November 19, 2009
Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English emeritus, has published "Is Bella Cohen Jewish? What's in a Name?" in Volume 18 of European Joyce Studies (New York: Rodopi, 2009). More ...
November 3, 2009
Internationally recognized writer and anti-apartheid fighter Breyten Breytenbach will give a reading on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn. More ...
October 23, 2009
Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall participated in the &Now Conference of Innovative Writing and the Literary Arts on Oct. 14-17 in Buffalo. She presented a video titled "Instructions for Contacting the Dead." More ...
October 20, 2009Frontiers, A Journal of Women's Studies has published an essay by Professor of English Patricia O’Neill titled "Amelia Edwards's Travel Writing." The essay explores the role of travel in Edwards's career and, more generally, in Victorian women's intellectual life. More ...
October 9, 2009
Assistant Professor of English Tina Hall published "In Your Endeavors, You May Feel My Ghostly Presence" in the fall issue of the literary journal descant. The story is a found story made up of fragments taken and manipulated from a Victorian science manual titled The Forms of Water in Clouds and Rivers, Ice and Glaciers. Hall came across the book while doing research at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. More ...
September 24, 2009
Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall gave a reading at SUNY Geneseo on Sept. 17. She read from her novella, All the Day's Sad Stories, and new work. More ...
September 21, 2009
Professor of English Vincent Odamtten presented a paper on "Selected Ghanaian Writing from a Pan-African Perspective" at the 5th Biennial Conference of Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) in Accra, Ghana, in August. More ...
September 7, 2009
Austin Briggs, the Hamilton B. Tompkins Professor of English, emeritus, attended the North American James Joyce Conference held at SUNY Buffalo in June. At the conference, he participated on a panel he co-organized, "Joyce and the Visual Arts," and he co-moderated two discussion panels that he co-organized. In addition, as a trustee, Briggs attended a meeting of the Board of the International James Joyce Foundation. More ...
May 15, 2009
Assistant Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell hosted a panel on "Scottish Literature and Identity" at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University on May 9. In a separate panel at the Congress, she delivered a paper titled "Propaganda, Politics, and the Anglo-Scottish Border," in which she examined portrayals of the medieval Anglo-Scottish border in historiography, cartography, and law. More ...
June 10, 2008
Associate Professor of English Naomi Guttman's book of poetry, Wet Apples, White Blood, shared the best book of poetry award with The Origin of the Milky Way by Barbara Louise Ungar at the Adirondack Center for Writing's (ACW) third annual Adirondack Literary Awards. The awards were announced at Blue Mountain Center in Blue Mountain Lake on June 8. The Adirondack Literary Awards celebrate and acknowledge the books that were written by Adirondack authors or published in the region in the previous year. There were 37 entries this year. Wet Apples, White Blood was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2007. More ...
