Newsletter

NEWSLETTER At this time of year our own forthcoming meeting is very much on the membership 's collective mind, and we are perhaps too inclined to forget other gatherings to which our colleagues contribute. Lurline Coltharp of the University of Texas at El Paso has been named secretary of the English Linguistics Section of the South Central MLA for 1971-72. Professor Coltharp also presented a paper, "A Digital Classification of Place Names," to the American Name Society at their meeting in January, 1971. The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages met at New Mexico State University on April 23rd. Sanford Couch of Arizona State University spoke on "Programming Foreign Language Instruction." The NMSU Russian Club were hosts for the meeting, under the direction of Olga Shaskevich, who is also the president of the New Mexico-El Paso chapter of AATSEEL. Professor Frances Hernández of the University of Texas at El Paso has been invited to address the Comparative Literature Symposium at Texas Tech University in January, 1972. The address will be on "Katherine Anne Porter and Julio Cortázar: The Craft of Fiction." A new department of linguistics has been established at the University of Texas at El Paso. Professor Coltharp now holds a dual appointment in this and the English department there. Professor C. L. Sonnichsen of the same institution has been named Piper professor for 1971. At Western New Mexico University Donald F. Peel has been appointed assistant professor in linguistics. And Professor Philip D. Ortego of the University of Texas at El Paso is serving as executive director of that institution's new Chicano Affairs Program. Recent publications by our membership include Stephen Spender: Poet in Crisis (Glasgow, 1970) and Moby-Dick: A Hindu Avatar (Logan, Utah, 1970) by Professor H. B. Kulkarni of the English Department at Utah State University. At the Air Force Academy Lieutenant Colonel Frederick T. Kiley and Major J. M. Shuttleworth are completing work on a new text, Satire: Aesop to Buchwald, which will soon appear from Odyssey Press. Major Shuttleworth's edition of the Life of Lord Herbert of Cherbury is scheduled for publication by the Oxford University Press in the fall of 1971. Haldeen Braddy of the University of Texas at El Paso is the author of Geoffrey Chaucer, Literary and Historical Studies and Mexico and the Old Southwest, both published by the Kennicot Press in 1971. Our most recent information indicates that Professor Lewis A. Richards of Western New Mexico University is the new editor of the Western Review. A new journal, YELMO, primarily for the teacher of Spanish, has just been announced. A free copy of the first issue and information regarding subscription and advertising may be obtained by writing YELMO, La Revista del 102 Newsletter103 Professor de Español, Apartado 877, Madrid, Spain. Another effort at coordinating efforts of a large group of scholars and teachers is the newly established Slavic Center. The Center presently publishes a newsletter and hopes in the near future to compile a complete listing of dissertations in Slavic Studies in progress in European and American Universities. For further information write Dr. E. Alex Baer, Slavic Bibliographic and Documentation Center, Association of Research Libraries, 1527 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Because of a backlog of unpublished manuscripts PMLA has placed a moratorium on new articles, which will not be accepted until the present accumulation has been reduced to nine months (it is currently booked through March, 1974). The RMMLA Bulletin, however, is not affected, and welcomes submissions from RMMLA members. Finally, the National Endowment for the Humanities has recently announced that the University of Denver has been awarded an Educational Development Grant for the purpose of strengthening its program in the humanities. The new program, which will lead to the degree of Bachelor of Liberal Studies on the undergraduate level, is based on intensive study of an historical period from the points of view of several differing humanistic disciplines. ...