http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php en rtorstri@iusb.edu Copyright 2009 2009-11-09T20:04:49-05:00 http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php/CLASnews/image_artist_of_the_month_kelcey_parker/ http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php/CLASnews/image_artist_of_the_month_kelcey_parker/#When:20:04:49Z Dr. Kelcey Parker, Assistant Professor of English, has been selected as Artist of the Month for November 2009 in the well-regarded literary journal, Image. She has published two stories in Image, and her profile includes a link to her story, “Lent,” about a woman who gives up her family for Lent. “Lent” is also one of the stories in her forthcoming story collection, For Sale By Owner, which will be published by Kore Press in 2010. Congratulations to Dr. Parker!!! 2009-11-09T20:04:49-05:00 http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php/CLASnews/fall_fiction_series_frances_hwang/ http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php/CLASnews/fall_fiction_series_frances_hwang/#When:17:27:58Z Frances Hwang Author of Transparency Monday, Nov. 23 7:30 p.m. 3rd Floor bridge of Wiekamp Hall Light refreshments and book-signing to follow. “All the grown-ups burst out laughing, and then my aunt turned to look at me. ‘So you think I’m not as pretty?’ she said. My fingers trailed along the sofa as I moved away from her. ‘You think your mom is prettier than me, hey?’ All at once, she lunged, squeezing me tight. When she suctioned my face with kisses, I could feel the hot steam of her emotion. She was a tyrant in that way, her passions swirled messily together, making me afraid. To love and to hate was the same, and even the dog was scared of her.” Frances Hwang’s story collection, Transparency (Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Company, 2007), received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a PEN/Beyond Margins Award.  She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and has held fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the MacDowell Colony, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and Colgate University.  Her work has been read as part of the Selected Shorts series at Symphony Space and has appeared in Best New American Voices, Glimmer Train, Tin House, AGNI Online, and Subtropics.  She teaches at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. More info available at: http://iusbcreativewriting.wordpress.com/ 2009-11-09T17:27:58-05:00 http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php/CLASnews/new_work_by_elaine_roth/ http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php/CLASnews/new_work_by_elaine_roth/#When:12:47:27Z Elaine Roth (English) and her co-editors Heather Addison (Western Michigan University) and Mary Kate Goodwin-Kelly (independent scholar) have published the first collection of essays on cinematic motherhood with SUNY Press.  In recent years, considerable public attention has been paid to mothers and motherhood.  Public debates about women “opting out” of careers for motherhood, the so-called “Mommy wars” between working and stay-at-home mothers, and intense public scrutiny of movie stars and singers as mothers led the authors to focus on the evolution of a cinematic discourse about motherhood.  Motherhood Misconceived:  Representing the Maternal in US Films draws on a variety of critical approaches to consider Hollywood’s portrayal of motherhood.  The thirteen contributions cover the spectacle of pregnancy; mother-daughter relationships; mothers as predators, narcissists, and absent victims; and the ways in which cultural anxieties are displaced and projected onto marginalized mothers in films such as Fargo; Transamerica; Gas, Food, Lodging; Ordinary People; and Scream. For more information, go to Motherhood Misconceived 2009-11-09T12:47:27-05:00 http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php/CLASnews/kossek_to_deliver_kaufman_lecture_november_18/ http://www.iusb.edu/~lasi/LASnews/index.php/CLASnews/kossek_to_deliver_kaufman_lecture_november_18/#When:13:38:57Z On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Distinguished Professor Ellen Kossek of Michigan State University will deliver IU South Bend’s Gloria Kaufman Memorial Lecture for 2009.  Her talk “Managing Flexstyles: Women, Work and Family in a Flexible Job Age” will take place in Wiekamp Hall 1001, at 7:30 p.m. This talk is sponsored by the Women’s Studies Program at IU South Bend. The presentation will focus on women and the economy at an historical moment:  this topic is at the top of the news, in part because of the recent “Shriver Report” on the status of women in the U.S.  Dr. Kossek, who teaches in MSU’s School of Labor and Industrial Relations, is the winner of many awards and the author of seven books and numerous scholarly articles.  She is currently the Associate Director of the Center for Work-Family Stress and Health, a virtual center with Portland State University as part of the National Institute of Health National Workplace Health and Family Network. She holds a Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Yale University, an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, and an A.B. from Mount Holyoke with honors in psychology. Her talk at IU South Bend comes from her 2008 book, CEO of Me: Creating a Life that Works in the Flexible Job Age, and will take on the challenges women in particular face in the current job market. You can read more about her research at the following sites: http://flex-work.lir.msu.edu/ http://wfsupport.psy.pdx.edu/ http://www.worklifeflexibility.msu.edu/ The talk is free and open to the public, and will be followed by a reception and a book signing. Questions? Contact Dr. Cathy Borshuk, Director of Women’s Studies at (574) 520-4122. 2009-11-05T13:38:57-05:00