Faculty News

James Beasley's book review of Giorgio Agamben's The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans was published in the winter issue of The Cresset.

Laura Durnell, part-time English lecturer in the First-Year Writing Program, has an upcoming short story publication in issue 34 of The Journal of Experimental Fiction.

Scott E. Johnson is the newly elected representative for part-time faculty to the English Departmental Assembly. Part-timers can email him with any questions or concerns that they'd like him to address over the next year.

Carl Marcum has poems fothcoming in the anthology, "The Wind Shifts: The New Latino/a Poets," due out in April 2007 from the University of Arizona Press. He also has poems forthcoming in the Spring Issue of "Poetry East," and the Fall issue of "Black Warrior Review." He will read from his work at the California Clipper as the featured reader in the "Palabra Pura" Bi-Lingual Reading Series sponsored by the Guild Complex on February 21st. Carl Marcum is also a 2007 reciepient of an Illinois Arts Council grant for poetry.

M. Morano	Michele Morano's book, Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain, will be published in a few weeks. (Be sure to visit the official web site, michelemorano.com, for more information.) She has also been awarded a fellowship to the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, where she'll be holed up writing for three weeks beginning in mid-February.	J. Murphy
	James Murphy has just published a chapter in the Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (ed John Wilson Foster). It is entitled "Catholics and Fiction during the Union, 1801-1922."

Bayo Ojikutu and Sor Juana de Luca chair Achy Obejas will be reading at the Hothouse (State & Balbo) with three other local talents on Wednesday, January 31. For more information, please visit the Ex Libris events listings, or visit Hothouse on the web.

Christine Sneed has a short story forthcoming from South Dakota Review: its title is "These Things Happen."