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Oct. 17, 2006

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MUW English professors publish books and poems

 

COLUMBUS, Miss. – Dr. James Keller and Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg, Mississippi University for Women College of Arts and Sciences faculty members, recently had some of their literary works published.

Keller, professor of English and chair of the Department of Languages, Literature and Philosophy, published “Food, Film, and Culture: A Genre Study” with McFarland publishers.

According to Keller, “The book defines the food film genre and analyzes the relationship between cinematic food imagery and various cultural constructs, including politics, family, identity, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender and religion.”

The book contains a filmography of movies within food genre including “The Cook, the Thief, his Wife, and her Lover,” “Chocolat,” “Felicia’s Journey,” “Kitchen Storie” and “Magic Kitchen.”

“Food, Film, and Culture” is Keller’s fourth monograph. He also has completed two edited collections with Dr. Leslie Stratyner, MUW professor of English, including their most recent project, “Fantasy, Fiction and Film.”

Keller has been at MUW for 15 years.

Director of creative writing and professor of English, Dunkelberg recently published three poems, “Time Capsules,” “Alalia” and “Native Prairie.” The poems were included in volume 27, number 1-2, Spring/Summer 2006 edition of The Texas Review published by Texas A & M University Press.

During the past year, Dunkelberg published poems in POMPA, Big Muddy and the online journal, Pemmican. He also has a poem accepted for publication in the spring 2007 online journal, Poetry Southeast.

In addition to these poems, Dunkelberg has been translating poetry for more than 20 years and with MUW for almost 13 years. His translations have been published in many literary magazines including Chelsea, The Literary Review, Five Fingers, Two Lines, Osiris and Modern Poetry in Translation. He also has published a book of translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek, “Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus.”

Dunkelberg spent the 2006 spring semester as a Fulbright Scholar teaching 20^th Century American Poetry and American Women Writers at the Catholic University of Leuven and Lessius Academy in Belgium.