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April 21, 2008
Darla Bielfeldt and Kristin Kuster Receive Grant for Opera
Darla Bielfeldt and Kristin Kuster recently received a $6,000 Artists Collaboration Grant from the South Dakota Arts Council. Bielfeldt (librettist) and Kuster (composer) will use the award to fund their collaboration on an opera adaptation of Virginia Driving-Hawk Sneve’s book, Trickster and the Troll. The work will premier November 16, 2008 at the Performing Arts Center in Brookings.
March 12, 2008
Dr. Stewart-Nunez Receives Research Grant
Dr. Christine Stewart-Nunez has been awarded $3600 from the 2008 Research Support Grant through the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs. The award will support a Taos Master Class in Poetry and a writing retreat on creative nonfiction with noted author Linda Hasselstrom.
March 10, 2008
Dr. Brandt Reviews Guthrie's "Merchant of Venice"
Dr. Brandt's review of the Guthrie Theater's Merchant of Venice has just appeared in Early Modern Literary Studies, a peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by Sheffield Hallam Unversity in England. The home page is at http://purl.org/emls. Click on current issue and scroll down to the theatre reviews on the table of contents.
March 6, 2008
Two Publications by Dr. Tietchen
Dr. Tietchen’s article, “On the Waldport Fine Arts Project and the Aesthetics of Estranged Being” is forthcoming in Mosaic: Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature. An additional essay by Dr. Tietchen, “The Black Arts Movement in National and Transnational Perspective,” is scheduled to appear in the upcoming anthology, The Long Civil Rights Movement (Bruccoli/Clark/Layman).
Both pieces audition ideas which are central to Dr. Tietchen’s book, The Cubalogues: On the Beat Generation in Revolutionary Havana, contracted with University Press of Florida for a 2009 release.
March 6, 2008
Graduate Students Present at the Red River Conference
The following graduate students will be presenting at this year’s Red River Conference on World Literature, to be held at North Dakota State University from April 4th through the 6th: Mary Carlson, Amber Jensen, Ben Barondeau, Kathleen Grode, Colleen Poindexter, Jessica Eikmeier, Steve Binkley, Bridget Nordquist, and Nancy Preteau.
All are presenting on topics they originally explored in Dr. Tietchen’s Fall 2007 Transnational America seminar.
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