An article by Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English Patricia O’Neill on Bollywood titled “Imagining Global India: Bollywood’s Transnational Appeal,” has just been published by Continuum: A Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (Vol 27. No. 2).

As February drew to a close, Hamilton welcomed a variety of prestigious authors in celebration of International Writers Week (Feb. 26 – March 2). A book fair, held in the Taylor Science Center on March 2, showcased works suggested by faculty, as well as pieces from the authors who gave presentations. The featured writers were A. S. Byatt, Kamila Shamsie ’94 and Ishion Hutchinson.

John H. O’Neill, Edmund A. LeFevre Professor of English emeritus, was a contributing editor to The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Comedy, published by Broadview Press (Peterborough, Ontario).  O’Neill contributed an edition of The Man of Mode: or, Sir Fopling Flutter (1676), by Sir George Etherege.

Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English Literature emeritus Austin Briggs presented a paper titled “Joyce and Defoe” on Feb. 1 at the James Joyce Birthday Conference, “Miami J’yce.”

Associate Professor of English Katherine Terrell recently published an article, “‘Kyndness of blude’: Kinship, Patronage, and Politics in Gavin Douglas,” in “Northern Book Cultures in the Later Middle Ages,” a special issue of the journal Textual Cultures: Texts, Contexts and Interpretation.

The students of Professor of English Margaret Thickstun’s “Experience of Reading” class took a step back in time on Feb. 23 with a visit to the Farmers’ Museum in Cooperstown. An hour away from Hamilton College, Cooperstown is best known as the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame, but the destination this day was its quaint historic village.

Hamilton College will host an International Writers Week, featuring readings by award-winning contemporary international novelist A.S. Byatt, poet Ishion Hutchinson, and novelist Kamila Shamsie ’94, on Feb. 26 – March 2. All the events are free and open to the public.

William Rosenfeld, who retired as the Marjorie and Robert W. McEwen Professor of English and a member of the faculties of Kirkland and Hamilton colleges from 1969 to 1995, has published a book, Garibaldi and Rio Grande do Sul’s War of Independence from Brazil— The Memoirs of Luigi Rossetti, John Griggs, and Anita Garibaldi (Branden Books, 2013).

Poet Martha Rhodes read from her work as part of the Spring 2013 Reading Series on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. The reading is free and open to the public.