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In September, 2010, Hospital created a major academic scandal by sending out a mass email insulting the creative writing students at her former place of employment. The email, which unfavorably compared the students and creative writing program at the [[University of South Carolina]] to the students and program at her new place of employment, [[Columbia University]], garnered over |
In September, 2010, Hospital created a major academic scandal by sending out a mass email insulting the creative writing students at her former place of employment. The email, which unfavorably compared the students and creative writing program at the [[University of South Carolina]] to the students and program at her new place of employment, [[Columbia University]], garnered over 64,000 hits on [[Gawker]] within hours of being posted, and received more than 500 comments in the first day, virtually all of them negative. Ironically, more people have now read the email than have ever read a novel by Hospital, who, according to [[Nielsen BookScan]] has never sold 64,000 copies of any of her titles, with her top domestic sales figure being 8,732. The email caused an immediate embarrassment for the creative writing program at [[Columbia University]], which was placed in the awkward position of having to defend or disavow a recently hired faculty member who was publicly insulting hundreds of students. Also implicated in the scandal were [[Orhan Pamuk]], [[Oliver Sacks]], [[Simon Schama]], [[Richard Howard]], and [[Margo Jefferson]], who were named by Hospital as Columbia colleagues who shared her point of view. However, many commentators stated that Hospital was merely "name-dropping," and that her new colleagues were not in fact on record as agreeing with any of her assertions. <ref name="Haughty">[http://gawker.com/5651154/columbia-writing-professor-sends-worlds-haughtiest-email-to-former-students "Columbia Writing Professor Sends World's Haughtiest Email to Former Students"] ''Gawker''. 2010-09-29.</ref> |
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== Bibliography == |
== Bibliography == |
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Revision as of 05:02, 30 September 2010
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Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner) (born Melbourne, Australia, 12 November 1942) is a novelist and short story writer who has lived for most of her adult life in Canada or the U.S., principally Boston (Massachusetts), Kingston (Ontario) and Columbia (South Carolina).[1] She is also a teacher of literature and creative writing and has been writer-in-residence at universities in Australia, Canada, England, and the US (MIT, Boston University, Colgate.) She is currently an adjunct professor in the MFA program at Columbia University.[2] She studied at the University of Queensland and Kelvin Grove Teachers College, gaining a BA in 1965.[3] She holds an MA from Queen's University, Canada, 1973,[4] and a D.Litt (Hon) from University of Queensland, Australia, for "services to Australian Literature.)[5] She has won a number of international literary awards and her books are published in multiple foreign translations.[6]
Email scandal
In September, 2010, Hospital created a major academic scandal by sending out a mass email insulting the creative writing students at her former place of employment. The email, which unfavorably compared the students and creative writing program at the University of South Carolina to the students and program at her new place of employment, Columbia University, garnered over 64,000 hits on Gawker within hours of being posted, and received more than 500 comments in the first day, virtually all of them negative. Ironically, more people have now read the email than have ever read a novel by Hospital, who, according to Nielsen BookScan has never sold 64,000 copies of any of her titles, with her top domestic sales figure being 8,732. The email caused an immediate embarrassment for the creative writing program at Columbia University, which was placed in the awkward position of having to defend or disavow a recently hired faculty member who was publicly insulting hundreds of students. Also implicated in the scandal were Orhan Pamuk, Oliver Sacks, Simon Schama, Richard Howard, and Margo Jefferson, who were named by Hospital as Columbia colleagues who shared her point of view. However, many commentators stated that Hospital was merely "name-dropping," and that her new colleagues were not in fact on record as agreeing with any of her assertions. [7]
Bibliography
- The Ivory Swing (novel) (1982),
- The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (novel) (1983),
- Borderline (novel) (1985),
- Dislocations (short stories) (1986),
- Charades (novel) (1988),
- Isobars (short stories) (1990),
- A Very Proper Death, as Alex Juniper (novel) (1990),
- The Last Magician (novel) (1992),
- Oyster (novel) (1996)
- Collected Stories (short stories) (1995),
- Due Preparations for the Plague (novel) (2003),
- North of Nowhere, South of Loss (short stories) (2003),
- Orpheus Lost (novel) (2007)[8]
Notes
- ^ Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975-2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153-163
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291-321.
- ^ Selina Samuels. "Janette Turner Hospital".Dictionary of Literary Biography: Australian Writers 1975-2000.Ed. Selina Samuels. Farmington Hills: Thomson Gale, 2006: 153-163
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol.145, Ed. Jeffrey W Hunter. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2001: 291-321
- ^ University of Queensland alumni site: http://www.alumni.uq.edu.au/janette-turner-hospital-author
- ^ "Janette Turner Hospital". Canadian Who's Who 2005. Ed. Elizabeth Lumley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005: 609.
- ^ "Columbia Writing Professor Sends World's Haughtiest Email to Former Students" Gawker. 2010-09-29.
- ^ David Callahan. Rainforest Narratives: The Work of Janette Turner Hospital. St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2009
website links: www.janetteturnerhospital.com www.cas.sc.edu/CICA
References
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Brydon, Diana. "The Stone’s Memory: An Interview with Janette Turner Hospital". Commonwealth Writing in English. 4.1 (1991), pp. 14–23. McKay, Belinda. "Transformative Moments: An Interview with Janette Turner Hospital". Queensland Review. 11.2 (December 2004), pp. 1–10 Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, (ed.) Donald J. Greiner, 48.4 (Summer 2007); issue dedicated to Janette Turner Hospital.