Hassan Hilmy, Professor of English at Hassan II University, Casablanca, whose translations of Arab poets into English have been published in a number of periodicals such as “Banipal”, and also in anthologies such as “Language for A New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond”, will be contributing his English-Arabic translation of Richard Berengarten’s poem, “Volta”, to Issue 9 of “The International Literary Quarterly”.

Paola Musa, the Sardinian-born author who will be contributing an example of her poetry to Issue 9 of “The International Literary Quarterly”, has been shortlisted for the prestigious”Premio Città di Cuneo per il Primo romanzo” (Cuneo city prize for a First Novel) for her “Condominio occidentale”. The prizegiving ceremony will be held in the “Circolo ’L Caprissi” on Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 6.30pm.

The Board of Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” is delighted to confirm the incorporation of the following distinguished figures from the fields of literature and the arts as Consulting Editors of the review with effect from Issue 9:  Frank Ankersmit, Reza Aslan, Michael Barry, Jean Boase-Beier, Mario Biagioli, Stanley Cavell, Hollis Clayson, Sarah Churchwell, Kristina Cordero, Drucilla Cornell, André Dombrowski, Klaus Ebner, Orlando Figes, Nancy Fraser, Maureen Freely, Michael Fried, Lydia Goehr, Lawrence Grossberg, Elizabeth Grosz, Valerie Henitiuk, Martin Kern, Joseph Koerner, Mabel Lee, Linda Leith, Edie Meidav, Jack Miles, Laura Mulvey, Azar Nafisi, Sari Nusseibeh, Clare Pettitt, Robert Pinsky, François Rigolot, Carla Sassi, Hadaa Sendoo, Miranda Seymour, Mimi Sheller, Elaine Showalter, Penelope Shuttle, Julian Stallabrass, Marjorie Trusted, Lidia Vianu, Victor Vitanza, David Wellbery.

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that André Dombrowski, an Assistant Professor of 19th-Century European Art at the University of Pennsylvania, who is currently completing a book manuscript entitled “Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life”, for which he recently won the 2009 Phillips Book Prize from the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection in Washington D.C,  and a recipient of a two-year fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in Düsseldorf and a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship for 2008-9, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of Interlitq with effect from Issue 9.

The Editors of “The International Literary Quarterly” are delighted to announce that Laura Mulvey, currently Professor of Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, during 2008-2009 the Mary L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in Humanities at Wellesley College, best known for her essay, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, whose most recent book is “Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image”, and who has made films (co-directed with her husband Peter Wollen) such as “Crystal Gazing” and “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti”, and (co-directed with Mark Lewis) “Disgraced Monuments”, has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of the review with effect from Issue 9.

“A Fair Maiden”, a new novel by Joyce Carol Oates, the distinguished American novelist who contributed an example of her prose to Issue 7 of “The International Literary Quarterly”, is due out January 6th, 2010. In the words of publisher “Houghton Mifflin Harcourt”: “In the tradition of Oates’s classic story, ‘Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?: Selected Early Stories’, ‘A Fair Maiden’ is an unsettling, ambiguous tale of desire and control”.

Constituting part of the “American Academy of Religion” Conference (November 7th-10th, 2009), Reza Aslan, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, whose works include “No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam, and who has kindly agreed to act as a Consulting Editor of “The International Literary Quarterly” with  effect from Issue 9, will be leading an AAR panel (alongside Nilüfer Göle, Tariq Ramadan and Robin Wright) on the subject of “Islam and Modernity”. The event will be held at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada, on Saturday, November 7th, 4pm-6.30pm.

Margot Livesey, a Consulting Editor of “The International Literary Quarterly”, and a contributor to Elizabeth Benedict’s anthology, “Monsters, Muses & Mentors”: Thirty Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives”, will be one of the panelists (alongside Christopher Castellani, Jay Cantor, Julia Glass and Jim Shepard) who will be discussing Benedict’s book in which ”thirty of today’s brightest literary lights turn their attention to the question of mentorship and influence, exploring the people, events, and books that have transformed their lives”, at an event, sponsored by Harvard Book Shop, and to be held at The Brattle Theatre, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts on Friday, November 13th, 2009 at 6pm.

Poetry by the award-winning US poet Denise Duhamel, a contributor to Issue 3 of “The International Literary Quarterly”, has been published in “Connotation Press.com: An Online Artifact”, Issue III, Volume I: November, 2009.

Robert Pinsky, the U.S. poet who was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress between 1997 and 2000, who contributed an example of his poetry to Issue 7 of Interlitq, and who is the author of many books including “The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation”, “The Life of David” and “Gulf Music: Poems”, was featured on the “Finding Dulcinea” site on October 20th, 2009, the day of his birthday. Writer Jennifer Ferris praises the fact that “Robert Pinsky has made waves throughout the literary world as a multifaceted artist: essayist, poet, computer adventure game writer, and one of the most popular translators of Dante’s ‘Inferno’”.