{"id":27,"date":"2019-01-21T17:13:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T16:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/naarg\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2025-01-26T12:42:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T12:42:40","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/naarg\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2024 News in Digest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"markeubwwzden LMEtD\" data-markjs=\"true\"><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\">A documentary based on Peter Riley&#8217;s book <a href=\"https:\/\/profilebooks.com\/work\/strandings\/\"><em>Strandings<\/em><\/a> was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 April \u2013 you can listen again <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m001yqjz\">here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Paul Williams delivered the talk \u201cThe Unphotocopied Life is Not Worth Living\u201d at the <em>Comics Productions: Stitching, Inking, Photocopying<\/em> symposium at Ghent University (13 March).<\/li>\n<li>New books by members of NAARG:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">* Peter<\/strong> <strong>Riley <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">has edited a <a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/ukhe\/product\/leaves-of-grass-9780192894441?cc=gb&amp;lang=en\">new edition<\/a> of Walt Whitman, <em>Leaves of Grass <\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">(Oxford UP, 2024) in the Oxford World&#8217;s Classics series<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>2023 News in Digest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In September 2023 James Lyons published the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.uoelibrary.idm.oclc.org\/10.1177\/17496020231201\">&#8220;\u2018Are We Having Fun Yet?\u2019: The Starz Television Network and <em>Party Down<\/em> as Indie TV&#8221;<\/a> in the journal <em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>. This article examines the sitcom <em>Party Down<\/em> (2009-10) one of the first shows commissioned by the US premium cable service Starz as it sought to compete with HBO and Showtime, but cancelled after two seasons due to low ratings. By analysing its original production contexts and its aesthetic attributes, James&#8217;s article argues that it is best understood as a proto-typical instance of \u2018indie TV,\u2019 aligned with Starz&#8217; strategic positioning in relation to its indie-oriented subscriber base at that time.<\/li>\n<li>In May 2023, Jo Freer delivered the public talk <i>&#8220;<\/i><i>Gravity\u2019s Rainbow at 50:\u00a0<\/i>Bananas, Hope, Anarchism&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.a-p.berlin\/blogs\/events\/gravity-rainbow-draft-no-visibility-date-or-eventbrite-set\">&#8220;The Exploded Map&#8221;<\/a> event in Berlin, held to celebrate the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the publication of Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s novel <i>Gravity&#8217;s Rainbow<\/i>. The title is a reference to the banana breakfasts in the novel!<\/li>\n<li>In April 2023 Peter Riley discussed Walt Whitman on BBC Radio 4\u2019s <em>In Our Time<\/em>, available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m001l99w\">here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In April 2023 Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan co-edited (with <a href=\"https:\/\/pure.qub.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/alison-garden\">Alison Garden<\/a>, Queen\u2019s University Belfast) a special issue of the <em>Canadian Journal of Irish Studies<\/em> titled \u201cNew Perspectives on Brian Moore\u201d (available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/e48513504\">here<\/a>). A prolific novelist and screenwriter, Belfast-born Moore was a transnational subject who lived most of his adult life in Canada and the U.S. This special issue is the culmination of a programme of research and public engagement carried out in 2021 and 2022, which was generously funded by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/funding\/ba-leverhulme-small-research-grants\/past-awards\/2019-20\/\">British Academy\/Leverhulme Trust Small Research Grant<\/a> and a Research Fellowship awarded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrc.utexas.edu\/about\/pdf\/Annual_Report_2019-2020.pdf\">Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin<\/a>, home to some 35 boxes of Moore\u2019s papers.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"markeubwwzden LMEtD\" data-markjs=\"true\">A section of <\/span>Paul Williams&#8217;s monograph <em>Dreaming the Graphic Novel\u00a0<\/em>was reprinted in the <span class=\"markeubwwzden LMEtD\" data-markjs=\"true\"><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\"><a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/wwnorton.com\/books\/9780393284836. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwnorton.com%2Fbooks%2F9780393284836&amp;data=05%7C01%7CP.G.Williams%40exeter.ac.uk%7C5fed2a85665a4e3e42c808dad174bf78%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638052596598349224%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=ccaywvedUV760LlTx5tjqOSNdN9WWNXLgIm%2BTtKZ2lA%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Norton Critical Edition<\/a><\/span><\/span> of <span class=\"markeubwwzden LMEtD\" data-markjs=\"true\"><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\">Will Eisner&#8217;s graphic novel<\/span><span class=\"x_contentpasted1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\"><i>A Contract with God<\/i><\/span><span class=\"x_contentpasted1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\"><i>and Other Stories of Dropsie Avenue<\/i><\/span><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\"> (orig. 1978)<\/span><\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>New books published this year by members of NAARG:<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>* James Lyons <\/strong>and Yannis Tzioumakis, eds, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorfrancis.com\/books\/edit\/10.4324\/9781003134619\/indie-tv-james-lyons-yannis-tzioumakis\"><em>Indie TV: Industry, Aesthetics and Medium Specificity<\/em><\/a> (Routledge, 2023)<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Ellen McWilliams<\/strong>,\u00a0<em><a class=\"ProductItem-nav-breadcrumb-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthepalebooks.com\/shopnewbooks\/p\/resting-places-on-wounds-war-and-the-irish-revolution\">Resting Places: On Wounds, War and the Irish Revolution<\/a><\/em> (Beyond the Pale Books, 2023)<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Mark Steven<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/2631-class-war\"><em>Class War: A Literary History<\/em><\/a> (Verso, 2023)<\/p>\n<h2>2022 News in Digest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"markeubwwzden LMEtD\" data-markjs=\"true\"><span class=\"x_contentpasted0\">Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan&#8217;s successful tenure as co-editor of the <em>Journal of American Studies<\/em> (with Nick Witham) came to an end on 31 December 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>In November 2022 Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan gave a talk entitled \u201cThe \u2018Returned Yank\u2019 in the Cultural imagination, 1952 to the present\u201d in the <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.librariesni.org.uk\/heritage-from-home-3\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.librariesni.org.uk%2Fheritage-from-home-3%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CP.G.Williams%40exeter.ac.uk%7C1b2210d3e61b4e314f6208daf2edc526%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638089400263094208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=r4%2FKqdOucp%2BI0iMCyvCjo3GBAJGUUYVB7iFHxDmBimo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"1\">Heritage from Home<\/a><i>\u00a0<\/i>series organised by <a title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/www.librariesni.org.uk\/. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.librariesni.org.uk%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7CP.G.Williams%40exeter.ac.uk%7C1b2210d3e61b4e314f6208daf2edc526%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C638089400263094208%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=MRlw%2FLcO71q8ein%2F0%2F5bH2bZk1uT2KHwLEaT4Enc0ws%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"Verified\" data-linkindex=\"0\">LibrariesNI<\/a>.\u00a0 Sin\u00e9ad discussed some of the material from her most recent book about cultural representations of return migration in the Irish imagination.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #212529\">In July\/August 2022, Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan spent a month at the University of Notre Dame researching U.S. Catholic magazines in the mid-twentieth century, supported by an award from the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\">. This research forms part of her current book project, <\/span>titled\u00a0<i>For Export Only: Irish Writers and U.S. Magazines, 1940-1975<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Recent graduate Ruby Bones&#8217;s paper &#8220;<a title=\"https:\/\/english.umd.edu\/research-innovation\/journals\/paper-shell-review\/spring-2022\/heaven-what-i-cannot-reach-how-emily\" href=\"https:\/\/english.umd.edu\/research-innovation\/journals\/paper-shell-review\/spring-2022\/heaven-what-i-cannot-reach-how-emily\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">&#8216;Heaven \u2014 is what I cannot reach&#8217;: How Emily Dickinson\u2019s Voice was Influenced by Spoken Worship in Amherst and the Book of Revelation&#8221;<\/a> was published in the University of Maryland&#8217;s <i>Paper Shell Review <\/i>in July 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Paul Williams&#8217;s monograph <em>Dreaming the Graphic Novel<\/em> was awarded the 2020 Book Prize at the Comics History Awards presented by the Grand Comics Database.<\/li>\n<li>Helen Hanson won Best Journal Article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baftss.org\/awards-2022-906127.html\">2022 Publication Awards<\/a> presented by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies for the article \u201cLooking for Lela Simone: <em>Singin\u2019 in the Rain<\/em> and microhistories of women\u2019s sound work behind the scenes and below-the-line in Classical Hollywood Cinema\u201d (<i>Women\u2019s History Review<\/i>, vol. 29, no. 5, 2020).<\/li>\n<li>In February 2022, Henry Knight Lozano undertook a long-awaited research fellowship funded by the\u00a0Dave Abrams and Gene Banning Pan Am Research Grant at the University of Miami. Henry&#8217;s focus at the University of Miami\u2019s Special Collections was on the Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records held there. Building off his research interests in U.S. transpacific expansion that shaped his monograph, <i>California and Hawai\u2018i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959<\/i> (2021), the Miami research trip explored a rich collection of primary sources relating to the development and promotion of Pan Am\u2019s California-to-Hawai\u2018i\u2019s routes from their launch in the mid-1930s through to the movement for Hawaiian statehood in the post-war decades.<\/li>\n<li>Michael-Angelo Keramidas passed his PhD entitled &#8220;Reclaiming White Privilege: The Crisis of White Masculinity in Post-World War Two American Literature&#8221; in February 2022.<\/li>\n<li>New\u00a0books published this year by members of NAARG:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>* <strong>Paul Williams<\/strong>,<span class=\"markeubwwzden LMEtD\" data-markjs=\"true\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edinburghuniversitypress.com\/book-the-us-graphic-novel.html\"><em>The US Graphic Novel<\/em><\/a> (Edinburgh UP, 2022)<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>2021 News in Digest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>In March 2021 Paul Williams received an Honourable Mention in the Book Prize category of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.periodicalresearch.org\/category\/prizes\/\">Research Society of American Periodicals awards<\/a> for his monograph\u00a0<em>Dreaming the Graphic Novel<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>New\u00a0books published this year by members of NAARG:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>* Ellen McWilliams<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gb\/book\/9781137537898\"><em>Irishness in North American Women&#8217;s Writing: Transatlantic Affinities<\/em><\/a> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)<\/p>\n<p><strong>* Mark Steven<\/strong>, ed., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/uk\/understanding-marx-understanding-modernism-9781501351112\/\"><em>Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism<\/em><\/a> (Bloomsbury, 2021)<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Henry Knight Lozano<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/nebraska\/9781496212139\/\"><em>California and Hawai\u2018i Bound: U.S. Settler Colonialism and the Pacific West, 1848-1959<\/em><\/a> (University of Nebraska Press, 2021)<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2020 News in Digest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Three evenings of talks relating to U.S. Presidential Election were held between 13 Oct.-3 Nov. 2020: Prof. Jason Reifler (Exeter) and Dr. Darren Schreiber (Exeter) explained the path to election day, from caucuses to the Electoral College; Dr Zalfa Feghali (Leicester), Prof. Ian Scott (Manchester), and Dr Rachel Sykes (Birmingham) spoke about Presidents on screen and what they read; and in the Election Day Roundtable, the following scholars and activists shared their thoughts on how the campaigns had gone and what the outcome might be: Dr Gregorio Bettiza (Exeter), Dr Sinead McEneaney (Open University), Dr Marc-William Palen (Exeter), Dr Cara Rodway (British Library &amp; Chair of the British Association for American Studies), Ms Alicia Wang (Member of the Democratic National Committee, 1992\u20132008, and Vice Chair of the California Democratic Party, 1997\u20132009). Thanks to all our speakers and to our students for asking such thoughtful questions!<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Jo Gill&#8217;s article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/res\/hgaa077\">&#8220;Elizabeth Bishop&#8217;s Pink&#8221;<\/a> was published in <em>The\u00a0Review of English Studies<\/em> in October 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan enjoyed grant success this year for her research into Belfast-born writer Brian Moore (1921-1999), who spent most of his adult life in Canada and the United States. Sin\u00e9ad was awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/funding\/ba-leverhulme-small-research-grants\/\">British Academy\/Leverhulme Small Research<\/a> Grant for the project\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/bm2021\/\">&#8220;Brian Moore at 100&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0in August 2020, as well as a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/norman.hrc.utexas.edu\/fasearch\/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00167\">Harry Ransom Center Visiting Fellowship<\/a> to consult the Brian Moore Papers held at the HRC. You can read more about project and the public activities taking place\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/bm2021\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Congratulations to our students for their success at this year&#8217;s British Association for American Studies Awards: PhD student Jessica Mehta won the\u00a0Public Engagement and Impact Award for her project \u201c&#8217;White Alliahs&#8217;: The Creation &amp; Perpetuation of the Wise Indian Trope&#8221; and Siobhan Owen won the Undergraduate Essay Prize for \u201cDelivering the Whale: Women\u2019s Labour and the Production of <em>Moby-Dick<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>In April 2020 Professor Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan was awarded the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/sway.office.com\/3Do4VJYQ1LAlH0TR?ref=email\">Michael J. Durkan prize<\/a>\u00a0for her book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/books\/isbn\/9781786941800\/\">Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The &#8220;Returned Yank&#8221; in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to the present.<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>New\u00a0books published this year by members of NAARG:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>* Paul Williams<\/strong>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/dreaming-the-graphic-novel\/9781978805064\"><em>Dreaming the Graphic Novel: The Novelization of\u00a0Comics\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Rutgers UP, 2020)<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2019 News in Digest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>On 10 April 2019 the Spanish Association for American Studies awarded Paul Williams the Javier Coy Biennial Research Award for Best Journal Article 2017-18 for his article &#8220;Jules Feiffer&#8217;s <em>Tantrum<\/em> at the End\u00a0of Narcissism&#8217;s Decade,&#8221; published in the Fall 2018 issue\u00a0of\u00a0<em>Studies in the Novel<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>In April 2019\u00a0first-year PhD student Shihoko Inoue won a Postgraduate Travel Award from the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) to travel to Smith College, MA and Indiana University to study the Sylvia Plath archives. Shihoko&#8217;s PhD is on Plath and medical technologies.<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Jo Gill published the article <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/h8040167\">&#8220;Gwendolyn Brooks and the Legacies of Architectural Modernity&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0in the journal <em>Humanities<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Several members of NAARG published books in 2018-19:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>*<b>Jason M. Baskin<\/b>,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/modernism-beyond-the-avantgarde\/BC0DEBAF9D5B282870210BCA322D7CA2\">Modernism Beyond the Avant-Garde: Embodying Experience<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(Cambridge UP, 2018)<\/p>\n<p>*<b>Joanna Freer<\/b>, ed.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/new-pynchon-studies\/E7643CFCDE5B7DF846ADE4597593B5A0\"><i>The New Pynchon Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions\u00a0<\/i><\/a>(Cambridge UP, 2019)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8212;.<\/span>Ali Chetwynd and Georgios Maragos, ed., <a href=\"https:\/\/ugapress.org\/book\/9780820354019\/thomas-pynchon-sex-and-gender\/\"><i>Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender <\/i><\/a>(U of Georgia P, 2018)<\/p>\n<p><strong>*James Lyons,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Documentary-Performance-and-Risk\/Lyons\/p\/book\/9781138852136\"><em>Documentary, Performance and Risk<\/em> <\/a>(Routledge, 2019).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>*<b>Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan<\/b>,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk\/books\/isbn\/9781786941800\/\">Ireland, Migration and Return Migration: The \u201cReturned Yank\u201d in the Cultural Imagination, 1952 to the Present<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(Liverpool UP, 2019)<\/p>\n<p>*<strong>Rob Turner<\/strong>,\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/counterfeit-culture\/57DFDBB4B261712526CFF8E7A16C0A3A\">Counterfeit Culture: Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(Cambridge UP, 2019)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>2018 News in Digest<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan has been appointed co-editor of the <em>Journal of American Studies<\/em>, taking up this position in January 2019.<\/li>\n<li>The 2018 Gamini Salgado Prize, awarded to the undergraduate dissertation that best communicates the qualities of imagination and intellectual flair, was awarded to Rebecca Young for \u201c\u2018See her Brain &#8211; go round\u2019: Emily Dickinson, Neurodiversity and the Matter of the Brain.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Professor Jo Gill delivered a keynote address to the joint conference of BAAS and the European Association for American Studies, held 4-7 April 2018 at KCL \/ UCL \/ the British Library.<\/li>\n<li>In April 2018 third-year BA English and Visual Culture student Jac Lewis was awarded the BAAS Undergraduate Essay Prize for his essay \u201c\u2018Language is, so We May Ms-Under-Stend Each Udda\u2019: Modernism in the Comics Art of George Herriman\u2019s Krazy Kat.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2024 News in Digest A documentary based on Peter Riley&#8217;s book Strandings was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 28 April \u2013 you can listen again here. Paul Williams delivered the talk \u201cThe Unphotocopied Life is Not Worth Living\u201d at the Comics Productions: Stitching, Inking, Photocopying symposium at Ghent University (13 March). 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