2 UO professors win fellowships.

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Two University of Oregon professors have won fellowships worth up to $40,000 from the National Endowment of the Humanities.

Sherman Simmons, professor of modern art in the Department of Art History, was awarded a fellowship to complete his book "Kunst oder Kitsch: Art and Mass Culture in Germany, 1900-1920." He will spend part of the next two summers in Germany, studying the relationship between art and mass culture in the early 20th century.

This will be Simmons' second book. The first, "Kasimir Malevich's Black Square and the Genesis of Suprematism," was published in 1981 and is about the Russian founder of suprematism, an art movement of the early 1900s.

Bryna Goodman, an associate professor of history, received her award to complete "In Public View: Newspapers, Associations and Gender in the Constitution of `The Public' in Early Republican Shanghai." Her book takes a look at culture that developed in Shanghai, caused in part by the weakness of the government after the Chinese republic was established in 1912.

She has completed most of her research in Shanghai and the United States, so she anticipates the fellowship will afford her time to complete her writing.

Goodman earned a Junior Professorship Award in 1993 for her work dealing with public health and politics in late imperial and modern China.

READINGS & SIGNINGS

JAKE FELSENSTEIN, author of "The Heart Speaks From Inside Out," will read at 7 p.m. today at Tsunami Books, 2585 Willamette St. Information: 345-8986.

CHUCK PALAHNUIK, author of "Fight Club" and "Choke," will discuss "confrontation as art" and read from his work at 7 p.m. Thursday at the University of Oregon Bookstore, 896 E. 13th Ave. Information: 346-4331.

ROYALE LAPLANTE, author of "Myrtlewood Grove: Final Episode," will discuss and read from his book, the last in a trilogy, at 7 p.m. Thursday at Barnes and Noble, 1163 Valley River Drive. Information: 687-0356.

EVENTS

CRESWELL LIBRARY will hold its annual sale of used books and magazines from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 2 p.m. March 17 at the Creswell Community Center, South First and C streets, Creswell. Information: 895-3726

OUT OF TOWN

CHRISTOPHER MOORE, author of "Lamb," will read from and sign copies of his book at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Oregon State University Bookstore, Memorial Building, Room 208, Corvallis. Information: [phone].

ROBERT CREELEY, a founding member of the Black Mountain school of poetry and recent recipient of the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, will read at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Wieden and Hennedy Atrium, 224 N.W. 13th Ave., Portland, as part of the Poetry Downtown series produced by Portland Arts & Lectures. Admission is $14. Information: [phone].

DAVID STARKEY, author of "Elizabeth," will read from and discuss his work at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in LaSells Stewart Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis. Information: [phone].

NYE BEACH WRITERS' SERIES will continue at 7 p.m. Saturday with readings by novelist Tom Spanbauer and poet-playwright Suzanne Lummis at the Newport Performing Arts Center, 777 W. Olive St., Newport. Admission is $7. Local writers may participate in an open mike session midway through the program. The series sponsor is the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts. Information: [phone]; e-mail: [e-mail].

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