will address economic struggles taking place within the contemporary American context.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.

Ray Siemens of the University of Victoria to Present in the Glasscock Center Digital Humanities Lecture Series

The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research announces a public lecture in its Digital Humanities series. Dr. Ray Siemens, Canada Research Chair in Humanities Computing and Professor of English at the University of Victoria, will speak on "Imagining the Electronic Book," Wednesday, 27 February 2008 at 4:00 p.m. in Evans Library, Room 204E. This event is free and open to the public.

Professor Siemens has published many articles on the intersection of literary studies and computational methods and has co-edited numerous volumes on the topic including Companion to Digital Humanities and Companion to Digital Literary Studies and serves as the President for the Society of Digital Humanities. This lecture will address diverse possibilities for the future of the electronic book, and the impact those changes may have on the publishing industry and on literary studies.

For more information, see our website http://glasscock.tamu.edu/, visit our blog at http://www.glasscockcenter.blogspot.com, or contact the Glasscock Center at glasscock@tamu.edu or at 979-845-8328.

CCWH Catherine Prelinger Scholarship

FYI due March 26
for more information visit
(http://theccwh.org/preapp.htm).


The Coordinating Council for Women in History is pleased to announce it will accept applications for the tenth CCWH Catherine Prelinger Award Scholarship of $20,000 which will be awarded to a scholar of excellence by July 1, 2008. This award, named for Catherine Prelinger, a former CCWH president and nontraditional scholar, is intended to enhance the work of a contemporary scholar whose academic path has not followed the traditional path of uninterrupted study, moving from completed secondary, to undergraduate, then graduate degrees, followed by a tenure-track faculty position. These funds were granted to CCWH by an anonymous donor in honor of the many years of work this organization has devoted to exploring women’s history, encouraging opportunities for women in the historical profession, and in educating young women to pursue careers in the historical profession. This award is intended to enhance the ability of the recipient to carry on these CCWH traditions through contributions to women in history, either through scholarly or professional activity.


Eligible applicants must be members of CCWH and must hold either A.B.D. status or the Ph.D. at the time of application. They shall be actively engaged in scholarship that is historical in nature, although the degree may be in related fields. Applicants will show evidence of a nontraditional professional career and describe a project that will further enhance women’s roles in history. The Prelinger Committee encourages applications from independent and non-academic scholars. Application guidelines and forms can be found on the CCWH website: http://theccwh.org/awards.htm. For further information, contact Nupur Chaudhuri, e-mail: nupurc@earthlink.net.