May 26, 2010
Visiting Assistant Professor of English Hoa Ngo has recently had a short story, “Tell Us About Your Best Kiss," appear in
Stone Canoe (Vol. 4), an award-winning journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York published by Syracuse University. "Next to My Heart I Keep a Digitally Altered Photo of You," another short story by Ngo, was published in the latest issue of
Thin Air Magazine (Vol. 16), published by Northern Arizona University.
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May 10, 2010
Assistant Professor of English Katherine H. Terrell presented a paper titled “Kyndness of blude”: Kinship, Patronage, and Politics in Gavin Douglas" at a conference on "Border Families and their Books" held April 23-24 at the University of Oxford. The paper examined the role of family in the production and circulation of the works of the late medieval Scottish poet Gavin Douglas, as well as in his subsequent political career.
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May 3, 2010
Assistant Professor of English Katherine Terrell chaired a panel on "Insular Identities and the Borders of Medieval Britain" at the 41st annual convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association held in Montreal, Quebec, April 8-11.
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April 21, 2010
Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean of Faculty for Diversity Initiatives Steve Yao presented a paper at the American Comparative Literature Association held in New Orleans from April 1-4.
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April 12, 2010
This semester's Milton class hosted a marathon reading of John Milton's epic poem
Paradise Lost on April 11 in Burke Library. The 12-hour Milton fest drew some 60 students, faculty and community members, according to Margaret Thickstun, the Elizabeth J. McCormack Professor of English, who teaches the class.
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April 4, 2010
Professor of English Vincent Odamtten chaired a panel on "A Reevaluation of Ghanaian Literature and Globalization" at the 36th Annual African Literature Association conference hosted by the University of Arizona, Tucson, on March 10-14. He also presented a paper titled "Aidoo, 'The Eagle and the Chickens' and Questions of Being in the World."
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March 31, 2010
Jayne Anne Phillips, award-winning novelist and short story writer, will read selections from her work on Thursday, April 1, at 8 p.m., in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton.
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Chapter Concerns Interdisciplinary Teaching About Adirondacks
March 2, 2010
A book with a chapter coauthored by Hamilton faculty Ernest Williams, Patrick Reynolds and Onno Oerlemans has been published by the University of Iowa Press. The chapter, “Interdisciplinary Teaching about the Adirondacks,” appears in
Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest, (edited by Pavel Cenkl, 2010).
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February 27, 2010
Visiting Assistant Professor of English Jane Springer has had three new poems published in The Cincinnati Review and The Southern Review. Her poems are titled "Whiskey Pastoral," "Snow Angel," and "Murder Ballad."
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Will Assume New Position at Maryland Honors College on July 1
February 22, 2010
The following announcement was sent to the campus community by President Joan Stewart on Monday, Feb. 22, at 12:15 p.m. It is with very mixed feelings that I write to say that Vice President and Dean of Faculty Joe Urgo has been
named president of St. Mary’s College of Maryland, effective July 1.
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