November 10, 1994: Vol26n10: Lectureships, exhibitions, honors put English Department members in 

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
Several members of the UB Department of English have been honored
recently with invited readings, exhibitions, distinguished
lectureships and noteworthy literary prizes.
	o Charles Bernstein, David Gray Chair in English and a noted
poet, editor and critical theorist, recently gave readings and
lectures at a conference on contemporary American poetry at England's
University of Southampton, at Cambridge University and in London. He
also has made recent presentations at the International Association
for Philosophy and Literature in Edmonton, Alberta; the Academy of
American Poets in New York, where he read with UB colleague Susan
Howe, and at the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver.
	Bernstein's professional appearances in the last few months
also include presentations at the Center for Book Arts in Minneapolis
and at Miami University of Ohio at a conference on "The Return of the
Poet-Critic." He soon will head for the University of Pennsylvania and
the University of Virginia, where he will deliver the Peter Rushton
Lectures on Contemporary Literature.
	o Victor Doyno, professor of English and nationally regarded
Mark Twain scholar, was Distinguished Academic Scholar in Residence at
the Elmira College Center for Mark Twain Studies Spring, 1994 Lecture
Series. Doyno is also president of The Mark Twain Circle, a national
association of Twain scholars and enthusiasts.
	o Bruce Jackson, SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and
director of the UB Center for Studies in American Culture, lectured
recently at Alfred University and Brigham Young University. He spent a
good deal of time this summer working as a story consult and writer
for actor Dustin Hoffman. In connection with this, Jackson worked
undercover in a Los Angeles hospital emergency room.
	o Updated versions of lectures delivered at Johns Hopkins
University by Jackson and Diane Christian, professor of English,
appear in the current issue of the journal Visual Sociology.
Christian's lecture is titled, "History and Film;" Jackson's "New
Social History and Documentary."
	o Susan Howe, professor of English and one of the country's
most innovative poets and literary critics, has returned home after a
year at the University of Denver, where she held a visiting endowed
chair in the arts. During that time, she was the keynote speaker at
the Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association Convention in
Atlanta, and one of the readers for "The Republic of Verse: A Marathon
of 19th Century American Poetry and Song" at the Unterberg Poetry
Center of the 92nd St. "Y" in New York City. 
	She also read or delivered papers at the Iowa Writers'
Workshop, the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz.
She read her poetry at UCLA and was keynote poet at the annual meeting
of the American Comparative Literature Association.
	She was visiting Brittingham Scholar at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, and was a visiting poet for the University of
Arizona creative writing program.
	In May, she read with Charles Bernstein at the Academy of
American Poetry in New York City and was one of four writers who read
their work and lectured at the ninth annual Spring Literary Festival
at Ohio University in Athens.
	Two of her books, "The Birth-mark: Unsetting the Wilderness in
American Literary History" and "The Nonconformist's Memorial," were
chosen as 1993 International Books of the Year by the Times Literary
Supplement. 
	Last month, Howe read her poems and conducted a literary
workshop at George Mason University 
	o Joan Copjec, associate professor of English, has an
architectural project designed with noted architect and critic Michael
Sorkin on exhibit at Ohio's Wexner Center for the Arts, through Dec.
11.
	The show, titled "House Rules," teamed theorists and
architects who produced drawings and a model of a house based on a
theoretically and politically articulated notion of social grouping. A
special issue of the architectural journal, Assemblage, was published
to document the show. The journal includes photographs of the designs
and theoretical and polemical essays that defend them.
	o Ray Federman, SUNY Distinguished Professor of English and
comparative literature and Melodia Jones Chair in French, received the
1994-95 Pushcart Prize for his story, "The Line," which was published
in the Alaska Review Quarterly. It will appear in the "Pushcart Prize
Anthology" to be published this month. The Pushcart Prize is awarded
to the best contemporary poetry, fiction and essays from the small
press world.
Federman, an internationally recognized poet, fiction writer and
critic, also published two pieces of fiction, "Stepmothers" and "A
Story About a Story Within a Story," in the last issue of The Iowa
Review. These works also were published in the "Iowa Anthology of
Innovative Fiction."