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Faculty Profiles - French & Italian
Dr. Daniela Bini - Italian and Comparative Literature, Chair of the Department of French & Italian
Dr. Paola Bonifazio - Italian Cinema
Dr. Jean-Pierre Cauvin – Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century French Literature and Cultural History
Dr. Karen Pagani – Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Philosophy; Secularization
Dr. Guy P. Raffa - Medieval Italian Literature
Dr. Cinzia Russi - Romance Linguistics
Dr. Hélène Tissières – Francophone Studies
Academic Background: Ph.D. & M.A., Italian, Indiana University – Bloomington, IN; B.S., Mathematics & Computer Science, Duke University – Durham, NC
Area of Specialization: Medieval Italian Literature (Dante)
What made you decide to go to graduate school?
After graduating from Duke and working for a year and a half as an associate actuary in the corporate offices of a major insurance company, I decided to return to school for graduate study in Italian. I made this early career change for two reasons: first, because I wanted to deepen my knowledge of Italian culture by spending time in Italy and by taking courses there and in the U.S. (as an undergraduate I had taken Italian language courses as well as electives on Italian literature and art); second, because I knew that I wanted to teach at the university level, and I believed I would be happiest and most productive teaching, studying, and conducting research on Italian literature.
What was your dissertation topic when you were in grad school?
I combined my mathematical and scientific interests with my graduate work in Italian literature and medieval studies to write a dissertation titled "Dante's Mathematical Imagination."
What topics do you teach at UT?
I most often teach courses that focus on early Italian literature and culture (Dante's Divine Comedy in particular), and I occasionally offer courses on modern Italian literature—usually centered on writers, such as Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino, whose work bridges the "two cultures" divide between the humanities and the sciences. When I teach medieval and Renaissance topics, I emphasize how works from these earlier periods influence and relate to modern and contemporary culture. For example, I am currently designing a course for first-year students—"Dante's Hell and Its Afterlife"—organized around modern works (literary and cinematic) indebted to Dante's Inferno.
Can you tell us a bit about your areas of specialization?
My primary scholarly field is medieval Italian literature—Dante above all—with additional interests in modern Italian literature and interrelations of the humanities and the sciences. I recently researched and wrote The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the "Divine Comedy" (University of Chicago Press, 2009). I combined an abridged version of the textual commentary from this book with images and audio selections from Dante's Divine Comedy to build the Danteworlds Web site. This multimedia Digital Humanities project is used by many students (at UT and elsewhere) as well as by other Dante teachers and researchers.
What is your current research focus at UT?
My current research project is a book-in-progress titled Dante's Bones. Beginning with the Florentine poet's death and burial in Ravenna in 1321, I focus on the amazing adventures of Dante's mortal remains—from the theft of his bones in 1519 and their accidental rediscovery in 1865 to their disinterment and examination in 1921. This research follows Dante in his afterlife on earth as he evolved from an object of civic rivalry between Florence and Ravenna during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance into a symbol of Italy for the Risorgimento, then into a proponent of nationalism and imperialism under the fascist regime, finally to become the global cultural icon that he is today.
Is there a hot topic currently being discussed by scholars of Italian studies in the U.S. or around the world?
As Italy marks its one hundred fiftieth birthday as a nation, many Italian Studies scholars are turning their attention to the intersections of Italian nationhood and identity: What does it mean to be Italian today? How does the nation respond to ethnic, racial, regional, sexual, and religious differences among its inhabitants, particularly as people from other parts of the world—fleeing poverty, war, or political repression—come to live and work in Italy. These more recent demographic changes also encourage reflection on the role played by such differences in Italian society during earlier times.
Did you participate in a research project as an undergraduate?
Learning to do academic research properly is a crucial part of an undergraduate education. My most memorable research experience occurred during a study-abroad program when, although outside research wasn't required for the assignment, I realized that I needed to consult critical and philosophical works on the topic of humor in order to develop and support my argument for a literary essay on Samuel Beckett. I still recall the excitement and satisfaction of finding relevant books in Oxford University's famous Bodleian Library and incorporating ideas from them in my paper. For undergraduates in the humanities (including Italian Studies), I believe research skills are best acquired as integral parts of core courses in the field, such as presentations or written assignments that require the discovery and use of valid materials beyond the course texts.
What makes a good grad student?
A deep passion for the field is a necessary starting point for success in graduate school, but it isn't enough. Successful graduate work requires abundant energy and intense discipline to study and learn a vast amount of material in a relatively short period of time. Graduate students in Italian Studies must also be able to balance course work and teaching duties (as teaching assistants or assistant instructors). The best graduate students are able to think critically and independently—to question existing assumptions and paradigms—from a position of knowledge.
What are your top three tips for students interested in applying to an Italian graduate program?
- Prepare extra hard for the Graduate Record Examinations (a significant factor in university-wide fellowships) and write an intellectually substantive personal essay.
- Impress undergraduate teachers with your academic work so they can write detailed, persuasive letters of recommendation.
- After your undergraduate education, take a year or so off (if feasible) before beginning graduate studies—use this time to work, perhaps to travel; this break from the academic world could help you decide for sure that graduate study is the right choice.
What are the top five Italian programs in the US?
Currently, I would say that there are six top-tier US graduate programs in Italian Studies (with their order depending on area of specialization): Yale, UC Berkeley, New York University, Stanford, Columbia, and the University of Texas at Austin. The UT graduate program is new (2009-10 is our first year), but I believe it already belongs in this elite group based on the strength of the faculty and on outstanding research collections in Italian Studies and related fields.
What careers do alumni generally pursue after graduation from the program?
Students who enter the Italian Studies program at UT are expected to earn a PhD, with the MA earned as a stage toward doctoral work. Like PhD students in other humanities programs, they generally aspire to a teaching position at a college or university. However, the knowledge and training they receive in Italian Studies also equip them for non-academic careers that place a premium on advanced language competence, international cultural expertise, and research skills.
Academic Background: Ph.D. & M.A., Linguistics, University of Washington – Seattle, WA; M.A., Linguistics, San Jose State University – San Jose, CA; Laurea (MA equivalent), Foreign Languages & Literatures, Università Gabriele D'Annunzio – Pescara, Italy
Area of Specialization: Historical Linguistics
What made you decide to go to graduate school?
I wanted to pursue an academic career.
What was your dissertation topic when you were in grad school?
My dissertation examined the grammaticalization of Italian unstressed object pronouns.
What topics do you teach at UT?
For the past five years I have been teaching both lower and upper division Italian language courses and graduate courses in Romance and Italian linguistics, primarily dealing with issues in historical linguistics and sociolinguistics.
Can you tell us a bit about your areas of specialization?
My primary area of specialization is historical linguistic, specifically diachronic morphology and morphosyntax. I am also interested in language variation, Italian dialects, comparative Romance linguistics, and cognitive grammar.
What is your current research focus at UT?
Presently, my research focuses on two topics. I am investigating a small group of Italian predicates denoting the notions of lack (e.g., mancare 'be lacking; lack') and necessity (e.g., bastare 'be enough; suffice', servire 'need', volerci 'be needed; be required'). In addition to examining the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of these predicates from a synchronic perspective, I aim at reconstructing general trajectories of diachronic development for each of them. Furthermore, I am conducting a collaborative research project in the evolution of aspectualizers (aspectual verbs/auxiliaries; e.g., cominciare a fare qualcosa 'begin to do something', continuare a fare qualcosa 'keep to do something', finire di fare qualcosa 'finish to do something') in Italian (standard varieties and dialects), specifically the relevance and implications that the development of this type of predicates bears to grammaticalization studies.
I am also involved in two other collaborations: one deals with the pragmatic functionality of unstressed object pronouns in double object constructions in 14th-century Florentine, and the other examines syntactic and semantic properties of unstressed object pronouns in several Italian dialects.
Did you participate in a research project as an undergraduate?
No, I did not have the chance to participate in a research project as an undergraduate; however, I strongly believe that it is highly beneficial for interested undergraduate students to be exposed to research.
What makes a good grad student?
I believe that the key 'ingredients' that make a good graduate student are:
- Genuine passion for the discipline studied;
- Determination to achieve goals; and
- Intellectual/professional integrity
What are your top three tips for students interested in applying to an Italian graduate program?
- Be prepared to work hard
- Stay focused
- Enjoy what you are doing
What careers do alumni generally pursue after graduation from the program?
The majority of students who graduate from our program pursue an academic career.
Academic Background: Ph.D. & M.A., Francophone African Literatures, New York University – New York, NY; Demi-Licence, University of Geneva – Geneva, Switzerland; BFA, Painting and Print Making, Art Center College of Design – Pasadena, CA
Areas of Specialization: African and Caribbean Literatures Written in French, African and French Film, & African Contemporary Visual Arts
Can you tell us a bit about your academic background?
I grew up in Geneva, Switzerland where I did my schooling. After graduating from the College Calvin (equivalent of high school and two years of college), I spent a year in Florence, Italy, to pursue my passion for painting. The following year, I went to Art Center College of Design, where I obtained a BFA in painting and printmaking. Then, I returned to Switzerland where, while pursuing painting, I studied literatures written in French at the University of Geneva.
There, I had the opportunity to study with two renowned authors: the Martinican poet Edouard Glissant and the Tunisian writer Abdelwahab Meddeb. Their perspectives, which go beyond artistic, cultural and national boundaries, strongly influenced the academic trajectory I came to pursue. Their world's views made me realize that I wanted not only to work on Francophone African and Caribbean literatures, but also to combine my interests for visual arts and writing. Therefore, I decided to apply to New York University as I would then be in the heart of a city that has a dynamic creative production. Later, when I was working on my PhD, I taught at Sara Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York for two years. Then I returned to Europe and spent time conducting research in Morocco.
What made you decide to go to graduate school?
A great interest in the arts and cultures and in Africa, and the desire to gain deeper knowledge.
What was your dissertation topic when you were in grad school?
My dissertation was on challenging established barriers between North and sub-Saharan Africa as well as between the different arts, in particular literature and painting. It demonstrates that many contemporary African writers wander between locations, cultures and art forms, turning to ancient knowledge and traditions, interweaving arts and ideas, using elements of tattooing, signs, calligraphy, rituals and oral forms.
Over the years it became a book, which is divided into two parts. The first one presents several circulations: geographic -- between North and sub-Saharan Africa; cultural -- between orality and writing; and aesthetic -- between literature and painting. The second part of the book documents these circulations in the works of four writers: the Tunisian Abdelwahab Meddeb, whose texts refer to contemporary painting, tracing a parallel between abstraction and Sufism; the Cameroonian Werewere Liking and the Congolese Tchicaya U Tam'Si, both of whom incorporate elements from the oral tradition and are inspired by ritual or divination systems; and the Algerian Assia Djebar who turns to visual images, moving away from relying solely on the use of language.
What topics do you teach at UT?
I teach African and Caribbean literatures written in French, African and French Film, African contemporary Visual Arts.
Can you tell us a bit about your areas of specialization?
The literatures I study and teach are those written in French, which come from Africa or the Caribbean. They present the numerous obstacles faced including Western clichés and prerogatives, economical and political constraints, colonial/postcolonial prejudices. And they tackle many layered cultural and social complexities.
What is your current research focus at UT?
I recently finished a book Créations et défis au Sénégal: Diop, Sembene, Diadji, which is about the works of three Senegalese figures: Boubacar Boris Diop, novelist, Ousmane Sembene, writer and filmmaker, and Iba Ndiaye Diadji, art critic. It examines how they position themselves to question social norms, political or religious absolutes, and international prerogatives. In Senegal, where the practice of Maslaa regulates people's exchanges and promotes tolerance and politeness, this study shows how these writers confront taboos (role of women, corruption, social inequalities), while unsettling norms.
Thanks to a Fulbright, I spent nearly two years in Dakar, Senegal (2003-05) where I taught at Cheick Anta Diop University. Ever since I have been working on the Senegalese art scene, following closely the art biennial held in Dakar. My next research project will be on writers, artists and filmmakers from Mali, Tchad, Niger, Mauritania who denounce political control and inequalities. It will examine how the imaginary and the actions of marginalized populations (for example the Tuareg) have been major sources of inspiration for writers and filmmakers, as they operate as a defying force of the power systems in place.
Is there a hot topic currently being discussed by scholars of Francophone studies in the U.S. or around the world?
There are many topics as African literatures written in French continuously raise cultural, social, political and aesthetical issues, challenging norms and Western views.
What makes a good grad student?
Motivation and hard work. A successful student is passionate about the field chosen, has interesting ideas which challenge world views, has a broad knowledge and is constantly open to learning and exchanging ideas.
What are your top three tips for students interested in applying to a French graduate program?
- Motivation and a great interest in other cultures. It is necessary to put aside one's views and open up to entirely new approaches. The French-speaking world is vast and encompasses many cultures. Therefore curiosity and humbleness are essential.
- Students need to take every opportunity to gain as much knowledge as possible in order to obtain solid foundations. It is important to acquire strong language skills, while perfecting excellent writing abilities in the student's native language. One needs to know how to perform literary criticism, engage in existing ideas and constantly keep up with reflections being made in the field.
- An unlimited love for and belief in literary and artistic creations.
What are the top programs in your area in the US?
1. New York University
2. Yale University
3. Harvard University
What careers do alumni generally pursue after graduation from the program?
When they are motivated and flexible they find an academic position in a University or College. If they can't move from Texas, they become High school teachers or take an Adjunct position. They can also work for a Press or a Journal.
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Academic Background: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin; Laurea Summa cum Laude, Philosophy, University of Rome (La Sapienza) – Rome, Italy
Area of Specialization: 18th and 19th Centuries Literature and Philosophy
What made you decide to go to graduate school?
I have always loved teaching and research. I never thought I would do anything else. My greatest satisfaction is to succeed in eliciting an intelligent response in my students when reading a text, watching a film or listening to an opera.
What was your dissertation topic when you were in grad school?
I wrote on the relations between the philosophers of the French Enlightenment and the Italian romantic poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi.
What topics do you teach at UT?
My favorite topics are: "Writing Fascism, the War and the Resistance;" "Sicily through Literature and Film," "The Antihero in the Italian Novel of the Nineteenth Hundreds," and "Italian Civilization Through Opera."
Can you tell us a bit about your areas of specialization?
I have always been fascinated with the theme of the inadequacy of verbal language (quite ironic, I know, for someone who mainly works with literary and philosophical texts) and the consequent impossibility of arriving at a thorough mutual understanding. My major studies deal with Italian authors who have asked this type of question: Giacomo Leopardi, Carlo Michelstaedter, and Luigi Pirandello.
Are you currently conducting research? What is your research focus?
Not as much as I would like since I have to handle the administrative work of a chair. What I am working on now, however are two different topics: 1) I am studying the relation images, sound, words in Italian multi-media works; 2) I am involved in an anthropological study on the figure of the "vitellone," the Latin eternal adolescent male who never leaves home, and especially mom.
Is there a hot topic currently being discussed by scholars of Italian studies in the U.S. or around the world?
I do not want to be presumptuous in singling out this particular one, but I think a very "hot" topic today, given the times we are living and the globalization which we are experiencing, is certainly that of the "pensiero meridiano" (the title of a famous book by the Italian sociologist Franco Cassano) a revaluation, that is, of the south--that has always been considered backward, lazy, uncivilized, as, instead, capable of teaching some valuable lessons to the western world that seems to be hurrying to produce, consume, and produce more in a race that does not contemplate any rest or pause.
Did you participate in a research project as an undergraduate? Would you recommend research to undergraduates?
Absolutely YES on both fronts.
What makes a good grad student?
The ability of taking nothing for granted and of challenging what is presented to him/her; the patience to go into depth in the issues that are being studied and discussed; the love for writing, or at least the realization of its importance, and the acceptance of the fact that it is a strenuous exercise that requires many revisions and a lot of patience.
What are your top three tips for students interested in applying to an Italian graduate program?
- Challenge any truth that is presented to you.
- Go into depth in everything you read and discuss.
- Accept the frustrations and hardship that accompany the discipline of writing--a major skill for success in graduate school.
What are the top five Italian programs in the US?
University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, UCLA, Yale, and of course, UT! Our new graduate program in Italian Studies.
What careers do alumni generally pursue after graduation from the program?
With an MA in French or Italian Studies you can teach in high school, community and junior colleges, go into a career in international business, law, fashion, advertisement. With a PhD, all the above but first of all the academic career.
Academic Background: Ph.D., Italian Studies, New York University – New York, NY; M.A., Italian & M.A. Certificate in Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh – Pittsburgh, PA; B.A., Italian Literature-Theatre & Film Studies, Università Cattolica – Milan, Italy
Area of Specialization: Italian Cinema, especially of the post-World War II period
What made you decide to go to graduate school?
I came to the United States with a scholarship from my university to be a teaching assistant of Italian at Franklin and Marshall College. At F&M, I met wonderful faculty who encouraged me to pursue graduate studies in an American institution. During my M.A. at the University of Pittsburgh, I discovered a passion for academic research and teaching. Once again, my decision to continue and get a PhD greatly depended on the inspiration I received from the faculty I met there.
What was your dissertation topic when you were in grad school?
I wrote my M.A. thesis on the theory and politics of cinematography by the Futurist Avant-Garde of the early twentieth century. My PhD dissertation, "Narrating Modernization: Documentary Films in Cold War Italy (1948-1955)," explores the documentary films produced between 1948 and the mid 1950s for Italian and American Information Agencies and distributed in Italy during the same years in order to publicize the Marshall Plan and other programs of reconstruction and welfare.
What topics do you teach at UT?
I teach Italian Cinema, Modern Italian Literature, and Italian Language.
Can you tell us a bit about your areas of specialization?
My primary area of specialization is Italian Cinema, especially of the post-War World II period. I am also interested in Italian Cultural Studies and, generally, in film theory and history, including the documentary. My second areas of specialization are twentieth- and twenty-first century Italian Literature, Futurism, and Modern Italian Theatre.
What is your current research focus at UT?
My current book-in-progress, The Logic of Productivity: Documentary Films, Modernization and Democracy in Cold War Italy, builds upon my doctoral dissertation and examines the films sponsored by Italian and American Information Agencies through the end of the 1950s. My claim is that film functioned as a cultural technology of government, creating a system of meaning but also participating in the programs of governing; providing subjects with perceptions of themselves, in relation to others, as well as governing their moral and social behaviors. Publicizing democracy and modernization as the only way to stability and prosperity, Italian and American governmental agencies aimed to educate citizens, by means of cinematography, on the practices of the Welfare State and the system of mass production.
Is there a hot topic currently being discussed by scholars of Italian studies in the U.S. or around the world?
(Im)migration literature and film, the role of the intellectual in contemporary Italy, Italian culture in the context of Mediterranean Studies.
Did you participate in a research project as an undergraduate?
I wrote a thesis in Drama Theory of the Futurist theatrical production (1909-1921). I recommend undergrads to participate in research, not only as an occasion to engage in a topic of one's interest, but also as a way to become more responsible and independent, whichever your future profession will be.
What makes a good grad student?
A strong passion and curiosity in your field, a good sense of how to discipline and pace yourself in working on and completing your assignments, rigorousness in your research.
What are your top three tips for students interested in applying to an Italian graduate program?
1. Make sure that you find faculty whose fields of research are of interest to you
2. Inquire about requirements and regulations of the program, such as course-works, especially if you are interested in interdisciplinary work
3. Try to get in contact with other graduate students in the department and ask about their experiences.
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Academic Background: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Chicago; B.A., Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Areas of Specialization: Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Philosophy; Secularization
What made you decide to go to graduate school?
I wrote a senior thesis as an undergrad on the musical compositions and writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Over the course of the project, I realized that I really loved doing research, that I wanted to learn more about the eighteenth century and that I wasn't ready for my studies to end, so I applied to graduate school.
What was your dissertation topic when you were in grad school?
I wrote a dissertation on what forgiveness meant in secular terms for Fénelon, Voltaire, Rousseau and Madame de Staël.
What topics do you teach at UT?
I teach graduate seminars on the European Enlightenment, the late seventeenth, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries (with a focus, of course, on France). My graduate seminars focus on the interplay between philosophy and literature and on intellectual history. Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Hobbes and Locke often find their way onto my syllabi.
Can you tell us a bit about your areas of specialization?
I work on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century moral theory (British and French in particular); the seventeenth and eighteenth-century French novel; Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie and secularization.
Are you currently conducting research? What is your research focus?
Yes, I am currently writing a book entitled Marginal Prophet Figures: Accounting for Forgiveness in the Age of Reason, which investigates a discursive crisis provoked by the secular understandings of forgiveness (le pardon; pardonner) that developed in early modern France, from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Through an analysis of the literary, philosophical, theological, and political discourses of the period, my book will provide a new, more complex understanding as to why it was so difficult to speak about forgiveness in the language of the Enlightenment, and, in the conclusion, how earlier accounts of forgiveness can illuminate debates about reconciliation today.
Did you participate in a research project as an undergraduate? Would you recommend research to undergraduates?
As mentioned above, yes I did. I would highly recommend doing so to undergrads. How else are you going to know if research is something you like doing and have a talent for?
What makes a good grad student?
Intellectual curiosity, discipline, an ability to assimilate constructive criticism, more intellectual curiosity and even more discipline.
What are your top three tips for students interested in applying to a French graduate program?
- Make sure that you application is in the best shape possible. Put time into your GRE's, writing sample and your cover letter. These documents (along with you letters of recommendation) are going to determine not only whether you are going to be accepted into a program but whether you are going to get any funding and how much.
- Graduate school is a lot of work. The ones who succeed are the ones who are self-motivated and who really love to read and learn. As one of my professors once told me, "when you've finished the reading that was assigned for the week, you've only just begun reading all that you need to." That might be a slight exaggeration—both only a slight one.
- Talk to as many professors and graduate students about the field as possible before you decide whether to enroll in a graduate program. Read books about graduate school, about the area of specialization you want to go into and about the job prospects for those who have the degree you intend on seeking out. This is the best way to make sure that you are going in with your eyes open and with realistic expectations about what it will take to succeed.
What careers do alumni generally pursue after graduation from the program?
Most students go into education in some form or another. Many become lecturers in universities around the country, others teach French and/or French literature in high schools and some go onto become professors in research institutions.
Academic Background: M.A. & Ph.D., French Literature, Princeton University; B.A., German and History, Princeton University
Areas of Specialization: Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century French Literature and Cultural History
What made you decide to go to graduate school?
After graduating with a B. A. degree and serving for two years in the U. S. Army as an interpreter in Germany, I realized that my love of literature could not be relegated to a simple leisure activity, but was such that it had to become my professional focus. Teaching literature would make it possible for me to share my love of it with others as well as deepen my knowledge of it.
What was your dissertation topic when you were in grad school?
The poetics of the sacred in the work of the French writer Henri Bosco (1888-1976).
What topics do you teach at UT?
Aspects of French literature : poetry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; Dada and Surrealism; the short story and the prose poem since the 18th century. Also aspects of French history (1930-1945) and the history of the arts in France.
Can you tell us a bit about your areas of specialization?
The primary fields in which I have worked in recent years are Surrealism and several French poets (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Breton, Michaux).
Are you currently conducting research? What is your research focus?
My current research focuses on an archive of materials concerning the French writer of fiction Guy de Maupassant.
Did you participate in a research project as an undergraduate? Would you recommend research to undergraduates?
I did not participate in a research project as such but did write a senior thesis on Montaigne and Nietzsche, an exercise which I found very beneficial. A project of some breadth and depth --whether research or a substantial piece of writing -- conducted while an undergraduate is the ideal means of developing and perfecting research and/or writing skills. There is an old French proverb, C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron, which means that it is by hands-on practice that one acquires experience and skill. That remains as true as ever.
What makes a good grad student?
Graduate study requires not only a genuine love of the subject matter, but an abiding intellectual curiosity, that is, the will and energy to constantly learn new things, hone one's critical acumen, and think independently and imaginatively. If the graduate student is called upon to teach, s/he must have, or quickly acquire, the ability to manage his or her time and effort, that is, to juggle different types of responsibility with equal effectiveness and dedication.
What are your top three tips for students interested in applying to an Italian graduate program?
- Love what you are doing; revel in the immense and rich array of offerings in the fields of French and Francophone literatures, cultures, and art.
- Perfect your proficiency in, and mastery of, the French language, the better to understand. appreciate, and communicate its literary and cultural expressions.
- After completing your undergraduate education, take a breather, or a step aside, to ascertain your motivation and commitment and "recharge your batteries" -- if you can afford to.
What careers do alumni generally pursue after graduation from the program?
Most graduate alumni pursue an academic career as teachers.


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Heavy/Light Chain Test May Be Valuable Tool For Monitoring Multiple Myeloma
Published: Nov 7, 2012 12:50 pm
Results of a recent retrospective analysis show that the heavy/light chain test has high potential as a tool for the detection of abnormal monoclonal protein, the evaluation of response to therapy, and as a prognostic marker in multiple myeloma patients.
The heavy/light chain test was more sensitive to low levels of monoclonal (M)-protein compared to conventional detection methods. Thus, the study investigators conclude that the test may become valuable in confirming and quantifying M-protein levels, measuring patient responses to treatment, detecting early signs of relapse, and identifying residual disease in multiple myeloma patients.
However, the investigators point out that further prospective studies are needed to confirm their findings.
Plasma cells produce a variety of proteins called immunoglobulins that help fight infections. Each immunoglobulin is made up of two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains. There are five different types of heavy chains, including IgG, IgA, IgM, IgD, and IgE. Furthermore, there are two types of light chains, called kappa and lambda.
Each plasma cell will produce one type of immunoglobulin. Normally, people have many types of plasma cells and therefore a variety of immunoglobulins. However, multiple myeloma patients overproduce a single type of plasma cell. This leads to the overproduction of one immunoglobulin, also called M-protein, which accumulates in the blood.
Serum protein electrophoresis is a conventional diagnostic tool for multiple myeloma. This test measures protein levels in the blood. However, according to the study investigators, its effectiveness is limited when M-proteins are present in low concentrations.
Another tool used in the diagnosis and post-treatment evaluation of myeloma patients is the free light chain assay, which measures the amount of free light chains in the blood.
The current study focused on the heavy/light chain test, a relatively new test which allows researchers to calculate the ratio of each heavy chain and light chain pair in multiple myeloma patients. Prior studies have shown that heavy/light chain ratios may be useful in screening, monitoring, and risk stratification of patients (see, for example, this recent Beacon news article).
The goal of the current study was to compare protein measurements obtained from the heavy/light chain test and conventional methods including serum protein electrophoresis and the free light chain assay. The study investigators also evaluated the heavy/light chain ratio as a potential prognostic tool for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients.
The researchers retrospectively evaluated records of 156 newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients who had received their first line of therapy. The median age of the patients was 66 years; 64 percent of patients had IgG myeloma, and 34 percent had IgA myeloma.
The median follow-up time was 46 months.
The serum protein electrophoresis test was unable to measure M-protein levels in 46 percent of patients with IgA myeloma and 4 percent of patients with IgG myeloma. The heavy/light chain test, however, was able to determine protein measurements for all patients.
Following initial therapy, the overall response rate was 75 percent. Specifically, 21 percent of patients achieved a complete response, 11 percent achieved a near complete response, 12 percent reached a very good partial response, and 31 percent reached a partial response.
Compared to conventional methods, the heavy/light chain test had a higher sensitivity in the detection of residual disease. An abnormal heavy/light chain ratio was found in 26 percent of patients with a complete response; half of these patients also had abnormal free light chain ratios.
According to the researchers, patients switching from normal to abnormal heavy/light chain ratios was indicative of impending relapse up to months before patients showed conventional clinical signs of relapse.
The researchers also found a link between heavy/light chain ratios and patient survival.
The median overall survival was 54 months for all patients included in the analysis. At the time of best response, patients with abnormal heavy/light chain ratios had significantly shorter overall survival (41 months) than those with normal heavy/light chain ratios (median not yet reached).
For more information, please see the study in the journal Leukemia.
Related Articles:
- Heavy/Light Chain Ratios May Be A Prognostic Marker For Myeloma Patients
- Oligosecretory Myeloma Can Often Be Detected With Free Light Chain Assay
- Curcumin May Reduce Free Light Chains In Patients With MGUS And Smoldering Multiple Myeloma
- Scientists Develop Serum Immunoglobulin Free Light Chain Assay For Early Myeloma Diagnosis
- Tools For Diagnosing Multiple Myeloma / Part 1: Diagnostic Evaluation

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By Katie Myszka August 19 - 22, 2007 — The gathering started off slowly as alumni began to fill up the campsite. We weren't the only ones arriving at Yellow Pines, as our first black bear sighting occurred before 7pm. It meandered along a fallen tree and checked out Rob's tent on the edge of the forest, squashing his straw hat in the process.
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It's a hot August afternoon and I'm working from home or trying to work anyway. Two old casement windows are cranked open and I'm distracted by the sound of many, many bumblebees swarming over a stand of Jerusalem artichoke aka Dump Daisies that are putting on their annual explosion of yellow.
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Light and Shadow by Katie Sobalsky, SCA Intern Working in the same forest day in and day out allows me to take notice of its subtle changes and differences. Initial and quick glances give the impression of a land covered in green, and although this is a reasonable observation, closer inspection reveals the vastness in shades and tones of green.
by Laura Bogar, Mount Rainier Ambassador, Conservation Leadership Corps member When I picked up the paper on the morning of November 5th, 2006, I almost forgot to breathe. My mountain – the mountain – Western Washington's Mount Rainier had been hit, hard, by the record-setting rain of the day before. The details were unclear, but the damage was great. Roads were out.
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Richmond, Vermont - UVM Graduate Students James Barnes and Delia Delongchamp are developing a new program with UVM, SCA and other land conservation programs. From their Graduate Research Master's Project: The program adheres to a "service-learning" framework, combining teaching of core knowledge and skills in land stewardship with in-field service to land conservation organizations.
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Ugly or not, We're Building Trail by Katie Sobalsky, SCA Intern We headed to the mountain for our first 10-day hitch, which came and went in the blink of an eye. The crew and I busted it out and built some beautiful trail. It's a different forest and different trail than any I've worked in before.
I'd like to say my recent visit to Voyageurs and recollections from The Summer of Love prompted my brief Fourth of July camping trip to Bridgton, Maine but in truth it had been scheduled for weeks, as my work schedule and that of my wife allowed only for a long weekend. On Saturday, we paddled the length of Highland Lake and back.
This great post reminds me of last week when the power went out and everyone was out on their porch, walking around, and greeting neighbors they never see because they are glued to the tube. A small town that usually seems dead was suddenly alive. This reminded me of the passagiatta (evening stroll around town) in Italy, and how I could never figure out how to actually make it happen. Until now.
I've been traveling a lot lately and I enjoy long plane rides if only because they permit me to read. Lately I've encountered numerous stories about 1967's "Summer of Love" (SCA's 50th isn't the only anniversary going on). I'll admit it: I was around during the Summer of Love, though as I was all of 11 years old I didn't fully participate in the, um, experience.
I did the evening drive to Voyageurs at, shall we say, warp speed. In fact, as I navigated northward the lightning bugs glancing off my windshield could have been phaser blasts deflecting off my force field. If, you know, such things were real.
by Katie Sobalsky, SCA Intern Eating with Ethics This is something that I've grown to understand and appreciate. My time at Green Mountain College has instilled in me a deeper understanding of the importance of what we eat. Not just for our own personal health, but the health of the planet.
A conventional timeline suggests that time moves relentlessly forward. A pocketwatch shows that time moves in perpetual circles. All I can say is that time…moves…me. The local volunteers who hit Wonderland Trail during my Rainier visit ranged in age from 20 to 50.
Most trails take you through parks or forests. This one took us through time. I'm at Mount Rainier National Park with some SCA crew leaders and local volunteers. Our board of directors was here yesterday, helping to redirect part of the Wonderland Trail after a rain-swelled, ravenous Nisqually River took a giant bite out of the trail near Cougar Rock last winter.
Removing a fence in 100 degree weather in rattlesnake country may not be the most glamorous job, but our SCA interns at Padre Island make it look easy. The exclosure fences are part of a thesis for a New Mexico State graduate student. The study is complete so the fences need to be taken down.


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I dont like the fact that my skills no longer lvl when im using said skill and then being able to use prowess from woodcutting to put my sowrdskill up is silly..
I know a few people with second accounts that have just left them chopping wood and they ahve made nearly as much pp as their main characters..
Being able to totally max a character is a week is not really a good thing but there we go..
All I want from the leveling system is not punishing the players for playing the game as intended.
Sure, some will get most of their prowess by digging potatoes in starter city - but at least it's not the best and fastest way to get ahead.
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Why is there so much negativity for finally a post that gives this game some positive feedback from a player who's NEW to this hardcore niche game? I'm playing this game right now and its great. Thank you OP for giving this game some praise, I'm tired of people giving this game so much shit. The PvP is fun and the skill ceiling is high which makes this game intriguing in its own right, you learn something new after every time you die.
Of course every game has its flaws, like balancing the classes and what not. But that can be changed later. Biggest issue for me right now is that clans with a shit ton of members have a major advantage in gaining prowess than small clans. Seeing people with 40k+ prowess in the first 3 days of launch makes the game less appealing to me. However, the majority of the population is at the mean level of prowess aorund 5-10k so that makes me happy.
Anyways, I hope you keep playing and having fun in DFUW. Kudos to you!
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What he wrote is just a reaction to all the negativity spewed about this game coming from players that haven't even played it.
It's like people are threatened by the possibility that after all this time, a game that doesn't look of this generation or even the last, with its rough edges and even harsher world could be actually successful.
The OP's point was that his experience of DFUW brought back the sense of adventure and real danger in a gaming experience that is so lost in todays MMO's cache.
This game probably won't be an overwhelming success, but it will attract a lot more players to this type of MMO that one day a fully funded developer will endeavor to use the same mechanics. And finally us "pre-wow" players will have maybe have one more game to add to the list of classics that we haven't had the opportunity to add to in over a decade.
Every positive post I've seen about this game has just been raided by a mob of players who either haven't played the game, or have, and just don't understand the meta concept enough to where they would overlook certain imperfections with the game. That or they can't find a quest giver or a spell bar and just give up... I dunno, and frankly I just don't care because this game has brought back an energy in me to want to log into a game and let chance and the chaos of this world dictate my actions and choices.
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Oh jeez, lay off the guy. It's his review. It doesn't matter whether or not you think it's professional or not. Some of you need to stop with the elitist MMO gamer BS. The OP liked the game, do you have a problem with that? Hey MMOExposed. Are you paid by competing companies to paint a negative picture towards a game? That's no different than you sounding the horn on someone who likes a certain game. Stop acting like you're the king of MMO's, you're not, you're just some guy out there who thinks he knows more than he does.
Let the guy be excited. If you don't like it, piss off.


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5.0 out of 5 stars A Clear Track Listing Hully Gully Callin'.,
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Any Day Now THE QUALITY RECORDS STORY 1960 - 1962 features the Canadian label founded in Toronto in 1950.
The company released Canadian artists but also a lot of stuff from American (USA) labels under their banner.
This realease on 3 Cds has 75 original recordings.
These sets really are a steal at this price.
Why are these releases so reasonably priced I hear you ask?
The simple reason that these sets are as cheap as chips is that the tracks are public domain.
That means the rights to the music has gone and any old Dick or Harry can release them.
The bad news for the previous rights holders' means good news for us, the buyers for if the price is too high we will not buy.
So the sets are at a more than reasonable price.
Next year the law changes to fall in line with the Americans and the 50 year rule will be finished but that will apply only to stuff released after 1963.
(Thanks to AJ Taylor for putting me right)
But Amazon have scrunched up all the tracks making it hard for people to read which tracks let alone which artist is on so I've spaced them out making it easier to read.
1. Any Day Now ~ Chuck Jackson
2. He's A Rebel ~ The Crystal
3. Every Little Girl ~ Dale Hawkins
4. Nut Rocker ~
B. Bumble & The Stingers
5. Robot Man ~ Jamie Horton
6. Mr. Mistaker ~ Curtis Lee
7. Got The Bull By The Horns ~ Hugh Barrett & The Victors
8. Letter To Mommy And Daddy ~ Barbara Lynn
9. Listen ~ The Impressions
10. Arkansas Jane ~ The Millionaires
11. Buzz Buzz A-Diddle-It ~ Freddy Cannon
12. I Love You ~ The Volumes
13. Look At Me ~ Dobie Gray
14. Four Steps To Love ~ The Safaris
15. I Hear My Baby ~ Larry Williams
16. Twist And Shout ~ The Isley Brothers
17. Corinne Corinna - Ray Peterson
18. If You're So Smart... ~ The Tams
19. Miracle Of Love ~ Glen Campbell
20. Clap Your Hands Once Again ~ The Beau-Marks
21. Traffic Jam ~ Johnny & The Hurricanes
22. These Golden Rings ~ The Jive Five
23. Please Be Mine ~ The Knockouts
24. Irresistible You ~ Bobby Peterson
25. Trouble In Paradise ~ The Crests
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3. Little Town Flirt ~ Del Shannon
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5. I Sold My Heart To The Junkman ~ The Blue-Belles
6. Goodnight Irene ~ Sammy Turner
7. The Snake ~ The Isley Brothers
8. A Little Bit Of Soap ~ The Jarmels
9. Turn Around, Look At Me ~ Glen Campbell
10. Doin' The Continental Walk ~ Danny & The Juniors
11. Blue Lawdy Blue ~ Myron Lee & The Caddies
12. You'll Lose A Good Thing ~ Barbara Lynn
13. Wild Weekend ~ The Rockin' Rebels
14. Puddin' N' Tain ~ The Alley Cats
15. Deep Inside Me ~ The Tams
16. Bye Bye Johnny ~ Chuck Berry
17. Let's Stick Together ~ Wilbert Harrison
18. Poor Little Rhode Island ~ Dale Hawkins
19. Woman Is A Man's Best Friend ~ Teddy & The Twilights
20. Black Maria ~ Dick Damron
21. Getting Ready For The Heartbreak ~ Chuck Jackson
22. Beat Party ~ Ritchie & The Squires
23. Release Me ~ Esther Phillips
24. Acapulco 1922 ~ Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
25. Love Me Like You Should ~ The Vibrations
1. Under The Moon Of Love ~ Curtis Lee
2. You Talk Too Much ~ Joe Jones
3. Big Wheel ~ The Royal Tones
4. Come On And Love Me ~ Freddy Cannon
5. The Tender Years ~ The Beau-Marks
6. Back To The Hop ~ Danny & The Juniors
7. I Don't Believe Them ~ Tico & The Triumphs
8. Don't Wanna Twist No More ~ Gabriel & The Angels
9. Uptown ~ The Crystals
10. Lonely Street ~ Clarence `Frogman' Henry
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12. Blue Star ~ The Mystics
13. The Dance Is Over ~ Little Billy & The Essentials
14. Quite A Party ~ The Fireballs
15. You Didn't Care ~ Ray Peterson
16. Walk Down ~ Wes Dakus & The Rebels
17. Don't Cry Baby ~ Etta James
18. Hully Gully Callin' Time ~ The Jive Five
19. Darling ~ The Pips
20. You Never Talked About Me ~ Del Shannon
21. The Bug Eyed Man ~ The Hollywood Argyles
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24. Come Back Into My Heart ~ The Volumes
25. Johnny, Oh Johnny ~ Carol Collins
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5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful,
This review is from: Any Day Now: The Quality Records Story 1960-1962 (MP3 Download)
This is a really high standard compilation of terrific early 60s American R&B. There are well written and interesting notes on each track included in the accompanying booklet.
Firstly..the Chuck Jackson song "Any Day Now" which kicks off the whole thing is just jaw-dropping sensational. There's no other description for it! if you enjoy real Soul music, or you have any liking at all for R&B, then I urge you to listen to this beautiful tune if you don't already know it. It has become one of my most favourite songs of all time.
After that sort of terrific start, you'd think the rest of the CD would struggle to keep up the high standard. No problem - it's all good, much of it very, very good indeed. Strongly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A big collection of well sung songs we no longer here much,
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I have not played it often but it will go in my new car. A great varied selection. Songs I have not heard. Good value.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great,
great.bit of oldies music, Love this old stuff this sort of sound will always be around. it is always nice to here
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Value.,
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A very good collection of oldies, which is good to reminisce with. Good value for money.
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focaccia bread, cut in half horizontally
This recipe was great.. My family has a bunch of plain eaters in it so this was perfect.
This recipe actually was a bit bland for our taste. We didnt' have the correct bread though. Does that make the difference? Any suggestions?
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The way this is written I would give it three and 1/2 stars, but could go four with my version. I had pre-cooked shredded chicken that I mixed some honey mustard into, making it a little saucy. I put a little salt and pepper on top of the broccoli. I think the way it is written it would be very bland. I will make this again, experimenting with different cheeses as well.
As it was, good base but bland. Added some garlic ans spicy salt. Cooked on my GF grill
It was a tad bland but we just added a bit of garlic salt on top and it was good. Not the most fantastic dish in the world, but it is quick and easy. Will make again.
The recipe was a tad bland with the foccacia bread. I think adding a little more sauce and doing with out the foccacia would make it excellent. Maybe pita bread instead?
Yum, I used garlic,herb focaccia bread and it was flavorful! Thanks!
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN - DECEMBER 13: Adrian Peterson #28 of the Minnesota Vikings runs the ball against the Cincinnati Bengals on December 13, 2009 at Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)
MANKATO, Minn. Adrian Peterson loves seafood and had just finished some jambalaya in the dorm cafeteria at training camp on Monday before going upstairs to his room.Peterson felt fine, and was resting when things started to go terribly wrong. Peterson was having an allergic reaction to something he had eaten at lunch.Feeling much better Tuesday, and after he returned to practice to rehab his surgically-repaired knee, Peterson recounted some of the moments a day earlier when he was rushed to the hospital after an allergic reaction caused facial swelling and shortness of breath. "It was like 20 minutes after I ate," Peterson said. "I went to lay down and I felt my throat itching and my ears itching and all of a sudden my face swelled up, my eyes swelled up. I couldn't breathe out of my nose and I finally made a phone call to (head athletic trainer Eric Sugarman), and he must heard it in my voice because he came with a doc and everything I needed. I gave him a second call after I was ...
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Gunmetal Black Ep 01
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Lucina's First Day
A look at the first day of Lucina in Super Smash4.23 / 5.00 13,374 Views
BATMAN v SUPERMAN final showdown
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Entertaining, could use abit of fixing up
this was a neat little movie, the buttons i thought could be removed, you should have it just flow like a regular movie, or if you absolutly need to have the buttons make them "LARGER" so that they are easier to click. also at the start of the movie when the guy first walks up it looks more like he is sliding then anything else, you should have his "LEGS" more animated and more spread apart as he is walking in that animation, and not to nag but also the "TEXT-BUBBLES" could also be a tad larger, these are just a few tips that may help to better present the movie and in turn get much better outcome from it, so try it out and just go with it, ok and last but not least you should not have all the green characters deaths the same exact way give it some realisim to it like giving them differant kinda deaths, and have the "BLOOD" run a differant way if possible so it doesnt look like the same character over and over. other then that it was a pretty impressive flash with some nice artwork and decent characters the button thing did get anoying but anyways nice job here
the whole Click next button seemed to get repetitive so i suggest you remove the buttons and just allow it to play as a movie instead it will have a much better result, the click next button just tends to anoy people when all they want to do is watch a movie. a few other suggestions would be to have differant deaths differant blood styles, some larger text bubbles, and so on
An interesting flash i rather enjoyed it, keep up the awsome work
the title says it all
the animation was okay, the drawings were not too good though. I think the story could have been better with a plot, but at least the title was honest
wow this was pretty funny for a crap animation. I like it
A poor movie
As a movie this didn't work, it was just some guys deciding to kill a load of guys for no reason, it could have made an alright game I feel, but as a movie it was poor and was just another pointless violence movie, where was the story? You tried to be funny in this a few times as well, but the jokes you made just weren't even remotely funny.
what the hell was that all about?
your movie idnt make any sence whatsoever. liked the music though.


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Upon Further Review 2014: Defense vs Miami
FORMATION NOTES: Michigan actually played their SAM linebacker extensively for the first time this year. Behold:
That is Jenkins-Stone over the slot. This mostly indicated zone coverage; almost everything indicated zone coverage, with the exception of that rolled-up boundary corner, who was often nose to nose with his man. More discussion of this in a bit.
On short yardage Michigan had this press man okie-ish look with one LB back: I called this "Okie one robber," FWIW.
Nickel packages were saved for passing downs for the most part.
SUBSTITUTION NOTES: Rotation has whittled down to an obvious starting front seven-ish with mostly obvious backups. The line is Clark/Henry/Glasgow/Beyer with Bolden/Ryan behind them and Jenkins-Stone as the SAM when they have a SAM. The primary backups are Ojemudia/Wormley/Mone/Charlton with Godin and Pipkins also fighting at the two DT spots.
The backup ILBs don't play and probably won't until Morgan gets back; Ross does spot RJS regularly.
They are still working through injury and uncertainty in the secondary, and this is a spot that will develop over time. Once Wilson is back it seems like Jeremy Clark is going to be his partner; he's gotten the most playing time of anyone so far and he seemed to be out there while Hill and Thomas rotated. Corner is still in flux but a dollar says Peppers is a boundary corner the rest of the year with Lewis your top field corner option and Countess preferred at nickel; Taylor is likely to spot Lewis and Peppers, or Lewis will spot Taylor and Peppers, to the point where calling two guys starters and one a backup is semantics.
EDITORIAL POLICY: I'm calling Frank Clark just "Clark" and Jeremy Clark "JClark." Jeremy can be just Clark next year.
[After THE JUMP: derp and darts from Miami, mostly derp.]
Monday Presser 9-15-14: Brady Hoke
News bullets and other items:
- There were no injury updates, because we aren't going to talk about guys that didn't play. Essentially, the word "injury" has been scrubbed from Hoke's vocabulary.
- Matt Wile will be your short yardage punter, essentially because Will Hagerup kicks too hard.
- Ryan Glasgow had one of the best practice weeks Hoke has had from a nose tackle in a long time last week.
- Derrick Green had his best practice week last week.
- Jake Butt was held to a predetermined play count last week.
Opening remarks:
"Thanks for coming out. Saturday it was good to get back on the field and compete. It was good to win. The effort was very good from our team. We certainly always have things that we have to do better and we will do better but the hard-working aspect of it – thought some guys who stepped in to some critical spots gained some valuable experience and confidence. Excited for what they did.
"We had five minutes in the second quarter that would be five minutes we wouldn't like to have but I think coming through the adversity, coming out in the second half [the] defense shut them out. Offensively, I think we rushed for 7.9 yards per carry in the second half which is something that you want to do. I think from playing at home and the crowd, in the beginning of the fourth quarter their series that they had, it really had an impact. They had to call timeout. It's a fourth-down situation. They come back out, they false start, and then on the fourth-down play we get good get-off from our guys up front and get pressure and the ball is thrown out of bounds. But I think you can attribute that to the impact that it got a little louder. I'm on the field and I know you all aren't and you could hear it so it was good and it made an impact.
"We've got Utah coming in this weekend. They are undefeated. Bye week last week. I think their second in the country in scoring offense. I think they average 309 throwing the ball, 268 running the football. Second or first in the country in tackles for loss and similar there in sacks. I think they have 11 in two games.
"I would say one thing we have to do a better job with in coaching it and executing it is the turnovers. We had a chance on Saturday to come up with three turnovers defensively. We got the one interception. We started fast as a team. First two drives on offense scored. First time defense was out on the field we got the interception but we had two other opportunities we need to capitalize on and then obviously communication on the pop kick. We need to do a better job from a standpoint of coaching it, the little things. Justice told me that he yelled 'mine, mine, mine' and Wyatt it just didn't hear him on that and that's something we've got to keep emphasizing as coaches. When you look at Devin's interception, the ball was tipped at the line of scrimmage and that made it flow a little higher so it was outs of Jehu's reach and then obviously Darboh makes a great catch, gets the first down and as he is putting the ball away and trying to secure it the guy knocks the ball out. But those three turnovers in a quick period of time you don't want to have but I think the way the kids and the team handled it was very positive. That's probably the longest opening statement in the history of college football right there."
A lot of people who focus just on the offensive line think that your guys are targeting better this year. Can you talk about that and just what you've seen?
"Yeah, I think that's one way of putting it. There were a couple plays where we didn't target as well that could have been huge plays. That's one thing, watching the film with the offensive staff and Doug and talking about it, I think the target areas are better. I think the leverage is more consistent. Not where we want it when you talk about pad level and then on a couple of the outside zone plays we for some reason a couple times targeted them as inside zone. Now, you get your MIKE counts, you get a lot of things going on and either the communication didn't come all the way out or we just had bad target areas."
[More after THE JUMP]
"Support The Troops" Is Not An Argument
9/13/2014 – Michigan 34, Miami (Not That Miami) 10 – 2-1
Jake Ryan did a good job of not blowing up Hendrix for penalties [Eric Upchurch]
Michigan Stadium was a roomy place on Saturday, somewhat full of cranky people waiting for an opportunity to vent their ire. They held their fire after a Gardner interception; they held their fire when Michigan was tied 10-10 with a team that hadn't won a game since 2012 midway through the second quarter.
This was a bit of a surprise. Hell, the 1997 team(!) got booed at halftime of their game against Iowa when they went into the locker room down 21-7. (This was definitely performance-related, exacerbated by a late Tim Dwight punt return touchdown. The tenor of the boo was WE KNOW YOU ARE BETTER THAN THIS LET'S GOOOO and when they came out of the locker room the corresponding cheer was much louder than it usually is. But damn we used to have some expectations.)
In 2014, after seven years of mostly unrelenting failure, on the heels of a humiliating shutout in the Last Notre Dame Game, I was expecting more audible grumbles. Michigan fans held off, possibly too stunned by last week to do anything but meekly absorb events in front of them.
Then Michigan took a delay of game penalty (after a timeout!) and decided to punt from the Miami 37 with a minute left in the half. This was pure coaching malpractice that reminded a grumbly Michigan Stadium of last year's Penn State game. The boos rained down. It was loud. It was grumbly. It was statistically accurate.
As the game rolled along and Michigan proved themselves about as superior as you'd think they should be, this game receded from the hateful constellation of lower-level matchups that turned into stomach-churning wins or even losses.
When you end up giving up fewer than 200 yards to an opposing offense you've established that they are very bad and you are not. Eventually Michigan's ground game kicked in and put up similar YOU ARE BAD numbers. Erase some pretty random turnovers (deflected pass at the line, redshirt freshman pop-up kickoff fumble) and this is 45-0 or thereabouts.
I know you don't believe turnovers are random, person on the internet who I am anticipating a "LOL" comment from, but even you have to admit that when a throw goes from probably on target to directly in the chest of an opposing player because it glances off a fingertip that's just life giving you the middle finger, and not—oh you just said MAKE PLAYS in seriousness on the radio nevermind this sentence. Players make plays. Etc.
Anyway: in retrospect I am not stressing about this game.
I was in the second quarter, like everyone else, and while I didn't actually boo—I am in the too-shocked-to-do-anything club—I agreed with it. What's more, I deeply appreciated that the people still mad enough to let someone know about it waited for the perfect moment.
When Pat Fitzgerald was asked about Northwestern fans being upset in the aftermath of the Wildcats' 0-2 start, he responded thusly.
"No shit."
This is a press conference answer to get behind. It is brief, quotable, and addresses the situation. Fitzgerald is not surprised that fans are upset; he is upset (he called the team "an embarrassment to anyone that ever put on the purple and white"); fans should be too.
When Brady Hoke was asked an open-ended question about his message to the fans, he said this:
As far as the fans that watch from the outside and see some of the similar issues that they saw last season, what would you say to them and how concerning is it as a coaching staff?
"If they're truly fans they'll believe in these kids and what they've done and the hard work that they've put in. If they're not, they won't."
To the great misfortune of someone whose words are repeated verbatim on the internet, he would later claim to be misquoted. At least he has been told that knocking the fans who pay his salary and are currently leaning towards "tar and feather" over "put FOR SALE signs on front lawn" is not great, Bob.
But he has succumbed to the post-9/11 Godwin's Law: eventually someone in charge of the troops is going to tell you to support the troops, because he thinks that's the best argument he's got left. You think knocking over tinpot dictators halfway across the world with no real hope of installing anything that won't collapse the minute you leave is a bad idea? Support the troops, buddy. Why don't you support the troops?
So kudos to Michigan Stadium for holding its fire until the guy on the sideline with the timeout blundered his way into a fourth and eleven punt that went into the endzone on the fly. It was 1000% clear who was and was not supported at that moment.
Michigan is at least tolerant of the troops even when they're struggling against Not That Miami. Michigan is pissed off at the guys in charge. No amount of deflection will hide that fact.
Brady Hoke Epic Double Points Of The Week. #1 is Derrick Green, who was often the recipient of gaping holes but hit them and even made some yards himself.
#2 is Jourdan Lewis, who turned in excellent coverage all day and came up with an excellent interception.
#3 is Brennen Beyer, because it is impossible to really distinguish between the various guys whipping up on Miami's OL but Beyer got a sack.
Honorable mention:
Epic Double Point Standings.
6: Devin Funchess (#1, APP, #1 ND)
3: Derrick Green(#1 MIA)
2: Devin Gardner (#2, APP), Willie Henry (#2 ND), Jourdan Lewis (#2 MIA)
1: Ryan Glasgow (#3, ND), Brennen Beyer(#3 MIA)
0.5: Kyle Kalis (T3, APP), Ben Braden (T3, APP)
Brady Hoke Epic Double Fist-Pump Of The Week.
For the single individual best moment.
This was a one yard run but let us sit and savor the fact that even against a terrible defense Michigan had a touchdown that looked like this.
Honorable mention: Jake Butt shakes free for a fake screen(!) touchdown, something we haven't seen since Hoke's arrival. Jourdan Lewis runs a guy's fade for him, picks off a ball thrown too far inside. Dennis Norfleet and the KO unit execute a right-sided return on a kick to the left out to the 50. Derrick Green breaks backside and breaks a tackle for a 20-yard gain.
Epic Double Fist-Pumps Past.
AppSt: Derrick Green rumbles for 60 yards.
ND: Nothing.
MIA: Derrick Green scores a goal line touchdown without being so much as touched.
Worst. Event. Ever. This Week.
Devin Funchess standing on the sideline because Michigan threw him a bubble screen halfway through the fourth quarter of a 31-0 game.
Honorable mention: Delay of game ack ack ack, Gardner interception (deflected, FWIW), kickoff mishap, Darboh fumble, various early runs that didn't go anywhere.
PREVIOUS EPBs
AppSt: Devin Gardner dares to throw an incomplete pass.
ND: Countess nowhere to be found on fourth and three.
Miami: You did what to Funchess now when?
[After the JUMP: getting it together, strangling the opposing offense, and goodbye gun.]
Miami (NTM) Postgame Presser: Brady Hoke
Brady Hoke in "Everyone's reaction to this game"
Opening remarks
"Number one, it was great to play back at home, first and foremost. It was great to win the football game. We needed to come back and move forward and it's always better to move with a win. I think from an offensive standpoint we did some very good things. I think the second half, obviously we took care of the football and didn't turn the ball over and then completed some drives that we had. I think the running game is where-- we wanted to run the ball the whole game but I think the second half we stayed away from some negative plays that put you in bad situations and we were able to run the ball. I thought Derrick [Green] and DeVeon [Smith] both did a nice job. The offensive line worked very hard. I think the guys on the perimeter did a nice job.
"I think defensively holding them to 2-of-12 from a third down perspective is [good for] getting your defense off the field and more opportunities for our offense. The rush for the second week-- looking at our defense we played that very well, the front seven did or if we were in nickel situations the nickel did when he was involved so those were the positives of it.
"We only got the one pick as far as a turnover. We've got to do a better job there. I thought we harassed the quarterback and I think Brennen Beyer on the one sack made just a great play because he finished the play, and how he finished it. It was good to be at home, like I said. We've got to go to work. Utah's a good football team. They're a tough football team. That's what-- they've had that M.O. for a long time and I think Kyle [Whittingham], coaching against him in the Mountain West and coaching against his team, they're always a physical group. We'll have our hands full."
Is that about what you wanted to see, aside from a five minute stretch in the second quarter?
"Number one, I wanted to see—our guys came out with energy. That was something, and I think part of that was the crowd when the game started. I think part of it is they're a very close team in a lot of ways and so them coming out and playing hard…would we have liked to have had a better first half in taking care of the football? Yeah."
Devin Gardner and his receivers: what kind of versatility and depth did you see from that wide receiving core in the absence of Devin Funchess?
"I think the addition of Jake Butt helps, getting him back and getting him healthy and we kind of picked our spots with using him in some way. But Darboh and Chesson are both very talented. Norfleet gives you a great spark. Freddy Canteen is starting to get back to where he kind of was last spring, so having some depth there helps. Obviously Devin Funchess can be a difference maker because of his size and athleticism but I think the other guys did a nice job."
Do you expect Devin back next week?
"Well, we'll see."
[More after THE JUMP, including player comments]
Monday Presser 9-8-14: Greg Mattison
Opening remarks:
"Well, let's get right to it. Obviously disappointed that we didn't win the football game and disappointed that we didn't do a couple of things better on defense and we've got to work about correcting those right now. Our players came in with a great attitude and we as coaches I think have a great attitude and that's one bump in the road that we have to get over and go to the next one."
I'm sure there are a few things on your list but is not forcing turnovers to this point pretty high up there?
"Yeah. The thing about that football game, and I felt it on the sidelines- I don't know if ever you played against a good opponent where you held them to fifty-some yards rushing, and usually those stats can be misled, but not when a team rushes thirty times or twenty-some times for fifty yards. That part of it you said, 'Hey, we're fine here.' The thing that we didn't do that we have to is the same thing we didn't do in the first game: we've got to play better red zone defense. That's really hurt us. We have to, when we get down in the red zone, and all it takes when you get down in the red zone is one bad play and that's gotten us. I think in the red zone we went to third down one time, they scored. Next time it was fourth down. That makes a whole difference in a ball game.
"The other thing is we've got to get turnovers. That's hurting our team and that was a big emphasis for us. And I think the other thing that we didn't live up to what I expected us to was third downs. The stats, they're misleading again. What were they? Eight- or seven-for-fifteen? They hit some really crucial third downs in the first half and, you know, third down is third down. You get it, you get it. And there's a couple [where] the guy's feet…just perfect throw, perfect catch. But that doesn't matter. You have to stop them on third down to be a great defense. Those are three places that we have to get better and for us as a team our defense needs to do that and we didn't."
How much, if any, concern about pass rush is neutered by the fact that they were getting the ball out so quickly?
"Yeah, I thought our pass rush- watching the tape we had some guys that were doing some pretty darn good things and the ball was coming out really quick which is, again, I'll say that that's concerning because that's like last year. I felt we'd have a little tighter coverage to be able to stop that when the pressure got close and he threw some in there. Again, we've got to keep working on it. I thought our pass rush, I thought our guys came after him pretty good and worked really hard up front to try and get to him. We didn't get sacks. We didn't get as many sacks. That quarterback probably played the best game of his life. He played good. He's a good player, you know. I give that to him and that's one of the reasons for the outcome was."
[After THE JUMP: Greg Mattison explains what he should have done differently and why he thinks the defense doesn't need a wake-up call]
Monday Presser 9-1-14: Greg Mattison
Opening remarks:
"Well, we're obviously very excited about the next challenge.I know we have a lot of things that we can get better at and our guys will work very, very hard to do that but we're also very excited about some of the things we saw Saturday out there on that field but now we've got to move on to the next one."
Coach [Hoke] talked about guys getting off blocks and then fits. How much was it of each in the run game when you guys were giving up some yards in the middle?
"Yeah. I'm going to be honest with you like I always am. Some of those runs were on me. There was a situation that was happening where we were walked out and the backer was coming back inside and we had an adjustment and the adjustment that I should have made with them would have been a little different and we did that later and it changed it. I'm not going to put that on our players. That's something that I should have seen a little quicker and it wouldn't have been a problem at all.
"A lot of good things from that, though. It shows that we have to get off blocks. One of the biggest things is we have to be able to communicate what's happening. And I try to tell the guys, not that I haven't been able to before, but I really trust these guys. I really trust them. But I know that when they're out there they're doing everything that they should be doing but if something isn't happening perfectly then communicate and we'll get it switched. When I'm thinking maybe this is happening it wasn't that but we got it squared away."
Have you guys had a chance to watch any film on Tarean Folston and Notre Dame's running backs?
"Yeah, we've had a chance to watch film on all of them. We've spent since that game was really over until just two minutes ago when I came over here we've been watching Notre Dame. They have a very, very good football team, like they always do. They've got a lot of speed, they've got good running backs. They've got an outstanding quarterback. [Everett] Golson, he's a really, really good quarterback and they've got good linemen and receivers to go with him so we're going to get a real test, like you should. Like you should when you play this game."
I asked Devin about playing against your defense last year in practice and playing against your defense now and asked how was the defense different and he said they were faster and more aggressive. Talk about that comment and are they faster mentally or faster with foot speed?
"I mentioned this and why I'm so excited is these were young babies we had playing two years ago. Nobody cared. Nobody cared who you were playing when you're playing a redshirt freshman who's 275 pounds or 215 pounds where two years later now he's 235 pounds or 300 [pounds] and they're men now. They play faster when you have experience. When you've been out there under the bullets and under the everything that goes on. When you're a young man playing for the University of Michigan and you're out there playing in front of 115,000 you better be a man. When you do that at a young age you won't always do the exact right things on the football field, but every year that you play and every year that you buy in to what coach Hoke and this program is all about you get better and that's why they play faster and they play stronger. We look forward to them doing that every week that way because it's going to be another game of experience and that's why I'm excited about these kids because they have stuck with it and they've kept improving and it's just the beginning. They're just starting right now and every week will be a huge challenge that way."
[More after THE JUMP]


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United States legend Landon Donovan tonight welcomed the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ draw that pitted the US against England.
Donovan, the USA's all-time leading goalscorer, has a potential head-to-head meeting with Los Angeles Galaxy team-mate David Beckham when the two countries open their Group C campaigns in Rustenberg, with Algeria and Slovenia also in the group.
"It could have been worse," Donovan said after watching the draw from New York. "It's going to be fun. Depending on where I play, playing against [Frank] Lampard, [Steven] Gerrard in a midfield against those guys is going to be pretty fun. I can't think of a better match-up personally."
We've just talked about being there and seeing each other there but I don't think it entered our minds that we might be playing each other.
"I'm excited. England's a very good team and it's a great match-up. It's going to be very exciting. I think under [coach, Fabio] Capello, they've become a very good team. They qualified relatively easily in a very tough group and they've got players who play in some of the best teams in the world consistently."
Donovan clashed verbally with Beckham earlier this year after the American questioned the Englishman's commitment to the Galaxy and Major League Soccer following an extended loan move at AC Milan. The two mended fences over the course of the 2009 MLS season and combined to help the Galaxy reach last month's MLS Cup league title decider, which LA lost in a penalty shoot-out in Seattle.
"We've moved past the things that we had problems with and now it will just be fun," Donovan said yesterday. "The banter will be good, there'll be some trash talking I'm sure."
Beckham will return to Milan on a second loan deal on 28 December, not returning to MLS until the end of South Africa 2010, but of the possibility of playing against Beckham, Donovan added: "Hopefully we'll both be there, because a lot can happen between now and then but if that's the case, it'll be fun.
Mates to rivals
"There'll be a lot of talking before the first game. He won't be around with the Galaxy before the tournament starts so it won't be as intense as it might be but it's going to be fun to see him there," added Donovan. "We've just talked about being there and seeing each other there but I don't think it entered our minds that we might be playing each other."
Donovan's international team-mate DaMarcus Beasley was similarly enthused by the draw. "It's going to be a great game, we have got a lot of players in England at the moment so we know them well," he told Sky Sports News. "We played them last year and they have some great players.
"It's obviously on paper the toughest game either way. England's a great side, they have a lot of great players but we have a good squad with players that are very experienced, so I think we have a good chance."
US Soccer president Sunil Gulati also welcomed the draw. There are plenty of links between the US and England, both on and off the field and Gulati believes it is a perfect result. "It's very exciting. We are natural rivals and there is a long history between the countries and between the federations," Gulati told the US Soccer website.
"The history between the sides makes a natural alliance, we're English-speaking, we've had lots of players in the Premier League, David [Beckham] is in the MLS, David and Landon Donovan are team-mates. England is the number one stop for Americans abroad so it's a natural alliance but also a natural rivalry."