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Margaret Ferguson Elected President of the MLA
Congratulations to our world of modern language, to the entire MLA community, and to Margaret, who continues to help propel boundary 2 into the future.
“Keeping the humanities alive and thriving for students from kindergarten through college and beyond is the primary goal of University of California, Davis, Professor Margaret Ferguson as she becomes the 2014 president of the Modern Language Association. It is the world’s largest professional organization advocating for the teaching of language and literature.”
Continue reading here.
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A Conversation on the Secular Public
b2 contributors Stathis Gourgouris and Etienne Balibar meet at Columbia University on 21 October 2013 for a conversation on the secular public, in light of their recent work: Gourgouris’s Lessons in Secular Criticism and Balibar’s Saeculum: culture, religion, idéologie.
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Bradley Fest wins Schachterle Prize
The Society for Literature, Science and Arts (SLSA) has awarded Bradley Fest the Schachterle Prize in recognition of his analysis of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and its reworking of the cultural consciousness surrounding the second nuclear age. The article was published by b2 in its Fall 2012 issue: The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
Congratulations to Brad, with much appreciation for his work. We anticipate his interview with J. Hillis Miller.
Follow Bradley Fest’s blog here for his poetry, essays, insights and other scholarly work.
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Summer 2013 Issue
In the second issue of its fortieth volume, boundary2 introduces the young scholars of “the future of criticism,” examines the functions, rules and formats of literature and the modern-day moral philosopher, questions the role and development of “world” literature as a form and product of globalization, initiation and resistance, and much more, all while earning professional next-level experience points across the board. Read our featured essay, Gamification and Other Forms of Play by Patrick Jagoda, and subscribe now for full access to all the journal’s offerings. Preview the Summer 2013 issue here.
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Paul Bové's Top Issues of boundary 2
Duke UP has its annual sale of books and journals. Great deals on some of b2‘s best and most popular issues .
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Congratulations to Nergis Ertürk
boundary 2 congratulates Professor Nergis Ertürk, our editorial colleague on winning the most distinguished professional book prize:
The Modern Language Association of America awards its “19th Annual Modern Language Association Prize for a First Book: For an outstanding literary or linguistic study that is the first book-length publication by a member of the association: Nergis Ertürk, Penn State University, University Park, for Grammatology and Literary Modernity in Turkey (Oxford Univ. Press, 2011).”
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b2 as a Quarterly?
b2 would like the benefit of “the wisdom of the crowd.” Should we expand from a tri-quarterly to a full quarterly? And if so, what new topics and materials should we cover?
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Donald E. Pease — Wins the top award from the ASA — Congratulations!
The Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize honors lifetime achievement
in and contribution to the field of American Studies. Each year’s
prize committee is instructed to consider afresh the meaning of a
“lifetime contribution to American Studies.” The definitions of terms
like “contribution” and even of “American Studies” remain open,
healthily contested, and thus renewed.The 2012 prizewinner is Donald Pease, Dartmouth College.
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The Sovereignty Seminar
see the b2 Face Book page for some running reports on the talks in this event.
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Table of Contents for Volume 39, number 3 Fall 2012
Wlad Godzich / Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011)
E. Khayyat / The Humility of Thought: An Interview with Friedrich A. Kittler
Intervention
Anthony Bogues / And What About the Human?: Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination
Arif Dirlik / Transnationalization and the University: The Perspective of Global Modernity
Emmanuel Alloa / The Inorganic Community: Hypotheses on Literary Communism in Novalis, Benjamin, and Blanchot
Henry Veggian / Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
Bradley J. Fest / The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Intervention
Lindsay Waters / The Recovery of the Literal: Learning from the Renaissance How to Circumnavigate the Globe
Richard Purcell / The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting?
Soyica Diggs Colbert / “When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead”: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
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Ruth Hung Revisiting Woju
“Imagination in the Box: Woju’s Realism and the Representation of Xiaosan,” Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations. Continuum; 1 edition (June 14, 2012) Amazon.
