Music for the Worms: A Darwin Exhibit at the Lilly Library, curated by Christoph Irmscher
Darwin Themester Exhibit at the Lilly Library
Music for the Worms
November 18 through December 19, 2009
Lilly Library, Lincoln Room
The exhibit runs from November 18-December 19 and will go online after that. It features a first edition and presentation copy of Origin of Species as well as an early American edition of Darwin's "abominable" book (as he himself called it); the first edition of Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication and the first American edition of Descent of Man; rarely seen photographic portraits of Darwin, his American collaborator Asa Gray, and his main adversary Louis Agassiz; as well as several original Darwin letters, two of them entirely unpublished, and some anti-Darwinian cartoons.
An autographed letter by Darwin's German supporter Ernst Haeckel and a spendidly illustrated copy of Louis Agassiz's Contributions to the Natural History of the United States of America are also included. The exhibit was curated by Christoph Irmscher in the English Department. For more information, email Christoph Irmscher at cirmsche@indiana.edu or christoph.irmscher@gmail.com or call 443-622-3277. A catalogue of the exhibit with extensive commentary on the items is available at the Lilly Library. The Lilly Library is open from 9-6 Monday to Friday and from 9-1 on Saturdays. |
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Judith H. Anderson awarded Isabel McCaffrey Prize
| Judith H. Anderson’s Reading the Allegorical Intertext will be awarded the Isabel McCaffrey Prize for the best book on Spenser and Renaissance literature published in 2008-2009, a prize conferred by the International Spenser Society. The prize will be publicly announced at MLA. |
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Judith Brown featured in IU's Research & Creative Activity
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IU's Creative Writing Program Among the Top in the Nation
Indiana University's Creative Writing Program in the English Department ranks #12 in the nation, according to Poets and Writers Magazine, one of the two main professional journals for writers. IU's Creative Writing beats out such illustrious programs as Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and University of Houston. The ranking is a recognition of the program's long tradition of commitment to quality and to nurturing some of the most talented young writers from America and abroad.
Jonathan Elmer, Chair of the English Department, said, "We can all be proud of this wonderful program and the talented writers, teachers, and students in it."
"We are very pleased with this news," said Samrat Upadhyay, Director of Creative Writing. "We've always known that our program provides a rigorous and supportive environment for writers to develop their craft, to grow as thinkers and teachers, and that our graduates go on to publish well and do wonderful work all over the country. This honor confirms our dedication to our students and to the art of writing, and validates the wonderful community we have here."
Click here to read the IU press release.
Click here to read the Poets and Writers piece.
Click here to view the Poets and Writers list of rankings. |
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Ed Comentale Publishes New Book: The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies
| Professor Ed Comentale has co-written and edited a forthcoming book of essays about the cult-classic film The Big Lebowski. The new book, The Year's Work in Lebowski Studies, will be pubished Nov. 1, by IU Press. Portions of the book have been previewed in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe. Read the IU press release here. |
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Christoph Irmscher writes for the Los Angeles Times Book Review
| Christoph Irmscher's review of Douglas Brinkley's The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America (Harper, 2009) has been published in the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Click here to read his review. |
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Christoph Irmscher and Joel Silver on WFIU
| Christoph Irmscher, Joel Silver, and Trevor Winn recently gave an interview for WFIU, talking about the treasures of the Lilly Library. You can read or listen to the interview here. |
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Katherine Govier reading on Monday, July 27th.
This coming Monday, July 27, at 6 p.m. in the Maple Room of the Indiana Memorial Union the NEH-sponsored Audubon Institute at IU will host a public reading by Katherine Govier, one of the most important Canadian novelists working today. Her novel Creation, about John James Audubon in Labrador, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 2003. She is the author of seven other novels, among them Three Views of Crystal Water (a Globe and Mail Book of the Year in 2005), and three short story collections. She has also edited two collections of travel essays. Katherine is the winner of Canada's Marian Engel Award (1997) and the Toronto Book Award (1992), and she has co-founded Writers in Electronic Residence, a national online writing program connecting Canadian writers in their homes to high school students in classrooms across Canada from Newfoundland to the Arctic to Vancouver Island. Her current work in progress is The Ghost Brush, a novel about Hokusai's daughter. Feel free to contact Christoph Irmscher at cirmsche@indiana.edu with any questions.
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Christoph Irmscher Wins Exhibition Award
| The online exhibition catalogue for Christoph Irmscher's bicentennial Longfellow exhibition at Harvard's Houghton Library has won the prize for the Best Electronic Exhibition Catalogue by the Association of College and Research Libraries Rare Book and Manuscripts Section. The exhibition can be viewed here. |
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Michael Adams Publishes New Book, Slang: The People's Poetry
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