http://www.hamilton.edu/news/ News From Hamilton en-us http://www.hamilton.edu/news/larson-invited-speaker-panelist-at-conferences http://www.hamilton.edu/news/larson-invited-speaker-panelist-at-conferences Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson was an invited speaker and panelist at several recent conferences. Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:06:50 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/creative-writing-majors-venture-off-the-hill-to-experience-the-13th-annual-new-yorker-festival http://www.hamilton.edu/news/creative-writing-majors-venture-off-the-hill-to-experience-the-13th-annual-new-yorker-festival On October 5, senior creative writing majors Seiya Asada-Johnson, Martin Cain, Anna Paikert and Cecelie Pikus traveled to New York City to attend the 13th annual New Yorker Festival with Professors of Creative Writing Doran Larson and Jane Springer. Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:12:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/larson-presents-at-conference http://www.hamilton.edu/news/larson-presents-at-conference Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson delivered a paper titled Ethnic American Civil Death: Constructing the Alien in Asian & Pacific Islander Prison Writing at the International Law & Society Association Conference in Honolulu in June. Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:31:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/bard-prison-initiative-founder-max-kenner-discusses-value-of-liberal-arts-education http://www.hamilton.edu/news/bard-prison-initiative-founder-max-kenner-discusses-value-of-liberal-arts-education Max Kenner, founder and executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), spoke in the Red Pit on Thursday evening. His talk, titled “Values of a Liberal Education: Reflections on Ten Years of the Bard Prison Initiative,” addressed not only BPI but also treatment toward incarcerated people on a national level. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:11:23 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/lrason-publishes-essay-presents-papers http://www.hamilton.edu/news/lrason-publishes-essay-presents-papers Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson published an essay, "Abolition from Within: Enabling the Citizen Convict" in the latest issue (#91) of Radical Teacher. He also presented four papers in recent months. Tue, 04 Oct 2011 01:16:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/attica-asymposium-looks-back-at-1971-uprising http://www.hamilton.edu/news/attica-asymposium-looks-back-at-1971-uprising “It is the one of the toughest and, at times, most brutal prisons in America,” said Doran Larson, professor of English, in introducing the Attica symposium on Sept. 16.  The symposium detailed the uprising of 1971 that left 39 dead and led to major prison reform. Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:15:14 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/teaching-awards-presented-at-annual-class-charter-day-1-1 http://www.hamilton.edu/news/teaching-awards-presented-at-annual-class-charter-day-1-1 Hamilton’s highest awards for teaching were presented at Class & Charter Day on May 6 to  Professor of Economics Elizabeth Jensen, Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson, Associate Professor of Women’s Studies Anne Lacsamana and Assistant Professor of Philosophy Russell Marcus. Frank Anechiarico '71, the Maynard-Knox Professor of Government and Law, was presented with the Sidney Wertimer Award by the Student Assembly. Fri, 06 May 2011 10:08:52 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/larson-publishes-in-em-college-literature-em http://www.hamilton.edu/news/larson-publishes-in-em-college-literature-em Professor of English Doran Larson's essay, "Toward a Prison Poetics," appears in the current edition of College Literature (Summer, 2010). The essay is based on Larson's research in global prison writing; it proposes that prison writing presents a genre united not only by comparable contexts and author experience, but by recurrent formal tropes. Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/larson-details-prison-writing-class-in-em-chronicle-of-higher-education-em http://www.hamilton.edu/news/larson-details-prison-writing-class-in-em-chronicle-of-higher-education-em Professor of English and Creative Writing Doran Larson published an essay “Writing Behind the Wall” in The Chronicle of Higher Education (8/1/10). The piece details Larson’s experiences in teaching creative writing at a maximum security prison and the related class he teaches at Hamilton, “20th Century American Prison Writing.” Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 EST http://www.hamilton.edu/news/six-faculty-members-promoted-to-professer http://www.hamilton.edu/news/six-faculty-members-promoted-to-professer Six members of the Hamilton College faculty have been promoted to the rank of professor. Associate professors Debra Boutin, mathematics; Naomi Guttman, English; Shoshana Keller, history; Doran Larson, English; Herm Lehman biology; and Gary Wyckoff, government, were promoted, effective July 1. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:30:00 EST