Notices: General Announcements 

Volume 12, Number 2
January, 2002 

General Announcements

• Ropes Lecture Series

  The University of Cincinnati Department of English announces the third annual Ropes Lecture Series, in support of its doctoral program in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture. This year's series is organized around the theme of Race and Culture: Lines of Color, Lines of Demarcation. The series begins on January 22, 2002 and concludes on February 20, 2002. Featured speakers include Houston Baker, Noel Ignatiev, Caryl Philips, Gerald Vizenor, Bharati Mukherjee, and Suvir Kaul. For more information, go to http://asweb.artsci.uc.edu/english/ropes.htm or send e-mail to stanley.corkin@uc.edu.

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• Crompton-Noll Awards

  The Crompton-Noll Award for best essay in lesbian, gay, queer studies is given annually by the Gay and Lesbian Caucus of the Modern Language Association. The award, which is now in its 22nd year, pays tribute to Louis Crompton (University of Nebraska at Lincoln) and Dolores Noll (Kent State University), two early scholar/activists who helped found the gay and lesbian caucus of the MLA. The award recognizes the important work of lesbian, gay, & queer studies in the modern languages and the history that has helped make this current work possible.

  Congratulations to the 2001 winners, announced at the December Modern Language Association Convention in New Orleans.

  Best Essay in Lesbian, Gay, Queer Studies:

  Co-winners
  Licia Fiol-Matta, Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures at Barnard College, for "'Race Woman': Reproducing the Nation in Gabriela Mistral," GLQ 6.4 (2000): 491-527.
  Judith Halberstam, Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, for "Oh Behave!: Austin Powers and the Drag Kings," GLQ 7.3 (2001): 425-452.
  Valerie Traub, Department of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, for "The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England," GLQ 7.2 (2001): 245-263.

  Honorable Mention:

  Gary Dyer, Department of English at Cleveland State University, for "Thieves, Boxers, Sodomites, Poets: Being Flash to Byron's Don Juan," PMLA 116.3 (May 2001): 562-578.

  Special Citations:

  GLQ: A Journal Of Lesbian and Gay Studies, for outstanding contribution to the field of Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Queer Studies.

  The 2001 Selections Committee:

  Ann Cvetkovich, Department of English, University of Texas, Austin
  Rod Ferguson, Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
  Jody Greene, Department of Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
  David Román, Department of English, University of Southern California

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